As an emergency measure, John recreated a version of Henry II's Assize of Arms, with each shire creating a structure to mobilise local levies.

These forces were either feudal levies, drawn up by local nobles for a limited period of service during a campaign or, increasingly, mercenaries, who were expensive but more flexible and often more skilled.

* End of Roman rule in Britain: After 360 years of occupation the local regional British-Roman leaders, raise their own levies for defence against Saxon sea rovers.

Its responsibilities include: adoption of the City budget ; approval of all tax levies ; adoption of ordinances ; approval of amendments, supplements or repeals to ordinances and the City Code ; and appointment of the City Manager, City Clerk, City Attorney and various local boards, commissions and committees.

Their king was a personal friend of Tostig, and Tostig's unpopularity made it difficult to raise local levies to combat them.

These forces were either feudal levies, drawn up by local nobles for a limited period of service during a campaign or, increasingly, mercenaries, who were expensive but more flexible in the duration of their service and often more skilled.

This seven-member governing body enacts local ordinances, levies municipal taxes and conducts the affairs of the borough.

The Township Committee enacts local ordinances, levies municipal taxes and conducts the affairs of the township.

Duncan was able to recruit further levies from local barons and towns of England.

Amounts required to be deducted by law include federal, state, and local taxes, state unemployment and disability taxes, social security taxes, and other garnishments or levies, but does not include such deductions as voluntary retirement contributions and transportation deductions.

The definition of disposable income varies for the purpose of state and local garnishments and levies.

Léon interprets the most completely assembled documentation and identifies the bagaudae as impoverished local free peasants, reinforced by brigands, runaway slaves and deserters from the legions, who were trying to resist the ruthless, brutal labor exploitation of the late Roman proto-feudal manorial and military systems plus all manner of punitive taxes and levies in the marginal areas of the Empire.

To finance the joint public services it provides to the 23 wards, the metropolitan government levies some of the taxes that would normally be levied by city governments, and also makes transfer payments to wards that cannot finance their own local administration.

The British anticipated that the Zulu War would proceed in a pattern typical of numerous colonial wars fought in Africa, namely that relatively small bodies of professional European troops armed with modern firearms and artillery, and supplemented by local allies and levies, would march out to meet the natives whose ragged, badly equipped armies would put up a brave struggle, but in the end would succumb to professional soldiers wielding massed firepower.

The local townsfolk were forced to decide whether to declare their allegiances openly or attempt to remain neutral — with the risk of having to pay levies, ransoms, and fines to both sides.

One example is public school budgets ( including local levies and bonds ) and the quality of teachers, which in the U. S. are often correlated with property values: rich neighborhoods are more likely to be more ' white ' and to have better teachers and more money for education, even in public schools.

In 1918 he was made an honorary member of the Order of the British Empire for services in raising and organising native levies and local Defence Corps in the Uganda Protectorate.

The English army deployed across this ridge about two miles N of Northallerton in a single solid formation with the armoured men and most of the knights ( who had dismounted, and sent their horses to the rear ) to the front supported by the archers and the more lightly equipped men of the local levies.

David regrouped his forces at Carlisle ; the nobles of Yorkshire did not move North against him, and their local levies dispersed to their homes rejoicing at the victory.

The experience of numerous colonial wars fought in Africa was that the massed firepower of relatively small bodies of professional European troops armed with modern firearms and artillery, and supplemented by local allies and levies, would march out to meet the natives whose ragged, badly equipped armies would put up a brave struggle, but in the end would succumb.

Measure 47 enacted Oregon's " double majority " rule, which placed an additional requirement on state and local tax levies.

Since the passage of Measure 47, the double majority requirement has caused the defeat of many proposed local tax levies.

Through local levies and a grant from the Washington State Board of Education, the college was able to purchase land from the Boeing family, and construction of the campus began in the fall of 1964.

The program is financed by local property tax levies, which are voted on by the public every six years, along with private and corporate donations.

The Northern Corps mobilised members of the local population in the Pskov region.

As a member of local Territorial battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, he was mobilised immediately.

In 1916, during the Easter Rising, Liam Mellows mobilised the local Irish Volunteers in the area to attack the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Oranmore, just outside Galway, however they failed to take it and later surrendered in Athenry.

Captain Cox was specially mobilised to deal with a century-long conflict between Arakan refugees and local Rakhains.

Captain Cox was especially mobilised to deal with a century long conflict between Arakan refugees & local Rakhains at Palonki.

Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.

In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

For this reason, such stop consonants are frequently referred to in the local linguistic literature as ' depressor ' stops.

In late May Njaru was approached by the local captain who asked Njaru " to stop writing such articles and to disclose his sources ".

As a method of in-band signaling, DTMF tones were also used by cable television broadcasters to indicate the start and stop times of local commercial insertion points during station breaks for the benefit of cable companies.

Traditionally, a limited stop bus service usually operates on a route identical or similar to one or more local bus routes.

Another form of limited stop bus service includes local routes that may operate certain trips with limited or non-stop sections.

The family continued collecting and selling fossils together, and set up a table of curiosities near the coach stop at a local inn.

Buckland Hospital is currently ( 2008 ) threatened with closure and various local organisations are trying to stop the cuts facing the hospital.

In telecommunication, receive-after-transmit time delay is the time interval between ( a ) the instant of keying off the local transmitter to stop transmitting and ( b ) the instant the local receiver output has increased to 90 % of its steady-state value in response to an rf signal from a distant transmitter.

The bay of " Bezeguiche " would serve as a critical stop for the Portuguese India Armadas of the early 16th C., where large fleets would routinely put in, both on their outward and return journeys from India, to repair, collect fresh water from the rivulets and wells along the Cape Vert shore and trade for provisions with the local people for their remaining voyage.

When they stop in Oklahoma at the local Wal-Mart, her boyfriend abandons her.

Local population requires that La Caletta can have in its port a ferry line for the Continent ( Italian mainland ), and some experiments were practiced a few years ago, that confirmed the potential success of such an eventual initiative, but ( also due to the particular administrative competence of an external organ and being part of the port under the authority of the bordering territory of Posada ) administrative problems and local rivalries actually stop any further evolution in this sense.

Beaulieu village has remained largely unspoilt by progress, and is a favourite tourist stop for visitors to the New Forest, and also for birders seeking local specialities like Dartford Warbler, European Honey Buzzard and Hobby.

However, very few trains stop here except for a local service between Buchs in Switzerland and Feldkirch in Austria.

The city was a Pony Express stop and was home to many large produce companies and local farms which flourished due to the Vaca Valley's rich soil, including The Nut Tree.

After a period in which local authorities were powerless to stop the violence, the King and his ministers sent out their own officials to restore order.

" When time in prison did not stop the activists, Israel crushed the boycott by imposing heavy fines and seizing and disposing of equipment, furnishings, and goods from local stores, factories and homes.

Some historians speculate that the Giants got word that their star pitcher was risking his life and baseball career for the Stars and ordered him to stop, while others feel that the Stars ' coach got rid of Mathewson because he felt that, since the fullback's punting skills were hardly used, he could replace him with local resident Shirley Ellis.

A local doctor uncovers what is happening and tries to stop them.

Hurricane Creek Road is a local dirt road whose quality is below that of the shoulder, and the intersection is controlled by a stop sign.

* Riverside Runners ( Lynchburg Road Runners Club )-The main stop for information on local races ( either for charity or for fun ), or races within a few hours of the surrounding area.

Many feel this ignores basic democratic principles in that control of schools ' curricula is removed from local school boards, which are the nominal curricular authority in the U. S. While some maintain that it would be preferable to simply introduce mandatory national curricula, others feel that state mandated standardized testing should stop altogether in order that schools can focus their efforts on instructing their students as they see fit.