Prior to his inauguration, he led a meeting of advisors at Pearl Harbor addressing foremost issues ; agreed objectives were to balance the budget during his term, to bring the Korean War to an end, to defend vital interests at lower cost through nuclear deterrent, and to end price and wage controls.

The Clerk is " the keeper of vital statistics of the town and the custodian of the town seal and all public records, administer the oaths of office to all town officers ... is the clerk of the town meeting.

These partnerships proved vital to the success of reopening the Log House not only as an historical building within the community, but also as a meeting facility that is available for community use.

The road played a vital role in several key moments in Roman history: the armies of Julius Caesar and Pompey marched along the Via Egnatia during Caesar's civil war, and during the Liberators ' civil war Mark Antony and Octavian pursued Cassius and Brutus along the Via Appia to their fateful meeting at the Battle of Philippi.

A bazaar called Norrbro-basaren built on the western side of Norrbro in 1838-39, remained a vital social and commercial meeting place until its removal in 1903 for the creation of the small park in front of the Parliament Building.

The area was an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin, as well as a vital source of food and water.

On February 15, 1954, Dorothy Kilgallen commented in her syndicated column, " Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of the world military heads next summer.

Unlike a traditional management information system presentation, EIS can distinguish between vital and seldom-used data, and track different key critical activities for executives, both which are helpful in evaluating if the company is meeting its corporate objectives.

Eventually Honda comes looking for him after receiving a telegram, and is shocked to see how ill he is ; concluding that a meeting with Satoko is vital, he goes to the convent alone on February 27, but the Abbess firmly refuses to allow any such meeting, and on the same night Honda and Kiyoaki leave for Tokyo.

Carrying the vital spirit sparked by meeting with farmers and ranchers from all over the United States, Ohs returned home and began searching for ways and means of increasing economic options for Montana agriculture.

Sustainability essentially means preserving life on Earth, including human civilization ; meeting human needs is thus vital in creating a sustainable society.

All appeals ( including the House of Lords ) failed due to a proven but unexplained collision between the cars of Sibbett and Stafford & Luvaglio, although Stafford and Luvaglio at their trial denied seeing or meeting up with Sibbett during the vital hours surrounding the actual murder The killing inspired the 1970s gangster film Get Carter starring Michael Caine.

Gaining further recognition as a vital " meeting point ", this event received total support from the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority ( BMA ).

Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.

Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.

the college was one of the first to recognize the importance of music not only as a definite part of the curriculum but as a vital adjunct to campus life.

It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

In the new style, the Department was berated as intellectually barren and unable to produce the vital ideas needed to outwit the Russians.

They `` operate on a volume basis '', it was contended, `` and are not essential to provide the more limited but vital shopping needs of the community ''.

Range was a vital detail.

Other crucial matters required constant supervision: labor and all noncombatant troops, whose morale was vital, too ; ;

I was hungry as a wolf, and my body felt lean and vital.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

As such Anglicanism was, from the outset, a movement with an explicitly episcopal polity, a characteristic which has been vital in maintaining the unity of the Communion by conveying the episcopate's role in manifesting visible catholicity and ecumenism.

Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its primary materials ( the gold and silver of the Pangaion hills and the dense forests essential for naval construction ), and the sea routes vital for Athens ' supply of grain from Scythia.

Sirius was wrecked in March 1790 at the satellite settlement of Norfolk Island, depriving Phillip of vital supplies.

He was also vital in the development of two important systems in the French Defence, the Winawer Variation ( in some places called the Nimzowitsch Variation ; its moves are 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 ) and the Advance Variation ( 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 ).

The Quinte area played a vital role in bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States, with large volumes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to Lake Ontario finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed.

Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.

At a time of world food shortages, it was vital that farmers produced the maximum amount possible.

According to the concept of vitalism, organic matter was endowed with a " vital force " and distinguished from inorganic materials.

Fire has been an important part of all cultures and religions from pre-history to modern day and was vital to the development of civilization.

Chernenko gave Gorbachev high party positions that provided significant influence in the Politburo, and Gorbachev was able to gain the vital support of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the struggle for succession.

Troy was able to control the marine traffic entering this vital waterway.

The editors of the movement — such as Werner Nold, Charlotte Zwerin, Muffie Myers, Susan Froemke, and Ellen Hovde — are often overlooked, but their input to the films was so vital that they were often given co-director credits.

Defoe was amazed that a man as gifted as Harley left vital state papers lying in the open, and warned that he was almost inviting an unscrupulous clerk to commit treason ; his warnings were fully justified by the William Gregg affair.

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The Åland islands, located south-west of Finland, held a strategically vital position in respect to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

Pitt's particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

A grand ceremony was held in Buckingham Palace to commemorate a platoon of pigeons that braved the battlefields of Normandy to deliver vital plans to Allied forces on the fringes of Germany.

He claims that the Bush Doctrine promotion of democracy abroad was held as vital by the Bush administration to the success of the United States in the " war on terror ".

During the wars that racked Ireland in the seventeenth century, Athlone held a vital position, holding the main bridge over the River Shannon into Connacht.

Hong Kong held a vital position in protecting British trading interests in South China.

It also includes force used directly to preclude or impede the mission and / or duties of US forces, including the recovery of US personnel or vital US Government property .” A “ hostile force ” is defined as “ Any civilian, paramilitary, or military force or terrorist ( s ), with or without national designation, that have committed a hostile act, exhibited hostile intent, or have been declared hostile by appropriate US authority .” “ Armed forces ” are defined as “ The military forces of a nation or a group of nations .” Although the original Senate bill that produced the 1989 amendment intended to make the treatment of captives the operative qualifying condition for those held outside of formal armed conflict, this intent has only been sporadically enforced.

Enlightenment science and philosophy essentially held a static view of nature and man, but vital nature continued to interrupt this view, and the issue of life, the creation of life and its varieties, increasingly occupied attention and " starting in the 1740s the concept of vital power reentered the scene of generation … there must be some ' productive power ' in nature that enabled unorganized material to generate new living forms.

Despite of his immense popularity as a Malay leader, Tunku held no office in any Malay organisation, at a time when far-sighted planning and balanced opinions were of vital importance.

After the subjugation of some local uprisings, Cao Ren was given the staff of authority and held the position of General who Conquers the South ( 征南将军 ) and garrisoned at Fan ( 樊 ), a city on the shores of the Han River that is vital to the defense of Luoyang from the direction of southern Jing Province.

The spiritual teacher Meher Baba stated that the subtle body " is the vehicle of desires and vital forces ," He held that the subtle body is one of three bodies with which the soul must cease to identify in order to realize God: " At the end of the Path, however, the soul frees itself from all sanskaras and desires connected with the gross, subtle and mental worlds ; and it becomes possible for it to free itself from the illusion of being finite, which came into existence owing to its identification with the gross, subtle and mental bodies.

Besides Law and Order and counter-insurgency duties, the role of CRPF in the General Elections, held repeatedly during the past few years, has been very significant and vital.

Other beliefs held by worshippers, such as Wiccan author D. J. Conway, include that reconnection with the Great Goddess is vital to the health of humankind " on all levels ".

This wealthiest of provinces could be held militarily by a very small force ; and the threat implicit in an embargo on the export of grain supplies, vital to the provisioning of the city of Rome and its populace, was obvious.

Despite the varyingly dire circumstances in which they were held, none of them Stefan Mayer emphasizes betrayed the secret of Enigma's decryption, thus making it possible for the Allies to continue exploiting this vital intelligence resource.

Although the Germans held the vital road junction of Vire, the U. S. VII Corps under Lieutenant General J. Lawton Collins captured Mortain — east of Avranches — on 3 August.

The Germans intensified their attacks on the Home Army positions near the river to prevent any further landings, which could seriously compromise their line of defence, but weren't able to make any significant advances for several days, while Polish forces held those vital positions in preparation for new expected wave of Soviet landings.

The Germans intensified their attacks on the Home Army positions near the river to prevent any further landings, which could seriously compromise their line of defence, but weren't able to made any significant advances for several days, while Polish forces held those vital positions in preparation for new expected wave of Soviet landings.

It played a strategic role in the Battle of the Bulge when its inexperienced troops held fast on the northern shoulder of the German advance, refusing them access to the vital northern road network that led into Belgium.

It became a vital focal point in the social life of the town, with dances and concerts, and the inevitable bingo being held there.

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton KCB, KCIE, MC & bar ( 1890 – 1981 ) was an officer in the British Army, who held a variety of vital staff appointments between World War I and World War II, ultimately commanding Burma Army during the early stages of the Japanese conquest of Burma.

Nigel Mansell made a good start and almost took the lead but Senna held onto his position, and thanks to the superior power of his Honda engine he pulled away slightly down the main straight to head the field into turn 1, vital at this track where passing is almost as hard as it is at Monaco.