Although pledging on December 8, 1941 that he would volunteer for the Army to avenge the attack on Pearl Harbor, Fish did not serve in World War II ; he was actually 53 years old at that time.

Zhao Yun caught A ' dou in time and reaffirmed his allegiance to his lord, pledging to serve Liu Bei with his life.

He led an around the clock sit-in in front of the Presidential Building and Taipei Railway Station in Taipei City, pledging to remain there until such time as President Chen resigned, or the reached the end of his term in March 2008.

" At the same time, Jakeš acknowledged Soviet pressure for reform by pledging to pursue economic restructuring, stating that " just as Soviet Communists, we too must observe the principle that more democracy means more socialism.

Pledging is a four week process requiring a minimum of ten hours of library time per pledging week amongst other requirements, hence the common phrase " Four Weeks for Life ".

) During that time BD also got heavily involved in global health issues announcing a five-year maternal and neonatal tetanus world-wide elimination partnership with UNICEF ( 1999 ), launching the BD Safety Compliance Initiative ( 2000 ), and pledging $ 1 million contribution to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ( 2002.

She had been dancing for Granlund only a short time when she was arrested by immigration officials and deported to Canada, but in January 1941, Granlund sent a telegram to US immigration officials pledging his sponsorship of De Carlo in the United States, and affirmed his offer of steady employment, both requirements to reenter the country.

This time Zeniff went to the king of the Lamanites and, pledging peace, persuaded him to let them stay in the land.

The Bedford Resolution, adopted by a small majority, read: " That the fraternity's tradition be maintained in the sense that there be no pledging or initiating of Negro men until such time as they are acceptable to all chapters.

The Bedford Resolution read, " That the fraternity's tradition be maintained in the sense that there be no pledging or initiating of Negro men until such time as they are acceptable to all chapters.

This is the first time the word Toast was used in pledging a health.

This was the first time in the history of the contest that the nominated French entry was to be performed largely in English, which caused controversy, leading to Tellier pledging to increase the amount of French in the song prior to the competition itself.

Around the same time, the organization also refused to follow the traditional " black ball " method of picking members ; anyone brave enough to endure the pledging process was welcomed as a brother or sister.

If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player's opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss.

The simplest calendar system just counts time periods from a reference date.

If the number of counts is not very large, it is more accurate to measure the time interval for a predetermined number of occurrences, rather than the number of occurrences within a specified time.

The significance of the County and its counts eroded through time, but the designation remained in a very broad sense.

The counts display is the simplest and is the number of ionising events displayed either as a count rate, commonly " counts per second ", or as a total over a set time period ( an integrated total ).

Typically the dead time will result in an upper count rate limit of 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > to 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > counts per second depending on the characteristic of the tube being used.

The interrupt handler counts the interrupts to keep time.

If the opponent in the hold begins to tap out at the same time a referee counts to three for pinning the opponent delivering the hold, both opponents have legally achieved scoring conditions simultaneously.

Instant-runoff voting ( IRV ), like the exhaustive ballot, involves multiple reiterative counts in which the candidate with fewest votes is eliminated each time.

Incrementing and decrementing reference counts every time a reference is created or destroyed can significantly impede performance.

While high-level languages like Visual Basic manage reference counts automatically, C / C ++ programmers are entrusted to increment and decrement reference counts at the appropriate time.

* The athlete entering the circle, then exiting and re-entering it prior to starting the throw results in a foul ( all the rule books allow an athlete to leave a circle prior to starting a throw, but this still counts within the one minute time limit ; the allowable method of exiting the circle varies by rule book ).

where TT and TCG are linear counts of SI seconds in Terrestrial Time and Geocentric Coordinate Time respectively, L < sub > G </ sub > is the constant difference in the rates of the two time scales, and E is a constant to resolve the epochs ( see below ).

At that time, the chief source of information on the demography was provided by parish registration of baptisms, marriages, and burials that had occurred in the parish churches, supplemented by information on mortality in the Bills of Mortality that were published for certain large towns and by inferences drawn from various counts of taxpayers.

Another example of a unary counting system clustered in counts of five is the Chinese, Japanese and Korean custom of writing the Chinese character, Korean Hanja character, or Japanese kanji character 正 which takes 5 strokes to write, one stroke each time something is added.

** A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.

Unlike show hunter classes, which reward calmness and style, jumper classes require boldness, scope, power, accuracy, and control ; speed also is a factor, especially in jump-off courses and speed classes ( when time counts even in the first round ).

However, the 2010 update to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has growth slowing at the end of 2013, after which time transistor counts and densities are to double only every three years.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

Many Swabian counts, including his cousin the young Duke of Swabia, Frederick IV, died in 1167, so he was able to organize a new mighty territory in the Duchy of Swabia under his reign in this time.

The Danish kings, who were also counts of Oldenburg at the time, were not much interested in the condition of the town and it lost most of its former importance.

* c. 1102 BC — Maya Calendar counts time from this point.

Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford apparently date from this time, too, as remnants of Strongbow's palatine county in Leinster.

While this meant that offices, such as emperor, king, and elector could only be legally occupied by one dynast at a time, holders of such other titles as duke, margrave, landgrave, count palatine, and prince could only differentiate themselves by adding the name of their appanage to the family's original title.

At the time and since, the break-up and reorganization of the Prince-Bishopric of Durham has been interpreted as Dudley's attempt to create himself a county palatine of his own.

This development was emphasised by the fact that the county heads were also higher dignitaries of the state or of the court at the same time ( palatine, treasurer ( Kingdom of Hungary ), etc.

In response, a legal case was brought against the archbishop in Parliament alleging that because Bek was acting as the king's officer at the time, he wasn't acting as bishop but as earl palatine, and thus the excommunication was actually an affront to the royal dignity.

He is mentioned for the first time in a document of 901 as palatine iudex of the Emperor Louis III.

His first book was the fictitious Mémoires d ' Anne de Gonzague, princesse palatine ( 1786 ), thought by many people at the time to be genuine.