This situation resulted in both towns claiming the tax, and probably justifiably.

Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

The Native Ecuadorian population, in contrast, probably experienced an overall improvement in its situation, as the closing of the obrajes commonly led Native Ecuadorians to work under less arduous conditions on either haciendas or traditional communal lands.

The elder Cecils loudly voiced their outrage at the rumors, which probably worsened the situation.

Although this was probably originally intended to avoid a situation where the Vice President was presiding over a debate that could ultimately result in his promotion to the presidency ( were the President convicted and removed from office ), it also prevents a possibly more likely contemporary scenario, where a President accused of some offense is being tried by the Senate presided over by a Vice President who may well be sympathetic to the President, reducing the independence of the Senate's consideration of the delicate question of whether to remove a sitting chief executive.

He probably refers to Pope Eleuterus, who long hesitated, but after a conscientious and thorough study of the situation, is supposed to have declared against the Montanists.

This name was probably derived from its situation on a high rock, between 250 and 300 feet above the sea ; whence we find it characterised as arce potens Tarraco.

This assessment of the situation probably is too simplistic, however.

In 304, Maximian met up with Galerius, probably to discuss the succession issue and Constantius either was not invited or could not make it due to the situation on the Rhine.

Grousset, probably describing the situation after the Xiongnu had been driven north, places the Chanyu on the upper Orkhon near where Ghengis Khan would later establish his capital of Karakorum.

The other wizards have gradually become used to the situation, to the extent that, from Night Watch: ‘ if someone ever reported that there was an orang-utan in the Library, the wizards would probably go and ask the Librarian if he'd seen it .’

This is probably the best and most famous English language exposé of the Yaqui situation in Mexico during the early 20th century.

With the situation looking increasingly dangerous for his army, Napoleon reassessed the developments and probably noted that he was holding the central position of an increasingly curved battlefront.

But this is probably a rare situation as most planets that don't belong to a star system would not be able to support life.

In the settlement of Sicily after the defeat of Pompey, Tauromenium was one of the places selected by Augustus to receive a Roman colony, probably as a measure of precaution, on account of the strength of its situation, as we are told that he expelled the former inhabitants to make room for his new colonists.

On August 3, 2006, Abizaid, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the following about the situation on the ground in Iraq: " I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I ’ ve seen it, in Baghdad in particular, and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil war.

In September, when The Relapse had still not been staged after six months of trying ( probably because Rich was still parleying with Cibber about his availability as Lord Foppington ), John was still complaining about his employment situation, even getting into a physical fight over it at the theatre.

Sage tells Cat that she is probably too close to the situation and that it is time for a fresh mind and a new perspective.

1, f. 3, probably representing the library of the Dukes of Burgundy rather than a normal situation.

The threat to British control of the region posed by the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935 and the deteriorating situation in Europe toward the end of the 1930s probably made British policy makers more willing to make concessions to Arab governments on the Palestine issue following the furore over the recommendations of the Peel Commission.

This unexpected situation was probably due to spontaneous pituitary apoplexy, in this case, selectively involving his tumor but not the remainder of his own pituitary gland.

Despite the favorable situation, the Manchus pushed for peace negotiations, probably because Hong Taiji was concerned about the home defence.

Some of the speeches are probably fabricated according to his expectations of, as he puts it, " what was called for in each situation " ( 1. 22. 2 ).

Thomas de Quincey later wrote of the work " Mr Landor is probably the one man in Europe that has adequately conceived the situation, the stern self-dependency and monumental misery of Count Julian ".

This situation persisted until the Convention, elected by universal male suffrage and charged with writing a new constitution, met on 20 September 1792 and became the new de facto government of France.

This situation persisted until a National Convention, charged with writing a new constitution, met on 20 September 1792 and became the new de facto government of France.

This situation persisted until 1939, when Scottish marriage laws were reformed by the Marriage ( Scotland ) Act 1939 and handfasting was no longer recognized.

This situation persisted until about 1710, when the East India Company began importing tea directly from China.

These aging diplomats persisted in this anomalous situation until the ultimate restoration of Baltic independence.

The protection treaty did have the effect of stabilising the situation but pockets of rebellion persisted, and were put down by an elite German regiment Schutztruppe, while real peace was never achieved between the colonialists and the natives.

This situation persisted until 1850 when residents of the area complained about the distance to the Poinsett County seat.

Soon after, they effectively disfranchised most blacks, a situation that persisted until after the Civil Rights-era legislation of the mid-1960s.

This situation persisted until the 1960s ; until 1962, no African Americans were allowed to register to vote in Lake Providence.

They were totally closed out of the political process and participation on juries and in office, a situation that persisted until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.

A confrontational situation persisted, with considerable tension, over the decades after the establishment of St. Patrick's, and was eventually settled, more-or-less, by the signing of a six-point agreement of 1300, Pacis Compositio.

This situation persisted for an entire orbit ( 90 minutes ), then the final set of emergency procedures were received and the latches finally disengaged.

The situation persisted for an entire orbit, 90 minutes, when the final set of emergency procedures were received and the crew finally disengaged the latches.

The town of Reading was initially governed by an open town meeting and a board of selectmen, a situation that persisted until the 1940s.

This situation persisted until the first half of the 20th century when motorised road transport ( cars, buses and trucks ) gradually began to take over from railways as the most important form of land transport.

This situation persisted until 1974 with the Local Government Act 1972, when due to urban expansion and the accretion of a large metropolitan area, the city was made a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of Merseyside.

Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, fishing, forestry, and farming ( including the planting of extensive orchards in the Okanagan region ) became the " three F's " on which the new province built its economy — a situation that persisted well into the late twentieth century.

The economic situation persisted.

The economic problems that began under Brezhnev persisted into the short administrations of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko both of whom instituted reform policies but whether the economic situation improved as a result is disputed.

This situation persisted until the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844, when it became the Hundred of Norham in Northumberland, to which it had already been united for Parliamentary purposes by the Reform Act 1832.

This situation persisted until the 1670s, when the Moghul khans apparently tried to reassert their authority by expelling the leader of the Aq Taghlik.

The situation quickly disintegrated for Herrick's 2nd Platoon, which began taking casualties as the North Vietnamese attack persisted.

This situation persisted until the mid-to-late 19th century, when married women's property acts started to be passed in many English-speaking legal jurisdictions, setting the stage for further reforms.

This situation persisted until the Second World War, with hotels developing and a tradition of families returning year after year.