For example, he claims that a television comedy sketch featuring himself, Adrián García and Marcos Betancourt, all stammerers, would be four hours long.

The Head claims to be an ancient enemy of Balor's, and the Nine intend to use the intelligence it provides to their strategic advantage.

This caused the queen to be viewed as an enemy, even though she was personally against Austrian claims on French lands.

Under this treaty, Isabella's daughter Joan would marry David Bruce ( heir apparent to the Scottish throne ) and Edward III would renounce any claims on Scottish lands, in exchange for the promise of Scottish military aid against any enemy except the French, and £ 20, 000 in compensation for the raids across northern England.

The plan's continual setbacks – including an error that led to seizing a criminally insane Army prison convict ( Harrelson ) to be their " hero " who was " shot down behind enemy lines " – do not disturb the producer, who repeatedly claims " This is nothing " while comparing the situation to a past movie-making catastrophes he averted.

The military determined ace status by verifying combat claims by a pilot, but confirmation, too, was needed from ground witnesses, affirmations of other pilots, or observation of the wreckage of the opposing enemy aircraft.

Schneider claims that because of Wittmann's actions, " the bulk of the 2nd Company and Mobius 1st Company came up against an enemy who had gone onto the defensive ".

The German Reich and the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic mutually agree to waive their claims for compensation for expenditure incurred on account of the war, and also for war damages, that is to say, any damages which may have been suffered by them and by their nationals in war zones on account of military measures, including all requisitions in enemy country.

The Record of Heroes ( 英雄記 ) by Wang Can, however, claims that Sun Jian died in 193 and that he was crushed to death by boulders instead of killed by arrows while pursuing the enemy commander Lü Gong.

Its use may have expanded across continents, e. g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia ( writing in the 1550s ), claims that in 1502, the Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a " white cloth tied to a stick ", " as a sign of peace ", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.

With regard to the Shia Twelver claims that Imam Ismail had pre-deceased Musa al-Kazim, the Ismailis believe that Imam Ja ’ far al-Sadiq observed taqiyya ( dissimulation ) and gave a chance to his real successor to go underground so that their enemy, the Abbasids, did not pursue Ismail, and that his Imamat and his activities went un-noticed.

Realistic assessment of enemy casualties is important for intelligence purposes, so most air forces expend considerable effort to ensure accuracy in victory claims.

* January 6 – Firing at a Japanese Aichi D3A dive bomber ( Allied reporting name " Val ") south of Guadalcanal, the U. S. Navy light cruiser claims the first hit on an enemy aircraft by antiaircraft ammunition employing the Mark 32 VT proximity fuse.

Rose claims that her male companion is her cousin and, since they are on the run, calls him Logan to conceal his identity ; though why she should choose the name of their enemy remains unexplained.

The Head claims to be an ancient enemy of Balor's, and the Nine intend to use the intelligence it provides to their strategic advantage.

SBVT also claims that the wound was not from enemy fire but was from shrapnel of a grenade he fired himself, a claim unsupported by anyone actually there.

Prem Rawat did not inherit a formal set of teachings nor did he develop one, as he sees conceptual thinking as the main enemy of the direct religious experience which he claims can be obtained through the techniques of Knowledge.

A score board recording the claims for enemy aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF from July – November 1918, including 54 Squadron

Operation Tabarin was the codename under which the British Antarctic Survey originated in 1944, when the wartime dual mission was to deny Antarctic waters and abandoned whaling stations to enemy warships and submarines, yet at the same time positively to assert the UK ’ s informal territorial claims ; the Operation left its mark on Antarctic topography in the Tabarin Peninsula.

Julian Pitt-Rivers noted that " while the sovereign is the ' fount of honour ' in one sense, he is also the enemy of honour in another, since he claims to arbitrate in regard to it " (" Honour and Social Status ", 30 in Peristiany, ed., Honour and Shame, Chicago, 1970 ).

There is a man at Kufa who is a story-teller called Nauf ; who claims that he ( Al-Khadir's companion ) is not Moses of Bani Israel ... Ibn ' Abbas said, "( Nauf ) the enemy of Allah told a lie.

Galt turns the tables on the man following him ( William Bendix ), who claims to be a private eye named Foss, hired by Galt's sworn enemy, a corrupt lawyer named Tony Jardine.

", Jerri's stepfather claims to have a " secret enemy " which he calls The Red Squad.

But the real war strikes suddenly one night with an enemy mortar barrage which claims a number of casualties.

Swords of Xeen takes place on an entirely new world that is under attack by ' The Source ', which claims to be the genius behind Alamar, the main enemy of Might and Magic V.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

Initial claims for jobless benefits were said to have dropped by 8,100 in the week ending March 4.

To encourage exploration for domestic sources of minerals, the Office of Minerals Exploration ( OME ) of the U.S. Department of the Interior offers financial assistance to firms and individuals who desire to explore their properties or claims for 1 or more of the 32 mineral commodities listed in the OME regulations.

The Commission shall notify all claimants of the approval or denial of their claims, stating the reasons and grounds therefor, and if approved, shall notify such claimants of the amount for which such claims are approved.

The Commission shall certify to the Secretary of State, upon his request, copies of the formal submissions of claims filed pursuant to subsection ( B ) of Section 4 of this Act for transmission to the foreign government concerned.

a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

Even if we strip their respective claims to the barest minimum, the `` odds '' still favor them both, for the trend in effect is always more likely to continue than to reverse.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

As stated in Seaboard and numerous other cases, the two primary reasons for the enactment of section 203 of the United States Code were to prevent the Government from having to deal with more than one claimant and to prevent the assignment of meretricious claims on a contingent-fee basis.

In this tangle of conflicting claims, the patent-sharing scheme adopted by the A.L.A.M. at its founding proved to be the best device for avoiding or mitigating the burdens of incessant litigation.

The modern world has been marked by progressive disaffection with claims to divine sanction for the state, whatever its political form.

This, he claims, would reasonably account for the expansion of the universe.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and genocide claims for 1915 – 1918 events made impossible relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, thus increased an isolation of the country.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

* 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

It was an extremely important post for American exploration of the continent and was influential in establishing American claims to the land.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.