On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

Until the council of Trent every bishop had full power to regulate the Breviary of his own diocese ; and this was acted upon almost everywhere.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

A combination of military conservatism in almost all armies and post-war financial constraints prevented the lessons of 1914-18 being acted on immediately.

In the 10th and 11th centuries, princes often acted merely to confirm hereditary succession in the Saxon ( Ottonian ) and Franconian ( Salian ) dynasties, whereas beginning from the actual forming of the prince-elector class, elections became less secure ( with the election of 1125 ), though the Staufen dynasty managed to get its sons formally elected in their fathers ' lifetimes almost as a formality.

Under the reign of Augustus, when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards were created ; the wards were protected by seven squads of 1, 000 men called " vigiles ", who acted as firemen and nightwatchmen.

The Mission has acted as a community center for the Tohono O ' odham for almost two centuries.

Several State Fraternal Congresses acted likewise almost immediately thereafter.

The availability of UNTSO's military observers for almost immediate deployment after the Security Council had acted to create a new operation has been an enormous contributory factor to the success of those operations.

Angélique broke almost immediately and confessed her guilt but still maintained that she had acted alone.

As soon as he took the sleeping pills, which acted almost instantly on his empty stomach, Szpilman fell asleep.

As British Resident, he acted as New Zealand's first jurist, and the ' originator of law in Aotearoa ', to whom New Zealand owes almost all of its underlying jurisprudence '.

Pressured by Native Minister John Bryce, the government finally acted in late October 1881 while the sympathetic Governor was out of the country and stormed the village with almost 1600 troops at dawn on 5 November 1881.

Leon Trotsky interpreted Stalin's actions as insubordination ; Richard Pipes asserts that Stalin '... almost certainly acted on Lenin's orders ' in not moving the forces to Warsaw.

As the lessee of the Surrey Theatre, he acted almost up to his death in 1831, which was hastened by alcoholism.

In fact, they acted together on almost all political issues.

It acted almost as a Securitate for the Securitate, and was responsible for bugging the phones of other Securitate officers and Communist Party officials to ensure total loyalty.

In practice, however, the Premier of each state recommended a prospective Governor to the Foreign Secretary, who almost always acted in accordance with that recommendation.

Baer acted in almost 20 movies, including Africa Screams ( 1949 ) with Abbott and Costello, and made several TV guest appearances.

In 1705 he succeeded with Idoménée ; in 1707 his Atrée et Thyeste was repeatedly acted at court ; Electre appeared in 1709 ; and in 1711 he produced his finest play, Rhadamiste et Zénobie, which is his masterpiece and ran for a long period, although the plot is so complicated as to be almost incomprehensible.

As a young man, Dalton was close to the poet Rupert Brooke, who died of disease on his way to Gallipoli in 1915, and in later years, he acted as a mentor to various handsome young men-who were almost uniformly heterosexual.

However, there is one instance of a crinoline possibly saving a life, in the case of Sarah Ann Henley, who jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, in 1885 after a lover's quarrel, but survived the fall of almost because her skirts supposedly acted like a parachute and slowed her descent.

It's unclear if the archbishop of Novgorod was the real head of state or chief executive of the Novgorod Republic, but in any case he remained an important town official ; in addition to overseeing the church in Novgorod, he headed embassies, oversaw certain court cases of a secular nature, and carried out other secular tasks, but the archbishops appeared to have worked with the boyars to reach a consensus and almost never acted alone.

Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society almost as if returning a status report on their progress.

The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.

* RAI International: In Summer 2004, this Italian government controlled channel was denied permission to broadcast independently in Canada on the grounds that it had acted and was likely to act contrary to established Canadian policies.

These were theoretically subordinate to the OKW, but in actuality acted quite independently.

Means, who acted independently, took direct instructions and payments from Jess Smith, without Burn's knowledge, to spy on Congressmen.

They were the military commanders and in this capacity often acted independently from the king, most notably in the latter period before the Muslim invasions.

Luns accepted American leadership of the Atlantic Alliance as such but expected better cooperation between the United States and its allies, since, in Luns ’ opinion, the former too often acted independently of its allies, particularly in decolonisation issues.

The AK, although in theory subordinated to the civil authorities and the government in exile, often acted somewhat independently with both the AK commanders in Poland and London government not fully aware of the situation of the other.

" At the same time, he often acted independently, disobeying orders from Confederate command, and among his detractors ( who included the French general Charles François Dumouriez ) had a reputation of a " loose cannon ".

Blundon acted independently of the development company when he purchased several lots each year for the purpose of overseeing the construction of single-family dwellings.

David of Carrick progressively acted independently of his father taking control of the Stewart lands in the south-west while maintaining his links with the Drummonds of his mother and all at a time when Fife's influence in central Scotland remained strong.

It was not reducible to the stimulus of sensation, but also acted independently ( see Brunonian System of Medicine ).

The nawab nominally owed fealty to the nizam, but in many respects acted independently.

Ronald M. Schneider, an outside researcher who examined the PBHistory documents, reported that the documents did not indicate that the Republic of Guatemala was controlled by the USSR, and found substantial evidence that Guatemalan Communists acted independently, without orders or support from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Moscow.

Both are acted on independently when the mother of the child smokes — birth weight is lowered and the risk of mortality increases.

Additional support for the hypothesis that birth weight and mortality can be acted on independently came from the analysis of birth data from Colorado: compared with the birth weight distribution in the US as a whole, the distribution curve in Colorado is also shifted to lower weights.

A potential fine and / or ban was averted when Pollock agreed to abide by the F1 arbitration process, admitted that in filing the complaint to the EC his lawyers had acted independently and that declarations made in the claim did not reflect his personal views.

When Blaney and his supporters tried to organise the party's national collection independently Lynch acted and in 1972 Blaney was expelled from the Fianna Fáil party for ' conduct unbecoming '.

When it suited their goals, both places cooperated with the Sublime Porte, and when it was expedient to defy the central government, each acted independently.

The bar of the Pulaski County Circuit court also met and issued a resolution that stated that Judge Wytock had acted independently, and his decision did not represent the court.

( This device was used so that members could debate independently of the Speaker, whom they suspected acted as an agent or spy of the monarch.

* It was an open door to the abuse of authority ; it required that the parties in question could be said to have acted independently, which in the end was tantamount to giving them license to act independently.

They were related to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of the James-Younger Gang.

As Emperor Dezong was more interested in appeasing the regional governors at the time, he acted as Yu requested, including promoting Xiang Prefecture's status into one where a commandant would be stationed, just as the capital of two other circuits ruled by warlords ruling their realms independently from the imperial government — Yun Prefecture ( 鄆州, in modern Tai ' an, Shandong ), the capital of Pinglu Circuit ( 平盧 ), then ruled by Li Shigu ; and Wei Prefecture ( 魏州, in modern Handan, Hebei ), the capital of Weibo Circuit ( 魏博 ), then ruled by Tian Xu.