The enemy had filtered across the river during the night and a full force of 1000 men, armed with Russian machine guns, attacked the position held by Chandler's men.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

There were no other tetrapods on the land and the amphibians were at the top of the food chain, occupying the ecological position currently held by the crocodile.

He was followed by Jean Picker Firstenberg who held the position of President and CEO from 1980 to 2007.

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

Ealdred was made bishop of Worcester in 1046, a position he held until his resignation in 1062.

He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the Peripatetic school.

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute, a position he held until 1970.

His adventurous life, his forcible character, the position of his state as a barrier between the Indian and the Russian empires, and the skill with which he held the balance in dealing with them, combined to make him a prominent figure in contemporary Asian politics and will mark his reign as an epoch in the history of Afghanistan.

The Abencerrages ( from the Arabic for " Saddler's Son "), were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

Philippe Kahn and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company, and Philippe Kahn resigned as Chairman, CEO and President of Borland, a position he had held for 12 years, in January 1995.

Orthodoxy considers apostolic succession to exist only within the Universal Church, and not through any authority held by individual bishops ; thus, if a bishop ordains someone to serve outside of the ( Orthodox ) Church, the ceremony is ineffectual, and no ordination has taken place regardless of the ritual used or the ordaining prelate's position within the Orthodox Churches.

His two major works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the Middle Ages, and held that position for some seventeen centuries after they were written.

Barney was replaced as Camden Yards ' PA announcer by Dave McGowan, who held the position until December 2011.

Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.

Albertone's heavily outnumbered askaris held their position for two hours until Albertone's capture, and under Ethiopian pressure the survivors sought refuge with Arimondi's brigade.

The CSU currently has three ministers in the cabinet of Germany of the federal government in Berlin, while party leader Horst Seehofer serves as Minister-President of Bavaria: a position that CSU representatives have held since 1957.

This title is often concurrently held by the treasurer in a dual position called secretary-treasurer ; both positions may be concurrently held by the CFO.

The Ji family held the position " Minister over the Masses ", who was also the " Prime Minister "; the Meng family held the position " Minister of Works "; and the Shu family held the position " Minister of War ".

Osbeck, who was married to Warbeck's mother Katherine de Faro, was Flemish and held the occupation of comptroller to the city of Tournai.

William held the office of comptroller of the household from 1471 to 1475 and again in 1481 till Edward's death in 1483.

The title of comptroller is held by various government officials.

The more widely a particular law was recognized, the more weight it held, whereas purely local customs were generally subordinate to law recognized in a plurality of jurisdictions.

The latter, which was based on earlier codes and supplemented by the commentary by Moshe Isserles that notes other practices and customs practiced by Jews in different communities, especially among Ashkenazim, is generally held to be authoritative by Orthodox Jews.

On the one hand, the seventeenth century divine, John Cosin, held that episcopal authority is jure divino, but that it stemmed from " apostolic practice and the customs of the Church ... absolute precept that either Christ or His Apostles gave about it " ( a view maintained also by Hooker ).

Himmler modified a variety of existing customs to emphasize the elitism and central role of the SS ; an SS naming ceremony was to replace baptism, marriage ceremonies were to be altered, a separate SS funeral ceremony was to be held in addition to Christian ceremonies, and SS-centric celebrations of the summer and winter solstice were instituted.

In 1866, Melville's wife and her relatives used their influence to obtain a position for him as customs inspector for the City of New York ( a humble but adequately paying appointment ), and he held the post for 19 years.

Much of this tradition derives from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during " Þrimilci-mōnaþ " ( the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings ) along with many Celtic traditions.

* Extensive visual, textual and musical studies of American May Day customs since the first Maypole Revels were held at the Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount plantation on Massachusetts Bay in May 1627, hosted by Englishman Thomas Morton ; and, last year the state of Massachusetts ' Governor Deval Patrick proclaimed May 1 as Thomas Morton Day.

The ancient customs of the Ni-Vanuatu meant that land was held in trust for future generations by the current custodians ; Europeans viewed it more as a commodity and owned about 30 % of the land area.

In many other regions, festivities of smaller extent are organized, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs ; for example those held in Tyrnavos ( Thessaly ), Kozani ( West Macedonia ), Rethymno ( Crete ) and in Xanthi ( East Macedonia and Thrace ).

* Mores, strongly held norms or customs

Tradition holds that following the Roman departure, Roman customs held on into the 5th century in southern Wales, and that is true in part.

Commercial goods not yet cleared through customs are held in a customs area, often called a bonded store, until processed.

In 1897, President William McKinley appointed George B. Jackson, an African American former buffalo soldier as customs collector at Presidio, a position that he held until his death in 1900.

The critical distinction is that a " lawful combatant " ( defined above ) cannot be held personally responsible for violations of civilian laws that are permissible under the laws and customs of war ; and if captured, a lawful combatant has to be treated as a prisoner of war by the enemy Power under the conditions laid down in the Third Geneva Convention.

As the result of an inter-colonial conference held in Pietermaritzburg in the early months of 1906, a new customs convention of a strongly protective character came into force on 1 June 1906.

A conference was held in London in 1887 for " promoting a closer union between the various parts of the British empire by means of an imperial tariff of customs ".

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Their first shipment of wheat was held up in Mexican customs and so could not be shipped from the port at Guaymas in time for proper planting.

When a replacement part was needed for a camera, it was sent over to Morocco with a New York-based location coordinator instead of just being shipped, out of fear it might get lost or held up at customs.

According to the Shi ' ite customs, memorial services ( called Arba ' een ) are held forty days after a person's death.

Afro Colonials have held on to their culture and adopted Hispanic customs, traits, and cultures.

In 1795 Langworthy was made the clerk of customs for Baltimore, a post he held until his death.

It is believed the castle was briefly held by Mircea the Elder of Wallachia during whose period the customs point was established.