As the Atlantic Ocean widened, the convergent-margin orogenies that had begun during the Jurassic continued in the North American Cordillera, as the Nevadan orogeny was followed by the Sevier and Laramide orogenies.

The Tories had slipped behind Labour in the opinion polls during 1989 and the gap widened during 1990, but within two months of Major taking over as prime minister the Tories had returned to the top of the opinion polls, briefly enjoying a comfortable lead after the Gulf War.

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tiltyard to its current form.

Prior to the extraction, the hole made by the arrow shaft had been widened by inserting larger and larger dowels of elder pith wrapped in linen down the entry wound.

As governor, Paulinus had widened the road to Cimitile and built a residence for travelers ; it was at this site that Paulinus and Therasia took up residence.

By 1989 the political spectrum had widened, and new parties were formed and re-formed almost daily.

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

In 1914 – 15, one section of the northern arm of the Red Main was straightened and widened after areas along the river had been flooded during a period of high water in 1909.

By the end of World War II, British Guiana's political system had been widened to encompass more elements of society and the economy's foundations had been strengthened by increased demand for bauxite.

He also improved the designs of astronomical instruments such as the widened astronomical sighting tube, which allowed Shen Kuo to fix the position of the pole star ( which had shifted over centuries of time ).

The command party established themselves at the top of the bluff, and elements of G / 116 and H / 116 joined them, having earlier moved laterally along the beach, and now the narrow front had widened to the east.

It also had sections widened between the Lorne Hotel and the Pacific Hotel to improve traffic, while aiming to preserve it's character.

The Southern Pacific Railroad, which had acquired the P & WVR line at the end of the 19th century, widened it from narrow to standard gauge and in 1914, electrified it, providing rapid, clean, and quiet service between Oswego and Portland.

Before his death he had the upper terrace widened to hold a larger parterre and enclosed with latticework and pavilions ; his successor, Louis XII, built a gallery round the terrace which can be seen in the 1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in Les plus excellens bastimens de France.

Over the next couple years Mears had the channel widened and deepened.

It was widened by 13 feet, using granite corbels ; but subsequent surveys showed that the bridge was sinking an inch ( about 2. 5 cm ) every eight years ; and by 1924, the east side had sunk some three to four inches ( about 9 cm ) lower than the west side.

Originally a narrow gauge line, it had been widened to standard gauge.

Political scientist Rand Dyck, in observing these criticisms, notes that while judges have had their scope of review widened, they have still upheld most laws challenged on Charter grounds.

The trolley tracks were removed in 1945 and the road was realigned and widened as most of the area's transportation had become automotive.

The dock, which had previously only accommodated passengers, was widened and reinforced to allow auto access.

The street had been built in 1753, providing a continuation of Capel Street on the north bank of the Liffey, across the newly widened Essex Bridge, and so the exchange ended ( and still ends ) a long streetscape.

In a long and incandescent speech, he widened his defense of Durieux to include the whole of the peasant crowd: " They trod in indignation the soil which they so long had watered with their sweat and tears.

Just a year later, UNHCR was tasked with dealing with Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, while also responding Algerian refugees who had fled to Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of Algeria's war for independence.

The UNHCR estimated the figure at 55, 000 refugees who had fled to Montenegro and Central Serbia, most of whom were Kosovo Serbs:

In October 2005 Kofi Annan reiterated that he had come to the conclusion that " the evidence did not support the accusation " but that because of ongoing media-pressure Mr. Lubber's resignation was in the best interests of the UNHCR.

In 1973, he married Annie, a French assistant at UNHCR, with whom he had two sons, Laurent and Adrien.

" The UNHCR has traditionally argued that it does not have a " general competence for IDPs " even though at least since 1972 it had relief and rehabillatation programs for those displaced within a country.

While 50, 000 to 70, 000 Tutsi arrived in the initial refugee influx, periodic ethnic violence resulted in a refugee population of about 200, 000 by 1990, though only about 82, 000 of these had registered as refugees with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

An internal evaluation released in 2001 suggested that UNHCR had done little to exercise its mandate on statelessness.

Only two individuals were tasked with overseeing work in that area at UNHCR headquarters, though some field officers had been trained to address the issue.

The UNHCR ran a refugee camp in Tanzania where the Global Catalyst Foundation had placed computers and communications equipment for the use of the Burundian refugees confined there.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) estimated that 30, 000 people had been displaced from March 1998 to the start of the NATO bombing campaign in March 1999.

In June 2007, the Mauritanian government under President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) to help it repatriate black Mauritanians who had been forced out in the war and were living in refugee camps in Mali and Senegal.

All the Vietnamese refugees had repatriated by the UNHCR.

Galang camp had many facilities and offices like camp administration ( P3V ) office, PMI ( Red Cross Hospital ) and UNHCR offices / staff premises.

As of 2005, the UNHCR had been assisting with the repatriation of Rohingya from Bangladesh, but allegations of human rights abuses in the refugee camps have threatened this effort.

He had also intervened on behalf of a number of foreign-born scientists including mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, granting them exception to a mandate stripping all foreigners of possessions and freedom .< ref >

The group had been given a mandate to complete work on reconciliation by 2007, and in 2003 began working on a document entitled " Mutual Recognition and Mutual Reconciliation of Ministries.

The CUC had a task force whose mandate was to consider revising them.

The effort was a long struggle ; Eisenhower had to be convinced that 1 ) the political circumstances in the country had created a genuine duty for him to offer himself as a candidate, and 2 ) that there was a mandate from the populace for him to be their President.

Later, however, the Sultan changed his orders and had Fakhr-al-Din and his family killed on 13 April 1635 in Istanbul, bringing an end to an era in the history of Lebanon, which would not regain its current boundaries until it was proclaimed a mandate state and republic in 1920.

In contrast, the Holy See has not questioned the validity of the consecrations that the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre performed in 1988 for the service of the relatively numerous followers of the Traditionalist Catholic Society of St. Pius X that he had founded, and of the bishops who, under pressure from the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, " have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation ", and who consequently, Pope Benedict XVI has declared, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ".

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

With the end of World War I, Britain was given a mandate over the area known as Palestine, which it had conquered from the Ottomans.

However, as his country was under British mandate, he had little say in the matter.

In the spring of 1979, after the Arab League had extended the mandate of the Arab Deterrent Force, the Sudanese, the Saudis and the UAE troops departed Lebanon, the Libyan troops were essentially abandoned and had to find their own way home, if at all.

According to the British, who had been awarded a League of Nations mandate over Iraq in 1920 and therefore represented Iraq in its foreign affairs, Mosul belonged to Iraq ; on the other hand, the new Turkish republic claimed the province as part of its historic heartland.

In each case, the colonial power that held the mandate on each territory became the administering power of the trusteeship, except that Japan, which had been defeated in World War II, lost its mandate over the South Pacific islands, which became a " strategic trust territory " known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United States administration.

Further, that this mandate had to be obeyed in order to remain in communion with the Roman church.

The new coalition government now had a strong 9 to 2 mandate in parliament.

Continuing pressure from Syrian nationalist groups and British pressure forced the French to evacuate their troops in April 1946, leaving the country in the hands of a republican government that had been formed during the mandate.

In the 1930s, when Lebanon was still under the French mandate, Sidon had the largest Jewish population estimated at 3, 588 with 3, 060 in Beirut.

Each institution could do this on the theory that at best, a lame duck Congress or administration had neither the time nor the mandate to tackle problems.

The Prodi Commission had to extend their mandate to the 22 November after the new line up of Commissioners was finally approved.

At Vienna its publication encountered grave difficulties, and Eck had good cause to set up a votive tablet to his patron saint upon his safe return to Ingolstadt, although even there only the authority of the papal mandate made the publication of the bull possible.

In all of these cases, a refugee was defined as a person in a group for which the League of Nations had approved a mandate, as opposed to a person to whom a general definition applied.

The International Refugee Organization was a temporary organization of the United Nations ( UN ), which itself had been founded in 1945, with a mandate to largely finish the UNRRA's work of repatriating or resettling European refugees.

* The Trust Territory of New Guinea ( Australia ): The north-eastern section of this island had been a League of Nations mandate, the south-eastern section had been Australian before World War I ; after World War II, the two were combined into a unified entity for administrative purposes, although the legal distinction between the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea was maintained.