An engineer had been made the works manager of a firm, supplanting a retired employee who had been considered outstandingly successful.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

Much has been made of the fact that major Catholic institutions now guarantee firm tenure.

* Junior Principal / Partner: Recently made a partner or principal of the firm ; title may include vice president.

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

Katayama's visit to Nissan ’ s Manchuria truck factory in 1939 made him realise the appalling conditions of the assembly lines, leading him to abandon the firm.

The British firearms firm Webley & Scott also made an " automatic revolver " around the turn of the 20th century.

However, Scullin stood firm, and on 29 November the King agreed to Isaacs's appointment, but made it clear that he did so only because he felt he had no option.

In chapter 8, Octa surrenders to Aurelius and Aurelius grants Octa, Eosa, " and the rest that fled " the " country bordering upon Scotland, and made a firm covenant with them.

In addition, Moseley's methods and analyses made the huge step of placing the concept of atomic number on a firm foundation based in physics.

Several mathematicians, including Maclaurin and d ' Alembert, attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it would be 150 years later, through the work of Augustin Louis Cauchy and Karl Weierstrass, where a means was finally found to avoid mere " notions " of infinitely small quantities, that the foundations of differential and integral calculus were made firm.

Section 16 ( b ) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prohibits short-swing profits ( from any purchases and sales within any six month period ) made by corporate directors, officers, or stockholders owning more than 10 % of a firm ’ s shares.

In August 2006, the Washington Post reported that Ashcroft's firm had 30 clients, many of which made products or technology aimed at homeland security, and about a third of which the firm has not disclosed, to protect client confidentiality.

He worked to restore the West German economy from the destruction in World War II to a central position in Europe, rebuilt its army and came to terms with France, helped make possible Western European unification, opposed rival East Germany, and made his nation a member of NATO and a firm ally of the United States.

The law of definite proportions contributed to, and was placed on a firm theoretical basis by, the atomic theory that John Dalton promoted beginning in 1803, which explained matter as consisting of discrete atoms, that there was one type of atom for each element, and that the compounds were made of combinations of different types of atoms in fixed proportions.

However, dealing between merchants, an offer can be made ' firm ' or irrevocable for a certain period of time.

However, talks collapsed on December 19 when Giuliani made several demands that Drexel found too harsh, including one that Milken leave the firm if indicted.

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

It is a sterling silver trophy, designed by James Brent-Ward and made by a team of eight silversmiths from the London firm William Comyns ; it is valued at £ 55, 000.

For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music.

Never was there such a dame school as ours, so firm and kind and smelling of galoshes, with the sweet and fumbled music of the piano lessons drifting down from upstairs to the lonely schoolroom, where only the sometimes tearful wicked sat over undone sums, or to repent a little crime — the pulling of a girl's hair during geography, the sly shin kick under the table during English literature.

Isideo was not the father, and it has often been speculated — although with little firm evidence — that the child belonged to Goya.

Again, there is little firm dating evidence for this phase.

The primary stage classically presents with a single chancre ( a firm, painless, non-itchy skin ulceration ), secondary syphilis with a diffuse rash which frequently involves the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, latent syphilis with little to no symptoms, and tertiary syphilis with gummas, neurological, or cardiac symptoms.

An arrangement was made that the management setup of the firm was that a senior partner or proprietor was based in London who had power to appoint senior managers in the firm but had little operational control while a managing director or ' Tai-pan ' was stationed in the Far East, either in Shanghai or Hong Kong, who dealt with everyday affairs of the firm.

The claims that Clemenceau's " firm government " was a dictatorship found little support.

Marshmallow creme and other less firm marshmallow products generally contain little or no gelatin, which mainly serves to allow the familiar marshmallow confection to retain its shape.

Ownership of Kinbrae passed into the hands of Hanson & Graeger, a Chicago land-colonization firm, but the company showed little interest in development of the new town.

The letting loose becomes transformed from a firm grip into a gentle touch by the thumb, a lingering drawing away of the little finger, a faint brushing of the subject's hand with the middle finger-just enough vague sensation to attract the attention.

A new Constitution was drawn up and came into force on 28 Sep 1990 transforming the one-party Socialist Republic of Serbia into a multi-party Republic of Serbia The first multi-party elections were held on 9 and 23 December 1990 and in what became the pattern for the next several elections the Socialist Party of Serbia won, as Milošević maintained firm control over the state media and opposition parties had little access.

Bhatia worked at Microsoft for a little over a year after the Hotmail acquisition and in April 1999, he left Microsoft to start another venture, Arzoo Inc, an e-commerce firm.

They are full of both grace and individuality ; the features show excellent draughtsmanship ; and the flesh-painting is firm and sound in method, though frequently tending a little to hardness and opacity.

His officers complained, " His love of life was too great, a thought came to him, then another, so he could not settle on a firm decision ..." Rall avoided hard work and had little concern for his troops ' comfort.

PC management created a holding company, the Penn Central Company, and tried to diversify the troubled firm into real estate and other non-railroad ventures, but in a slow economy these businesses performed little better than the railroad assets.

In January 2005, UK sales-tracking firm ChartTrack dropped the N-Gage from its regular ELSPA chart, commenting that " The N-Gage chart, though still produced, is of little interest to anyone.

He had done nothing to foster good relations with the newly independent United States: both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson complained of his obstructive attitude and " aversion to having anything to do with us ". Subsequently he took little part in politics: in 1792, hearing rumours that a new coalition might be formed, he unwisely offered himself as its head and met with a firm rebuff from both Pitt and the King.

The Grant administration did little to pursue a treaty, and in 1878, the concession to build the canal fell to a French firm.

Two further early novels Love or Marriage ( 1868 ) and The Monarch of Mincing Lane ( 1871 ) did little to advance his career: and all three were omitted from the collected edition of Black's works issued by the publishing firm Sampson Low from 1892.

She further commented " I am a firm believer in diversity and my own style will be a little different from his.

On the other hand, if either firm were to lower its price, even a little, it would gain the whole market and substantially larger profits.

At this period, as here seen, the knowledge was little short of absolute ; subtle is the sense of beauty ; playful, delicate, firm the touch ; the whole treatment artistic.

According to Ruffin, Carleton's book " went over like a lead balloon with Fanny's publishers ", although there was nothing negative written explicitly about Biglow and Main, but also little praise for the firm and its members.