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Square corner- and gate posts were an open-work pattern of cast-iron foliage ; ;
The existing Army posts were wholly inadequate.
However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.
Dependent upon it were posts on the lower Mississippi and the region westward to the frontiers of New Spain.
On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.
In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.
Not only did senior army generals occupy the presidency from 1964 until 1985, but most of the officers who held cabinet posts during that time were from the army.
The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.
Granite boulders were also taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building ( such material is known as moorstone ).
Confucius ' descendants were repeatedly identified and honored by successive imperial governments with titles of nobility and official posts.
These points, and more, were used against him, when Khrushchev was forced to resign from all his posts in 1964.
He secured none of the posts that were occasionally given to needy men of letters ; he could not even obtain the bare official recognition of merit which was implied by being chosen a member of the Académie française.
Though early on targets were trees or fence posts in the woods, now courses are being cut out and under utilized parts of parks, schools, and private land are being used to make some of the most challenging and strategic courses around.
The company was initially relatively successful ; in the 1620s and 1630s, many trade posts or colonies were established.
In Africa, posts were established on the Gold Coast ( now Ghana ), the Slave Coast ( now Benin ), and briefly in Angola.
The PwC research found that among FTSE 350 companies in the United Kingdom in 2002 almost 40 % of senior management posts were occupied by women.
Goal posts were placed on the goal line, and any kicks that did not result in field goals but left the field through the end lines were simply recorded as touchbacks ( or, in the Canadian game, singles ; it was during the pre-end zone era that Hugh Gall set the record for most singles in a game, with 8 ).
Goal posts were originally kept on the goal lines, but after they began to interfere with play, they moved back to the end lines in 1927, where they have remained in college football ever since.
The goal posts in Canadian football still reside on the goal line instead of the back of the end zones, partly because the number of field goal attempts would dramatically decrease if the posts were moved 20 yards back in that sport.
They were the first in Europe to gain the franchise, and by the 1980s they routinely constituted about one-third of the membership of the Eduskunta ( parliament ) and held several ministerial posts.
Many Red Guard units collapsed under the weight of the assault and several detachments retreated in panic, while some units defended their posts relentlessly, and were able to slow the advance of the White Guards, who were unaccustomed to offensive warfare.
Portugal claimed Portuguese Guinea in 1446, but few trading posts were established before 1600.

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Himself a former Sandinista who had held several high posts in the government, he had resigned apruptly in 1981 and defected, believing that the newly found power had corrupted the Sandinista's original ideas.
He then became Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( a newly established body with legislative and executive powers for what was described as a transitional period ), and assumed the posts of chief of state, prime minister, chief of the armed forces, and minister of defense.
In each newly conquered territory, administrative posts were built within fortified garrisons ( rova ) on the model of the original Rova of Antananarivo.
He was returning to the Missouri River posts from the newly established Fort Astoria on the Columbia River near the Pacific Ocean.
Thus, though he lost the posts of Grand Vizier, governor of Malwa and Gujrat, he became an independent ruler of the newly created state of Hyderabad in 1725.
Halhed applied to one of the newly opened civil secretary posts which carried a £ 600 salary in April and was appointed in July the same year.
He also held various diplomatic posts, including ambassadorial positions in Sweden, Switzerland and to the newly established court of King Otto of Greece.
Sailormongering is the practice of boarding a ship approaching or newly arrived in port without the permission of its master, and inciting members of its crew to desert their posts and come ashore by tempting them with prostitutes and alcohol.
Todd continued in his duties to posts and telegraphs in South Australia, until the newly federated Commonwealth of Australia took over all such services on 1 March 1901 and Todd became a federal public servant at the age of 75.
Thus, there seems reason to believe that newly arrived missionaries learned Ilokano psychology and perfected their knowledge of the Ilokano language in Santa Maria before they were sent to neighboring mission posts.
The disorganized and slow response also created another disaster for the national defenders inside the city wall: unaware of the newly changed battle plans that were hastily put together, the soldiers of the remaining battalion began to flee, abandoning their posts, because they thought the other battalion deployed to reinforce the already-destroyed battalion in the suburb were in fact escaping.

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As the Portuguese extended their influence around the coast, Mauritania, Senegambia ( by 1445 ) and Guinea, they created trading posts.
Likewise, the Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to patroons, who brought in tenant farmers that created compact, permanent villages.
A renaissance zone was created to where private business owners in the zone could apply to the town to continue the project of granite, brick pavers, and lamp posts, of which the town would pay the difference of replacement concrete sidewalks versus the more expensive brick.
The Serdar Argic posts suddenly disappeared in April 1994, after Stefan Chakerian created a specific newsgroup ( alt. cancel. bots ) to carry only cancel messages specifically for any post from any machine downstream from the " anatolia " UUNET feed which carried Serdar Argic's messages.
Although Abstract Expressionism is identified as a New York movement, Still's formative works were created during various teaching posts on the West Coast, first at Washington State University ( 1935 – 41 ).
The Liberals lost power in early 1874 but on their return to office in 1880, Playfair was appointed Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, holding these posts until 1883, when he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
In early 1997 a moderated version of alt. sex. stories was created due to an increasing number of posts by “ various pay services, scam artists, and bots ”.
Initially two posts were created, one as head of the foot troops, as the magister peditum (" Master of the Foot "), and one for the more prestigious horse troops, the magister equitum (" Master of the Horse ").
During the reign of Emperor Justinian I, with increasing military threats and the expansion of the Eastern Empire, three new posts were created: the magister militum per Armeniam in the Armenian provinces, formerly part of the jurisdiction of the magister militum per Orientem, the magister militum per Africam in the reconquered African provinces ( 534 ), with a subordinate magister peditum, and the magister militum Spaniae ( ca.
The rank of EO was defined and additional posts of financial adviser and chief accounts officer ( CAO ) were created.
After the Air Force Bill received the Royal Assent on 29 November 1917, there followed a period of political manoeuvring and speculation over who would take up the new posts of Air Minister, Chief of the Air Staff and other senior positions within soon-to-be created Air Ministry.
Trenchard had many reasons for not accepting any of the posts which he saw as being artificially created, of little value or lacking authority.
Aside from the obstacles created by canals, rivers and railway embankments, by early 1942 the line was defended by 309 light machine gun pillboxes, ( typically for the Bren gun ), 61 medium machine gun emplacements ( typically for the Vickers machine gun ), 21 static anti-tank gun emplacements ( equipped with ex-World War I naval six-pound guns ), along with numerous anti-tank obstacles in the form of concrete posts, cubes and pyramids, while charge chambers were cut into bridges ready for demolition.
Likewise, the Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to rich landowning patroons who brought in tenant farmers who created compact, permanent villages.
The position was created in 1964 as successor to the posts of Minister for Coordination of Defence ( 1936 – 1940 ) and Minister of Defence ( 1940 – 1964 ).
Navigable streams will be free for Choctaws, U. S. post-offices will be established in the Choctaw Nation, and U. S. military posts and roads may be created.
The Elders had a number of responsibilities, most clearly delineated in the 1634 ordinance that reorganized the government and created a number of new posts:
Further important reforms were carried out in education by Melo: he expelled the Jesuits in 1759, created the basis for secular public primary and secondary schools, introduced vocational training, created hundreds of new teaching posts, added departments of mathematics and natural sciences to the University of Coimbra, and introduced new taxes to pay for these reforms.
Constitutional changes introduced in Jersey ( 2005 ) and Guernsey ( 2004 ) created posts of chief minister and ministerial systems of government.
In imitation, a variety of other bodies — from state and local legislative houses ( city councils, county legislatures and the like ) to civic and social organizations have created posts of sergeants at arms, primarily to enforce order at the direction of the chair and to assist in practical details of organizing meetings.
The post of Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command was created on 1 July 1969 as a result of the merger of the posts of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
The position was created in 1996 to combine the posts of Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship and Minister of Communications.

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