Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews.

Ovida served as the next ruler of Dalmatia for a few months, but Odoacer used Nepos ' murder as a pretext to invade Dalmatia.

An attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz on August 31, 1939, staged by the German secret police, served as a pretext for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, which marked the start of the Second World War.

In 1810, Frederick banished the composer Carl Maria von Weber from Württemberg on the pretext that Weber had mismanaged the funds of Frederick's brother, Louis, for whom Weber had served as secretary since 1807.

The 28 June 1914 assassination of Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and one of seven assassins, served as a pretext for the Austrian declaration of war on Serbia on 28 July 1914, marking the beginning of World War I, despite Serbia's acceptance three days earlier of nearly all of Austria-Hungary's demands.

Felice Orsini's attack on the emperor in 1858, though purely Italian in its motive, served as a pretext for increasing the severity of this régime by the law of general security ( sûreté générale ) which authorised the internment, exile or deportation of any suspect without trial.

It was the urban militia, along with the public security forces, that broke up the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square honoring the memory of Zhou Enlai in April 1976 — the event that served as the pretext for the second purge of Deng Xiaoping.

A futile project to dig the Danube-Black Sea Canal served as a pretext for the erection of several labor camps, where numerous people died.

The speech served as a pretext to fire him and placate the US, although Mexico never gave the US what it wanted: support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The invented 1937 communist threat served as a pretext for the suspension of the democratic freedoms and to the assumption of dictatorial powers by the President.

Their treatment served as the pretext for the Jameson Raid in 1895 ; Cecil Rhodes planned an invasion of the Transvaal to coincide with an uprising of the uitlanders in Johannesburg.

He was elected President by the Third Seimas, but served for only six months, as he was deposed in a coup led by Antanas Smetona, under the pretext that there was an imminent communist plot to take over Lithuania.

Often the setup or “ plot ” of these shoots was fairly absurd and just served to provide a thin legal pretext for the display of the male physique.

Although a great number of Crimean Tatar men served in the Red Army and took part in the partisan movement in Crimea during the war, the existence of the Tatar Legion in the Nazi army and the collaboration of Crimean Tatar religious and political leaders with Hitler during the German occupation of Crimea provided the Soviets with a pretext for accusing the whole Crimean Tatar population of being Nazi collaborators.

Ten years later in 1879, the immense foreign debt of Ismail Pasha's government served as the pretext for the Great Powers to force his abdication and replacement by his son Tewfik Pasha.

This served as a pretext, if not a reason, for the Dutch government to renegotiate, resulting in the break-up.

The claim that Iraq initially had such weapons served as a pretext for the United States to invade and occupy that country.

Radio Islam's online library contains several complete works, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( which Encyclopædia Britannica describes as a " fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century "), Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Henry Ford's The International Jew, Arthur Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe ( a book whose thesis has been disproven through the field of genetics ), Israel Shahak's Jewish History, Jewish Religion, and Roger Garaudy's The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics ( which a French court found guilty of Holocaust denial and racial defamation ).

At least as late as 1862, the Tonkawa practiced cannibalism, which served as a pretext for the Comanche and other more bellicose tribes to attack the Tonkawa, despite the other tribes ' true agenda, which was most often military and political.

In postwar Eastern Europe, he served as the pretext for show trials in Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Hungary, which in their turn were used as a pretext to remove indigenous Communist Party members in favour of Moscow-based agents who had returned to their native lands behind the Red Army.

Poirot was introduced into the household under a false pretext by Mademoiselle Mesnard and he began by investigating the meal served on the night of M. Déroulard's death but found no leads there.

`` I've served as a counsel for the U.N. for some years, specializing particularly in real estate matters or other problems that the regular U.N. legal staff might not be equipped to handle.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

He suggested offering half to Sir Edward, fearing lest `` he shall thinke it to good for us and procure it for himselfe, as he served us the last time ''.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

Mustard cream, used as alternate dip for franks and pineapple tidbits, tastes best when served at room temperature.

Another less ambiguous case read as follows: `` The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.

Two pyrometers shown in figure 1 and 2 ( Pyrometer Instrument Co. Model 95 ) served for simultaneous measurement of the anode surface temperature and the temperature distribution along the anode holder.

In spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

Teachers who have been upward mobile probably see education as most valuable for their students if it serves students as it has served them ; ;

Although wanted by the sheriff for killing an old man named Asher Jones, the warrant for his arrest had never been served.

A refrigerated item could also be heated and served in less time than is required for frozen foods of the same type.

When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.

The school has not used cold prepared cereals for years, though at one time that was all they ever served.

two years later he served another three months for assault.

He served for a short time as both dancer and torch-bearer at the rites of Apollo Zosterius.

After the war, Fermi served for a short time on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, a scientific committee chaired by J. Robert Oppenheimer which advised the commission on nuclear matters and policy.

An agent Conrad met when travelling in the Congo, Georges-Antoine Klein, could also have served as a model for Kurtz ( in German klein means " small " and kurz means " short ").

Whereas infantry were usually issued short sabres as side arms, engineers and artillerymen often received fascine knives, as besides being side arms they also served as useful tools for the construction of fortifications and other utilitarian tasks.

People who are convicted of misdemeanors are often punished with probation, community service, short jail term, or part-time imprisonment ; served on the weekends.

He possibly served as a squire to Henry Bolingbroke ( later Henry IV of England ), son of John of Gaunt, at the short, sharp Battle of Radcot Bridge in December 1387.

Multiple short steeps of 20 seconds to 1 minute are performed ; the tea is often served in one-to two-ounce tasting cups.

It is traditionally served in a short, round, tumbler-like glass, which is called an Old Fashioned glass, named after the drink.

Capranica was protesting against the new Pope Eugene IV's refusal of a cardinalate for him, which had been designated by Pope Martin V. Arriving at Basel after enduring a stormy voyage to Genoa and then a trip across the Alps, he successively served Capranica, who ran short of money, and then other masters.

A short time later, Keith Packard created xwin. org, which mainly served as a meeting point for cultivating the XFree86 fork.

Speakers tended to have very short tenures ; for example, from 1839 to 1863 there were eleven Speakers, only one of whom served for more than one term.

This additional expenditure provided for an energetic revival of a policy of building health centres for GPs, extra pay for doctors who served in areas particularly short of them, a significant growth in hospital staffing, and a significant increase in a hospital building programme.

The regional airport service was introduced in the 1960s, with 30 airports being served by short take-off and landing aircraft.

For a short time he served with Gaspar de Jáuregui, known as " The Shepherd " ( El Pastor ), one of the minor guerrilla leaders.

The short novel, " If This Goes On —", describes a rebellion against an American theocracy and thus served as the vehicle for Heinlein to criticise the authoritarian potential of Protestant Christian fundamentalism.

He served as President pro tempore of the Indiana Senate for a short time and briefly held the office of acting Lieutenant Governor.

It begins as a typical Mickey cartoon of the time, but what would set this short apart from all that had come before was the appearance of a new character, whose behavior served as a running gag.

These include cábanos ( salty, short, thin, and served individually ), butifarra ( of Catalan origin ; spicier, shorter, fatter and moister than cábanos, often eaten raw, sliced and sprinkled with lemon juice ) and salchichón ( a long, thin and heavily processed sausage served in slices ).

Curtis served in the House from March 4, 1893 until January 28, 1907, when he resigned, after being chosen by the Kansas Legislature, to fill the short unexpired term of Senator Joseph R. Burton in the United States Senate.

Tolworth is served by South West Trains with its own train station located just a short was from the main shopping area called Tolworth Broadway.

After his graduation in 1934 he served a short time in the Dutch East Indies before he entered service in the Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine Service.

He served again a short periode as a Member of the House of Representatives, after the Dutch general election of 1946 from June 4, 1946 until July 4, 1946.

Most of this network was closed by British Railways in 1959 but the short section from Melton Constable railway station via Holt to Sheringham ( services continuing on to Cromer and Norwich ) escaped closure for a few more years-finally succumbing in 1964 when the branch was cut back to Sheringham ( now the nearest national rail-head, served by frequent services to Norwich along the ' Bittern Line ').

He served on the Board of the local water district and produced a short subject film about a water rights controversy with the federal government titled " The Fallbrook Story.