Disraeli, who expanded the Empire to protect British interests abroad, cultivated the image of himself ( and the Conservative Party ) as " Imperialist ", making grand gestures such as conferring the title " Empress of India " on Queen Victoria in 1876.

The old structure of the grand slam was the U. S. Open, British Open, U. S. Amateur, and British Amateur.

Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.

The British command devised a grand plan to divide the colonies via a three-way pincer movement.

He wanted to " knock away the props " by attacking Germany's allies-he argued for the sending of British troops to Greece ( this was done-the Salonika expedition-although not on the scale that Lloyd George had wanted, and mountain ranges made his suggestions of grand Balkan offensives impractical ) and for the sending of machine guns to Romania ( insufficient were available ).

Webb rejected the grand classical style and based the design on British vernacular architecture expressing the texture of ordinary materials, such as stone and tiles, with an asymmetrical and quaint building composition.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1960, an award which was partly for her charity work, largely unnoticed, which she carried on until her death, often for small and rather obscure charities rather than the grand ones which would have given her more publicity.

Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress.

On December 31, 1776 one year after the Battle of Quebec, a mass was held in celebration of the British success, and Carleton threw a grand ball.

Built in the spirit of British colonial rule, the place where the new imperial city and the older native settlement met was intended to be a market ; it was there that Lutyens imagined the Indian traders would participate in " the grand shopping centre for the residents of Shahjahanabad and New Delhi ", thus giving rise to the D-shaped market seen today.

St John ’ s Hall, originally called Highbury College ( of Divinity ), was built in 1825 on what is now Aubert Park and was a grand ionic-style building, reminiscent of the British Museum.

It was dedicated to the grand traditions of British Imperialism in the face of capitalism, globalisation and the distinct lack of culture in Christchurch, New Zealand.

" It has also been suggested that Watkins ' speculation ( he called it ' surmise ') stemmed from reading an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the British Archaeological Association in Hereford titled Boundaries and Landmarks, in which he speculated that " Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe ".

After Churchill indicated that Sykes might be appointed Controller of Civil Aviation and made a knight grand cross of the Order of the British Empire, Trenchard agreed to consider the offer.

Duncombe was a Freemason, serving as first master of the Mount Moriah lodge at Westminster ; in 1836, he set up a grand lodge independent from the British lodges and became its first grand master.

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His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian Outback in the 19th century.

The second hotel was in a grand Italianate revival style, and was considered one of the great hotels of the British Empire.

The Jaguar XK series ( XK, XK8 and XKR ) is a series of grand tourer cars produced by British car maker Jaguar since 1996.

1860 – four infantry battalions, four batteries of garrison artillery ; July, 1861 reinforcement – three infantry battalions, one field artillery battery, and personnel to bring the existing garrisons ' units to strength ; " Trent affair " reinforcement – eight infantry battalions, five batteries of field artillery, eight batteries of garrison artillery, three companies of engineers, various service and support elements, and the headquarters staff ; the grand total in British North America by New Year's amounted to 14 infantry battalions ( elements of one battalion and part of the headquarters staff were unable to land in Nova Scotia because of the North Atlantic winter ; the staff officers involved had to land in Boston and travel overland to Montreal via the U. S .); six batteries of field artillery ; 12 of garrison artillery ; and three of engineers, plus the various headquarters, service, and support elements.

From 1893 until her death, she had the distinction of being a Russian grand duchess ( by birth ), a British princess and royal duchess ( by marriage ), and the consort ( and later widow ) of a German sovereign duke.

However, inadequately supported by his Italian allies, abandoned by his government ( either because of jealousy or simply because Carthage was overstretched ), and unable to match Rome ’ s resources, Hannibal slowly began losing ground, never able to bring about another grand decisive victory that could produce a lasting strategic change.

In February 1942, Raeder presented Hitler with the " Great Plan ", a grand strategic design for winning the war by a series of combined operations with Japan and Italy.

Though his methods are questioned, Britain's Field Marshal Haig was ultimately proved correct in his grand strategic vision: " We cannot hope to win until we have defeated the German Army.

On the grand strategic level Marlborough had a rare grasp of the broad issues involved, and was able from the start of the Spanish Succession war to see the conflict in its entirety.

As a result, castle building by the Norman nobility across England and the Marches lacked a grand strategic plan, reflecting local circumstances such as military factors and the layout of existing estates and church lands.

Many arguments focus on possible local tactical occurrences as opposed to the strategic lapses and failings in grand tactics on the part of high command under Chelmsford and Bartle Frere.

Some have extended the concept of grand strategy to describe multi-tiered strategies in general, including strategic thinking at the level of corporations and political parties.

By contrast, in his 1965 book Hitlers Strategie, which was Hillgruber's Habilitationsschrift, Hillgruber examined the grand strategic decision-making progress in 1940-1941 and concluded that, while Hitler had to adjust to diplomatic, economic, strategic and operational military realities, whenever possible his decisions were influenced by his racist, anti-Semitic and Social Darwinist beliefs.

Although originally concerned with strategy, grand tactics and tactics, due to the changing nature of warfare and military technology, since the interwar period, the principles are largely applied to the strategic decision-making, and in some cases, to operational mobility of forces.

For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.

Of this grand plan only the Edward VII galleries in the centre of the North Front were ever constructed, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J. J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and Queen Mary in 1914.

In 1931 his incompleteness theorem showed that Hilbert's grand plan was impossible as stated.

Some modifications to the floor plan were made, the largest being the repositioning of the grand staircase to open into the Entrance Hall, rather than the Cross Hall.

Cities such as Enkomi were rebuilt on a rectangular grid plan, where the town gates correspond to the grid axes and numerous grand buildings front the street system or newly founded.

Roman dam construction was characterized by " the Romans ' ability to plan and organize engineering construction on a grand scale ".

Egyptian author Tawfiq al-Hakim, described Nasser a " confused Sultan " who pursued grand but ultimately empty dreams ; a man of stirring rhetoric, but no real plan of action.

Other elements of Haussman's plan included uniform building heights, grand boulevards, and anchoring elements including the Arc de Triomphe and the Grand Opera House.

When the choir of the Ainur finally embark on the fully collaborative elaboration of Ilúvatar ’ s grand plan, Melkor participates with all the others, yet he stands forth and inserts his very different thematic adornments, which disrupts the harmony.

The 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tun Doctor Mahathir Bin Mohamad instigated the project as part of the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor a grand development plan for the nation.

A grand plan is revealed to Zero.

Brickman continued with his grand plan.

Both village boards declined to help because they had incorporated their villages in 1957 and 1959 to protect themselves from Brickman's grand plan.

Floyd ’ s grand plan had been a failure.

The plan of the finished building is built around two major axes, at the southern end of Westminster Hall, St. Stephen's porch was created, as a major entrance to the building, this involved inserting a great arch with a grand stair case at the southern end of Westminster hall, this leads to the first floor where the major rooms are located.

The plan of the rooms at Belton was passé for a grand house of its time.

The final version of Generalplan Ost, essentially a grand plan for ethnic cleansing, was divided into two parts ; the Kleine Planung (" Small Plan "), which covered actions which were to be taken during the war, and the Grosse Planung (" Big Plan "), which covered actions to be undertaken after the war was won ( to be carried into effect gradually over a period of 25 – 30 years ).

The builder to whom Wentworth's grandson turned for a plan for the grand scheme that he intended, was a local builder and country architect, Ralph Tunnicliffe, who had a practice in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.

Only in Kabuki-cho was a grand reconstruction plan put into action.

The 1770s saw a grand plan to build a canal from the Little Ouse at Thetford to the River Stort at Bishops Stortford.

Described as the " East Lothian answer ", the plan would allow English MPs to discuss " England only " bills in a grand committee that would then vote on the bill.

In his 1791 plan for the future city of Washington, D. C., Pierre ( Peter ) Charles L ' Enfant envisioned a garden-lined “ grand avenue ” approximately 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) in length

The plan differed from L ’ Enfant ’ s by replacing the wide " grand avenue " with a wide vista containing a long and broad expanse of grass.