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His attack on a clause of the Finance Act 1930 drew much praise from both Liberal and Conservative politicians, including Winston Churchill, who said that " I have rarely heard a speech more precisely directed at the object under debate, more harmoniously attuned to the character of Committee discussion, than the excellent statement the Honourable and learned Gentleman has just made ".
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attack and on
In its defensive formulations, the theory will attack conscious change on the grounds of the independent existence of the community.
The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.
In answer to The Crisis, Swift produced The Publick Spirit Of The Whigs, his most extensive and bitter attack on his old friend.
In his comment on these laws Steele sounds all the usual notes of current Whig propaganda, ranging from a criticism of the Tory peace to an attack on the dismissal of Marlborough ; ;
Then he launches into an attack on the Tory ministers, whom he calls the `` New Converts '' ; ;
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
The attack started on October 2, 1643, and the Gortonists held out for a day and a night.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.
Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.
But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.
Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.
I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??
The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.
Thus, an enemy would probably use this weapon for attack on static population centers such as large cities.
Our major problem is what an enemy might accomplish in an initial attack on a target.
On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.
There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.
In transit or on station, it may not be possible to attack the submarines until commission of an overt act.
Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.
Mickey's eyes fixed on the other's feet, which would first betray the moment and direction of an attack.
attack and clause
They resented the " 25th clause ", permitting school boards to pay the fees of needy children at denominational schools out of the rates, as an insidious attack upon their interests.
This treaty closely followed the secret treaty just concluded, but the clause by which King Charles was to declare himself a Roman Catholic as soon as the affairs of his kingdom permitted did not appear ; neither, therefore, did the stipulation that the attack on the Netherlands would follow his declaration.
Article 222, the Solidarity clause states that members shall come to the aid of a fellow member who is subject to a terrorist attack, natural disaster or man-made disaster.
" Not only did this high profile attack make it more difficult for Cronenberg to obtain funding for his subsequent movies, but Cronenberg later said Fulford's article also resulted in him being kicked out of his apartment in Toronto due to his landlord's inclusion of a " morality clause " in the lease.
attack and Finance
* Athanasios Axarlian, a student passer-by ; killed by shrapnel during a rocket attack targeting the limousine of Finance Minister Ioannis Palaiokrassas.
She supported the attack on Cowen by her nephew, former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, who said he was " disappointed " by Cowen's performance and he had to provide the leadership when the Taoiseach did not.
attack and Act
In retrospect, dicta from New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, acknowledges that, " lthough the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court, the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the court of history.
* August 14 – In protest at the Stamp Act, Bostonians attack the home of official Andrew Oliver.
Although no individual was charged with carrying out the attack, suffragettes were blamed because of the passage of the recent Cat and Mouse Act.
The passing of the Act seven years later enfranchising " male persons " was, however, a more significant event ; it has been argued that it was the inclusion of the word " male ", thus providing the first statutory bar to women voting, which provided a focus of attack and a source of resentment from which, in time, the women's suffrage movement grew.
A major attack in the House of Lords followed on his corruption resulting in the Honours ( Prevention of Abuses ) Act 1925.
Ulfkotte claimed that while going over documents he had obtained from the American government under the Freedom of Information Act, he found evidence that Miller had actually arrived safely in Paris on the 14th, but had a heart attack on the 15th while consorting with a French prostitute, and that the American military had covered up the episode.
This act removes the powers established in the 1934 Act and gives the President the authority to stop the Internet in case of a cyber attack.
Act II-The film then jumps abruptly to a war-torn village, where U. S. helicopters attack a communist occupied Vietnamese village with napalm.
In addition, FEMA received authority for counter terrorism through the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici amendment under the Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996, which was a response to the recognized vulnerabilities of the U. S. after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
On January 5, 1996 the opening night of a Metropolitan Opera production ended prematurely only a few minutes into Act 1 when tenor Richard Versalle, 63, suffered a heart attack while climbing the 20-foot ladder which was part of the set, fell, and died on stage immediately after singing Vitek's line: " Too bad you can only live so long ".
Nash concludes that this attack was more than just a reaction to the Stamp Act:
In Act 3, Scene 1, some of Warwick ’ s attack on Winchester is absent: " You see what mischief – and what murder too –/ Hath been enacted through your enmity " ( ll. 27 – 28 ).
The Aurukun claim also included an attack on an agreement called the Aurukun Associates Agreement entered into under the Aurukun Associates Agreement Act 1975 ( Qld ).
However, the provincial education power under Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 is plenary, and is not subject to Charter attack, so long as it does not extend beyond the confines of Section 93's mandate to fund Roman Catholic separate schools and public schools.
The supporters were calling for the invading troops to move out of Iraq, for the US to not attack Iran and Syria, for the UK government to halt reductions in the civil liberties of UK citizens including the right to protest and a free trial ( which they allege would result from the recent Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 and Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ), and for a reduction in racism in the UK.
He interpreted the King ’ s " moral " scruples to parliament concerning his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, and made himself the instrument of the King in the attack upon the clergy and the preparation of the Act of Supremacy.
Under the National Security Act of 1947, when intelligence services know an attack is aimed at a private network, they are prohibited by law from sharing information about that threat with the targeted company.
The resulting McMahon Act difficulties caused by potential British control of the United States Navy's attack carriers armed with nuclear weapons led to the creation of a separate Striking Fleet Atlantic, directly responsible to the commander of the U. S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, in his NATO position as SACLANT, by the end of 1952.
As held by the Supreme Court of Canada in Adler v. Ontario, the provincial education power under section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 is plenary, and is not subject to Charter attack.
In New York Times v. Sullivan, the Court declared " Although the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court, the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the court of history.
The autonomy of the Irish parliament also came under attack and the Declaratory Act 1720 made the Irish parliament a dependency.
In 1967 Jordan was again prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for 18 months under the Public Order Act 1936 for distributing a leaflet " The Coloured Invasion ", " a vituperative attack on black and Asian people ".
* The bill amended the forensic procedure laws in part 1D of the Crimes Act to ensure that if a terrorist attack or other mass-casualty disaster were to occur within Australia forensic services from all jurisdictions in Australia would be able to work together, using the national DNA database system, to identify the victims of the disaster and conduct a criminal investigation.
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