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was and conscientious
Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, was convicted of violating 12a of the Universal Military Training and Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the armed forces.
Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, contends that he was denied due process, both in the proceedings before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice and at trial.
At that time, church affiliation was required to register for conscientious objector status, and in 1865 Thomas chose for registration purposes the name Christadelphian.
In Germany the small Christadelphian community founded by Albert Maier went underground from 1940 – 1945, and a leading brother, Albert Merz, was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and later executed.
Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.
" Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell " that their " ambiguous choice " was " dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because ... we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice " Charlotte contributed 20 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21.
Schneider proposes that by testing an historian against the criteria of the " objective historian " then, even if an historian holds specific political views ( and she gives an example of a well-qualified historian's testimony that was disregarded by a United States court because he was a member of a feminist group ), providing the historian uses the " objective historian " standards, he or she is a " conscientious historian ".
It was Irving's failure as an " objective historian " not his right wing views that caused him to loose his libel case, as a " conscientious historian " would not have " deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence " to support his political views.
While Kepler considered most traditional rules and methods of astrology to be the " evil-smelling dung " in which " an industrious hen " scrapes, there was an " occasional grain-seed, indeed, even a pearl or a gold nugget " to be found by the conscientious scientific astrologer.
Prior to Grimm's time, philology was nothing but a more or less laborious and conscientious dilettanteism, with occasional flashes of scientific inspiration.
He was called up for military service in February 1918, but claimed conscientious objection due to his beliefs and his father's country of origin, and thereby avoided any direct role in the fighting.
Walter Asmus was his conscientious young assistant director.
In 2009 ( 70 years after his death ), a book was published containing extensive correspondence by Karel Čapek, in which the writer discusses the subjects of pacifism and his conscientious objection to military service with lawyer Jindřich Groag from Brno.
Robert Dudley was a conscientious privy councillor, and one of the most frequently attending.
Bossuet was always best when at work on a large canvas ; besides, here no conscientious scruples intervened to prevent him giving much time and thought to the artistic side of his subject.
His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship.
Both Britten and Pears applied for recognition as conscientious objectors ; Britten was initially allowed only non-combatant service in the military, but gained unconditional exemption on appeal.
Although Michael Psellus claimed the joint reign was a complete failure, John Scylitzes stated that they were very conscientious in rectifying the abuses of the previous reigns.
He was, however, an able soldier and a conscientious administrator, and took an interest in the welfare of the humbler classes, from which his father had risen.
Dutt was imprisoned for refusing to fight, and Childe campaigned for both his release and the release of other socialists and pacifist conscientious objectors.
The group was funded by European countries, Austria also provided a conscientious objector performing community service.
In 1957 lifelong conscientious objector Rumney was one of the co-founders of the London Psychogeographical Association.

was and effective
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.
At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;
The U.N.F.P. learned that its urban organization, which depends heavily on U.M.T. support, was most effective.
As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.
the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.
In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.
The statement was effective.
But by now O'Banion's political pull was beginning to be effective.
Kerosene was very effective in ridding pioneer homes of the pests.
In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.
But the result of it all was, E.G.T. partner Dean Guerin believes, an effective distribution of the stock to owners all over the nation.
It was most effective against trade unions.
) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.
She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.
The document could not become officially effective until it was ratified by all 13 colonies.
It was accepted by the War Department on May 6, 1861, effective May 3.
But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.
It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.
He was a very popular political figure, and since he was the Governor in the effective capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor Valentinian I. Ambrose never married.

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