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In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
The Command post was underground, and well camouflaged.
Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.
He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.
We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.
It was a post of honor, held inviolate for him ; ;
Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.
In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.
For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.
It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.
On the Ohio or Wabash was to be built another post `` at the fork of two great rivers ''.
On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

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This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.
For the two intervening years, Lorin Maazel held the post of associate principal conductor ( 1971 – 1973 ), and was effectively the principal conductor.
From 1864 onwards, he worked as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( effectively, he was the Secretary, since the senior post was occupied by a noble figurehead ).
Shortly afterwards, Unamuno was effectively removed for a second time from his University post, broken-hearted.
The post effectively filled three roles which existed under the previous Stormont regime:
By this time the post office monopoly on mail was effectively enforced, and Wells Fargo had exited the business in favor of its banking enterprises.
In 1997 he was the PRD's candidate for the newly-created post of Head of Government ( Jefe de Gobierno ) of the Federal District – effectively, a role lying somewhere between that of Mexico City's mayor and a state governorship.
In reality, the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, effectively like a chairman of trustees, carries minimal work and responsibilities, so it is used in effect as the sinecure position of a minister without portfolio, often given to a senior politician so that she or he has a seat in the cabinet.
There is further concern over whether the President will have sufficient personnel and resources to fulfil the duties of the post effectively and that, in lacking a ministry, the President might become a " play ball " between EU leaders.
Commodus is furious, and sends Livius back to his frontier post in what is effectively a sentence of banishment.
* Reexpansion, i. e. post large volume thoracocentesis, resolution of pneumothorax, post decortication, removal of endobronchial obstruction, effectively a form of negative pressure pulmonary oedema.
With its cost structure in line with any post deregulation upstart carrier, the airline began competing effectively with legacy carriers.
After losing credibility he was effectively demoted in 1988 ( through loss of the health portfolio ) and then sacked from his cabinet post in 1989.
As Parliament is effectively forced to approve actions ex post facto ( after they've happened ), the Treasury's use of the fund is actually scrutinised in detail by the Public Accounts Committee.
') and we are led to believe Henderson effectively rammed the post of SHADO Commander down Straker's throat in " Confetti Check A-OK ".
In his post as secretary he effectively functioned as the top negotiator on issues of national security, including Iran's nuclear program.
Deciding that the situation was lost, Bolívar effectively abandoned his post and retreated to his estate in San Mateo.
So effectively, the postal codes do not indicate precisely the communes but the location of the post office in charge for the distribution, and many rural communes share the same postal code number as the commune where the post office is located.
Wang has, indeed, accepted a party post that is incompatible with vice chairmanship, effectively ending the possibility that he would be vice chairman, although after meeting with Wang, Ma said that he would " leave the position open " for Wang.
The post of Secretary-General of the Presidency was historically very powerful, but Oyono's stint in the office was associated with a weakening of it under President Biya ; significantly, Oyono was moved from the Secretariat-General to an ordinary ministry — effectively a demotion.
The duties of these three effectively covered the old post of Chief Mechanical Engineer ; they subsequently oversaw the design of the British Railways ( BR ) standard classes.
Bembry said, " Not only can Howard post up, he passes effectively and is able to hit a jumper up to 17 feet ," adding that he " also is an excellent position defender ".
When he proposed to remove the less than dependable Beardslee device and recruit training telegraphers into the Signal Corps, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton removed him from his post as chief signal officer on November 15, 1863, and reassigned him out of Washington, D. C., effectively exiling him.

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