Kenneth Clarke was soon appointed a Government whip, and served as such from 1972 to 1974 ; he helped ensure Edward Heath's government win key votes on entry to the European Economic Community ( now the EU ) with the assistance of Labour rebels.

Although Lambert was not Newman's first choice to produce the series — Don Taylor and Shaun Sutton had both declined the position — he was very keen to ensure that Lambert take the job after his experience of working with her at ABC.

Rocky's trainer Mickey ( Burgess Meredith ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was right, he had handpicked Rocky's opponents to protect him and to ensure Rocky remained successful and healthy.

The team adhere to the credo " you can't cheat an honest man ", with all of their marks being people who have some kind of illegal activity in their pasts or simply demonstrating a fundamentally negative personality ; in one episode, Mickey stated that he selects marks that he personally has reason to dislike in order to ensure that the con is never exclusively about the money.

But to his credit, Hostetler held the ball away from Smith, helping to ensure that only 2 points would be surrendered.

Revenue Commissioner Samuel H. Smith wrote an extremely detailed specification outlining how the light was to be built to ensure the longevity.

At this point new Stoke manager Frank Taylor enquired as to whether he might bring Matthews back to the club ; all parties agreed to the idea in principle until Joe Smith put his foot down to ensure he stayed, with an inspirational speech he promised Matthews that an FA Cup winners medal was still possible, telling him that " a lot of people think I'm mad, but even though you're 37, I believe your best football is still to come.

On 30 July 2010, Duncan Smith announced a series of reforms that are intended to ensure that low earners will always be better off in employment.

Duncan Smith said simplifying the welfare system would ensure " work always pays more " than relying on the state by easing the rate at which benefits are withdrawn as income rises.

Despite this imbalance in the Rhodesian electoral system, Smith and other white politicians argued there was nothing fundamentally racist about it: They stated that improvements in black education and wealth would, over time, ensure a gradual move to majority rule.

Threats were made against George Smith, so George Gordon provided Smith with two pistols to be used to ensure both his own safety and that of the distillery.

While this power has been rarely used to detain persons in the United States, Smith introduced a bill to ensure that any individual detained on U. S. soil under the AUMF has access to due process and the federal court system.

Then U. S. Under-Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith said, " In connection with the statement in the Declaration concerning free elections in Vietnam, my government wishes to make clear its position which it has expressed in a Declaration made in Washington on June 29, 1954, as follows: ' In the case of nations now divided against their will, we shall continue to seek unity through free elections, supervised by the United Nations to ensure they are conducted fairly.

In 1998 Silman pleaded guilty to charges that he bribed college basketball players Stevin " Hedake " Smith and Isaac Burton to ensure the Sun Devils did not " cover the allotted spread " in four end of season basketball games during the 1994 season.

In 2006, Smith voted for the Abortion Pain Bill, which would “ ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child ,” and the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would “ prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions .” In 2008, the National Right to Life Committee, an anti-abortion-rights advocacy group, gave Representative Smith a rating of 100 on a point system in which points were assigned for actions in support of legislation they described as pro-life.

Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in the mid-19th century and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients ; ether, liquorice and chloroform.

The ASP was a reworked Smith & Wesson Model 39 or 39-2, employing a shortened slide ; a fixed bushing ( in lieu of the Smith and Wesson designed collet bushing ); the unique Guttersnipe sight system ; clear Lexan grip-panels ; a fully ramped and throated, shortened barrel ; and a smoothed and radiused profile to ensure no risk of snagging on the draw.

* December 2008: A deal is made among certain Democratic Senators that would ensure the election of Malcolm Smith as Senate president pro tempore, making him the chamber's leader ; reports indicate that as part of the deal, Senator Smith agreed not to bring same-sex marriage legislation to a floor vote in the Senate during the 2009 – 2010 legislative session.

With the rapid growth of Phoenix increasing the political influence of county, Smith purchase an ownership interest in the Arizona Gazette to ensure a friendly newspaper in the area.

Given that the series was set in the relatively near future, Gridneff took great pains to ensure that the space scenes were depicted as accurately as possible, seeking advice from NASA and other space agencies as well as arranging a set visit by astronaut Pete Conrad, the third man to set foot on the Moon.

This initial planning helps to ensure that ‘ cold spots ’ ( too little irradiation ) and ‘ hot spots ’ ( too much irradiation ) are avoided during treatment, as these can respectively result in treatment failure and side-effects.

The networks that were to broadcast the 46th Grammy Awards and the 76th Academy Awards, live events scheduled for February 8 and February 29 respectively, initiated a delay ( up to ten minutes ) to ensure that profanity and obscenity were not seen or heard.

In warmer or colder areas, weaker or stronger dilutions are used, respectively, but a range of 40 %/ 60 % to 60 %/ 40 % is frequently specified to ensure corrosion protection, and 70 %/ 30 % for maximum freeze prevention down to.

To ensure the subway system could accommodate cars, two retired R1 cars ( numbered 165 and 192 ; renumbered XC675 and XC575 respectively ) were cut in half, lengthened to and sent to various places around the subway and the Staten Island Railway.

* Policy constraints and basic constraints are checked, to ensure that any explicit policy requirements are not violated and that the certificate is a CA certificate, respectively.

As the project called for the construction of recreational areas along the lakeshore, TVA built two supplemental dams — Caryville Dam and Big Ridge Dam — to impound Cove Lake and Big Ridge Lake, respectively, and ensure these small lakes would remain filled year-round.

Sandbagging in BMX Racing is often practiced to ensure the rider stays at a lower proficiency long enough to compete in the NBL or ABA Grand National ( held each year in September and November, respectively ).

The local school buildings and St. Peter's Church, built in 1862 and 1866 respectively, as well as many of the local houses, were built on piles to ensure stable foundations.

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

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.

Following the announcement of the Brezhnev Doctrine, numerous treaties were signed between the Soviet Union and its satellite states to reassert these points and to further ensure inter-state cooperation.

Ang Lee, who was educated in the West, personally edited the subtitles to ensure they were satisfactory for Western audiences.

* On November 15, 1996, there was a third mutiny and 1, 500 French soldiers were flown in to ensure the safety of the foreigners.

As the early 20th century gold standard was undermined by inflation and the late 20th century fiat dollar hegemony evolved, and as banks proliferated and engaged in more complex transactions and were able to profit from dealings globally on a moment's notice, these practices became mandatory, if only to ensure that there was some limit on the ballooning of money supply.

Individuals should be free to obtain work from the highest-paying employers, while the profit motive would ensure that products that people desired were produced at prices they would pay.

However, Citadels were often used also to protect a garrison or political power from the inhabitants of the town where it was located, being designed to ensure loyalty from the town which they defended.

Imperial concubines, kept by Emperors in the Forbidden City, were traditionally guarded by eunuchs to ensure that they could not be impregnated by anyone but the Emperor.

However, wives were usually looked after with care, and bigamous men were expected to ensure that they give their first wife food, clothing, and sexual activity.

In addition to their roles as judges and tax collectors, governors were expected to maintain the postal service ( cursus publicus ) and ensure that town councils fulfilled their duties.

Most of the features of BIND 9 were funded by UNIX vendors who wanted to ensure that BIND stayed competitive with Microsoft's DNS offerings ; the DNSSEC features were funded by the US military, which regarded DNS security as important.

On the 16th the Taku forts were bombarded and captured to ensure ships could still reach the port.

* Failing to ensure that signals sent to his ships were handled properly and received by the intended ships.

Such individuals were strongly committed to political change that would ensure constitutional support in Taiwan for freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and association.

Although the unused bits were not implemented in hardware such as TLBs, the architecture required implementations to check if they are zero to ensure software compatibility with implementations that implemented a larger or the full virtual address space.

Some experiences were therefore rejected out of hand, and some unpleasant experiences endured in the present to ensure a better life in the future.

Both being part of canonical tradition, he clearly found it necessary to ensure that both were actually presenting the same content.

To ensure an effective road network, new roads not serving Paris were created.

On election night party leader Westerwelle said his party would work to ensure that civil liberties were respected and that Germany got an " equitable tax system and better education opportunities.

The road sections that are used were rebuilt prior to the inaugural event in 1996 to ensure consistency and smoothness.

These victories alone were not enough to ensure ultimate Patriot victory, however, since many soldiers did not reenlist or deserted during the harsh winter.

Things like the “ kingly ornaments ” which were “ always purple garments or cloth of gold ”, both very ostentatious assertions of wealth and power, were to ensure he was “ recompensed ” for his “ limitation of authority ”.