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On 3 October 1911 the Italians attacked Tripoli, claiming somewhat disingenuously to be liberating Libya from Ottoman rule.
He disingenuously claimed that he would have been out handled the ball if he had removed it and, following a discussion, it was agreed that three runs should be awarded.
The term serves as a criticism of the kind of outrage that business expresses when disingenuously portraying its protest to be for the benefit of all other businesses.
There would be no arrest and trial of Tukhachevsky in 1930: the commander, " turns out to be 100 % clean ," Stalin wrote disingenuously to Molotov in October, " That's very good.
But now we have a Fox executive producer disingenuously giving away his hand by protesting why it should be okay to offend another group of people with the same material he initially said wasn ’ t offensive to Catholics!

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Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.
In Florida, Stanton revives his campaign by disingenuously portraying his Democratic opponent as insufficiently pro-Israel and as a weak supporter of Social Security.
" M. Joseph Sobran, Jr. of the conservative magazine National Review, wrote: "... blatant piece of propaganda ... disingenuously one-sided ..." and goes on to show the cinematic techniques used by the producers to achieve this effect.

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The London Declaration for Global Peace and Resistance against Extremism is intended as an interfaith document which unequivocally condemns all extremism and terrorism, ” because at the heart of all religions is a belief in the sanctity of the lives of the innocent .” The Declaration adds: “ The indiscriminate nature of terrorism, which has in recent years killed far more civilians and other non-combatants than it has combatants, is un-Islamic, un-Judaic, un-Christian and it is indeed incompatible with the true teachings of all faiths .” The London Declaration also “ unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism ( including when sometimes it is disingenuously clothed as anti-Zionism ), Islamophobia ( including when it is sometimes disingenuously dressed up as patriotism ) and all other forms of racism and xenophobia .” Some extremists have already tried to prevent the success of the Declaration via cyber-attacks on the website hosting it.

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Upon the death of Carloman in 771, his own wife, Gerberge fled the kingdom with her children for reasons now unclear ( Einhard disingenuously protests that she spurned her husband's brother " for no reason at all ") and sought refuge with Desiderius at Pavia.
Whoever believes they were directed against the ` aqida or " personal theology " of basic tenets of faith, or the " discursive theology " of rational kalam arguments against heresy is someone who either does not understand the critics or else is quoting them disingenuously.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle attempts to convey the impression that Alfred held the initiative ; it is " a bland chronicle which laconically charts the movements of the Danish victors while at the same time disingenuously striving to convey the impression that Alfred was in control ", although it fails.
He wrote for the stage, and ( perhaps disingenuously ) protested against the printing of his works, saying he had no time to revise them.
Pope disingenuously repudiated any knowledge of the contents.
Hind somewhat disingenuously claimed that the name was not a reference to Queen Victoria, but the mythological figure Victoria.
Moscoe denied that any trickery was involved, and suggested that certain councillors were disingenuously trying to appear disinterested in their salaries.
Mathematician Jeffrey Shallit criticises the book for evasion and dissembling — for answering the easier questions disingenuously and avoiding the harder questions entirely.

petitioned and Grand
The end of the Civil War brought additional settlers and in November 1866 a group of men petitioned the Board of Supervisors of Grand Traverse County to form " Viola " township.
When Parliament considered the Act of Parliament for the building of the Grand Junction, the Oxford Canal successfully petitioned to make the Grand Junction pay " bar tolls " to the Oxford Canal to compensate for the loss of traffic south of Napton.
Two days before the Battle of Werbach ( July 24, 1866 ), however, the second chamber had petitioned the Grand Duke to end the war and enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with Prussia.
However, then, in an act of false modesty intended to create the opposite result, he petitioned Grand Empress Dowager Wang that his daughter not be consideredand then started a petition drive by the people to have his daughter be selected as empress.
In 1939, he petitioned Franklin Lodge # 25 in Alton, Illinois, and by late November of that year was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Illinois A. F & A. M. Wadlow's Freemason ring was the largest ever made.
On March 1, 1835, Jones met with four other Masons at Brazoria and petitioned the Grand Master of Louisiana for a dispensation and a charter to form the first Masonic lodge in Texas.
In 1921, Colorado U. S. Representative Edward T. Taylor petitioned the Congressional Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to rename the Grand River as the Colorado River.
Before the Grand Rapids – Benton Harbor segment was completed, the Michigan State Highway Department ( MSHD ), predecessor to the modern MDOT petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids.
In 1526 as a member of the Lithuanian Council of Lords he unsuccessfully petitioned the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old for the renewal of a Kingdom of Lithuania under the rule of Zygmunt's I son, Sigismund II August.
While stationed in the desolate Utah Territory he and others petitioned the Freemason's Grand Lodge of Missouri to establish a Masonic Lodge in the Utah Territory.
The Grand Canyon train lost its name in early 1968 when the railway petitioned the ICC to drop service to the Grand Canyon National Park ; however the train would continue to operate as Trains 23 and 24 until the May 1, 1971 handover of all passenger service to Amtrak.
The first Masonic lodges operated in Malta under French warrants generally obtained from Marseilles, but under the guidance of Count von Kollowrat, the Scottish Lodge of St. John of Marseilles petitioned the Grand Lodge of the Moderns in England to obtain an English warrant on the 30th June, 1788.
The women of Tau Beta Sigma petitioned Kappa Kappa Psi to be chartered as an auxiliary chapter of the fraternity, which was supported by founder A. Frank Martin, who was serving as National Executive Secretary, and Max Mitchell, Grand Second Vice President.

petitioned and Empress
Repnin believed that the Protestants were not significant enough to benefit Russia ; at the same time, the Protestant community itself petitioned Empress Catherine, requesting not to be involved.

petitioned and Dowager
Shortly thereafter, Lumley petitioned the Queen Dowager to permit labeling the regiment The Queen Dowager's Horse, which request was granted.

petitioned and Wang
He and General Wang Zhen petitioned Party chairman Hua Guofeng to rehabilitate Deng Xiaoping at the March 1977 CPC CC Work Conference, but were turned down.

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Then in 1202, disaffected patrons petitioned the French king to summon John to answer their charges in his capacity as John's feudal lord, and, when the English king refused to appear, Philip again took up the claims of Arthur, to whom he betrothed his six-year-old daughter, Marie.
In March 1967, Bowles was formally petitioned for political asylum by Svetlana Alliluyeva, a writer and the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, which was then provided and arranged for her to leave India immediately for Switzerland, via Rome.
Their eldest sons were coheirs to all of Mrs. Dixie's noble claims ; in 1909, the senior great-grandsons of her daughters petitioned to each have one title drawn out of abeyance for himself: the heir of the eldest daughter petitioned for the Barony of Burgh, the heir of the fourth daughter for the Barony of Cobham, and the heir of the youngest daughter for the Barony of Strabolgi.
In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.
Her daughter, Bettijane Christopher Burger, of Charleston, WV, petitioned the state for the marker.
Mexica leaders successfully petitioned one of the kings of Culhuacan to provide a daughter to marry into the Mexica line.

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The bannermen were prohibited from participating in trade and manual labour unless they petitioned to be removed from banner status.
Lord Chancellor Gardiner and the House of Commons unsuccessfully petitioned her to consider marrying an Englishman, fearing that England would be relegated to a dependency of the Habsburgs.
Within one month after his wife died on 27 November 1894, he moved to Friedrichsruh near Hamburg, waiting in vain to be petitioned for advice and counsel.
In this sense, the evil gods could be blamed for misfortune, while the good gods could be petitioned with prayer and sacrifices to make things right.
After his return to Geneva, Knox was chosen to be the minister at a new place of worship petitioned from Calvin.
King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but de Rozier, along with Marquis François d ' Arlandes, successfully petitioned for the honor.
In March 1853, Robert Hawkins and Joshua Jordan, both Methodist missionaries, petitioned the Assembly to be relieved on taxes.
The Wehrbeauftragter is a soldiers ' ombudsman who can be petitioned directly by soldiers, bypassing the chain of command.
In the Biblical account, earlier regulations had specified that property was to be inherited by heirs who were male, but the daughters were the only children of their now deceased father, and so they came to the door of the Tent of Meeting and asked Moses, Eleazer, the tribal chieftains, and the rest of the congregation, for advice on what was to be done, as there were no obvious male heirs ; in the Talmud, opinions vary as to whether this means that the daughters petitioned all of these groups at the same time, with them gathered together, or if it means that the daughters first petitioned the congregation, then the chieftains, then Eleazar, and finally petitioned Moses.
Later in the narrative of the Book of Numbers, the elders of the clan of Gilead petitioned Moses and the tribal chieftains for advice, because they were concerned that if Zelophehad's daughters married men from another Israelite tribe, the property that the daughters had inherited the right to would become the property of the other tribe, and would be lost from the tribe of Manasseh, to which Zelophehad had belonged.
One major Abbey whose monks had been closely implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace was that of Furness in Lancashire ; the abbot, fearful of a treason charge, petitioned to be allowed to make a voluntary surrender of his house, which Cromwell happily approved.
Therefore, because they were effectively isolated from the rest of Starke county, residents north of the river petitioned to be annexed to LaPorte county and this was done on January 28, 1842.
While the Exu de Candomblé is an Orisha, the Exu of Quimbanda is like a Lordly or Kingly Spirit, and unlike the Candomblé Orishas, he can be " bought " or " controlled " by the Quimbanda practitioner to go and do many sorts of deeds, while the Candomblé Exu must only be petitioned.
The villagers petitioned to be allowed to keep the church as it was their only place of worship, and this was granted.
In April 1778 the 270 families living in the area petitioned the General Assembly to be incorporated as a town.
One year later, Lebanon petitioned the General Assembly to be returned to New London County, which they had originally been part of before the creation of Windham County.
In 1869, settlers petitioned the post office to be renamed as Homewood, after the woods that the residents lived among.
On November 27, 1886 a group of 35 area residents petitioned the county government " that they are desirous of having said territory organized as a village ... That the name of the proposed village shall be New Swansea.

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