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Velleius Paterculus reports that Caesar afterwards allowed the young man to share his carriage.
He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.
In 48 BC, Caesar was given permanent tribunician powers, which made his person sacrosanct and allowed him to veto the Senate, although on at least one occasion, tribunes did attempt to obstruct him.
Caesar then increased the number of magistrates who were elected each year, which created a large pool of experienced magistrates, and allowed Caesar to reward his supporters.
But resistance from the conservative faction of the Roman Senate, led by Pompey, demanded that Caesar resign his proconsulship and the command of his armies before being allowed to seek re-election to the consulship.
Marcellinus comes recorded that the Romans ( meaning the East Romans or in modern naming the Byzantines ) allowed them to resettle depopulated " lands and cities " near Singidunum ( modern Belgrade ); this was done " by order of Anastasius Caesar " sometime between June 29 and August 31, 512.
Increasingly fond of his uncle Bardas, Michael invested him with the title kaisar ( Caesar – at the time a title second only to emperor ) and allowed him to murder Theoktistos in November 855.
Basil gained increasing influence over Michael, and in April 866 he convinced the emperor that the Caesar Bardas was conspiring against him and was duly allowed to murder Bardas.
The alliance had allowed the Triumvirs to dominate Roman politics completely, but it would not last indefinitely due to the ambitions, egos, and jealousies of the three ; Caesar and Crassus were implicitly hand-in-glove, but Pompey disliked Crassus and grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in the Gallic War, whereby he annexed the whole of the Three Gauls to Rome.
The loyalty of such legions is what allowed Marius himself, Sulla, and about 40 years later Marius ' nephew Julius Caesar to march on Rome itself.
When faced with the same request from Caesar, Cato used the device of filibuster, speaking continuously until nightfall, to prevent the Senate from voting on the issue of whether or not Caesar would be allowed to stand for consul in absentia.
When Hadrian adopted Aelius Verus, he allowed the latter to take the title of Caesar ; and from this time, though the title of Augustus continued to be confined to the reigning prince, that of Caesar was also granted to the second person in the state and the heir presumptive to the throne.
He was accused of treason for having opposed Julius Caesar in a war in Africa, but was defended so eloquently by Cicero that he was pardoned and allowed to return to Rome.
He also had to turn down the part of Hale Caesar in The Expendables because he was not allowed to leave the United States without the court's approval.
Impressions developed another Roman-themed game at the same time as Caesar, Cohort 2, a game which allowed the player to direct Ancient Roman battles in a style akin to a crude precursor of the Command & Conquer series.
Impressions included a feature in Cohort 2 which allowed players of Caesar to load their saved files and play out the battles from Caesar in Cohort 2.
The game allowed players to travel through time and solve puzzles while meeting famous historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
This system allowed the offset to change for each enciphered letter ; without this facility, the enciphering scheme would resemble a very insecure Caesar shift cipher.
He remained Caesar's loyal client through the Gaulish revolts of 54 BC, and in return Caesar allowed the Atrebates to remain independent and exempt from tax, and in addition appointed Commius to rule the Morini.

allowed and parlay
In jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom where genuine compeititon is allowed, bookies often pay bonuses for winning parlay bets to help offset the compounded vig.

allowed and single
Ideally speaking, it should be allowed to operate only where the public has a great stake in the continuity of supply or services, and where the actions of a single proprietor are secondary to the needs of society.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of Elizabeth, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in National Politics, and the ' turnism ' or alternanation was to become the new system.
Instead of using RS-422's balanced transmit and receive circuits, the AppleTalk Personal Network cabling used a single common electrical ground, which limited speeds to about 500 kbit / s, but allowed one conductor to be removed.
Any player is usually allowed to control or bet in as many boxes as desired at a single table, but it is prohibited for an individual to play on more than one table at a time or to place multiple bets within a single box.
The integrated circuit ( IC ) allowed a large number of transistors to be manufactured on a single semiconductor-based die, or " chip.
On August 2, The Cubs tied a club record for most allowed hits in a single game.
In another game one month before his no-hitter, he allowed just one single while facing 28 batters.
In Cooley v. Board of Wardens ( 1852 ) the Court headed by Roger B. Taney had allowed the states, in the absence of federal legislation, to control those aspects of commerce that did not require a single national policy.
According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, " As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films.
These versions allowed 25 modules be to inserted into a single 5-1 / 4 inch section of racking, and allowed the high densities needed to build a computer.
He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line.
In single winner plurality voting, each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the winner of the election is whichever candidate represents a plurality of voters, that is, whoever received the largest number of votes.
This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience.
The third edition rules replace specialized matrices with the Action Control Table ( ACT ), a single, color-coded chart that allowed players to determine whether a character action succeeded, and the degree of success, with a single roll.
Unlike most computer software, Infocom titles were distributed under a no-returns policy, which allowed them to make money from a single game for a longer period of time.
This allowed an engine and boiler to be combined into a single unit compact enough to be used on mobile road and rail locomotives and steam boats.
In the European Union, the Third Non-Life Directive and the Third Life Directive, both passed in 1992 and effective 1994, created a single insurance market in Europe and allowed insurance companies to offer insurance anywhere in the EU ( subject to permission from authority in the head office ) and allowed insurance consumers to purchase insurance from any insurer in the EU.
Presently, Mexican presidents are limited to a single six-year term, and no one who has held the office even on a caretaker basis is allowed to hold the office again.
This allowed this CPU to load up the instruction and the data it needed in a single cycle, whereas an ( older ) non-RISC design, such as the MOS Technology 6502 for instance, required separate cycles to load the opcode and the data.

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The crusader siege of Nicaea forced the city to surrender to the emperor in 1097, and the subsequent crusader victory at Dorylaion allowed the Byzantine forces to recover much of western Asia Minor.
The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.
Players are allowed to keep four progress cards ( five in a five to six player game ), and any additional ones must be discarded on the spot ( unless the 5th card is a victory point, which is played immediately and the original progress cards remain ).
The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.
An initial appeal was rejected, but in a subsequent court proceeding in 1918, the birth control movement won a victory when Judge Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals issued a ruling which allowed doctors to prescribe contraception.
Hassett allowed him to bowl only in the second innings, when nine West Indian wickets had fallen and Australia were on the verge of an inevitable victory.
The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement.
In their victory over the Patriots, the Bears set Super Bowl records for sacks ( seven ), fewest rushing yards allowed ( seven ), and margin of victory ( 36 points ).
Full-force blows are allowed, and knockouts result in a victory ; although these rules vary between ITF organizations.
Lloyd George said after victory that " the nation was now in a molten state ", and his Housing Act 1919 would lead to affordable council housing which allowed people to move out of Victorian inner-city slums.
Continued skirmishing, sieges, and battles, such as the decisive victory of Denain ( 1712 ), allowed the French to re-capture considerable ground, especially during 1712.
Otto II's victory allowed him to exclude the Bavarain line of Ottonians from the line of Imperial succession.
The resistance of the German Fourth army, unusually wet weather, the onset of winter and the diversion of British and French resources to Italy, following the Austro-German victory at the Battle of Caporetto, ( 24 October – 19 November ) allowed the Germans to avoid a general withdrawal, which had seemed inevitable to them in October.
This military victory allowed the PRP to return to government and to emerge triumphant from the elections held later that year, having won the usual absolute majority.
While this fleet was inferior to the Spartans, the Athenians employed new and unorthodox tactics, which allowed them to secure a dramatic and unexpected victory in the Battle of Arginusae, near Lesbos.
With their victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of the Downs, Dutch confidence in their naval abilities grew to such a degree, that after peace was made with Spain, they allowed their navy to deteriorate greatly.
In August, a victory over the Russian army allowed the Ottoman army to retake Van.
The delay allowed Cromwell to launch his attack on 3 September one year to the day since his victory at the Battle of Dunbar.
As is the pattern throughout the book of Judges, the Israelites again turned away from God after 40 years of peace brought by Deborah's victory over Canaan and were allowed to be oppressed by the neighboring Midianites and Amalekites.
Following, the Roman-Germanic forces came to blows with the Hunnic forces at the Battle of Châlons, which resulted in a victory for Aëtius, but he, in an attempt to retain his position allowed Attila and a significant number of his troops to escape.
This operation did not have any lasting effect, but it allowed the Soviets to symbolically end their presence with a victory.
He therefore allowed the Peloponnesians to remove their dead first, so that those remaining would be shown to be Spartiates, and emphasise the scale of the Theban victory.
One of the bloodiest engagements ever fought in the Shenandoah Valley took place on June 5, 1864 at the Battle of Piedmont, a Union victory that allowed the Union Army to occupy Staunton and destroy many of the facilities that supported the Confederate war effort.

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