One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.

With regard to retroactive copyright extension, he viewed it foolish to apply the government's argument that income received from royalties allows artists to produce more work saying, " How will extension help today ’ s Noah Webster create new works 50 years after his death?

The government's argument was that the communist states had been in fact forced to recognise the GDR and should not be punished for that.

He noted that Fahy's subordinates had actually alerted Fahy in writing that failing to investigate that report, or at least to disclose its existence in the briefs or argument in the Supreme Court, “ might approximate the suppression of evidence .” Thus, Katyal concluded that Mr. Fahy “ did not inform the Court that a key set of allegations used to justify the internment ” had been doubted, if not fully discredited, within the government's own agencies.

The government's argument was that the short barreled shotgun was not a military-type weapon and thus not a " militia " weapon protected by the Second Amendment, from federal infringement.

The government's argument was that VAWA had been enacted in response to " gender-based disparate treatment by state authorities ," while in contrast there was " no indication of such state action " in the Civil Rights Cases.

United States Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings asked Reed to join him in writing the government's brief for the Court and assisting him during oral argument.

This article gave its readers a preview of the same argument Attorney Hamilton would present 18 months later in the government's libel case against Zenger: That the truth is an absolute defense against libel.

Drawing historical examples from 1945 through to 2003 to support his argument, Chomsky looks at the U. S. government's support for regimes responsible for mass human rights abuses, including ethnic cleansing and genocide, namely El Salvador, Colombia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, South Africa and Indonesia.

The Court mentioned the government's argument that " the inquiry as to unconstitutional discrimination should extend not only to States themselves, but to units of local governments, such as cities and counties.

It rejected the argument that the government's reliance on legal advice at the time of passing the 1988 Act did not deprive the breach of its grave and manifest character.

Congress did not include language in the DTA that might have precluded Supreme Court jurisdiction, making the government's argument to the Court unpersuasive.

The government's argument that Schlesinger v. Councilman, 420 U. S. 738 ( 1975 ), precludes Supreme Court review was similarly rejected.

* The majority opinion says that the government's contention that the war started September 11, 2001 undercuts Justice Thomas ' argument that it started in 1996.

The first negotiated cease-fire with the M-19 ended when the guerrillas resumed fighting in 1985, claiming that the cease-fire had not been fully respected by official security forces, saying that several of its members had suffered threats and assaults, and also questioning the government's real willingness to implement any accords.

One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.

The Bolshevik government's recognition of Finnish independence was the first expression of Lenin's power political strategy and ideology ; the right of nations to self-determination.

Ford's proposal was the government's first choice, but required substantial financial assistance.

During the People's Consultative Assembly's first annual session in August 2000, President Wahid gave an account of his government's performance.

Creating the Planning commission of India, Nehru drew up the first Five-Year Plan in 1951, which charted the government's investments in industries and agriculture.

They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege — a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight ( it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot ) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.

The government's role in promoting industry increased in the postwar era, and in 1955 the Stroessner government undertook the country's first industrial census.

One of the new government's first measures was to introduce secret ballots in an effort to improve the integrity of future elections.

* The first period: October 1917 – November 1918, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ) Armistice, developed from the Bolshevik government's November 1917 nationalization of traditional Cossack lands.

During the first two years of the Uribe administration, several FARC-EP fronts, most notably in Cundinamarca and Antioquia, were broken by the government's military operations.

This was the first modern Supreme Court opinion to limit the government's power under the Commerce Clause.

In August 1985, the service went off the air for the first time when workers striked in protest at the British government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin.

The War Policy Committee, which included Lloyd George, Milner, Curzon, Jan Smuts, Law, and the government's chief military adviser General Robertson, was also formed and first met on 11 June 1917.

When Australia introduced the metric system in 1975, the first pronunciation was declared official by the government's Metric Conversion Board.

The DEA itself was in part intended to serve as an expansionary counter-weight to what Labour saw as the conservative influence of the Treasury, though the appointment of Wilson's deputy, George Brown, as the Minister in charge of the DEA was something of a two-edged sword, in view of Brown's reputation for erratic conduct ; in any case the government's decision over its first three years to defend sterling's parity with traditional deflationary measures ran counter to hopes for an expansionist push for growth.

At first, the Pendleton Act only covered very few jobs, as only 10 % of the US government's civilian employees had civil service jobs.

The British at first rebuffed the United States government's suggestion of arbitration, but when President Grover Cleveland threatened to intervene according to the Monroe Doctrine, Britain agreed to let an international tribunal arbitrate the boundary in 1897.

Although diplomats could not present credentials at foreign governments until the Swedish king formally renounced his right to the Norwegian throne, a number of unofficial representatives worked on the provisional government's behalf until the first Norwegian ambassador, Hjalmar Christian Hauge sought accreditation with the United States Secretary of State Elihu Root on November 6, 1905.

In August 2012, the first Pride Parade was held in Uganda to protest the government's recent treatment of its LGBT citizens and the recent attempts by the Ugandan Parliament to adopt harsher sodomy laws, colloquially named the Kill the Gays Bill which would include life imprisonment for aggravated homosexuality.

In the first half of the 19th century, South Carolinians became more devoted to the idea that state's rights were superior to the Federal government's authority.

He was supportive of the British government's decision to fight the fascist powers in the Second World War and had made the decision to commit suicide should the Nazis conquer Britain, recognising that he would be one of the first that they would exterminate because of his political beliefs.

Weisel does not appear after the first series, following his convenient acceptance of a position on a quango ( Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation ) tasked with investigating the appointment of other quangos, the government's honours system, and ' jobs for the boys '.

He was the first person with significant acknowledged Native American ancestry and the first person with significant acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government's executive branch.

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 1923, he made it clear that he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British government's interpretation of the pledges which he, as foreign secretary, had caused to be given to Hussein in 1915.

On 11 July 1789, after Necker published an inaccurate account of the government's debts and made it available to the public, the King fired him, and completely restructured the finance ministry at the same time.

Lebanon's economy has made impressive gains since the launch of " Horizon 2000 ," the government's $ 20 billion reconstruction program in 1993.

The government would go on to announce in January that UNBSJ would retain its liberal arts program and its association with UNB and the working group reported back to government in May, with its findings and government's response being made public in June.

The presence of a large number of Sahrawi nationalists among the country's dominant Moorish population made the Mauritanian government's position yet more fragile, and thousands of Mauritanian Sahrawis defected to Polisario.

The 1983 – 85 famine in Ethiopia, for example, was the outcome of all these three factors, made worse by the Communist government's censorship of the emerging crisis.

In spite of it, Zaharoff used perverted methods, well-known later on, and was able to made controversy between the inventor and his own government and obtained, in the end, the Spanish government's disapproval of the invention of the submarine, which would have been a formidable weapon in the conflict with the United States, several years after.

The legacy of the Neutrality Acts in the 1930s was widely regarded as having been generally negative: they made no distinction between aggressor and victim, treating both equally as " belligerents "; and they limited the US government's ability to aid Britain and France against Nazi Germany.

What made the Oslo Accord negotiations different, however, was the new Israeli government's decision to finally hold face-to-face negotiations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, as the representative of the Palestinian people.

Upon his return to Britain he became a vocal Soviet sympathiser who avidly read the Daily Worker ( the publication of the Communist Party of Great Britain ), although was heavily critical of some of the Soviet government's policies, in particular the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact that they made with Nazi Germany.

In mid January 2009, Marcos made a speech on behalf of the Zapatistas in which he supported the resistance of the Palestinians as " the Israeli government's heavily trained and armed military continues its march of death and destruction.

An agreement was reached at Yalta that the Soviets ' Provisional Government made up of PKWN members would be reorganized " on a broad democratic basis " including the exiled government, and that the reorganized government's primary task would to be prepare for elections.

Coke and Robert Cecil, the government's two strongest defenders in Parliament, made several efforts to put off or end the debate over the bills.

Most of this criticism was directed towards the Cultural Revolution and the government's behavior during that time ; it was made public with the Democracy Wall Movement.

Still, the confiscation of Church property as well as the lay government's direction of Church affairs made the Duke disliked among clerics, whether Reformed or conservative.

" After a vote in the Commons, in which the government's majority fell from more than two hundred to eighty-one, Chamberlain made way for Winston Churchill.

Inflation targeting was the basis on which the Bank of England was made independent by the Blair government in 1997, the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee being made accountable for achieving the government's inflation target.

Three weeks after the government's massive loss in the by-election, on 27 May 1993, Lamont was sacked, ( technically resigning from the government because he declined a demotion to become Secretary of State for the Environment ), throwing ( by his own account ) Major's letter of regret at his departure unopened into the wastepaper basket, and giving a resignation speech in the House of Commons on 9 June, that made clear his feeling that he had been unfairly treated, saying that the government ' gives the impression of being in office but not in power '; the then Party Chairman Norman Fowler dismissed the speech as " dud, nasty, ludicrous and silly ".

Charles Daudelin was awarded the Quebec government's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas in 1985, and was made a member of the Ordre national du Québec in 1998.

After Pitt delivered a stinging attack on the government's defence measures on 25 April, Canning launched his own attack on Addington, which made Addington furious.

Classicist Bernard Knox made direct reference to this term when he delivered his 1992 Jefferson Lecture ( the U. S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities ).

Alexander Grant MacKay criticized his failure to take advantage of the recent conference of premiers to press for the transfer of rights over Alberta's natural resources from the federal to the provincial government ( Sifton had made this a priority during the pre-war years, but had largely ceased his advocacy on the breakout of hostilities ), and James Gray Turgeon attacked the government's policy of levying taxes for the support of soldiers ' dependants on the grounds that he considered it a federal responsibility.

Under the government's rail-led transport policy, the MTR system is a common mode of public transport in Hong Kong, offering efficiency and affordability, with over four million trips made in an average weekday.