At first the Coalition was seen as a political masterstroke, as the Conservative leader Bonar Law was given a relatively minor job ( Secretary for the Colonies ), whilst former Conservative leader A. J. Balfour was given the Admiralty, replacing Churchill.

However, the integration of DOS into Windows 95 was the masterstroke: not only were the other operating system vendors frozen out, Microsoft could now require computer manufacturers to comply with its demands on pain of higher prices ( as when it required IBM to stop actively marketing OS / 2 or else pay more than twice as much for Windows 95 as its competitor Compaq ) or by withholding " Designed for Windows 95 " endorsement ( which was regarded as an essential hardware marketing tool ).

The ACB's masterstroke was the appointment of the 41 year-old Bobby Simpson as Australian captain, after a ten-year retirement from first-class cricket.

Archibald's masterstroke was to open The Bulletin's pages to contributions from its readers in 1886, running pages of poetry, short stories and cartoons contributed by miners, shearers and timber-workers from all over Australia.

In 2010, she was ranked as the third greatest video game character of all time by Empire stating that " SHODAN's constant, threatening presence is a masterstroke of game design.

The replacement of premiership-winning coach Steve Folkes with his assistant Kevin Moore was met with uncertainty but proved a masterstroke.

Houston's plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow segregation by demonstrating the inequality in the " separate but equal " doctrine from the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision as it pertained to public education in the United States was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark Brown decision.

Her marriage to Tungī Mailefihi had been a masterstroke of her father, as Tungī was a direct descendant of the Tu ‘ i Ha ‘ atakalaua, which at that time was seen as belonging to the Tu ‘ i Tonga's kauhala ‘ uta.

Philbrick himself made a brief show of opposing this new policy — a masterstroke, as the policy was also opposed by William Z.

Schumacher won the race after switching to a 3-stop strategy, which was seen as a masterstroke by tactician Ross Brawn.

Shankly was a Master tactician and player of mind games, which lead him to pull off a masterstroke just before the Semi-final of the European Cup against Inter Milan, Anfield was already buzzing in anticipation of the up and coming game when Shankly sent out the injured pair of Gerry Byrne and his full-back partner Gordon Milne with the piece of silverware the Kopites had dreamt about for decades, the FA Cup, the crowd erupted and, it's said, you could see the Italian champions freeze on the spot, it had the desired effect as Liverpool ran out comfortable 3-1 winners.

Santos ' masterstroke was the enlistment of Pedro Valentin, a local mountain leader who knew the people and the terrain like the back of his hand.

As a statement of resolve, it was a masterstroke from which the English never recovered as they lost the most high-profile game in Five Nations Rugby history.

In December 1982 Garvey signed with the Padres for $ 6. 6 million over five years in what some felt was a " masterstroke " to General Manager Jack McKeon's effort to rebuild the team.

The track featuring guest appearance of Santigold, was hailed by the NME as " a chuffing great masterstroke of genre-less genre mixing ".

On the television interviews programme Porta a Porta, during the last days of the electoral campaign, Berlusconi created a powerful impression on the public by undertaking to sign a so-called Contratto con gli Italiani (), an idea copied outright by his advisor Luigi Crespi from the Newt Gingrich's Contract with America introduced six weeks before the 1994 US Congressional election, which was widely considered to be a creative masterstroke in his 2001 campaign bid for prime ministership.

At the time it was considered uncertain whether the Bolshevik regime would last and the negotiation led by Gustav Nobel, on one side, and Walter C. Teagle, on the other, proved to be a profitable masterstroke for the Nobel family.

In a masterstroke this eventuated as planned, following this with the dismissal of captain Jimmy Adams to complete a memorable hat trick.

As the pressure grew more intense on him during Sveinn Knutsson's viceroy reign, Einar made his greatest political masterstroke.

Soufflot's masterstroke is concealed from casual view: the triple dome, each shell fitted within the others, permits a view through the oculus of the coffered inner dome of the second dome, frescoed by Antoine Gros with The Apotheosis of Saint Genevieve.

Historians consider this arrangement the political masterstroke of the Hispanic Middle Ages.

Probably the most well known example of such an approach is Saint Peter's Square, which has been praised as a masterstroke of Baroque theatre.

This masterstroke of diplomacy and statecraft allowed an otherwise deeply unpopular treaty to be ratified by the Canadian Parliament.

In 1962 Giles delivered his masterstroke announcing the pending merger of Elder Smith and Goldsbrough Mort with its new corporate headquarters in Adelaide.

" Commenting on Bellamy and Ameche in the roles of the Duke brothers, Ebert called their involvement in the film " a masterstroke of casting.

" According to Tobias, " it took serious moxie for Haynes to consciously crib from the greatest film ever made, ... but the Citizen Kane structure is perhaps Velvet Goldmines biggest masterstroke.

As the Narn forces begin to falter, Refa devises a masterstroke: to reconquer the Narn homeworld in a single, massive attack.

Bath had coached Balmain and Newtown and had success as the national coach and Facer's masterstroke in bringing Bath back into the Dragons ' fold paid off, enabling the old campaigner " Fearless Frank " to see one last premiership victory before his death.

The trapezoidal shape of the piazza, which creates a heightened perspective for a visitor leaving the basilica and has been praised as a masterstroke of Baroque theater ( illustration, below right ), is largely a product of site constraints.

When Darwin reaches the mainframe, he finds out that Speckles is the mastermind of the plan, whose masterstroke is to cause a massive planetwide bombardment of space junk pulled from orbit to make the planet surface uninhabitable.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

His claim was therefore `` so highly exaggerated '', the Department concluded, that it `` cast doubt upon his veracity and, consequently, upon his sincerity and good faith ''.

In his answer thereto, he advised the Board that he had made no such statement in 1956, and asserted that his only claim to `` pioneering '' was in 1952.

But the statement of the local board attributing this claim to petitioner was in his file.

Having had every opportunity to rebut the finding of the local board before both the hearing officer and the appeal board, petitioner cannot now claim that he was denied due process because he did not succeed.

While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.

He did receive a resume of it -- the same that was furnished the appeal board -- and he made no claim of its inaccuracy.

The Court said the purpose of the section was principally to spare the Government the embarrassment and trouble of dealing with several parties, one of them a stranger to the claim, and to prevent traffic in claims, particularly tenuous claims, against the Government.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

In rejecting any claim to the value of the slave property, Palfrey was giving up close to $7,000.

He was also pleased with the wide distribution because he thought it proved again his argument that Dallas investment men can do just as good a job as the big New York investment bankers claim only they can do.

The Revenue Service disallowed the claim, invoking a law provision that generally bars deductions for expenses incurred in connection with what it said was tax-exempt income.

Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.

At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

It has been maintained that the right to wear mitres was sometimes granted by the popes to abbots before the 11th century, but the documents on which this claim is based are not genuine ( J. Braun, Liturgische Gewandung, p. 453 ).

Other sources, such as Iphigenia at Aulis, claim that Agamemnon was prepared to kill his daughter, but that Artemis accepted a deer in her place, and whisked her away to Taurus in Crimea.