On 20 August 1233, Andrew had a meeting with the legate of Pope Gregory IX in the woods of Bereg, and they made an agreement which ensured the privileges of the clergy.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

Gumby's legs and feet were made wide for pragmatic reasons: they ensured the clay character would stand up during stop-motion filming.

The spread of printing to cities both in the north and in Italy ensured that there was great variety in the texts chosen for printing and the styles in which they appeared.

He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.

After their escape, they stayed with Aeolus, the master of the winds and he gave Odysseus a leather bag containing all the winds, except the west wind, a gift that should have ensured a safe return home.

Some classical poetry forms, such as Venpa of the Tamil language, had rigid grammars ( to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar ) which ensured a rhythm.

He visited the Regiment in England during the war, and always ensured the 1st Battalion had a turkey dinner at Christmas every year they were overseas, including the Christmas of 1944 when the battalion was holding front line positions in the Nijmegen Salient.

Though their middling Australian ratings ensured they ran only a single season both programs were successfully sold internationally.

The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, were the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales ; ironically, this meant although their first edition ( 1812 & 1815 ) remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make them more acceptable, which ensured their sales and the later popularity of their work.

The hospital may only start the process of payment inquiry and billing once they have ensured that doing so will not interfere with or otherwise compromise patient care.

Although they could not inherit the throne, they did receive the royal title of Thampi and were members of the Ammaveedus which ensured a comfortable living and all royal luxuries.

Sometimes appanage titles were princely, e. g. Prince of Achaia ( Courtenay ), prince de Condé ( Bourbon ), Prince of Carignan ( Savoy ), but it was the fact that their owners were of princely rank rather than that they held a princely title which ensured their prominence.

The Livery Companies also ensured that they had jurisdiction over the area.

The Dawes Act had a negative effect on American Indians, as it ended their communal holding of property by which they had ensured that everyone had a home and a place in the tribe.

" The five Socred MPs had demanded the tax revenues be allocated to Quebec and when that was turned down, they abstained, which ensured the vote's passage on a 139-133 margin.

" He ensured that all his men received a map of Nanking and vicinity, with the Zhongshan Tomb ( where Sun Yatsen is interred ), the Ming Xiao Tomb, foreign legations, and other places where they were prohibited from entering clearly marked, and ordered sentries to be posted at each one of them.

However, the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam ( NLF ) were able to dictate the pace of attrition to fit their own goals: by continuing to fight a guerrilla war and avoiding large-unit battles, they denied the Americans the chance to fight the kind of war they were best at, and they ensured that attrition would wear down the American public's support for the war faster than them.

In the 2008 – 09 season, Athletic again achieved unspectacular results and finished in mid-table, though they ensured safety from relegation earlier than in the previous campaigns.

This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to critical eyes in the 4th century BC: angling the volutes on the corner columns, ensured that they " read " equally when seen from either front or side facade.

These restrictive practices had a number of consequences: they made the taking of silk something of a professional risk, because appointment abolished at a stroke some of the staple work of the junior barrister ; they made the use of leading Counsel more expensive, and therefore ensured that they were retained only in more important cases, and they protected the work of the junior bar, which could not be excluded by the retention of leading Counsel.

Despite the failure of Philip's Bastarnae strategy, the suspicion aroused by these events in the Roman Senate, which had been warned by the Dardani of the Bastarnae invasion, ensured the demise of Macedonia as an independent state.

The court dismissed this claim since he had failed to fulfil his contract requirements, but Chaplin subsequently ensured that every contract he signed prohibited the alteration of his finished products.

Important factors were the aggressiveness of neighboring peoples ( especially the Thai, or Siamese ), chronic interdynastic strife, and the gradual deterioration of the complex irrigation system that had ensured rice surpluses.

Muhammad promoted concubines Maria Qibtia and Rehana as Umm-ul-Momineen ( Mother of all Muslims ) awarding them same splendid household, rights, privileges, protocol and status as he had ensured for all other wives who belonged to reputed race, tribes and / or families.

A 5 – 1 victory over Croatia at Wembley ensured the team qualified for the final tournament with two games to spare, a feat that had never been achieved before.

By all accounts, Eleanor's father ensured that she had the best possible education.

The influence of Intolerance produced a few other films that combined a number of similar stories having similar themes, such as Maurice Tourneur's Woman ( 1918 ), but the box-office failure of Intolerance ensured that these later films had simpler structures.

Hannibal decided that it would be unwise to winter in the already devastated lowlands of Campania, but Fabius had ensured that all the passes out of Campania were blocked.

He had stockpiled money to pay for mercenaries and ensured the support of the powerful marcher lords with their own feudal forces, such as William Marshal and Ranulf of Chester.

Adenauer ensured a truly free and democratic society, which had been almost unknown to the German people before — notwithstanding the attempt between 1919 and 1933 ( the Weimar Republic ) — and which is today not just normal but also deeply integrated into modern German society.

The G3, the standard service rifle of the Bundeswehr at that time, had a barrel ; at the distances the snipers were required to shoot, a barrel would have ensured far greater accuracy.

After convincing Brubeck to hire him following his stint with Jack Fina, the two had a contract drafted ( of which Brubeck was the sole signatory ); the language forbade Brubeck from ever firing him, ensured Brubeck's status as group leader, and gave Desmond twenty percent of all profits generated from the quartet.

Timothy was the son of a Jewess, but had not been circumcised, and Paul now ensured that this was done, according to the text, to ensure Timothy ’ s acceptability to the Jews.

The three-fifths compromise ensured that Virginia, with its large number of slaves, initially had the largest bloc in the House of Representatives.

Abu Bakr also ensured that each man, woman and child had a minimum standard income of 10 dirhams annually, later increased to 20 dirhams.

He had been under pressure to publish in order to qualify for Husserl's chair at University of Freiburg and the success of this work ensured his appointment to the post.

The large caliber ensured a powerful shaped charge capable of destroying tanks ; the low velocity had no apparent impact on HEAT effectiveness and kept overall gun weight down.

Wilson and Haines had ensured that Powell would dominate the newspapers of the Sunday and Monday before election day by having no Labour frontbencher give a major speech on 23 February, the day of Powell's speech.

Over many years, powerful friends on both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees ensured that he remained on active duty long after most other admirals had retired from their second careers.

In the event, a court was not actually established until the Court Bill was passed in 1783, but even then the vested interests ensured that Suckling could still not take up his position, and the islands had a court but no judge.

Yes released their seventeenth studio album, Open Your Eyes, in November 1997 on the Beyond Music label, who ensured that the group had greater control in packaging and naming the album.

Her physical condition may have limited her mobility on the stage, but the charm of her voice, which had altered little with age, ensured her triumphs.