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post and was
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
The Command post was underground, and well camouflaged.
Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.
He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.
We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.
It was a post of honor, held inviolate for him ; ;
Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.
In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.
For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.
It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.
On the Ohio or Wabash was to be built another post `` at the fork of two great rivers ''.
On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

post and forced
He was forced to resign his managing general partner post in the late summer of 2004.
Malenkov spoke twice to the plenum, but it failed to alter his position, and on 8 March 1955 he was forced to resign from his post as Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; he was succeeded by Nikolai Bulganin, a protege of Khrushchev dating back to the 1930s.
On 14 October 1964 the Central Committee, alongside the Presidium, made it clear that Khrushchev himself did not fit the model of a " Leninist leader ", and he was forced to resign from all his post, and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Historically, civil defendants could be taken into custody under a writ of capias ad respondendum and be forced to post bail before being released.
Hitler sent Guderian on a forced medical leave of absence, and he resigned his post as chief of staff to Hans Krebs on 29 March.
Shalli was eventually forced to retire in January 2011 ; the post of Chief of the NDF was given to Epaphras Denga Ndaitwah.
Kambei is forced to send reinforcements, leaving the main post undermanned when the bandit chief leads a charge against this position.
The Graces managed to survive " a protracted and stormy meeting " with E. M. retaining his key post as club secretary, although he was forced to liaise in future with a new finance committee and abide by stricter rules.
A Norwegian diplomat, working with the League of Nations as a High Commissioner for Refugees beginning in 1919, proposed the idea of a forced population transfer modeled on the earlier post Balkan-war Greek-Bulgarian mandatory population transfer of Greeks in Bulgaria to Greece, and Bulgarians in Greece to Bulgaria.
When his job at the post office was eliminated by Hoover's policies of the Great Depression, he was forced to go on relief in 1931.
In 1932 she became a lecturer at the Institute for Pedagogy at Münster, but antisemitic legislation passed by the Nazi government forced her to resign the post in 1933.
In 1908, having demonstrated the repressed sexual memory underlying the hysterical paralysis of a young girl ’ s arm, he faced allegations from the girl ’ s parents and was forced to resign his hospital post.
Karmal was forced to resign from his post as PDPA General Secretary in May, 1985, due to increasing pressure from the Soviet leadership.
He continued to have influence in the upper echelons of the party and state, until he was forced to resign from his post of Revolutionary Council Chairman in November, 1986.
The SEC, in a state of flux after its chairman was forced to resign his post, began to audit all the political activities of publicly traded companies.
He built a tiny navy, and raided Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico, and, in 1800, declared war on Spain, briefly capturing the presidio and trading post of San Marcos de Apalache before being forced to retreat.
A rivalry with the principle administrator and later deputy to the Convention, André Dumont, forced Babeuf to transfer to the post of administrator of the district of Montdidier.
Three years later, when pressure from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) convinced the dictator that it was inappropriate to have a member of his family as president, Trujillo forced his brother to resign, and Balaguer succeeded to the post.
In 1823 he took a post at Calcutta Academy, but because of poor health he was forced to return to Europe in 1826.
Nick Eaves, President and CEO of Woodbine Entertainment Group, announced during the 2012 Queen's Plate post position draw that Woodbine Racetrack may be forced to close in April of 2013 due to the cancellation of slot subsidies by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Within a year of the departure of the Blumes, the company was forced to post a net loss of USD $ 1. 5 million, resulting in layoffs of approximately 75 % of the staff.
Due to its height, from the late 17th century it became an important watchout post for the city for centuries until 1905 ; the last keeper of the tower was forced to leave in 1926.
He was appointed president in 1903, a post which he held until 1910 when disagreements with his Grundtvigian colleagues forced him to resign.
The British held the post throughout the American Revolution but were forced, by treaty, to yield it to the United States in 1796.

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