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Then in 1839, a Chinese official ordered his men to destroy massive British shipments of opium as a statement against Britain's influence over China.

Originating in the United Kingdom, impeachment allowed Parliament to vote for removing a government official from office even without the king's consent.

If one or more passes by a simple majority, the official is impeached and the stage is set for trial.

Selected members of the House, known as managers, act as the prosecution, while the impeached official and their lawyers present their defense.

Therefore, to prevent the process from being used as a political weapon, the Constitution specifies that an official can only be impeached for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

The first official to be impeached was Tennesse Senator William Blount in 1797 for conspiring with Britain to cease the Spanish colony of Louisiana.

He posted the idea on Facebook, where a Cameroonian government official saw it and managed to secure a government grant for him.

The Chinese official ideology?

ACOG actually has no public official statement about the safety of sex during pregnancy.

I could share some counterexamples, the case for example of the public official who sues the pharmaceutical company for concealing the fact that its antidepressant increases suicidal thoughts in adolescents.

So it can deal with a certain amount of nastiness, and it can even understand that your nastiness, for example, you may take bribes as a passport official because you need to feed your family and send your kids to school.

So I found out the name of every official on both the Korean and American side, and I photographed them, and told them how famous they were going to be when this book was done.

We’re introduced to characters such as Marmeladov, a miserable former official who has drank his family into ruin, and Svidrigailov, an unhinged and lecherous nobleman.

I was once sneeringly introduced by a former NASA official, as the only person on the planet who still thought there was life on Mars.

Of course, that official is now dead, and I'm not, so there's a certain amount of glory in outliving your adversaries.

So one of the people that I met was a senior Bush Administration official, who had this to say about our unmanning of war: "It plays to our strength.

However, you need to get up to speed quickly; if your boss, the head tournament official, finds out you’ve been sleeping on the job, you’ll lose your head.

A local official literally prostrated himself in the street, in front of these protesters, in order to get them to go away.

We have 23 official languages that are recognized in our Constitution.

In London, for instance, where the BAE got away with a huge corruption case, which the Serious Fraud Office tried to prosecute, 100 million British pounds, every year for ten years, to one particular official of one particular friendly country, who then bought for 44 billion pounds of military equipment.

We don't believe a bunch of documents from a government official giving us data, and I do understand that, I think we all do.

I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

Here's my promise to you: If you are consistent and do this, within three months the elected official will start calling you when that issue comes up and say, "What do you think?"

And you actually get into the folder that the elected official actually has to read.

I made an arrangement with a Red Cross relief worker, who used his official van to transport the money to Lungi Airport, Freetown, although he did not know the real contents of the box.

And remember, the vote is encrypted from the moment you leave the voting booth, so if an election official wants to find out how you voted, they will not be able to.

Nothing made sense...and yet, someone thought this film was worthy to be an official selection at a film festival.

Charlie's bounty hunter friend Ug (Terrence Mann) is now known as Counsellor Tetra & is a top ranking official at the intergalactic council & orders Charlie not to shoot the eggs but instead put them into a pod that will land nearby very soon, the pod does indeed land nearby very quickly & Charlie does indeed put the eggs into it but he is also caught in the pod which I presume cryogenic-ally freezes him as it's never really explained.

Instead, Hot Summer in Barefoot County is about an official sent from a southern state to a small town to locate and arrest moonshiners.

Nothing more (or less) happens in the movie besides the unending abuse of an attractive woman prisoner by a sadistic police official.

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