Clergyman Bartolomé de Las Casas observed a number of massacres initiated by the invaders as the Spanish swept over the island, notably the massacre near Camagüey of the inhabitants of Caonao.

In an effort to increase birthrates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families, and initiated policies designed to reduce the number of women employed.

On 13 January 1953, the biggest anti-semitic affair in the Soviet Union was initiated with an article in Pravda that began what came to be known as the Doctors ' plot, in which a number of the country's prominent Jewish physicians were accused of poisoning top Soviet leaders and arrested.

A number of road and airport projects were initiated prior to Mali ’ s hosting of the African Nations Cup football tournament in 2002.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

If he were one of the uninitiated it was necessary for him to bring forward witnesses to his innocence from among the initiated, whose number varied according to the number on the side of the accuser, but twenty-one in favour of innocence necessarily secured an acquittal.

In addition, during its years in office, Christian Democrats passed a number of laws safeguarding employees from exploitation, established a national health service, and initiated low-cost housing in Italy ’ s major cities.

" The abbot in his wisdom decided that great number of young monks in the monastery should be thoroughly initiated in these arts "-says the chronicler about the role of the Greeks in the revival of mosaic art in medieval Italy.

As director of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from 1992 to 1997, he initiated a number of programs designed to increase awareness of mathematics among the public.

He was recommissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant on 1 April 1940, and worked in a number of military hospitals including Northfield Military Hospital ( Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham ) where he initiated the first Northfield Experiment.

The adjacent and similarly landlocked province of Saskatchewan initiated a rat control program in 1972, and has managed to reduce the number of rats in the province substantially, although they have not been eliminated.

Large-scale culling of populations of marine mammals by commercial fishers has been initiated in a number of areas in order to protect fish stocks for human consumption.

These oligarchs initiated their plans at Samos, where they successfully encouraged a number of Samian oligarchs to begin a similar conspiracy.

:" The territory of the Republic of China, defined by its existing national boundaries, shall not be altered unless initiated upon the proposal of one-fourth of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, passed by at least three-fourths of the members present at a meeting attended by at least three-fourths of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, and sanctioned by electors in the free area of the Republic of China at a referendum held upon expiration of a six-month period of public announcement of the proposal, wherein the number of valid votes in favor exceeds one-half of the total number of electors.

He was initiated in Cairo at La Concordia Lodge number 1226, English constitution.

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

The Polish authorities, supported by the public ( e. g. the “ explicitly anti-German ” Związek Obrony Kresów Zachodnich ), initiated a number of measures to further Polonization.

Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposal in 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims.

He initiated a number of liberal reforms, especially in the field of criminal law.

After the end of the war with Germany in May 1945, a program was initiated to bring to the United States a number of scientist and engineers who had been at the center of Germany's advanced military technologies.

He has changed the date of the incident, the location of the incident, the number of missiles involved, the time of the incident, the order of events, the details of telephone calls made both during and after the incident, the number as well as the names of the individuals who either initiated or participated in the communication of those details ( both during and after the incident ), both the personal and official responses to the incident, as well as the complete record of USAF personnel who have allegedly confirmed the claims he has made.

The late 1980s saw the first major usage of the term when a number of campaigns against bourgeois liberalism were initiated lasting till the early 1990s.

Belarus is eligible for Export-Import Bank short-term financing insurance for U. S. investments, but because of the adverse business climate, no projects have been initiated.

Construction projects initiated by the Mamluks pushed the city outward while also bringing new infrastructure to the centre of the city.

Moreover, the nationwide land leveling and rezoning campaign initiated by Kim Jong Il in Kangwon province in May 1998 and in North Pyongan province in January 2000 facilitated the construction of provincial and county fiber optic lines, which were laid by tens of thousands of KPA soldier-builders and provincial shock brigade members mobilized for the large-scale public works projects designed to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable lands devastated by the natural disasters in the late 1990s.

The Center's " Teaching Tolerance " project was initiated in 1991, and its " Klanwatch " program has gradually expanded to include other anti-hate monitoring projects and a list of reported hate groups in the United States.

The government has also initiated many planned projects, such as the Southeastern Anatolia Project ( G. A. P project ).

As part of his restoration, the king initiated building projects, in particular at Thebes and Karnak, where he dedicated a temple to Amun.

One of the last projects of his life, Jakten på Odin, ' The Search for Odin ', was a sudden revision of his Odin hypothesis, in furtherance of which he initiated 2001 – 2002 excavations in Azov, Russia, near the Sea of Azov at the northeast of the Black Sea.

Following the Iranian revolution in 1979, the city's municipality and other related institutions initiated important restoration and reconstruction projects.

Huan further alienated the bureaucracy when he initiated grandiose construction projects and hosted thousands of concubines in his harem at a time of economic crisis.

China's first projects of hydraulic engineering were initiated during the Zhou Dynasty, ultimately as a means to aid agricultural irrigation.

The " Camp of Fire " program is one of many similar projects initiated by Slum Dwellers International, which has programs in Africa, Asia, and South America.

Later popes initiated various stabilization and restoration projects, removing the extensive vegetation which had overgrown the structure and threatened to damage it further.

In preparation major construction projects were initiated.

China has initiated various pilot projects to " internationalize " the RMB in the hope that it will become a reserve currency over the long term.

Fearing another postwar decline that would rival the depression years, Governor Earl Warren initiated public works projects similar to those of the New Deal to capitalize on wartime tax surpluses and provide jobs for returning veterans.

The initial projects at MSFC were primarily continuations of work initiated earlier at ABMA.

During the tenure of Mayor Steven Randall ( 1984 – 90 ) major projects were initiated and completed including rebuilding the Kensington pool ; new street lighting, storm drainage ; road resurfacing and a general facelift.

With annexation attempts stalling, Knoxville initiated several projects aimed at boosting revenue in the Downtown area.

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Two sizeable railroad projects were being initiated in Michigan and due to terminate in the Toledo area.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon has initiated several peace projects attempting to defuse hostilities between Muslims, Jews and Christians.

One of the numerous projects c't initiated is the Offline Update, a set of scripts to download Microsoft updates, combine it with an install script, and create a CD image.

The large scale transmigration projects initiated by the Dutch and continued following Indonesian independence, caused social strains.

As a result of projects initiated by both Norske Skog-Saugbrugs and the city authorities, the polluted fjords and rivers of Halden have been cleaned up and the city was dubbed Norway's Environment City in 1996.