Rather than risk " suicide " through a premature split, the Executive Committee instructed its branches to comply with various requests of the NEC to resign from the Alliance or be expelled.

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Rather, the entire Federal Council is considered a collective Head of State.

Rather, Mackenzie's management style provoked frequent quarrels on the City Council, and by summer 1834, it was apparent that the Reformers would be able to accomplish nothing in the municipal government.

* 11 — Rather than comply with a court order that it allow an LGBT contingent to march, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council cancels the Boston, Massachusetts St. Patrick's Day parade, the first time in 92 years that the city will not have a parade.

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Rather than continue in politics, he resigned all of his political offices in 1625 except for his position on the Privy Council and declared his Catholicism publicly.

“ Rather than standing as a strong defender of fundamental human rights, the Human Rights Council has faltered as a weak voice subject to gross political manipulation ,” she said.

Rather than create a wholly new organization, which would have immediately found itself fighting other unions in the CFL over jurisdiction, Foster hit on the idea of creating a Stockyards Labor Council that, like the railroad federations that had recently come into being, would fuse all of the interested unions into a single body with the ability to organize the industry as a whole.

Rather than serve as an absolute monarch, as previous emperors had done, the Emperor would be a spiritual figurehead of national identity, similar to the Japanese Emperor, while the actual power would still rest with the Chancellor and the High Council.

Rather than establishing the composition of a fifty-nine member National Council through direct suffrage, this was accomplished by four " Councils " representing the professionals from Austrian Culture, State affairs, the States of Austria ( Länder ) and Economic affairs ( the latter elected by seven corporations supposedly representing workers and employers ).

Rather, it was established by the Economic and Social Council following the failure of two previous monitoring bodies.

Rather, they argue that Cornwall has been not only in English possession, but part of England itself, either since Athelstan conquered it in 936, since the administrative centralisation of the Tudor dynasty, or since the creation of Cornwall County Council in 1888.

Rather, the Surrey County Council, on the recommendations of the Surrey Art Academic Board, had instituted the three-year Surrey Diploma for all vocational courses in all Surrey Schools of Art.

" Rather than embarrass an associate of the Royal Mining Company, Bristol ’ s town fathers referred his case to the Queen ’ s Privy Council, which included major investors of the Royal Mining Company.

Rather than a legislative or executive body, the Federal Council in both its forms was a body constituted of non-elected elites who gave their opinions to the Governor General to assist him in his decision-making, and served as a forum to strengthen the relations between these elites and the authorities.

Rather than sit around waiting for the suitcases to be delivered, they had gone sight-seeing.

Rather he believed he had rediscovered first century beliefs from the Bible alone, and sought to prove that through a process of challenge and debate and writing journals.

Rather than earning their living on vast farms as the monasteries had done, the new friars would survive by begging, " selling " themselves through persuasive preaching.

Rather, evidence points to James the brother or half-brother of Jesus, to whom the resurrected Jesus evidently had made a special appearance, and who was prominent among the disciples.

Rather than expensive galleys, wind powered ships that were much faster and had more room for cargo became popular for coastal trade.

Rather than offer two processors, essentially every compiler eventually had at least an option to diagnose extensions.

Rather than appoint a new duke from his own circle, Otto now divided the threatening power of the duchy among the great ecclesiastics with and through whom he ruled, and who had remained faithful to his cause: the Bishop of Würzburg and the Abbot of Fulda ( 939 ).

Rather than a referendum of all residents of West Irian as had been agreed under Sukarno, an " Act of Free Choice " was conducted 1969 in which 1, 025 Papuan representatives of local councils were selected by the Indonesians.

His reaction to the suggestion was one of horror in which he wrote, " Rather would I submit to death a hundred times than to that cross on which I had to perish daily a thousand times over.

Rather than employing method actors, he prefers unknown talent who have had some of the life experience of the characters they portray.

Rather than a conquest of the Picts, instead the idea of Pictish matrilineal succession, mentioned by Bede and apparently the only way to make sense of the list of Kings of the Picts found in the Pictish Chronicle, advanced the idea that Kenneth was a Gael, and a king of Dál Riata, who had inherited the throne of Pictland through a Pictish mother.

Rather, the invention of the printing press allowed some authors to disseminate superstitions and misconceptions about the fungi that had been perpetuated by the classical authors.

Rather, in 1802, following the death of Charles Theodore, it was brought to Munich, where Baron Johann Paul Carl von Moll had obtained a general exemption of confiscation for the Bavarian collections.

Rather than cover art each rule book, supplement, and adventure had a black cover with the title Book X, Supplement Y or Adventure Z each in a distinct color, numbered in the order in which they were produced.

Rather, the Tantric dimension of each South Asian religion had its own name.

Rather than retreat as his Union predecessors had done, Grant flanked Lee's Army of Virginia to the southeast and attempted to wedge the Union Army between Lee and Richmond at Spotsylvania.

Rather than dismiss the elderly employee, Jardine had allowed the man to retire in honor and in his usual generous character, set up a considerable retirement fund for the man and his family.

Rather, war came because public opinion was sickened by the bloodshed, and because leaders like McKinley realized that Spain had lost control of Cuba.

Chicken Shack had a hit with " I'd Rather Go Blind ", which featured Christine on lead vocals.

" Rather than follow, the British hung back, continuing to fire at long range ; this prompted one French officer to write that the British " only engaged from far off and simply in order to be able to say that they had fought.

Rather than creating a single network with local stations owned and operated by a single company ( as is the case with the BBC ), each local area had a separate television station independently owned and operated, although most of these stations shared a number of programmes.

Rather than remain neutral, Blaine chose to side with Perurvian leader Fracisco G. Calderón, who had been appointed by the Chilean government.

Rather than inform his mother of this development, he posted her a letter stating that he had found a job as a " special assistant " to a prison warden.

Rather he died in Venice in 1883, but his family had his body brought to Bayreuth for burial.

Rather, he argued that Jansen intended his statements in Augustinus in the same sense that Augustine of Hippo had offered his opinions – and since the pope would certainly not have wished to condemn Augustine's opinions, the pope had not condemned Jansen's actual opinions.