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The act of resuming or starting something again.

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Eminent domain

A wholesome diversion was provided by the serious resumption of the policy of eastern expansion, which had been interrupted by the civil war.

Hayes stoutly advocated the speediest practicable resumption of specie payments, and carried the election.

I proposed resumption of dialog with the United States nuclear issues.

The ultimate goal is deificatio, theosis or resumption into the divine being, when the individual soul is raised to a full knowledge of God, and where knowing and being are one.

However, a resumption of the protracted litigation which has surrounded Bula delayed the sale process.

Within six weeks of his victory, Chirac announced the resumption of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

Any application of the precautionary principle, already adopted by the LDC, must prevent a resumption of dumping.

Iraq said the flights mark the resumption of regular passenger service to the cities.

Released from prison in 1949 he was then interned following the resumption of an IRA campaign in 1956.

His country called for immediate resumption of inspections in Iraq.

Annan called for an early resumption of talks, to avoid spinning out the discussions.

It also allows the rapid resumption of filtration once the settlement chambers have been purged.

It is my sincere hope that a speedy resumption of inspections will help facilitate the resolution of all outstanding issues.

Negotiations are now in progress with the architect about when a full resumption of ringing can be made.

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The new government asserted Parliamentary sovereignty over the colonies, and the resumption of American taxation formed part of that policy.

While scouting the projects of the extreme Radicals for interfering in distant countries, he occasionally made a display of Athens' power abroad, as in his expedition to the Black Sea,' and in the colonization of Thruii, 2 which marks the resumption of a Western policy.

But (d), whilst as governor he accomplishes various needed reforms, there is much confusion in the present narratives, due partly to the resumption of Ezra's labours after an interval of twelve years, and partly to the closely related events of Nehemiah's activity in which room must be found for his twelve-years' governorship and a second visit.

The most important event of his second term was his veto of the Inflation Bill in 1874 followed by the passage of the Resumption Act in the following year.

At daybreak on the 16th, no Prussians being reported in sight by the outposts, the troops began nonchalantly to prepare for the resumption of the march.

The speech was followed by an impassioned plea by Japan for the resumption of coastal whaling.

They arrived at Gibraltar during the night of 3 June bringing the first news of the resumption of hostilities with France.

He called for a resumption of the peace negotiations together with the implementation of a supervisory body.

Take Action against the resumption of live animal exports.

Again proposed allowing the partial resumption of Iraq 's oil exports to generate revenue to buy humanitarian supplies.

The Council welcomes the resumption of the dialog between Iraq and the United Nations....

The precise wording of resumption clauses needs to be examined carefully.

Resumption of normal eating habits and possible addition of vitamin supplements can help in regaining normal nutrition.

Some researchers and physicians believe that SIDS involves a flaw in the mechanism that is responsible for resumption of breathing.

He contested the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Bill, opposed the resumption of specie payments, advocated the payment of the public debt in silver and supported the Bland-Allison Act.

Gradually the increase of traffic consequent upon the industrial development of Italy decreased the annual losses of the state, but the position of the government in regard to the railways still remained so unsatisfactory as to render the resumption of the whole system by the state on the expiration of the first period of twenty years in 1905 inevitable.

In everything which related to the continent of Europe and to the resumption of trade relations between Great Britain and France, Bonaparte had his way; and he abated his demands only in a few questions relating to India and Newfoundland.

The future of archaeological study in Mesopotamia depends upon the political conditions, which have not hitherto been considered favourable to the resumption of excavation in that country.

The effect of this pronouncement was great, and it alarmed the Afrikanders, who at this time viewed with apprehension the virtual resumption by Cecil Rhodes of his leadership of the Progressive (British) party at the Cape.

Accordingly, though France made every attempt to induce Turkey to adopt her side, the young Stratford Canning succeeded in causing the resumption of the peace negotiations at Bucharest, broken off through Russia's terms being considered too onerous, and followed by the capture of Izmail and Bender.

Submarine activity in the open Mediterranean and Aegean had no small influence in determining the final abandonment of the Gallipoli enterprise and in preventing its resumption in the later stages of the war.

When after the end of the war the question of financial readjustment came up, he vigorously opposed Secretary Hugh McCulloch's policy of retiring the legal tenders, and urged a different plan for effecting the resumption of specie payments.

The Resumption Act of 1875, which provided for the return of specie payments four years later, was largely his work both in inception and in formulation, and his appointment to the head of the Treasury Department by President Hayes in 1877 enabled him to carry the policy embodied in the law to successful execution.

But his negotiations yielded no definite result; and every other means of obtaining redress and security proving unsuccessful, the Assam Dwars were wrested from the Bhutias, and the British government consented to pay to Bhutan a sum of £l000 per annum as compensation for the resumption of their tenure, during the good behaviour of the Bhutias.

The American firm assisted in funding the national debt at the time of the resumption of specie payments, and the London house were fiscal agents of the United States government in 1873-1884, and as such received the $15,50o,000 awarded by the Geneva Arbitration Court in settlement of the "Alabama Claims" against Great Britain.

Largely owing to friction between himself and the president, Bristow resigned his portfolio in June 1876; as secretary of the treasury he advocated the resumption of specie payments and at least a partial retirement of "greenbacks"; and he was also an advocate of civil service reform.

The resumption of agricultural labours after the deluge was commemorated in the twelfth month, and a mystical association of the fishes, which were its Pisces.

The "resumption" by the seceding states of the coast defences (built on land ceded by the various states to the Federal government, and, it was argued, withdrawn therefore by the act of secession) brought on the war.

Other opponents were weakened by the audacious stroke of 1223, when the justiciar suddenly announced the resumption of all the castles, sheriffdoms and other grants which had been made since the king's accession.

During his administration President Hayes devoted his efforts mainly to civil service reform, resumption of specie payments and the pacification of the Southern States, recently in rebellion.

Although the resumption of specie payments had been provided for, to begin at a given time by the Resumption Act of January 1875, opposition to it did not cease.

With the resumption of peaceful enterprise, the stimulus of bounties was again applied - first by Connecticut in 1783; and such efforts have been continued sporadically down almost to the present day.

He took a prominent part in the corn-law debates of 1814 and 1815; and in 1819 he presented a memorandum to Lord Liverpool advocating a large reduction in the unfunded debt, and explaining a method for the resumption of cash payments, which was embodied in the act passed the same year.

He was totally opposed to the peace with Spain, and wished to bring about a speedy resumption of the war.

Govern ment are not prepared to depart from the settled policy of their predecessors by advising the resumption of British sovereignty in any shape over the Orange Free State."