Stoutly Catholic, the inhabitants have retained some of their past as can be still seen in their own particular style of costume.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defending Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked.

The Estonian units saw action defending the Narva line throughout 1944.

There have been calls for the Nobel Foundation to rescind the prize it awarded to Moniz for developing the lobotomy, a decision that has been called an astounding error of judgment at the time and one that psychiatry might still need to learn from, but the Foundation declined to take action and has continued to host an article defending the results of the procedure.

" To pin " refers to the action of the attacking piece inducing the pin, and the defending piece so restricted is described as pinned.

He went to the aid of Ajax the Great when the latter was wounded and tired from hard fighting and was compelled to withdraw from combat: in defending Ajax he killed Apisaon but was wounded in the thigh and put out of action from one of Paris ' arrows.

Attacks in the game are similar to those in traditional RPGs, although the player can influence the power of a move when attacking or defending by timing a button-press accurately or performing some other action command as required.

During 1977 and 1978, Cox also argued the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke before the Court, defending the University of California at Davis medical school's affirmative action system of admissions against constitutional challenge.

Kravitz was named after his uncle, Private First Class Leonard Kravitz, who was killed in action in the Korean War at the age of 20, while defending against a Chinese attack and saving most of his platoon ; he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

During the 1748 Siege of Pondicherry Clive distinguished himself in successfully defending a trench against a French sortie: one witness of the action wrote " platoon, animated by his exhortation, fired again with new courage and great vivacity upon the enemy.

Sowell comments on issues he considers to be problematic in modern-day society, which include liberal media bias ; judicial activism ( while staunchly defending originalism ); partial birth abortion ; the minimum wage ; socializing health care ; government undermining of familial autonomy ; affirmative action ; government bureaucracy ; militancy in U. S. foreign policy ; the U. S. war on drugs, and multiculturalism.

However, in an unprecedented action, Emperor Meiji spoke out during the Supreme War Council meeting, defending Nogi and demanding that he be kept in command.

The head-of-state of Denmark is the Queen, however, the government of Denmark is the actual commander-in-chief although any military action that does not serve the purpose of defending Danish territory require approval by the Danish parliament ( Folketinget ).

Soon after reaching his majority and taking responsibility for the Earldom, he saw military action in Wales, defending against a Welsh rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr.

He puts this offer in action as he assisted the X-Men in defending Utopia Island from an attack of Predator X monsters.

Colonel Bolling was the Assistant Chief of the Air Service, and was killed in action near Amiens, France, on 26 March 1918 while defending himself and his driver, Corporal Paul L. Holder, from an attack by German soldiers.

The main thrust of the attack, the first action under the Division's new commander, fell on the 39th Brigade, and in particular the 7th North Staffords defending Fusilier Bluff, who drove off the attackers.

Caesar countered by defending the oppidum and winning an action at the Aisne.

Carter-Ruck's first major case was defending the Bolton Evening News successfully against a libel action brought by the Labour MP Bessie Braddock, who, they had claimed, had danced a jig in Parliament.

* Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient, who was killed in action during the Battle of Mogadishu while serving as a Delta Force sniper defending a downed helicopter, started his career in 2nd Ranger Battalion.

In 1639, he sent a statement to Laud, and subsequently to the king, defending the General Assembly's action.

Where deterrence often fails is when either a defending state or an attacking state under or overestimate the others ' ability to undertake a particular course of action.

Canada erected this monument as a memorial of her brave sons who fell at Lime Ridge or died of wounds received in action or from disease contracted in service while defending her frontier in June 1866.

The Japanese Navy was in general terms more traditionalist, in defending ancient values and the sacred nature of the Emperor ; the Japanese Army was more forward-looking, in the sense of valuing primarily strong leadership, as is evidenced by the use of the coup and direct action.

* War with Sassanid Persia: Emperor Anastasius I refuses to pay a share of the cost of defending the Caucasian Gates through which nomadic tribes have come for raids on Persia and the Byzantine Empire.

* Emperor Anastasius I agrees to pay his share of the cost of defending the Caucasian Gates against nomadic invasions from east Asia.

* Against the Gates of Hell: The Threat to Religious Freedom in America by Stanley R. Rader On-line copy of Rader's book defending Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God

This splitting of the book ’ s composition began to be challenged in the mid-twentieth century, with scholars defending the unity of the book, the plausibility of the prophet combining a contemporary and apocalyptic outlook, and later additions by the prophet.

The first successful ABM test were conducted by the USSR in 1961, that later deployed a fully operating system defending Moscow in the 1970s ( see Moscow ABM system ).

Some were later involved in his usurpation with the Whigs, which they saw as defending the Anglican Church.

He had originally wanted to direct a film about a single day in the life of a samurai but later discovered a story about samurai defending farmers in his research.

His heirs restricted access to his diaries and later an " authorized " biography by Juhani Suomi was commissioned, the author subsequently defending the interpretation of the history therein and denigrating most other interpretations.

Also later in the film at the battle of Fredricksburg you can see both the 114th Pennsylvania defending the pontoon bridges against General Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, and the 5th New York briefly as the Union are looting Fredricksburg.

Lieutenant Charles “ Savez ” Read may have been " anchor man " ( graduated last ) in the class of 1860, but his later service to the Confederate States Navy included defending New Orleans, service on CSS Arkansas and CSS Florida, and command of a series of captured Union ships that culminated in seizing the US Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing in Portland, Maine.

As a result, the critic wrote letters to The Times defending their work, later meeting them.

Codrington spent much time in his later years defending his actions in Greece.

At the age of 14, José accompanied his father Fernando, and others from Sonora, in the 1849 " Gold Rush " to Upper California, and returned to Sonora about two years later, having learned English, as well as having his first experience in defending himself against armed conflict ( Corral, 1959 ).

From that moment, and until his retirement in 1961, he fought only sporadically, but 3 of his last fights were attempts to recover the world's Middleweight title, losing twice to Gene Fullmer ; by a knockout in 14 at San Francisco ; and by a knockout in 12, in Fullmer's home state of Utah ( in Salt Lake City ), and then also later, when he lost a 10 round decision to defending world champion Paul Pender.

During this period, he made the acquaintance of Napoleon Bonaparte at the siege of Toulon ( his later clash with Napoleon made him downplay the latter's abilities as a soldier: he noted in his Memoirs that the siege had been carried out by 30, 000 men against a minor royalist defending force, whereas the real number was 12, 000 ; he also sought to minimize the share taken by Bonaparte in the capture of the city ).

In the first round, the Comets knocked out the 2004 defending champion Seattle Storm in 3 games, but lost in the conference finals to the Sacramento Monarchs in a sweep, which Sacramento later became WNBA Champions in 2005.

Only four years later this position was abandoned and the Persian Gulf declared a neutral zone in the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907, prompted in part by the high economic cost of defending India from Russian advances.

Napier's 1902 win brought the Gordon Bennett hosting duties to Britain, and the 1903 event was held south of Dublin, with three shaft-driven Napiers defending British honour, all in the ( later famous ) green: a brace of 470 cu in ( 7708 cc ) 45 hp ( 33. 5 kW ) fours of Charles Jarrott and J. W. Stocks ( with McDonald, the Genoa plant manager, his riding mechanic ), and an 80 hp ( 838 cu in, 13, 726 cc ), the Type K5, of Edge ; Jarrott and Stocks wrecked, while Edge was disqualified for receiving outside assistance ( onlookers helped throw buckets of water over the wheels to cool the tyres ).

He profoundly distrusted all democratic institutions, and he devoted the later part of his life to building and defending the power, especially the political power, of the army.

Forty years later, during the pan-European War of the Grand Alliance, the city was again of key strategic importance, being one of the Jacobite strongholds defending the river-crossings into the confederate-held Province of Connacht following their being routed at the battle of the Boyne 1 July 1690.

Taylor's approach, defending the preservation of slavery under the circumstances and apprehensions of his day, was used to support later and more emphatic defenses of slavery by writers, such as John C. Calhoun, Edmund Ruffin, and George Fitzhugh, who extended the argument by claiming the institution to be a " positive good.

Froude retained a favourable impression of Newman, however, defending him in the controversy over Tract 90 and later in his essay " The Oxford Counter-Reformation " ( 1881 ).

Most of his later life was spent defending his doctrine against Catholic theologians who held that Catholicism came from the apostles and that Pelagius was spreading novelties in the Faith unknown to the apostolic tradition.

She later wrote an editorial defending the feature, calling Page Three models " intelligent, vibrant young women who appear in ' The Sun ' out of choice and because they enjoy the job.

In the later twentieth century, some scholars attempted a re-evaluation of Collier, defending him against the charge of forgery.

Marseille is later banned from defending their title the next year due to a corruption scandal.

His performance was later described as " the worst oral argument in years ", but some believe his lack of preparation reflected his lack of enthusiasm for the statute he was defending.

Two weeks later at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, Henin was the defending champion but lost for the first time in eight meetings to Francesca Schiavone in the quarterfinals 7 – 6 ( 3 ), 7 – 6 ( 4 ).