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The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.
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The Belgian government itself took over administration, commencing a program of paternalism unmatched in the history of colonialism.
In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.
Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.
Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.
After his brother's death on 30 September / November 1204, Andrew took over the government of the kingdom as his nephew's tutor and he also seized the money his brother had deposited on behalf of the child Ladislaus.
Finally, Andrew made an agreement with his son with the mediation of Pope Honorius III and the junior king took over again the government of Slavonia, Dalmatia and Croatia.
) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.
During Mbeki's presidency, the government took a more pro-capitalist stance, often running counter to the demands of the South African Communist Party and COSATU.
After some negotiations, an interview took place between him and Lepel Griffin, the diplomatic representative at Kabul of the Indian government.
The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.
Lord Palmerston's government collapsed in 1858 amid public fallout over the Orsini affair and Derby took office at the head of a purely ' Conservative ' administration.
On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.
After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ).
French forces flew in ammunition for Chadian government troops but took no active part in the fighting.
Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.
A military government, led by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, took over control of the country.
According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.
The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.
The Song government granted several shops the sole right to issue banknotes, and in the early 12th century the government finally took over these shops to produce state-issued currency.
In 1911 he took up a government job as an " official explainer ", touring the country to explain David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act.
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He held that no group of colonists could set up or maintain a government without royal sanction.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
Therefore the government wanted no part of him.
Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring.
but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.
`` With no strong men and no parliament to dispute his will, he was the government ''.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the state government has little or no fiscal control over these units of government.
It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;
Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.
Since the details of the elections were settled the change of government had no direct effect on the technical aspects of the elections, and may have been more important as an indication of royal displeasure with the U.N.F.P.
In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.
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.
Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.
it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.
`` You've got to admit she was smart to scare up this fine government job over there -- she'll get a home for herself and Cathy in no time.
The AAA's current ' Statement of Professional Responsibility ' clearly states that " in relation with their own government and with host governments ... no secret research, no secret reports or debriefings of any kind should be agreed to or given.
); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).
There are no regional variations, because this special written form has mainly been used by a government that has now for centuries been based in Vienna.
This listing was removed from CITES in June 2010 by the South African government and South African abalone is no longer subject to CITES trade controls.
The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.
As he had in the past, Johnson steadfastly objected to unnecessary spending by the government, including the military and internal improvements ; he demonstrated he still had no desire to please the conservatives in his party or the opposition.
Though there might be blocs of opinion, sometimes enduring, on important matters, there were no political parties and likewise no government or opposition ( as in the Westminster system ).
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