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His superiors had emphasized that marines tortured others for the sheer pleasure.
His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.
The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors who had grown corrupt under the safety and opulence of Manuel I rule.
With the promotion came greater recognition ; he received good evaluations from his superiors and had few problems with other crewmen.
The foreign secretary of the British Indian government, Henry McMahon, who had drawn up the proposal, decided to bypass the Chinese ( although instructed not to by his superiors ) and settle the border bilaterally by negotiating directly with Tibet.
While the report was critical of the overall situation, the committee noted that subordinates had failed to pass on important information to their superiors, including Marshall.
His superiors did not want to make him an officer because they suspected he had communist leanings.
A commander named Hu ordered his men to attack peasants, in an attempt to increase the number of " bandits " he had killed ; his superiors, likely eager to inflate their records as well, allowed this.
On the night of 2 December 1577, John was taken prisoner by his superiors in the calced Carmelites, who had launched a counter-program against John and Teresa's reforms.
John had refused an order to return to his original house, on the basis that his reform work had been approved by the Spanish Nuncio, a higher authority than John's direct superiors in the calced Carmelites.
One explanation is that he had alienated certain of his superiors, particularly fra Vincenzo Bandelli, or Bandello, a professor at the studium and future master general of the Dominicans, who resented the young friar ’ s opposition to modifying the Order ’ s rules against the ownership of property.
Having entered the Police Academy by age 24, Wiggum managed to work around his many shortcomings by providing superiors with wonderful back rubs using the handle of his gun, and finally become a full fledged officer and by 32, he had managed to work his way up to the position of Police Chief of Springfield.
In August 1896, the new chief of French military intelligence, Lt Colonel Picquart, reported to his superiors that he had found evidence to the effect that the real traitor was a Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy.
In August 1896, the new chief of French military intelligence, Lt Colonel Picquart, reported to his superiors that he had found evidence to the effect that the real traitor was a Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy.
Private John G. Burnett later wrote, " Future generations will read and condemn the act and I do hope posterity will remember that private soldiers like myself, and like the four Cherokees who were forced by General Scott to shoot an Indian Chief and his children, had to execute the orders of our superiors.
The margraves had acquired the area when Mestwin II accepted them as his superiors in 1269, confirmed in 1273, and kept it after Mestwin II's death while leaving local rule in the hands of the Swenzones dynasty, whose members were castellans in Stolp.
More than the Peace of Westphalia, the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 is thought to reflect an emerging norm that sovereigns had no internal equals within a defined territory and no external superiors as the ultimate authority within the territory's sovereign borders.
For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a " skeleton ... possibly that of a woman ", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner.
By definition, the selection of poorer houses for dissolution in the First Act minimised the potential release of funds to other purposes ; and once pensions had been committed to former superiors, cash rewards paid to those wishing to leave, and appropriate funding allocated for refounded houses receiving transferred monks and nuns, it is unlikely that there was much if any profit at this stage.
Continuing his study of the humanities, he became in 1628 professor of rhetoric at Innsbruck, and in 1635 at Ingolstadt, whither he had been transferred by his superiors in order to study theology.
To facilitate this Harlan's superiors in Eternity allow him to pursue his study of " prehistory ", which is history prior to the Eternity's creation that, because Eternity had not yet been created then, cannot be traveled to nor changed.
Brian Urquhart — who had done so much to warn his superiors about the dangers of Arnhem and later became Undersecretary-General of the United Nations — described the British general's actions as both grotesque and shameful.
He made a good impression on his superiors, since he was academically gifted, spoke French and English, was a fine horseman and a talented draftsman, and had excellent manners.

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At some point Pelagius is said to have rebelled, but for what reasons is unknown and such rebellions by local authorities against their superiors formed a common theme in Visigothic Spain.
Stockdale said his superiors ordered him to keep quiet about this.
The importance of filial piety can be expressed in this quote from " The Analects of Confucius ", " Yu Tzu said, ‘ It is rare for a man whose character is such that he is good as a son and obedient as a young man to have the inclination to transgress against his superiors ; it is unheard of for one who has no such inclination to be inclined to start a rebellion.
" Stockdale said his superiors ordered him to keep quiet about this.
But Eunus must have been a man of considerable ability to have maintained his leadership position throughout the war and to have commanded the services of those said to have been his superiors.
Rall publicly dismissed such talk as nonsense, but privately in letters to his superiors, he said he was worried about an imminent attack.
There, it was said he impressed his superiors so much with his eagerness to learn, studiousness in mastery of ancient languages and types, and energy of effort, that he was allowed to place his own name on his first books, a Coptic Missal and a version of the Tibetan alphabet.
As an active military intelligence officer, the man said he had reported the sighting to his superiors, who told him to keep quiet unless Walton's coworkers were actually charged with a crime related to the disappearance.
In June 2001 he was nominated by the present government of Ghana to serve as the next Chairman of the FA, an opportunity he later gave up for a more experienced former coach of Ghana for which in his own words said that this was to be an opportunity to learn from his superiors.
Budenz said his party superiors had told him that Lattimore's " great value lay in the fact that he could bring the emphasis in support of Soviet policy in non-Soviet language.
Victims ' groups said the trial had been a whitewash designed to protect their superiors from blame.
Vidal Doble said two of his former superiors at the " Project Lighthouse " operation – Col. Paul Sumayo and Capt.
Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you take the time that shall be necessary to understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope, and in his name the King and Queen Doña Juana our lords, in his place, as superiors and lords and kings of these islands and this Tierra-firme by virtue of the said donation, and that you consent and give place that these religious fathers should declare and preach to you the aforesaid.

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The principle required absolute obedience of all subordinates to their superiors ; thus Hitler viewed the government structure as a pyramid, with himself — the infallible leader — at the apex.
* Chapter 7 divides humility into twelve degrees, or steps in the ladder that leads to heaven :( 1 ) Fear God ; ( 2 ) Substitute one's will to the will of God ; ( 3 ) Be obedient to one's superior ; ( 4 ) Be patient amid hardships ; ( 5 ) Confess one's sins ; ( 6 ) Accept oneself as a " worthless workman "; ( 7 ) Consider oneself " inferior to all "; ( 8 ) Follow examples set by superiors ; ( 9 ) Do not speak until spoken to ; ( 10 ) Do not laugh ; ( 11 ) Speak simply and modestly ; and ( 12 ) Be humble in bodily posture.
The wording of the Potsdam Declaration —" The Japanese Government shall remove all obstacles ..."— and the initial postsurrender measures taken by Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ( SCAP ), suggest that neither he nor his superiors in Washington intended to impose a new political system on Japan unilaterally.
That same superior was then killed by Rukh, as a statement by Thrawn, that all Imperial troops, no matter their origin, were to be given the same effort and attention by their superiors.
Additionally, the following persons by law are part of particular councils but only participate in an advisory capacity: vicars general and episcopal, presidents of Catholic universities, deans of Catholic departments of theology and canon law, some major superiors elected by all the major superiors in the territory, some rectors of seminaries elected by the rectors of seminaries in the territory, and two members from each cathedral chapter, presbyterial council, or pastoral council in the territory ( can.
We learn in them how Caliban ( democracy ), the mindless brute, educated to his own responsibility, makes after all an adequate ruler ; how Prospero ( the aristocratic principle, or, if we will, the mind ) accepts his dethronement for the sake of greater liberty in the intellectual world, since Caliban proves an effective policeman and leaves his superiors a free hand in the laboratory ; how Ariel ( the religious principle ) acquires a firmer hold on life and no longer gives up the ghost at the faintest hint of change.
Utilising the Blue Books, Cranborne criticised officials for " walking in a dream … in superb unconsciousness, believing that what had been must be, and that as long as they did nothing absolutely wrong, and they did not displease their immediate superiors, they had fulfilled all the duties of their station ".
He enforces strict military discipline and regulations, yet he never hesitates to make the morally right decision for the better of all, even if he has to disobey orders from his superiors.
The Oath against Modernism was issued by the Roman Catholic Pope, Saint Pius X, on September 1, 1910, and mandated that " all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries " should swear to it.
To be sworn to by all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries.
For example, in one study published by the Society for Science & the Public in 1954, this was the conclusion: " Repression of hostile feelings against the father caused the patients to react by acting out in a dream world with sleepwalking, the distorted fantasies they had about all authoritarian figures, such as fathers, officers and stern superiors.
The bull's wording decreed that all prelates or other ecclesiastical superiors who under whatsoever pretext or color shall, without authority from the Holy See, pay to laymen any part of their income or of the revenue of the Church, likewise all emperors, kings, dukes, counts, etc.
To his superiors, an Engineer should be dutiful ; to his co-workers, helpful ; to his subordinates, generous ; to all men, brotherly.
Officers rise in rank by assassinating their superiors ( as Kirk discovers when Chekov nearly succeeds in assassinating him ), and as a result all high-ranking officers must hire a personal bodyguard.
Male soldiers wore a collar controlled by their superiors that could interfere with their life force ; all of these collars were connected to the gem and the scepter.
His toughness drives a murder suspect to suicide, prompting his superiors to remove Lunge from all his cases.
But one thing they all have in common is they show the respect and honor the soldiers and superiors have for one another.
As a result of official embarrassment and concerns over possible leaks just prior to the real invasion, all survivors were sworn to secrecy by their superiors.
Though outwardly peaceful in appearance, soldiers in Baueinheiten were obliged to make a promise of loyalty in which they stated that they would " fight against all enemies and obey their superiors unconditionally ", though this was replaced by an oath to " increase defence readiness " in the 1980s.
In this position he had many differences with his superiors, for he urged strenuous training for the troops, in all seasons.
The reports of the superiors of the missions, bishops, vicars and prefects Apostolic are studied and all allotments recommended in accordance with the extent and necessities of each mission, and in consideration of the desires of the Pope and the data furnished by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
His vehement opposition to all half-hearted measures brought him frequently into conflict with his superiors, but contributed materially to the unusual energy displayed by the Austrian armies in 1742 and 1743.

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