The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

In 1618, he takes his degree at the French university of Caen, with the defence of his Theses de febre tertiana intermittente.

* In Slovenia, all Academic degrees awarded after a minimum of 4 years of university studies and a successful defence of a written thesis are considered equivalent to the master's degree.

In defence of university studies he stood manfully forth in the chamber of peers in 1844, against the clerical party on the one hand and the levelling or Philistine party on the other.

Provocation as a partial defence for murder came into spotlight in New Zealand during 2009 following the trial of 33-year-old university tutor Clayton Weatherston, with calls for its abolition except during sentencing.

Alumni of Pantheon-Assas have held important positions in the French political sphere ; two prime ministers, three ministers of justice, three ministers of the interior, two ministers of defence, two ministers of labour and two ministers of finance have been alumni of the university.

Leaving parliamentary journalism to cover defence and diplomatic affairs, he reported on the decline and collapse of communist regimes in several Warsaw Pact countries, which culminated in a stint as Moscow Correspondent and reporting on the final months of the Soviet Union in 1990 / 91.

A factor in the expansion of Commonwealth powers was the growth of defence expenditures which culminated in Australia's involvement in World War I.

Today, Adelaide is noted for its many festivals and sporting events, its food, wine and culture, its long beachfronts, and its large defence and manufacturing sectors.

This allows attackers ( often a lone attacker ) to play well up the pitch, stretching the opponents ' defence and using the large spaces to be found there.

Units of the legion were also involved in the defence of Dien Bien Phu and lost a large number of men in the battle.

Tirpitz intended that with the rolling program of replacements, the existing coastal defence squadron of old ships would become a sixth fleet squadron, while the eight existing battlecruisers would be joined by eight more as replacements for the large cruisers presently in the overseas squadrons.

Consequently, both preferred a small standing army under civilian control for defensive deterrence and to prosecute foreign wars, a large navy as the first line of national defence, and a militia composed of their neighbours as additional defence and to preserve domestic order.

In 1744 Pitt received a large boost to his personal fortune when the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough died leaving him a legacy of £ 10, 000 as an " acknowledgment of the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England and to prevent the ruin of his country ".

In this, Canaris was successful, and the " Dutch War Scare " played a major role in causing Chamberlain to make the " continental commitment " ( i. e. sending a large British ground force to the defence of France ) in February 1939.

This was originally a large junction, named for a statue commemorating the defence of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War.

While the German defence had not been broken completely, it had all but collapsed on a large section of its front astride the Somme.

The increased spininess 1 billion years ago possibly resulted from the need for defence against predators, especially predators large enough to swallow them or tear them apart.

Because there was no sea defence, in the course of time large pieces of the island were eroded away.

As well as the small and large systems, for effective air defence there must be intermediate systems.

Weta can inflict painful scratches, with the potential of infection, but their defence displays consist of looking large and spiky, and they will retreat if given a chance.

During Mir Jafar's reign the East India Company exerted an increasingly large role in the running of the region, and effectively took over the defence of Bengal against external invaders when Bengal's troops proved insufficient for the task.

Another important example was the massive aerial attacks in 13 May 1940 against strong French defence positions at Sedan in the Battle of France, which allowed the German forces a fast and ( for the Allies ) unexpected breakthrough through the French lines, eventually leading to the German advance to the Channel and the cutting off of large parts of the Allied army.

Distinctive features include large thumb spikes, which were possibly used for defence against predators, combined with long prehensile fifth fingers able to forage for food.

The centre of the site is on a large artificially raised platform between two small rivers ; it has often been noted that the situation is well-suited to military defence.

While Churchill was preoccupied with implementing post-War defence cuts and the demobilization of the Army, the Chief of the Air Staff, Major-General Frederick Sykes, submitted a paper with what were at the time unrealistic proposals for a large air force of the future.

True Finns favour non-alliance or neutrality, as international activities abroad for the Defence Forces would undermine the defence budget's funds for sustaining a large conscript army of war-time personnel ( which is currently at 350, 000 ) to guarantee the defence of all of Finland.

His second term was characterised by the defence of Quebec from a British invasion during King William's War, a successful guerrilla campaign against the Iroquois and English settlements which resulted in the elimination of the Iroquois threat against New France, and a large expansion of the fur trade using Canadian coureurs des bois.

* Harbin has a number of large, multi-level underground shopping areas, originally built for air defence.

Tegart advised the Inspector-General to build a large number of reinforced concrete police stations each with a number of defence towers and armoured doors as defence against attack.

* A battle of encounter ( or encounter battle ) is a meeting engagement where the opposing sides collide in the field without either having prepared their attack or defence.

* 1586 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an ' evangelical ' league of defence, called the ' Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae ', against the Catholic League.

He was then able to travel to a meeting of the Allies, at which he proposed his strategy ; with the Athenian fleet fully committed to the defence of Greece, the other Allies accepted his proposals.

The object of this meeting is the formation of an ' evangelical ' league of defence against the Catholic League, called the ' Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae '.

In response to Raeder's defence of pre-emptive war against Norway, the British prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe read out the minutes of a meeting between Raeder and Hitler on 26 March 1940, which read: " British landing in Norway is not considered imminent-Raeder suggests action by us at the next new moon-to which Hitler agrees.

However, Meteor was not on the agenda of the German defence budget committee meeting on the 3 July which meant that a decision could not be made until 12 September, after the German Parliament's took its summer recess.

“ He apprised the commission that none of the government departments including the ministry of defence, the Joint Staff Headquarters or any military service ever considered the US or Afghanistan a direct threat ,” said an official handout issued after the meeting ..

In 2011, Cunningham arranged a meeting with the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter Luff, as a response to the Rolls-Royce announcement that it would lay off one quarter of its staff at its Ansty plant by 2012 due to the UK defence cuts and the plant's reliance upon repairing and servicing RAF jet engines.

He is a supporter of the UK defence industry, when, speaking in support of the industry, he told delegates at a meeting sponsored by the Defense Industries Council that " People who decry the defence industry should hang their heads in shame because it is a noble industry ".

On 6 March he convened a meeting of the Faculty of Advocates at which Muir, with no one to speak in his defence, was unanimously expelled and his name struck from the register.

At the meeting between the king and the citizens to arrange for the defence of the capital, he urged the necessity of an obstinate defence.

: " He allowed us to rush to war in Iraq without defence and overseas policy meeting, looking at all the military options and the diplomatic options and political options.

Triesman was suspended from Essex in 1968 after breaking up a meeting addressed by a defence industry scientist.

Dr Phelps stated at the meeting that he thought Dr Kelly was using the Nuremberg Defence, and compared it to the kind of defence used by guards at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

At the first meeting of the Council of Defence, McCay rejected the arguments of Captain William Rooke Creswell for the majority of the defence budget to be spent on supporting the British fleet.

At an Association meeting held in July 1846 at Conciliation Hall, the meeting place of the Association, Thomas Francis Meagher, a Young Irelander, addressing the peace resolutions, delivered his ' Sword Speech ', in which he stated, " I do not abhor the use of arms in the vindication of national rights ... Be it for the defence, or be it for the assertion of a nation's liberty, I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon.

And it is likely that the power provided by Rassilon's capture and installation of the Eye of Harmony would have been key to meeting the vast energy requirements of setting up and maintaining the defence screens for the entire planet of Gallifrey from its potential enemies.

In 1884 Brennan received a letter from the War Office stating that they had decided to adopt his torpedo for harbour defence and he was invited to attend a meeting to decide the value of his invention.

Soon after Col. Théoneste Bagosora, director of the office of the minister of defence, arrived and stated that it was his responsibility to chair the meeting.

At the first meeting of the Committee, eight D-Notices were issued covering atomic tests in Australia, aspects of naval shipbuilding, official ciphering, the number and deployment of Centurion tanks, troop movements in the Korean War, weapons and equipment information not officially released, aspects of air defence and certain aerial photographs.