The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

The 2004 Indian elections saw the INC winning the largest number of seats to form a government leading the United Progressive Alliance, and supported by left-parties and those opposed to the BJP.

Although road fatalities have been decreasing due in part to stricter enforcement of drink driving laws, 2004 still saw 7, 358 deaths on Japanese roads.

Between 2002 and 2004, the average American academic library saw the overall number of transactions decline approximately 2. 2 %.

2002 and 2003 also saw lower figures, and in 2004 and 2005 the parade was cancelled because of funding difficulties and coordinated opposition from most of Germany's green parties.

Malawi saw its first transition between democratically elected presidents in May 2004, when the UDF's presidential candidate Bingu wa Mutharika defeated MCP candidate John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, who was backed by a grouping of opposition parties.

To celebrate their 30th anniversary, June 2004 saw the release of Feedback, a studio EP recorded in suburban Toronto featuring eight covers of such artists as Cream, The Who and The Yardbirds, bands that the members of Rush cite as inspiration around the time of their inception.

The rebound which started in mid 2003 saw growth rate growth rate averaging 3 % ( 2004 and 2005 saw a GDP growth of 2. 5 % and 2. 6 % respectively ; for 2006 and 2007, the rate was 3. 6 %).

" also saw a single release in a limited edition of European countries, such as Germany, in early 2004.

Round 11, 2004 saw Sydney end the Saints ' undefeated start to that season, winning by 17. 10 ( 112 ) to St Kilda's 11. 10 ( 76 ), before St Kilda retaliated with a 51-point thrashing in the semi-finals that ended Sydney's season on a low note.

The regional competitions Copa América and Euro Cup saw 5 nations rising the cup, Colombia ( 2001 ) and Brazil ( 2004, 2007 ) won the Copa América, and France ( 2000 ), Greece ( 2004 ) and Spain ( 2008 ) won the Euro Cup.

The 2004 – 05 season saw a resurgent Barcelona, inspired by the brilliant Ronaldinho, win their first title of the new century, in addition to the Liga-Champions League double in 2005 – 06.

2004 also saw Quest expand operations in Asia with new offices in Singapore, Korea and China.

" In August 2004 Stephen King, in a column, criticized what he saw as a growing trend of leniency towards films from critics including Ebert.

The 2004 local election saw the party lose control of the two south Wales councils it gained in 1999, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Caerphilly, while retaining its stronghold of Gwynedd in the north-west.

Redevelopment in 2004 saw an effort to clean up the estate by replacing housing.

End of 2004 saw the beginning of full-scale production of completely domestic ZAZ Lanos ( T150 ), now that CKD kits of Lanos were no longer supplied.

The 2004 – 05 season saw the Clippers, although also missed the playoffs, finished with a better record than the Lakers for the first time since 1993.

The 2004 meeting also saw the convening of the General Assembly of the Global Anti-War Movement, an idea that originated from the Asian Social Forum in November 2003, and broadly coalesced in response to the invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003.

2004 saw the release of the final Riot / Clone EP, " Mad Sheep Disease ", on the Californian label Alternative Records.

He was unable to prevent the club's relegation to League Two that season, and although the club were top of the table in August 2004, a loss of form saw them fall down the table.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

In 2004, Hewitt became the first man in history to lose in each Grand Slam singles tournament to the eventual champion.

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to Super Bowl XXXIX at the end of the 2004 season, where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24 – 21.

He was also the starter in Euro 2004, saving David Beckham's penalty shot in the round robin, but France went out in the quarterfinals to eventual winners Greece.

In 2004, the Islanders again lost in the first round of the playoffs, this time to the eventual champion Tampa Bay Lightning.

He later participated to the 2004 European Championship where France finished in the top of their group, but they were eliminated by the eventual winner of the competition, Greece, in the quarter finals.

In March 2004, Jackson County became the first of an eventual 35 counties in Oregon to implement a voluntary plan of fireproofing homes situated on properties zoned as part of the forestland-urban interface.

In The Other Side of Outsourcing ( 2004 ), he visited a call centre in Bangalore, interviewing the young Indians working there, and then travelled to an impoverished rural part of India, where he debated the pros and cons of globalization with locals ( this trip spawned his eventual best-selling book The World is Flat ).

* The documentary film Citizen Black, which premiered at the 2004 Montreal and Cambridge film festivals, traces Black's life and filmmaker Debbie Melnyk's attempts in 2003 to interview Black, and her eventual interview.

Clark joined the 2004 race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination as a candidate on September 17, 2003, but withdrew from the primary race on February 11, 2004, after winning the Oklahoma state primary, endorsing and campaigning for the eventual Democratic nominee, John Kerry.

Their best finish was in 2004 when they lost in the Elite 8 to eventual national champion University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point 82-81 in overtime at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.

* Jeremy, portrayed by Jonathan Taylor Thomas ( 2003 – 2004 ), is Bridget's tutor and eventual boyfriend.

The gloomy prospect of a continued winning drought with the French team left Burns poised to rejoin Subaru, having signed for them for the second time beginning with the 2004 season, the ploy being to couple him with the eventual 2003 title winner, Norway's Petter Solberg.

Constructed to become one of the venues of the UEFA Euro 2004 tournament, it staged the inaugural match between hosts Portugal and eventual winners Greece, as well as three group stage, one quarterfinal, and one semifinal fixtures.

He endorsed General Wesley Clark ( D-Arkansas ) in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, but had U. S. Senator John Kerry ( D-Massachusetts ), the eventual nominee, actually defeated incumbent U. S. President George W. Bush ( R ) in the 2004 general election, many experts believe that Hodges would have been a leading contender for U. S. Secretary of Education.

Quoting from that page: For the history of this great work, including the eventual discovery of the legendary lost ending, see New York Review of Science Fiction # 195, November 2004, and # 198, February 2005.

On April 21, 2004, the night after the final seven contestants performed Barry Manilow songs, London, Jennifer Hudson, and eventual winner Fantasia Barrino shockingly ended up in the bottom three with the least viewer votes.

A dispute between Anselmo and Fazzio led to the band's eventual split in late 2004, which was confirmed by both Hank Williams III and Jimmy Bower.

The trio's eventual reunion was on March 15, 2004 when Grenier returned.

Nakamura qualified for the 2004 world chess championship, contested in Tripoli, Libya, and reached the fourth round, defeating grandmasters Sergey Volkov, Aleksej Aleksandrov, and Alexander Lastin before falling to England's Michael Adams, the tournament's third-seeded participant and eventual runner-up.

This later paved the way for the eventual downgrading of all of ITV's regional identities, though the names were never fully dropped as their news programmes Central News and Westcountry Live continued, and eventually returned to the air ( albeit as ITV1 Central and ITV1 Westcountry ) in 2004.

He reached the semi-finals of the UK Championship in both 2004 and 2005 seasons, losing the 2004 match after leaving opponent and eventual runner-up David Gray requiring snookers in the penultimate frame to remain in it.