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It has been suggested Birger chose the location for several reasons: Partly to curb domestic magnates by isolating them with a " lock of Lake Mälaren ", offering a defense to the lands around Mälaren from invading enemies in the process ; and to create a commercial bridgehead to attract German merchants.
The chips were widely criticized in product reviews for not offering the performance suggested by their names, and for the confusion caused by their naming similarity with Intel's SL line and IBM's SLC line of CPUs, neither of which was related to Cyrix's SLC.
It is often suggested that offering Cromwell the Crown was an effort to curb his power: as a King he would be obliged to honour agreements such as Magna Carta, but under the arrangement he had designed he had no such restraints.
Secretly planning his revenge, Goujian's minister Wen Zhong suggested training beautiful women and offering them to Fuchai as a tribute ( knowing Fuchai could not resist beautiful women ).
Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strongly urged Hoover to name Cardozo, even offering to resign to make room for him if Hoover had his heart set on someone else ( Stone had in fact suggested to Calvin Coolidge that he should nominate Cardozo rather than himself back in 1925 ).
The researchers suggested that the gender wage gap cannot fully be explained through economic factors, offering that underlying psychological components and attitudes account for some of the difference.
In 704, in response to the problem that imperial officials were not willing to be local officials, Li Jiao and fellow chancellor Tang Xiujing suggested that the officials at the central government be assigned to the prefectures and counties to serve as officials, offering to go first themselves.
In 1994, the Ministry of Defence engaged in an undercover attempt to discredit Armstrong's findings, phoning Allan Thompson of the Toronto Star and offering to leak to him the pathology report by James Ferris conducted two months after the killing, which found the decomposing body showed none of the signs Armstrong had suggested.
It has been suggested by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, that the cup may have been a votive offering placed within the mound during its construction.
Although he hoped that secession would result in a peaceful separation of the North and South and suggested that he was reluctant to take up arms personally, he did not hesitate to write to his friend and former classmate at West Point, Jefferson Davis, offering his services in the Confederate States Army.
The Philanthropy Roundtable has published a series of guidebooks offering suggested strategies for many philanthropic niches.
He suggested that Paladin and Fulp make a console version of the game, even offering to produce the game.
Presley showed an interest in acquiring a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge, and Murphy suggested that Presley write to President Nixon offering his services to help combat illicit drug use.
While traditionally identified as a commemorative inscription, one archaeologist has suggested that it may be a votive offering inscription.
The statement also includes as explanation of research on dialects and usage that supports the resolution, and a bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement ; besides offering those interested in the subject of language some suggested references for further reading.
When it was suggested that Will Sergeant be brought in to work on the songs, the tapes were allegedly stolen from a courier van preventing Sergeant from offering any input.
The study, whose findings were published in 2009, suggested four scenarios: the status quo ; a sale to a strategic buyer ; privatization through a share offering ; or splitting the utility into separate elements.
If the president opposes the bill, he can veto it and return the legislation to Congress with a veto message offering suggested changes.
When commenting on a newspaper article, about the Australian Government offering families money to house asylum seekers, Henry suggested that the idea could be " Broadened Out " saying: " I mean if this is all about saving money you could broaden it out.
The first offering of optional liability insurance was first suggested in 1939.

suggested and half
In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.
Estimates of French losses range from 2, 000 to 5, 000, with a suggested median point of 3, 500 which includes over a thousand captured wounded and nearly 2, 000 killed, half of which died on Orient.
Bethe's original calculations suggested the CN-cycle was the Sun's primary source of energy, owing to the belief at the time that the Sun's composition was 10 % nitrogen ; the solar abundance of nitrogen is now known to be less than half a percent.
The number of unregistered Romanians is difficult to estimate, but the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network suggested that in 2007 that there might have been half a million or more.
Meeting for two days, twice a month, for half a year, the Work Group suggested innovations for planners in education, recreation, religion, and health care, as well as ways of improving social interactions.
But the Castle Bravo accident of 1954, in which a thermonuclear weapon produced a large amount of fallout which was dispersed among human populations, suggested that this was not what was actually being used in modern thermonuclear weapons, which derive around half of their yield from a final fission stage.
They have suggested Earhart and Noonan may have flown without further radio transmissions for two and a half hours along the line of position Earhart noted in her last transmission received at Howland, arrived at then-uninhabited Gardner Island ( now Nikumaroro ) in the Phoenix group, landed on an extensive reef flat near the wreck of a large freighter ( the ) and ultimately perished.
The first few bars were suggested by his great Bulldog, Dan ( a well-known character ) falling down the steep bank into the River Wye ( bar 1 ); his paddling upstream to find a landing place ( bars 2 and 3 ); and his rejoicing bark on landing ( second half of bar 5 ).
Alfred agreed but also suggested that he should spend half his time at St David's and half with Alfred.
Among the sites suggested by the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce was the east half of the old railroad depot, across Main Street from the Plymouth high school, more or less where the new post office was built.
It was further suggested that these treatises are an abridgment made in the latter half of the 2nd century of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown adapter, who added a complete treatise on mythology.
Because Ishi's production was more typical of arrowheads of the Nomlaki or Wintu tribes and markedly dissimilar to those of Yahi, Shackley suggested that Ishi may have been only half Yahi and of mixed ancestry, related to another of the tribes.
For the earliest line that traveled through New Mexico Territory, the Jackass Mail, a San Diego newspaper suggested " ne Sharps rifle and 100 rounds, a Colt and two pounds of lead, a knife, a pair of thick wool pants, a half dozen pairs of thick socks, six undershirts, three overshirts, a wide-awake hat, a cheap sack coat, an overcoat, one pair of blankets in summer and two in winter, gauntlets, needles, pins, a sponge, hair brush, comb, soap, two pairs of thick drawers, and three or four towels.
Stewart's preference for public over private ownership extended to King's planned creation of the Bank of Canada ; Stewart wanted the new institution entirely under the control of the government, but King preferred an arrangement whereby half of its directors would be appointed by the government and half by private shareholders and suggested that advocates of public ownership might find themselves more at home in the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation than in his Liberal caucus.
In 1838 Hill made a proposal to parliament in which he suggested that " the postage on all letters received in a post-town, and delivered in the same, or any other post-town in the British Isles, shall be at the uniform rate of one penny per half ounce ".
It has been suggested that in AC most carriers injected at electrodes during a half of cycle
Some journalists have described reports of Ouija board findings as ' half truths ' and have suggested that their inclusion in national newspapers lowers the national discourse overall.
A large meta-analysis suggested that approximately one-third of death certificates are incorrect and that half of the autopsies performed produced findings that were not suspected before the person died.
Although the quarry has not been identified, it has been suggested that the Gear, a rock now submerged half a mile from the shore at Penzance, may be the site.
MTM Vice President of Programming Stu Erwin felt Butler's concept was only " half a show " and suggested that Butler work with veteran writer Michael Gleason to expand the premise.
Demosthenes suggested that they man the ships again and attempt to force their way out, as now both fleets had lost about half their ships, but Nicias wanted to find refuge on land.

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