This act came after years of failed attempts at dechristianisation or state-controlled religion, which were thwarted in part due to the resistance of devout counter-revolutionary women.

Since wave resistance and other impeding forces such as various types of drag ( physics ) on the hull are eliminated as the hull is lifted clear, turbulence and drag act only on the much smaller surface area of the hydrofoil and there is a marked increase in speed.

Measures would be taken, Hamilton hinted to an ally in Congress, " to act upon the laws and put Virginia to the Test of resistance ".

* 1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Plasmids may carry genes that provide resistance to naturally occurring antibiotics in a competitive environmental niche, or the proteins produced may act as toxins under similar circumstances.

* May 12 – Twelve young men in New York City publicly burn their draft cards to protest the war ; the first such act of war resistance.

* Revolt of the Earls: Three earls rebel against William I of England ( William the Conqueror ), in the last serious act of resistance to the Norman Conquest.

There was nothing preceding the act nor during the act to indicate consent, and indeed her actions represent the pure opposite of consent-physical, verbal, and emotional resistance to the best of her ability.

This act for the governance of the region was unworkable, and after the Act of Revocation of 1498 undermined the Chief's titles to their lands, resistance to Edinburgh rule was strengthened.

Recollect that the first act of resistance to the laws which have been denounced as void by those who abuse your confidence and falsify your hopes is Treason, and subjects you to all the pains and penalties that are provided for the highest offence against your country.

In the Book of Chronicles, Ephraim's act of splintering from Judah is denounced as forsaking God, and Ephraim is portrayed as becoming highly irreligious, particularly in their resistance to the reforms enacted by Hezekiah and Josiah.

While his sons overcame pockets of resistance on the mainland, on 5 November 1139 Roger returned to Palermo to plan a great act of legislation: the Assizes of Ariano an attempt to establish his dominions in southern Italy as a coherent state.

On 21 August 1941, Colonel Pierre-Georges Fabien committed the first overt violent act of communist resistance by assassinating a German officer at the Barbès-Rochechouart station of the Paris Métro.

In the 2011 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, in which a hypothetical World War III is depicted, a French resistance movement is formed to act against Russian occupation.

Magliocco describes the character of Aradia in Kelly's accompanying narrative as " a notably erotic character ; according to her teachings, the sexual act becomes not only an expression of the divine life force, but an act of resistance against all forms of oppression and the primary focus of ritual ".

Consequently, in Henry's view, any act of monastic resistance to royal authority would not only be treasonable, but also a breach of the monastic vow of obedience.

This was an act of non-violent resistance | non-violent direct action.

The first is a direct command, to be obeyed or ignored ( and notice that it draws attention to the act of smoking ), the second is an opening, an invitation to possible lasting change, without pressure, and which is less likely to raise resistance.

: Many times, the apparently active resistance encountered in subjects is no more than an unconscious measure of testing the hypnotist's willingness to meet them halfway instead of trying to force them to act entirely in accord with his ideas.

Some believe the steps taken by Marshal Zhang were inspired by the Soviets led by Joseph Stalin, but there were sufficient grounds for Zhang and Yang Hucheng to act on their own behalf in order to develop an effective resistance to the Japanese invasion.

Some aspects of the resistance to the act, particularly the activities of the Sons of Liberty and merchants in organizing opposition, provided a sort of rehearsal for similar acts of resistance to the 1767 Townshend Acts.

Langston argues that philosophers of virtue ethics have unnecessarily neglected conscience for, once conscience is trained so that the principles and rules it applies are those one would want all others to live by, its practise cultivates and sustains the virtues ; indeed, amongst people in what each society considers to be the highest state of moral development there is little disagreement about how to act. Emmanuel Levinas viewed conscience as a revelatory encountering of resistance to our selfish powers, developing morality by calling into question our naive sense of freedom of will to use such powers arbitrarily, or with violence, this process being more severe the more rigorously the goal of our self was to obtain control.

Soulblighter is pushed back into the volcano itself where he plans a last desperate attempt against the Light by shattering the Cloudspine mountain range, an act that would cause widespread devastation over the land.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

Educational policies are formed by several groups who are officially or unofficially appointed to act in the public interest.

Both Commissions consisted of upper-middle- and upper-class people, who attempted to act in the public interest.

Like the other policy-making groups, these are middle class in their educational attitudes, and they attempt to act in the general public interest, as they see it.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

They had spent the morning revising the act, eliminating all the gay songs, patter and dancing with a view of the best public relations.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

It defines the administrative act, the most common form of action in which the public administration occurs against a citizen.

It is an official act of an authority in the field of public law to resolve an individual case with effect to the outside.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

Augustus had the public worship his spirit on occasion, but Dio describes this as an extreme act that emperors generally shied away from.

At the public shoe-eating, Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition.

Indeed, as Edward Muir points out, “ by the sixteenth century virtually every word, gesture and act that the doge made in public was subject to legal and ceremonial regulation ”.

A head of state is an official who holds the highest position in a governance system of the state and has the vested powers to act as the chief public representative of a country.

This act allowed the government to intervene and abolish radio stations that were deemed " non-useful " to the public.

The region adopted Christianity in 988 by the official act of public baptism of Kiev inhabitants by Prince Vladimir I.

Lippmann understood that journalism's role at the time was to act as a mediator or translator between the public and policy making elites.

It was also to act as a watchdog over the elites, as the public had the final say with their votes.

* 1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.