Prominent opponents of assault-weapons bans include the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America.

Prominent local opponents of both the trade and the institution of slavery itself included Anne Yearsley, Hannah More, Harry Gandey, Mary Carpenter, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.

Prominent imams, including Ibn ' Asakir, preached jihad (" holy struggle ") and when the Crusaders advanced towards Damascus in 1148, the city's residents heeded their calls ; the Crusader army withdrew as a result of their resistance.

Prominent goods and services imported by Cyprus in 2008 were consumer goods, machinery, petroleum and other lubricants, transport equipments and intermediate goods.

Prominent amongst the missionaries and immigrant aid workers were Rev.

Prominent Communists who became victims of these purges and were defendants in the Prague Trials included Rudolf Slánský, the party's general secretary, Vlado Clementis ( the Foreign Minister ) and Gustáv Husák ( the leader of an administrative body responsible for Slovakia ), who was dismissed from office for " bourgeois nationalism ".

Prominent among the Creoles demanding change were the bourgeois nationalist H. C. Bankole-Bright, General Secretary of the Sierra Leone Branch of the National Congress of British West Africa ( NCBWA ), and the socialist I. T. A.

Prominent Sikh Gurus were killed by Mughals for opposing Mughal persecution of minority religious communities.

Prominent contributors were Gunnar Nordström, Hermann Weyl, Arthur Eddington, Theodor Kaluza, Oskar Klein, and most notably, Albert Einstein and his collaborators.

Prominent scholars and teachers were again invited from India.

Prominent among the candidates for the papacy were the great historian Baronius and the famous Jesuit controversialist Robert Bellarmine.

Prominent among these anatomists were Mondino de Liuzzi and Alessandro Achillini.

Prominent New Left members were Jan Nagel, André van der Louw and Bram Peper.

Prominent merchant families and private businesses were allowed to occupy industries that were not already government-operated monopolies.

Prominent legal challenges in the 1950s were brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group whose beliefs preclude swearing loyalty to any power other than God, and who objected to policies in public schools requiring students to swear an oath to the flag.

Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as traveling overseers.

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Prominent buildings in Hanoi were also constructed during the period French rule, such as the Hanoi Opera House and the Hanoi University of Technology.

Prominent persons involved in this conference were Ebrahim Rasool, Cheryl Carolus, Faried Esack, and Julia Martin.

Prominent citizens were placed on the engine of the train so that it might be understood that in every accident caused by the hostility of the inhabitants their compatriots will be the first to suffer.

Prominent musicians from major orchestras around the country were recruited and the conductor Pierre Monteux was hired as well to work with the orchestra in its formative months.

Prominent people held as prisoners in the crypt of the Agricola Tower were Richard II and Eleanor Cobham, wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and Andrew de Moray, hero of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Prominent artists appearing for the society in 1856 were Jenny Lind, Clara Schumann and Charles Hallé.

Prominent members of Georgian Menshevik Party were Noe Ramishvili, Evgeni Gegechkori, Akaki Chkhenkeli, Nikolay Chkheidze and Alexandre Lomtatidze.

Prominent fighters were elevated to head war troops and received ranks or bestowals from the raja.

Prominent writers of the 1970s and 1980s were identified with intellectual and moral issues in their attempts to raise social and political consciousness.

Prominent former TDs for Clare include Éamon de Valera who went on to become Taoiseach and President, former president Patrick Hillery and former Cabinet Minister Brendan Daly.

Prominent Italian directors and actors that have worked with Totò include Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino de Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi.

Prominent examples are Rouge de Barr and.

Prominent artists in Paris during the Belle Epoque included post-Impressionists such as Odilon Redon, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Emile Bernard, Henri Rousseau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ( whose reputation improved substantially after his death ), and a young Pablo Picasso.

Prominent bagpipers include Bernard Blanc, Frédéric Paris and Philippe Prieur, as well as bandleader Jean Blanchard of La Grande Bande de Cornemuses and Quintette de Cornemuses.

Prominent concerts in Paris during the 1770s were the Concert de la Loge Olympique ( Concert of the Olympic Lodge ) and the Concert de Amateurs ( Concert for the Fans ) which may have been part of the Concert Spirituel.

Prominent European observers of the time seemed to agree that the Japanese " excel not only all the other Oriental peoples, they surpass the Europeans as well " ( Alessandro Valignano, 1584, " Historia del Principo y Progresso de la Compania de Jesus en las Indias Orientales ).

Prominent figures in Mexico's war for independence were Father José María Morelos, Vicente Guerrero, and General Agustín de Iturbide.

Prominent alumni include: Bader Ben Hirsi, playwright and director, Brandon Lewis, MP for Great Yarmouth, Mark Lancaster, MP for Milton Keynes North, Chris de Lapuente ( Global President and CEO of Sephora, part of the LVMH Group ) and Graham Roos who, since 2011, has been appointed the University's first Creative Artist in Residence.

Prominent among these was the Archbishop of Rouen, Louis III de La Vergne de Tressan, Grand Almoner of France during the Regency.

Prominent festivals take place in May during La Romeria de Mayo, and the 31 of August which is the beginning of the Festival of the people.

Prominent political and religious figures in Samar and Leyte emerged from it, particularly those who studied in the Colegio-Seminario de San Vicente de Paul ( now Christ the King College and St. Vincent de Paul Seminary ) which was established in 1905 and La Milagrosa Academy which was established in 1911.

* Thème de danse orientale et plain chantesque (" Theme of Oriental Dance and Plainsong ")- Prominent in Regard de l ' Esprit de joie.

Prominent football commentators such as Fred Cook, Lou Richards, Jack Dyer, Bob Davis and reporters Scot Palmer and Ron Carter have parts in the film, as do Collingwood footballers at the time, Peter Daicos and Rene Kink.

Prominent participants in the CLS movement include Drucilla Cornell, Alan Hunt, Catharine MacKinnon, Duncan Kennedy, David Kennedy, Martti Koskenniemi, Gary Peller, Peter Fitzpatrick, Morton Horwitz, Jack Balkin, Costas Douzinas, Peter Gabel, Roberto Unger, Renata Salecl, Mark Tushnet, Louis Michael Seidman, John Strawson and Martha Fineman.

Prominent writers during this period included Robert Fulford, Peter Gzowski, Peter C. Newman, Trent Frayne, June Callwood, McKenzie Porter, and Christina McCall.

Prominent rugby league personalities who have publicly backed the club include Phil Gould, Andrew Johns and Peter Sterling while support has also come from as high up as Federal Shadow Treasurer and North Sydney MP Joe Hockey.

Prominent contributors at various points through the newspaper's life included Jason Anderson, Bert Archer, Gregory Boyd Bell, Denise Benson, Alex Bozikovic, William Burrill, Jason Chiu, Andrew Clark, Tyler Clark-Burke, Nicole Cohen, Kevin Connolly, Peter Darbyshire, Gemma Files, Sky Gilbert, Kevin Hainey, Bob Hunter, Bruce LaBruce, Guy Leshinski, Laura Lind, Sarah Liss, Donna Lypchuk, Cindy McGlynn, Gord McLaughlin, Jim Munroe, C. J.

Prominent on the committee for the selection of material was Walter Willson Cobbett, who was joined by Spencer Dyke ( leader of a string quartet ), W. R. Anderson, Alec Robinson, Peter Latham and Compton MacKenzie.

Prominent members of the group have included: Christopher Bland, Michael Howard, Sir John Major, Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Norman Lamont, Peter Lilley, William Rees-Mogg, Alastair Ross Goobey and Norman St John-Stevas.

Prominent alumni of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review include William Draper Lewis, George Wharton Pepper, Philip Werner Amram, Sadie Alexander, Thomas K. Finletter, Natalie Wexler, Loftus Becker, Owen Roberts, Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Curtis Reitz, Peter J. Liacouras, Edward J. Normand, Jerome B. Simandle, Dolores Sloviter, Marci Hamilton, Arthur Raymond Randolph, Mark G. Yudof, Daniel Garodnick, and Tom Ellis.

Prominent players during the first four years included Clyde Best, Željko Bilecki, Jimmy Bone, Roberto Bettega, Drew Busby, David Byrne, Cliff Calvert, Tony Chursky, David Fairclough, Colin Franks, George Gibbs, Jimmy Greenhoff, Steve Harris-Byrne, Graham Hatley, Victor Kodelja, Sam Lenarduzzi, Peter Lorimer, Ivan Lukačević, Drago Vabec, Mike McLenaghen, Willie McVie, Alan Merrick, Charlie Mitchell, Juan Carlos Molina, Jan Möller, Francesco Morini, Ace Ntsoelengoe, Rob Prentice, Randy Ragan, Neill Roberts, Malcolm Robertson, Peter Roe, Jomo Sono, Gordon Sweetzer, Blagoje Tamindžić, Jose Velasquez, and Bruce Wilson.

Prominent among them was Andrew Chamrette, his son Peter Chamrette, and his grandson Charles Chamrette, who worked for the GTS of India from 1802 to 1876.

Prominent early researchers in the field include Felix Dodds, Norman Myers, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Richard Ullman, Arthur Westing, Thomas Homer Dixon, Geoffrey Dabelko, Peter Gleick, and Joseph Romm.

Prominent people who have contributed to or written for On Dit include Prime Minister Julia Gillard, South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young ; South Australian Labor Party Senator and Minister Penny Wong ; Australian author and historian Geoffrey Dutton ; comedians Francis Greenslade and Shaun Micallef ; novelists Colin Thiele and Sean Williams ( author ); South Australian Democrat Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja ; former ALP Federal Minister Gordon Bilney ; playwright Joe Penhall ; The Australian Financial Review film critic Peter Crayford, and former Federal Liberal Minister Christopher Pyne.

Prominent contributors to the ezine have included Kofi Annan, George Soros, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Shirin Ebadi, Sidney Blumenthal, Peter Hain, Pierre Bourdieu, Manuel Castells, Fred Halliday, and David Blunkett.