These changes are more correctly attributed by others to Osman himself, but the vast majority of the oriental writers concur in attributing to Alaeddin the introduction of laws respecting the costume of the various subjects of the empire, and the creation and funding of a standing army of regular troops.

Although it was originally funded by the Carnegie Corporation and the United States Office of Education, the majority of the Workshop's funding is now earned through licensing the use of their characters to a variety of corporations to use for books, toys, and other products marketed toward children.

Governmental agencies and non-profit foundations such as the NIH, United States Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and NASA provide the majority of research grant funding, with Washington University being one of the top recipients in NIH grants from year-to-year.

In the 1959 school board elections, candidates supported by the Citizens for a Better Council, which lobbied for increased school funding overall, won the majority of the school board.

As a member of the Senate, he spent time as the majority leader, and aimed his focus at infrastructure, funding the construction of railroads and canals.

GHA Coaches now operate the majority of local routes with funding from Cheshire East council.

In fact, the majority of development economists are employed by, do consulting with, or receive funding from institutions like the IMF and the World Bank.

Arévalo implemented social reforms such as minimum wage laws, increased educational funding, near-universal suffrage ( excluding illiterate women ), and labor reforms ; but many of these changes only benefited the upper-middle classes and did little for the peasant agricultural laborers that made up the majority of the population.

Councils receive the majority of their funding from the Scottish Government, through Aggregate External Finance ( AEF ).

Canadian PIRGs are student run and the majority of their funding comes directly from students.

Despite the fact that the majority of East Germans opposed the demolition and various protests by people who felt the building was an integral part of Berlin's culture and the historic process of the German reunification, in November 2003, the German parliament decided to demolish the building and leave the area as parkland until funding for the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace could be found.

Although it carries the BBC name, it is a partnership between the BBC and MG Alba, with the majority of funding coming from the Scottish Government via MG Alba.

The majority of activities involving students are officially the responsibility of the Division of Student Affairs, but over the years, Student Government Association has become the sole funding source of Student Life, Campus Reservations and New Student Orientation.

In late 1994, after Republicans attained a majority in the House, they announced plans to rescind funding for 28 " legislative service organizations " which received taxpayer funding and occupied offices at the Capitol, including the CBC.

Rogers called a bill to reduce funding for law enforcement " the result of this new Republican majority ’ s commitment to bring about real change in the way Washington spends the people ’ s money.

Despite viewer donations, the majority of TVO's funding is provided by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Education, which provides $ 30 million annually.

While a majority of American preschool programs remain tuition-based, support for some public funding of early childhood education has grown over the years.

However, the UMTA was dramatically " downfunded " in the early 1980s, and the Detroit system lost the majority of the funding.

Canadian PIRGs are student run and the majority of their funding comes directly from students.

Senator Grassley's investigation of NAMI confirmed that a majority of their funding was coming from the pharmaceutical companies.

Retention of separate school boards with public funding was a major issue of contention in the negotiations that led to Canadian confederation, chiefly as a result of ethnic and religious tension between the ( largely French-speaking ) Roman Catholic population in Canada and the Protestant majority.

Thus, the draft laws presented by François Mitterrand's government in the early 1980s, concerning restrictions on the funding of private ( and in majority Catholic ) schools, were countered by right-wing demonstrations headed by the then mayor of Paris, the Gaullist Jacques Chirac, who was to be his prime minister in 1986 and would succeed him in 1995 as president.

The group proposes to raise the majority of the funding via a loan backed by small tolls, of the order of NZ $ 1 for regular users.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

It held that slavery in the territories was to be allowed as a property right to any settler, even where the majority opposed slavery.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

The Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.