The engineer turned works manager had a particular view of life -- and refused to change it.

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

In particular, he refused to pass on to the government the revenues gained from custom taxes on goods from Iran and Turkmenistan.

The Serbs in particular did not agree and refused to vacate any of the territory they had seized in northern Macedonia ( that is, the territory roughly corresponding to the modern Republic of Macedonia ), saying that the Bulgarian army had failed to accomplish its pre-war goals at Adrianople ( to capture it without Serbian help ) and that the pre-war agreement on the division of Macedonia had to be revised.

Avitus had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king Theodoric II, who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possibility of a strong and useful alliance between Visigoths and Romans ended when Theodoric invaded Roman Hispania and then refused to help Avitus against the rebel Roman generals who deposed him.

In particular, her act of reuniting him with his old regiment, who refused to mollycoddle him ( especially Glen White, who ran the Welsh Guards rugby side ), forced him to " face up to the unavoidable and to be positive about everything including especially my future ".

Juries have also refused to convict due to the perceived injustice of a law in general, or the perceived injustice of the way the law is applied in particular cases.

Hafez al-Assad, who had no particular interest in negotiating peace with Israel, also refused to come to America and only agreed to meet with Carter in Geneva.

When they refused, they were sent to the Tower, Buckingham in particular exasperating the House by ridiculing its censure.

In particular, Holyoake refused to comment on the 1978 general election, which gave Labour a narrow plurality of votes but a majority to National.

This yields particular problems for those who are refused divorce by their spouses, or couples in religious traditions that forbid divorce altogether.

The PCI in particular had been developing an independent line from Moscow for many years prior, which had already been exhibited in 1968, when the party refused to support the Soviet invasion of Prague.

In particular, he refused to re-admit those who recanted their faith under Roman persecution ; see also Lapsi ( Christian ).

That support failed to materialize, however, after the Kentucky delegation and Earle C. Clements in particular, refused to back his nomination.

Folklore informs us of a particular incident where she expressed her desire to engage in a discussion about spiritual matters with Rupa Goswami, a direct disciple of Chaitanya and one of the foremost saints of Vrindavan at that time who, being a renunciate celibate, refused to meet a woman.

In 2006, he refused to meet the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ), Nicolas Sarkozy, then a probable contender for the 2007 presidential election, because the UMP had voted for the February 23, 2005 law asking teachers and textbooks to " acknowledge and recognize in particular the positive role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa ", a law considered by many as a eulogy to colonialism and French actions during the Algerian War.

In that era, many radio stations, anxious to avoid even the hint of payola, often refused to play more than one or two new songs from any single record label at one time, so as to not appear to be offering favoritism to any particular label.

In particular, the Athenians, who were not protected by the Isthmus, but whose fleet was the key to the security of the Peloponnesus, felt hard done by, and refused to join the Allied navy in Spring.

Lisa Whelchel refused this particular storyline that would have made her character, not Natalie, the first among the four young women in the show to lose her virginity.

Arthur Görgey in particular, whose great abilities Kossuth was the first to recognize, refused obedience ; the two men were very different personalities.

Sales may be refused to minors or persons without the proper ID at the discretion of the employees on duty at that particular location.

However, in that particular morning of 249 BC, the chickens refused to eat – a horrific omen.

Her appearances collected mixed reviews: her dancing ( in particular the Merry Widow Waltz ) was well received, but Murray refused to acknowledge her age, wearing heavy layers of makeup and fitting her mature figure into short skirted costumes with plunging necklines.

Though the government has consistently refused to split the country into multiple time zones, provisions in labour laws such as the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 do allow the Central and State governments to define and set the local time for a particular industrial area.

In events that made national news, Graham was labeled a Communist himself, but refused to renounce his association with that particular group or any other group.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.

A particular instance of communication is called a speech act.

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothing and other accoutrements commonly associated with the opposite sex within a particular society.

Usually includes a felony violation of a criminal rule or act against law, in particular at the expense of people or moral.

A Covenant-breaker or the act of Covenant-breaking is a term used by Bahá ' ís to refer to a particular form of what some might call " heresy ".

Some party and pub games focus on the doing of a particular act of skill, rather than on either the amount a participant drinks or the speed with which they do so.

Self-exile is often depicted as a form of protest by the person that claims it, to avoid persecution or legal matters ( such as tax or criminal allegations ), an act of shame or repentance, or isolating oneself to be able to devote time to a particular thing.

The influence of Richard Hooker was crucial to an evolution in this understanding in which bishops came to be seen in their more traditional role as ones who delegate to the presbyterate inherited powers, act as pastors to presbyters, and holding a particular teaching office with respect to the wider church.

(...) and when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permission to exercise their usurped privileges.

Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such-committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle.

In particular, groups can act on other groups, or even on themselves.

Men rightly observe that a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife.

If a legislator logrolls, he initiates the trade of votes for one particular act or bill in order to secure votes on behalf of another act or bill.

Here, domains act as modules, each with a particular and independent function, that can be mixed together to produce genes encoding new proteins with novel properties.

Here, domains act as modules, each with a particular and independent function, that can be mixed together to produce genes encoding new proteins with novel properties.

Neodymium ions in various types of ionic crystals, and also in glasses, act as a laser gain medium, typically emitting 1064 nm light from a particular atomic transition in the neodymium ion, after being " pumped " into excitation from an external sourceNeodymium doped glass slabs used in extremely powerful lasers for inertial confinement fusion.

Miller ( 1992 ) defines a street gang as “ a self-formed association of peers, united by mutual interests, with identifiable leadership and internal organization, who act collectively or as individuals to achieve specific purposes, including the conduct of illegal activity and control of a particular territory, facility, or enterprise.

However, no western source, in particular the Liber pontificalis, confirms this act by Gregory.

The freeing of prisoners in particular was highly recommended as a charitable act.

* the person is an undischarged bankrupt, or disqualified by a Court from holding a directorship, unless given leave to act in respect of a particular company or companies.

From a critical point of view, Solomon's building of a temple for YHWH should not be considered an act of particular devotion to YHWH, because Solomon is also described as building places of worship for a number of other deities ().