One of those residents, John Case, was appointed to the position of constable.

The Tunstall-McSween faction organized their own posse of armed men, known as the Regulators, to defend their position, and had their own lawman, town constable Richard M. Brewer.

The position of hereditary constable persists in some current or former monarchies of Europe.

There is also a hereditary constable of Navarre in Spain ; this position is presently held by the Duchess of Alba.

In some states, a constable may be appointed by the judge of the court which he or she serves ; in others the constable is an elected or appointed position at the village, precinct or township level of local government.

When the state courts were unified in 2000, with the superior court fulfilling all judicial functions, the need for the position of constable was eliminated.

In 1558 he was appointed borough Constable — a position similar to an early police constable.

There were fourteen constables and a head constable under Sub-inspector Burke at Tallaght, and they took up a position outside the barracks where they commanded the roads from both Greenhills and Templeogue.

In 1176 his importance at the royal court was somewhat lessened due to the influence of Agnes of Courtenay, but he kept his position as constable.

Alternative titles for this position include Commissioner, Superintendent, and Chief constable.

Michael Eddowes suggested in his book of 1955 that Christie was in a perfect position as a police constable during the war to have committed many more murders than have been discovered.

The Army Council rejected this proposal but wished to continue to have good relations with Pembroke and the Army Council soon agreed to let the Rump Parliament name Pembroke constable of Windsor Castle ( the House of Lords had been trying to appoint Pembroke to the position since July but had not yet received the support of the House of Commons ), making him essentially the king's jailer.

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ( 2005 ), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England ; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position.

A longstanding religious position is that shabbat originated among the Jewish people, as their first and most sacred institution ,.

The lines of sight ( shown as dashed lines ) intersect at a higher position than where the actual rays originated.

Stow-on-the-Wold, originally called Stow St. Edward or Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward, probably Edward the Martyr, is said to have originated as an Iron Age fort on this defensive position on a hill.

A longstanding Jewish position is that unbroken seventh-day shabbat originated among the Jewish people, as their first and most sacred institution, whether this Mosaic tradition preserves an origin in special creation, or whether it indicates some obscure later naturalistic origin.

Bosnia, due to its geographic position and terrain, was probably one of the last areas to go through this process, which presumably originated from the urban centers along the Dalmatian coast.

Logistics is considered to have originated in the military's need to supply themselves with arms, ammunition and rations as they moved from their base to a forward position.

To pour a drink, hold the bottle in the right hand with the left hand touching the right forearm or elbow ; this peculiar arm position originated from the practice of holding back the sleeve of the hanbok so that it wouldn't touch the table or the food.

The position originated in France when Philip II Augustus commissioned the first bailiff under the name bailli.

This position, which originated in the cultural relativism maintained by cultural anthropology, allowed the debate with medicine and psychiatry to revolve around some fundamental questions:

On February 15, 2005, the TechTV brand was dropped from the United States G4techTV feed, leaving the network name as G4 – Video Game Television which also echoed the changes in programming made to the channel due to the merger for both G4's original offering and the greatly diminished TechTV originated shows ( exceptions noted below ); since then, G4 has gone through a rebranding and has changed all programming current and future to position itself as a male oriented network.

If the ball originated with the shortstop and was then thrown to the second baseman, the play is referred to as a " 6-4-3 double play ", after the numbers assigned to the players in order of field position ; if it is hit to the second baseman and then thrown to the shortstop, it is known as a 4-6-3 double play ( 6-shortstop, 4-second base, 3-first base ; see baseball positions ).

Atkins originated an important defensive strategy in the Queen's Gambit Declined: an early ... Ne4 by Black in order to exchange off a pair of minor pieces and ease the pressure on Black's position.

By the 14th century, the " new " letter W, originated as two Vs or Us joined together, developed into a legitimate letter with its own position in the alphabet.

They explained this decision as " opportunism " that originated in the " centrist " position of the LSSP during the split between the ISFI and ICFI of 1953.

* Shire reeve, an official position that originated the term Sheriff

Roger Blench, relying particularly on prior work by Professor Kay Williamson of the University of Port Harcourt, and the linguist P. De Wolf, who each took the same position, has argued that a Benue – Congo linguistic subfamily of the Niger – Congo language family, which includes the Bantu languages and other related languages and would be the largest branch of Niger – Congo, is an empirically supported grouping which probably originated at the confluence of the Beneu and Congo Rivers in Central Nigeria.

The office originated with the election of the first Shadow Senators in 1796, and the position of Shadow US Representative first appeared in 1956 in the Territory of Alaska.

The mistake originated in 1922 when a flag maker misplaced the year 1847, by stitching it just above the year 1896, instead of in its correct position on the shield.

This pose originated in old British Parliamentary etiquette: an MP would adopt the position to secure his wig and show that he was not carrying a weapon.

The phrase " don't go off half cocked " originated with these types of weapons, which were not supposed to fire from the half cocked position of the hammer.

This research area and its name originated in the 1936 paper by Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann, who were attempting to reconcile the apparent inconsistency of classical logic with the facts concerning the measurement of complementary variables in quantum mechanics, such as position and momentum.

The letter originated in the thirteenth century as a variant of, at first, according to Djordjić in superscripted line-final position, but by the end of the century elsewhere as well.

The eversion of the foot twists the fibula from its rest position into the plane where the lateral force originated.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

As a nation we can successfully pursue these objectives only from a position of broadly based strength.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

On January 28, 1835, Andrew Jackson removed Pope from office and elevated Territorial Secretary William S. Fulton to the position.

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 whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

He could also hear the stream which he had seen from his position.

Locate the position from Fig. 7.

To release clay from mold, place hands in a cupped position around project ; ;

Out of long experience I have found that incidental figures and other objects like trees, logs, and bushes can be traced from the original sketch and moved about in the major areas on the final sheet until they occupy the right position, which I call clicking.

Try to push back to the stand position from the stretched position without any intermediate pushes from the hands.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

Winslow Upton after graduation from Brown University and two years of graduate study, accepted a position at the Harvard Observatory.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

The Plus Two remain at a fixed position with drums and guitar but the quartet covers the stage with a batch of instruments ranging from tuba to tambourine, and the beat is solid.