Nevertheless, Sixtus IV quarrelled over protocol and prerogatives of jurisdiction, was unhappy with the excesses of the Inquisition and condemned the most flagrant abuses in 1482.

Andropov, " a throwback to a tradition of Leninist asceticism ", was appalled by the corruption during Brezhnev's regime, and ordered investigations and arrests of the most flagrant abusers.

The most flagrant episode was probably the creation and ratification of a new state constitution in 1879.

Because of the repeated military debacles from 113 BC to 109 BC and the accusations that the oligarchy was open to flagrant bribery, it became easier for the virtuous new man who had worked with difficulty up the ladder of offices to be elected as an alternative to the inept or corrupt nobility.

It seems to be a just conclusion that when in 1852 the Bay Islands were erected into a British " colony " this was a flagrant infraction of the treaty ; that as regards Belize the American arguments were decidedly stronger, and more correct historically ; and that as regards the Mosquito question, inasmuch as a protectorate seems certainly to have been recognized by the treaty, to demand its absolute abandonment was unwarranted, although to satisfy the treaty the United Kingdom was bound materially to weaken it.

The Lord's Day Act, which prohibited most commerce on Sundays, was also Brownlee's responsibility, though he had little enthusiasm for it and prosecuted only the most flagrant violations.

* Moonbeam McSwine: The unwashed but shapely form of languid, delectable Moonbeam was one of the iconic hallmarks of Li ' l Abner — an unkempt, impossibly lazy, corncob pipe-smoking, flagrant ( and fragrant ), raven-haired, earthly ( and earthy ) goddess.

In 1831, his father's quarrel with the Porte having become flagrant, Ibrahim was sent to conquer Syria.

In 1542 he warmly supported the privileges of the Commons, but his conduct was inspired as usual by subservience to the court, which desired to secure a subsidy, and his opinion that the arrest was a flagrant contempt has been questioned by good authority.

This authorization is not needed in case of a flagrant felony ( e. g. the parliamentarian was caught red-handed ) or in case of a definitive condemnation by a court of law.

She devoted herself to caring for her ailing deaf mother, who was deeply depressed by her husband's flagrant affair with a neighbor woman.

Enrollments of foreigners were abolished, corporal punishments were limited to flagrant cases of insubordination, promotion for merit was established, and the military administration organized and simplified.

Lord Vetinari was particularly interested in the classical arts and, ( in flagrant defiance of the Guild's conventions of style ,) camouflage, though he was failed in his stealth examination ( due to the examiner's belief that he had used trickery and his apparent absence in classes ).

As some have pointed out, one of the most flagrant problems of the collaborative response was that “ abnegation of responsibility is possible because there is no formal responsibility apportioned to agencies under the Collaborative Response, and thus no accountability when agencies renege on their promises .” The cluster approach – the successor to the collaborative approach-tried to do away with this problem by designating individual agencies as ‘ sector leaders ’ to coordinate operations in specific areas to try to plug those newly identified gaps.

And indeed its injustice was flagrant.

Pérez was accused, however, of flagrant violations of human rights related to the torture and extrajudicial killings of insurgents and political leaders.

" TIME magazine named the car to its list of the 50 worst cars of all time, stating that the Cimarron represented " verything that was wrong, venal, lazy and mendacious about GM in the 1980s ... in flagrant insult to the good name and fine customers of Cadillac ," and that the car " nearly killed Cadillac and remains its biggest shame.

During the Presidential election of 1856, Morrill believed James Buchanan was a good candidate, however he stated the Democratic Party's platform was " a flagrant outrage upon the country and an insult to the North.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Although technically in breach of the statutory monopoly, CCT Boatphone was backed by a powerful collection of local interests known as the BVI Investment Club.

Taking advantage of this breach, Württemberg ’ s Danish cavalry now swept forward, wheeling to penetrate the flank of the Maison du Roi whose attention was almost entirely fixed on holding back the Dutch.

His own breach with the Roman Catholic Church was decisive and irreparable.

Hayes had met Young Conservative Paul Stone at the 1991 Conservative conference and that same evening, " committed a lewd act which was in breach of the law at the time ".

The most serious breach in the relationship was the War of 1812, which saw an American invasion of then British North America and counter-invasions from British-Canadian forces.

This was viewed as a breach of faith by Atchison and his supporters.

Guyana Airways Corporation was therefore obliged to fill the breach by commencing jet operations to Miami, New York and Toronto.

Gunpowder was invented, documented, and used in China where the Chinese military forces used gunpowder-based weapons technology ( i. e. rockets, guns, cannon ) and explosives ( i. e. grenades and different types of bombs ) against the Mongols when the Mongols attempted to invade and breach the Chinese city fortifications on the northern borders of China.

This was in breach of the Treaty of Versailles ; Britain, France or Italy issued notes of protest.

He wired Carnarvon to come, and on 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carnarvon's daughter, and others in attendance, Carter made the " tiny breach in the top left hand corner " of the doorway, and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place.

The event started at 16: 00 ( a time chosen so as not to breach the sabbath ) and was broadcasted live as the first transmission of the new radio station Kol Yisrael.

Technically, the men involved were considered to be in a serious breach of IRA discipline and were liable to be court-martialed, but it was considered more politically expedient to hold them up as examples of a rejuvenated militarism.

However, the term is frequently used to refer to a practice in which an insider or a related party trades based on material non-public information obtained during the performance of the insider's duties at the corporation, or otherwise in breach of a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence or where the non-public information was misappropriated from the company.

He was charged with breach of the salt law, tried summarily behind prison walls and sentenced to six months of imprisonment.

Libya's use — and heavy loss — of Soviet-supplied weaponry in its war with Chad was a notable breach of an apparent Soviet-Libyan understanding not to use the weapons for activities inconsistent with Soviet objectives.

After the breach between Jackson and Calhoun, Van Buren was clearly the most prominent candidate for the vice-presidency.

The rampart was complete in the spring of 73, after probably two to three months of siege, allowing the Romans to finally breach the wall of the fortress with a battering ram on April 16.

The violation of the building code establishes negligence per se and the contractor will be found liable, so long as the contractor's breach of the code was the cause ( proximate cause and actual cause ) of the injury.

The very first Nieuwe Waterweg — a breach through the dunes at Hook of Holland — was only long, but in around 1877 the channel was made much larger and wider and the current Nieuwe Waterweg was created.

The Court found in its verdict that the United States was " in breach of its obligations under customary international law not to use force against another State ", " not to intervene in its affairs ", " not to violate its sovereignty ", " not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce ", and " in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

We know that the Saxon Shore was a phenonenon of late Roman defensive policy ; ;

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

for still others, mostly of the nineteenth-century immigration, it was Roman Catholicism, and for a small minority it was Eastern Orthodoxy.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves: they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves.

Apollo was worshipped throughout the Roman Empire.

The Roman worship of Apollo was adopted from the Greeks.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Its intent was to provide the basis for discussions of reunion with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, but it had the ancillary effect of establishing parameters of Anglican identity.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.