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The danger lay not in believing that our own A-bombs would deter Russia's use of hers ; ;
States are also not permitted to lay duties, keep troops or warships in peacetime with Congressional approval, or engage in war unless actually invaded or in imminent danger.
The key principle taught in almost all systems is that the rescuer, be they a lay person or a professional, should assess the situation for danger.
To the west was a low rise of land, beyond which lay Mount Hope, a rise that commanded part of the portage trail, but was too far from the fort to pose it any danger.
In 1911, the composer Charles Villiers Stanford cited Meyerbeer's music as an example of the dangers he believed lay in improvising at the piano without a clear plan, ( although there is in fact no evidence to suggest Meyerbeer worked in this way ), writing: ' Man of genius though he was, as any man who wrote the fourth act of the Huguenots must have been, Meyerbeer is a sign-post of this danger of trusting to the pianoforte as a medium of inspiration.
The fish lay their eggs in a safe spot close to the anemone from where they are easily protected, and the parents can retreat to the safety of the anemone if danger threatens.
Having successfully repelled the external threat to his control of Greece, the main danger to the power of Antigonus lay in the Greek love of liberty.
Several of Burden's other performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time: another " danger piece " was Doomed ( 1975 ), in which Burden lay motionless in a gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago under a 5 ' x 8 ' slanted sheet of glass near a running wall clock.
Alarmed at the imminent danger of war, he confined his efforts to inducing the Johannesburgers to lay down their arms on condition that the raiders ' lives were spared, not knowing that these terms had already been granted to Jameson.
In a typical baptism, the minister of the sacrament ( in the Catholic Church usually a deacon or a priest, but sometimes, especially when the baptized is in imminent danger of death, a lay person ) says
Each party gains from this relationship: the shrimp gets a warning of approaching danger, and the goby gets a safe home and a place to lay its eggs.
If she posed any kind of danger, said Dr. Hubert Van Gijseghem, a forensic psychologist for Correctional Services Canada, it lay in the ominous but not unlikely possibility of her linking up with another sexual sadist like Bernardo.
Still according to Zhukov, the main reason for the stinging Soviet defeat lay in the mistakes made by Stalin, who underestimated the danger coming from German armies in the southwestern sector ( as opposed to the Moscow sector ) and failed to take steps to concentrate any substantial strategic reserves there to meet any potential German threat.
At Grandmont, indeed, the complete control of the order's property by the lay brothers led to serious disturbances, and finally to the ruin of the order ; but the wiser regulations of the Cistercians provided against this danger and have formed the model for the later orders.
The German commander, Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, decided to attack Jassin in order to prevent further danger to Tanga, which lay more than 50 kilometres to the south and had previously been successfully defended against a British attack.
A final hidden danger lay in the synchronization gear which did not seem to work properly, leading a few Israeli aircraft to shoot off their own propellers.
After interviewing all the staff involved ( train crew, signalman and station master ) concluded that the fault lay with the driver ( which he readily admitted ) who had passed the signal at danger.
Realizing the danger to the column as it lay motionless, Lt. Col.

danger and American
The black caiman and American Alligator are the only members of the alligator family that pose the same danger to humans as the larger species of the crocodile family.
Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.
In the same month, The New York Times published an editorial stating that " we do not believe the Republic would be in danger if yesterday's unforgotten little tramp were allowed to amble down the gangplank of a steamer or plane in an American port ".
Judge Learned Hand considered the clear and present danger test, but his opinion adopted a balancing approach similar to that suggested in American Communications Association v. Douds.
Bad tendency was a far more ambiguous standard where speech could be punished even in the absence of identifiable danger, and as such was strongly opposed by the fledgling American Civil Liberties Union and other libertarians of the time.
The movie tells the story of two English girls, trying to reach the fort where their father is commander, suffering danger in the frontier of the American colonies.
* The American hard-boiled school: Distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex, the sleuth usually also confronts danger and engages in violence.
Since its inception in 1945, the Bulletin has sought to educate the American public of the continual danger posed by nuclear weapons and other global dangers.
* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.
Vitis vinifera varieties were saved by being grafted onto the rootstock of native American varieties, although there is still no remedy for phylloxera, which remains a danger to any vineyard not planted with grafted rootstock.
Rockingham wrote to Augustus Keppel on 3 November 1779, saying that he believed the war against American could not be won, that the government was corrupt but not unpopular, and that the longer this continued the greater the danger to the liberties and the constitution of Britain: " Perhaps a total change of men and measures, & system in the Government: of this country might have effect on the councils of some foreign countries ... who might think that it was no longer a Court system to combat, but that the whole nation wd ; united & make the utmost efforts ".
The idea behind the numerous versions of the rule is that if a certain message will likely cause a “ grave and irreparable ” danger to the American public when expressed, then the message ’ s prior restraint could be considered an acceptable infringement of civil liberties.
The High Contracting Parties, animated by the purpose of giving conventional form to the postulates of the Resolution approved on December 16, 1933, by all the States represented at the Seventh International Conference of American States, held at Montevideo, which recommended to " the Governments of America which have not yet done so that they sign the ' Roerich Pact ', initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United States, and which has as its object, the universal adoption of a flag, already designed and generally known, in order thereby to preserve in any time of danger all nationally and privately owned immovable monuments which form the cultural treasure of peoples ", have resolved to conclude a treaty with that end in view, and to the effect that the treasures of culture be respected and protected in time of war and in peace, have agreed upon the following articles:
The British Parliament's attempt to impose taxes on the North American colonists raised fears among the Americans that their rights as " Englishmen ," particularly their rights of self-government, were in danger.
He later informed Alexander Haig that his country had been placed in serious danger as a result ; when Haig told him that American ground forces would not be used to assist the Cambodian army, but that ( in accordance with the Nixon Doctrine ) a programme of aid would be given instead, Lon Nol openly wept.
The NSA intercepts a 911 call made from a technician named Ivan who states that his life is in danger, and he will help the American government in exchange for rescue.
Unlike most other nations, there is currently no system of merit-based promotion and relegation in the American and Canadian pyramids, meaning that the champions of USL-1 could not move up to Major League Soccer and, similarly, the worst teams in MLS were not in danger of being demoted to USL-1.
We also recommend that a strict and inviolable regard be paid to the wise and judicious councils of the late American Congress, and particularly considering that the experience of almost every day points out to us the danger arising from the collection and movements of bodies of men, who, notwithstanding, we willingly hope would promote the common cause and serve the interest of their country, yet are in danger of pursuing a track which may cross the general plan, and so disconcert those public measures which we view as of the greatest importance.
News reaches Burgoyne that American rebels have taken a nearby town, so he and his troops are in danger, especially since orders from London that would have sent reinforcements were never dispatched.
* Chemical Amusement, a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry Which Are Easily Performed and Unattended by Danger, London 1817, Second edition 1817, Third edition 1818, fourth reprint 1819 ; German Chemische Unterhaltungen: eine Sammlung merkwürdiger und lehrreicher Erzeugnisse der Erfahrungschemie, Kopenhagen 1819, entitled Chemische Belustigungen Nürnberg 1824 ; second American edition based on the third English edition with additions by Thomas Cooper, Philadelphia 1818 ; French translation by V. Riffault Manual de Chimie Amusante ; ou nouvelles recreations chimiques, contenant une suite d ’ experiences d ’ une execution facile et sans danger, ainsi qu ’ un grand nombre de faits curieux et instructifs, 1827, Second edition 1829 later reprinted by A. D. Vergnaud, final and sixth reprinting Paris 1854 ; two volume Italian translation Divertimento chimico contenente esperienze curiose, Milan 1820, second expanded edition by Pozzi La Chimica dilettevole o serie di sperienze curiose e instruttive di chimica chi si esequiscono con facilità e sicurezza, Milan 1854
At 22: 14 AT ( 01: 14 UTC ) the flight crew made a " pan-pan " radio call to ATC Moncton ( which handles trans-atlantic air traffic approaching or departing North American air space ), indicating that there was an urgent problem with the flight, but not an emergency ( denoted by a " Mayday " call ) which would imply immediate danger to the aircraft, and requested a diversion to Boston's Logan International Airport, which at that time was away.
In a May 1948 article that appeared in the American Economic Review, Kefauver also proposed that more staff and money be allocated to the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and to the Federal Trade Commission ; that new legislation to make it easier to prosecute big corporations be enacted ; and that the danger of monopoly should be publicized more.
Perkins repeated the FRC ’ s association of gay men with pedophilia, saying that " If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children.

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