Under the pretext that new elections could not be held in Communist-occupied constituencies, the National Assembly, Legislative Yuan, and Control Yuan members held their posts indefinitely.

Under the pretext of pursuing fugitive Polish revolutionaries, Russian troops entered Balta an Ottoman-controlled city on the border of Bessarabia and massacred its citizens and burned the town to the ground.

Under this pretext began allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the United Kingdom and France sending troops into Russian ports.

"… they are obliged to live in a separate part of town …; for they are considered as unclean creatures … Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

Under the pretext of a campaign, the iconoclastic bodyguard was sent away from the capital — disarmed and disbanded.

Under the pretext of fighting Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap of Ionia, Cyrus assembled a massive army composed of native Persian soldiers, but also a large number of Greeks.

Under the pretext of rescuing the young Jianwen from corrupting officials, Zhu Di personally led forces in the revolt ; the palace in Nanjing was burned to the ground, along with Jianwen himself, his wife, mother, and courtiers.

Under the pretext of Drouet ’ s sudden illness, he lures Carrie onto a train and escapes with her to Canada.

Under the pretext that Western demonstrations required it, the East closed the checkpoint at the Brandenburg Gate the same day, ' until further notice ', a situation that was to last until 22 December 1989.

Under the pretext of Jovinus ' imperial authority, Gundahar and his Burgundians established themselves on the left bank of the Rhine ( the Roman side ) between the river Lauter and the Nahe.

Under the pretext of the collapsed Egyptian financing and a subsequent riot which saw hundreds of Europeans and British subjects murdered or injured, the United Kingdom intervened in nominally Ottoman Egypt, which in turn ruled over the Sudan and what would later become British Somaliland.

Under the pretext that the Hungarian uprising might incite his nation's own revolt, Gheorghiu-Dej took radical measures which meant persecutions and jailing of various " suspects ", especially people of Hungarian origin.

Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

Under the pretext of conducting inspections of sanitary conditions during a typhus outbreak, Sendler and her co-workers visited the Ghetto and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and trams, sometimes disguising them as packages.

Under a pretext of wanting peace, they negotiated with Caesar to exchange Arsinoë for Ptolemy XIII, who was subsequently released.

Under the pretext of being bored, Irulan heads for the Harkonnen homeworld of Giedi Prime and coyly coerces Feyd into confirming her suspicions.

Under the pretext of being angry over Viezca's imprisonment the people of Anahuac organized a resistance under Travis.

In the middle of the 19th century, J. J. Benjamin wrote about the life of Persian Jews: "… they are obliged to live in a separate part of town …; for they are considered as unclean creatures … Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

Under the pretext of a birthday party, they bring Raja and Aarti to Mumbai and set in motion events that will change all their lives forever.

"… they are obliged to live in a separate part of town …; for they are considered as unclean creatures … Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

Under the pretext of cooking a last Gaulish soup, Getafix gives the jailer a list of ingredients and brews the potion when he acquires them.

Under the pretext of producing a movie, the FBI planned to catch people taking bribes in exchange for not making trouble when filmmakers used non-union truck drivers and non-union crew members on movie shoots in Boston.

Under the pretext that they supported Santa Anna, a small group of Texians armed themselves and overthrew the commander of the garrison that was enforcing the new customs duties.

Under this pretext, Prussian troops entered Holstein nine days later.

Under the original provisions of the Constitution, senators were elected by state legislatures ; this was intended to ensure that the Federal government contained representatives of the states, and also to provide a body not dependent on popular support that could afford to " take a more detached view of issues coming before Congress.

Under King William II the large monastery of Benedictines coming from Cava de ' Tirreni, with its church, was founded and provided with a large asset.

The company produces a large proportion of ITV's networked programming ( around 47 %, but previously as high as 66 % according to some reports ), with the rest coming primarily from independent suppliers ( Under the 1990 Broadcasting Act, at least 25 % of ITV's total output must be from independent companies ).

Under Nordhoff, production increased dramatically over the following decade, with the one-millionth car coming off the assembly line by 1955.

According to the book " From Can See to Can't " by Thad Sitton and Dan Utley, " Under ideal conditions for reproduction – which fortunately seldom existed – the progeny of a single pair of weevils emerging in the spring could reach something like 134 million before the coming of frost.

* Down Under, a colloquialism referring to things related to, or coming from Australia.

Under heavy snow on the evening of February 12, 1219 ( Jōkyū 1, 26th day of the 1st month ), Sanetomo was coming down from the Senior Shrine at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū after assisting to a ceremony celebrating his nomination to Udaijin.

As we were coming thro ’ the Gulf of Florida on the 29th of August, a large ball of fire fell from the Element and split our mast in Ten Thousand Pieces, if it were possible ; split our Main Beam, also Three Planks of the Side, Under Water, and Three of the Deck ; killed one man, another had his Hand carried of, and had it not been for the violent rains, our Sails would have been of a Blast of Fire.

; OMB: Under the Core Based Statistical Areas used by the OMB ,::* a metropolitan county, or Metropolitan Statistical Area, consists of ( 1 ) central counties with one or more urbanized areas ( as defined by the Census Bureau ) and ( 2 ) outlying counties that are economically tied to the core counties as measured by worker commuting data ( i. e. if 25 % of workers living there commute to the core counties, or if 25 % of the employment in the county consists of workers coming from the central counties ).

It was stated by the group that five of the songs would be coming from Under My Skin, and that they would either be re-recording an old Play song, or covering one to put on the EP.

Under Ottoman rule, it became a sanjak centre in Rumeli Eyaleti as " Avlonya "; and after coming under Venetian possession in 1690, the city was restored to the Turks in 1691, becoming a kaza of the sanjak of Berat in the vilayet ( province ) of Janina.

Under his leadership, SKH re-branded themselves as the " Party of Democratic Reform " ( Stranka demokratskih promjena or SDP ) in February 1990 and then ran in the 1990 election as " SKH-SDP ", winning 26 percent of votes and coming in second behind the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ).

Under their contract with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ( BCI ), TV3 are required since 2008 to have 30 % of their programming coming from Ireland though TV3 now produces 40 % Irish produced content ( Most of this content comes from in studio productions such as Ireland AM and Xposé ).

" Under head coach Frank Layden, Malone averaged 14. 9 points and 8. 9 rebounds in his first season and made the 1986 NBA All-Rookie Team after coming in third for Rookie of the Year votes.

Under rational-legal authority, legitimacy is seen as coming from a legal order and the laws that have been enacted in it ( see also natural law and legal positivism ).

Under the advice of then Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody, in 2006 Maharoof altered his bowling action slightly so that his front arm was coming down straight in delivery.

Under the presidency of Louis Napoleon he became minister of public works, and then minister of the interior, but his action in seeking to influence the coming elections by a circular letter addressed to the prefects was censured by the Constituent Assembly, and he was compelled to resign office on 14 May 1849.

Under the terms of the House of Lords Act 1999, he lost his automatic right to a seat ; he was unsuccessful in the election by the Labour hereditary peers of two of their number to continue to sit after the coming into force of the Act, finishing last in a field of six candidates.

Under cross-examination, he admitted that he had been paid to give evidence, but said that the payment was lower in value than the business he had lost through coming to England.

Under desktop environments with multiple workspaces, one possibility is to maintain one " boss " workspace, and switch to it when the boss is coming.

Under this rule, they should have sounded their engine whistles on coming to a stop, and when the signal was not cleared, they should have sent one of the firemen to walk to the signalbox to remind the signalman personally.

" Under Pershing's leadership, the organization won the Army Silver Cup for drill team competition, coming in second place after West Point.

Under the Weimar system, the presidency was a powerful office and, following his re-election, Hindenburg played an important role in the coming to power of the Nazis, reluctantly appointing Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.

Rolling Stone and MTV compiled a list of the " 100 Greatest Pop Songs Since The Beatles " in 2000, with " Under the Bridge " coming in fifty-fourth.