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Preoccupied with his own defense and his attempts to get Robinson to fight, Pike lessened his attacks on Woodruff, and finally stopped them altogether.
Your local civil defense will gather its own information and will receive broad information from State and Federal sources.
Is the respondent making a recommendation for his own benefit, for the benefit of his industry, for the benefit of a specific government department or service, for the benefit of the defense program, for the benefit of small business, or for the benefit of the taxpayers??
`` Is there any word you would like to offer in your own defense ''??
Some jurisdictions allow force to be used in defense of property, to prevent damage either in its own right, or under one or both of the preceding classes of defense in that a threat or attempt to damage property might be considered a crime ( in English law, under s5 Criminal Damage Act 1971 it may be argued that the defendant has a lawful excuse to damaging property during the defense and a defense under s3 Criminal Law Act 1967 ) subject to the need to deter vigilantes and excessive self-help.
Some years ago, I made a study of various forms of possible defense against my own psychic abilities.
While many historians have believed that Allen took these actions because he already held Wentworth grants of his own, there is no evidence that he was issued any such grants until after he had been asked to take up the defense of grants held by others.
In Freudian psychology, externalization is an unconscious defense mechanism, where an individual " projects " his own internal characteristics onto the outside world, particularly onto other people.
Residents of the U. S. are generally allowed to own firearms, keep them in their homes, and use them for recreational purposes or for necessary personal defense.
In 1996, Reina named his own defense minister, breaking the precedent of accepting the nominee of the armed forces leadership.
Although large airliners and, increasingly, smaller aircraft now carry their own terrain awareness and warning system TAWS, these are primarily backup systems providing a last layer of defense if a sequence of errors or omissions causes a dangerous situation.
To serve the purpose of a defense in law, the disorder must therefore amount to an absolute alienation of reason, ut continua mentis alienatione, omni intellectu careat-such a disease as deprives the patient of the knowledge of the true aspect and position of things about him-hinders him from distinguishing friend from foe-and gives him up to the impulse of his own distempered fancy.
* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense.
Terrified by his words, and conscience of my own timidity and cowardice, I gave up my journey and attempted to apply whatever gift I had in defense of my faith.
However it is a well known fact that the trial given to Henry Vane as to his own person, and defense of his own part played for the Long Parliament was a forgone conclusion.
He was not given legal council ( other than the judges that sat at his trial ); and was left to conduct his own defense after years in prison.
The software license agreement for The Movies stipulates that Activision, the game's publisher, owns " any and all content within ... Game Movies that was either supplied with the Program or otherwise made available ... by Activision or its licensors ..." Some game companies provide software to modify their own games, and machinima makers often cite fair use as a defense, but the issue has never been tested in court.
Outside the special firearm units, there was no formal training program for the regular conscripts, who were expected to have a basic knowledge of self defense, and how to operate the musket on their own.
A prima facie case might not stand or fall on its own ; if an opposing party introduces other evidence or asserts an affirmative defense it can only be reconciled with a full trial.
Britain was also interested in acquiring M / 31 Suomis but this project was canceled in 1939 when Finland needed every one for her own defense.
The Colts defense then forced Dallas to punt after 3 plays, and would have gotten the ball inside Dallas territory following Ron Widby's punt, but Colts rookie running back Jack Maitland committed a 15-yard clipping penalty during the punt return, pushing his team back to their own 39 for their ensuing drive.

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In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
In structure, Johnson points out the same central theme, that of cannibalism and the eating of babies as well as the same final argument, that " human depravity is such that men will attempt to justify their own cruelty by accusing their victims of being lower than human.
Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.
Johnson continued to ingratiate himself with the North, the President-elect and his party, with his Unionist speeches in the Senate in early 1861: " I have an abiding confidence in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity of the people, and I feel in my own heart that, if this subject could be got before them, they would settle the question and the Union of these States would be preserved.
However, Johnson has a passion for sports according to former Knicks general manager Ernie Grunfeld and desired to own his own team.
The controversy raged on into the early years of the 19th century, with disputes as to whether the poems were based on Irish sources, on sources in English, on Gaelic fragments woven into his own composition as Johnson concluded, or largely on Scots Gaelic oral traditions and manuscripts as Macpherson claimed.
As the car moved on, he then said to Johnson " half-jocularly ": " what I ought to have told him was to ride over them ", to which Johnson replied " a man after my own heart ".
With Johnson as head coach and Jones as his own general manager, people in the league thought they could take advantage of them.
In Powell v. Alabama,, the Supreme Court ruled that “ in a capital case, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel, and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, feeble mindedness, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him .” In Johnson v. Zerbst,, the Supreme Court ruled that in all federal cases, counsel would have to be appointed for defendants who were too poor to hire their own.
* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was elected in his own right, defeating United States Senator Barry Goldwater in November.
* January 20 – Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as U. S. President.
Johnson succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, completed Kennedy's term and was elected President in his own right, winning by a large margin in the 1964 election.
Johnson enjoyed giving people and animals his own initials ; his daughters ' given names are examples, as was his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
As President, Lyndon Johnson immediately reversed his predecessor's order to withdraw 1, 000 military personnel by the end of 1963 with his own NSAM No. 273 on November 26, 1963.
Johnson rejected the Radical program of harsh, lengthy Reconstruction and instead appointed his own governors and tried to finish reconstruction by the end of 1865.
" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.
They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.
George Johnson released one single in 1985, titled " Back Against The Wall ," on Quincy Jones ' own Qwest label.
But with " Coronation Story ," written in the 1970s, she also has Johnson and the prince meeting in 1761 when Charles Stuart secretly attends the coronation of George III, violating her own continuity.

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Bonifacio and the Magdiwang contended that the Katipunan served as their revolutionary government since it had its own constitution, laws, and provincial and municipal governments.
His view that Napoleon was legitimately fighting for the long-established French aim of ' natural frontiers ' and that Napoleon merely inherited a foreign ' situation ' ( and therefore did not create his own foreign policy ), has been contended.
However, the Pan-Blue Coalition has contended that Chen's actions are unconstitutional and has proposed to name its own choice of premier.
These countries protect their own agricultural sectors with high import tariffs and offer subsidies to their farmers, which some have contended as leading to the overproduction of commodities such as cotton, grain and milk.
Temple related this race to the legend of the Nommos and contended that the Nommos were extraterrestrial inhabitants of the Sirius star system who had traveled to earth at some point in the distant past and had imparted knowledge about the Sirius star system as well as our own Solar System upon the Dogon tribes.
Stirling has contended that his was the only group willing to invest in such a station, although other sources have suggested that Stirling and Jamieson used their political connections to prevent the CBC from opening its own station in Newfoundland first.
While other campaigns stressed federal experience, Layton's campaign contended that his record on Toronto council and as former president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities encompassed national issues and would transfer to the federal stage, and that as Alexa McDonough had on her election as leader, he could lead the party successfully from outside Parliament until winning his own seat.
Cooper contended that Monfort was " demonstrating the dangers of firearms, playing a form of Russian roulette with a. 38 caliber pistol " and had first spun the gun cylinder and shot at his own head, and when the gun didn't fire, pointed it at the victim, whereupon it fired.
Rollo May contended that if a patient could not find his own meaning, Frankl provided a goal for his patient.
Nevertheless, Xeni contended, the new grouping profited from Ionescu's popularity with the lower strata of Romanian society, being identified as " one of their own ".
His predecessors contended that God's highest happiness, the divine essence, was God's own knowledge.
He argued that science should not be placed next to scripture or the two approaches would conflict, and in his own version of Francis Bacon's dictum, contended that the book of God's works was separate from the book of God's word, claiming that moral and physical phenomena were completely independent .< ref name = young >
The action of the United Kingdom in the Crimean War provoked indignant protests from Urquhart, who contended that Turkey was in a position to fight her own battles without the assistance of other powers.
Martín-Baró contended that theories should not define the problems to be explored, but that the problems generate their own theories.
In his Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes contended that the announcement of a blockade carried de facto recognition of the Confederate States of America as an independent national entity since countries do not blockade their own ports but rather close them.
Carr contended that historians arbitrarily determine which of the " facts of the past " to turn into " historical facts " according to their own biases and agendas.
Framed as a response to critics ’ complaints about Fellini ’ s having ( like his director-protagonist ) “ nothing to say ”— complaints, that is, about the auteur ’ s “ self-indulgence ” and the film ’ s lack of substance and legible “ social engagement ”— Miller ’ s 8½ contended that the film mapped out “ two ways ”: “ In one direction lies the man, marked out by his fearful shortage of being and meaning ; in the other lies style, which never acknowledges, unless it be to destroy, any order besides its own to which it is required to be sufficient.
Furthermore, Reynolds and Alvarez contended in The Death of WCW that the actions of Hogan and Nash from the time Goldberg beat Hogan in Atlanta until their own match in the same venue six months later, including the match itself, were part of an ongoing plot between the two wrestlers.
They contended that Dr. Harold Martin, director of the charity, maintained the tax-exempt property for his own private use as a summer residence.
A number of parties, including Russia's own Foreign Intelligence Service, contended that Sudoplatov exaggerated his own role when writing his autobiography.
However, the popular sentimental genre soon met with a strong backlash, as anti-sensibility readers and writers contended that such extreme behavior was mere histrionics, and such an emphasis on one's own feelings and reactions a sign of narcissism.

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