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 ".

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.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

The government has recognized the dilemma and is beginning to devise some moral education for the schools -- but the teachers often have no firm conviction and are confused.

The owner of a public relations firm owed no income tax on payments he received from a client company and `` kicked back '' to the company's advertising manager, the Tax Court ruled.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

Ælle's death is not recorded and although he may have been the founder of a South Saxon dynasty, there is no firm evidence linking him with later South Saxon rulers.

Although Roman cavalry had no stirrups, their horned saddle allowed the combination of a firm seat with substantial flexibility.

Nissan may have had no problems with using the name Nissan in America, but the small cars the firm exported to America were still named Datsun.

There is however no firm evidence that even this theory is correct.

Beatty, as a rapidly promoted war hero, with no financial worries and with a degree of support in Royal circles, felt more confident than most naval officers in standing firm on requesting a posting nearer home.

While his accession is traditionally dated to 660 BC, no historically firm dates can be assigned to this early emperor's life or reign, nor to the reigns of his early successors.

In 1951, as the Cold War developed and no buyer came forward, the authorities released him, and in 1953 he resumed control of the firm.

The firm no longer sells its goods above average cost and can no longer claim an economic profit

The firm gives no consideration to what effect its decision may have on competitors.

At the time there was no such thing as a " design-only " firm ( known as a fabless semiconductor company today ), so they had to join a chip-building company to produce their new CPU.

This is true for the case of x86-based personal computer hardware, in which there are extremely strong market pressures to interoperate with pre-existing standards, but in which no one firm dominates in the market.

In a PC market there is zero interdependence because no firm is large enough to affect market price.

) also allows a reconciliation of the horizontal demand curve facing each firm according to the theory, with the feeling of businessmen that " contrary to economic theory, sales are by no means unlimited at the current market price " ( Arrow 1959 p. 49 ).

A firm that is shutdown is generating zero revenue and incurring no variable costs.

There is no firm date for when the changeover occurred, as the replacement of the sea bed is a continuous process, though reconstruction maps often change the name from Panthalassic to Pacific around the time the Atlantic Ocean began to open.

They generally locate upon firm dry plains, coated with fine short grass, upon which they feed ; for they are no doubt exclusively herbivorous.

As the United States never had a single nationalized telephone service ( or even the same firm for every part of a state ), and with the deregulation of its major telecommunications providers, there was no incentive to be consistent with the rest of the world.