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A decision to refer workers to jobs vacant because of a strike would have to be applied equally to nonagricultural situations, and might in effect place the public employment services in the position of acting as strikebreakers.
He sat stiff-backed in a chair that did not swivel, though it was obvious to Gun that Killpath felt his position as acting captain plainly merited a swivel chair.
The differential operator must be understood to be an abstract operator, acting on kets, that has the effect of differentiating wavefunctions once the expression is projected into the position basis:
The present incarnation of the position emerged with the Federation of Australia and the New South Wales Constitution Act 1902, which defined the viceregal office as the Governor acting by and with the Advice of the Executive Council of New South Wales.
" Hindal, Humayun's 19-year old brother, had agreed to aid him in this battle and protect the rear from attack but abandoned his position and withdrew to Agra where he decreed himself acting emperor.
The court ruled that Bryant was not entitled to immunity as the head of state under the Constitution as he was not elected to the position and he was not acting in accordance with law when he allegedly stole USD $ 1. 3 million in property from the government.
The United States and the Marshall Islands governments both claim Wake Island, which puts the United States ' armed forces in the ambiguous position of defending US territory while acting as guarantor ( under the Compact of Free Association ) of the territorial integrity of a state with which it is involved in a territorial dispute.
Fourteen persons have officially held the position ( in addition to three acting directors who served temporarily ).
A player " has position " on opponents acting before him and is " out of position " to opponents acting after him.
The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).
Aside from the position of acting prime Minister, there are also vice prime ministers and deputy prime ministers.
The former is an operator acting on the Fock space, and the latter is a quantum-mechanical amplitude for finding a particle in some position.
The distinction between rowing and other forms of water transport, such as canoeing or kayaking, is that in rowing the oars are held in place at a pivot point that is in a fixed position relative to the boat, this point acting as a fulcrum for the oar to act as a lever.
If the system is left at rest at the equilibrium position then there is no net force acting on the mass.
In addition, Butkus would step down to return to acting and various philanthropic work, while McDonough would exit for a similar position on NBC's NFL Live!
where r is the particle's position vector relative to the fulcrum, and F is the force acting on the particle.
Forced to resign his position for acting beyond his authority, Morgan joins the Martian consortium named ' Astroengineering ' and construction of the Tower commences.
Elsa Eschelsson ( 1861 – 1911 ) was the first Swedish woman to finish a law degree, and the first to become a " docent ", but was not permitted to even hold the position of acting professor despite being formally qualified for this in everything but her sex.
The present incarnation of the position emerged with Canadian Confederation and the British North America Act in 1867, which defined the viceregal office as the " Governor General acting by and with the Advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
A few days before his death, Frank Olson quit his position as acting chief of the Special Operations Division at Detrick, Maryland ( later Fort Detrick ) because of a severe moral crisis concerning the nature of his biological weapons research.
In his work as acting chief of the Special Operations Division, Olson was involved in the development of aerosolized delivery systems ; he had been present at Pont-Saint-Esprit in August, 1951 ; and several months before resigning his position he had witnessed a terminal interrogation conducted in Germany under Project ARTICHOKE.
To date, all appointees and acting appointees to the post have been United States military veterans, but that is not a requirement to fill the position.

position and mayor
The position of mayor in the city of Berkeley is largely a symbolic post, carrying no more power than other council members.
The city's current mayor is Rafał Dutkiewicz, who has served in this position since 2002.
Daley then made a successful run for Cook County Clerk and held that position prior to being elected Chicago's mayor.
Their eldest son, Richard M. Daley, was elected mayor of Chicago in 1989, and served in that position until his retirement in 2011.
In April 1986, he won election as mayor ( a nonpartisan position ) of his adopted hometown, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California – a small, wealthy village and artists ' community on the Monterey Peninsula.
Barnes asked the mayor for a raise from $ 18, 000 to 20, 000 and took the traffic commissioner position at New York City when the request was turned down.
His legitimate grandchildren claimed they were Pepin's true successors and, with the help of Plectrude, tried to maintain the position of mayor of the palace after Pepin's death, however, Charles had gained favor among the Austrasians primarily for his military prowess and ability to keep them well supplied with booty from his conquests.
* In 1837, Kinzie ’ s son John H. Kinzie ran for the position of the first mayor of Chicago, losing to William Butler Ogden.
The chair of the agency is appointed by the President and should not have a concurrent elected position such as mayor.
Nazi politician Max Fillusch became the city's mayor and remained in the position until 1945.
Bargaining from an advantageous position, Long entered an agreement with his longtime New Orleans rivals, the Regular Democratic Organization and their leader, New Orleans mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.
As such, the position of mayor in Tuskegee is primarily ceremonial.
The city is governed by a five-person council with the position of mayor and mayor pro-tem elected by the council every two years.
:" As the mayor of Inglis, duly elected by the citizens of this town, and appointed by God to this position of leadership, I proclaim victory over Satan, freedom for our citizens, and liberty to worship our Creator and Heavenly Father, the God of Israel.
Since 2003, Belle Isle has run under a council-manager government, with the mayor being a strictly ceremonial position.
The Village hired a Village Manager in 1988, at the time outgoing mayor Edward Paesel said that there was nobody at Village Hall with the experience necessary to run the administrative functions, and the Village's mayor's position was made part-time, so he felt it necessary to create a Village Manager's position which the Village Board at the time agreed.
In 1988, after choosing not to seek re-election for mayor, Edward Paesel and the Village Board of Trustees approved an Ordinance establishing a position of Village Manager.

position and is
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Moving as he is into the phase of the campaign which demands conviction of him, he adopts a position that is morally indefensible.
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.
The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.
But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.
The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.
`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.
-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.
Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult position than any since 1957, when the `` anti-party group '' nearly liquidated him.
The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.
After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.
If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.
As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.
Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

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