This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

President Habré hoped to pursue closer relations with Arab states as a potential opportunity to break out of his Chad's post-imperial dependence on France, and to assert Chad's unwillingness to serve as an arena for superpower rivalries.

They have also hailed its control of the armed forces, it respect for civil liberties, its expansion of suffrage and participation, and its gradual admission of new contenders, especially reformers, to the political arena.

His greatest achievement, surpassing many of these, was, perhaps, the establishment of a political and economic consensus about the governance of Britain that all parties, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal subscribed to for three decades, fixing the arena of political discourse until the later 1970s.

Israel is a symbol of the unity of the Jewish people the world over, the homeland for millions of Jews and a unique arena for Jewish creativity.

It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football.

The Nutter Center, which is just east of Dayton in the suburb of Fairborn, is the home arena for athletics of Wright State University and the former Dayton Bombers hockey team.

The establishment of a Court to protect individuals from human rights violations is an innovative feature for an international convention on human rights, as it gives the individual an active role on the international arena ( traditionally, only states are considered actors in international law ).

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated " wand "; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena.

George Ville calculated an average age at death at 27 for gladiators ( based on headstone evidence ), with mortality " among all who entered the arena " around the 1st century CE at 19 / 100.

The Patriot Center is a 10, 000 seat arena, home court for the Men's and Women's basketball team.

Europe in 16th and 17th century was an arena of conflict for domination in the continent between Sweden, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

In June 2011, Clarence House announced that Prince Harry, on completion of his training conversion course to use Apache helicopters in the war arena, would be available for deployment, including in current operations in Afghanistan, in his role as an Apache helicopter pilot.

Founded in 1998 to provide a non-political arena to discuss and implement changes to the profession of Hypnotherapy, UKCHO currently represents 9 of the UK's professional hypnotherapy organisations and has developed standards of training for hypnotherapists, along with codes of conduct and practice that all UKCHO registered hypnotherapists are governed by.

The oldest indoor ice hockey arena still in use today for ice hockey is Boston's Matthews Arena, built in 1910.

The very strong desire for bloody martyrdom in the arena, which Ignatius expresses rather graphically in places, may seem quite odd to the modern reader.

Wycliffe blamed Wynham for making public controversies previously confined to the academic arena.

On 23 June 1977, Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage and drummed with John Bonham for encores in a show at the L. A. Forum arena ( recorded on Led Zeppelin bootlegs, For Badgeholders Only / Sgt.

Kemerovo has the first indoor arena in Russia only used for bandy.

The event also coincided with the beginning of their first arena tour and the Daily Mirror, who had attacked the band months earlier, set up a " Justice for Jarvis " campaign backing his actions and carried out a stunt at Pulp's Sheffield Arena gig on 29 February, handing out free T-shirts.

After considerable debate in the public arena the group adopted a diversity of tactics to raise awareness around the issues including lobbying Transit NZ and Parliament, submissions to the Human Rights Commission and holding an annual ' Fly the Flag ' competition, to more direct protest actions including bungee jumping off the Harbour Bridge, traffic jamming the Harbour Bridge, and flying the largest Tino Rangatiratanga flag ever made over the Harbour Bridge.

Andrée Ferretti notoriously opposed the idea of abandoning civil actions to jump into the provincial political arena.

Canucks fans initially cheered at Bertuzzi's actions, but as it became apparent Moore was seriously injured, the arena became silent.

The subject of interest is the how Congress becomes an " arena of actions " and the surrounding formal and informal spheres of power.

However, following the Manchurian Incident of 1931, the establishment of Manchukuo and the Lytton Report to the League of Nations condemning Japan ’ s actions, Matsuoka was drawn back into the arena of foreign affairs to head Japan ’ s delegation to the League of Nations in 1933.

Not looking to unlock previous trauma or recurring dreams, reality therapy's only workable arena is the present and going forward in the best possible way, while remembering the importance of taking responsibility for one's own actions and realizing that the only person one can control is oneself.

A 2006 Sacramento Bee article describes its actions as partisan and restricted to the political arena.

During his pioneering work in the clinical arena of CBT, Arnold Lazarus realized that more areas of psychosocial functioning often needed to be addressed in therapy than merely actions and thoughts.

On October 28, 2010, Garth announced he would do his first " arena " concert in Nashville since 1998.

Once in the arena morgue, the corpse would have been stripped of armour, and probably had its throat cut to prove that dead was dead.

The opposition wicket-keeper Richie Robinson would be an opponent in the Test arena only months later.

This pool of unskilled and semi-skilled labour spontaneously organised in fits and starts throughout its beginnings, and would later be an important arena for the development of trade unions.

For example, Eddie Guerrero would arrive into the arena in a lowrider, The Undertaker ( in his " American Bad Ass " biker gimmick ), Chuck Palumbo, Tara, and the Disciples of Apocalypse on motorcycles, The Mexicools on riding lawn mowers, JBL in his limousine, Alberto Del Rio arriving into the arena in various luxury cars, " Stone Cold " Steve Austin driving an all-terrain vehicle, and perhaps most recently Camacho and Hunico entering on a bicycle.

Minneapolis is the only city and the Metrodome is the only arena to host all three events in a 12-month span ( all three of these events aired on CBS, who would go on to purchase their Twin Cities affiliate, WCCO-TV, later in the year ).

William Batty would also build his own 14, 000-person arena, known commonly as Batty's Hippodrome, in Kensington Gardens and draw crowds from the Crystal Palace Exhibition.

All of these medical advances in the knowledge of obstetrics would be the lever for the introduction of men into an arena that had only ever been managed and run by women, midwifery.

As the promise of such a large reward would suggest, the players thence totally ignored the game, and simply went off in pursuit of the Snidget, which was kept within the arena by the crowd using Repelling Charms.

However, he did not buy controlling interest in the arena, which would have violated the NHL's rule against one person owning more than one team.

Game 3, played in Buffalo, would go down in hockey lore as The Fog Game due to an unusual May heat wave in Buffalo which forced parts of the game to be played in heavy fog, as Buffalo's arena lacked air conditioning.

Atlanta was awarded an NHL franchise on June 25, 1997, as part of a four-team tiered expansion, in which each new franchise would begin play as its respective new arena was completed.

By coincidence, the first encampment ( circa 1839 ) which would later become Atlanta was called Thrasherville, and a historical marker of this is located just down from the arena in front of the State Bar of Georgia ( the former home of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta ).

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

Later that summer, the team dropped the Whalers ' colors of blue, green and silver for a new black-and-red scheme, matching the colors of the North Carolina State University Wolfpack, with whose men's basketball team the Hurricanes would share the arena in Raleigh.

" However, Shinn's ace in the hole was the Charlotte Coliseum, a state-of-the-art arena under construction that would seat almost 24, 000 spectators – the largest basketball-specific arena ever to serve as a full-time home for an NBA team.

Eventually, Shinn issued an ultimatum: unless the city built a new arena at no cost to him, the Hornets would leave town.

Finally, a new arena in Uptown ( what would eventually become the Charlotte Bobcats Arena, later the Time Warner Cable Arena ) was included in a non-binding referendum for a larger arts-related package, and Shinn withdrew his application to move the team.

After the failed referendum, city leaders devised a plan to build a new arena in a way that did not require voter support, but made it known that they would not even consider building it unless Shinn sold the team.