First, after the election when he honoured his promise to take Conservatives out of the European Parliament's centre-right alliance; then at the EU summit in December, when he ruled Britain out of joint measures to preserve the eurozone, and now, when he dangles the possibility of a referendum on Europe, but not quite yet.
By the chain rule of probabilities, the joint probability distribution on the random variables in the graph can be decomposed into a product of the local conditional probabilities, i.e., if there are n random variables x i, i = 1,2,…, n and Pa(X i ) denotes the parents of x i in the graph, then the joint probability distribution factors as (8) Pr (X 1, X 2, …, X n ) = ∏ i = 1 n Pr (X i | Pa (X i ) ).
After Roman intervention and several ventures of joint rule with his brother, however, Ptolemy was able to reunite his realm.
After some years of joint rule, however, they quarreled and in 1379, by the Treaty of Neuberg, partitioned the family lands.
He then drove the Turks from his southeastern borders, married Bianca Maria Sforza of Milan (1494), and handed over the Low Countries to his son Philip (1494), reserving, however, the right of joint rule.
Analysts point out that there are straightforward reasons why Poland has been shut out of high-level appointments, not least the 15 months of joint rule in 2006 and 2007 by Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brothers who adopted a belligerent stance toward Western Europe, particularly Germany, and who were suspicious of Russia.
Multilateral conferences were held in 1910, 1912 and 1914, all of which proposed various types of joint rule.
The aggressive French stance, which included lectures to others by Foreign Minister Alain Juppé about how "the weakness of democracies gives dictators free rein," and that how "it's not too late to break with this rule," put some noses out of joint.
Gaafar Mohammed al-Nimeiry was born Jan . 1 , 1930in Omdurman, opposite Khartoum on the banks of the Nile, when his country was still under the joint rule of Britain and Egypt.
Despite grand comparisons with historic political compromises elsewhere, such as the joint rule of whites and blacks in post-apartheid South Africa, the province's new government represents the coming together not of moderates and visionaries but of hardline parties.
