Almost at the same time, the Minister of War Lieutenant General Ivan Fichev resigned and was replaced as minister by the pro-German Major General Nikola Zhekov . Radoslavov also entered into talks with the Ottoman Empire, trying to gain concessions in exchange for Bulgarian benevolent neutrality.
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The result was that Parliament, as the legislator and guided by the government of the day, has had to maintain a state of benevolent neutrality among the holders of these contending views, consistent with more general public policies for business competition, employment, professional education and so on.
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For economic reasons, the success of the strategy of " la guerre de longue dur�e " would at very least require Britain to maintain a benevolent neutrality, preferably to enter the war as an ally as British sea power could protect French imports while depriving Germany of hers.
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Gagnon JA conceived of state neutrality as a " benevolent neutrality ", held that the prayer did not violate the state's duty of neutrality since it was universal in nature, and that the crucifix and Sacred Heart were works of art that did not carry a religious connotation.
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Gascon J thus rejected the Quebec Court of Appeal's conception of " benevolent neutrality ", instead holding that factual situations that " reveal an intention to profess, adopt or favour one belief to the exclusion of all others " will breach religious neutrality, regardless of the " traditional character " of the act.
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The analysis under the Establishment Clause must also be the same : " Few concepts are more deeply embedded in the fabric of our national life, beginning with pre-Revolutionary colonial times, than for the government to exercise at the very least this kind of benevolent neutrality toward churches and religious exercise . . . ."
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MacKenzie says, " sympathy for the Serbian Christians existed in Court circles, among nationalist diplomats, and in the lower classes, and was actively expressed through the Slav committees . " Eventually Russia sought and obtained Austria-Hungary's pledge of benevolent neutrality in the coming war in return for ceding Bosnia Herzegovina to Austria-Hungary in the Budapest Convention of 1877.
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England regarded with alarm the reawakening of the French national spirit and did not wish to weaken Russia, " as Europe might soon again require her services in the cause of order, and to prevent Poland, whom it regarded as a national ally of France, from becoming a French province of the Vistula . " Austria and Prussia adopted a position of benevolent neutrality towards Russia.
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France had expected a benevolent neutrality on the part of James II's England, but after James's deposition and replacement by his son-in-law William of Orange, Louis's inveterate enemy, England declared war on France in May 1689, and the League of Augsburg became known as the " Grand Alliance ", with England, Portugal, Spain, the United Provinces, and most of the German states joined together to fight France.
