Venerating the dragon deity was meant to avert misfortune and calamity and encourage rainfall which is needed for the fertility of the crops and thus for the prosperity of an agrarian way of life.

Texas state law authorizes mayors to appoint Special Police Officers to enforce the municipality's laws, avert danger, or protect life or property ; because of riot, outbreak, calamity, or public disturbance ; or because of threat of serious violation of law or order, of outbreak, or of other danger to the municipality or its

Recently, the NMA was at the forefront of the struggle to avert a national health calamity in the reformation of these programs.

Gregory of Tours gives numerous instances of such litanies in time of calamity ; thus he describes a procession of the clergy and people round the city, in which relics of St Remigius were carried and litanies chanted in order to avert the plague.

I swear that I will dedicate my efforts to the well-being of the German people, enhance their benefits, avert harm from them, uphold and defend the Constitution and the statutes of the Federation, fulfil my duties conscientiously, and do justice to all.

Should anything of the kind happen ( and God avert the omen ), I foresee that our realm would suffer no harm, since England would not be absorbed by Scotland, but rather Scotland by England, being the noblest head of the entire island, since there is always less glory and honour in being joined to that which is far the greater, just as Normandy once came under the rule and power of our ancestors the English.

Its object was to avert the nemesis of the dead, who were supposed to have the power of punishing the living, if their cult had been in any way neglected ( Sophocles, Electra, 792 ; E. Rohde, Psyche, 1907, i. 236, note I ).

On August 1, 1914, he went to Paris with the object of finding out whether international action by the socialists of France and Germany could be initiated in order to avert World War I.

I spy is often played with young children as a means to avert boredom in long car journeys.

" Later that day she issued a request for federal assistance and USD $ 9 million in aid to President George W. Bush, which stated, "... I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster.

His privately printed pamphlet, My Mission to London 1912-1914 circulated in German upper-class circles in 1916, accused his government of failing to support him in efforts to avert World War I ; its 1917 publication in the United States led to his expulsion from the Prussian House of Lords.

This death, reviving memories of the poet's dead friends from World War I, is followed by a passage on Pound's 1939 visit to Washington, D. C. to try to avert American involvement in the forthcoming European war.

* Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life: To avert potential violence arising from planned anti-war protests, a government-sponsored rock festival was held near Portland, Oregon from August 28 to September 3, attracting 100, 000 participants.

King Edward I, when issuing writs for summoning Parliament in 1295, claimed that the King of France planned to invade England and extinguish the English language, " a truly detestable plan which may God avert ".

If at any time relations between the Parties or between either Party and other countries appear to involve the risk of a nuclear conflict, or if relations between countries not parties to this Agreement appear to involve the risk of nuclear war between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or between either Party and other countries, the United States and the Soviet Union, acting in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, shall immediately enter into urgent consultations with each other and make every effort to avert this risk.

In 2007, Person-to-Person helped more than 20, 000 people avert crisis and make ends meet.

For the sake of peace, and to avert a disastrous war, Krishna proposed that if Hastinapura agrees to give the Pandavas only five villages, they would be satisfied and would make no more demands.

Speaking to reporters he added following the announcement of the investigation: " If you want to avert a billion-dollar boondoggle, you have to make some difficult decisions ".

By the 1990s, Bank of Boston was looking to make another large acquisition, hoping to avert its own acquisition by a much larger player.

The Danes felt tricked and wanted to make a surprise attack on Birka in order to burn it and plunder it, but then Anund tried to avert their plans.

And woe to the disbelievers from a severe punishment ( 2 ) The ones who prefer the worldly life over the Hereafter and avert from the way of Allah, seeking to make it ( seem ) deviant.

In Genesis of the Daleks ( 1975 ), the Time Lords – having foreseen the possibility of the Daleks conquering the universe – send the Fourth Doctor into the past in an attempt to avert the Daleks ' creation, or affect their development to make them less aggressive.

Additionally, the scientists in charge of the time travel mission have no interest in attempting to avert the release of the deadly virus which killed most of the human population, and are instead only trying to obtain a pure strain of the original virus, in hopes that it will help them to cure the disease in their own time.

Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

To facilitate his plans for a coup against the Prussian government and to avert the danger of a general strike which had defeated the Kapp Putsch of 1920, Schleicher had a series of secret meetings with trade union leaders, during which he promised them a leading role in the new authoritarian political system he was building, in return for which he received a promise that there would be no general strike in support of Braun.

After this meeting, the president announced his resignation, declaring that he wished to avert a bloody power struggle " so all this can end peacefully and there is no bloodshed and no casualties ".

As a result, the United States will focus on “ effective efforts to support the full and complete deployment of UNAMID so that there is the capacity on the ground to begin to effect that civilian protection .” Several weeks later, Ambassador Rice expressed the United States ’ support of the International Criminal Court when they issued a warrant for Sudanese President Bashir ’ s arrest and also of UN Security Council Resolution 1593, which “ requires the Government of Sudan and all other parties to the conflict to cooperate fully with the ICC and its prosecutor .” Rice also stated that “ no one should use the ICC ’ s decision as a pretext to incite or launch violence against civilians or international personnel .” After Bashir expelled humanitarian aid groups, the U. S. committed itself to greater efforts “ with others to try to avert a deeper humanitarian crisis .”

Though the compromise is not explicitly mentioned in the book, it is clear that the aim of Sandorf and his fellow conspirators is to avert this ratification, seize control of Budapest and other major Hungarian cities, and get the Diet to declare instead a complete Hungarian independence-gambling that Austria, enfeebled by its recent defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, would have no choice but to accept this fait accompli.

However, Ptolemy also maintains that disastrous events will only follow a natural course if no counter action is taken to avert the problem, as when " future happenings to men are not known, or if they are known and the remedies are not applied ".

The only problem is he has no idea how to avert his fate.

An order of knights work to maintain balance of mana in the world to avert disaster, and protect the Mana Tree.

As this is an impossible situation because it would mean revolution on the largest scale, those whose money is invested in real estate must part with some of this, in order to finance the firms which must be kept going in order to maintain economy and avert revolution.

The estrangement between the secular and the spiritual authority which Ganganelli strove to avert is now irreparable, and his pontificate remains an exceptional episode in the general history of the Papacy, and a proof how little the logical sequence of events can be modified by the virtues and abilities of an individual.

With encouragement from Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, however, Barclay redeems himself and helps to uncover the cause of a critical multi-system failure on the Enterprise-D in time to avert the ship's destruction.

In the following year, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary to Malta in 1888 and held the office of Chief Secretary of Malta in 1889, a post which he held till 1902 when to avert more trouble in Malta which were created by his orders in councils to increase taxation, he was appointed as Governor of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean ( 1902 to 1904 ).

Back in Kuala Lumpur, Daim was asked to attend a Cabinet meeting whereat he briefed the Cabinet members of the political situation in Sarawak and impressed upon the Cabinet the need for emergency to be declared to avert a worsening of the situation caused by the demonstrations against the Chief Minister ’ s minority government.

Throughout the centuries, except for the initiated, most of the Japanese common folk knew little about its secretive doctrines and the monks of this " Mantra School " except that besides performing the usual priestly duties of prayers, blessings and funeral rites for the public, they practiced only Mikkyō ( 密教 ）, literally " secret ways " in stark contrast to all other Buddhist schools and were called upon to perform mystical rituals that could summon rain, improve harvests, exorcise demons, avert natural disasters, heal the sick and protect the state.

To avert the danger, an idea to have Dr. Phlox disable the Neocortex of all crewmembers, except himself, is deliberated among the senior officers.

During this time, Trigon was aware of his daughter's whereabouts, but rarely intervened except when a renegade monk of the cult attempted to cast Raven as an infant into another dimesion to avert her potential threat ; Trigon struck him down at the moment of the deed and allowed the cult to keep her safe at present.

Despite rejecting these terms, Constantius still tried to avert war with the Sassanid Empire by sending two embassies to Shapur II.

When Ciano asked if there was anything Italy could do to broker a Polish-German settlement that would avert a war, he was told by Ribbentrop that " We want war !".

" Aegeus must avert the plague caused by his crime by sending " young men at the same time as the best of unwed girls as a feast " to the Minotaur.

When order starts to return to the Confederation and Joshua Calvert is questioned as to why he moved the human race to such an isolated space he justified himself by saying that this will allow humanity to avert another " reality dysfunction " as this isolation will force itself to look inwards and re-evaluate itself as a whole.

" With the colonial and native civilizations in collision, compounded by British incitement of Indian tribes and mounting hostilities between the two peoples, Jefferson's administration took quick measures to avert another major conflict.

* André Maurois's The War against the Moon ( 1928 ), where a band of well-meaning conspirators intend to avert a devastating world war by uniting humanity in hatred of a fictitious Lunar enemy only to find that the moon is truly inhabited and that they had unwittingly set off the first interplanetary war.

At the same time Xuanzong exalted the ancient Laozi by granting him grand titles, wrote commentary on the Daoist Laozi, set up a school to prepare candidates for examinations on Daoist scriptures, and called upon the Indian monk Vajrabodhi ( 671 – 741 ) to perform Tantric rites to avert a drought in the year 726.

Despite being caught unprepared by the attack, Sherman rallied his division and conducted an orderly, fighting retreat that helped avert a disastrous Union rout.

To achieve a sustainable economy and avert disaster, the United States must reduce its population by at least one-third, and world population will have to be reduced by two-thirds, says study.

The part that can be heard is, "... and the dimensions appear to be collapsing on each other ..." and, "... perhaps by combining our forces, we may be able to avert this crisis which threatens all the infinite earths and all the divergent timestreams.

In Portugal, a general strike has been called by the federation of public labor unions to avert austerity measures.

Pandulf repaid this act of humility by using every means to avert the threatened French invasion of England.

They question survivors and follow clues, determined to avert the crisis by returning to the present and changing history.

Jackson's concurring opinion in 1952's Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer ( forbidding President Harry Truman's seizure of steel mills during the Korean War to avert a strike ), where Jackson formulated a three-tier test for evaluating claims of presidential power, remains one of the most widely cited opinions in Supreme Court history ( it was quoted repeatedly by Supreme Court nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito during their confirmation hearings ).

To avert a vaccine crisis, Congress in 1986 passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act ( NCVIA ), which established a federal no-fault system to compensate victims of injury caused by mandated vaccines.

He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825 – 6 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a market liquidity crisis.

The program of the Ara Pacis addressed this group's very real fears of cyclical history, and promised that the rule of Augustus would avert the cataclysmic destruction of the world predicted by contemporary models of historical thought.

April 1906 cover story of New York Worlds Sunday magazine written by William Beebe, advertising the Bronx Zoo's diversity of birdsIn December 1903, in an effort to avert another bout of Beebe's throat ailment, Hornaday sent him on an expedition to Mexico which would last until the following April.

To achieve a sustainable economy and avert disaster, the United States must reduce its population by at least one-third, and world population will have to be reduced by two-thirds, says the study.