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...cruise, two years later, unaccompanied by her husband. He tried to introduce her in court, but George V was outraged. Upon his death, the Prince of ... ...rished. The Armenians were also raided by Kurdish tribesmen on a regular basis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convic... ... to cease its mistreatment of the Armenians. This intervention was resented by the Ottoman authorities. By 1915, Armenian calls for autonomy were d... ...n the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 ... ...s and organized crime. Capone's first arrest - by the FBI - was for contempt of court. He posted bond and was released. Then, in May 1929, a... ...ior on March 17, 1930. On February 28, 1936, Capone was found guilty in Federal Court on the Contempt of Court charge and was sentenced to six m... ...95 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 mil... ... force to prevent secession. Secession was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court only in 1869 (in Texas vs. White) - four years after the C... ...Médicis, wife of King Henri II of France, hated the thick waists of women attending court receptions. So, in the 1550s, she introduced the corset ...

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...he infallibility of their idol, PUBLIC OPINION. I mean by the British Inquisition, that court whose ministers and agents carry on their operations i... ...red to the common interest of men. Whereby they erect a judgment seat, and constitute a court within the person of the fallen sinner, and they do con... ...wicked king over the people, whom God gave them in his wrath, because they lusted after courts and kings, in the days of Constantine and onward, til... ... Lamb, shall reign upon the earth, where Christ for ever reigneth, and from that as the court and centre of their government, exercise under their k... ...passed himself? It may be that he may appoint the whole multitude of the ransomed for a court and ministry to the whole creation, as he appointeth t... ...thousand years, without, as it were, taking a step or movement beyond; for although the Ottoman princes, who professed that religion, have made great...

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...ere for help, and help you shall get…Sit here next to me,” he said pointing to a brocaded ottoman, “and tell me what you know or suspect.” “I know ... ...Damn rights. I’m telling you because you have no family. I just served the ball into your court.” - J.Cross/Stone 116 “So, what can I do?” “Sto... ... Godfather left me a letter with four names on it, and said that I should give them every courtesy.” “Who were the four names?” Anna looked to Bran... ... bottom of this. And, if anyone in this room had anything to do with it, there won’t be a Court Marshal, because I will shoot you myself. Now, I want... ...you call the president?” “Why?” Garza asked. Ramsey had no real answer. “Professional courtesy.” Garza hesitated an appropriate amount of time.... ...ine, “Can’t I even take a crap in peace? If you were still under my command, I’d have you Court Marshaled.” “I’m sorry Admiral.” “You’ve got my...

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...that successfully fought against the main threat for the existence of Romanian provinces (Walachia, Transylvania, Moldavia) during the centuries: the Ottoman Empire. Since the end of XIII century until the beginning of XX century (1922), the Ottoman Empire represented great administrative and military force in the world, developing its domination from Middle Orient, Elbrus...

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...and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfra... ...s fierce resistance to and indefatigable obstruction of the International Criminal Court. Opportunistic multilateralism notwithstanding, the USA ... ... not only refuses to subject its soldiers to the jurisdiction of the World Criminal Court - but also its facilities to the inspectors of the Chemica... ...o rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of... ...Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of m... ...des of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the Ottomans, too, turned on their benefactors and brought on the de... ...mise of Byzantium after 1000 years of uninterrupted existence as a superpower. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, the Oguz (Turkmen) tribal lea... ... two despots of Morea surrendered. Thomas fled to Italy, Demetrius to the Sultan's court. In 1461 Trebizond, capital of the last remnant of Greek e... ...remnant of Greek empire, which had maintained its precarious independence by paying court to Turks and Mongols alike, finally succumbed; the transfo...

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...o so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing rump. The Ottomans granted independence to Bulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of ... ...gn powers in foreign-run and owned schools. Then they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young g... ...ants. Further confusion awaited. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey... ...posed to these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform ... ...... Resen (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkania... ...g local entities - with the Serb propensity to create a centralist and bureaucratic court. When the Croat delegates of the Peasant Party withdrew f... ...avoid onerous taxes. Christian traders converted to Islam to be able to testify in court in case of commercial litigation. Converted Moslems were a...

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...J jurisdiction Branches: Revolutionary Council acts as legislature and final court of appeal; Chairman of Council acts as chief of state; Cabinet and ... ...ive acts only in the Presidium of the People's Assembly, which is not a true court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: Lib... ...al Council composed of various public officials, in- cluding several Supreme Court justices; Supreme Court divided into four cham- bers; has not accep... ...Princes who ap- point two civil judges, a judge of appeals, and two battles (court prosecutors); final appeal to the Supreme Court of Andorra at Perpi... ...he Supreme Court of Andorra at Perpignan, France, or to the Ecclesiasti- cal Court of the Bishop of Seo de Urgel, Spain Government leaders: head of st... ...pital: Beirut Administrative divisions: 4 provinces Legal system: mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, and civil law; constitution mandated in 1926; no ...

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...that some things occur randomly. But then maybe we believe it because people deny that they don‘t have control over their behavior, except in court ... ... leader—‗power over‘ seems to be borne in our genes.‖ —―Lee, spoken like a true California lawyer. Didn‘t you tell me that winning a court ... ... are plenty of reasons for violent behavior--loss of a job, the death of someone known or unknown, a perceived injustice by a legislature or a court.... ... trying to bring the multi- orgasmic women to a level below them. I guess it‘s ‗if you can‘t do it, punish somebody who can.‘ ―In the courtr... ...roup. And if a woman is raped for any reason, you remember that the Hudood laws require that she produce four male witnesses to her rape for a court.... ...hens, exhorting the Athenians to democracy and greatness. I saw the Parthenon evolve from a temple to Athena, to a Christian church then to an Ottoma...

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...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...en access to the Justice Department and to the FTC or the right to sue in a federal court and be eligible to receive treble damages. It is only fa... ...s the local export industry. 2. Clawback Provisions - which will enable the local courts to order the refund of any penalty payment decreed or imp... ... courts to order the refund of any penalty payment decreed or imposed by a foreign court on a local legal entity and which exceeds actual damage i... ...s actual damage inflicted by unfair trade practices of said local legal entity. US courts, for instance, are allowed to impose treble damages on in... ...come industry fragmentation". This arguments is highly successful with US federal courts in the last decade. There is an intuitive feeling that fe... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...en access to the Justice Department and to the FTC or the right to sue in a federal court and be eligible to receive treble damages. It is only fa... ...s the local export industry. 2. Clawback Provisions - which will enable the local courts to order the refund of any penalty payment decreed or imp... ... courts to order the refund of any penalty payment decreed or imposed by a foreign court on a local legal entity and which exceeds actual damage i... ...s actual damage inflicted by unfair trade practices of said local legal entity. US courts, for instance, are allowed to impose treble damages on in... ...come industry fragmentation". This arguments is highly successful with US federal courts in the last decade. There is an intuitive feeling that fe... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...ourtray prove, Should they seeke earth below, or heav'n above, Home, Court or Countrie, forraine moulds or marts, For Maister point, or mod... ...se, that thence forward he entreated both him and his with all favour and courtesie. Either of these wayes might easily perswade mee: for I am much ... ...ell known both in peace and warre), which is, that dying very aged in his court, being much tormented with extreme pangs of http://www.uoregon.edu/%... ... having ended his processe in two dayes. Master Francis being come to the Court fraught with a long counterfet deduction of this storie (for the King... ... then had beyond the Mountaines in Italie, a man highly favoured in al our court, and otherwise infinitly beholding to the King for that very, Mar qu... ... meanes of negotiation by the example of this infidelitie. Soliman of the Ottomans race (a race little regarding the keeping of promises or performa...

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...ing at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outst...

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... centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This com- modious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lov... ...ses, along the cool, dim galleries of sculpture, and out into the enormous court. Newman looked about him as he went, but he made no comments, and it ... ...ate, the place amuses me. Hang your elegance, if it bores me. I sat in the court of the Grand Hotel last night until two o’clock in the morning, watch... ...ch swung open in answer to his ring. It admitted him into a wide, graveled court, surrounded on three sides with closed windows, and with a doorway fa... ... was visible; he would please to apply at the farther door. He crossed the court; a gentleman was sitting, bareheaded, on the steps of the portico, pl... ...to, every day; it is better than sitting in a little dark, damp room, on a court, or selling buttons and whalebones over a counter.” “Of course it is ... ...Yes, but when the six months were over, she had a plum-cake as big as that ottoman,” said Madame de Cintre. “That quite set her up again.” “What a che... ...ded, “It’s a relief.” She was sitting on a low chair, and Newman was on an ottoman, near her. He leaned a little and took her hand, which for an insta...

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...nce had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (... ...on, I mention here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true, and within the truth. The case of ... ...ng to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit before the court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from thirty to ... ...orantly convicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted because it was shown upon the evidence that she had... ...l, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery. Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come... ...candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Cousins at the piano, cousins at the soda water tray, cousins ris...

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...once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its...

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...fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (... ...on, I mention here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true, and within the truth. The case of ... ...ng to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit before the court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from thirty to ... ...orantly convicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted because it was shown upon the evidence that she had... ...l, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery. Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come... ...candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Cousins at the piano, cousins at the soda water tray, cousins ris... ... proceeds Sir Leicester, glancing at the circumjacent cousins on sofas and ottomans, “even in many—in fact, in most—of those places in which the gover...

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...ammer-Purgstall, Member of the Aulic Council, Author of the History of the Ottoman Empire. Dear Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long,... ...boast of an unbroken line of great descent; they had been neglected by the court for two hundred years; they were lords para- mount in the estates of ... ...ower and gone forth to be captains or bishops; some had made a marriage at court; one cadet of the house became an admiral, a duke, and a peer of Fran... ... almost beyound his control, his patron standing in the midst of the empty courtyard, gazing round upon the moat, now filled up with rubbish, and the ... ... with its gables, weather-vane, turret, and dovecote. Once it had been the courthouse of the bailiwick, and subsequently the presidial; it had belonge... ...service of Napoleon, and went into the army or held places at the Imperial court, and others made alliances with the up- start families. All those who...

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... a forced composure under the infliction of outrages on his character in a Court of Law, where he must of necessity listen and lock his boiling replie... ... my father always seemed to be beginning to dance a minuet, so exuberantly courteous was he; and lessons in Latin from a tutor, whom my father invited... ...ook glum,’ said T emple. ‘Lord, Richie, you should hear my father plead in Court with his wig on. They used to say at home I was a clever boy when I w... ...f my life,’ said Squire Gregory. ‘Nothing comes of it but empty bottles.’ ‘Court her, serenade her,’ said the captain; ‘blockade the port, lay siege t... ...‘Well, young gentleman!’ he accosted me, and he hoped I had slept well. My courteous request to him to bid the tug stand by to take us on board, only ... ...ther stooped low. ‘The Grand Seigneur, your servant, dear princess, was an Ottoman Turk, and his Grand Vizier advised him to send flowers in his place...

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... those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from the Papal Chancery; 5th... ...ified disdain of popular arts, hatred of petty rhetoric, petty sycophantic courtships, petty canvassing tricks; or again, in many cases, because accid... ...re generally our descendants. 46 Memorials, and Other Papers presented at court on occasion of her marriage, the king him- self pronounced her, to fr... ...these changes, was it not likely enough that I also was rushing forward to court and woo some frantic mode of evading an endurance that by patience mi... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

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...hese extremes. They want the League to be some- thing more than an ethical court, they want a League that will act, but on the other hand they shrink ... ... to deal 10 In the Fourth Year with foreign powers, to maintain a supreme court of law. Everything else—education, militia, powers of life and death—... ...the states retained for themselves. To this day, for instance, the federal courts and the federal officials have no power to interfere to protect the ... ... democratic. That seems to be only the com- mon sense of the matter. Every court is a potential conspiracy against freedom, and the League cannot tole... ...otential conspiracy against freedom, and the League cannot tolerate merely court appointments. If courts are to exist anywhere in the new world of the... ...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,...

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...dows on the faubourg Saint-Denis, the building extends back through a long court-yard, at the end of which are the stables, forming a large house stan... ...ce he could see, diagonally , the kitchen of the inn, and through the long court- yard to the stables, which were defined in black at the end of it. D... ...othing of importance was done without consulting him; but he never went to court, and was seldom seen in his own salons. This noble life, devoting its... ...ussia, that of the Prussian Eagle, and nearly all the lesser Orders of the courts of Europe. No man was less obvious, or more useful in the political ... ...e placed him (more than one example of which could be seen at the imperial court), Moreau asked the count to give him the management of the Presles es... ...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic...

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...town, which may be about 9 Thackeray as big as that pleasing square, Pump Court, Temple. We were taken to an inn, of which I forget the name, and wer... ...virtue, who leers at you as a goddess?In the palaces which we saw, several Court allegories were represented, which, atrocious as they were in point o... ... look of genuine business—that appear- ance of comfort which the cleverest Court-architect never knows how to give. The carriages (the canvas one with... ...of Beyrouth (in the parts of the infidels), His Holiness’s Nun- cio to the Court of Her Most Faithful Majesty, and who mingled among us like any simpl... ...ngled among us like any simple mortal,—except that he had an extra smiling courtesy, which simple mortals do not always possess; and when you passed h... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ...