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face and Portuguese
In 1624 France attempted to settle in the area, but was forced to abandon it in the face of hostility from the Portuguese, who viewed it as a violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
The term is derived from 16th century Portuguese and Spanish cocos, meaning " grinning face ", from the three small holes on the coconut shell that resemble human facial features.
The OED states: " Portuguese and Spanish authors of the 16th c. agree in identifying the word with Portuguese and Spanish coco " grinning face, grin, grimace ", also " bugbear, scarecrow ", cognate with cocar " to grin, make a grimace "; the name being said to refer to the face-like appearance of the base of the shell, with its three holes.
In 1624 France attempted to settle in the area of modern day French Guiana, but was forced to abandon it in the face of hostility from the Portuguese, who viewed it as a violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Rostrum is a learned loan in Italian rostro " beak ", Spanish / Galician rostro, Portuguese rosto " face ", Romanian rost " mouth ", " scope, purpose " and a rosti " to pronounce ", " to tell ")
In February 1974, Caetano determined to remove General António de Spínola in the face of increasing dissent by Spinola over the promotion of military officers and the direction of Portuguese colonial policy.
In face of this, the Portuguese King offered the enemy survivors an amnesty and free transit home ; an official mourning was decreed in Castile that would last until the Christmas of 1387.
One of the prominent citizens from Panaji, Mr. Carvalho created several combination covers, using low face value definitives of Union of India and Portuguese India, on each of the days up to January 4 including Christmas Day 1961.
For the 1982 qualification the Portuguese team had to face Israel, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Sweden for the top two group places.
Some are bilingual in Japanese and Portuguese, but many are monolingual in Portuguese alone when they first come to Japan and face additional challenges due to this language barrier.
A Portuguese legend tells how the island was settled in the early eighth century in the face of the Moorish conquest of Iberia by the Archbishop of Porto, six other bishops and their parishioners to avoid the ensuing Moorish invasion.
It is believed the Portuguese borrowed Guineus from the Berber term Ghinawen ( sometimes Arabized as Guinauha or Genewah ) meaning " the burnt people " ( analogous to the Classical Greek Aithiops, " of the burned face ").
Because he was already known to the European press, the Portuguese colonial administration decided to condemn him to exile rather than send him to face a firing squad, as would normally be the case.
In this way he improved the functioning of the Portuguese Army so that they might face the forces of Napoleon that were invading the country for the third time.
The face of H & M, Svedin is married to former Portuguese footballer Luís Figo.
The expression comes through French, from Italian voltafaccia and Portuguese volte face, composed of volta ( turn ) and faccia ( face ).
This suppression of Konkani was in face of the repeated Maratha onslaughts of the late 17th and earlier 18th centuries, which for the first time posed a serious threat to Goa, and by extension, the Portuguese presence in India itself.
Upon seeing a tall islet, near this cliff face, its unusual shape ( which resembled a bell tower ) resulted in the region's etymology: campanário, is Portuguese for bell tower.
A Portuguese explorer named Albuquerque landed on Perim in 1513, but did not stay in the face of Ottoman opposition.
Because he was already known to the European press, the Portuguese colonial administration decided to exile him, rather than send him to face a firing squad, as would normally be the case.

face and ruling
As the portable face of ruling authority, coins were a compact form of standardized knowledge issued in large editions, an early mass medium that stabilized trade and civilization throughout the Mediterranean world of antiquity.
To avoid a non-confidence motion from passing, parties enforce strong party discipline, in which members of a party-especially from the ruling party-are strongly urged to vote the " party line " or face consequences.
The ruling Jakarta perspective on the " murder " was affirmed by army Chief Ryamizard Ryacudu: " accepted the men had to face sentence because Indonesia is a State based on law.
He returned to Zimbabwe in December 1998, after a meeting with Nelson Mandela, who convinced him to face the ruling.
While Rabbani and the ruling council constituted the public face of Afghanistan, the important decisions were made by Mullah Mohammed Omar, who resided in the southern city of Kandahar.
As a member of the ruling power, he is cornered into doing what the ' natives ' expect of him: He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
In November 1964 Crosland and Brown told Wilson and Callaghan that ruling out devaluation was a mistake in the face of the economic crisis then under way.
* 20 July – Jayalalitha launches another salvo against the coalition government, giving it a two-day ultimatum to implement a Supreme Court ruling on supply of river water to her southern state of Tamil Nadu or face " disastrous consequences ".
Other ethnic groups subsequently demanded the right to emigrate, and the ruling Communist Party had to face the fact that there was widespread dissatisfaction with its governance.
After an adverse ruling by the Independent Commission Against Corruption against Greiner for offering former minister Terry Metherell a patronage job, Windsor and the other three independents gave Greiner an ultimatum to resign or face a no-confidence motion in Parliament, and Greiner resigned.
During his tenure Tafari presented himself as the public face of the ruling junta.
The elections, held in June 1993, saw Ndadaye, endorsed by FRODEBU and three other predominately Hutu parties, the Rally for the People of Burundi ( RPB ), People's Party ( PP ), and the Liberal Party ( PL ), face up against the ruling Tutsi-dominated government under Buyoya.
Although Catholic at face value, the ruling Bans mostly tolerated, and some converted to the Bosnian church.
On March 9, 2011, the Speaker of the House made a ruling on the issue of Oda's behaviour, stating that " on its face " Oda's statements had caused confusion, which still persisted.
The innocent villagers of Sarawak are used to being threatened to vote for the ruling party or face serious consequences.
Bayliss dismissed Kendall-Smith's argument, ruling that he must face trial by court martial and would not be allowed to argue that the order to deploy was illegal.
He will face off with President Ernest Bai Koroma of the ruling APC.
# The Legacy is a discussion on the degree to which modern people may view themselves as Celts, with examples of modern Celtic-inspired practices like military discipline and warfare, the Welsh Eisteddfod, modern Irish music and art, and the efforts of the Bretons and Cape Bretoners to preserve their native languages in the face of societal assimilation by their ruling nations.
Even though the loss was immediately overturned and changed to a " No Contest " ruling, Kerr admitted that the initial loss had been a difficult decision for him to face.
He also worked on the Citizen's Justice Committee and played a principal part in resisting and investigating the excesses of the period, including the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots, and human rights violations in the Punjab, Kashmir, and the North-East .. His refusal to consider kashmiri pandits who had fled valley in 1990 as human right victims caused much controversy and led to his dubbing as " Terrorists ' defender in chief " as he regularly attacked Indian army for fake encounters and extra judicial killings. In 1995, he departed from his earlier stand of considering firing by police as human rights violation and defended UP government in Muzaffarnagar police firing and rape on Uttarakhand state demand activists on 2 October 1994 in Supreme Court. His volte face was noted by honourable bench with humour and he won the case with court ruling that there was not adequate evidence of wilful human rights violation by State government. But it led to his breaking ranks with radical humanists.

face and authorities
He escaped custody and fled to the United States, where he successfully defeated legal attempts by the British authorities to have him extradited to face charges arising from the attack and the burning of the Valley House.
The idea was that the republicans within the organisation ( particularly IRB members ) would know exactly what this meant, while men such as MacNeill and the British authorities in Dublin Castle would take it at face value.
He went so far as to write personal letters to exiled former Soviet officers and diplomats such as Mikhail Ostrovsky to return voluntarily to the Soviet Union, reassuring them that they would not face retribution from authorities ( they did ).
* 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
He managed, in the face of an overwhelming majority of conservatives ( i. e., higher authorities ), to force through acceptance of his reform proposals.
On June 6, 1849 Prussian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Frederick Engels which contained a physical description as " height: 5 feet 6 inches ; hair: blond ; forehead: smooth ; eyebrows: blond ; eyes: blue ; nose and mouth: well proportioned ; beard: reddish ; chin: oval ; face: oval ; complexion: healthy ; figure: slender.
Though they are not members of the EU, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican City also have euro coins featuring a national side, but these coins are not put into general circulation by the authorities who instead sell them to collectors for prices higher than their face value.
Smith saves himself by begging the authorities to let his lover, Julia, have her face gnawed by the ferocious rodents instead.
The Riot Act ( 1714 ) ( 1 Geo. 1 St. 2 c. 5 ) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that authorised local authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive action.
Local authorities remain defiant, promising their town will not become a " slot machine " in the face of a new lawsuit stemming from an alleged incident of police brutality during the sweep by a man who was not charged.
The Roman authorities were never able to eject or destroy these invaders, most of whom eventually settled in Spain and North Africa, nor to face the movements of the Franks, Burgundians and Visigoths in Gaul at the same time.
After Oslo: 1994-95 3, 850 units ; 1996-1997 3, 570 units The Palestinians built throughout area C administered by Israel without permit which, according to Peace Now is due to the extreme difficulty Palestinians face in obtaining building permits for Area C. ( Under the 1993 Oslo Accords 59 % of the West Bank was allocated to Israeli control and denoted as Area C .) Only 91 of 1, 624 Palestinian requests permits were approved by Israeli authorities in 2001-2008.
It is said that at Sainte-Menehould, where the escaping party had spent the previous night, a merchant alerted the town authorities of their presence after recognizing the King's face on a coin, as Louis tried to buy something from a shop.
Nevertheless, Buddhists in North Korea reportedly fared better than other religious groups – particularly Christians, who were said to often face persecution by the authorities, and Buddhists were given limited funding by the government to promote the religion, given that Buddhism played an integral role in traditional Korean culture.
Two weeks later, on October 8, 1934, Hauptmann was indicted in New Jersey for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Two days later, he was surrendered to New Jersey authorities by New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman to face charges directly related to the kidnapping and murder of the child.
Several other Georgians would lose their life and / or would face torturing by the authorities.
He said that he had fled from the Mexican authorities, rather than face trial, both because of his political affiliations, and because he was a foreigner in Mexico.
Before it was successfully climbed, most of the attempts on the face ended tragically and the Bernese authorities even banned climbing it and threatened to fine any party that should attempt it again.
Although law enforcement authorities initially had very few leads, police did identify two suspects ; one a University of Florida student ( Edward Humphrey ) who had a history of mental illness and bore numerous scars on his face from a car accident, making him an ideal video snip when discussing news about the investigation.
The improbabilities of this narrative have led some writers to think, in face of contemporary authorities, that Scrope and Mowbray must have surrendered voluntarily.
" We have endeavored to maintain the right of all members of the university to express themselves freely, without censorship or supervision by the authorities of the university, and have applied this rule impartially to those who favor Germany and those who favor the Allies — to the former in the face of a pretty violent agitation for muzzling professors by alumni of the university and outsiders.
However, by not notifying authorities, Duane would face charges that he was complicit in a cover-up of evidence he or Walton might not want police to see.
Nevertheless, many contemporary authorities have been driven to adopt a lenient view in the face of widespread public non-observance of the Shabbat, on the presumption that it does not indicate a deliberate denial of faith, but is rather a result of ignorance and succumbing to the pressure of social and economic conditions.
This transition was made possible by the surrender of public authorities in the face of fascist intimidation.

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