In May 1640, the Manchus assaulted the Evenk fortresses of Duochen, Asajin, Yakesa, and Duojin; capturing all four of them and large numbers of horses, cattle, pelts and slaves.
Particularly significant declines occurred in the 1960s, when more than 15,000 jaguars were killed for their skins in the Brazilian Amazon yearly; the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of 1973 brought about a sharp decline in the pelt trade.
On 1 March 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication to the Government of Egypt regarding Coptic Christians who gathered near El-Minya on 10 February 2002 to celebrate the first Mass in their new church and who were reportedly pelted with rocks and firebombs by a group of Muslims apparently upset by the ringing of the church bells.
A proposal was found to be sufficiently definite in the following cases: a proposal to sell pelts of varying quality “at a price between # and # erman Marks for furs of medium and superior quality” because the price could be calculated by multiplying the quantity of each quality by the relevant price; the price for similar goods in a previous contract between the parties supplied the price for a transaction in which there was no specific agreement on price because the parties had established a course of dealing; a proposal that the prices are to be adjusted to reflect market prices; agreement on a provisional price to be followed by the definitive price after the buyer resold the goods to exclusive final buyer because such an arrangement is regularly observed in the trade
As a result, the situation deteriorated between the international forces and the locals, who began to pelt UNIFIL troops with stones, hitting several of them.
It was reported that a crowd of people were making their way home from a meeting when they were first pelted with stones allegedly thrown from the direction of the military post at Idi.
One court found that a proposal to buy “chinchilla pelts of middle or better quality” was sufficiently definite because a reasonable person in the same circumstances as the recipient of the proposal could perceive the description to be sufficiently definite