Assuming office in 1770, he had a controversial career during which land title disputes and factional conflict slowed the initial attempts to populate and develop the island under a feudal system.

While the negotiations slightly slowed down the pace of conflict between Poles and Bolsheviks, this mostly allowed Bolshevicks to concentrate bulk of their forces on destroying the Denikin's army advancing towards Moscow.

A key factor in guerrilla strategy is a drawn-out, protracted conflict that wears down the will of the opposing counter-insurgent forces.

The U. S. reserves the right to limit the signal strength or precision of GPS, or to shut down public GPS access completely, so that only the U. S. military and its allies would be able to use it in time of conflict.

An anonymous European official claimed that the US officials implied that they might consider shooting down Galileo satellites in the event of a major conflict in which Galileo was used in attacks against American forces.

The scientific research of the Islamic scientists is often overlooked due to the conflict of the Crusades and " it's possible, too, that many scholars in the Renaissance later played down or even disguised their connection to the Middle East for both political and religious reasons.

The conflict died down after Alpha Konaré formed a new government and made reparations in 1992.

In August 1999, a separatist Lozi faction in the Caprivi Strip launched a coup attempt ( see Caprivi conflict ) which was summarily put down by the Namibian Defence Force.

Each time a spouse invokes the application of foreign law, the process of divorce slows down, as the parties are directed to brief the issue of conflict of laws and provide translations of the foreign laws.

During the conflict over 50, 000 of Egypt's troops were tied down in Yemen, which proved to be a disadvantage to Egypt during the Six-day war in 1967.

A trustworthy chronicle hands down another account which does not conflict with the fact that an embassy was sent, but evidently furnishes the true reasons which moved Attila to receive it favourably.

This last conflict demanded the king's own attention, but in both cases the rebellions were put down.

Both treaties state in Article 3, in similar wording, that in a non-international armed conflict, " Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms ... shall in all circumstances be treated humanely.

The games emphasize strategy, play down luck and conflict, lean towards economic rather than military themes, and usually keep all the players in the game until it ends.

The conflict with his programming to never harm humans forces Robby to shut down.

* Article 3 states that even where there is not a conflict of international character the parties must as a minimum adhere to minimal protections described as: noncombatants, members of armed forces who have laid down their arms, and combatants who are hors de combat ( out of the fight ) due to wounds, detention, or any other cause shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, with the following prohibitions:

In 1970, in response to a growing civil conflict between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities in Brussels, the Government declared that " the unitary state, its structure and functioning as laid down by law, had become obsolete ".

In 1459 an accord between the Lancastrian and the Yorkist lords broke down, and the conflict lapped at the borders of the Stanleys ’ sphere of influence.

Other points of conflict included that Moline did not want to have to assume any of Rock Island's public debt ; Rock Island feared that a union with Moline would drive down its property values ; and the citizens of the two towns, representing different regions, classes, occupations and ethnicities, widely disagreed on major political issues of the day.

* Karl W. Richter, Vietnam-era Air Force hero who at 23 became the youngest pilot in that conflict to shoot down a MiG in air-to-air combat, and winner of numerous medals of valor including the Air Force Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.

This was the first U. S. aircraft shot down by a SAM that far south during the conflict.

The liberty of Ireland may come sooner or come later, by peaceful negotiation or bloody conflict — but it is sure ; and wherever between the poles I may chance to be, I will hear the crash of the down fall of the thrice-accursed British Empire ".

Russian forces first moved into highland Chechnya in 1830, and the conflict in the area lasted until 1859, when a 250, 000 strong army under General Baryatinsky broke down the mountaineers ' resistance.

It has become a byword for attrition warfare, for stalemate in conflict, with a slow wearing down of opposing forces.

While a business rule may be informal or even unwritten, writing the rules down clearly and making sure that they don't conflict is a valuable activity.

Prime Minister Sir Rabbie Namaliu ordered the Papua New Guinea Defence Force ( PNGDF ) to put down the rebellion, and the conflict escalated into a civil war.

Tin Machine IIs arrival was marked by a widely publicised and ill-timed conflict over the cover art: after production had begun, the new record label, Victory, deemed the depiction of four ancient nude Kouroi statues, judged by Bowie to be " in exquisite taste ", " a show of wrong, obscene images ", requiring air-brushing and patching to render the figures sexless.

Economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis famously argued in 1976 that there was a fundamental conflict in American schooling between the egalitarian goal of democratic participation and the inequalities implied by the continued profitability of capitalist production on the other.

Agricultural production is estimated to have fallen by 17 % during the conflict, and the civil war led to a 28 % overall drop in GDP in 1998.

At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto.

In studying such transformations it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, artistic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out.

Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production.

In all other forms of production, there is a conflict between the supply of these requirements, since excessive or deficient amounts of one results in an imbalance of one or both of the others.

HK has been accused of shipping small arms to conflict regions such as Bosnia and Nepal, and has licensed its weapons for production by governments with poor human rights records such as Sudan, Thailand and Burma.

Marx's theories about society, economics and politics — collectively known as Marxism — hold that all societies progress through the dialectic of class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class which controls production and a lower class which produces the labour for goods.

The production portrayed the conflict as a struggle between different value systems, which included not only the Pequot, but a number of other Native American tribes, most of which allied with the English.

AFP, reporting on a news story in the Sunday, 3 April 2004, issue of The New Yorker, wrote that retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, " who served in the Army Special Forces for more than 20 years, ... commissioned by The Pentagon to examine the war in Afghanistan concluded the conflict created conditions that have given ' warlordism, banditry and opium production a new lease on life ' ...."

In Marxist theory, the class structure of the capitalist mode of production is characterized by the conflict between two main classes: the bourgeoisie, the capitalists who own the means of production, and the much larger proletariat ( or ' working class ') who must sell their own labour power ( See also: wage labour ).

Based on the novel by Josephine Hart and directed by veteran French director Louis Malle, Damage seemed to be the ideal international vehicle for Binoche ; however the production was wrought with difficulties and dogged by rumours of serious conflict.

Their hypothesis predicts that: ( 1 ) anatomic position of endorphin production should mirror its presumed role in foetal-maternal conflict ; ( 2 ) endorphin levels should co-vary positively with nutrient carrying capacity of maternal blood system ; ( 3 ) postpartum psychological symptoms ( such as postpartum blues, depression, and psychosis ) in humans are side-effects of this mechanism that can be interpreted as endorphin-deprivation symptoms ; ( 4 ) shortly after parturition, placentophagy could play an adaptive role in decreasing the negative side-effects of foetal manipulation ; ( 5 ) later, breast-feeding-induced endorphin excretion of the maternal pituitary saves mother from further deprivation symptoms.

Lionel Hutz does not seem to care about conflict of interest ; in " A Streetcar Named Marge " he represents clients in a lawsuit against the producer ( s ) of a local production of A Streetcar Named Desire for not giving them any roles in the play, although he had a role himself.

On July 24, 2008, producer Tucker Max announced on the film's official production blog that Quiñones had dropped out due to a scheduling conflict.

Reports estimated that as much as 20 % of the total production in the 1980s was being sold for illegal purposes and 19 % was specifically conflict in nature.

; The DC Nine: nine men and women, seven were priests and Religious Sisters ( this was a daytime protest against the Dow Chemical Company and its production of napalm for use in the Vietnam conflict ).

Cyrix became concerned about the potential name conflict, and contacted the film production company.

This is termed conflict resolution, and the list of activated production instances is termed the conflict set.

Some specialised production systems do not perform conflict resolution.