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The prize was announced on 22 October 1964 ; on 14 October, Sartre had written a letter to the Nobel Institute, asking to be removed from the list of nominees, and warning that he would not accept the prize if awarded, but the letter went unread ; on 23 October, Le Figaro published a statement by Sartre explaining his refusal.
On June 14, 2011, AMPAS announced that the number of nominees would vary between five and ten films starting with the 2012 ceremony, provided that the film earned 5 % of first-place votes during the nomination process.
On May 23, 2005, Snowe was one of fourteen senators dubbed the Gang of 14, who defused a confrontation between Senate Democrats ( who were filibustering several judicial nominees ) and the Senate Republican leadership ( who wanted to use the nominations as a flashpoint to eliminate filibusters on nominees through the so-called nuclear option ).
( Although Senators are ceremonially appointed by the President, his role is a mere formality: the Constitution obligates him to accept and appoint the 14 nominees chosen by the Council, as well as 18 Senators nominated by other institutions ( Prime Minister 9, Leader of the Opposition 8, Council of Rotuma 1 ).
Senators are officially appointed by the President, but his role is a mere formality, as Section 64 requires him to ratify the nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs ( 14 ), the Prime Minister ( 9 ), the Leader of the Opposition ( 8 ), and the Council of Rotuma ( 1 ).
Reserving 14 Senate seats for nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs gave them the quota ( more than a third ) required to veto amendments to the constitution, while reserving seats for Government and Opposition nominees, the latter reflecting the political composition of the House of Representatives, guaranteed an acceptable, if not numerically equitable, measure of representation to Indo-Fijians and other minorities.
On the December 14, 2009 episode of Raw, Vince McMahon came out to announce the nominees for Guest Host of the Year during the Slammy Awards.
On May 24, 2005, seven moderate senators of each party, called the Gang of 14, in a deal to avoid the use of the " nuclear option ", agreed to drop the filibuster against three of the seven remaining affected court of appeals nominees ( Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor ) but not two others ( Henry Saad and William Myers ).
Republican Senators opposed establishment of these new precedents, and, after Democrats filibustered several further nominees, the so-called Gang of 14 Senators negotiated an agreement to prevent a recurrence absent " extraordinary circumstances.
The ultimate confrontation was prevented by the Gang of 14, a group of seven Democratic and seven Republican Senators, all of whom agreed to oppose the nuclear option and oppose filibusters of judicial nominees, except in extraordinary circumstances.
On May 23, 2005 Senator John McCain announced an agreement between seven Republican and seven Democratic U. S. Senators, the Gang of 14, to ensure an up-or-down vote on Pryor and two other stalled Bush nominees, Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown.
Although the compromise reached by the " Gang of 14 " guaranteed three previously blocked nominees ( Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor ) up-or-down votes in the full Senate, Myers and Michigan nominee Henry Saad were expressly denied the same assurance in the agreement.
The Gang of 14 signed an agreement, pertaining to the 109th Congress only, whereby the seven Senate Democrats would no longer vote along with their party on filibustering judicial nominees ( except in " extraordinary circumstances ," as defined by each individual senator ), and in turn the seven Senate Republicans would break with Bill Frist and the Republican leadership on voting for the " nuclear option.
In April 2006, Senate Republicans began pushing for the confirmation of two controversial conservative court of appeals nominees who had not been included in the Gang of 14 deal of 2005, district court judge Terrence Boyle and White House aide Brett Kavanaugh.
On February 14, 2012, cctivist shareholder Daniel S. Loeb, of Third Point Partners, named Wolf as part of the proposed slate of directors for the board of Yahoo, Inc. Third Point ’ s other nominees are Jeff Zucker, the former chief executive of NBC Universal ; Harry Wilson ( businessman ) and the former Treasury Department official and a former hedge fund executive.
The nominees for 2011-12 were announced on April 23, 2012 by Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas ; the awards were announced on May 14.
He was chosen to represent Rewa Province as one of 14 nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs, and the Senate subsequently elected him to preside over the upper chamber of the nation's legislature.

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On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.
In his commentary on Daniel 8: 14 published in 1831, he stated that the 2, 300-year period should be calculated from 334 BC, the year Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian Empire.
Journey's End was released in Great Britain on 14 April and in the United States on 15 April.
Justinian I () (, ) ( c. 482 – 14 November 565 ), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565.
It is locally known as the " City of Lights " () and " The bride of the cities " () for its liveliness, and the " City of the Quaid " (), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah ), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947.
The rest of Great Britain changed to Circumcision Style on 1 January preceding the conversion in Great Britain from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar on 3 / 14 September 1752.
Great Britain and its American colonies reformed in 1752, where Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was immediately followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 ; they were joined by the last Protestant holdout, Sweden, on 1 March 1753.
"</ tt > The expedition arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf ( then known as " the Great Ice Barrier ") at a large inlet called the Bay of Whales on 14 January 1911, where Amundsen located his base camp and named it Framheim.
( The greatest collection of cartoons available would be the 14 reprinted in L. Sprague de Camp's The Great Monkey Trial.
The only possible exceptions to this are the Great Commission Matthew 28: 16-20, 2 Corinthians 13: 14, and the Comma Johanneum, which many regard as a spurious text passage in First John ( 1 John 5: 7 ) known primarily from the King James Version and some versions of the Textus Receptus but not included in modern critical texts ..
As a result of international pressure ( France, USA, Great Britain ,...), Spain abandoned Western Sahara on Nov. 14, 1975, going so far as to even exhume Spanish corpses from cemeteries.
* September 14The Great Atlantic Hurricane makes landfall in the New York City area
* July 14 – WWII: Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome: " We shall seek no terms.
* July 14 – William Pulteney is created 1st Earl of Bath in Great Britain.
* February 14The Order of St. Anna is established in Russia, in honour of the daughter of Peter the Great.
* February 12 – February 14Great Blizzard of 1899: Freezing temperatures and snow extend well south into North America, including southern Florida.
* September 2 – Great Britain and the British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, meaning the Julian date of Wednesday, September 2 was followed by the Gregorian date of Thursday, September 14.
* November 14The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.
** Food rationing in Great Britain ends with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II and nearly a decade after the war's end.
* October 14 – Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain ( d. 1714 )
* January 14The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War, with the signature of President of Congress Thomas Mifflin.
* February 14 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( b. 1685 )
* 14. 000 Mm — Smallest diameter of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
* October 14The Battle on the Elster: between the armies of the two rival brothers-in-law kings of the German states, Henry IV and Rudolf of Rheinfelden met at the Weisse-Elster River in the Great Saxon Revolt civil war of the Holy Roman Empire.

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