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Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).
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German builders extended the sound repertoire of the instrument by adding sixteen foot and two foot choirs ; these instruments have recently served as models for modern builders.
During these years he protected, among others, sixteen prostitutes, nine welfare recipients, five preachers, eight bankers, ten school teachers, and four store owners.
One of these could be filled by the optional R2010 FPU, which had thirty-two 32-bit registers that could be used as sixteen 64-bit registers for double-precision.
The treaty's signatories include twenty Lithuanian dukes and one dowager duchess ; it specifies that five of these were elder and thus took precedence over the remaining sixteen.
The title Padre della patria (= Father of the Fatherland ) was suggested for him, precisely with reference to these sixteen children of his.
On 21 July 2004, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review of defence spending, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that three frigates of the fleet of sixteen would be paid off as part of a continuous cost-cutting strategy, and these were subsequently sold to Chile.
Implementation of these new rights was slow to come ; in the 1868 election, the black vote counted in only sixteen of the thirty-seven states.
There are between four and sixteen of these small lobes arranged around the rim of the umbrella, where they coordinate the muscular action allowing the animal to move.
All of these developments have been oriented toward support for real-time graphics, and are therefore oriented toward processing in two, three, or four dimensions, usually with vector lengths of between two and sixteen words, depending on data type and architecture.
Of these, 8. 3 million were children under sixteen years of age ; 3. 8 million were persons who, though between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five were not working nor seeking work.
At the same time, the Court of Policy was enlarged to sixteen members ; eight of these were to be elected members whose power would be balanced by that of eight appointed members.
Some of these coins reached colossal size, as much as sixteen normal thalers.
Among these institutions there are eight theaters, five concert halls, ninety-seven libraries ( with branches ), seventeen movie theaters ( including five movie theaters for children ), twenty-five institutions of children optional education, eight museums ( sixteen including branches ), and seven parks.
Ahaz is given sixteen years in these annals, measuring from the start of his sole reign, instead of the twenty or twenty-one years that he would be credited with if the counting started from 736t 736 / 735 BC, when he deposed Jotham.
In the Russian Army these comprised the Grenadier Guards Regiment as well as the Grenadier Corps of sixteen regiments.
It became common practice during these years for Curtin and many others in government to work sixteen hours a day.
In the 1972 general election these parties won sixteen seats ( out of 150 ), in the 1977 general election they won only six.
According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of Reiki to over 2000 people during his lifetime, and sixteen of these students continued their training to reach the Shinpiden level, a level equivalent to the Western third, or Master / Teacher, degree.
Northumberland was instead escorted to St Peter ad Vincula, where he took the Catholic communion and professed that " the plagues that is upon the realm and upon us now is that we have erred from the faith these sixteen years.
In the first chapter of the Vendidad is a listing of sixteen countries, and some scholars believe that Airyanem Vaejah lies to the north of all of these.
The asserted antiquity of the see of London depends upon the traditional names of sixteen archbishops listed in the 12th century by Jocelyne of Furness in his work Bishops, the sole source of these names ; however, the earlier of the two bishops named Restitutus in Jocelyne's list is known to have existed, as he is named as attending the Council of Arles in 314.
Another sixteen Albemarles followed the transports carrying the pathfinders, these transporting elements of the 9th Parachute Battalion, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and 3rd Parachute Brigade Headquarters.
The use of a rechargeable battery and a portable component pack allows a convenient household mobility for many patients during administration periods, these being typically from twelve to sixteen hours a day.
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I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.
Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.
But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.
Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.
Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;
When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.
If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??
One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.
Both these youths, who greatly admired Henrietta, were somewhat younger than she, as were also the neighboring Friedenwald boys, who were then studying medicine ; ;
Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.
In one of these he said were notes on the identities of the eighty-one refugees.
The Prince's perceptions were quick and his energy monstrous, but these qualities were sapped by an Oriental lethargy and a policy of letting nothing interfere with personal passions.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
None of these discoveries were neatly rounded off bits of knowledge.
A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.
But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.
When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.
With their facile generalizations about the United States, these mediocrities, as they often were, had been great successes.
It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.
She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.
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