Mr. Notte was responding to a resolution adopted by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state house by Miss Grant.

Authorities responding to public pressure order the collection and cremation of the rats, unaware that the collection itself was the catalyst for the spread of the bubonic plague.

Those attacks combined with Maxime Weygand's Hedgehog tactic would become the major basis for responding to blitzkrieg attacks in the future: deployment in depth, permitting enemyor “ shoulders ” of a penetration was essential to channeling the enemy attack, and artillery, properly employed at the shoulders, could take a heavy toll of attackers.

reports that, when the Va, pensiero chorus was sung in Milan, then belonging to the large part of Italy under Austrian domination, the audience, responding with nationalistic fervor to the exiled slaves ' lament for their lost homeland, demanded an encore of the piece.

In 1915 the United States, responding to complaints to President Woodrow Wilson from American banks to which Haiti was deeply in debt, occupied the country.

The Menke / Morgan punch was beginning to come alive, and the team was responding to Walker's management style.

While Bennett was, and is still, often criticized for lack of compassion for the impoverished masses, he stayed up through many nights reading and responding to personal letters from ordinary citizens asking for his help, and often dipped into his personal fortune to send a five-dollar bill to a starving family.

The Soviet economy was increasingly sluggish when it came to responding to change, adapting cost − saving technologies, and providing incentives at all levels to improve growth, productivity and efficiency.

He was responding to coverage about whether Hollywood was responsible for school shootings.

One view suggests that the motivation and purpose of the laws providing for the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents was child protection, with government policy makers and officials responding to an observed need to provide protection for neglected, abused or abandoned mixed-descent children.

Sojourner, like other public speakers, often adapted her speeches to how the audience was responding to her.

The mescaline was slow to take effect, but Osmond saw that after two and a half hours the drug was working and after three hours Huxley was responding well.

These philosophers are responding, in part, to the common use of truth predicates ( e. g., that some particular thing "... is true ") which was particularly prevalent in philosophical discourse on truth in the first half of the 20th century.

Just a year later, UNHCR was tasked with dealing with Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, while also responding Algerian refugees who had fled to Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of Algeria's war for independence.

* June 2 – Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he is dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, " The report of my death was an exaggeration.

It was also aimed at responding to the need to provide academics a venue for research to enrich teaching and to provide inputs to policy-making.

" He was responding to a call for attention from Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

In the late 1970s, the river was the subject of a successful ecological campaign ( called " Save the River "), originally responding to planned development by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

His father was not so sluggish in responding to him this time, and soon the younger Louis was forced into the far southeastern corner of his realm, the March of Pannonia.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

In an earlier case, Kingan & Co. v. United States, an American corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring the stock of a British corporation in exchange for its own stock and then liquidating the British corporation.

The anti-assignment statute was held not to prevent the American corporation from suing for a refund of taxes paid by the British corporation.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

one was British and the other, French.

It was probably one of Kipling's tales of the British Army.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Its purpose was ostensibly to oversee the territory and the establishment of new settlements and maintain a detailed recording of all land and civic transactions in the area ; but in fact Lord Baltimore intended to use the commission to reinforce Maryland's claim to the area and to monitor any encroachments by the Virginians.

The institution of the veto, known as the intercessio, was adopted by the Roman Republic in the 6th century BC to enable the tribunes to protect the interests of the plebs ( common citizenry ) from the encroachments of the patricians, who dominated the Senate.

Bishop Colenso's concern about the misleading information that was being provided to the Colonial Secretary in London by Shepstone and the Governor of Natal prompted him to champion the cause of the Zulus against Boer oppression and official encroachments.

In the hope of suppressing their encroachments, Jansen was sent twice to Madrid, in 1624 and 1626 ; the second time he narrowly escaped the Inquisition.

Khama III ( 1837 ?- 1923 ), also known as Khama the Good, was the kgosi ( meaning chief or king ) of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland ( now Botswana ), who made his country a protectorate of the United Kingdom to ensure its survival against Boer and Ndebele encroachments.

" The Kaffirs ," in Lord Glenelg's dispatch of 26 December, " had an ample justification for war ; they had to resent, and endeavoured justly, though impotently, to avenge a series of encroachments .” This attitude towards the Xhosa was one of the many reasons given by the Voortrekkers for leaving the Cape Colony.

A settlement along south side of Delaware Bay at Zwaanendael ( near present-day Lewes ) was attempted in 1631, but the colony was attacked and destroyed the following year by Native Americans defending their families and their homelands from European encroachments.

In June 2008, a tiger from Ranthambore was relocated to Sariska Tiger Reserve, where all tigers had fallen victim to poachers and human encroachments since 2005.

He was also against papal encroachments on secular power.

According to one early platform, its purpose was to " unite the farmers of America for their protection against class legislation and the encroachments of concentrated capital.

Such foreign encroachments continued through the first half of the nineteenth century because Vietnam was determined to absorb Khmer land and force the inhabitants to accept Vietnamese culture.

The analogy between the Vietnamese communists and the Nguyễn Dynasty, which had legitimized its encroachments in the 19th century in terms of the " civilizing mission " of Confucianism, was persuasive.

The alliance was designed to stop any encroachments on the independence of the member states committed by any European power.

This is not to say that Jackson was a states ' rights extremist ; indeed, the Nullification Crisis would find Jackson fighting against what he perceived as state encroachments on the proper sphere of federal influence.

Against the encroachments of the house of peers he was an inflexible champion.

To protect themselves against the encroachments of non-residents, the " Actual Settlers ' Association of Kansas Territory " was formed.

In 1807 the Vestry decided that it was not hygienic for goods to be loaded or unloaded in the vicinity of the market and ordered all saw pits, timber and other encroachments around the Market Place to be removed.

Such a man was then needed to defend the liberty of the Catholic Church against the encroachments of King Sverre, who wished to make the Church a mere tool of the temporal power.

In 1844 surveyor Davidson was sent to check on encroachments onto the land reserved for a village, and to advise on the location for a township ; the choice being Frederick's Valley, Pretty Plains or Blackman's Swamp.

Much of Cowal was once held by the Lamont Clan ; encroachments by the neighbouring Campbells and other powerful families reduced the Lamont holdings in the Covenanting Wars of the seventeenth century.

IJ's free speech blog, " MakeNoLaw " was created as a complement to the Institute for Justice ’ s fight, both in courts of law and the court of public opinion, to defend the freedom of speech from government encroachments — particularly campaign finance laws.

In 1803, under Fath Ali Shah, Qajars set out to fight against the Russian Empire, in what was known as Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813, due to concerns about the Russian expansion into Caucasus which was an Iranian domain, although some of the Khanates of the Caucasus were considered independent or semi-independent by the time of Russian expansion in 19th century, this period marked the first major economic and military encroachments on Iranian interests during the colonial era.