In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court's opinion: ``

In dealing with these frequencies, the objective listed first above -- provision of service to all listeners -- was predominant ; ;

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.

To avoid these constitutional difficulties, Mr. Justice Frankfurter was prepared to read the Taft-Hartley provision as concerned with diversity, rather than federal question, jurisdiction.

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

The Revenue Service disallowed the claim, invoking a law provision that generally bars deductions for expenses incurred in connection with what it said was tax-exempt income.

As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.

Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.

The provision allowing private suits against states for money damages was invalidated.

" Alaric had made no provision for a successor, and although he had two sons, one was of age but illegitimate and the other the offspring of a legal marriage but still a child.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

Finally, Andrew was obliged to confirm the Golden Bull and supplement it with a provision that prohibited the employment of non-Christians and also authorized the Archbishop of Esztergom to punish the king in case he ignored his promise.

" This was another provision to avoid a Roman Catholic monarch.

This provision was repealed in 1716, at the request of George I, who was also the Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg of the Holy Roman Empire, and so frequently needed and wanted to stay in Hanover.

This provision was repealed early in Queen Anne's reign, as many councillors ceased to offer advice and some stopped attending meetings altogether.

This provision was inserted to avoid unwelcome royal influence over the House of Commons.

This provision was the result of various monarchs ' influencing judges ' rulings, and it assured nearly full judicial independence.

Increasingly paintings are lent abroad, ignoring Turner's provision that they be kept " constantly " in Turner's Gallery.

After the college was reconstituted in 1857 most of the boys were day-boys but provision was made for boarders, and the Governors licensed three boarding houses to be kept by respectable ladies in the village ( hence they were then known as dames ' houses ).

Most importantly, " Tokyo has kept conditioning its provision of economic incentives, widely deemed to be crucial to a comprehensive and lasting solution of the nuclear conundrum, on the establishment of diplomatic relations with North Korea — a development which in turn hinges on a resolution of the abduction issue.

Thomas kept the provision merchants, while Christopher took charge of the shipping fleet.

#“ Special provision for the gifted will prevent dropouts, underachievement and delinquency ;” gifted children may lose their zest for school when kept back from learning at their own pace and may almost strive to achieve “ normality ” to “ have a quiet life in school ”.

this was felt to be Gods provision as He kept them out of the building that day.

The company's Quaker ethos made provision for workers ' housing, education and leisure activities, while its keen social conscience kept Street ' dry ' for many years.

Statues issued in the King's name by the Bishop of Lincoln, Henry Burghersh in May 1326 called for the provision of a common seal, to be kept in a box with three keys, one for the Provost and the other two to trusted Scholars, the seal depicts the Annunciation, with the figure of Adam de Brome kneeling below and the legend Sig. Comune Domus Scholarium Beate Marie Oxon.

Students kept on topping board exams and other academic competitive tests which helped pave the way for the University to acquire Deregulated Status on October 22, 2001 and to eventually be awarded an Autonomous Status on October 27, 2003 for the meritorious achievement in the provision of instruction, conduct of research, community extension service, high performance of graduates in licensure examinations, and for maintaining a tradition of integrity, excellence, and untarnished reputation in educational service.

The pre-cooked food may then be kept hot for the Shabbat meal by the provision in the Rabbinical oral law, which explains that one may use a fire that was lit before Shabbat to keep warm food that was already cooked before Shabbat.

The new estate was popular, but the provision of amenities had not kept pace with the house building.

This also kept GEC from using a position of dominance to charge BT unfair amounts for provision of System X equipment parts.

They were unable to accept this legacy, and provision was made for the items to be kept at Trinity College, Cambridge and not opened until 1950.

Its public function was " to advise as to the security of codes and cyphers used by all Government departments and to assist in their provision ," but also had a secret directive to " study the methods of cypher communications used by foreign powers.

" Wyden offered an amendment to reform the " business-records provision " of the Patriot Act, which he views as being used abusive and secret way.

Papen wrote to Hitler regarding this secret provision and concluded his brief with " I hope this agreement will therefore be pleasing to you ".

One of the Fourteen points was that no secret treaties should be made, and that all of these treaties should be made through the League of Nations, however the final version of the Versailles treaty did not contain this provision.

In 1763 following Britain's victory in the Seven Years War, the colony west of the Mississippi River was ceded to the Spanish Empire as a secret provision of the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau, confirmed in the Treaty of Paris.

The edited American version also leaves out Charles's trickery of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham ( played by Rupert Graves ) regarding the treaty's secret provision.