Others point out that some nobles threatened with armed rebellion ( rokosz ), and, in case of a successful intervention, the king would increase his and the hetman's authority and focus noblemen's attention on external instead of internal problems.

The institution of the rokosz, in this later sense, derived from the medieval right to resist royal power.

Later, supporter of the king Sigismund III Vasa and eventually his opponent, one of the leaders of rokosz of Zebrzydowski in 1607, imprisoned by royalists from 1607 to 1609.

* rokosz, the right of rebellion against kings who did not rule in accordance with their pledge

* rokosz ( insurrection ), the right of szlachta to form a legal rebellion against a king who violated their guaranteed freedoms ;

Most tellingly, one of the provisions of the pacta conventa included the right of revolution ( rokosz ) for the nobility, if they deemed that the king is not adhering to the laws of the state.

* finally, if the monarch were to transgress against the law or the privileges of szlachta, the Articles authorized the szlachta to refuse the king's orders and act against him ( in Polish practice it became known as the rokosz ).

This led to a semi-legal rebellion against the king ( rokosz ), known as rokosz of Zebrzydowski ( 1606 – 1608 ), which was a response to Sigismund's attempt to introduce majority voting in place of unanimity in the Sejm.

Chodkiewicz was one of the few magnates who remained loyal to the king, and after helping to defeat the Sandomierz rebellion ( rokosz ) against the Grand Duke of Lithuania and Polish king in 1606-1607, a fresh invasion of Livonia by the Swedes recalled him thither, and in 1609 once more he relieved Riga besides capturing Pernau.

Chodkiewicz, who was one of the magnates who remained loyal to the king, had to divide his attention between the rebellion against Sigismund in the Commonwealth ( the rokosz of Zebrzydowski, 1606 – 1609 ) and a fresh invasion of Livonia by the Swedes led by Mansfeld, 1, 000 infantry ) moved to Prussia with amazing speed.

With time, " rokosz " came to signify an armed rebellion by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's szlachta against the king, in the name of defending threatened liberties.

A confederation not recognized by the king was considered a rokosz (" rebellion "), although some of the rokosz would be eventually recognized by the king, who could even join them himself.

A rokosz () originally was a gathering of all the Polish szlachta ( nobility ), not merely of deputies, for a sejm.

Between 1665 and 1666 he supported the rokosz of Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski.

His forces initially included 7000 Polish soldiers, 10, 000 Cossacks and 10, 000 other soldiers, including former members of the failed rokosz of Zebrzydowski but his force grew gradually in power, and soon exceeded 100, 000 men.

Soon after, Lisowski with his followers joined the Sandomierz rebellion or rokosz of Zebrzydowski, a revolt against the absolutist tendencies of the Commonwealth ruler Sigismund III Vasa.

Zebrzydowski's Rebellion (), or the Sandomierz Rebellion (), was a rokosz ( semi-legal rebellion ) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against King Sigismund III Vasa.

The Polish nobles gathered at rokosz formed a konfederacja.

Enemy of Jan Zamoyski, Grand Chancellor of the Crown in 1606 he became one of the leaders of the rokosz of Zebrzydowski.

Meanwhile, the Commonwealth was weakened by the rokosz of Jerzy Lubomirski.

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

He lifted the skirt of Macklin's coat, took his gun from its holster, tossed it onto the desk.

From its holder he took his own canteen.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

In the course of its inquiry, it took testimony from only seven witnesses.

Morgan took charge of the furniture and restored it to its thankful owners, but he let the culprits who had stolen it go free.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.

That imposing, somewhat austere, and seemingly remote collonaded building with the sphynxes perched on its threshold at 1733 16th St. nw. took on bustling life yesterday.

He does not mean, in fact he addresses himself specifically to reject the proposition, that `` if we took the risk of surrendering, a new generation in Britain would soon begin to amass its strength in secret in order to reverse the consequences of that surrender ''.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

The crowd staged its own mad scene in salvos of cheers and applause and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland took curtain call after curtain call following a fantastic `` Mad Scene '' created on her own and with the help of the composer and the other performers.

He questioned God's taking time to telegraph the message, but he felt better about Kizzie, and he took the sealed envelope from its pigeonhole, wondering why he had preserved it.

I took the broken length of it around the tractor and I took one of the wrenches from the tool-kit and I struck its head, not looking at it, to kill it at last, for it could never live.

Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by A. N. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

In 1989, the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite took astrometry into orbit, where it could be less affected by mechanical forces of the Earth and optical distortions from its atmosphere.

The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth ( for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade ), its consequent aversion to Corcyra ( as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota, which took place in 433 BC between the rebellious corinthian colony of Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth ).

Hence it took a prominent part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene ( 426 ) which crippled its resources.

In Byzantine times a new settlement took its place under the name of Arta.

In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, the Kingdom of Prussia took over and the city became one of its most socially and politically backward centres until the end of the 19th century.

Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, certainly did not found religious orders, though he took an interest in the monastic life and watched over its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milam, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions.