Just as when Sky Sports, in the 1990s, first obtained the exclusive rights to screen live coverage of the England national football team's away qualifying matches for the World Cup, so Setanta attracted similar criticism as a result of it having obtained the same contract.

Although Sky has lost its monopoly on broadcasting the Premiership from 2007 – 08, with Setanta Sports winning 46 games as a result of a European Commission recommendation, Sky retained the rights to all 4pm kick-offs as part of their renewed £ 1. 4 billion contract.

The result was that NEC wound up with a severely underpowered system that impressed neither developers nor consumers, failed to release the 3D expansion, and ultimately led to its demise.

Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against Han Chinese that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation projects.

SST's roster was further diminished by the 1985 demise of the Minutemen ( the result of the death of guitarist D. Boon ) and the 1986 breakup of Black Flag.

The 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream argues that the depletion of oil will result in the demise of the sprawl-type development.

On the other hand, TV contracts were canceled as a result of teams moving out of the countries they were based upon, such as the NFLEL deal with satellite TV platform Digital + in Spain after the demise of the Barcelona Dragons.

Vaughan's manager attributes the demise of their marriage to " jealousy " and " unfaithfulness ", and as a result, they were both brokenhearted.

Additionally, the term can be applied to manipulating the chain of command in order to have an individual, or unit, deliberately killed, by placing them into harm's way with the intended result being their demise.

Issues of performance in the Crimean War, especially disastrous lack of due provision for operations during the Russian winter of 1854 brought about the Board's demise in 1855. also the reference to Lord Raglan # Notable staff | below. As a result of enquiries made into the breakdown of transport and hospital arrangements during the first winter of the war, the Board of Ordnance, which had been in existence for four hundred years, was abolished, and the Artillery together with the Royal Engineers came directly under the Commander-in-Chief and the War Office like the rest of the Army.

MobileStar's demise was the result of at least two important factors: the collapse in the private equity markets in mid-2001 and the events of September 11th.

The society's demise was also the result of an inability to find funding, and Berlin's civic authorities becoming concerned with rocketry experiments so close to the city.

Fearing the demise of the firm through loss of reputation that would result if the scale of losses became known, the brokerage shouldered the loss of its clients, and moved it off balance sheet.

As a result, the water of the Okavango River spread out over a much larger area of land than it previously did, forming the now characteristic fan-shaped inland delta of the Okavango, which further reduced the water that flowed into Lake Makgadikgadi and hastened its demise.

Residents had believed that this would save their green, and the 250-year-old sweet chestnut tree that grew upon it ; because this was a cut and cover tunnel, this would result in the demise of both.

The mini-series Marvel 1602 reveals that, although The Fantastic Four # 13 was the first time he broke his oath, the anomalous appearance of Marvel's superheroes more than 300 years early-speculated by Uatu to be the result of the universe trying to create the means to save itself from a temporal anomaly-forced him to severely bend it, communicating with the 1602 version of Doctor Strange prior to the latter's death, his deal with Strange preventing Strange from telling anyone else about the danger facing the world while he lived while allowing him to communicate that knowledge with others after his physical body's demise.

In an interview with Bill Flanagan ( for the book Written In My Soul ) conducted eleven days before his death, George made it clear that he felt the demise of Little Feat was due to his having allowed the band to be run democratically, with the result that Payne and, to a lesser extent, Barrère, had a presence as songwriters and in production which was disproportionate to their abilities.

On September 22 the National Weather Service, " after considerable and sometimes animated in-house discussion the demise of Ivan ," determined that the low was in fact a result of the remnants of Ivan and thus named it accordingly.

In February 2007, Watson came under criticism for comments made at a hearing of the Special Legislative Committee on Canada's Clean Air Act that linked greenhouse gas reductions to a demise in the Canadian economy which could result in domestic violence and suicide.

The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam Lahore ( Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, Lāhawr ) ( not to be confused with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ), also known as the Lahoris, formed as a result of ideological differences within the Ahmadiyya movement, after the demise of Maulana Hakim Noor-ud-Din in 1914, the first Khalifa after its founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

The result often heed false news reports which cover the demise of the World Trade Organization, or Dow Chemical paying compensation to the victims of the Bhopal disaster, which the Yes Men intend to provide publicity for problems concerning these organizations.

Despite an economic depression brought about by the demise of cotton spinning, Royton's population has continued to grow as a result of intensive housing redevelopment which has modernised its former Edwardian districts.

Two of the original four corner turrets are missing, and it seems likely that their demise was a result of an attempt to demolish the building for materials rather than through military action.

Normal menstrual bleeding in the ovulatory cycle is a result of a decline in progesterone due to the demise of the corpus luteum.

The demise of Hamilton Palace was the result of various factors: large and ostentatious houses had fallen from fashion ; the cost of upkeep was prohibitive ; and nearby coal mines resulted in dangerous subsidence as the coal beneath was removed.

" As a result of the WISE science team's investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files ," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object ( NEO ) Observation Program.

They next went on to achieve their second best result in the 1990 World Cup by finishing fourth – losing again to West Germany in a semi-final finishing 1 – 1 after extra time, then 3 – 4 in England's first penalty shoot-out.

Winterbottom presided over the 6-3 loss to Hungary in 1953, England's first home defeat to a team from mainland Europe, and also over the 7-1 defeat to the same opposition the following year: England's worst ever international result.

England's primary motive and the most immediate result of the treaty was to secure an alliance between the Miskito and English for the War of Jenkin's Ear, and Miskito and English cooperated in attacks on Spanish settlements during the war.

The result led to a debate about whether Seaman should remain England's number one.

As a result, England's eventual victory lacked the prestige that had been expected before the season.

The result went England's way this time and they qualified for their first World Cup for a dozen years, with Shilton appearing in the finals for the first time at the comparatively mature age of 32.

The time ( and expense ) involved in travelling to away matches against English opposition would be greater than it is to travel to matches in Scotland ; for example a match at England's southernmost and westernmost league team would result in a round-trip of almost 1, 000 miles.

The most infamous result to fans was possibly a match played in the quarter-finals of the 1965 European Cup, where they met England's Liverpool F. C.

No individual result could quite produce the reaction that the return of England's Richard Hill to top flight action, with supporters of both clubs giving Hill a huge ovation on his return to the pitch after 18 months of knee reconstruction, capping off his comeback with a try.

The Breton-Norman war of 1064 – 1065 was the result of William I of England's support of rebels in Brittany against Alan's grandfather, Conan II.

In the United Kingdom, the Judicature Acts merged the courts of equity ( historically based in England's Court of Chancery ) with the courts of common law, and as a result the concept of fiduciary duty also became available in common law courts.

England's smoking ban which prohibits indoor smoking in workplaces, came into force on 1 July 2007, as a result of which internal smoking rooms, like the one in which the series is set, became illegal.

Already we can be sure that revisions in the southern oil contract will not be in favor of our people and will only result in the consolidation of England's position in our country.

Partly as a result of this, the beginning of the second series he decides to leave London and moves to England's second city of Birmingham.

In the first Test at Edgbaston, he hit 49 from 67 balls and bagged 5 / 38 in England's second innings as Australia claimed the only decisive result of the series, which enabled them to retain the Ashes.

England won 7-1 but failed to make the finals in America in 1994 ( they had needed to win by seven clear goals and hope that Holland lost in Poland, but the Dutch won anyway so England's result was academic ).

Imprisoned for fraud in May 1804 as a result of his successful attempt to bribe the voters in one of England's rotten boroughs of Ilchester.

Epic portrayals of American history in the 19th century were more the product of New England's historiographic traditions coupled with German historical thought, treating national character as a historical agent, rather than a historical result, as Ramsay suggests.

England's two run victory is the narrowest result in Ashes cricket history ( there have been two Tests won by a margin of only three runs ).

England's two run victory was the narrowest result in Ashes cricket history thus far ( there had been two Ashes Tests won by a margin of only three runs ).

In the only decisive result on a spinners ' wicket at Lord's ( due to leatherjackets having infested the wicket during England's mildest winter on record ), Cameron hit his highest Test score of 90 in the first innings, whilst in his famous innings against Yorkshire it was said that " Cameron had Verity in two minds: whether to hit him for four or six "!

For the first half dozen years of cricket after World War II, England's preferred opening partnership was the trans-Pennine combination of Leonard Hutton and Cyril Washbrook ; Robertson's selection for the first Test of 1949 against New Zealand was the result of injury to Washbrook and, despite scoring 121 and sharing a partnership of 143 with Hutton, he lost his place.