Oldham County was a prohibition or completely dry county until January 2005 as the result of a 2004 ' moist ' vote, permitting sales of alcohol in restaurants that seat at least 100 patrons in which 70 %+ of total revenue is derived from sales of food.

By-elections have also been called as a result of a constituency election being invalidated by voting irregularities ; see Oldham East and Saddleworth election petition.

It overtook the major urban centres of Manchester and Bolton as the result of a mill building boom in the 1860s and 1870s, a period during which Oldham became the most productive cotton-spinning town in the world.

The BNP announced on 2 December 2010 its intention to launch a court action to have the Barking election result overturned under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, using the precedent set in the Oldham and Saddleworth constituency of Phil Woolas who was ejected from his seat for lying about his opponents during the election campaign.

In the 1970 – 71 season, Oldham saw their best result since 1962 – 63 as they finished in third place, earning promotion back to the Third Division.

A 5 – 0 home win over Oldham Athletic was a rare good result, with top scorer Steve Guinan scoring a hat-trick.

On 27 August 1895, as a result of an emergency meeting in Manchester, prominent Lancashire clubs Broughton Rangers, Leigh, Oldham, Rochdale Hornets, St Helens, Tyldesley, Warrington, Widnes and Wigan declared that they would support their Yorkshire colleagues in their proposal to form a Northern Union.

On Tuesday 27 August 1895, as a result of an emergency meeting in Manchester, prominent Lancashire clubs Broughton Rangers, Leigh, Oldham, Rochdale Hornets, St Helens, Tyldesley, Warrington, Widnes and Wigan declared that they would support their Yorkshire colleagues in their proposal to form a Northern Union.

National League Two-Despite winning more games and losing less games than Barrow but only winning 1 bonus point ( to Barrow's 5 points ) all season Oldham finished 3rd in National League Two on points difference behind Barrow who came 2nd and Gateshead who won the league, Oldham would again have to face the route of the play offs and like the previous year Oldham again reached the National League Two Grand Final, this time against Doncaster and like 2007 Oldham again lost to miss out on promotion to National League One losing 18-10 at Warrington's Halliwell Jones Stadium, as a result of not gaining promotion to National League One coach Steve Deakin did not have his contract renewed.

He replaced Dave Penney who left the club to join League One side Oldham Athletic as a result of Darlington's administration.

As a result, the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, 2011, was required to take place, by which time the constituency was described as an " ultra-marginal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats ".

The two reporters on the story, editor-in-chief Zack Meisel and sports reporter James Oldham, received threats from angry Ohio State fans as a result.

After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.

For example, if a game is played by wagering on the number that would result from the roll of one die, true odds would be 5 times the amount wagered since there is a 1 in 6 chance of any single number appearing, assuming that you get the original amount wagered back.

Only one species protected by CITES, the Spix's Macaw, has possibly become extinct in the wild as a result of trade since the Convention entered into force ( but see case studies in Hutton and Dickinson and Stiles for further discussion of the role CITES has played in the fate of particular species ).

The completion of the first ever American football season came as a result of only two total games being played.

Investigators have shown that rods are mere tricks of light which result from how images ( primarily video images ) of flying insects are recorded and played back.

The U. S. played a very large role in financing, training, arming, and advising the contras over a long period, and the contras only became capable of carrying out significant military operations as a result of this support.

The made-up embankment which today extends the whole length of the town's riverbank is the result of 19th century land reclamation, started in earnest when the town played host to a large number of prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars which formed a captive workforce.

The displacement of 1 million Eritreans as a result of the war with Ethiopia, multi-year drought, and the widespread presence of land mines all have played a role in the declining productivity of the agricultural sector.

As a result of the funds provided by the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen, German films, particularly those of the New German Cinema, gained a much greater opportunity to enjoy box-office success before they played on television ( Blaney 1992: 204 ).

Since the Tigers " ran up a 61 to 0 score on the hapless Mountain Staters, the pass played no important part in the result.

McLaughlin later formed the Mahavisnhu Orchestra, an historically important fusion band that played to sold out venues in the early 70s and as a result, produced an endless progeny of fusion guitarist.

Ribbentrop played an important role in setting in motion the crisis that was to result in the end of Czecho-Slovakia by ordering German diplomats in Bratislava to contact Father Jozef Tiso, the Premier of the Slovak regional government, and pressuring him to declare independence from Prague.

The club shifted over to the West as a result of a playoff format change, the Wizards played against Chivas USA.

This misconception comes as a result of silent films being played back at wrong speed and their deteriorated condition.

In 2002, as a result of her friend Kent Sexton dying from scleroderma, she interrupted work on her new album C ' mon C ' mon to record the traditional hymn " Be Still, My Soul ," to be played at his funeral.

The end result was that both the Mets and Jets played at the Polo Grounds for one more year.

This means that the result varies depending on exactly when the game is played.

As a result, Super Bowl XXXVI was rescheduled from the original date of January 27 to February 3, becoming the first Super Bowl played in February.

On November 23, 1997, they played the New York Giants and the result was a 7 – 7 tie, the Redskins first tie game since the 1971 season.

• a ) As described in Grace's first-class career statistics, there are different versions of Grace's first-class career totals as a result of disagreement among cricket statisticians re the status of some matches he played in.

As a result, the World Series would be played in November for the first time and the Super Bowl would be played in February for the first time.

In nearly every case the 1st and 6th stanza, or the 1st stanza alone, are sung / played rather than the entire song, which would result in about 15 minutes of music.

As a result, a few huge flags were produced and brought into the stadium prior to matches played by Feyenoord.

The back-story of the Snitch is the most elaborate of all the Quidditch balls, and its introduction ( so it is described in Quidditch Through the Ages ) came as the direct result of a game played in 1269 in Kent.

Just as now anyone may hurl insults at a citizen of Mars, or even of Tikopia, and no senatorial investigation will result.

and since they in no way match each other, the result would be a monster rather than a man ''.

Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity.

If no specific organization plan exists limiting the number of scientists at each salary level, the result is a department top-heavy with high-level, high-salaried personnel ''.

Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.

Justices Frankfurter and Jackson concurred in the Court's result, for they found no merit in the railroad's claim.

Mr. Justice Black no doubt concurs in principle but is more apt to make exceptions to achieve a generous and `` just '' result.

At Lexington, Kentucky, Palfrey consulted with Cassius M. Clay on the same subject, but with no apparent result.

As a result, money is spent quickly and freely, with no thought of its value.

A board of health spokesman said there is no reason to believe that an increase in the level here will occur as a result of the detonation.

and by deriving legitimate decision backward from whatever may conceivably or possibly or probably result, whether by anyone's doing or by accident, it finds itself driven to inaction, to non-political action in politics and non-military action in military affairs, and to the not very surprising discovery that there are now no distinctions on which the defense of justice can possibly be based.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

As a result no comparable literature of the period is better known and better studied nor more often performed than the English madrigal.

Because there is no canonical well-ordering of all sets, a construction that relies on a well-ordering may not produce a canonical result, even if a canonical result is desired ( as is often the case in category theory ).

Some are no more than a widening of a stream valley ; others, such as the Konya Ovasi, are large basins of inland drainage or are the result of limestone erosion.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

The first result is that there is no way to compute K.

::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

However, many variations at the genetic level result in little or no observable variation.

With the axiom of dependent choice ( which is a weakened form of the axiom of choice ), this result can be reversed: if there are no such infinite sequences, then the axiom of regularity is true.

Similarly, the use of excessively high doses ( often the result of polypharmacy ) continues despite clinical guidelines and evidence indicating that it is usually no more effective but is usually more harmful.

As a result of the belief, those in Malaysian culture tolerated amok and dealt with the after effects with no ill will towards the assailant.

As a result, the Fourth Circuit decision remained standing, but the Supreme Court result, being a tie, did not bind any other court and set no national precedent.