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After clinching the last spot in the West Division with a losing record, the Cougars defeated the number-one seed Portland Winter Hawks in the conference quarterfinals and the third-ranked Spokane Chiefs in the conference semifinals before finally losing to the second-ranked Seattle Thunderbirds in the Western Conference final.
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After and clinching
After excellent seasons between 1977 – 79, the Rangers came very close to clinching a playoff spot in the first half of 1981.
After giving up a walk and two singles to load the bases in the ninth inning, he struck out Willie Wilson, clinching the Phillies ' first World Series championship.
After winning a parliamentary seat from Ipoh Timor during the 2004 general election, which also saw his party clinching the most seats of any opposition party, Lim became the Parliamentary Opposition Leader.
After clinching the SEC East, the Gators won the on December 2 over Arkansas by a score of 38 – 28.
After clinching their second AL West championship, the Angels won the first two games of the best-of-five ALCS against the AL East champion Milwaukee Brewers — then promptly dropped the next three in a row to lose the series.
After winning the crucial Illinois primary and clinching the Democratic Nomination for President, Bartlet, acting on the advice of Leo McGarry, invited Hoynes to join the ticket as his running mate to balance the ticket ( Bartlet was from New England, Hoynes from Texas, and Bartlet was liberal while Hoynes moderate.
After clinching the Pacific Division with a 52 – 30 record, the team met the Bullets again in the 1979 NBA Finals.
After several years of mediocre hockey and questionable ownership, the Generals finished the 2009-10 season on a hot streak, clinching the final Turner Cup playoff berth on the final day of the season.
• After clinching the 1931 league championship, the Packers celebrated on the train ride back to Green Bay from New York with a party, which included an impromptu towel fight.
After that, the Colts went on an 11-game winning streak, taking the lead on October 4 with their 35 – 20 win over the Rams, and clinching a spot in the title game on November 22.
After and last
After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier Magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons:
After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).
After several victories he was at last completely defeated ( 307 BC ) and fled secretly to Sicily.
After thirty days of working with Wilson, Smith drank his last drink on June 10, 1935, the date marked by AA for its anniversaries.
After the last anointing, the Gospel Book is opened and placed with the writing down upon the head of the one who was anointed, and the senior priest reads the " Prayer of the Gospel ".
After finishing the trios, in the fall of 1808, he began sketching the Choral Fantasy, the work considered to be the " first draft " of the last movement of the Symphony No. 9.
After 128 years of Bithynian rule, Nicomedes IV, the last King of Bithynia, bequeathed the entire kingdom to the Roman Empire in 74 BC.
After his last match, in the post-game presentation interview, he asked the fans, " Did I entertain?
After Elihu's speech ends with the last verse of Chapter 37, God appears and in the second verse of Chapter 38, God says, speaking of Job: “ Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
But most damaging, the new situation effectively trapped Russian foreign policy: After 1913, Russia could not afford losing its last ally in this crucial area and thus had no alternatives but to unconditionally support Serbia when the crisis between Serbia and Austria broke out in 1914.
After the ending of the war, all refugees were repatriated to Sudan ; the last of the 9, 700 remaining in Central African Republic were evacuated in April 2007.
After premiering on September 30, 1982, it was nearly canceled during its first season when it ranked last in ratings for its premiere ( 74th out of 77 shows ).
After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.
After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.
After finishing last in the N. L.
After 2 more years without a race the Dutch Grand Prix was back on the World Championship ( s ) calendar in 1958 and from then on remained a permanent fixture ( with the exception of 1972 ) until, when it was held for the last time.
After publishing her autobiography, Day married one last time.
After studying over 8, 000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century.
After the last German offensive on the Western Front failed in 1918, the war effort was doomed.
After initially seeking employment in a reserved occupation, he managed to be classified Grade III, which meant that he would be among the last to be called up for service.
After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.
After the defeat of the Mercian king Beornwulf around AD 825, Sigered, the last king of Essex, ceded the kingdom which then became a possession of the Wessex king Egbert.
After Elizabeth's own death, a note from him was found among her most personal belongings, marked " his last letter " in her handwriting.
After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.
After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.
After and spot
After the kick is made, change of possession occurs and subsequent penalties are assessed against either the spot where the ball is caught, or the runback.
After a rocky start Hellas put together a string of results and climbed to third spot.
After the family moved from Western Pennsylvania to Chicago, Weissmüller continued swimming and eventually earned a spot on the YMCA swim team.
After the Portuguese raided and pillaged villages around the trading posts in those two cities, the Emperor ruled that all Portuguese encountered everywhere should be killed on the spot.
After hitting in either the second or eighth spot in the batting order for most of his time in St. Louis, Herzog made Smith the number-two hitter full-time during the 1987 season.
After General Manager Walt Jocketty acquired shortstop Royce Clayton during the offseason, La Russa emphasized an open competition for the spot that would give the Cardinals the best chance to win.
After being developed, the plate showed a large number of well-defined spots arranged in a pattern of intersecting circles around the spot produced by the central beam.
After the Six-Day War, an arch was built to mark the spot where the synagogue stood.
After struggling early the Flyers made a run at the playoffs, but came four points short of the last spot.
After seven weeks, the album's time at the top seemed over, but Beatles for Sale made a comeback on 27 February 1965, by dethroning The Rolling Stones and returning to the top spot for a week.
After the 1996 season, Olerud was battling veteran Joe Carter and up-and-comer Carlos Delgado for a spot at either first base or designated hitter.
After sleeping with him she put a magical love spot on his forehead ; any woman that looked at the love spot fell instantly in love with him.
After many days, she saw a shoot sprout from the spot.
After a dip to second place, Rather regained the top spot in 1985 until 1989 when he ceded the ratings peak to rival Peter Jennings at ABC's World News Tonight.
After a stint in the 1950s and 1960s as a Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) base ( earning Columbus a spot in Soviet Union target lists ), CAFB returned to its original role.
After a dour and unexciting 0 – 0 draw, penalty kicks loomed, and when Roberto Baggio lifted his spot kick over the crossbar, Brazil were champions once again.
After a poor start to the season, losing their first four games and drawing the fifth, Udinese went on to record their highest points total in history and finished in the fourth position, again earning themselves a spot in the Champions League qualifying round.
After the Second World War, more hotels were built and the town remained a favoured vacation spot for people from Nicosia and foreign travellers alike.
After failing to find a spot on another team, he returned to Brockton and began boxing training with longtime friend, Allie Colombo.
After " The Model " found popularity, the single was re-released with the sides reversed, and " The Model " hit the UK No. 1 spot, three years after its album release.
After leaving the series in 1999, he made a cameo appearance in the 6th season and returned for a guest spot in the show's final season.
After it was destroyed by fire in 1672, English dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew engaged Christopher Wren to build a larger theatre on the same spot, which opened in 1674.
After a pit lane error Montoya slipped back from his top 10 spot at the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway.
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