Their purpose was to offer in-depth analysis of current affairs that would counter the perceived bias of the newspapers in addition to being the company's response to the popularity of Gollancz's Left Book Club.

Unum attempted to counter the accusations by noting that " only 2 % of the policyholders who filed a claim with the company last year were found not to be disabled, an amount consistent with prior experience ," and that court judgments in the prior year were in the company's favor 75 % of the time.

The successful reestablishment of the flax industry in 1907 did much to counter these problems, generating considerable income during the war years.

In order to counter this, and possibly with an eye already at the mounting Persian preparations, in 483 / 2 BC the Athenian statesman Themistocles used his political skills and influence to persuade the Athenian assembly to start the construction of 200 triremes, using the income of the newly discovered silver mines at Laurion.

The Petroleum Fund was established in 1990 after a decision by the country's legislature to counter the effects of the forthcoming decline in income and to smooth out the disrupting effects of highly fluctuating oil prices.

To counter a possible criticism of such theories, Fehr and Tougareva ( 1995 ) showed these reciprocal exchanges ( efficiency-enhancing ) are independent of the stakes involved ( they compared outcomes with stakes worth a week ’ s income with stakes worth 3 months ’ income, and found no difference ).

For example, to counter potential allegations of corruption and unexplained wealth and to avoid potential conflicts between private interests and public responsibilities, the Code requires every Minister, upon appointment to office, to disclose in confidence to the President through the Prime Minister all sources of income other than his salary as a Minister and as an MP.

After being appointed as mine manager at the age of 23, he led a major program of expansion for the Sons of Gwalia gold mine at Gwalia, Western Australia, and brought in many Italian immigrants to cut costs and counter the union militancy of the Australian miners.

A former United States Marine and retired service station manager, McVay found that he had an ample amount of spare time to dedicate to researching and transcribing historical documents, so that they could be made available online to counter the arguments of the deniers.

There he worked as a bookshop manager, a bus conductor, and a Post Office counter clerk.

With Don Sutton needing another day of rest, Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda started left-hander Doug Rau to counter the Yankees ' left-handed power.

The series ' other main characters include Tipton hotel's ditzy heiress London Tipton ( Brenda Song ), the hotel's candy counter girl Maddie ( Ashley Tisdale ), the hotel's manager, Mr. Moseby ( Phill Lewis ), and the boys ' single mother and one of the hotel's nightclub performers, Carey ( Kim Rhodes ).

Two " robbers " -- with the full knowledge and permission of the cashier and manager of the store -- waited until there were either one or two other customers at the checkout counter.

Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the " whites only " counter and the store's manager asked them to leave.

To counter this, Hell's manager Jack Davenport ( Gael García Bernal ) decides to send one of his more troublesome agents, Carmen ( Penélope Cruz ), who was a male ex-gangster punished by being converted into a waitress, to fight back by impersonating Many's cousin.

Liddell landed a head kick and had Franklin staggered and in all kinds of trouble until Rich Franklin connected with a counter right hook knocking Liddell out uncouncious in the first round with five seconds remaining until the end of the round, ending his legendary mixed martial arts career.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

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 ).

Advocacy planning and participatory models of planning emerged in the 1960s to counter these traditional elitist and technocratic approaches to urban planning ( Irving 1993 ; Hatuka & D ' Hooghe 2007 ).

To counter the Genoese predominance in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Pisa strengthened its relationship with their Spanish and French traditional bases ( Marseille, Narbonne, Barcelona, etc.

The counter claim to this is that such a defense does not logically explain why some arguments from reason would be forbidden or ignored, while others are favoured, which tends to be a property of all religion and traditional wisdom.

In Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek initiated the Chinese Culture Renaissance Movement to counter what he regarded as destruction of traditional Chinese values by the Communists on the mainland.

This runs counter to the traditional beliefs of working mathematicians, that mathematics is somehow pure or objective.

The DEA itself was in part intended to serve as an expansionary counter-weight to what Labour saw as the conservative influence of the Treasury, though the appointment of Wilson's deputy, George Brown, as the Minister in charge of the DEA was something of a two-edged sword, in view of Brown's reputation for erratic conduct ; in any case the government's decision over its first three years to defend sterling's parity with traditional deflationary measures ran counter to hopes for an expansionist push for growth.

LGBT activists counter that traditional media have played a role in emphasizing the most outlandish and therefore non-representative aspects of the community.

The word miso itself derives from the original numeric system in Japanese: mi is the traditional word for 3, also still found in some counter word compounds such as mittsu ( 三つ ), while the suffix-so used to be added to native numerals, thus 30 would be mi + so.

Palmer, however, was unable to counter widespread discontent among Labour's traditional supporters, and a few months before the 1990 election, Palmer was replaced by Mike Moore.

Solidago virgaurea is used in a traditional kidney tonic by practitioners of herbal medicine to counter inflammation and irritation caused of bacterial infections or kidney stones.

Hawaiian, the only occupant of the inter-island terminal, will be removing the traditional check-in counter, to install six circular check-in islands in the middle of the lobbies.

Diners built recently generally have a different type of architecture ; they are laid out more like restaurants, retaining some aspects of traditional diner architecture ( stainless steel and Art Deco elements, usually ) while discarding others ( the small size, and emphasis on the counter ).

The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a ( mental or spoken ) counter by a unit for every element of the set, in some order, while marking ( or displacing ) those elements to avoid visiting the same element more than once, until no unmarked elements are left ; if the counter was set to one after the first object, the value after visiting the final object gives the desired number of elements.

Although earlier in his career he had opposed them, Beecher stoked controversy by advocating " new measures " of evangelism that ran counter to traditional Calvinist understanding.

In multithreaded systems, COW can be implemented without the use of traditional locking and instead use Compare-and-swap to increment or decrement the internal reference counter.

Shopkeepers were instructed to place the lollipops near the cash register within reach of children's hands, instead of the traditional placement behind the counter.

To counter the traditional influence of Christian festivals educationalists in line with market forces have often promoted references to Santa Claus, Valentines and Halloween, particularly at primary school level.

The warriors became a significant counter influence to the leadership of the traditional Council of Forty-Four chiefs, who as generally more mature men, were likely to favor working for peace with the whites.

This presented research on Russia's traditional social institutions, which the Tsar's advisors believed would effectively counter Custine's work.

Supporters of Vale Tudo counter that the sanctioned mixed martial arts style that developed in the United States is now so different from traditional Vale Tudo that it should be treated as an entirely different sport, just as Kickboxing is considered different from Muay Thai.

For example, " four apples " is りんご四個 ringo yonko where 個 ko is the counter, but can also be expressed, using the traditional numeral four, as りんご四つ ringo yottsu.

To counter this, when the receiving team expects an onside kick to be attempted, it will often substitute a " hands team " consisting of players skilled at catching or otherwise securing the ball.

They primarily were used for status symbols of either skilled duelers, a swordmaker's example of skill, dueling in general, and while thought to perhaps be used to counter cavalry, such things were never proven.

The skilled gamesman can counter this tactic by waiting until the game has been in play for some time, before revealing that he or she suffers from a far more serious condition, such as a heart defect

The different rules of slowpitch can be viewed as maintaining a competitive balance for less skilled players by eliminating certain strategies ( e. g., base stealing and bunting ) which require a high level of skill to counter.

Head coach Jacques Lemaire created the line to counter the larger skilled players of the Eastern Conference, including Eric Lindros, Cam Neely, and Jaromir Jagr.