After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot ( 3. 05 m ) elevated track.

After rejecting an offer from George Steinbrenner and former Indian Al Rosen, Stouffer sold the team in 1972 to a group led by Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Barons owner Nick Mileti.

After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.

After rejecting methods used to preserve other bog bodies, such as the " pit-tanning " used on Grauballe Man which took a year and a half, freeze-drying was settled on.

After rejecting his suggestion, " April Morn ", she took " Vivian Leigh " as her professional name.

After rejecting a Manchu alteration to the original diplomatic terms in 1636, the Manchus invade again in 1637.

After World War I the heads of some formerly reigning dynasties continued the practice of rejecting or, increasingly, recognising dynastic titles and / or rights for descendants of " morganatic " unions, effectively de-morganatizing the latter.

After rejecting the suit of the nominal King of Spain, Archduke Charles of Austria, she married George Augustus, the third-in-line to the British throne and heir apparent to the Electorate of Hanover.

After initially rejecting the piece, Paganini, as Berlioz's Mémoires recount, knelt before Berlioz in front of the orchestra after hearing it for the first time and proclaimed him a genius and heir to Beethoven.

After rejecting several names, including " Virgin Killer ", the band finally settled on Overkill.

After rejecting all her suitors, she marries a dog, Ijirqang, with white and red spots.

After rejecting several possibilities ( men who are about to die ), Joe is finally persuaded to accept the body of millionaire industrialist Leo Farnsworth.

After rejecting the idea of creating a dance album together, the pair decided to form a new band.

After rejecting Russian proposals to broker peace negotiations, Britain reversed course in 1814.

After rejecting the idea of creating a dance album together, the pair decided to form a new band.

After initially rejecting her advances, he began dating Gwen, but they kept their relationship secret for a year, feeling that it was an unspoken rule that nobody date her.

After rejecting an offer from Liam to be the band's manager, he agreed to join the band, on the condition that he take creative control of the group and become its sole songwriter.

After a conference with Eden and Wavell in October and rejecting Wavell's suggestion for a two-pronged attack, Wilson launched Operation Compass on 7 December 1940.

Nino began his academic activity in the early 1970s, concentrating on some traditional issues in jurisprudence, such as the concept of a legal system, the interpretation of the law, the debate between legal positivism and natural law, and the concept of validity After realizing the need to clarify the normative problems involved in some of those issues, he was led to embrace a model based on the explicit adoption of principles of justice and social morality, rejecting the predominant German-inspired " dogmatic " approach.

After rejecting Iranian demands, Carter approved an ill-fated secret rescue mission, Operation Eagle Claw.

After rejecting titles such as " The Beast ", " The Lovers ", and " The Couple Next Door ", Gleason and his staff settled on " The Honeymooners " for the name of the new sketch.

After initially rejecting Liu Xiu's idea, the Kunyang rebels eventually agreed.

After rejecting Stroheim's attempts to cut it to less than three hours, MGM removed Greed from his control and gave it to head scriptwriter June Mathis, with orders to cut it down to a manageable length.

After rejecting a series of names ( including Just Us, Next Issue, and Verse Four ), the group decided on " 98 Degrees " after a suggestion from their managers, Paris Djon and Johnny Camisa.

After first rejecting the idea of an attack on Quebec, the Congress authorized the Continental Army's commander of its Northern Department, Major General Philip Schuyler, to invade the province if he felt it necessary.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, the unity of the Imperial Aramaic script was lost, diversifying into a number of descendant cursives.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

After the tumultuous and disappointing 2007 season, the Falcons made a number of moves, hiring a new General Manager and head coach, drafting a new starting quarterback, and signing a starting running back.

After interviewing a number of women who alleged that Thomas had frequently subjected them to sexually explicit remarks, Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson wrote a book which concluded that Thomas had lied during his confirmation process.

After 1950, the big band trend declined in number.

After the Confederacy conquest in 1415 they retained much of the Habsburg legal structure, which caused a number of problems.

After the death of Cleomenes and the refusal of the Athenians to restore the hostages to Leotychides, the Aeginetans retaliated by seizing a number of Athenians at a festival at Sunium.

After he married Cornelia Boschman in 1658, the number of works produced by him declined almost to nothing.

After those redeployments the number of Army troops in that region rose to 25, 000.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

After stipulating a number of conditions to Hroðgar in case of his death ( including the taking in of his kinsmen and the inheritance by Unferth of Beowulf's estate ), Beowulf dives into the lake.

After rolling the dice players must, if possible, move their checkers according to the number of pips shown on each die.

After the carnage of 1914 – 1918 the democratic reform of the Representation of the People Act 1918 instantly tripled the number of people allowed to vote in Britain from 7 to 21 million.

After the defeat there Douglas escaped, but left a number of his men either slain or captive, including his first cousin latterly the 3rd Earl of Douglas, Archibald the Grim.

After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title " Father of Rock and Roll ," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.

Mumy has released a number of solo CDs, including Dying to Be Heard, In the Current, Pandora's Box, After Dreams Come True, Los Angeles Times, and Ghosts, as well as nine albums with partner Robert Haimer as Barnes and Barnes.

After the walk-through, the music begins and the dancers repeat that sequence some number of times before that dance ends, often 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the length of the contra lines.

After a few years the ever-increasing number of his disciples obliged him to build another monastery.

After Khrushchev's consolidation of power, the number of Central Committee meetings decreased yet again, but it increased during his later rule, and together with the Politburo, the Central Committee voted to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary in 1964.

After several years a number of complainants appeared in the literature that Eneolithic seemed to the untrained eye to be produced from e-neolithic, " outside the Neolithic ," clearly not a definitive characterization of the Copper Age.

After the East-West Schism, conventionally dated to 1054, a brief reunification was agreed to between the Pope and a number of Eastern Orthodox bishops at the Council of Florence.

After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones held a number of low-ranking jobs in the animation industry, including washing cels at the Ub Iwerks studio and assistant animator at the Walter Lantz studio.