In 1211, he granted the Burzenland to the Teutonic Knights in order to ensure the security of the southeastern borders of his kingdom against the Cumans.

The early objective of the Shiv Sena was to ensure job security for Maharashtrians competing against immigrants from southern India, Gujaratis and Marwaris.

A proposal by the U. S. to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission ( UNAEC ) to a ) extend between all nations the exchange of basic scientific information for peaceful ends ; b ) implement control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes ; c ) eliminate from national armaments atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction ; and d ) establish effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect complying States against the hazards of violations and evasions.

The Italian Socialist Party opposed the war on the grounds of internationalism, but a number of Italian revolutionary syndicalists supported intervention against Germany and Austria-Hungary on the grounds that their reactionary regimes needed to be defeated to ensure the success of socialism.

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

Rosenbaum reprised his role of Lex in the two-hour series finale, which aired on May 13, 2011, in which the memory of his immoral life is erased by his half sister Lustessa Lena Luthor before she dies in order to ensure that he cannot use his knowledge of Clark's secret against him.

The main roles of the Namibia Defence Force are to ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country by guarding against external aggression, both conventional and unconventional ; prevent violation of Namibia ’ s territorial integrity ; and provide assistance to civil authorities in guarding and protecting government buildings and key installations as provided in the Defence Act.

This is done in order to ensure that no undue influence or oppression has been exerted by one spouse against the other.

Of the German princes, the ecclesiastical faction was against any expansion of Hohenstaufen power, and they were determined to ensure that Frederick would not succeed Henry.

Because the principle allowing revocation authority for keys is very powerful, the mechanisms used to control it should involve both as many participants as possible ( to guard against malicious attacks of this type ), while at the same time as few as possible ( to ensure that a key can be revoked without dangerous delay ).

The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes.

The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes.

India found out after the road was completed, protested against these moves and decided to look for a diplomatic solution to ensure a stable Sino-Indian border.

Later mainland possessions, which extended across Lake Garda as far west as the Adda River, were known as the " Terraferma ", and were acquired partly as a buffer against belligerent neighbours, partly to guarantee Alpine trade routes, and partly to ensure the supply of mainland wheat, on which the city depended.

To ensure that a digital voltmeter's reading is within the manufacturer's specified tolerances, they should be periodically calibrated against a voltage standard such as the Weston cell.

The head of government, usually called the prime minister or premier, will ideally have the support of a majority in the responsible house, and must in any case be able to ensure the existence of no absolute majority against the government.

In order to ensure the government always has the confidence of the majority of the house, the political culture of Westminster nations often makes it highly unusual for a legislator to vote against their party.

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power.

Financial regulators, such as the UK's Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) or the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), oversee the capital markets in their designated jurisdictions to ensure that investors are protected against fraud, among other duties.

On 20 January 1327, Edward II was informed at Kenilworth Castle of the charges brought against him: The King was guilty of incompetence ; allowing others to govern him to the detriment of the people and Church ; not listening to good advice and pursuing occupations unbecoming to a monarch ; having lost Scotland and lands in Gascony and Ireland through failure of effective governance ; damaging the Church, and imprisoning its representatives ; allowing nobles to be killed, disinherited, imprisoned and exiled ; failing to ensure fair justice, instead governing for profit and allowing others to do likewise ; and of fleeing in the company of a notorious enemy of the realm, leaving it without government, and thereby losing the faith and trust of his people.

Raeder stated that unless this was done, there would be a delay in warship construction which would ensure that the time when the Kriegsmarine " would be sufficiently strong and ready to act against the big sea powers " would not happen in the near future.

For example, trusted systems include the use of " security envelopes " in national security and counterterrorism applications, " trusted computing " initiatives in technical systems security, and the use of credit or identity scoring systems in financial and anti-fraud applications ; in general, they include any system ( i ) in which probabilistic threat or risk analysis is used to assess " trust " for decision-making before authorizing access or for allocating resources against likely threats ( including their use in the design of systems constraints to control behavior within the system ), or ( ii ) in which deviation analysis or systems surveillance is used to ensure that behavior within systems complies with expected or authorized parameters.

At the same time the church became more tolerant of war in the defense of faith, espousing theories of the just war ; and liturgies were introduced which blessed a knight's sword, and a bath of chivalric purification. The first noted support for chivalric vocation, or the establishment of knightly class to ensure the sanctity and legitimacy of Christianity was written in 930 by Odo, abbot of Cluny in the Vita of St. Gerald of Aurillac, which argued that the sanctity of Christ and Christian doctrine can be demonstrated through the legitimate unsheathing of the “ sword against the enemy .” In the 11th century the concept of a " knight of Christ " ( miles Christi ) gained currency in France, Spain and Italy.

The unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in a robot's positronic brain, which all robots in his fiction must obey / follow, and which ensure that the robot does not turn against its creators.

Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

Police are advising users to ensure that any mobile networking connections are de-activated if laptops and other devices are left in this way.

As the boards arrive for play at each subsequent table, the four players take their cards from the board and should count them to ensure that there are 13 cards in their hand before looking at the cards, so that any irregularity can be corrected before the auction and play commence.

While traditional teaching maintains that any bishop with apostolic succession can validly perform the ordination of another bishop, some churches require two or three bishops participate, either to ensure sacramental validity or to conform with church law.

Using this method, scientists and farmers hope to keep the number of resistant genes very low, and use genetic drift to ensure any resistance that does emerge does not spread.

The method usually adopted were membership rules to ensure that anyone newly joining a society would, for the first few years, be unable to get any profit out of a demutualisation.

Because Cyprus has no working railway system, various other methods of transport are needed to ensure the proper delivery of any cargo, be it human or freight.

Most teams have a professional choreograph their routine in order to ensure they are not breaking any rules and they will be up to par with the other teams.

In this case it is the DBMS software's responsibility to ensure that any redundant copies are kept consistent.

To ensure this, any architectural feature that impeded multiple instruction issue, clock rate or multiprocessing was removed.

An SE which transfers its registered office outside the Community, or in any other manner no longer complies with requirements of article 7, the member state must take appropriate measures to ensure compliance or take the necessary measure to ensure that the SE is liquidated.

The ultimate aim of any 1st AD is to ensure the film comes in on schedule while maintaining a working environment in which the Director, principal artists ( Actors ) and crew can be focused on their work.

Radiation safety procedures ensure that neither the workers in such facility nor the environment receive any radiation dose from the facility.

Apart from testing and analyzing food products during the whole production process to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory standards, trading standards officers ( in the UK ) protect the public from any illegal use or potentially dangerous mis-use of food additives by performing random testing of food products.

The handler should wait two minutes with the firearm pointed in a safe direction, then carefully remove the magazine, extract any misfed or misfired cartridge, and with the breech open carefully check to ensure there is not a bullet or other obstruction lodged in the barrel.

Clause 2 provided that Britain " should use its best endeavours to ensure than an area situated in the territory of the Jewish State, including a seaport and hinterland adequate to provide facilities for a substantial immigration, shall be evacuated at the earliest possible date and in any event not later than 1 February 1948 ".

Side pockets therefore allow a fund to ensure that all investors in the fund at the time the relevant assets became illiquid will bear any loss on them equally and allow the fund to continue subscriptions and redemptions in the meantime in respect of the main portfolio.

" To do this, the IAEA is authorized in Article III. A. 5 of the Statute " to establish and administer safeguards designed to ensure that special fissionable and other materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available by the Agency or at its request or under its supervision or control are not used in such a way as to further any military purpose ; and to apply safeguards, at the request of the parties, to any bilateral or multilateral arrangement, or at the request of a State, to any of that State's activities in the field of atomic energy.

He was cautious, concerned to ensure that the work would be sufficiently interesting and useful, and there was also the possibility that his father's German nationality would rule out any involvement in top-secret work.