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William was introduced to the council on 31 May 1670 with full voting powers, despite De Witt's attempts to limit his role to that of an advisor.
But De Witt's success would eventually produce his downfall and nearly that of the Republic with it.
It was not de Witt's intention to damage their good relations with France in doing so, however.
It is unlikely that Spinoza's Tractatus ever had political support of any kind, with attempts being made to suppress it even before Dutch magistrate Johan de Witt's murder in 1672.
His goal was to establish a connection with Fritz Witt's battle group.
This triumphalism by De Witt's States faction caused resentment with the rivalling Orangist faction ; when the States regime lost its power during the rampjaar of 1672, Cornelis's head was to be ceremoniously carved out from the painting, after Charles had for some years insisted the picture would be removed.
Witt's NHL career began with the Washington Capitals, the team that drafted him in the 1993 Entry Draft.
Witt's return sparked a limited recovery for Parramatta, which included an upset 26-12 victory over eventual Grand Finalists the Sydney Roosters, with Witt's pinpoint accurate bombs resulting in three tries for winger Luke Burt.
Starting the year in the NSWRL Premier League, Witt's class shone even further in lesser company, playing at both five-eighth and halfback and helping Manly to a number of large victories, with the team finishing fourth and just missed qualifying for the Grand Final.

Witt's and him
" Some conspiracy theorists are still skeptical of Witt's story, however, and do not believe him to be the true " Umbrella Man.
For the first half of the season Manly was among the dominant teams of the NRL, and Witt's form correspondingly at five-eighth was some of the best of his career to date, prompting Manly officials to publicly thank Parramatta for releasing him.
With Witt's two match suspension ruling him ineligible in Manly's two NRL-sanctioned pre-season trial matches for 2006, unproven rookie Travis Burns was able to take advantage of his absence and was preferred by coach Des Hasler as Manly's regular five-eighth for the season ( despite Witt being the incumbent in that position at the end of 2005 ), and Witt was given only one start in first grade for the year against Newcastle in Round 17 ( following Burns ' suspension for one week ).
Witt's boy next door good looks have seen him appear in various rugby league charity calendars and magazines.

Witt's and so
Berle later said, "... to be blunt about it, Mr. Witt's statements and sympathies were so well known that what Mr. Chambers had said added nothing to anything that wasn't public knowledge at the time.

Witt's and too
In December 1939, Board Member Leiserson testified that he believed Witt held too much power at the NLRB, that Witt had influenced the NLRB's decisions in favor of the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ), and that Witt's far-left views were unacceptable.

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But historian Ronald Schatz has asserted that Witt's communist sympathies did " not necessarily " mean Party membership.
There is general agreement among professional historians that Witt's communist views did not affect his work, nor did they change the outcome of any policy choices made by government agencies.

Witt's and one
Also in modern terminology, De Witt's approach allows one to readily understand other properties of this random variable such as its standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, or any other characteristic of interest.
Witt's perfect game is, to date, one of two no-hitters ever pitched on the final day of a Major League Baseball regular season, the other being the combined no-hitter pitched by Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers for the Oakland Athletics on September 28, 1975.
Evans is one of few umpires in history who have worked in two perfect games, having been the third base umpire for Mike Witt's perfect game on September 30, 1984, and the second base umpire for David Cone's perfect game on July 18, 1999.

Witt's and .
Its decision in Witt v. Department of the Air Force reinstated Witt's substantive due process and procedural due process claims and affirmed the dismissal of her Equal Protection claim.
On September 24, 2010, District Judge Ronald B. Leighton ruled that Witt's constitutional rights had been violated by her discharge and that she must be reinstated to the Air Force.
In a settlement announced on May 10, 2011, the Air Force agreed to drop its appeal and remove Witt's discharge from her military record.
Johan de Witt's brother Cornelis de Witt had accompanied the fleet to make the States regime share in the glory, but the events on land nullified this.
Witt's term in office saw approximately 348 Presidentially declared disaster areas in more than 6, 500 counties and in all 50 states and the U. S. territories.
On September 30, 1984, Boone caught Mike Witt's perfect game.
Richard Witt's book Arithmeticall Questions, published in 1613, was a landmark in the history of compound interest.
Witt's book gave tables based on 10 % ( the then maximum rate of interest allowable on loans ) and on other rates for different purposes, such as the valuation of property leases.
He plays a school journalist and love interest of Alicia Witt's character.
According to Susan Witt's recent study parents are typically the first people a child relates to and because of the intensity of that relationship it is from parents that children come to their first conclusions about being male or female.
After De Witt's death, his cousin Pieter de Graeff became a guardian over his children.
De Witt's power base was the wealthy merchant class into which he was born.
In the period following the Treaty of Westminster, the Republic grew in wealth and influence under De Witt's leadership.

native and servant
In 1900, he moved to colonial Ceylon, and then in 1911 proceeded to Malaya, where he worked as a civil servant, independently developing an interest in the native peoples and writing papers and a book about their magical practices.
According to the constitution of 1809, only " native Swedish men " could be appointed to higher civil servant positions, including professorships.
The synthesis of these attitudes of strict avoidance and a missionary conscience resulted in the widespread practice of indenturing the native Khoisan population, and within that master / servant relationship, to teach the Bible to them in hope that the message would filter back through the servant's family ( along with reports of the superiority of European life ) and thus bring about conversion.
Lynch's father left his native Ireland and emigrated to the English Colony of Virginia in about 1725 as an indentured servant, called a " redemptioner " in the nomenclature of the day.
When the Queen discovered that Helena had grown romantically attached to a royal servant, he was promptly dismissed back to his native Germany, and he never lost the Queen's hostility.
In Mozambique, his native servant stole a box of Havanas and his false teeth.
" Quatermain is frequently accompanied by his native servant, the Hottentot Hans, a wise and caring family retainer from his youth.
Thy servant has been obedient to the heavenly vision which Thou gavest him in his native land ; and under the shadow of Thine outstretched arm, he has safely arrived in this place to dedicate and consecrate this land unto Thee, for the gathering together of Judah's scattered remnants, according to the predictions of the holy Prophets -- for the building up of Jerusalem again after it has been trodden down by the Gentiles so long, and for rearing a Temple in honor of Thy name.
Born in Kolín, Bohemia ( now Czech Republic ), Deburau was the son of a Czech servant, Kateřina Králová ( or Catherine Graff ), and a former French soldier, Philippe-Germain Deburau, a native of Amiens.
The corresponding native term in Anglo-Saxon society was þeow ( from Germanic * þewa -, " servant ", from PIE * tek -, " to run ") or esne ( from Germanic * asniz, " reward ", from PIE * osn-" harvest ").
MacDonnell, who retained a patriotic wish to serve the interests of his native country, entered into lengthy negotiations with Lansdowne and the Chief Secretary, George Wyndham, regarding the terms under which he would accept the position ; he was not content to occupy the traditional role of an administrative civil servant, with little input into the formulation of policy.
" Yue would be defeated three years later by a resurgent Wu, and Goujian captured, to serve as Fuchai's servant for three years until he was eventually allowed to return to his native state.
He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time governor of the province of Antwerp.
* As a native Irish of this name, from Mac Muireadhaigh or Ó Muireadhaigh " descendant of Muireadhach " or Mac Giolla Mhuire " descendant of the servant of the Virgin Mary ".
Unlike his father and other European residents, Duquesne held no prejudice against the Sin-Cong natives, and after performing an act of kindness for a native servant, he was invited to join a communist rebellion against French rule.

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