Rowell maintained that the missing rations " fell outside the target area " and in his autobiography he stated that the claim that " the rations were never dropped at all or that the explanation lay in faulty work by an inexperienced staff " was " preposterous ", noting that " all through the New Guinea Campaign cargo dropping remained notoriously unreliable ".

During this time Venice had been notoriously known as the " ghetto by the sea " due to the City of Los Angeles ' negligent attitude toward the area, and as a result Oakwood's cheap housing prices which attracted young counterculture artists, poor European immigrants, and maintained an already working-class African American population made it relatively easy for Mexicans to settle in.

In 1985, Stevens stepped down, and handed the nation ’ s preeminent position to Major General Joseph Momoh, a notoriously inept leader who maintained the status quo.

Accounts of the lavish lifestyle he maintained on the Saratoga campaign, combined with a gentlemanly bearing and his career as a playwright led less-than-friendly contemporaries to caricature him, as historian George Billias writes, " a buffoon in uniform who bungled his assignments badly ".

Such Sicilian tyrants as Gelo, Hiero I, Hiero II, Dionysius the Elder, Dionysius the Younger, and Agathocles maintained lavish courts and became patrons of culture.

The lavish expenditure on pilgrimage, he maintained, was best spent on feeding and clothing the hungry and the poor.

The ornate iron-framed ballroom built by Frederick Sargood ( which was converted from an earlier conservatory ) was demolished to make way for a lavish " Hollywood style " swimming pool and ballroom and of gardens were maintained.

It is increasingly recognized that health is maintained and improved not only through the advancement and application of health science, but also through the efforts and intelligent lifestyle choices of the individual and society.

In one clinical study, stroke and ischaemic heart disease appeared to be absent in a population living on the island of Kitava, in Papua New Guinea, where a subsistence lifestyle, uninfluenced by western dietary habits, was still maintained.

Sebring maintained a playboy lifestyle, with high-profile Hollywood personalities such as Warren Beatty among his closest associates.

Born in Argentina into a wealthy family that had been involved with horses for several generations, a suave young Horatio Luro grew up as something of a playboy and maintained this lifestyle after moving to the United States.

He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and abstaining from meat.

The term was once prevalent in Parisian circles, applied deprecatingly to those who professed allegiance to the Socialist Party, but who maintained a far from proletarian lifestyle that distinguished them from the working-class base of the French Socialist Party.

Harlan, a Presbyterian, maintained a New York City apartment, a summer home in Weston, Connecticut and a fishing camp in Murray Bay, Quebec, a lifestyle he described as " awfully tame and correct ".

Certain groups of Kenites settled among the Israelite population, including the descendants of Moses ' brother-in-law, though the Kenites descended from Rechab, maintained a distinct, nomadic lifestyle for some time.

Lord Byron, for example, whose poetry was admired but who maintained a scandalous lifestyle, died in 1824 but was not given a memorial until 1969.

They were from the Karen ethnic group and were a band of Christian guerrillas who maintained an austere lifestyle, including abstinence from sexual intercourse, alcohol, milk, eggs and pork.

He adopted a vegetarian lifestyle which he maintained throughout his life.

It must be emphasized that lifestyle changes, i. e. diet and exercise, are absolutely imperative for weight loss to occur and be maintained.

Most of these tribes have maintained their aboriginal lifestyle for centuries, and government policy has been to not interfere with them unless essential.

He was bothered by recurring heart problems ( chronic inflammation of the heart ), but still maintained his active lifestyle.

The Government of India shall maintain or cause to be maintained books and records adequate to identify the goods and services financed for agreed projects pursuant to paragraphs 1 ( B ) and 1 ( C ) of Article 2, of the Agreement, to disclose the use thereof in the projects and to record the progress of the projects ( including the cost thereof ).

Since its independence, Armenia has maintained a policy of complementarism by trying to have friendly relations both with Iran, Russia, and the West, including the United States and Europe.

The government maintained most of the wartime controls over the economy, including control over the allocation of materials and manpower, and unemployment rarely rose above 500, 000, or 3 % of the total workforce.

Many top nationalist generals, including Chiang, had studied and trained in Japan before the Nationalists had returned to the mainland in the 1920s, and maintained close personal friendships with top Japanese officers.

Many cola drink recipes are maintained as corporate trade secrets, notably including Coca-Cola's recipe.

Most Western countries, including the United States, maintained small diplomatic missions in the capital city of Kabul during the Soviet occupation.

During the making of the film and subsequent promotion campaign Phoenix stayed in character including a notorious interview with David Letterman and the film maker Casey Affleck maintained the ruse that the film was true, only later admitting that it was not.

The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as the father of existentialism, maintained that the individual solely has the responsibilities of giving one's own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom.

Throughout the rest of his life in Geneva, he maintained several friendships from his early years including Montmor, Cordier, Cop, Farel, Melanchthon and Bullinger.

Polk worked for Jackson's policies as speaker, and Van Buren's when he succeeded Jackson in 1837 ; he appointed committees with Democratic chairs and majorities, including the New York radical C. C. Cambreleng as Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, although he maintained the facade of traditional bipartisanship.

French institutions, including the Napoleonic code of law, were maintained.

While the Technocracy's propaganda campaigns were effective in turning the Consensus against mystic and heterodox science, the Traditions maintained various resources, including magical nodes, hidden schools and fortresses called Chantries, and various realms outside of the Consensus in the Umbra.

He was active in protests against Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary who maintained restrictions on immigration of Jews ( including Nazi concentration camp survivors ) to Palestine after the end of the Second World War.

President Alejandro Toledo implemented a recovery program after taking office, maintained largely orthodox economic policies, and took measures to attract investment, including restarting the privatization program.

While Foucault himself was deeply involved in a number of progressive political causes and maintained close personal ties with members of the far-Left, he was also controversial with Leftist thinkers of his day, including those associated with various strains of Marxism, proponents of Left libertarianism ( e. g. Noam Chomsky ) and Humanism ( e. g. Jürgen Habermas ), for his rejection of what he deemed to be Enlightenment-derived concepts of freedom, liberation, self-determination and human nature.

Several cancer viruses, including Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, are maintained as latent, chromosomally-distinct episomes in cancer cells, where the viruses express oncogenes that promote cancer cell proliferation.

Gorbachev's reforms were largely a top-down attempt at reform, and maintained many of the macroeconomic aspects of the command economy ( including price controls, inconvertibility of the ruble, exclusion of private property ownership, and the government monopoly over most means of production ).

From 1763 until 1971, the British Empire maintained varying degrees of political control over some of the Persian Gulf states, including the United Arab Emirates ( originally called the " Trucial Coast States ") and at various times Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar through the British Residency of the Persian Gulf.

It was also the leading exporter of cinnamon in the ancient world, and has maintained close ties with European civilizations including the Roman Empire.

Traditionalists including John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates maintained significant influence on the form.

The city, nevertheless, maintained important trade relationships, and housed a relatively flourishing cultural and artistic life: several Arab poets, including Ibn Hamdis, the most important Sicilian poet of the 12th century, flourished in the city.

A cumulation of close games, including a goal after the siren win by Daryn Cresswell in 2002, and immense and 100 + point winning margins, ensured the Swans ' rivalry was maintained with the Kangaroos in recent years.

Williams maintained this policy up to and including his swan song in 1960.

" A contrast is therefore maintained with the English law, whereby a variety of crimes, including conspiring to kill the King or " violating " the Queen, were punishable as treason.

The Swiss Guard is a small force maintained by the Holy See and is responsible for the safety of the Pope, including the security of the Apostolic Palace and access to the entrances to the city-state.