That summer the gambling houses were closed, despite the threats of Pierre Ameaux, a gaming-card manufacturer.

In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).

This was due primarily to a 4. 4 % higher inflow of current transfers, mostly during the summer, and came despite a poor level of foreign direct investment ( FDI ) of only $ 237. 2 million by end-July 2011.

In summer, the average temperature is approximately ( the average for July and August ), despite the fact that temperatures frequently reach to in mid-summer in the city centre.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

Meanwhile, Match kept its high standing in the ratings despite a short-lived move ahead one half-hour during summer and fall 1975.

Disillusioned with the music business, despite all his success, and unhappy with the status quo, in summer of 1991 he set off on a two-week cross-country motorcycle trip that would significantly affect his creative juices.

By late 1982, Joe Clark's leadership of the Progressive Conservatives was being questioned in many party circles and among many Tory members of Parliament, despite his solid national lead over Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in opinion polls, which stretched to 19 percent in summer 1982.

Precipitation is abundant, with a slight maximum in fall and a slight minimum in winter and summer ; despite this, normally, the area of the city doesn't suffer drought in any season.

With an average of 2 ° C, winter months are slightly milder than on the mainland, summer months though with a median of 17 ° C are somewhat cooler, despite a longer sunshine period on Sylt.

The rainfall is fairly plentiful ; and the climate, despite the hot summer, is cooler than the area west of the Jordan river, snow falling frequently in winter and in spring.

A tentative amalgamation of oldies and some new songs, the record was released in the summer of 1976 to commercial acclaim and, despite moderate reviews, peaked at # 8 on the Billboard album chart, the band's highest entry ( apart from Endless Summer and the followup 1975 compilation Spirit of America ) since 1965.

Because of the mild winter weather, and despite the extreme heat in the summer, the agricultural economy continues to boom in the area.

Due to lack of maintenance, the mansion was in disrepair by the 1990s, and despite public outcry, the mansion was tragically torn down in the summer of 1998.

Paid the maximum wage of £ 5 a week (£ 3 in the summer break ), he was on the same wage as seasoned professionals before he even kicked a ball, despite this his father insisted that Matthews save this money, and only to spend any winning bonus money he earned.

Styx toured across the U. S. in the spring and summer of 1991, but despite the success of the album, a top 3 single and a top 25 single, the band was dropped after A & M Records was purchased by PolyGram Records.

In summer 1937, through an official decision which came as a result of the accusations, and despite student protests, he was stripped of his position at the University.

This was despite Labour's opinion poll showings from late 1992 onwards virtually all suggesting that they would gain a majority at the next election, particularly in the first year or so of Blair's leadership following his appointment in the summer of 1994.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

In the summer of 1996 it announced a decision to freeze the wages of civil servants in the following year and stood by that decision throughout the fall, despite a series of union-led demonstrations that culminated in protest marches by tens of thousands of Spaniards throughout the nation on 11 December.

He is often described as wearing only one shoe and other foot being bare, in the Winter it was said he slept naked in the snow and it melted and in the summer it was said he stuffed his clothes full and wore thick clothes despite the heat.

Hogue Hall was torn down in the summer of 2008, despite objections from Illinois ' state preservation agency.

Suleiman used the opportunity to invade Hungary in the summer of 1526, defeating Charles ' allies at the Battle of Mohács ; but, despite these efforts, Francis would sign the Treaty of Madrid, surrendering his claims to Italy, Flanders, and Burgundy.

The summer adult has a chocolate-brown head ( not black, despite the name ), pale grey body, black tips to the primary wing feathers, and red bill and legs.

The following summer, despite Cooney's lack of experience in the field of education, Morrisett hired her to conduct research on childhood development, education and media, and she visited experts in these fields across the United States and Canada.

Meanwhile, also in the summer of 1866, a riot broke out in New Orleans when radicals, with strong opposition from conservatives, sought to re-convene the Louisiana Convention of 1864.

However, while bitheism implies harmony, ditheism implies rivalry and opposition, such as between good and evil, or bright and dark, or summer and winter.

The German opposition was in an unenviable position by the late spring and early summer of 1943.

While in England with The Byrds in the summer of 1968, Parsons left the band due to his concerns over a planned concert tour of South Africa, citing opposition to that country's apartheid policies.

In the summer of 1925, Radek was appointed Provost of the newly established Sun Yat-Sen University, where Radek collected information for the opposition from students about the situation in China and cautiously began to challenge the official Comintern policy.

In the summer of 1989, the first opposition bloc in the Congress of People's Deputies formed under the name of the Interregional Group of Deputies.

In the summer of 2007, conservative talk show hosts mobilized public opposition to the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill, which eventually failed.

By the summer of the next year, large portions of the opposition had defected and joined Pitt's government.

Balfour hoped to calm the situation by devoting the summer to the question and publicly professed support for neither policy, earning him much criticism by the opposition Liberal Party.

Lincoln, who was the leader of the baronial opposition due to his age and great wealth, was reconciled with Edward by late summer 1308.

Bonaparte's success gave to the Directory an unprecedented stability, and when, in the summer of 1797, the royalist and surviving Girondist opposition again met the government with resistance, Bonaparte sent General Augereau, a Jacobin, to repress their movement in the Coup of 18 Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ).

Later, in the summer of 1993, when the Miyazawa government also failed to pass political reform legislation, thirty-nine LDP members joined the opposition in a no-confidence vote.

On the death of Constantius I in the summer of 306, Severus was promoted to Augustus by Galerius himself, in opposition to the acclamation of Constantine I ( Constantius ' son ) by his own soldiers.

By the spring and summer of 1973, these opposition groups attempted to persuade Congress to endorse a Trans-Canada oil pipeline or a railroad.

Already in the summer of 1740 was the commander of Swedish forces in Finland, General Carl Cronstedt was removed from the post due to his opposition to the planned war and Charles Emil Lewenhaupt was elevated to the vacant position.

The opposition waned as the Cardinal's health declined in the early 1980s, when he was succeeded in the summer of 1982 by Joseph Bernardin at the time of his death.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, in the summer of 1993, Maskhadov took part in raids on the armed opposition against the government of Dzhokhar Dudayev in the Urus-Martan, Nadterechny, and Gudermes districts.

Spontini had finished La vestale by the summer of 1805 but had faced opposition from leading members of the Opéra and rivalry from fellow composers.

In turn, Ed Balls MP supported the unions Keep The Post Public campaign in the summer of 2010 in opposition of the planned coalition government's intention to privatise Royal Mail.

The government feared such wider support and outbreaks of rioting in many places in the summer and autumn of 1792 were officially attributed to " an almost universal spirit of reform and opposition to the established government and legal administrators which has wonderfully diffused through the manufacturing towns ", but most of the riots were due to other grievances such as an unpopular turnpike, the Corn laws and the Enclosures.

The proposal faces widespread opposition because it could lower river flows in late summer due to the diversion.

In summer 2011, the city became one of the main opposition centers of the popular uprising, taking place in Syria, as part of the Arab Spring.

An opposition spokesperson raised a question over the timing of the release of the information —" just as MPs left for their 11-week summer recess — guaranteeing minimum parliamentary scrutiny ".

‘' The Year's Rope '’ was the link between summer and winter, black and white representing the opposition but also the unity of the contraries: light and dark, warm and cold, life and death.