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Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.
Croton was then occupied by the Bruttii, with the exception of the citadel, in which the chief inhabitants had taken refuge ; these soon after surrendered, and were allowed to withdraw to Locri.
" In withdrawing from the Sovereignty the British government declared that it had " no alliance with any native chief or tribes to the northward of the Orange River with the exception of the Griqua chief Captain Adam Kok " III.
The chief exception is Cassius Dio, who expressed his belief in the consular's innocence.
Nearly every character in the film, with the notable exception of his " main squeeze ," tries to dissuade Priest from quitting ; their chief argument being that dealing and snorting are the best he ever could achieve in life.
George Mitsushio was News Analysis Section chief, with Kenkichi Oki in charge of the actual broadcasts, which were mostly propaganda with the notable exception of Iva Toguri's " Orphan Ann " segment.
Hols takes Hilda back to his village, where her beautiful singing is welcomed by the villagers, with the exception of the chief, who is increasingly resentful of Hols ' popularity, and his deputy, Drago, who is a spy for Grunwald.
The chief exception is the work of the troubadours and the minnesänger, whose primary innovation was the ideal of courtly love.
The number of peaks in indented is almost never specified, but an exception is the arms of Arthur D. Stairs: Per bend sinister indented of six steps Gules and Sable, and Westville, Natal, South Africa bears Sable, issuant from behind a fence of spears in base Argent, a fig tree in leaf Or ; on a chief indented of four points to base, also Or, three lion's faces Sable.
The chief rabbi's salary is paid partly out of contributions from the provincial synagogues, and this gives him a certain amount of authority over all the Jews of the empire with the exception of the 3, 000 or more Sephardim, who have a separate haham, and of the dwindling band of Reformers, who number about 2, 000, scattered in London, Manchester, and Bradford.
Most of these ranks clearly follow those for the rikishi, or wrestlers, with the exception of the tate and fuku-tate ranks, which stand for chief and deputy chief, respectively.
With the exception of the proceedings at the trial of James Stewart in May 1752 ( where as Lord Advocate he was chief prosecutor ), Grant's conduct as public prosecutor was both fair and moderate.
An exception to the Polish government's official attitude pertained to Georgian Prometheism, which enjoyed support with both the foreign minister, Aleksander Skrzyński, and the chief of the General Staff, Gen. Stanisław Haller.
In May 1815, he became associate judge of the county court of Hartford, acting in this capacity, with the exception of one year, until May 1825, when he was made chief judge of that court, and so continued until June.
The fall of de Dampierre and the arrestment of Custine acted fatally on the army of the North, which was now reduced to about thirty thousand rank and file, and these remained in a disorderly state, without a proper chief, and without aim or object, its manoeuvrings committed to chance or directed by ignorance, for with the exception of Kilmaine, its leaders were destitute of skill, experience,
With the exception of a few not very felicitous excursions into historical romance and some miscellaneous works of which his share in La Grande yule, Paris ( 1842 ), is the chief, they are all stories of middle-class Parisian life, of guinguettes and cabarets and equivocal adventures of one sort or another.

chief and general
Under Formby's plan, an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House, attorney general and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
J. P. Harris states that most Luftwaffe leaders from Goering through the general staff believed as did their counterparts in Britain and the United States that strategic bombing was the chief mission of the air force and that given such a role, the Luftwaffe would win the next war and that:
General Nikola Ivanov identified the activity of the Greek Navy as the chief factor in the general success of the allies.
Çevik Bir became the Turkish army's deputy chief of general staff shortly after the Somali operation and played a vital role in establishing a Turkish-Israeli entente against the emerging fundamentalism in the Middle East.
He merged the military general staff with his own presidential staff and appointed himself chief of staff again, in addition to the positions of minister of defence and supreme commander that he already held.
His chief temple at Nippur was known as Ekur, signifying ' House of the mountain ', and such was the sanctity acquired by this edifice that Babylonian and Assyrian rulers, down to the latest days, vied with one another in embellishing and restoring Enlil's seat of worship, and the name Ekur became the designation of a temple in general.
His chief interests lay in evolution and life development processes in general, including development of nonrandom form, which culminated in the beautifully illustrated Kunstformen der Natur ( Art forms of nature ).
Rodrigo Díaz was educated in the royal court of Castile and became the alférez, the chief general, of Alfonso VI, and his most valuable asset in the fight against the Moors.
In the end, when Fujiwara no Mototsune, who was Sesshō ( regent for the child-emperor, 876 – 880 ), Kampaku ( chief advisor or first secretary for the emperor, 880 – 890 ), and Daijō Daijin ( Great Minister of the Council of State ), decided that Yōzei should be removed from the throne, he discovered that there was general agreement amongst the kuge that this was a correct and necessary decision.
General Noumandian Keita, chief of the Combined Arms General Staff, was convicted and replaced by the army's chief of staff, Namory Kieta, who was promoted to general.
Hoover worked as chief engineer for the Chinese Bureau of Mines, and as general manager for the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation.
In response, a general meeting was called on March 29 in London to remove Mathers as chief and expel him from the Order.
General Ivanov, commander of the 2nd Bulgarian Army, acknowledged the role of the Greek fleet in the overall Balkan League victory by stating that " the activity of the entire Greek fleet and above all the Averof was the chief factor in the general success of the allies ".
As chief of state, Queen Elizabeth II appoints a governor general, on the advice of the prime minister, as her representative in Jamaica.
But despite all of their reservations and fears about Ribbentrop — whom they saw as recklessly seeking to plunge Germany into a general war before the Reich was ready — neither Weizsäcker nor any of the other professional diplomats were prepared to confront their chief.
The chief of general staff is the tactical, operational and administrative head of the military.
In January 1946, Beria resigned as chief of the NKVD while retaining general control over national security matters as Deputy Prime Minister and Curator of the Organs of State Security under Stalin.
# Officer: General or flag officer below the equivalent of a U. S. military chief of staff ; colonel or equivalent rank for service in assignments equivalent to those normally held by a general or flag officer in U. S. military service ; or military attachés.
Press accounts framed Nancy as her husband's " chief protector ", an extension of their general initial framing of her as a helpmate and a Cold War domestic ideal.
Some special cases are the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau where the Communist Party does not function at all as part of the governmental system, and the autonomous regions where, following Soviet practice, the chief executive is typically a member of the local ethnic group while the party general secretary is non-local and usually Han Chinese.
Early in 1954, recently fired Central Bank Director Epifanio Méndez Fleitas joined forces with Stroessner, at that time a general and commander in chief of the armed forces, to oust Chaves.
The Act established a force in each barony with chief constables and inspectors general under the control of the civil administration at Dublin Castle.

chief and ban
Consequently, the EU banned arms sales and imposed a one-year visa ban on 12 senior officials, including the security chief and interior and defence ministers, accusing them of bearing responsibility for the killings.
For example Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia pointed out in 2001 that although there is no specific treaty ban on the use of depleted uranium projectiles, there is a developing scientific debate and concern expressed regarding the effect of the use of such projectiles and it is possible that, in future, there may be a consensus view in international legal circles that use of such projectiles violate general principles of the law applicable to use of weapons in armed conflict.
Rabbi Jacob Hagis ( 1620 – 1674 ) was one of Zevi's chief opponents, who put him under the ban.
In 2011, Amtrak police chief John O ' Connor moved to temporarily ban VIPR teams from Amtrak property.
In Moscow the Russian Orthodox church, the chief rabbi and the grand Mufti all supported the ban on the Gay Pride march with the main role, due to its great weight in society, being played by the Orthodox church.
He gained notoriety when he became the chief sponsor of Senate Bill 514 which would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina in 2011.
Jordan had wanted a ban on Jews and non-white members enshrined in the League but this had been rejected by League chief A. K.
After a big electoral loss suffered by the chief minister, she lifted the ban unilaterally.
Croatia retained its chief institutions such as the Parliament () and the ban ( viceroy ) responsible to the King of Hungary and Croatia.

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