On 23 July 1771, the Society published a manifesto calling for annual Parliaments, the exclusion of placemen and pensioners from the House of Commons, outlawing bribery in elections, the " full and equal representation of the people ", the abolition of all excise taxes and for America not to be taxed without her consent.
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He forgot that the executive was still left independent of Parliament, answerable only to the English ministry; and that, with rotten boroughs controlled by a few great families, with an extremely limited franchise in the counties, and with pensioners and placemen filling so many seats, the Irish Parliament was but a mockery of representation.
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An overbearing executive, and the threat of corruption through idle, useless officials, or placemen, had figured prominently in their explanations of their exile in America . " So " most " of the ideas the American Revolutionaries put into their political system " were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century commonwealthmen ."
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Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper served with the Radio Security Service ( part of the Secret Intelligence Service after May 1941 ) and could not help liking the head of Section VIII . " In the world of neurotic policemen and timid placemen who rule the secret service, he moves like Falstaff, or some figure from Balzac, if not Rabelais ."
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As of July 2015, the ownership of the Budapest Airport is as follows : AviAlliance ( 52.666 % ) owned by PSP Investments, Canada, Malton Investment ( 22.167 % ) owned by GIC Special Investments, Singapore, Caisse de dep�t et placemen de Qu�bec, Canada ( 20.167 % ) and KfW IPEX-Bank, Germany ( 5 % ).
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Asquith had been covering the War Office himself, as he often had done during Kitchener s absences, and held it for thirty days . He wrote to the King on 8 June to say that no decision about the succession to the War Office had yet been made; he may well have hoped to ease in Derby or Harcourt or some other placeman, rather than a political heavyweight like Lloyd George or Bonar Law.
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Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a'stayer,'recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot . " Waiting for Godot is clearly not about track cycling, but it is said that Beckett himself did wait for French cyclist ( 1920 2000; a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961 ), outside the velodrome in Roubaix.
