But towards the end of 1868 Sher Ali's return, and a general rising in his favour, resulted in Abdur Rahman and Azam Khan's defeat at Tinah Khan on January 3, 1869.

MacKie's theory has fallen from favour too, mainly because from the 1970s there was a general move away from ' diffusionist ' explanations in archaeology towards those involving exclusively indigenous development.

He prays " the holy Pope, his Father ", to direct towards him " the strong support of his authority, to transmit the verdict of his favour ".

National conservatism is heavily oriented towards the traditional family and social stability as well as in favour of limiting immigration.

An associate professor of law at the Université de Montréal from 1961 to 1965, Trudeau's views evolved towards a liberal position in favour of individual rights counter to the state and made him an opponent of Quebec nationalism.

On final appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of the program on the grounds that segregation of this workplace is a step towards equality in Canada.

Newspapers had a strong bias towards particular parties, with the Courant and the Flying Post supporting the Whigs and the Evening Post in favour of the Tories, leading to politicians from both parties realising the importance of an efficient propaganda machine in influencing the electorate.

He had enormous influence on the 20th century's most important ghost story writer, M. R. James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains comparatively strong.

Jeremy Duff argues that the various strands of evidence " point towards the period 60 – 130 CE, with some reason to favour 80 – 90 CE.

He had funded the restoration of the Jewish temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus the Great, presented favour towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests.

During the Russo-Turkish War, Alexandra was clearly partial against Turkey and towards Russia, where her sister was married to the Tsarevitch, and she lobbied for a revision of the border between Greece and Turkey in favour of the Greeks.

In the 1980s Madagascar moved back towards France, abandoning many of its communist-inspired policies in favour of a market economy, though Ratsiraka still kept hold of power.

Gelli said he was in favour of rewriting the Italian constitution towards a Gaullist presidential system.

The new city, which gradually lost its military function in favour of its role as a trade center, was connected to Rome by the Via Popilia, which ran towards Lucania and Reggio Calabria.

Raphael Holinshed, in his Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 ) reports that Richard, " what with purging and declaring his innocence concerning the murder of his nephews towards the world, and what with cost to obtain the love and favour of the communaltie ( which outwardlie glosed, and openly dissembled with him ) ... gave prodigally so many and so great rewards, that now both he lacked, and scarce with honesty how to borrow.

In this reading, the composition of the Privy Chamber shifted towards the end of 1546 in favour of the Protestant faction.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

From there Perdiccas turned west towards Phrygia in order to humble Antigonus, who escaped with his son Demetrius to Greece, where he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia ( 321 BC ), and Craterus.

The exceptional spiritual discipline of the Carthusian, Observant Franciscan and Bridgettine orders had, over the previous century, resulted in their being singled out for royal favour ; in particular with houses benefitting from endowments confiscated by the Crown from the suppressed alien priories ; otherwise in this latter period, donations and legacies had tended to go instead towards parish churches, university colleges, grammar schools and collegiate churches, which suggests greater public approbation of such purposes.

Grattan supported the government for a time after 1782, and spoke and voted for the repressive legislation that followed the Whiteboy violence in 1785 ; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform resulting in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

While Magnus initially took an unfriendly attitude towards Sturla, his talents as a story-teller and skald eventually won him the favour of Magnus and his men.

At this crucial juncture, Friant committed his entire division and, despite the failure of a first attack, soon managed to gain a firm foothold on the escarpment, pushing towards the tower at Markgrafneusiedl, a sign that the battle in this sector was turning in favour of the French.

The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of landscape and nudes in favour of a geometric style tending towards abstraction.

This prompted the Buddhist majority to stage widespread demonstrations against Diệm, who discriminated in favour of Catholics, for religious equality.

Many senior officers, in particular the Catholics, such as Khiêm and Thiệu, decried what they viewed as a handing of power to the Buddhist leaders, They then tried to remove Khánh in favour of Minh, and recruited many officers into their plot.

On and off, sectarian tensions between fundamentalist Protestants and Buddhists occasionally rise due to what has been seen as a tendency of government officials – many of whom are Christians, especially of Protestant denominations – to tilt the political balance in favour of Christians over Buddhists which has occasionally led to discontent within the Buddhist community.

A major departure from Hindu and Jain philosophy is the Buddhist rejection of a permanent, self-existent soul ( atman ) in favour of anicca or impermanence.

Cunningham argues that the following two points are sufficient to conclude in favour of the Buddhist triad:

The version of the Mahavamsa has to be taken in the right perspective in that it states itself to be a Buddhist chronicle and its point of view is only supposed to favour Buddhist subjects.

He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favour of the doctrine of predestination.

For the second edition, published in 1539, Calvin dropped this format in favour of systematically presenting the main doctrines from scripture.

The Oxford Movement had been inspired in the first place by a rejection of liberalism and latitudinarianism in favour of the traditional faith of the " Church Catholic ", defined by the teachings of the Church Fathers and the common doctrines of the historical eastern and western Christian churches.

In 1529 Bullinger's father announced that he had been preaching false doctrines for years and now renounced them in favour of Protestant doctrines.

David and Zweigert and Kotz argue that the old Chinese doctrines of Confucius, which emphasize social / group / community harmony rather than individual interests, have been very influential in the Japanese society, with the consequence that individuals tend to avoid litigation in favour of compromise and conciliation.

* doctrines of constitutional interpretation which favour a broad reading of Commonwealth powers

The other early imprint with some connection to Crowley was a treatise on the true, biblical meaning of the Lord's supper, with a rebuttal of Thomas More's arguments in favour of the Catholic doctrines on that subject.

The litigation was initially decided in favour of the Free Church by the House of Lords in 1904, on the basis that in the absence of a power to change fundamental doctrines in the trust deed a dissenting minority retains the property.

In late March 302, Diocletian responded: the Manicheans " have set up new and hitherto unheard of sects in opposition to the older creeds so that they might cast out the doctrines vouchsafed to us in the past by divine favour, for the benefit of their own depraved doctrine ".

In 1989, the death of former general secretary Hu Yaobang helped to spark the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking out against corruption and in favour of greater political reform, including democratic rights and freedom of speech.

An astute financier but a less astute politician, Necker overplayed his hand by demanding and obtaining a general amnesty, losing much of the people's favour.

Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, having taken Agricola into his favour, appointed him court preacher and general superintendent.

Along with Subhas Chandra Bose, Nehru was considered a radical within the party during his tenure as general secretary due to his rejection of dominion status for India in favour of complete independence.

The three discussed the annulment issue and Cranmer suggested putting aside the legal case in Rome in favour of a general canvassing of opinions from university theologians throughout Europe.

Afterwards, his general Marshal Villars managed to turn the tide in favour of France.

The general classified section was dropped in favour of what in 2011 is NewScientist Jobs.

* The Introductory Tax Reform Law ( 1974 ), which increased bad weather payments, part-time workers ’ benefits and insurance benefits to 68 % of net wages, fixed special benefits during vocational training at 90 % of net earnings, increased assistance benefits to 58 % of net earnings, and abolished special family benefits “ in favour of the inclusion of the unemployed under general child allowance scheme ”.

Although there had been plenty of criticism of them, the general feeling was that Max Müller had done India a favour by popularising ancient Asian ( Persian, Arabic, Indian and Sinic ) philosophy in the West.

Representative democracy came into particular general favour in post-industrial revolution nation states where large numbers of subjects or ( latterly ) citizens evinced interest in politics, but where technology and population figures remained unsuited to direct democracy.

Officials at Rideau Hall have pointed to the Letters Patent of 1947 as justification for describing the governor general as head of state, but others countered that the document makes no such distinction, either literally or implicitly, nor does it effect an abdication of the sovereign's powers in favour of the viceroy.

* The Persian general and vizier, the eunuch Bagoas, falls out of favour with King Artaxerxes III.

Conradh na Gaeilge have responded by asking voters in the next general election to vote only for candidates who are in favour of Irish's required position remaining.

Ernest Robinson, secretary of the Winnipeg Trade and Labour Union, issued a statement that “ every organization but one has voted in favour of the general strike ” and that “ all public utilities will be tied-up in order to enforce the principle of collective bargaining ".

There, Cardinal Orlando Bandinelli ( the future Pope Alexander III, then adviser of Pope Adrian IV ) openly asserted before the Emperor that the Imperial dignity was a Papal beneficium ( in the more general sense of favour, not the strict feudal sense of fief ), which incurred the wrath of the German princes.

With the Unionists divided and out of favour with many of their former supporters, the Liberal Party won the 1906 general election by a landslide, with the Unionists reduced to just 157 seats in the House of Commons.

Meanwhile, Tony Judt, while praising Hobsbawm's vast knowledge and graceful prose, cautioned that Hobsbawm's bias in favour of the USSR, communist states and communism in general, and his tendency to disparage any nationalist movement as passing and irrational, weakened his grasp of parts of the 20th century.

In 1991, with Labour still in opposition and a general election due by June 1992, he proposed the Commonwealth of Britain Bill, abolishing the Monarchy in favour of the United Kingdom becoming a " democratic, federal and secular commonwealth ", a republic with a written constitution.

During the 1784 general election, the Duchess was rumoured to have traded kisses for votes in favour of Fox, and was satirised by Thomas Rowlandson in his print " THE DEVONSHIRE, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes ".

With Fianna Fáil having been in power for eleven years by 1968, Lynch was persuaded once again to make an attempt to abolish the proportional representation method of voting in general elections in favour of a first-past-the-post system like in the United Kingdom.

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Alphonso, finding his tenure of the throne uncertain on account of the approaching invasion of Charles VIII of France and the general dissatisfaction of his subjects, abdicated in his son's favour in January 1495.