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He was notoriously scornful of the government's attempts to reinstate the Irish language ( which he referred to as " Woolworth's Irish "), proposing that funding be used instead for housing and school health services, and remained perpetually suspicious of Éamon de Valera, against whose economic policies, character, and personal appearance he often hurled invectives during Seanad proceedings.
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In his teens O'Banion was enrolled in the vicious Market Street gang and he became a singing waiter in McGovern's Cafe, a notoriously low and rowdy dive in North Clark Street, where befuddled customers were methodically looted of their money by the singing waiters before being thrown out.
It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.
The drive-head mechanism was notoriously easy to misalign.
The Soroban system was notoriously unreliable, and often replaced with a modified Friden Flexowriter, which also contained its own punch tape system.
After a trial at the Old Bailey in front of the notoriously sadistic judge Salathiel Lovell, Defoe was found guilty.
Wallach also mentioned that director Sergio Leone was notoriously careless regarding the safety of his actors during dangerous scenes.
The traditional gas mask style with two small circular eye windows originated when the only suitable material for these eye windows was glass or acrylic ; as glass is notoriously brittle, glass eye windows had to be kept small and thick.
Cardano was notoriously short of money and kept himself solvent by being an accomplished gambler and chess player.
The Kaiser promoted active colonization of Africa and Asia for those areas that were not already colonies of other European powers ; his record was notoriously brutal and set the stage for genocide.
While it was technically possible to retrofit more advanced floppy drives such as the high-density drive ( released in 1984 ) into the original IBM PC, this was not an option offered by IBM for the 5150 model, and the move to high-density 5. 25-inch floppies in particular was notoriously fraught with disk compatibility problems.
Stuart gave his friend Jackson a fine, new officer's tunic, trimmed with gold lace, commissioned from a Richmond tailor, which he thought would give Jackson more of the appearance of a proper general ( something to which Jackson was notoriously indifferent ).
More crucial to the operations of the German military was Krupp's development of the famed 88 mm anti-aircraft cannon which found use as a notoriously effective anti-tank gun.
Another suggested means of retaliation was Laurie Nash, whose notoriously abrasive personality and aggression saw him regarded as a thug.
This was notoriously difficult to use, and would often result in entering a different sequence than the one that had been intended.
The castle was " notoriously strong ", but in a two-month siege the defenders were battered into submission by Richard's siege engines.
A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.
It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner ( 1844 – 1930 ), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.
Semtex became notoriously popular with terrorists because it was, until recently, extremely difficult to detect, as in the case of Pan Am Flight 103.
He was widely known for his paranoia and his obsession with torturing people who disappointed him in any way, which included tardy girlfriends, friends who disagreed with him and, most notoriously, Iraqi athletes who performed poorly.
If one could achieve reliable operation of VLB at 50mhz it was extremely fast-but again this was notoriously difficult to achieve, and often it was discovered not to be possible with a given hardware configuration.
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Machiavelli in particular was scornful of writers on politics who judged everything in comparison to mental ideals and demanded that people should study the " effectual truth " instead.
Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.
Among his most famous paintings are the triptych Metropolis ( 1928 ), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and financial catastrophe, and the startling Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ( 1926 ).
Noted Han historian Sima Qian was scornful of such practices, dismissing them as foolish trickery.
The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste ; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt's expulsion from Gießen.
The music press was scornful of " Oakey and his dancing girls " and treated the new band line-up with derision.
She was scornful of the elitist nature of some elements of the institution, branding the Oxford Union " that cadet class of the establishment ".
He was scornful of the actual forms of peasant life and wanted to transform it by cutting the farmers loose from " the slavery of old restraints ".
Embittered by his deformity, Alarcón was constantly engaged in personal quarrels with his rivals ; but his attitude in these polemics is always dignified, and his crushing retort to Lope de Vega in Los pechos privilegiados is an unsurpassed example of cold, scornful invective.
Profitable concerts did not arise ; the critics were indifferent or scornful ; patronage from the Belgian court was not forthcoming ( although the King later sent César-Auguste a gold medal ) and there was no money to be made.
That is, de Gaulle preferred a direct relationship with the people to parliamentary politics ; to some extent, he was scornful of politicians and political games.
These words, it was alleged, were spoken by him in a scornful manner, to insult the Prince Palatine and his wife Elizabeth of Bohemia, who was daughter to James I of England.
Only HMS Agincourt remained apart from the battle entirely, passing up the Dutch line at extreme range ; one anecdotal account reports that on board Agincourt a stray shot passed high over the deck and an officer was seen to flinch, drawing a scornful call from the crew that " There is no danger yet, Sir ".
Stratus was ostensibly scornful of Hemme's appearance in the April 2005 issue of Playboy.
Cato was greatly exasperated and inflamed by this, and attempted to go to law about it ; but his friends prevented this, and so, in his rage and youthful fervour, he betook himself to iambic verse, and heaped much scornful abuse upon Scipio, adopting the bitter tone of Archilochus, but avoiding his license and puerility.
This ability of units to hop from one woods hex to another without being attacked was called " Panzerbush Syndrome ", and " Panzerbush " became a scornful nickname for the game itself.
Konstantin was particularly scornful of the numerous aristocratic protests against his plan, commenting once that they were not even worthy for him to spit upon.
He was replaced as Foreign Minister by former United Nations Ambassador Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla in March 2009 after allegations of expressing scornful words against Fidel Castro's rule and the positions of other senior communist party leaders obtained from covert recording bugs, he was deposed from all his party and state positions.
( Lie later was scornful of Killing, perhaps out of competitive spirit and claimed that all that was valid had already been proven by Lie and all that was invalid was added by Killing.
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Lincoln understood that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states.
As of late November 2009, the Armenian government's foreign debt was around $ 3 billion USD, having doubled in size over the course of the previous year.
This document was based on several years of consultation aimed to lay out the government's priorities for museums in the 21st century.
While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.
Populations recovered and stabilized, so the species was removed from the U. S. federal government's list of endangered species and transferred to the list of threatened species on July 12, 1995, and it was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.
He was succeeded by Asquith, who stepped up the government's radicalism.
The bank was given exclusive possession of the government's balances, and was the only limited-liability corporation allowed to issue bank-notes.
Early descriptions of the production process and glazing techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central government's construction agency.
Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.
The minutes revealed that in laying out the government's position Curzon had explained that: " Palestine was included in the areas as to which Great Britain pledged itself that they should be Arab and independent in the future ".
In January 1921, the British Labour Commission produced a report on the situation in Ireland which was highly critical of the government's security policy.
The government's economic policy and democratic security strategy have engendered a growing sense of confidence in the economy, particularly within the business sector, and GDP growth in 2003 was among the highest in Latin America, at over 4 %.
The censor was an officer in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances.
Pioneering historian of the Red Terror Sergei Melgunov claims that this was done deliberately in an attempt to demonstrate the government's humanity.
He said he was displeased with the federal government's decision to allow United States missile testing in Canada and had wanted to " graphically illustrate to Canadians " how wrong he believed the government to be.
" For his part, Hughes was unwilling to construe individual rights so that they frustrated the government's efforts to achieve a legitimate regulatory goal.
At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.
Altogether, Diocletian effected a large increase in the number of bureaucrats at the government's command ; Lactantius was to claim that there were now more men using tax money than there were paying it.
The government's response was to issue a price freeze.
One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.
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