If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

In that year a grant was obtained from the Penrose Fund of the Geological Society of America to finance additional full-time workers.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

A grant application to build a proof of concept prototype was submitted in March 1939 to the Agronomy department which was also interested in speeding up computation for economic and research analysis.

Nikephoros III Botaneiates was forced into a public vow that he would grant protection to the family.

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

The Governor's main problem was with his own military officers, who wanted large grants of land, which Phillip had not been authorised to grant.

These professions state that Jesus suffered, died, was buried, and was resurrected from the dead in order to grant eternal life to those who believe in him and trust him for the remission of their sins ( salvation ).

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

Comoros also confronted domestically the problem of the degree of democracy the government was prepared to grant to its citizens, a consideration that related to its standing in the world community.

All four were original colonies ( Kentucky was originally a part of the land grant of the Colony of Virginia ) and share a strong influence of colonial common law in some of their laws and institutions.

The usual grant was in precaria, the granting of a life tenure, whereby the tenant stayed on the land only at the pleasure of the lord.

In 1958 he was awarded a grant from and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Technically the grant was to Powell's father ( a British subject ) to be passed on by descent.

The official explanation for his resignation was " to grant the request of Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers G. M. Malenkov to be released from the duties of the Party Central Committee ".

This grant was apportioned in 5 sections on alternating sides of the railroad, with each section measuring by.

Businesses are required to grant access to job openings to Caymanian citizens first ; if none of them are suitable, the business may then seek employees from other countries.

He then asked Esther what she wished of from him, promising to grant even up to half his kingdom should she ask.

At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.

Following the grant announcement, Kevin Rudd, Australia's then Prime Minister, stated that production would support 600 new jobs at the Elizabeth facility.

If the plaintiff brings onlyclaims which are equitable, but the defendant asserts counterclaims which are of law, then the court will grant a trial by jury.

* If we grant a building permit to build a religious structure in our community, then there will be no bound on the number of building permits we will have to grant for religious structures and the nature of this city will change.

Luthor later escapes after a whole year in prison, through an elaborate plot involving clones: first using a clone of the President to grant him a pardon, then kidnapping the real Lois and replacing her with a clone just before her wedding to Clark.

Severus then raised a new Guard composed of 50, 000 loyal soldiers mainly camped at Albanum, near Rome ( also probably to grant the emperor a kind of centralized reserve ).

Gerrard Winstanley ( 1648 ), Richard Coppin ( 1652 ), Jane Leade ( 1697 ), and then George de Benneville in America, taught that God would grant all human beings salvation.

An artillery captain, Walter Dornberger, arranged an Ordnance Department research grant for von Braun, who from then on worked next to Dornberger's existing solid-fuel rocket test site at Kummersdorf.

This did not prevent other important Lombard centres, like Cremona ( then rivalling Milan for size and wealth ) and others, from supporting the imperial power if this could grant them an immediate advantage.

If the defendant could not produce a royal licence to prove the grant of the liberty, then it was the crown's opinionbased on the writings of the influential thirteenth-century legal scholar Bractonthat the liberty should revert to the king.

Edward chose to sit with Gaveston rather than Isabella at their wedding celebration, causing grave offence to her uncles Louis, Count of Évreux, and Charles, Count of Valois, and then refused to grant her either her own lands or her own household.

In May 1960, the British Government stated that it would be prepared to grant independence to the then protectorate of British Somaliland, with the intention that the territory would unite with the Italian-administered Trust Territory of Somalia ( the former Italian Somaliland ).

He persuaded the then Pope, Eugene IV, to grant him a privilege unparalleled anywhere in England: the right to grant indulgences to penitents on the Feast of the Assumption.

When the Israelites entered the land, Zelophehad's daughters appeared before Eleazer the priest, Joshua ( who by then had assumed leadership from Moses ), and the chieftains, reminding them that God had commanded Moses to grant them a portion among their kinsmen, and Zelophehad's daughters received a portion in the holdings of Manasseh on the west side of the Jordan River.

The reorganization was part of a larger proposal which would grant the President the authority to propose mergers of federal agencies, which would then be subject to an up-or-down Congressional vote.

We then interpret the phrase " lend me your ear " metaphorically to mean that the speaker wants the listener to grant the speaker temporary control over what the listener hears.

John surrounded the Pechenegs as they burst into Thrace, tricked them into believing that he would grant them a favourable treaty, and then launched a devastating surprise attack upon their fortified camp.

However, some regional offices exist, such as the European Patent Office ( EPO ), which act as supranational bodies with the power to grant patents which can then be brought into effect in the member states, and an international procedure also exists for filing a single international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty ( PCT ), which can then give rise to patent protection in most countries.

The foundation in 1951 made its first grant to support the development of the public broadcasting system, then known as National Educational Television ( NET ), which went on the air in 1952.

He was born in West Bridgford, near Nottingham in 1940 and was educated at Langley Mill Boys ' School, Derbyshire, Highbury Primary School, Nottingham and Nottingham High School ( then a direct grant grammar school ).