Supporters also argued that SDI could trigger a new arms race, forcing the USSR to spend an increasing proportion of GDP on defense — something which has been claimed to have been an indirect cause of the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph in November 2003, Nigel Short claimed that " Tony was insanely jealous of my success, and his inability to accept that he was no longer Britain's number one was an indication of, if not a trigger for, his descent into madness.

At the time, a gendarme named Charles-André Merda claimed to have pulled the trigger.

Cyrus has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost, which will not stop the machine, as Kalina had claimed, but trigger its activation.

In custody, each man claimed that the other had pulled the trigger.

During the events of the Cataclysm story arc, the stress caused by the earthquake apparently triggered the release of another personality within Wesker in the form of the ' Quakemaster ', who claimed to have caused the earthquake himself over a video and threatened to trigger another unless he was paid $ 10 million.

The main trigger was the " Altonaer Blutsonntag " (" Altona Bloody Sunday "), a shootout between SA demonstrators and communists in Altona on 17 July 1932, which claimed 18 lives.

At the time of the flotation the company ’ s market share had fallen to 5. 3 %, its lowest level for two years, but Simons claimed that the company was now clearly positioned in the market, and that the business would benefit from what he saw as the trend back towards high-street shopping.

Monte Hacho is positioned on the Mediterranean coast at the Strait of Gibraltar opposite Gibraltar, and along with the Rock of Gibraltar is claimed by some to be one of the Pillars of Hercules ( the other candidate for the southern pillar being Jebel Musa ).

He claimed that he met some refugees from Khojaly, temporarily settled in Naftalan, who said that the Armenian soldiers positioned behind the corridor had not opened fire on them.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

Petitioner also claimed at trial the right to inspect the original Federal Bureau of Investigation reports to the Department of Justice.

Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.

The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.

Ampère claimed that " at eighteen years he found three culminating points in his life, his First Communion, the reading of Antoine Leonard Thomas's " Eulogy of Descartes ", and the Taking of the Bastille.

Sheldrake in his book The Rebirth of Nature: New Science and the Revival of Animism ( 1991 ) has claimed that Morphic fields " animate organisms at all levels of complexity, from galaxies to giraffes, and from ants to atoms ".

It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

The border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and Alaska is known as the Alaska boundary dispute, where the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and British Columbia claimed different borderlines at the Alaskan Panhandle.

He often blamed charges and accusations leveled at him on “ Arian madmen ” who he claimed conspired to destroy him and Christianity.

* 1924: Fred Beck claimed that he and four other miners were attacked one night in July 1924, by several " apemen " throwing rocks at their cabin in an area later called Ape Canyon, Washington.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

This reaction was studied for the first time in 2008 by the team at RIKEN, Japan, in order to study the decay properties of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh, which is a decay product in their claimed decay chains of ununtrium .< ref > The decay of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh by the emission of 9. 05-9. 23 MeV alpha particles was further confirmed in 2010.

In 1999, the team at LBNL claimed the discovery of long-lived < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh ( 5 atoms ) and < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh ( 1 atom ).< ref > Later, both of these were confirmed.

He essentially claimed that the foreign assets were not carried on the books at their higher, truer value.

" It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes " flew off to Mars.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Paddy Ward, a police informer who gave evidence at the Saville Inquiry, claimed that he had given two nail bombs to Donaghy several hours before he was shot dead.

Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".

He claimed McGuinness, the second-in-command of the IRA in the city at the time, and another anonymous IRA member gave him bomb parts on the morning of 30 January, the date planned for the civil rights march.

She claimed " I can go for months and months without having anything at all other than a cup of tea.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

( 1982 ) as the highest-grossing film in Japan – and Princess Mononoke ( 1997 ), which also claimed the top box office spot until Titanic ( 1997 ).

The nickname stuck and in 1979 Labatt Blue claimed top spot in the Canadian beer market.

In a 1979 article, California biologist Dennis Power and geographer Donald Johnson claimed that the Surgeon's Photograph was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant, probably photographed elsewhere and claimed to be from Loch Ness.

A Belfast newspaper has claimed that secret documents show that half of the IRA's top men were also British informers.

Two years later, Olds claimed he had built the best car he could, a tourer able to seat two, four, or five, with a 30 – 35 hp ( 22 – 26 kW ) engine, 112 in ( 2845 mm ) wheelbase, and 32 inch ( 81 cm ) wheels, for US $ 1055 ( not including top, windshield, or gas tank, which were US $ 100 extra ); self-starter was US $ 25 on top of that.

According to the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Russia has 112 think tanks, while Russian think tanks claimed four of the top ten spots in 2011 ’ s " Top Thirty Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe ".

Carey had his first top five finish in the Brownlow Medal, claimed his first club best and fairest and was named club captain by new coach Denis Pagan ahead of the 1993 season.

He claimed that on top of individual exploitation, the capitalist also unjustly appropriates the additional value ( termed “ collective force ”) produced by co-operative activity as a “ force of one thousand men working twenty days has been paid the same wages that one would be paid for working fifty-five years ; but this force of one thousand has done in twenty days what a single man could not have accomplished, though he had laboured for a million centuries .” Thus the capitalist may have “ paid all the individual forces ” but “ the collective force still remains to be paid ” and which the capitalists “ enjoy unjustly .” Other notable anti-capitalist thinkers claim that the elite maintain wage slavery and a divided working class through their influence over the media and entertainment industry, educational institutions, unjust laws, nationalist and corporate propaganda, pressures and incentives to internalize values serviceable to the power structure, state violence, fear of unemployment and a historical legacy of exploitation and profit accumulation / transfer under prior systems, which shaped the development of economic theory:

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

Wu officials claimed that her servants, unable to stand her temper, strangled her while she was asleep, while a number of historians, including Hu Sansheng, the commentator to Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, believed that top Wu officials were complicit, as they feared that she would seize power as empress dowager after Sun Quan's death.

The 1925 and 1938 teams claimed to be national champions due to their undefeated records and defeats of other top national teams, but the 1925 claim is considered a mythical national championship because there was no tournament.

The label also achieved placement of seven singles at # 1 during 1964, when it also claimed top spot in the album charts for 40 of the 52 weeks during that year.

The label also achieved placement of seven singles at # 1 during 1964, when it also claimed top spot in the album charts for 40 of the 52 weeks during that year.

Cet admitted defeat, but claimed that if his brother Anlúan were present, his feats would top even Conall's.

On top of that, the Massachusetts Bay legally claimed Connecticut as their territory, and the right to freely distribute the conquered Pequot land.

It has a ladder that goes to the top and some people climb it to jump off — but it is very unsafe and has claimed lives.

He was claimed by the Celtics, the top team in the league that year, led by rookie superstar Larry Bird .< ref >

In the event, the Colombian star led 167 of 200 laps and claimed top honours at the end of the race, taking an easy victory on his first attempt.

It had been 36 years since another artist had claimed both top spots in a single year.

In a 2005 book former Intelligence Bureau ( IB ) Joint Director Maloy Krishna Dhar claimed that Babri Masjid demolition was planned 10 months in advance by top leaders of RSS, BJP and VHP and raised questions over the way the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, had handled the issue.

Josh Martin, bassist for band The Wonder Years, has claimed that " Influentially, when you think about the top three pop-punk bands of all time ... it ’ s Blink-182, New Found Glory and Green Day.

The chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, on top of stating that he was completely unfit to become co-emperor also claimed that Staurakios was guilty of rape, a claim perhaps colored by his hostility to Nikephoros I.