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This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.
MacNeill was briefly convinced to go along with some sort of action when Mac Diarmada revealed to him that a shipment of German arms was about to land in County Kerry, planned by the IRB in conjunction with Roger Casement ; he was certain that the authorities ' discovery of such a shipment would inevitably lead to suppression of the Volunteers, thus the Volunteers were justified in taking defensive action ( including the originally planned manoeuvres ).
Volunteers are trained to lead free Health Walks from community venues such as libraries and GP surgeries.
The album's release was delayed when the band ran into conflict with their label over the content of songs such as " We Can Be Together " and " Uncle Sam Blues " and the planned title of the album, Volunteers of Amerika.
It was through the League that many future political leaders and rebels first met, laying the foundation for groups such as the Irish Volunteers ( 1913 ).
While continuing to play supporting roles in films like Spaceballs, Candy was awarded the opportunity to headline or co-star in such comedy films as Volunteers ; Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; Brewster's Millions ; The Great Outdoors ; Armed and Dangerous ; Who's Harry Crumb ?, Summer Rental, and Uncle Buck.
Several of the city's homeless and social-service providers ( such as Weingart Center Association, Volunteers of America, Frontline Foundation, Midnight Mission, Union Rescue Mission and Downtown Women's Center ) are based in Skid Row.
The spectre of civil war was also raised — the Ulstermen began to form paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Volunteers, and there was a strong possibility that if it came to fighting the British Army would have to be sent in to support the underfunded and understaffed Royal Irish Constabulary.
Nonetheless, the aftermath of the War on Poverty remains in the continued existence of such federal programs as Head Start, Volunteers in Service to America, TRIO ( program ), and Job Corps.
The IRB could not move in the direction of a volunteer force themselves, as any such action by known proponents of physical force would be suppressed, despite the precedent established by the Ulster Volunteers.
The government and senior military officials rapidly compared plans and by 13 May had worked out an improvised plan for a home defence force, to be called the Local Defence Volunteers, but the rush to complete a plan and announce it to the public had led to a number of administrative and logistical problems, such as how the volunteers in the new force would be armed, which would cause problems as the force evolved.
Over 4, 000 De La Salle Christian Brothers, along with 56, 000 Lasallian lay colleagues ( such as Lasallian Volunteers ), serve over 750, 000 students and their families worldwide.
Volunteers engage in weeding previously planted areas, maintaining the ground, collecting flax seed, and monitoring and eradicating pests such as rats and possums.
A shortage of cork helmets led to the widespread use of the slouch hat amongst British Empire forces during the Second Boer War, where it was used by units such as the City Imperial Volunteers ( CIV ), Imperial Yeomanry, and King Edward's Horse.
While Redmond took no role in the creation of the Irish Volunteers, when he saw how influential they had become he realized an independent body of such magnitude was a threat to his authority as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and therefore sought control of the organization.
During 1913 a number of senior officers such as Lord French and Henry Hughes Wilson had expressed their concerns to the government that the British Army would find it difficult to act against the Ulster Volunteers, given that they shared the same basic aim of preserving and defending the British Empire and believed Home Rule would threaten it.
Some of them have become quite influential in the society, such as the Society of Scientific Exploration and Wilderness Survival and the Association of Beijing College Volunteers for Environmental Protection, and the former received the " Prize of the Earth ", the highest prize from the National Bureau of Environmental Protection.
He often refers to The Grateful Dead lyrics, such as quoting " Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be " -- a verse in the song Tennessee Jed -- when referring to the University of Tennessee Volunteers sports teams.
The Broad Channel Volunteers are also dues paying members of many organizations such as the Southern New York Volunteer Firemans Association, the Firemans Association of the State of New York, and along with the 9 other volunteer fire departments in the 5 boroughs of New York City, they are members of Volunteer Firemans Association of the City of New York.
This was in strict accordance with the conduct of the Volunteers in all such encounters.
Freedom Corps also created new programs such as the Citizen Corps for homeland security, Volunteers for Prosperity for international volunteering, and a President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, which promoted the new President's Volunteer Service Award.
Volunteers may be involved in such activities as:
On the other hand reverses also occurred, such as the loss of 8 Volunteers killed, 2 more executed and 8 captured at a failed ambush at Mourne Abbey.

Volunteers and those
Some onlookers were cowed rather than hostile and it appeared to the Volunteers that some of those watching in silence were sympathetic.
It was subsequently, and most commonly, used for those Volunteers who fought a guerrilla campaign in 1919 – 1921 in support of the Irish Republic declared in 1919.
The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.
Isolated skirmishing between Māori and British forces led to raids by Warre on 13 June to destroy villages inland of Warea, while on 29 July a mix of British troops and Taranaki Mounted Volunteers returned to Warea, burning villages and bayoneting and shooting those Māori they encountered.
TAVR I and II units were known as " Volunteers ", and those in TAVR III as " Territorials ".
The names of those who were members of the governing Committee of the Volunteers from November 1913 to October 1914, exclusive of Redmond's 25 nominees who only functioned between mid-June to mid-September 1914 were:
Volunteers and fédérés were constantly arriving in Paris, and, although most went on to join the army, the Jacobins enlisted those who were suitable for their purpose, especially some 500 whom Barbaroux, a Girondin, had summoned from Marseille.
Volunteers worked under a defined set of Guidelines and were required to pass an introductory level test on those Guidelines before submitting site profiles or edits.
Students contribute to their local community ; those who achieve 50, 100 or 200 hours are rewarded through enrollment in the Millennium Volunteers Program.
Volunteers and fédérés were constantly arriving in Paris, and, although most went on to join the army, the Jacobin clubs enlisted those who were suitable for their purpose, especially some 500 whom Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, a Girondin, had summoned from Marseilles.
In A European Anabasis-Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS 1940-1945, historian Kenneth Estes authoritatively documented the motivations of the western European volunteers and came to markedly different conclusions than those of Landwehr.
Volunteers and self-employed people are not covered, nor are those who, in disclosing the information, commit a criminal offence.
Volunteers within Riverside's congregation support detained asylum seekers and those on parole from immigration detention by visiting immigration detainees who have no friends or family in the area.
Those Volunteers had left the Islands in 1967, but they still had a concern and care about those Islanders.
Three cheers for " The King " and three more for " the Volunteers " were let out by the ships skipper and its crew as they stood to attention, with the cheers allegedly reciprocated by all those ashore.
Volunteers of America administers a diverse number of services for people in need, including low-income seniors, families and children, veterans, the homeless, those with intellectual disabilities, the incarcerated, and people recovering from substance abuse.
Alderney's records were mostly destroyed during World War II, but Family History Volunteers have compiled all of the available records, both civil ( except censuses ) and ecclesiastical, and have contacted those persons who could provide further information.
The IRB went to great lengths to prevent those leaders of the Volunteers who were opposed to unprovoked, unilateral action from learning that a rising was imminent, including its Chief-of-Staff Eoin MacNeill, Bulmer Hobson, and O ' Rahilly.

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