Manfred submitted, although probably only to gain time and counter the menace from Edmund, and received the title of Papal vicar for southern Italy.

They have no counter part in the southern hemisphere.

Using the most favoured nation clause that it had negotiated with Peking, the United Kingdom demanded the extension of Kowloon to counter the influence of France in southern China in June 1898.

It is a commonly held misconception that when flushed, the water in a toilet bowl swirls one way if the toilet is north of the equator and the other way if south of the equator, due to the Coriolis effect – usually, counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

An information counter provides local information regarding not only tourist attractions in Savannah and Hilton Head but most other coastal areas of Georgia and southern South Carolina.

The island now is uninhabited but there is a small Italo-Albanian naval base, used mainly to counter contraband between southern Italy and Albania.

The areas of highest predictable risk appear to be where a strong current runs counter to the primary direction of travel of the waves ; the area near Cape Agulhas off the southern tip of Africa is one such area ; the warm Agulhas current runs to the southwest, while the dominant winds are westerlies.

It was decided to build a two-year Normal school in the southern part of the state to counter the trend.

Unable to break the blockade by US Navy ships of southern ( Confederate ) ports, and hoping to draw these blockading ships away to counter other perceived threats, the Confederate States of America had commerce raiders built in Britain and France.

While the bulk of Army Group Centre was being forced, by the advance of the 1st Ukrainian Front, to withdraw along its lines of communication to the south-west towards Czechoslovakia, the southern flank of 4th Panzer Army had some local successes counter attacking north against the 1st Ukrainian Front, Hitler gave orders which showed that his grasp of military reality had gone.

At the southern breach the defenders counter attacked.

The following years witnessed a counter attempt to introduce the Scottish liturgy into England, especially for those who in the southern kingdom were inclined to Presbyterianism.

During the deployment they supported the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in southern Afghanistan and counter piracy operations off the coast of Africa.

In July 1940, after the defeat of the French armies and the consequent armistice with Germany, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, asked the Free French government-in-exile ( headed by General Charles de Gaulle ) to set up a secret service agency in occupied France to counter the threat of a German operation code-named Operation Sea Lion, the expected cross-channel invasion of Britain.

To counter the force of the North Sea and the winds off it, H. Rider Haggard sloped the cliff on the edge of his property and experimented with growing Marram Grass upon it.

Also included is the deployment of one of the RAN's frigates to the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on counter piracy and maritime interdiction duties.

The primary task of the fleet in the first period of its existence was to counter the power of the Hanseatic League and secure control in the Baltic Sea.

To counter this rising threat, in that year John X invited Hugh of Provence to be the next king of Italy, sending his envoy to Pisa to be among the first to greet Hugh as he arrived.

The summit strengthened the basis for regional cooperation on justice and counter narcotics issues, finance, development, and trade.

She explored the commercial potential of Russian, African, and Baltic markets, revised the customs system, worked to counter the currency debasements of her predecessors, amalgamated several revenue courts, and strengthened the governing authority of the middling and larger towns.

They strengthened editorial restrictions to counter the effect.

A punt can be punted with equal facility in either direction, so it is not obvious to the novice which end is the bow and which the stern ; however, one end of the boat is strengthened with a short deck, usually called a " counter " or a " till " ( terms from cabinet making ), that extends some six feet ( 2 m ) from that end.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

In order to keep track of its position within the display, the Electron maintains an internal display address counter.

In 1977, development of a significantly improved Phoenix version, the AIM-54C, was developed to better counter projected threats from tactical anti-naval aircraft and cruise missiles, and its final upgrade included a re-programmable memory capability to keep pace with emerging ECM.

Such a move adds greatly to the risk of having to face the doubling cube coming back at 8 times its original value when first doubling the opponent ( offered at 2 points, counter offered at 16 points ) should the luck of the dice change.

As a result, Confucianism was promoted by the emperor and the men its doctrines produced became an effective counter to the remaining feudal aristocrats who threatened the unity of the imperial state.

Despite its failure to control the rodents, the cane toad was introduced to Puerto Rico in the early 20th century in the hope that it would counter a beetle infestation ravaging the sugarcane plantations.

The new wave of industrialization based upon information technology had left the Soviet Union desperate for Western technology and credits in order to counter its increasing backwardness.

An asynchronous ( ripple ) counter is a single JK-type flip-flop, with its J ( data ) input fed from its own inverted output.

The port of Djibouti functions as a small French naval facility, and the United States also has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.

As it was formulated to educate the public on how to counter doublespeak via education, its aim was to reach the widest possible audience of citizens.

It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors ( the " Gang of Nine ") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture ( MCA ) in its PS / 2 series.

To counter this, the EPP ( party ) expanded its remit to cover the centre-right regardless of tradition and pursued a policy of integrating Conservative parties.

The animal relies on the forward and backward motions of its head and neck to maintain balance and the counter momentum while galloping.

The Geiger counter is probably the best-known radiation instrument by society due to its wide and highly visible use as a hand held radiation survey instrument.

They are often designed in a one-way layout, leading customers counter clockwise along what IKEA calls " the long natural way " designed to encourage the customer to see the store in its entirety ( as opposed to a traditional retail store, which allows a consumer to go directly to the section where the goods and services needed are displayed ).

* In 2011, IKEA and its Swedwood affiliate came under criticism for its treatment of workers at a U. S. factory in Danville, Virginia and its decision to hire the law firm Jackson Lewis, which is often employed by companies to counter labor demands, to consult with IKEA on attempts to form a union at Danville.

The design was not a uniquely British concept as similar ships were being built around the world, nor was it uniquely intended as a counter to German naval expansion, but the effect was to immediately require Germany to reconsider its naval building program.

At power-up, the central processor would load its program counter with the address of the boot ROM and start executing ROM instructions.

Galileo used its brief appearance to counter the Aristotelian dogma that the heavens are changeless.

* Program counter, a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence

In the 1980s, the IBM PC and its clones largely took over the small computer market, and DEC was unable to counter this competition.