At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

The city remained a Free Imperial City, subject to the Emperor only, but was politically far too weak to influence the policies of any of its neighbours.

With the reasoning that a divorce from Octavia and a marriage to Poppaea was not politically feasible with Agrippina alive, Nero decided to kill Agrippina.

While these positions were well suited for most of his local constituency, this was not the case when he stepped outside that region politically.

Whatever professionalism there was tended to disguise itself ; it was possible to pay for the services of a speechwriter ( logographos ) but this was not advertised in court ( except as something your opponent had to resort to ), and even politically prominent litigants made some show of disowning special expertise.

Additionally, the claimants to this ancestry also claim descendancy from Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out over 1500 years before the Assyrian dynasty fell ), and from Nabopolassar, who was a Chaldean, politically and militarily opposed to Assyria, and not in fact an Assyrian.

Capp, who by all accounts was contrary and contentious by nature, was a maverick politically.

The Alexandria of his boyhood was an epitome — intellectually, morally, and politically — of the ethnically diverse Graeco-Roman world.

However, after the 1440 death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united with the main Brandenburg line, remaining independent as " Brandenburg-Ansbach ".

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

During the campaign, questions of conflict of interest regarding state business and the politically powerful Rose Law Firm, at which Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner, arose.

Brock later apologized to Clinton, saying the article was politically motivated " bad journalism " and that " the troopers were greedy and had slimy motives.

Historically, the First Army was the most politically significant because of Rio de Janeiro's position as the nation's capital through the 1950s.

Producer Lee Smith was dropped and KRS-One adopted the Teacha moniker and made a deliberate attempt at creating politically and socially conscious Hip-Hop.

The French Directory agreed with Bonaparte's plans, although a major factor in their decision was a desire to see the politically ambitious Bonaparte and the fiercely loyal veterans of his Italian campaigns as far from France as possible.

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

Widespread interest in the region itself and the term itself was re-discovered by the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half.

Especially criticized was the A11 Zagreb-Sisak, suspected of being politically motivated and inefficiently built.

Sabine Ulibarri, an author from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, once attempted to note that " Chicano " was a politically " loaded " term, although Ulibarri has recanted that assessment.

Members of the government and security authorities increasingly accused the FARC of continuing to recruit guerrillas, as well as kidnapping, extorting and politically intimidating voters even as the UP was already participating in politics.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

The Congress of Vienna is a convenient starting point because it both epitomized and symbolized what was to follow.

they accepted a job primarily because it was available, convenient, and paid reasonably.

Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr ( diatomaceous earth ) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as ' dynamite '.

Accounts vary wildly with regard to this private incident and according to more modern sources, it is possible ( but exceedingly convenient ) that Claudius died of natural causes ; Claudius was 63 years old.

And according to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes.

Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.

Also, the old airfield at Rabasa was closed and air traffic moved to the new El Altet Airport, which made a more convenient and modern facility for charter flights bringing tourists from northern European countries.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

A shorter weapon was more convenient when riding in a truck, armored personnel carrier, helicopter or aircraft, and also when engaged in close-range combat.

The Fahrenheit scale later was redefined to make the freezing-to-boiling interval exactly 180 degrees, a convenient value as 180 is a highly composite number, meaning that it is evenly divisible into many fractions.

Because it was tested for other conditions, DCA is known to be relatively safe, available, and inexpensive, and it can be taken by mouth as a pill, which is convenient.

* The femtometre, a convenient unit of length in dealing with distances inside the atomic nucleus, was coined the " fermi " by Robert Hofstadter in a 1956, and is still a term widely used.

Rather than there being any convenient date for the " fall of the Roman Empire " there was a progressive " de-Romanization " of the Western Roman Empire in Hispania and a weakening of central authority, throughout the 3rd, 4th and 5th centuries.

The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be ported overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous circumnavigation of Jutland.

The game was played with a wooden curved bat ( called Colf or Kolf ) and a ball made of wood or leather between two poles or simply convenient nearby landmarks, with the object hitting the chosen point with the least number of strokes.

The end date for identifying a printed book as an incunable is convenient but was chosen arbitrarily.

The object of the conference was " To consider the advisability of all maritime nations adopting similar methods in preparation, construction, and production of their charts and all hydrographic publications ; of rendering the results in the most convenient form to enable them to be readily used ; of instituting a prompt system of mutual exchange of hydrographic information between all countries ; and of providing an opportunity to consultations and discussions to be carried out on hydrographic subjects generally by the hydrographic experts of the world.

The application of steam engines to powering cotton mills and ironworks enabled these to be built in places that were most convenient because other resources were available, rather than where there was water to power a watermill.

The formal kimono was replaced by the more convenient Western clothes and yukata as everyday wear.

Still, it was central to one of the most convenient trans-Saharan routes.

It was not until 1949 that comic book writers incorporated kryptonite into their stories, as both a convenient danger and weakness for Superman and to add an interesting element to his stories.

Although the existence of molecules has been accepted by many chemists since the early 19th century as a result of Dalton's laws of Definite and Multiple Proportions ( 1803 – 1808 ) and Avogadro's law ( 1811 ), there was some resistance among positivists and physicists such as Mach, Boltzmann, Maxwell, and Gibbs, who saw molecules merely as convenient mathematical constructs.

The Avatar Storm was a very convenient explanation for the Underground's loss of power and influence, though they also became more vulnerable to Paradox.