Crimes conducted by Patassé ’ s militias and Congolese soldiers during this period are now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, who wrote that " sexual violence appears to have been a central feature of the conflict ", having identified more than 600 rape victims.

The term English Civil War appears most commonly in the singular form, although historians often divide the conflict into two or three separate wars.

While on the surface it appears the broker represents the buyer ( not the insurance company ), and typically counsels the buyer on appropriate coverage and policy limitations, in the vast majority of cases a broker's compensation comes in the form of a commission as a percentage of the insurance premium, creating a conflict of interest in that the broker's financial interest is tilted towards encouraging an insured to purchase more insurance than might be necessary at a higher price.

Whoever Karl Hundason may have been, it appears that the saga is reporting a local conflict with a Scots ruler of Moray or Ross:

Unobtainium can also refer to any rare but desirable material used to motivate a conflict over its possession, making it a MacGuffin ( it appears in the story as something to obtain, not something that is significantly used ).

Although the four aims have equal status, in accordance with the Sandford Principle, the first aim ( conservation and enhancement of the natural and cultural heritage ) is to be given greater weight when it appears to the park authority that there is irreconcilable conflict with the other aims.

A still more significant variation in the ancient historical account appears in the writing of Plutarch in the late 1st – early 2nd century AD :" Athens was torn by recurrent conflict about the constitution.

* Mrs. ( Charity ) Chater: Though she never appears on stage, Mrs. Chater and her affairs play a vital role in the conflict of the story.

The myth of Set's conflict with Horus, Osiris, and Isis appears in many Egyptian sources, including the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, the Shabaka Stone, inscriptions on the walls of the temple of Horus at Edfu, and various papyrus sources.

In the English Civil War the town supported the parliamentary side, although Shepton appears to have mostly escaped conflict apart from a bloodless confrontation between supporters of the King, led by Sir Ralph Hopton, and Parliament, led by Colonel William Strode, in the market place on 1 August 1642.

Merlin-and a Pattern-ghost of Luke-are both adopted by Corwin's Pattern ( which has previously rejected Fiona ), at the instance of a Pattern-ghost of Corwin himself, as it appears that his own Pattern is also sentient and resisting incursions from both the Logrus and Amber's Pattern-and taking a hand in the conflict between the two.

Karl Taube and Mary Miller, specialists in Mesoamerican Studies, write that, " More than anything Tezcatlipoca appears to be the embodiment of change through conflict.

At the level of international relations, Algeria appears as a main actor and negotiator in opposition to Morocco since the beginning of the Western Sahara conflict.

In cases where there appears to be concurrent jurisdiction or a conflict of laws between the judicial and administrative courts, whether both retain jurisdiction (" positive dispute ") or decline jurisdiction (" negative dispute "), the Jurisdictional Disputes Tribunal ( Tribunal des Conflits ) decides the issue.

It appears to have been very similar to the Ngāti Porou civil war, conflict between those of the tribe who converted to Hau Hauism and those who remained loyal to the New Zealand Government, the kupapa.

Determinism appears to conflict with the concept of free will.

Though it appears from the context that this is a battle against Wulfhere of Mercia ( which he may have lost ), if Posentesburh is identified with Posbury, near Crediton, Devon, then some conflict with the Britons can be postulated.

Appellate courts in the United States sometimes grant rehearing en banc to reconsider a decision of a panel of the court ( generally consisting of only three judges ) where the case concerns a matter of exceptional public importance or the panel's decision appears to conflict with a prior decision of the court.

This central conflict appears again after Dean returns to Camille in San Francisco, abandoning his two travel companions.

Its prime objective is still unclear but appears to have been to prepare the army for any future nuclear conflict with Pakistan, which seemed increasingly possible after the December attack on the Indian parliament.

This clarification is intended to cover the individuals taken prisoner as a result of the USS Pueblo seizure, as well as any similar occurrence that the Service Secretary concerned deems comparable to the circumstances under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during a war or conflict .” This amendment to the POW Medal statute now appears at 10 USC § 1128 ( a )( 4 ).

Thorismund appears to have played a pivotal role in the Battle of Châlons as he led a contingent of the Visigoth forces into capturing an important summit at the very early stages of the conflict.

An anti-saccade requires suppression of a distracting cue because the target appears in the opposite location causing the conflict.

Æthelred appears to have retained influence during his nephew's reign: the Life of St Wilfrid relates how he summoned Coenred and made him swear to support Wilfrid in his conflict with the church hierarchy.

The primary deterrent appears to lie with the technical people themselves, and their concept of what constitutes status in present-day society.

The rate of the gas phase exchange reaction appears to be proportional to the first power of the absorbed light intensity indicating that the radical intermediates are removed at the walls or by reaction with an impurity rather than by bimolecular radical combination reactions.

Anatomically, the horse lung appears to be remarkably like that of man, insofar as this can be ascertained from comparison of our findings in the horse with those of others ( Birnbaum, '54 ) in the human being.

When a dot appears close to the end of the transverse line, the `` moderate '' rating may be further classified according to the position of the dot with respect to the vertical marking denoting the mean age.

It appears, then, that although the matter is not dealt with in section 381(c), a successor corporation in a reorganization of a type specified in section 381(a) is entitled to sue for refund of taxes paid by a transferor corporation.

we are concerned with Utopian communism -- that is, simply communism as it appears in the imaginary commonwealth of Utopia, as More conceived it.

Until such evidence appears, we must make do with the evidence we have.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

This method of rinsing appears to produce maximum cleansing with minimum soil redeposition.

The education bill appears to be temporarily stalled in the Rules Committee, where two Northern Democratic members who usually vote with the Administration are balking because of the religious controversy.

-- The Gov. Jimmie H. Davis administration appears to face a difficult year in 1961, with the governor's theme of peace and harmony subjected to severe stresses.

* Argument ( linguistics ), a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause

However, anxiety should not be confused with fear, it is more of a dreaded feeling about something which appears intimidating and can overcome an individual.

He appears to relish the coming of the plague, and Tarrou thinks this is because he finds it easier to live with his own fears now that everyone else is in a state of fear, too.

The suffix-ol appears in the IUPAC chemical name of all substances where the hydroxyl group is the functional group with the highest priority ; in substances where a higher priority group is present the prefix hydroxy-will appear in the IUPAC name.

An anchor frequently appears on the flags and coats of arms of institutions involved with the sea, both naval and commercial, as well as of port cities and seacoast regions and provinces in various countries.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.

In later Assyrian and Babylonian texts, the name Akkad, together with Sumer, appears as part of the royal title, as in the Sumerian LUGAL KI. EN. GIR < sup > KI </ sup > URU < sup > KI </ sup > or Akkadian Šar māt Šumeri u Akkadi, translating to " king of Sumer and Akkad ".

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

Although a bishop was promptly appointed to Hereford, none was named to Worcester, and it appears that Ealdred intended to retain Worcester along with York, which several of his predecessors had done.

It appears that he was in alliance with the Aetolians.

* 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western " guests " ( actually hostages ) to try to prevent the Gulf War.