Anne supported the Occasional Conformity Bill of 1702, which was promoted by the Tories and opposed by the Whigs.

* Occasional Conformity Act 1711

High churchmen and Tories, empowered late in Queen Anne's reign, sought to close this loophole with the passing of the Occasional Conformity Bill in 1711, however the Act was repealed after the Hanoverian Succession with the return to power of the Whigs, who were generally allied with non-conforming Protestants.

** An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity

** An Enquiry into the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, in Cases of Preferment

He was, however, active in 1702 in opposing the Occasional Conformity Bill, and in 1706 was one of the managers of the union with Scotland.

** Occasional Conformity Act 1711

* Occasional Conformity Act 1711

The Occasional Conformity Act ( also known as the Toleration Act 1711 ) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain ( statute number 10 Anne c. 6 ), the long title of which is " An Act for preserving the Protestant Religion " which passed on 20 December 1711.

Previous Occasional Conformity bills had been debated in 1702 and 1704.

As Bishop, he was active in the House of Lords ; among others, he supported the repeal of the Occasional Conformity Act.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

Occasional ancient battles took place along the Persian Gulf coastlines, between the Sassanid Persian empire and the Lakhmid Kingdom, the most prominent of which was the invasion led by Shapur II against the Lakhmids, leading to Lakhmids ' defeat, and advancement into Arabia, along the southern shore lines.

* 1665 – Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, which was ridiculed by Swift in A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, and by Butler in An Occasional Reflection on Dr Charlton's Feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College

His Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 ( 1846 ) exercised considerable influence upon Abraham Lincoln, and in this book appears the sentence, which, as rephrased by Lincoln, was widely quoted: " If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong — if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong — nothing is wrong.

Occasional, much-younger co-star Bette Davis recalled that Chatterton was " very kind " to her at Warners when Davis was starting out on her career.

In a pamphlet of " Remarks " ( 1742 ), he replied to John Tillard, and Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections ( 1744 – 1745 ) was an answer to Akenside, Conyers Middleton ( who had been his friend ), Richard Pococke, Nicholas Mann, Richard Grey, Henry Stebbing and other of his critics.

Occasional contributions included special reports by Walters, who was credited as anchor of the special coverage desk from New York City and worldwide, and commentary by Smith, who was easing into eventual retirement.

Accordingly he attacked the author of the Pleasures of the Imagination — which was published anonymously — in a scathing preface to his Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections, in answer to Dr Middleton ... ( 1744 ).

A collection of his journalistic articles was published in 1897 as Occasional Papers.

In 1731, at Houghton Hall, Sir Robert Walpole's country house in Norfolk, the Duke, with the Duke of Lorraine ( later the Holy Roman Emperor ), was made a Master Mason by the Grand Master, Lord Lovell, at an Occasional Lodge.

Occasional special idents were also produced including a modified logo to mark the station's 30th anniversary in 1987, while the main ident was largely replaced by 1988 in favour of a new set of seasonal and themed idents.

However, the full phrase " the dismal science " first occurs in Carlyle's 1849 tract entitled Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he was arguing for the reintroduction of slavery as a means to regulate the labor market in the West Indies:

Occasional confusion arises about the article " the ", since it was spoken by narrators in voice-overs.

; Occasional Large Group Meetings: " I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house " ( Acts 20: 20 NASB )

Occasional hardback editions combined with the magazine Daylight appeared sporadically, but it was as Penguin New Writing that the magazine survived until 1950.

* Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter Lawrence 1970

Occasional jumbles of sandstone hills or low mountains support only meager and stunted vegetation that thrives for a short period after the scanty winter rains.

Occasional arrests garnered headlines but each time they failed to support indictments.

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

Occasional eruptions from its three cones with both pyroclastic flow deposits and lavas occurred from then until 1550, the last eruption creating a narrow isthmus connecting it to Vulcano.

Occasional spats between the two have caused numerous issues, and in several instances the company's and its licensees ' relations have degenerated into precedent-setting court cases.

In addition to about 150 scientific papers, he wrote Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers ( 1843 ); Norway and its Glaciers ( 1853 ); Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers ( 1859 ); A Tour of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa ( 1855 ).

" Published in its original form in F. Wood, ed., British Library Occasional papers, 10: Chinese studies, p.

Under its scheme of ' Occasional Monograph Series ', ICSSR brings out occasional monographs on themes of contemporary relevance and national importance.

Very, Frank W., 1919, The luminiferous ether: ( I ) its relation to the electron and to a universal interstellar medium ; ( II ) its relation to the atom, Occasional scientific papers of the Westwood Astrophysical Observatory ; no.

Occasional events of this type may be only a nuisance, but frequent events can eventually foul the spark plugs and destroy the catalytic converter, as the inefficiently combusted fuel produces soot ( excess carbon ) and unburned fuel in the exhaust flow can produce soot in the converter and drive the converter beyond its normal operating temperature range.

Occasional exceptions to this rule are tolerated when the alternative is political chaos.

Occasional errors and revisions accounts for some past criticism while the allocation of Private Finance Initiative expenditure ( albeit following OECD and international statistical guidelines according to who carries the risk ) has attracted political attention.

Occasional pieces, translations and political poems constitute about a half of his overall poetical output.

Occasional populist calls to reinstate capital punishment still occur, but no major political party has made capital punishment an element of any of their election manifestos since the 1989 Abolition act.