Continuation of the blockade into 1994 gave added urgency to the decision.

In 1946 the FCC's decision to use Armstrong's FM system as the standard for NTSC television sound gave Armstrong another chance at royalty payments.

The researchers gave their participants a choice: they could either bet on the outcome of a series of coin tosses, use an " expert " opinion to sway their decision, or choose a risk-free alternative instead for a smaller financial reward.

Landis's decision allowed the ICC to take action against railroads which gave rebates.

Michinaga was pleased by this decision and gave his daughter ( either Kenshi or Ishi ) to this prince as a wife, ensuring that the prince would not be an obstacle in the future.

military power in the country, revoked this decision and gave the army chief additional time in office.

After a decision of the High Court in favour of the Nevis Island Administration, the Prime Minister gave newspaper interviews stating that he " refused to accept the decision of the High Court ".

At the same time that rhetoric was becoming divorced from political decision making, rhetoric rose as a culturally vibrant and important mode of entertainment and cultural criticism in a movement known as the " second sophistic ," a development which gave rise to the charge ( made by Quintilian and others ) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.

This decision, however, contradicted the Magyar tribal custom that gave the right of succession to the eldest close relative of the deceased ruler.

However, the cryptic nature of the problems that led to the decision to abort Mariner 1, as well as the confusion in various reports on the incident, gave rise to an urban legend of sorts.

Erfurt returned the proceedings of the meeting to the Saxon duke without signifying its approval, while Paris, after repeated urging, gave an ambiguous decision limited to " the doctrine of Luther so far as investigated ".

The finding gave Martin standing to sue Ziherl since the decision in Zysk is no longer applicable.

On 1 March, Callaghan gave a ' little budget ' to the Commons and announced the historic decision that the UK would adopt decimal currency.

With the knowledge that the show couldn't be canceled again, Goodson gave the go-ahead for the more risque-sounding questionsa decision that caused a significant boost in ratings and an " un-cancellation " by NBC.

Jefferson specified that one side must be the Arms of the United States, and gave suggestions for the other side though left the final decision to Short and the engraving artist.

The problem was that whoever gave the order to retreat would be blamed for losing the capital and face harsh criticism from the Chinese public, Tang was very reluctant to bear this responsibility and the consequent blame alone, so he called a meeting of all senior commanders, and he showed them Chiang Kai-shek's permission to retreat when needed, a decision to be made by Tang's headquarters.

The unanimous decision of the electors gave Charles the crown on 28 June 1519.

* The success of the Intifada gave Arafat and his followers the confidence they needed to moderate their political programme: At the meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers in mid-November 1988, Arafat won a majority for the historic decision to recognise Israel's legitimacy ; to accept all the relevant UN resolutions going back to 29 November 1947 ; and to adopt the principle of a two-state solution.

Watt lasted fifteen rounds, but the judges gave Argüello a unanimous 15-round decision, thus making him only the sixth boxer to win world titles in 3 divisions, and the second Latin American ( after Wilfred Benítez had become the first by beating Maurice Hope one month before ) to do it.

The judges gave Trinidad a majority decision, with scores of 115 – 113, 115 – 114 and 114 – 114.

Hagler lost the decision but the fight was close enough that Monroe gave him a rematch.

When the Supreme Court, ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, agreed in May 1964 in a 9-0 ruling, deciding in a unanimous decision that Prince Edward County's move violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, county and state supervisors gave in rather than risk prosecution and prison, ending the era of Massive Resistance in Virginia.

The County commissioners gave conditional approval for the developers to complete a final plat of the land on February 13, 2004, but the attorney for the Nez Perce said the tribe would appeal the decision to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals.

The mayor of Sudbury gave a casting vote to Barnes despite having already voted, and the decision led to serious riots in the town.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

The British Government took the decision to found the Botany Bay colony in mid 1786.

Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.

A PAS is a living document and after two years the document will be reviewed and a decision made with the client as to whether or not this should be taken forward to become a formal British standard.

It was also a collective decision within the government at that time to turn away two British warships that had arrived the day after the storm with supplies.

the British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in August 2010 to protest the decision to close the Council.

After 1918, following the defeat of Germany, the League of Nations divided the German colony of Togoland from north to south, a decision that divided the Ewe people among the Gold Coast, British Togoland, and French Togoland.

This was not because of any lack of regard for Isaacs personally, but because the British government considered that the choice of Governors-General was ( since the 1926 Imperial Conference ) a matter for the monarch's decision alone.

The German invasion of Belgium was not important because the British decision had already been made and the British were more concerned with the fate of France ( pp. 457 – 62 ).

The project dissolved in disputes with the artisan who built parts and ended with the decision of the British Government to cease funding.

As Prime Minister, he oversaw landmark changes including the historic decision not to devalue the Australian dollar in line with the British pound, and the 1967 constitutional referendum in which an overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favour of giving the Commonwealth power to legislate specifically for indigenous Australians.

In December 2006, Major led calls for an independent inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq, following revelations made by Carne Ross, a former British senior diplomat, that contradict Blair's case for the invasion.

The British historian Richard Overy wrote that what Hitler thought he was starting in September 1939 was only a local war between Germany and Poland, and his decision to do so was largely because he vastly underestimated the risks of a general war.

The British defence guarantee ended following Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez, and was replaced in 1971 with the Five Power Defence Arrangements ( FPDA ) by which Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore agreed to co-operate in the area of defence, and to " consult " in the event of external aggression or the threat of attack on Malaysia or Singapore.

Adding to the problems was the British decision in 1975 to close its airfield on Gan in line with its new policy of abandoning defense commitments east of the Suez Canal.

The decision by a major buyer, the British Post Office, to use synthetic fibres for their mailbags was a major blow, all of which contributed in the closure of the island's flax mills in 1965.

After 1918, following the defeat of Germany, the League of Nations divided the German colony of Togoland from north to south, a decision that divided the Ewe people among the Gold Coast, British Togoland, and French Togoland.

Then British Prime Minister Tony Blair was quoted as saying the issue would be fully debated in Parliament prior to a decision being taken.

In 1968, the United Kingdom announced its decision, reaffirmed in March 1971, to end the treaty relationships with the seven Trucial Sheikhdoms which had been, together with Bahrain and Qatar, under British protection.

In August 1985, the service went off the air for the first time when workers striked in protest at the British government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin.

The decision did not apply to other British territories ; by then, for example, the American colonies had established slavery by positive laws.

The issues of conflicting territorial claims between British and French colonies in North America were turned over to a commission to resolve, but it reached no decision.