There is a marked tendency for religions, once firmly established, to resist change, not only in their own doctrines and policies and practices, but also in secular affairs having religious relevance.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

With Portugal's position as a country firmly established, Afonso II endeavoured to weaken the power of the clergy and to apply a portion of the enormous revenues of the Roman Catholic Church to purposes of national utility.

However, success rates of this therapy have not been firmly established, because only a limited number of clinical trials testing the efficacy of phage therapy have been conducted.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

A current modern interpretation is that the Hittite sacral hieratic hunting bag ( kursas ), a rough and shaggy goatskin that has been firmly established in literary texts and iconography by H. G.

By 1900 the advertising agency had become the focal point of creative planning, and advertising was firmly established as a profession.

Over the past decade, Brazil has firmly established itself as a regional power.

It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

Obviously, it cannot be firmly established which theory ( if either ) is correct.

Although Arab culture is firmly established throughout, a small minority are Christian.

The toads became firmly established in Queensland, increasing exponentially in number and extending their range into the Northern Territory and New South Wales.

Today, the game is most firmly established in Canada, having been taken there by Scottish emigrants.

The revamped and provocative Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders of the 1970s — and the many imitators that followed — firmly established the cheerleader as an American icon of wholesome sex appeal.

In 1967, the Denominazione di origine controllata ( DOC ) regulation set by the Italian government firmly established the " Ricasoli formula " of a Sangiovese-based blend with 10-30 % Malvasia and Trebbiano.

By the end of its run in 1973, public tastes had changed and her firmly established persona regarded as passé.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Although the worship of images would eventually fall out of favour ( and be replaced by the iconoclastic fire temples ), the lasting legacy of the Achaemenids was a vast, complex hierarchy of Yazatas ( modern Zoroastrianism's Angels ) that were now not just evident in the religion, but firmly established, not least because the divinities received dedications in the Zoroastrian calendar, thus ensuring that they were frequently invoked.

The Exposition Universelle in 1878 firmly established his reputation as one of the leading engineers of the time.

Following extensive travels around the various American colonies, George Fox returned to England in June 1673 confident that his movement was firmly established there.

There has been considerable scholarship, reaching back to Johann Jakob Bachofen in the mid-nineteenth century, about the possibility that Hera, whose early importance in Greek religion is firmly established, was originally the goddess of a matriarchal people, presumably inhabiting Greece before the Hellenes.

While current field hockey appeared in the mid-18th century in England, primarily in schools, it was not until the first half of the 19th century that it became firmly established.

The Germans were more firmly established than the British in the region.

Whatever the precise nature of Hecate's transition into folklore in late Antiquity, she is now firmly established as a figure in Neopaganism, which draws heavily on folkloric traditions associating Hecate with ' The Wild Hunt ', witches, hedges and ' hedge-riding ', and other themes that parallel, but are not explicitly attested in, Classical sources.

Jimmy " call [...] for China to have a foot firmly planted in the Pacific through Port Vila ", which-the Vanuatu Daily Post remarked-" no doubt caused ruffled feathers among other foreign diplomatic partners ".

In her memoirs, Katharine Graham, then the newspaper's publisher, wrote of him: “ My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman not appeared in the paper .” She added, however, that " I firmly believed that he belonged at the Post.

Ludlow ’ s writings about the trip, published in the Post, San Francisco's The Golden Era, the Atlantic Monthly and then later compiled into book form, according to one biographer of Bierstadt, “ proved to be among the most effective vehicles in firmly establishing Bierstadt as the preeminent artist-interpreter of the western landscape in the 1860s .”

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

The film was a box office success, firmly launching Mary Pickford as a sound actress.

He was now firmly established in the favour of the king, who gave him successively the abbacy of Saint-Séverin, in the diocese of Poitiers, the office of almoner to the Dauphine, and in 1685 the bishopric of Lavaur, from which he was in 1687 promoted to that of Nîmes.

For most of Stonehaven's term Bruce seemed firmly entrenched in office, but in September 1929 he was unexpectedly defeated on the floor of the House of Representatives, and asked Stonehaven for a dissolution.

“ A few months before the session of the Surat Congress, Suranath traveled in the guise of a Tantric priest all over Bengal (…) preaching sedition … went Calcutta and stayed there for a month at the Sandhya office … He then formed a central committee (…), Mokshada, Shyamsundar Chakravarti, Arabinda Ghose, Tara Khepa, Annada Kaviraj and others as members .” A few days before the publication of the Yugantar, at Benares, Preonath with Hrishikesh and Suranath “ convened a public meeting as well as a meeting of the pundits wherein it was settled by quotations from the Hindu Astrology and Astronomy and announced firmly that the sinful Iron Age was now over …”

Bulatović, his one-time mentor, was completely squeezed out and now all institutions of power ( DPS party, government, parliament and President's office ) were firmly in the hands of Đukanović and his handpicked circle of associates.

In the office stapler, by contrast, the staple can be driven directly by the user's muscle power, at a relatively slow speed, because the paper is firmly supported by the anvil.

NCF regained some of its ' mojo ' in the early 2000s, when funding from Industry Canada's SmartCapital program and several partners helped NCF modernize its back office system and web pages, bringing NCF firmly into the web era.

IWW lore likes to picture his death in 1940 in NYC as mysterious, but the coroner's office firmly states that they found nothing irregular in the manner of death.

Now, Mis-ter McBride '', said Lord, and he laid a firmly restraining hand on the field boss's arm.

and for this human beings must be firmly in control of the economics on which our society rests.

Adams firmly contended that the historian must never underrate the impact of the geographical environment on history.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

We should do what we can to discourage this conclusion, both by offering assistance for their domestic needs and by reacting firmly to irresponsible actions on the world scene.

The council agreed it should more firmly state its belief in and dependence on the Bible.

Characteristically, all of Alfred's innovations were firmly rooted in traditional West Saxon practice, drawing as they did upon the three so-called ‘ common burdens ' of bridge work, fortress repair and service on the king's campaigns that all holders of bookland and royal loanland owed the Crown.

The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague.

Beforehand various rumours arose including plans to return to ground-sharing with QPR in a new 40, 000 seater White City stadium, although these now appear firmly on hold with the construction of the Westfield shopping centre on the proposed site.

There he discreetly but firmly refuted d ' Alembert's technical errors and personal positions on probability.

William of Tyre placed the blame for this disaster firmly on the baggage and the presence of non-combatants.

Fuerteventura, with its 3, 000 sunshine hours a year, was placed firmly on the world stage as a major European holiday destination.

Cleveland and Treasury Secretary Daniel Manning stood firmly on the side of the gold standard, and tried to reduce the amount of silver that the government was required to coin under the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Fifteen hundred years have passed since the 3, 500-year reign of the God Emperor Leto Atreides II ended with his assassination ; humanity is firmly on the Golden Path, Leto's plan to save mankind from destruction.

" She does not, because of this, evade the duty imposed on her of proclaiming humbly but firmly the entire moral law, both natural and evangelical.

In the spiral cutting process, the ham is firmly affixed, on the top and bottom, to a rotating base, which is gradually lowered as a blade is applied.