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“ Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat “ read the headline in the Huddersfield Examiner, and the reviewer commented “ Clearly, members knew this piece but, to dust it down in one hour and give such a performance demonstrates the talent which the Huddersfield Philharmonic has in its ranks .” If this concert tested the abilities of the players, the plans for Mahler ’ s Third Symphony were to test the organisational ability of the orchestral manager and committee, jeopardised as they were by the sudden unavailability of Rupert D ’ Cruze.
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# The Outer Party work the state ’ s administrative jobs ; they are the middle class, whose “ members are allowed no vices other than cigarettes and Victory Gin ”, and who are the citizens most spied upon, via telescreens and surveillance.
::: February 24 – Captain Albert Martin delivers to Smithers in Gonzales the infamous “ Victory or Death ” Travis letter addressed “ To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World ” stating the direness of the situation.
Feature films like Victory, Tales of Heroic Aviators, and Valery Chkalov reinforced the “ positive hero ” imagery, celebrating the aviators ’ individuality within the context of a socialist government.
pg 138, 139 “ Victory Village ” streets had war-time references ; Victory, McNaughton ( Andrew McNaughton, commander of the Canadian Forces in the UK ), Churchill and Lancaster ( Avro Lancasters were built at Victory Aircraft from 1943 to 1945 ).
“ Brass Medallion Representing the Persian Victory of Maximianus Galerius .”/
Buoyed by this success, the BBC set out a plan, the " V for Victory " campaign, for which they put in charge the assistant news editor Douglas Ritchie posing as “ Colonel Britton ”.
For more than eight centuries the “ Towers of Victory ” monuments to Afghanistan ’ s greatest empire have survived wars and invasions, the two toffee-colored minarets, adorned with terra-cotta tiles were raised in the early 12th century as monuments to the victories of the Afghan armies that built the empire.
Next to the plaza where this tree is found, there is an old mansion whose east side has a mural called “ Noche de la Victoria ” ( Night of the Victory ) done in 2010.
There are three ways to win a game of Star Chamber: Military Victory ( conquering the opponent ’ s homeworld ), Cultural Victory ( having a “ destiny point ” advantage of 30 or more points ; destiny points are generally gained by controlling “ artifact planets ”), and Political Victory ( winning three Power Play votes ).
The main architect was Eugene De Rosa ; he was assisted by Staten Island resident James Whitford, who was known as the “ dean of Staten Island architects .” Whitford also designed the Ritz, Liberty and Victory theaters, none of which exist today.
He also launched an appeal to all Americans living in Britain, requesting them to give generously by means of subscription to a fund, raising money to provide for the widows and orphans of the nine-man crew of the Margate lugger “ Victory ”, which was lost with all hands going to the aid of the “ Northern Belle ” ( Lapthorne ).
The World War II Victory Medal was first issued as a service ribbon referred to as the “ Victory Ribbon .” By 1946, a full medal had been established which was referred to as the World War II Victory Medal.
According to its “ Roadmap to Victory ”, Freedom to Marry is working " to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage " by winning same-sex marriage for more states, growing the national majority support for same-sex marriage, and repealing the Defense of Marriage Act a law it sees as discriminatory.
Originally known simply as the “ Victory Medal ”, the World War I Victory Medal was awarded to any member of the U. S. military who had served in the armed forces between the following dates, in the following locations:
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The team snatched Heisman Trophy runner-up Raghib “ Rocket ” Ismail from the NFL draft, signing him to the richest contract in North American gridiron football history at the time.
At 17, he was sent to London to learn more about the glove-making business in the extensive dry goods establishment of his uncle, but every moment that could be snatched from the “ dreary drudgery of the desk's dead wood ” was surreptitiously devoted to sketching, drawing or engraving.
She has fought for tax reforms in favor of lower-income citizens, stating that “ one week of Bush tax cuts for millionaires could help 350, 00 hungry mothers and babies for an entire year .” Citing previous legislation and cuts to programs in favor of low-income children, Moore has recently proclaimed that “ has already cut the entitlement and snatched the safety net from up underneath kids .”
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After recapitulating the " walking " themes, Gershwin overlays the slow blues theme from section B in the final “ Grandioso .”
For Euclid ’ s method to succeed, the starting lengths must satisfy two requirements: ( i ) the lengths must not be 0, AND ( ii ) the subtraction must be “ proper ”, a test must guarantee that the smaller of the two numbers is subtracted from the larger ( alternately, the two can be equal so their subtraction yields 0 ).
* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).
The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.
For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:
In geography and agriculture, arable land ( from Latin arāre ; “ To plough, To farm ”) is land that can be used for growing crops.
Some cultural differences may be based on linear traditions, on teaching from one generation or “ school ” to another.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Rousseau believed that young boys should avoid formal schooling and pursue instead an “ education direct from nature .” Ampère ’ s father actualized this ideal by allowing his son to educate himself within the walls of his well-stocked library.
Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).
B. Passerius derives it from abh, “ father ,” bara, “ to create ,” and a-negative —“ the uncreated Father .”
* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.
* Isaac de Beausobre derives Abrasax from the Greek habros and saō, “ the beautiful, the glorious Savior .”
Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”
Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).
Individuals who survived to this, the latest and highest stage of evolutionary progress would be “ those in whom the power of self-preservation is the greatest — are the select of their generation .” Moreover, Spencer perceived governmental authority as borrowed from the people to perform the transitory aims of establishing social cohesion, insurance of rights, and security.
Carnegie was an ardent supporter of commercial “ survival of the fittest ” and sought to immunity from business challenges by dominating all phases of the steel manufacturing procedure.
Commercial aircraft cockpit data recorders, commonly known as a “ black box ”, store flight information and audio from the cockpit.
# An aircraft should be “ in flight ” ( that is, according to Article 1, paragraph 3 of the Tokyo Convention, from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of take-off until the moment when the landing run ends );
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If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor .” Ms. Rogers “ claims to have 4, 000 names in her rolodex .”
Shakespeare, working in the 16th and 17th centuries, made a character called the “ prince of darkness ” ( King Lear: III, iv ) and gave darkness jaws with which to devour love.
* When the shark has the keg of beer lodged in its jaws, it appears similar to the final scene of Jaws ; Homer also asks “ how that naked young lady made it out alive .”
Gadoufaoua ( Touareg for “ the place where camels fear to go ”) is a site in the Tenere desert of Niger known for its extensive fossil graveyard, where remains of Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, have been found ( by Paul Sereno in 1997, for example ), including vertebrae, limb bones, armor plates, jaws, and a nearly complete 6-foot ( 1. 8 m ) skull.
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Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.
Upon receiving the evidence of al-Ala's defeat in al-Andalus, al-Mansur is said to have gasped, “ God be praised for placing a sea between us ”!
A surprise attack from the Americans would destroy much of the Soviet ICBM fleet, allowing SDI to defeat a “ ragged ” Soviet retaliatory response.
Werner E. Lemke and Kathleen O ’ Connor point out “ Lamentations is probably the work of a survivor ( or survivors ) of the nation ’ s destruction who poured out sorrow, anger and dismay after the city ’ s traumatic defeat and occupation by the Babylonians.
After the battle, the Romans quickly bridged the river, thereby prompting the Helvetii to once again send an embassy, this time led by Divico, another figure whom Caesar links to the ignominious defeat of 107 BC by calling him bello Cassio dux Helvetiorum ( i. e. “ leader of the Helvetii in the Cassian campaign ”).
Another youth Mehmed found attractive, and who was presumably more accommodating, was Radu III the Fair, the brother of the famous Vlad the Impaler, “ Radu, a hostage in Istanbul whose good looks had caught the Sultan ’ s fancy, and who was thus singled out to serve as one of his most favored pages .” After the defeat of Vlad, Mehmed placed Radu on the throne of Wallachia as a vassal ruler.
Pliny's narrative dwells upon a gigantic portrait-bust of Pompey, a thing of “ eastern splendor ” entirely covered with pearls, and with the benefit of hindsight, has this disembodied head anticipate Pompey ’ s later defeat at Pharsalus and subsequent decapitation in Egypt.
For example, the battle at Xiang River “ which the official history of the Long March identifies as the longest and most heroic battle of the entire campaign, was in fact a major defeat for the Communists, with casualties and desertions reducing the First Army from 86, 000 to 30, 000 people .”< ref > Pye, Lucian.
In the days following Germany's defeat in World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subsequently “ thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes by the Russians .” In addition to the obvious psychological impact, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life.
F. Tillman Durdin of the New York Times was extremely critical of the Chinese defending army, writing that the loss of the city “ was the most overwhelming defeat suffered by the Chinese and one of the most tragic debacles in the history of modern warfare.
He wrote: “ the difficulties of Germany, and especially its defeat in World War I were largely attributable to the prevailing optimism of German idealism …. a rational pessimism might have prevented the war .”
When he asked Alexander where he planned to move a unit of troops, he was told “ That ’ s none of your business .” Kutuzov pretended to sleep throughout the battle planning session as he feared that Alexander would blame him for the inevitable defeat.
To avoid panic, the goal was kept a secret from most people, including Mao Zedong, and the public was told that only a portion of the Chinese Red Army would be engaged in mobile warfare to defeat nationalist forces, and thus this part of the army would be renamed as the “ Field Army ”.
Wilson for the first time ( 2 February 1918 ) wrote explicitly in his diary of “ the long duel between ( himself ) and Robertson " and speculated that Robertson might resign after his " complete defeat ”.
This “ Cornelius ” is credited with a great Roman defeat at the hands of the widely feared “ Pannonians .” After some deduction, one can identify the leader of the Roman forces to be Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, who in 141 BC was the praetor of Macedonia.
He claimed that the Persians would be easy to defeat, as they fought in “ trousers and turbans ,” clearly not a sign of good warriors.
An April 2000 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that “ ny country capable of deploying a long-range missile would also be able to deploy countermeasures that would defeat the planned NMD system .”
Proponents did not suggest how to discriminate between empty and warhead-enclosing balloons, for instance, but said that these “ simple ” countermeasures are actually hard to implement, and that defense technology is rapidly advancing to defeat them.
After their defeat at the polls in October, Petigru advised Jackson that he should " Be prepared to hear very shortly of a State Convention and an act of Nullification .” On October 19, 1832 Jackson wrote to his Secretary of War, “ The attempt will be made to surprise the Forts and garrisons by the militia, and must be guarded against with vestal vigilance and any attempt by force repelled with prompt and exemplary punishment .” By mid-November Jackson ’ s reelection was assured.
The Society was a secretive group of occultists who believed in the coming of a “ German Messiah ” who would redeem Germany after its defeat in World War I. Eckart expressed his anticipation in a poem he wrote months before he first met Hitler.
Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber wrote to Cardinal Pacelli on 10 April 1933 advising that defending the Jews would be wrong “ because that would transform the attack on the Jews into an attack on the Church ; and because the Jews are able to look after themselves ” — the latter on the impression of the April boycott outcome which was seen as a Nazi defeat.
He later blamed his defeat on the “ Scott machine ” ( a reference to the organization led by County Clerk Lewis P. Scott ) and party boss control of voting places and ballot counting.
This change is what Arnold Hughes termed a “ Green Revolution ,” a political process in which a rural elite emerges to challenge and ultimately defeat an urban-based political petty-bourgeoisie.
Attacking the Yousafzai, Ulugh Beg initially faced defeat in the fierce battle of “ Ghawara Murgha ”.
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