He kept close tabs on all phases of the military effort, consulted with governors, and selected generals based on their past success ( as well as their state and party ).

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

As a result of his unusual degree of success, Confucius made powerful enemies within the state, especially with Viscount Ji Huan.

Aeschylus had written his own epitaph commemorating his life as a warrior fighting for Athens against Persia, without any mention of his success as a playwright, and Sophocles was celebrated by his contemporaries for his social gifts and contributions to public life as a state official, but there are no records of Euripides's public life except as a dramatisthe could well have been " a brooding and bookish recluse ".

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it became clear to coastal residents that the city or state that succeeded in developing a cheap, reliable route to the West would enjoy economic success, and that the port at the seaward end of such a route would see business increase greatly.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

Having achieved some of its goals, among them the establishment of state funding for the film industry and renewed international recognition for German films, the New German Cinema had begun to show signs of fatigue by the 1980s, even though many of its proponents continued to enjoy individual success.

He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.

The 18th century saw a new dynasty, the Bourbons, which directed considerable efforts towards the renewal of state institutions, with some success, finishing in a successful involvement in the American War of Independence.

The continued success of the Australian Labor Party at a state level has put pressure on the Nationals ' links with the Liberal Party, their traditional coalition partner.

Several commentators believed that changing demographics and unfavourable preference deals would demolish the Nationals at the state election that year, but they went on to enjoy considerable success by winning two extra lower house seats.

This success can be attributed to a more assertive National Party image ( a differentation to that of the Liberals ) and the growing popularity of state and federal Nationals identities such as Barnaby Joyce.

The Athenians, in response, reminded the Spartans of their record of military success and opposition to Persia, and warned them of the dangers of confronting such a powerful state, ultimately encouraging Sparta to seek arbitration as provided by the Thirty Years ' Peace.

In his introduction to The Bachman Books, King does state that Bachman was also an attempt to make sense out of his career and try to answer the question of whether his success was due to talent or luck.

Fredric Jameson has said that " Stalinism was [...] a success and fulfilled its historic mission, socially as well as economically " given that it " modernised the Soviet Union, transforming a peasant society into an industrial state with a literate population and a remarkable scientific superstructure.

South Korea has done much better by economic criteria than India over the past fifty years, though its success also has to do with effective state institutions.

Agnew's moderate image, immigrant background, and success in a traditionally Democratic state made him an attractive running mate for the 1968 Republican presidential nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon.

After its success, Gaul was in a state of inactivity and empire was failing in the east.

Unlike in many of the neighbouring states, the small or regional parties have not had much success in the state elections.

In 1865, Forrest attempted, without success, to defend the state of Alabama against Wilson's Raid.

Since its arrival in the Caribbean, the British had tried every means to know the state of the defenses of Cartagena without success.

Upon the success of Titanic, DiCaprio stated in 2000: " I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world [...] I'll never reach that state of popularity again, and I don't expect to.

With state financing, attempts were made throughout the 16th century, but without success until early on in the 17th century.

Japan also took note of how the international community allowed the great powers to treat weaker nation states, and continued its remarkable measures to bootstrap itself into a modern industrial state and military power, with great success as it would demonstrate in the Russo-Japanese War less than a decade later.

According to Teveth ' through his campaign to mobilize the Yishuv in support of the British war effort, he strove to build the nucleus of a " Hebrew army ", and his success in this endeavor later brought victory to Zionism in the struggle to establish a Jewish state.

McDuffie County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia.

Static stops this by showing Dwayne that his stepbrother is just taking advantage of him. It has been suggested that the character is an homage to Dwayne McDuffie, who co-created the characters out of his imagination, and who ( at the time ) lived in a different state from the show's producers, and thus communicated with them only by phone.

Duncan McDuffie helped establish the California state park system with the help of his friend, Governor C. C. Young.

McDuffie, like Calhoun, became an eloquent champion of state sovereignty ; but while Calhoun emphasized state action as the only means of redressing a grievance, McDuffie paid more attention to the grievance itself.

McDuffie led the team to the state runner up that year and then continued his career at Penn State.

In 1822 his strong support of state nullification, and his habit of strong criticism, led to an ongoing dispute with South Carolina Congressman George McDuffie, who favored deference to the federal government.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Swift presents the dire state of Ireland and shows that mere population itself, in Ireland ’ s case, did not always mean greater wealth and economy.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

Some believe that this appeal “ thereby shows Christian ’ s of Luke ’ s day both that their predecessors were innocent before the state and that Paul had no political quarrel with Rome ” but rather with the Jews who were accusing him.

Other significant state owned newspapers are the daily Respublika ( The Republic ), published by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the weeklies Sem ’ Dnei ( Seven Days ) and Narodnaya Gazeta ( The People ’ s Paper ).

This happens, on Rosenthal ’ s account, through the use of a higher-order thought that is directed on the mental state in question.

Once a patient is stable and no longer in immediate danger, the medical staff may concentrate on maintaining the health of patient ’ s physical state.

Carson City has served as one of the state ’ s centers for politics and business.

" These events don ’ t constitute assassinations because as far as we are concerned assassinations are only those of heads of state.

The DFLP declared that its goal was to ‘’ create a people ’ s democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination, a state without classes and national oppression, a state which allows Arabs and Jews to develop their national culture .’’

The homicide law is a highly fragmented inscription, but it does state that it is up to the victim ’ s relatives to prosecute a killer.

Much military information is not made publicly available, including budget information, the names of the general officers and the military ’ s size ( which is considered a state secret ).

Some of Pope Gregory the Great ’ s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.

Von Baer ’ s laws state that general features of animals appear earlier in the embryo than special features, where less general features stem from the most general, each embryo of a species departs more and more from a predetermined passage through the stages of other animals, and there is never a complete morphological similarity between an embryo and a lower adult.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

The Reds ’ plans concerning private property rights were in conflict with their plans for an " ultrademocratic " and free society ; only the state and local administration of municipalities would have had true property rights.

Because the Gabonese economy is dependent upon oil ( crude oil accounts for over 80 % of the country ’ s exports, 43 % of GDP, and 65 % of state revenue ), it is subject to worldwide price fluctuations.

When, in 1940, the Liceo was put under state control and turned into the Conservatorio Statale di Musica " Gioachino Rossini ", the corporate body to which Rossini ’ s inheritance had been conveyed, assumed the style of Fondazione G. Rossini.

Up until the mid-3rd century, the Roman state ’ s payments appear to have been unbalanced, with far more products sent to Britain, to support its large military force ( which had reached c. 53, 000 by the mid-2nd century ), than were extracted from the island.

It has been argued that Roman Britain ’ s continental trade peaked in the late 1st century AD and thereafter declined as a result of an increasing reliance on local products by the population of Britain, caused by economic development on the island and by the Roman state ’ s desire to save money by shifting away from expensive long-distance imports.