Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

Initial claims for jobless benefits were said to have dropped by 8,100 in the week ending March 4.

States were free to enact, within broad, though ( perhaps ) determinate limits, their own rules as to the application of foreign law by their courts, to vary the law merchant, and to enact legislation with regard to many claims arising on the high seas.

As stated in Seaboard and numerous other cases, the two primary reasons for the enactment of section 203 of the United States Code were to prevent the Government from having to deal with more than one claimant and to prevent the assignment of meretricious claims on a contingent-fee basis.

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

Tacitus claims that Nero considered poisoning or stabbing her, but felt these methods were too difficult and suspicious, so he settled on building a self-sinking boat.

Alexander's claims were recognized by the Roman Senate, Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt and others.

Some astrologers make claims that the position of all the planets must be taken into account, but astrologers were unable to predict the existence of Neptune based on mistakes in horoscopes.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

The islanders welcomed Venetian rule ; the claims of Antonello ’ s uncle Arnà, who had lands in Argolis, were satisfied by a pension.

Abdur Rahman Khan showed his usual ability in diplomatic argument, his tenacity where his own views or claims were in debate, with a sure underlying insight into the real situation.

The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, whose survey results of megalithic sites hypothesized widespread practice of accurate astronomy in the British Isles.

In contrast a re-evaluation of Thom's fieldwork by Clive Ruggles argued that Thom's claims of high accuracy astronomy were not fully supported by the evidence.

The concentration on historical data led to some claims of high accuracy that were comparatively weak when compared to the statistically led investigations in Europe.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.

But Bulgaria now had no claims against the Ottomans, whereas Serbia, Greece and Romania ( allies of Britain and France ) were all in possession of lands perceived in Bulgaria as its own.

There is no evidence to support claims that any of these creatures were mistreated, or that the motive for their study was anything more sinister than natural curiosity and a desire to draw from life.

There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.

Several other territorial claims such as Sipadan were resolved at The Hague international courts.

Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved ( 1975 ) argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were often exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable.

It was to be the basis of claims in the 19th Century that vestments such as chasubles, albs, and stoles were legal.

Sangren, in History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community ( 1987 ) mentions Davidson's account, adding that elderly Ta-ch ' i informants had corroborated his claims.

Some researchers claim that as many as 5 to 6. 5 billion copies of Quotations were printed, however, these claims appear to be dubious and are not corroborated by governmental Chinese reports.

But those claims are not completely corroborated by other major sources.

The anonymous text De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum Libellus claims that Raymond, Joscelin, Balian, and Reginald of Sidon fled the field in the middle of the battle, trampling " the Christians, the Turks, and the Cross " in the process, but this is not corroborated by other accounts and reflects the author's hostility to the Poleins.

More recent longevity claims are subcategorized by many editions of Guinness World Records into four groups: " In late life, very old people often tend to advance their ages at the rate of about 17 years per decade .... Several celebrated super-centenarians ( over 110 years ) are believed to have been double lives ( father and son, relations with the same names or successive bearers of a title ) .... A number of instances have been commercially sponsored, while a fourth category of recent claims are those made for political ends ...." The estimate of 17 years per decade was corroborated by the 1901 and 1911 British censuses.

Matthews ' summary of an exhaustive study corroborated the CoC claims that the 1944 and subsequent editions of the “ Inspired Version ,” notwithstanding their shortcomings, constituted a faithful rendering of the work of Joseph Smith and his scribes — insofar as the manuscripts were then understood.

Although a minority opposed William Horn, on August 11, 1936 his claims appeared to have been corroborated when he announced that he had dug up two lead plates dated 1795 in a location predicted by the papers.

However, the claims are either demonstrably wrong or not corroborated by the records.

The British government eventually agreed to set up the Fawcett Commission to investigate her claims, under Millicent Fawcett, which corroborated her account of the shocking conditions.

Later these claims were corroborated by Peter Wright, former assistant director of MI5, in Spycatcher.

Vladimir claims that he and Estragon know him, but this is naturally not corroborated by Estragon, and the nature of their former relationship remains unknown.

Brock claims while he was working for those publications he thought he was doing honest journalism, but later stated that he had never corroborated his facts.

He claims that the troopers made up stories about affairs that could never be corroborated.

The anonymous text, De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum Libellus claims that Balian, Raymond and Reginald of Sidon fled the field in the middle of the battle, trampling " the Christians, the Turks and the Cross " in the process — but this is not corroborated by other accounts, and likely reflects the author's hostility to the Poleins ( a European born in the Levant ).

Independent research has corroborated Ecology Action ’ s claims that the biointensive system they developed can be sustainable and prolific.

A government official told the New York Times that al Libi's claims of harsh treatment had not been corroborated and the CIA has refused to comment specifically on al-Libi's case as much of the information remains classified ; however, current and former government officials agreed to discuss the case on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, another occultist, Louis Wilkinson, corroborated Gardner's claims by revealing in an interview with the writer Francis X.

While some aspects of Gerstein's report include false or exaggeratedly attributed statements to Odilo Globocnik, and inaccurate claims regarding the total number of Jews gassed at places where he was not an eyewitness, Gerstein's claim that gassing of Jews occurred at Belzec is independently corroborated by SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Pfannenstiel's testimony given at the Belzec trials, as well as by the accounts of other witnesses that can be found in Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness, a biography of one-time Treblinka commandant Franz Stangl.

She corroborated the claims, in what started as an argument over who should empty the dishwasher.