Successive governors general have followed suit, establishing an award for whichever endeavour they personally found important.

Successive lieutenant governors — Rottenburg and his predecessor, Roger Hale Sheaffe — had failed to make an impact in the North American war since the death of the successful Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights.

Successive governors improved infrastructure, industry, law and education over the next 138 years.

Successive Qing dynasty emperors usually stayed at Mukden Palace for some time each year.

Successive Parliaments attempted to pass such a bill, and were likewise dissolved.

Successive popes tried to restore peace, but in vain.

Successive 1-ml fractions were then drawn off with a hypodermic syringe, starting at the top of the tube, and tested for agglutinin activity.

Successive revisions of the influential Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ( APG ) classification have changed the circumscription of the family.

Successive works brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community.

Successive positions every 30 seconds are joined by straight line segments ( the mesh size is 3. 2 µm ).

Successive Chilean governments have actively pursued trade-liberalizing agreements.

Successive dynasties in Chinese history developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the Emperor of China to directly control vast territories.

Successive legal codes in Babylon, including the code of Hammurabi ( c. 1790 BC ), reflected Mesopotamian society's belief that law derived from the will of the gods ( see Babylonian law ).

Successive waves of Arawak migrants, moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America, settled the islands of the Caribbean.

Successive governments have invested heavily in tourism development, creating upgraded airports and other infrastructure.

In practice the codes can be stored in order of numerical value ; this allows each search to be done by a SAR ( Successive Approximation Register, as used in some ADCs ), with only 12 magnitude comparisons.

Successive waves of Arawak migrants, moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America, settled the islands of the Caribbean.

Successive defeats by the Norse would force the Picts and Scoti to cease their historic hostility to each other and unite in the 9th Century, to form the Kingdom of Scotland.

Successive regimes of the 19th century responded to such pressures with a combination of halfhearted reform and repression.

Successive processing involves the integration of stimuli into serial order.

Successive NEC 8088 compatible processors would run at up to 16 MHz.

Successive British battlecruisers were more expensive, but less so than their German equivalents.

Successive governments showed little inclination to move seriously against pressing economic and social issues.

Successive administrations tried to stabilize the imperial economy by freezing the social structure into place: sons were to succeed their fathers in their trade, councilors were forbidden to resign, and coloni, the cultivators of land, were not to move from the land they were attached to.

Successive decisive Dutch victories in the second and third Anglo-Dutch Wars confirmed the Dutch mastery of the seas during the Dutch Golden Age, financed by the expansion of the Dutch Empire.

Successive attempts to reduce the size of the PNGDF in response to the country's economic problems have provoked fierce resistance ; with the army mutinying in March 2001.

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn wrote, " Successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.

Successive agricultural projects, many of which were designed primarily to encourage Bedouin settlement, have increased water resource exploitation.

Successive governments and the population as a whole have always believed that " diamonds and gold " are sufficient generators of foreign currency earnings and lure for investment.

Successive capitals, built at various points along the river, became centers of great Thai kingdoms based on rice cultivation and foreign commerce.

The National Guard may be called up for active duty by state governors or territorial adjutant general to help respond to domestic emergencies and disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes.

Federal troops were not used to decide a political question, but they were used by successive territorial governors to pacify the territory so that the political question of slavery in Kansas could finally be decided by peaceful, legal, and political means.

In 1834 and 1836, territorial governors divided these lands among two rancheros, the brothers Alejandro and Francisco Rodriguez.

Both Meriwether Lewis ( 1807 – 1809 ) and William Clark ( 1813 – 1820 ) served as territorial governors of the Louisiana Territory.

State governors are elected to office by popular vote, but territorial governors were appointed to the office by the United States president.

The private profit motive dominated the movement westward, but the Federal Government played a supporting role in securing land through treaties and setting up territorial governments, with governors appointed by the President.

During Indiana's territorial period, there was a considerable resentment to the power wielded by the territorial governors, and in response the anti-governor faction, which dominated the constitutional convention, created a weak executive position.

The Air National Guard may be called up for active duty by the state governors or territorial commanding generals to help respond to domestic emergencies and disasters, such as those caused by hurricanes, floods, fires, and earthquakes.

These people were well represented in the early territorial legislatures, which often clashed with the appointed Republican territorial governors.

The Ottoman Empire was first subdivided in provinces, in the sense of fixed territorial units with governors appointed by the sultan had appointed, in the late 14th century.

The governor was also given limited powers, primarily as a final act of repudiation of the territorial governors.

For a list of territorial governors, refer to the section on Territorial governors in the list of Governors of Kansas.

State governors also issue the writs for elections in the state and territorial legislatures.

Central governments have sometimes conferred plenipotentiary status ( either formally or de facto ) on territorial governors.

The Republican Governors Association is a Washington, D. C .- based 527 organization founded in 1963, consisting of U. S. state and territorial governors affiliated with the Republican Party.

Prior to 2000, all provincial governors and heads of provincial legislatures sat in the Council ex officio while continuing to hold their territorial offices at the same time.

Nominations were submitted to lieutenant governors and territorial commissioners, senators, members of parliament, provincial governments, the Public Service Commission of Canada, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and various federal government departments, as well as organization throughout the country, and some 42, 000 medals were awarded.