The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second. 6. Examples. The English language (and, we may presume, many other languages) has both Subsequently it formed the most important of the Eleutherolaconian towns, a group of twenty-four, later eighteen, communities leagued together to maintain their By the peace of Vienna, Bocskay obtained religious liberty and political All the hypotheses about the causation of new growths seek to explain the secret of this individuality or " The first league, moreover, in its later period affords the first example in recorded history of self-conscious imperialism in which the subordinate units enjoyed a specified local CONGREGATIONALISM, the name given to that type of church organization in which the This league was excommunicated by the pope, and placed under the ban of the empire almost simultaneously in 1453, whereupon it placed itself beneath the protection of its nearest powerful neighbour, the king of Poland, who (March 6, 1454) issued a manifesto incorporating all the Prussian provinces with Poland, but, at the same time, granting them local He was successful not only in the field but in his diplomacy, and by 1817 Servia had regained In compliance with that treaty the sultan by the Hatti-Sherif of 1830 formally granted full In an endeavour to break with the tradition that the colonies existed only for the benefit of Portugal the Lisbon Government in 1914 granted them a measure of Accordingly, when in 1845 the civil power in the canton of Vaud interfered with the church's He respected the existing institutions of the conqueredterritory so far as to leave its Austrian supremacy lasted until 1867; no ban was appointed, and owing to the suspension of local After the introduction of the constitution of February 1861, Galicia gained a larger degree of Another writer draws these distinctions: (a) a state connected by protectorship with another previously enjoyed They henceforth became the dependent allies of, Athens (see Delian League), though still retaining their There was no oversight as we were a privately held company with full It was a step characteristic of his love for extreme and dramatic action, but it added to the dissensions between him and those who wished only for A Roman Catholic tribe, occupying an inaccessible district, they have hitherto defeated every effort of the Turks to encroach on their Three small communities of Presbyterians maintain a separate Causes of friction still remained, but they did not develop into open quarrels, for Mitre was content to leave Urquiza in his province of Entre Rios, and the other administrators (caudillos) in their several governments, a large measure of Up to that year some of the regions of the kingdom, such as Tuscany, continued to have a kind of allied himself with Liudprand, the Lombard king, threw off allegiance to Byzantium, and established the Not to mention Venice, which has not yet entered the Italian community, and remains a Greek free city, Genoa and Pisa were rapidly rising into ill-defined For some time Tsar Alexius hesitated, because he knew that intervention could entail a war with Poland, but after consulting a National Assembly on the subject, he decided to take Little Russia under his protection, and in January 1654 a great Cossack assembly ratified the arrangement, on the understanding that a large part of the old local In the former there had been a fusion between the Radicals, supporters of the A conference between the three powers was thereupon held at Berlin, and a treaty was executed by those powers and by Samoa, on the 14th of June 1889, by virtue of which the independence and - Cretan constitutional history may be said to date from 1868, when, after the suppression of an insurrection which had extended over three years, the Turkish government consented to grant a certain measure of In 1877 the provincial deputation was re-established, but it was not until 1895 that the home government attempted, far too late, to enact a series of adequate reform measures, and in November 1897 followed this by a grant of the rank of city (muy noble, muy Leal, y muy valerosa ciudad, " most noble, most loyal, and most valiant city"), a privilege which involved some measure of Intervention by the United States seemed probable, but did not come, and after alternations in the fortunes of war, Martinez Campos in January 1878 secured the acceptance by the rebels of the convention (pacto) of Zanjon, which promised amnesty for the war, liberty to slaves in the rebel ranks, the abolition of slavery, reforms in government, and colonial Congress neglected to pass certain laws which were required by the constitution, and which, as regards municipal Its terms were: the confirmation of the Treaty of Bucharest and the opening of the navigation of the Black Sea to the Russian flag; a stipulation that the hospodars of Walachia and Moldavia should be elected by the boyars for seven years, their election being confirmed by the Porte which, however, had no power to dismiss them without the concurrence of the Russian ambassador at Constantinople; finally, Servia's The immediate local result was the institution, by a reglement,' signed at Constantinople on the 6th of September 1864, of The diplomacy of Europe had been searching in vain since the autumn Accession of 1875 for the means of inducing Turkey to institute of Abd-u1- effective administrative reforms and to grant to Hamid 11., its European provinces that The new city was strongly fortified and figured prominently in the struggle for independence, and also in the various revolutions which have convulsed the republic.