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  • Thumbnail for Resort town
    A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy...
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  • Ian Brownlie as: an express or implied promise by a government of a resort to force conditional on non-acceptance of certain demands of that government...
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    to reinforce his power considerably, often resorting to force to bring lawless knights to justice, and was the first member of the house of Capet to issue...
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    capability" and "shall maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security...
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    held prior to the 18th century and influenced by Hugo Grotius, who in De jure belli ac pacis (1625) circumscribed the right to resort to force with what...
    17 KB (1,858 words) - 12:31, 31 October 2024
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    most jurisdictions, the use of deadly force is justified only under conditions of extreme necessity as a last resort, when all lesser means have failed or...
    11 KB (1,379 words) - 23:02, 18 July 2024
  • place at Les Arcs, a ski resort in Savoie, France. Prior to entering film school, Ruben Östlund had created ski films, and wanted to use his knowledge and...
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    The Walt Disney World Resort (also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World) is an entertainment resort complex located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest...
    107 KB (9,479 words) - 07:25, 10 November 2024
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    ideals were even though he and MacDonagh had to resort to "force". This stanza also shows how Yeats was able to separate his own private feelings towards...
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    most expensive resort up to that point. Early revenue was less than expected, and Wynn departed the resort in May 2000, when Mirage Resorts merged with MGM...
    133 KB (11,863 words) - 19:02, 29 August 2024
  • permanent way of maintaining order, whereas the former when resorting to force is used only in order to quicken the pace of progress . . . Kemalism is a philosophy...
    3 KB (383 words) - 07:28, 21 April 2024
  • society, "we had to initiate some treatment, some stern action", Suharto claimed. "What kind of action? Well, we had to resort to force. But it was not...
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    of the city's premier resorts. As Atlantic City began to decline in its popularity as a resort town, during the 1950s and 1960s, the Traymore diminished...
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  • assistant to Oh-joo. From Kisung, he went to Seoul to start his own gang, but was forced to return. He is not afraid to resort to force and even murder to get...
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    When the Security Council met that night to discuss whether individual member states could resort to force without renewed Security Council consent,...
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    Michael VIII Palaiologos (category Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy)
    persuasion, but eventually the virulence of the protests led him to resort to force. Many anti-unionists were blinded or exiled. Two prominent monks,...
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  • A resort fee, also called a facility fee, a destination fee, an amenity fee, an urban fee, a resort charge, or a hidden hotel booking fee, is an additional...
    55 KB (5,980 words) - 15:09, 10 November 2024
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    agreeable to the determination of Major General Lambert... he did not feel himself authorized to resort to force, to oblige them [to return to their enslavers]...
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    persuasion, but eventually, the virulence of the protests led him to resort to force. Many anti-unionists were blinded or exiled. Two prominent monks,...
    47 KB (6,461 words) - 21:08, 20 April 2024
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    requested. This rejection led the Mongols to resort to force. The immediate cause of the war was the Ming's refusal to grant Esen's request for an imperial...
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