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In order to avert having to conduct a war on two fronts, Domitian agreed to terms of peace with Decebalus, negotiating free access of Roman troops through the Dacian region while granting Decebalus an annual subsidy of 8 million sesterces.
According to this agreement and in return for an annual subsidy and vague assurances of assistance in case of foreign aggression, Yaqub relinquished control of Afghan foreign affairs to the British.
Also important are the annual subsidy from Denmark, which amounts to about 6 % of the GDP.
In return, Britain agreed to grant an annual subsidy of 15, 000 Indian rupees (£ 1, 500 ) to the ruling family.
Zanzibar paid an annual subsidy to Muscat and Oman until its independence in early 1964.
In addition, the Italian Government pays San Marino an annual budget subsidy provided under the terms of the Basic Treaty with Italy.
Sudan Airways's operations have generally shown losses, and in the early 1980s the corporation was reportedly receiving an annual government subsidy of about £ Sd500, 000.
The Seven Years ' War might well, moreover, have been another Thirty Years ' War if Pitt had not furnished Frederick with an annual subsidy of £ 700, 000, and in addition relieved him of the task of defending western Germany against France: this was the policy that allowed Pitt to boast of having ' won Canada on the banks of the Rhine '.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Sinchula, signed on November 11, 1865, Bhutan ceded territories in the Assam Duars and Bengal Duars, as well as the eighty-three-square-kilometer territory of Dewangiri in southeastern Bhutan, in return for an annual subsidy of 50, 000 rupees.
India also agreed to increase the annual subsidy to 500, 000 rupees per year.
On the other hand, one out of four Canadians want the CBC's annual subsidy to be increased.
Three years later, the British Government increased the annual subsidy to £ 156, 000 so that Cunard could double its frequency.
The American Government supplied Collins with a large annual subsidy to operate four wooden paddlers that were superior to Cunard's best.
The British Government provided Cunard with an annual subsidy of £ 150, 000 plus a low interest loan of £ 2. 5 million (£ as of ), to pay for the construction of the two superliners, the Blue Riband winners Lusitania and Mauretania, capable of.
This put a stop to Heine's annual subsidy of 4, 800 francs.
In addition, it was agreed that they would be paid an annual subsidy.
In May 1996 the franchise was awarded to Prism Rail by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising for 15 years with an average annual subsidy of £ 18. 4 million and commenced operating as LTS Rail on 26 May 1996.
By 1990, their combined annual income was $ 120, 000, and in March of that year they began voluntarily paying an additional $ 325 per month to offset their share of the co-op's Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation subsidy, the only members of the co-op to do so.
The Abbey was the first state-subsidized theatre in the English-speaking world ; from 1925 onwards it received an annual subsidy from the Irish Free State.
The Government of Canada agreed to grant an annual subsidy to the Harbour Commission to operate the airport, while the Government of Ontario agreed to pay for the costs of the airport ferry.
First, Council voted 32 – 9 to accept a settlement to end the TPA port-lands lawsuit in exchange for an immediate payment of $ 5. 5 million and an annual subsidy of $ 5. 5 million to the TPA until 2012.
Under the terms of the Secret Treaty of Dover, Charles would receive an annual subsidy from France ( to enable him to govern without calling a parliament ) in exchange for a promise that he would convert to Catholicism and re-Catholicize England at an unspecified future date.
In fact, the Yugoslavian representatives in Lebanon had negotiated with the fisherman's union to make the fisherman shareholders in the company ; the company offered to modernize the Fisherman's equipment and buy their catch, give their fisherman's a union and annual subsidy.
In 2003, when the annual running cost of the ferry was around £ 5 million a year, the effective public subsidy per vehicle crossing was £ 4.

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Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.
Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.
There was an annual audit, Garth informed him.
This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning in 1954.
With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William A. ( ( Bill ) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.
The presentation was made before several hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, College of Marin, Kentfield.
The poll was taken at the Center's annual builders' intentions conference.
A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.
I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.
Something special was going on here just now -- the annual display of azalea plants.
In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.
In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.
It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.
" The annual poll tax was only $ 1. 50.
The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.
Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.
His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.
She was obliged to accompany them on annual holidays to Scarborough.
Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in " the Golden Volume of the Capitol ", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.
Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.
In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.
At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.

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