Quinn, and his party leader and Tánaiste, Foreign Minister Dick Spring enjoyed a somewhat uneasy relationship during the Rainbow Coalition, as recounted in Quinn's 2005 memoir.

The following year, he formed a military alliance with Qin, Qi and Song that defeated Chu at the Battle of Chengpu, perhaps the largest battle in the Spring and Autumn period.

Ahead of the parliamentary election of 1996, the People's Party formed the Slovenian Spring alliance together with the Slovene Christian Democrats ( SKD ), that referred to the historical Slovenian People's Party, as well.

The Spring Court is a fractious gathering that values change as an ideal in itself ; the Summer Court holds traditionalists with high values of honor and precedent ; the Autumn Court is most interested in learning and study of the world around them, particularly, in these days, humans ; and the Winter Court is a loose alliance of monsters and bugbears, creatures that " go bump in the night ," and prey on the weak.

Although Zheng was forced to become a bit player in the later stages of the Spring and Autumn period, it was still quite strong, defeating a combined alliance of Jin, Song, Chen and Wei in 607 BCE.

Upon joining together as a tag team, Kronik ( originally spelled Kronic ) assisted Vince Russo in his vision of a clean sweep for his New Blood alliance at the 2000 Spring Stampede pay-per-view.

In 1848 during events of Spring of Nations when Polish issue was raised Arndt declared that " tribes " of Slavs and Wends " have never done or been able to do anything lasting with respect to state, science, or art " and concluded, " At the outset I assert with world history that pronounces judgment: the Poles and the whole Slavonic tribe are inferior to Germans.

The city recently concluded Spring Session ' 08 of a popular concert series entitled Shindig at the Gaffney Cabin.

In a second investigation taken in 1968 during the Prague Spring, Masaryk's death was ruled an accident, not excluding a murder and a third investigation in the early 1990s after the Velvet Revolution concluded that it had been a murder.

The first, by Carla Faust Jones ( Mythlore 57: Spring 1989, 11-15 ), concluded from examination of a portion of The Dark Towers text that " with respect to the frequency of single letters and particularly letter pairs, ' The Dark Tower ' fragment represents a different style than the books comprising Lewis's deep space trilogy.

The trilogy was concluded in Inkdeath ( published in Germany in 2007, English version Spring 2008, American version Fall 2008 ).

Kilbane also began to introduce works not created by Cleveland-based playwrights, starting with Stupid Kids in 1999 and Mark Ravenhill ’ s Shopping and Fucking in Spring, 2002, shortly before he concluded his four years as artistic director.

Of fifty odd postillions I had along the road, all promised me to immigrate to the United States next Spring, save one ; he, I ascertained, had been in England for nine months, and, judging all foreign countries by the one he had visited, concluded, perhaps wisely according to his light, to remain at home.

The government concluded the contract with Saly in Spring 1752, but due to conflict with ongoing projects Saly did not arrive in Denmark until 8 October 1753, bringing with him his parents, his two sisters and at least one assistant, Journée,

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

In the afternoon Miss Hosaka and her mother invited me to go with them and young Mrs. Kodama to see the famous Spring dances of the Geisha dancers.

But now with real anger at last, something proud and indignant, Early Spring stood like a she wolf before her den and cried, `` I will not shriek at you!!

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

* The Day Before Spring ( 1945 ), with Frederick Loewe

J. P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for " the big apple " to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.

Spring and fall are transitional and intermediate, with some rainfall and variable temperature.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

The dream to connect the two largest Croatian cities Zagreb and Split with a motorway ( autocesta ) went back to the times of the Croatian Spring.

Chinese pu vessel with interlaced Chinese dragon | dragon design, Spring and Autumn Period

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

In Spring 717, Charles returned to Neustria with an army and confirmed his supremacy with a victory at the Battle of Vincy, near Cambrai.

Spring has variable temperatures with frequent rainfall.

Their newest Spring Training home opens in March 2011 and will be shared with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Spring and Autumn are mild seasons with low humidity.

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

*** The Spring and Autumn Annals is chronologically the earliest annal ; consisting of about 16, 000 words, it records the events of the State of Lu from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, with implied condemnation of usurpations, murder, incest, etc.

**** The Zuo Zhuan ( Commentary of Zuo ) is a different report of the same events as the Spring and Autumn Annals with a few significant differences.

In the West, Germany had come close to winning the war with the Spring Offensive.

In 1944, with the threat of German flying bombs on London, Thomas moved to the family cottage in Blaen Cwm near Llangain, where Thomas resumed writing poetry, completing " Holy Spring " and " Vision and Prayer ".

In Spring 1998 Gracen recanted her six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.

Rising food prices over recent years have been linked with social unrest around the world, including rioting in Bangladesh and Mexico, and the Arab Spring.

Wright previously collaborated with Silsbee — accredited as the draftsman and the construction supervisor — on the 1886 Unity Chapel for Wright's family in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Trends after 1965 ( like the fall of OZNA and UDBA chief Aleksandar Ranković from power in 1966 ), however, led to the Croatian Spring of 1970 – 71, when students in Zagreb organized demonstrations for greater civil liberties and greater Croatian autonomy.

* Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains.

It then built its own headquarters at Spring Gardens ( which became a metonym for the MBW ), designed by its first chief architect Frederick Marrable and built in an Italianate style in 1859.

In the Spring of 1998, Berezovsky emerged in the centre of a new informal power group – the " Family ", a close-knit circle of advisers around Yeltsin, which included Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana and his chief of staff, Yumashev.

The firm also worked with Hudson Motors chief stylist Frank Spring on the development of the 1954 Hudson Italia.

‘ And at the Third Food Conference in Delhi on the 5th to the 8th July, … the suggestion that “ the only reason why people are starving in Bengal is that there is hoarding ” was greeted at the Conference by the other Provinces with applause .’ Similarly, some officials in the Government of India refused to accept the evidence on the ground, preferring their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the market: as late as November 1943, ‘ The Government of India would admit no intrinsic shortage in Bengal in the Spring of 1943 and, even in November, at the height of the famine, the Director-General of Food in the Council of State said that “ the major trouble in Bengal has been not so much an intrinsic shortage of essential foodgrains as a breakdown of public confidence .’ On 19 October 1943, when the famine was at its peak, Wavell noted in his journal “ On the food situation Linlithgow outgoing Viceroy says chief factor morale. panic hoarding ” For hoarding to have created the amount of hunger and death recorded if there had, indeed, been adequate supplies, it would have been necessary that the richest 10 % of Bengal's population, the only ones who could afford it, to lay in two years ' rice supply for themselves, in addition to the stocks accumulated in the previous two years, and to keep it in stock until the end of the war, while their neighbours starved.

In December 2009, the chief restorer of the Louisville Clock Adam Burckle came to an agreement with Louisville Metro mayor Jerry Abramson to install the clock in a new landscaped plaza at the entrance of the Louisville Zoo in Spring 2010, where it would be viewed by about 800, 000 zoo visitors a year.

He was later named to the United States Entomological Commission to serve alongside Charles Valentine Riley and Alpheus Spring Packard before accepting the position of chief entomologist in 1879 for the State of Illinois.

To charter the course of the port development, Sir Francis Spring, who assumed charge as the chief engineer of the port in 1906, drew a long-term plan in a scientific manner to overcome challenges, both artificial and natural.