In 1744 Pitt received a large boost to his personal fortune when the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough died leaving him a legacy of £ 10, 000 as an " acknowledgment of the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England and to prevent the ruin of his country ".

The city's support for the festival has been seen by many as the first high-profile acknowledgment and celebration of the city as the birthplace of techno music.

While Blowpipe was available on the international arms market and therefore its origins were open to speculation, the Stinger was restricted, which at the time indicated a more open acknowledgment of Western support for the Mujahideen.

The church was renamed Lyon Chapel in honor of former trustee Willie Mae Lewis Lyon and was an acknowledgment of the commitment of the Alabama Baptists to the establishment and continued support of the college.

Once the grant has been made, there is no requirement for an interim or final report or even for an acknowledgment by a grantee that Pioneer has been the source of support, all atypical practices in comparison to other organizations that support scientific research.

He and his work received support and acknowledgment from his friend the French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Bishop Robert J. Baker of the Diocese of Birmingham conferred the awards, and said the award was " a significant acknowledgment by our Holy Father, of Mother's labors of love in support of our Church.

Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent New Year's hopes for peace to President-elect Kennedy, and got a cool acknowledgment in reply.

Octavian complained that Antony had no authority for being in Egypt ; that his execution of Sextus Pompeius was illegal ; that his treachery to the king of Armenia disgraced the Roman name ; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to Rome according to his agreement ; that his connection with Cleopatra and the acknowledgment of Caesarion as a legitimate son of Julius Caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.

In its time it was praised by Bernard Lamy, and criticised for plagiarism for verbatim copying without acknowledgment by Jacob Thomasius.

In fact common criteria ( CC ) at the highest assurance level ( Evaluation Assurance Level ( EAL ) 7 ) has an explicit requirement that the target of evaluation be “ simple ”, an acknowledgment of the practical impossibility of establishing true trustworthiness for a complex system.

In 1250 or 1251, Mindaugas agreed to receive baptism and relinquish control over some lands in western Lithuania, in return for an acknowledgment by Pope Innocent IV as king.

Furthermore, all U. S. and some Canadian notarial functions are applied to domestic affairs and documents, where fully systematized attestations of signatures and acknowledgment of deeds are a universal requirement for document authentication.

Resolution 242, which became the basis for the peace process negotiations begun in Madrid, calls for a just and lasting Middle East peace to include withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in 1967 ; termination of the state of belligerency ; and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all regional states and of their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.

Nameservers may also have a TTL set for NXDOMAIN ( acknowledgment that a domain does not exist ); but they are generally short in duration ( three hours at most ).

Automatic Repeat reQuest ( ARQ ), also known as Automatic Repeat Query, is an error-control method for data transmission that uses acknowledgements ( messages sent by the receiver indicating that it has correctly received a data frame or packet ) and timeouts ( specified periods of time allowed to elapse before an acknowledgment is to be received ) to achieve reliable data transmission over an unreliable service.

In modern practice, only error detection, not flow control using sliding window, is present in data link protocols such as Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), and, on local area networks, the IEEE 802. 2 LLC layer is not used for most protocols on the Ethernet, and on other local area networks, its flow control and acknowledgment mechanisms are rarely used.

In telecommunications, the round-trip delay time ( RTD ) or round-trip time ( RTT ) is the length of time it takes for a signal to be sent plus the length of time it takes for an acknowledgment of that signal to be received.

It includes four components: notification by the Party of export or the exporter, acknowledgment of receipt of notification by the Party of import, the decision procedure, and opportunity for review of decisions.

Lincoln's defeat could well have meant the victory of the Confederacy, as the Democratic Party platform called for peace negotiations based on the acknowledgment of the Confederacy's independence.

:: ( ii ) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.

The sender has to keep just one packet on hand for retransmission, since the lock step acknowledgment guarantees that all older packets have been received.

The pinnacle of Milland's career and acknowledgment of his serious dramatic abilities came in 1946 when he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

As a gesture of acknowledgment for his achievements in Macedonia, the senate awards Lucius Aemilius Paulus the surname Macedonicus.

Over the ensuing days, Apple named the Wired Tablet Edition " The App of the Week ," making it the first media brand to earn this acknowledgment ; and the Wired App remained the No. 1 Paid Download on iTunes for 5 consecutive days.

The acknowledgment of the One China Principle is also a prerequisite by the People's Republic of China government for any cross-strait dialogue be held with groups from Taiwan.

The 10th Anniversary on-screen bug was shown at the bottom left corner of the screen for 10 seconds once per half hour show, it was used for the entire year of 1995 as was the 20th Anniversary logo in 2005 ; nothing was done for the 25th Anniversary in 2010 however, as Nick at Nite did not make any acknowledgment of the 25th anniversary of its debut at all.

A Spanish translation, published in 1681, however adds new material quite freely and without acknowledgment, and mistranslates the Dutch frequently, while the English translation of 1684 appears to be as much a translation of the Spanish edition, including most of its deviations from the Dutch original.

The political situation, however, forbids public acknowledgment of the existence of social classes and of racial problems of any kind.

In the same year, however, he was one of seventeen Kentish ministers suspended for refusing to sign an acknowledgment of the Queen's supremacy and of the authority of the Prayer Book and articles.

In 2001, then treasurer, Michael Egan made a statement of public acknowledgment in Parliament.

A blind transmission, in telecommunications, is a transmission made without obtaining a receipt, or acknowledgment of reception, from the intended receiving station.

Moreover, the usages of sequence number field as well as the acknowledgment field cannot be made specific to the ASCII coding of English language alphabet as proposed, since both fields take in to account the receipt of data bytes pertaining to specific network packet ( s ).

Notably, the current Albanian Penal Code does not contain any provisions from the Kanun that deal with blood feuds, and no acknowledgment of this code is made in the contemporary Albanian legal system.

In fact, during the war, the magazine made no acknowledgment of it whatsoever and readers looked elsewhere for war-related information.

Although the Foot in Mouth award was first made in 1993, a specific acknowledgment was made to a comment by Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States in 1991.

Elliott has personally held workshops in Australia, focusing on racial issues brought up by Pauline Hanson and the lack of acknowledgment of contributions made by aborigines in that country.

Decisions about the acknowledgment of private schools ( the German equivalent to accreditation in the US ) are also made by these ministries.

At Alice Springs, the Pope made an historic address to indigenous Australians, in which he praised the enduring qualities of Aboriginal culture, lamented the effects of dispossession of and discrimination ; called for acknowledgment of Aboriginal land rights and reconciliation in Australia ; and said that the Church in Australia would not reach its potential until Aboriginal people had made their " contribution to her life and until that contribution has been joyfully received by others ".

" Koryagin persevered with his challenge and countered that these answers failed to clarify whether an acknowledgment was being made that Soviet psychiatry had been misused for political reasons.

He made an on-air acknowledgment of having " stepped over the line ", but later told the interviewer, " I will go to my grave as Jack Cafferty, private citizen, believing that these people committed war crimes.

The NCAA made an official acknowledgment of this issue.

However, by statute ( Act of 27th of April 1855, s. 7 ), a presumption of release or extinguishment is created where no payment, claim or demand has been made for the rent, nor any declaration or acknowledgment of its existence made or given by the owner of the premises subject to it, for the period of 21 years.

He never made any public acknowledgment of his private life as he felt that to admit to being gay would damage his professional image.

Boring declined to run for president and was made “ honorary president ”( p. 308 ) of the Division as an acknowledgment of his work.