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A second high-profile and uniquely implemented filibuster in the Ontario Legislature occurred in April, 1997, where the New Democratic Party, then in opposition, tried to prevent the governing Progressive Conservatives ' Bill 103 from taking effect.
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In 1969, Bixby starred in his second high-profile television role, as Tom Corbett in The Courtship of Eddie's Father a comedy-drama on ABC.
This was the second high-profile project with both Elton John and George Michael in as many years ; the year before, they did a live reworking of John's song " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me ".
" He was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, including a second Golden Globe nomination.
The year was saved, however, by AIK having their most successful campaign ever so far on the international scene, knocking out Slavia Prague in the second round of the UEFA Cup, but not managing to get past their third round opponents, the then very high-profile AC Parma, with Tomas Brolin on the side.
Bernstein accepted the job, and it sparked a second wave in his career, where he continued to do high-profile comedies such as The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Stripes, and Airplane !, as well as most of Landis's films for the next 15 years.
A high-profile role as Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1983 TV miniseries Kennedy earned her a second Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, as well as a BAFTA nomination.
Since then, he has worked on many high-profile movies, including the second and third installments of the Lord of the Rings trilogy ( The Two Towers and The Return of the King ), The Bourne Supremacy, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Trek and Doom
By the time Metal Church released their second studio album, The Dark, in 1986, they were touring with high-profile acts like Metallica.
is one of several high-profile national newspapers in Germany ( along with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau and die Tageszeitung ) and among these has the second largest circulation nationwide.
In January 2010, Mayo took over from Chris Evans on the Drivetime show, noting he was " very lucky to be given a second chance in such a high-profile slot.
Though there was some slight improvement in his second season, in which Fremantle won several high-profile games, the club nevertheless struggled, and finished twelfth.
* December 31 – Simón Trinidad, high-profile FARC leader, is extradited to the United States, following the second extradition of a high drug dealer in a month and in 2004.
Through taking on numerous high-profile roles, he eventually became the second or third most powerful man in Hungary.
Benjamin's nomination marks the second MSM trustee to hold a high-profile position with the Obama administration.
He warned Washington that a high-profile figure was about to be assassinated and that he himself was second or third on the assassination list.
The second is the Weevil, who is trying to negotiate an exit into a more high-profile superhero team playing both on his own popularity and his legacy status from following in his father's footsteps.
In the early 1980s, a large unused space on the second floor was converted into the Showboat Sports Pavilion, which hosted American Wrestling Association events and Los Angeles Thunderbirds roller derby matches, and competed with Caesars Palace to book high-profile boxing matches.
Mauch at Bed Bath & Beyond, his second job, where the police captain admits he has been holding off on the case because Ershon has high-profile connections that could ruin him, and he allows them to finish the case off-the-books.
second and uniquely
The first part of the algorithm computes an LU decomposition, while the second part writes the original matrix as the product of a uniquely determined invertible matrix and a uniquely determined reduced row-echelon matrix.
The greatest innovation of Linnaeus, and still the most important aspect of this system, is the general use of binomial nomenclature, the combination of a genus name and a second term, which together uniquely identify each species of organism.
Often a second, additional meaning is intended by using the word prime, namely that any object can be, essentially uniquely, decomposed into its prime components.
In what is called the second superstring revolution, it was conjectured that both string theory and a unification of general relativity and supersymmetry known as supergravity form part of a hypothesized eleven-dimensional model known as M-theory, which would constitute a uniquely defined and consistent theory of quantum gravity.
Ender complies with the request by writing a second book titled The Hegemon, giving a parallel, but uniquely human, perspective to the ideas and lessons of " The Hive Queen ".
The culmination of this rhetoric, and arguably the one verse that has caused more Jewish suffering than any other second Testament passage, is the uniquely Matthean attribution to the Jewish people: " His blood be on us and on our children!
Hagfishes, uniquely among vertebrates, also possess a second heart-like structure in the tail.
Using a uniqueness theorem and showing that a potential satisfies Laplace's equation ( second derivative of V should be zero i. e. in free space ) and the potential has the correct values at the boundaries, the potential is then uniquely defined.
Thus, Kolmogorov introduced a second hypothesis: for very high Reynolds numbers the statistics of small scales are universally and uniquely determined by the viscosity () and the rate of energy dissipation ().
The columns include: name ( a person's name, second column ); team ( the name of an athletic team supported by the person, third column ); and a numeric unique ID, ( used to uniquely identify records, first column ).
Winnowill's uniquely long meditations upon the Egg ( she was patient enough to watch it shaped from the first shell ) allow her to conceive a plan which is the subject of the second series of Elfquest, Siege at Blue Mountain.
His instruments deviated significantly from family tradition, becoming uniquely his own style, and are considered second in quality only to those of Stradivari and argued by some to be superior.
These exams, uniquely, are tailored to the needs of those who have moved to Britain, i. e. immigrants needing English as a second language.
A second bar to the DFM was uniquely awarded to Flight Sergeant Donald Ernest Kingaby in November 1941.
2005 saw the release of their second album under Dorn and Hyena, The Sameness of Difference, the first release to include JFJO's uniquely arranged covers of songs by diverse contemporary musicians such as Björk and The Flaming Lips, as well as Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, and Neil Young.
second and implemented
The second equation is a discrete-time version used, for example, by digital filters implemented in software, so-called digital signal processing.
Conditionals were implemented by providing a way that a single line in the control store could choose from alternatives in the second matrix.
This may be implemented in different ways, often by pressing one button before making a call ; some telephones support " chain dialing ", allowing additional numbers to be dialed when on a call ( e. g., dial a PIN and a second number after connecting to an access number ).
The voice ports used digitally implemented 24kbit / s Delta Modulation with Voice Activity Compression or VAC and Echo Suppressors to control the half second echo path through the satellite.
During this second turn at the Governor's desk, Menem implemented generous corporate tax exemptions, attracting the first sizable presence of light manufacturing his province had ever seen.
As originally implemented, the first digit signified the body size while the second represents the number of cylinders.
The government also failed to meet its 1964 manifesto commitment to tie increases in national insurance benefits to increases in average earnings, although this reform would later be implemented during Wilson ’ s second premiership in 1975.
The second Wilson government implemented a wide-ranging programme of social reform during its two years in office, with spending on education, health, price controls, and housing rents expanded from 1974 to 1976, amongst other reforms.
After the " first stage " of reform of the House of Lords was implemented in the House of Lords Act 1999, the Wakeham Royal Commission on the proposal of a " second stage " of reform reported in January 2000.
The second feature implemented by Adaptive Routing was often talked about in network engineering circles, but was implemented only by CNS-establishing connection paths on the basis of real-time performance measurements.
A type of register, first implemented with a stop above the keyboard, which became a standard device for pianos in the second half of the 18th century, was engaging or disengaging the muting of the strings after the release of a key.
If the tap is implemented at a digital switch, the switching computer simply copies the digitized bits that represent the phone conversation to a second line and it is impossible to tell whether a line is being tapped.
On January 1, 1953, the second renumbering was implemented.
Stereo radio had not yet been implemented, so the station actually broadcast the left channel on one frequency and the right channel on a second.
All Hungarian planned cities were built in the second half of the 20th century when a program of rapid industrialization was implemented by the communist government.
In the second half of the 18th century, king Charles III implemented the so-called New Settlements ( Nuevas Poblaciones ) plan which would bring 10, 000 immigrants from central Europe to the region of Sierra Morena.
A second resolution was being drafted with the intention that it would find Iraq in " material breach " and the " serious consequences " of Resolution 1441 should be implemented.
All Hungarian planned cities were built in the second half of the 20th century when a program of rapid industrialization was implemented by the communist government.
In the second half of the 18th century, king Charles III implemented the so-called New Settlements ( Nuevas Poblaciones ) plan which would bring 10, 000 immigrants from central Europe to the region of Sierra Morena.
On January 1, 1971 the second and last local government reform was implemented in Sweden.
During his second term as finance minister, Colley implemented controversial policies from the election manifesto.
President Michael Schwartz ended open admissions and implemented a vision to move from a U. S. News & World Report fourth tier university to a second tier university.
The second committee, the Committee on Admission with Advanced Standing, developed and implemented the plan to choose a curriculum.
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