Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

After thirty years of schism, the Council of Pisa had sought to resolve the situation by deposing the two claimant popes and elected a new pope, Alexander V. The council claimed that in such a situation, a council of bishops had greater authority than just one bishop, even if he were the bishop of Rome.

The Chinese government was very quick to reject this and claimed that only it has the authority to select the next Dalai Lama.

He claimed that a powerful monarch was a personified sovereign who could exercise authority to unite a nation's people.

In Paris, various committees, the mayor, the assembly of representatives, and the individual districts each claimed authority independent of the others.

Since antiquity, various dynasties or individual rulers have claimed the right to rule by divine authority, such as the Mandate of Heaven and the divine right of kings.

In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain ( probably fictional ) Kyot the Provençal, claimed the Grail was a stone ( called lapis exillis ) that fell from Heaven, and had been the sanctuary of the neutral angels who took neither side during Lucifer's rebellion.

Irenaeus pointed to Scripture as a proof of orthodox Christianity against heresies, classifying as Scripture not only the Old Testament but most of the books now known as the New Testament, while excluding many works, a large number by Gnostics, that flourished in the 2nd century and claimed scriptural authority.

The People's Republic claimed Taiwan, though it had never held authority there.

In part, however, the apologists of royal authority based their claims on a just assessment of the powers claimed by England and Scotland's medieval monarchs.

In 774, Duke Arechis II of Benevento, whose duchy had only nominally been under royal authority, though certain kings had been effective at making their power known in the south, claimed that Benevento was the successor state of the kingdom.

Malden was claimed by the U. S. Guano Company under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which authorized citizens to take possession of uninhabited islands under the authority of the United States for the purpose of removing guano, a valuable agricultural fertilizer.

Because Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah and that he claimed to be the Son of Man referred to by Daniel, Christianity interprets as a statement of the Messiah's authority and that the Messiah will have an everlasting kingdom in the Messianic Age.

Max Weber claimed the change that developed modern society and nations is the result of the rise of a charismatic leader to power in a society who creates a new tradition or a rational-legal system that establishes the supreme authority of the state.

Documents first mentioned and discovered by Taiseki-ji priest Nikkyo in 1488 claimed that Nichiren passed full authority “ to Nikkō alone.

The term " Old Catholic " was first used in 1853 to describe the members of the See of Utrecht who did not recognize any claimed " infallible " papal authority.

Pope Boniface VIII claimed that the popes were the final authority over both the church and the state.

Finally, the rabbis claimed for the Hebrew language a divine authority, in contrast to Aramaic or Greek-even though these languages were the lingua franca of Jews during this period ( and Aramaic would eventually be given the same holy language status as Hebrew ).

Both times, as Neil Smith noted, these approaches " claimed authority over the ' social '".

But CAT Telecom sued the NTC in the Administrative Court, claimed that NTC does not have authority to hold the auction.

Some Presidents have claimed the authority under this clause to impound money appropriated by Congress.

So paramount was the authority of Galen that for the next 1400 years, a succession of anatomists claimed to find these holes until finally Vesalius declared he could not find them.

Image: Map of territorial growth 1775. svg | In 1775, the British claimed authority over the red and pink areas on this map and Spain claimed the orange.

* Byzantine emperor Justinian II sends a fleet to Italy under the patrikios Theodore, to intervene in the dispute between Pope Constantine and the archbishop Felix of Ravenna, who claimed to be independent of the pope's authority.

The Dutch, however, who had supplied the major share of the troops and money to secure the victory ( the Austrians had produced nothing of either ) claimed the government of the region till the war was over, and that after the peace they should continue to garrison Barrier Fortresses stronger than those which had fallen so easily to Louis XIV ’ s forces in 1701.

Pete Rose has claimed that he applied for reinstatement over the years and received no such consideration.

Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

Quita Sueño Bank is claimed by the United States to be a submerged reef, and thus does not recognize the sovereignty of any nation over the bank.

With over 1800 participants, the 2011 Oxford University " Cuppers " ( inter-college ) tournament claimed to be not only the largest croquet tournament ever, but the largest sporting event in the University.

* 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.

Ultimately, the rebellion had claimed the lives of over 1 million people, a majority of which were Jewish.

* 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process that was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of IGAD and that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2001 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted more than 40 years and claimed over 2 million lives.

Mimault claimed priority of invention over Baudot and brought a patent suit against him during 1877.

" He claimed to have been in over 300 street fights, many of them a result of this period, though he also claimed to have not started any of these fights.

While Fascism claimed that corporatism gave workers power alongside employer in workplaces in reality the concept of " Fuhrerprinzip " gave employers and State-appointed workplace managers absolute control over the workplace as dictated by the State-owned German Labor Front ; based on the Social Darwinist ideology that certain individuals are " gifted " and " born to rule ", employers thought to be part of that group.

Over two thousand girls — mostly teenagers but some as young as eight — were charged over the next three years with having circumcised each other with razor blades, a practice that came to be known as Ngaitana (" I will circumcise myself "), so-called because the girls claimed to have cut themselves to avoid naming their friends.

Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally broke the peace of Japan.

In Hong Kong, Tsang Tsou Choi was known as the King of Kowloon for his calligraphy graffiti over many years, in which he claimed ownership of the area.

Tensions over the Aegean Sea surfaced again in November 1994, when Greece claimed under the Law of the Sea Treaty states, which Turkey has not signed, that it reserved the right to declare an expansion of its continental shelf from around its Aegean islands.

Lovecraft protégés and part owners of Arkham House, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, often claimed copyrights over Lovecraft's works.

On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.

The tensions between the Houses of Plantagenet and Capet climaxed during the so-called Hundred Years ' War ( actually several distinct wars over the period 1337 to 1453 ) when the Plantagenets claimed the throne of France from the Valois.

Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Moscow and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.

Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism ; John Henry Newman claimed Scott " had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages ," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel.

The war claimed fewer than 20, 000 American lives but over 50, 000 Mexican ones.

Others were bandits who claimed control over stretches of wilderness, mountain roads or riverways-any legal authorities present, if any, were too weak to contest the controls.