They believed that the Labour Party, which is partly funded by affiliated trade unions, was unable and unwilling to counter these developments and that Wilson was either a Soviet agent or at the very least a Communist sympathiser – claims Wilson strongly denied.

He successively sends drought, famine and plague to eliminate humanity, but Enki thwarts his half-brother's plans by teaching Atrahasis how to counter these threats.

In many cases these were levied in the absence of any actual military campaign, which ran counter to the original idea that scutage was an alternative to actual military service.

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 ).

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

Passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 were able to assess their situation based on these conversations and plan a counter attack that resulted in the aircraft crashing before it reached its intended target.

Proponents counter that it may have been possible for life to survive in these ways:

The Raiders and their fans were often known to counter these accusations against Atkinson and Jack Tatum by pointing out the physical way that Pittsburgh cornerback Mel Blount covered Oakland's speedy split end Cliff Branch.

Due to political attacks against Jefferson, in particular those by Alexander Hamilton and his supporters, he used the Alien and Sedition Acts to counter some of these political adversaries.

( Note 37 ) Many of these tests were conducted under the so-called MKUltra program, established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing techniques.

While the two drugs mentioned above are available over the counter in most countries, the effectiveness of these agents may decrease over time, and the incidence of next-day sedation is higher than for most of the newer prescription drugs.

To counter these tactics, and to widen the scope of their demonstrations against timber harvesting, Earth First!

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

The debate in the U. S. over rationing has enraged some in the UK and statements made by politicians such as Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley resulted in a mass internet protest on web sites such as Twitter and Facebook under the banner title " WelovetheNHS " with positive stories of NHS experiences to counter the negative ones being expressed by these politicians and others and by certain media outlets such as Investors Business Daily and Fox News.

Foremost of these are the National Security Unit, which handles intelligence operations and the special unit Víkingasveitin, a highly trained and equipped counter terrorism unit which is part of the National Police force.

However due to the forward position of these airfields, the Royal Air Force Commandos were also trained to secure and make safe these airfields and to help defend them from enemy counter attack.

In the third round Mayorga attempted to counter with punches to the body but did not do significant damage to his opponent, however later in the round one of these punches made Trinidad lose his balance and touch the floor with one glove which the referee counted as a knockdown.

Capability development, which is often referred to as the military " strength ", is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining: Strategic, operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats ; Strategic, operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used ; identifying concepts, methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines ; creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat ; purchase the concepts, methods and systems ; create a forces structure that would use the concepts, methods and systems most effectively and efficiently ; integrate these concepts, methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education, training, and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use ; create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organisations under combat conditions, including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment ; the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment ; and finally post-conflict demobilisation and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements.

It suffered imposed sanctions by African countries during apartheid, which forced it to adopt long-range aircraft and other measures to counter these restrictions.

Alternatively her canonisation might have been intended to counter any such pejorative connotations, especially if her story was fictitious, as many authorities think possible, including the Roman Catholic Church since 1969 ( for details of these doubts, see under Saint Barbara ).

Once these divisions were ready, the rest of the corps would withdraw towards them, luring the allies to attack, while Napoleon, leading the main 110, 000 strong French force, would come around the allied flank and counter attack.

Philosophers may use author-surrogates to express their personal positions, especially if these are unpopular or run counter to established views.

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.

The counter electrode is usually made of an inert material, such as a noble metal or graphite, to keep it from dissolving.

To counter this, defences usually keep a matching number of defenders near those attackers.

It has also been employed as a " hardware " counter in some designs ; a famous example of this is the ZX81, which lets it keep track of character positions on the TV screen by triggering an interrupt at wrap around ( by connecting INT to A6 ).

Rather, it performs a maneuver derived from the standard countercolumn command, generally known as counter march or colors reverse march, in order to keep the precedence of flags in order.

A simple rule of thumb to keep the point of the sword pointed to the opponent ( or at within the area of the gate ) while attempting to parry in all angles, will provide a good foundation for an appropriate counter maneuver reflexes.

There is the counter point, however, that industries with an oligarchy of companies can be quite corrupt, with collusive price-fixing, pressuring dependent businesses, etc., and only by having a portion of the market owned by someone other than that oligarchy, i. e. public sector, can keep them in line.

All methods require some sort of counter to keep track of which row is the next to be refreshed.

* April 24 – The Beatles make a $ 5. 1 million counter offer to the Northern Songs stockholders in an attempt to keep Associated TV from controlling the band's music.

Heydrich came to Prague to " strengthen policy, carry out counter measures against resistance " and keep up production quotas of Czech motor and arms that were " extremely important to the German war effort ".

This was to ensure peace and friendship between the two States, achieving recognition of Fernando VII, discuss with sincerity and good faith all the points in dispute within limits, maintain and keep united to Spain the Spanish possessions in the New World, buy guns, schooners and supplies to help to Spain in its war against the French, and finally, to counter the Bonapartist propaganda in United States.

The basic theme of card counting is that since a low card is usually bad and a high card is usually good and since the cards that have already been used since the last shuffle cannot be at the top of the deck and therefore cannot be drawn, the counter can keep track of the high and low cards that have already been played and know the probability of getting a high ( 10, J, Q, K, A ) as compared to low, ( 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ).

( Players were advised against such extravagance, however, and urged to keep " counter density " low.

Indeed, the Count of Monte Cristo is quite similar to Manfred, in that he wants to keep his past a secret, feels superior to social conventions, and is following an agenda that runs counter to the social mores.

** A very modern one has a mechanical engine that twists the pencil lead 9 degrees counter clockwise every time the lead is pressed on to the paper to keep the lead 50 % less broad than the common propelling mechanical pencils, resulting in uniform thickness of the lines written onto the paper.

This is an organized way of functioning of the credit markets at least in the Developed Primary non-tradable in the open market, company to company, bank to bank dealings to keep the markets running, afloat as well as operational and provision of the liquidity by the liquidity providers in the market, which is very well scrutinized for any " aberration, excessive instrument based hedging and market manipulation " or " outlier, volumes " based trades or any such " anomalies, block trades ' company treasury ' based decision without proper and posterior / prior intimation ", by the respective regulators as directed by the law and as spotted in the regular hours of trading in the pre-market / after-hours trading or in the event based specific stocks and corrected and scrutinized for insider trading in the form of cancellation of the trades, re-issuance of the amount of the cancelled trades or freezing of the markets ( specific securities being taken off the trading list for the duration of time ) in event of a pre-set, defined by the maximum and minimum fluctuation in the trading in the secondary market that is the over the counter markets.

The counter petition to keep the app managed to get a total of 28 signatures before the time period for signing closed.

During the bout Vilches wanted to keep Augustus at bay with a stiff jab but Augustus continued to pressure Vilches and began to land counter right hands over the top of Vilches ' jab.

Defenders could move relatively safely in the cover of the ditch and could engage in active countermeasures to keep control of the glacis, the open slope that lay outside the ditch, by creating defensive earthworks to deny the enemy access to the glacis and thus to firing points that could bear directly on to the walls and by digging counter mines to intercept and disrupt attempts to mine the fort walls.

Some surf clubs in the 1960s, particularly at Windansea in La Jolla, used the swastika symbol on their boards and identified with Nazism as a counter culture ( though this may have just been an effort to keep out or scare non-locals.