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popular and sweeping
This natural landmark, which is the highest point in the city of San Diego, offers sweeping views of the county and is a popular hiking destination.
The property, with sweeping views of Lake Winnipesaukee, is a popular tourist attraction.
In spite of the film's lack of popular acceptance, film historians consider it to be an immensely rich experience — a sweeping historical epic of vast scale, and a powerful testament to Eisenstein's creativity and artistry.
The UIL was explicitly designed to reconcile the various parliamentary fragments existing since the Parnell split, which proved very popular, its branches sweeping over most of the country organised by its general secretary John O ' Donnell, dictating to the demoralised Irish party leaders the terms for reconstruction, not only of the party but the nationalist movement in Ireland.
On March 23, it was announced that the Janata party had won a sweeping victory, securing 43. 2 % of the popular vote and 271 seats.
The opposition Democratic Party won a plurality of the popular vote and seats contested in the election, sweeping the liberal urban areas.
These sketches, which he later painted in his studio, became very popular, and though now scarce, exhibit a broad and sweeping mode of execution, differing but slightly from that transmitted at the dawn of the 17th century from Jan van Goyen to Salomon van Ruysdael.
It appears early in the second act as Evita addresses the crowd from the balcony of the Casa Rosada and features a sweeping melody tied to broad emotional themes of regret and defiance, characteristic of Lloyd Webber ’ s most popular songs.
In January 2001 he had a sweeping victory at the polls, winning a larger popular mandate ( 40 %) than any Thai prime minister has ever had in a freely elected National Assembly.
In Argentina folklore ( at that time Nueva canción was sweeping Argentina ), was increasingly crossing over to popular musical trends by the late 1950s.
The Angelicum is the most popular landmark visited by local folks every Christmas because of the fabulous display of Christmas lights that decorate each inch of the Lizares Mansion – its oldest building set within a sweeping lawn of green grass – the main feature of the panoramic view of the school.
However, with the winds of liberalization sweeping Vietnam in the 1990s, the immensely popular book could not be suppressed.
Lugosi's performance was so popular that his Hungarian accent and sweeping gestures became characteristics now commonly associated with Dracula.

popular and Land
A popular 1911 comedic play by playwright Charles Nirdlinger, titled The First Lady in the Land, popularized the title further.
The most popular theory asserts that migrants came to the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge, Beringia, the land mass covered by the cold ocean waters in the Bering Strait.
The late 1980s and 1990s saw the production of a series of critically acclaimed and popular films such as Hidden Agenda, one of the rare films dealing with the political troubles in Northern Ireland, Carla's Song set partially in Nicaragua, and Land and Freedom examining the Republican resistance in the Spanish Civil War.
The most popular models are the Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Prado, Mitsubishi Pajero, Kia Sportage, Land Rover Range Rover, Lexus GX.
Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.
His next series, Lost in Space, a space opera which aired from 1965 to 1968, became popular with audiences, and quickly led to two other sci-fi favorites in 1966 ; Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.
In 1904, he wrote and published the first sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, explaining that he grudgingly wrote the sequel to address the popular demand.
A notable recording of a popular song, such as Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow ( from The Wizard of Oz ), Mary Martin singing Never Never Land ( from Peter Pan ), Allan Jones singing The Donkey Serenade ( from The Firefly ), or Danny Kaye singing Inchworm ( from Hans Christian Andersen ) would be heard while the cutouts played on the screen, animated by a concealed puppeteer.
Pure Land Buddhism seems to have first become popular in northwest India / Pakistan and Afghanistan, from where it spread to Central Asia and China.
Guthrie is best known for his very popular folk songs, most notably, " This Land Is Your Land ".
It is an old town located close to the Land Between the Lakes, a popular recreation area, and was a base of Union and Confederate operations in the American Civil War.
Land reform has been especially popular as part of decolonization struggles in Africa and the Arab world, where it was part of the program for African socialism and Arab nationalism.
For 14 years, the Cartwrights were the premier western family on American television and have been immensely popular on cable networks such as TV Land, ION ( formerly PAX ), Family Channel, and the Hallmark Channel.
Spoiler's career began in 1946 ( see 1946 in music ) at the House of Lords Tent, and he soon became one of the most popular calypso singers, known for hits such as " Bedbug ", " Magistrate Try Himself ", " Picking Sense out of Nonsense ", " Royal Wedding " and " Trinidad is My Land ".
They publish the popular book Narrative of a Visit to the Holy Land ; And, Mission of Inquiry to the Jews in 1842
In fact, this collaboration benefited Lane's career as much as her mother ' smany of Lane's most popular short stories and her two most commercially successful novels were written at this time and were fueled by material which was taken directly from her mother's recollections of Ingalls-Wilder family folklore — Let the Hurricane Roar ( later retitled Young Pioneers ) and Free Land, both addressed the difficulties of homesteading in the Dakotas in the late 19th century, and how the " free land " in fact cost many homesteaders their life savings.
Pure Land Buddhism (;, Jōdo bukkyō ; Korean:, jeongtojong ; Vietnamese: ), also referred to as Amidism in English, is a broad branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism and currently one of the most popular traditions of Buddhism in East Asia.
The Pure Land teachings were first developed in India, and were very popular in Kashmir and Central Asia, where they may have originated.
While recognized by the Japanese Shingon sect, Eastern Pure Land Buddhism is less popular than Western Pure Land Buddhism.
Although the use of CB radios in the UK has declined from its peak, it is still popular, especially with the farming community, Land Rover owners and Mini-Cab services.
The Super Mario Land 3 subtitle links the game with the popular Super Mario Land 2.

popular and Reform
In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.
Cromwell knew " that if the Reform Bill should be suffered to pass, and a House of Commons be convened, freely elected on popular principles, and constituting a full and fair and equal representation, it would be impossible ever after to overthrow the liberties of the people, or break down the government of the country.
One of its more popular curricula, Neighboring Faiths ( formerly Church Across the Street ), takes middle and high school participants to visit the places of worship of many faith traditions including a Hindu temple, a Reform or Orthodox synagogue, and a Catholic church.
While Reform actually finished second in the national popular vote, the Bloc's heavy concentration of support in Quebec was slightly larger than Reform's concentration in the West.
A concerted drive, including a poll ( scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society ) to select the track, saw " Bunsen Burner " — with music sampled from the Trammps song " Disco Inferno " and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework — reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned Otway an appearance on Top Of The Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.
Tariff Reform proved popular with Unionist supporters, but the threat of higher prices for food imports made the policy an electoral albatross.
Campbell jettisoned some of the less popular planks in his 1996 platform, and aimed to make the party more welcoming of former Reform Party of British Columbia opponents such as MLA Richard Neufeld.
Amongst his economic works may be mentioned Money and the Mechanism of Exchange ( 1875 ), written in a popular style, and descriptive rather than theoretical, but wonderfully fresh and original in treatment and full of suggestiveness, a Primer on Political Economy ( 1878 ), The State in Relation to Labour ( 1882 ), and two works published after his death, namely, Methods of Social Reform and Investigations in Currency and Finance, containing papers that had appeared separately during his lifetime.
A Triple-E Senate was highly popular in western Canada, especially Alberta where the Reform Party drew large support.
Reform was the major beneficiary of the Tory collapse, taking nearly 16 % of the popular vote – a healthy increase from 1988.
However, the Bloc Québécois's concentration of support in Quebec was slightly larger, leaving Reform three seats short of Official Opposition status despite finishing second in the popular vote.
Today, nearly all Reform communities have returned to individual Bar Mitzvah at 13 and 12 or 13 for the Bat Mitzvah ceremonies, but the communal confirmation ceremony is still popular.
During Mrs Grote's convalescence at Hampstead, he wrote his first published work, the " Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform " ( 1821 ), in reply to Sir James Mackintosh's article in the Edinburgh Review, advocating popular representation, vote by ballot and short parliaments.
The Progressive Conservative Party placed third in the popular vote, behind Liberal and Reform, but still won the fewest seats due to the first past the post system.
Despite finishing only one point behind Reform in the nationwide popular vote, their only heavy concentrations of support were in Atlantic Canada and Quebec.
Reform had nominated candidates in the 1988 election, but had failed to win any seats, and garnered only 2. 5 percent of the popular vote.
At first opposing the 1832 Reform Bill, he gradually came to see the undesirability of a popular conflict, and he separated himself from the Tories and took an important part in modifying the attitude of the peers and helping to pass the bill, though his attempts at amendment only resulted in his pleasing neither party.
In the 1997 election, both the PCs and the Reform Party respectively polled roughly 19 % each in popular support.
Reform leader Manning was criticized by some members in his own party and by Western media for not " broadening the popular base of Reform.
In the 1999 provincial election, Romanow's NDP received slightly less popular support as a share of the vote than the conservative opposition Saskatchewan Party led by Elwin Hermanson, a former Reform MP.
The term was especially popular in Canada during the 1990s when the Progressive Conservative Party was centre-right with the Reform Party ( later, the Canadian Alliance ) further to the right.

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