At a later point, having been deserted by God on the eve of battle, Saul consults a medium at Endor, only to be condemned for doing so by Samuel's ghost, and told he and his sons will be killed.

At the end of the 19th century, the population of the city was about 105, 000, with a gradual increase over the next few decades, reaching more than 400, 000 on the eve of independence.

At length the cardinals agreed to resort to the old expedient of electing a cardinal of advanced years, and proposed Cardinal Altieri, an octogenarian, whose long life had been spent in the service of the Church, and whom Clement IX, on the eve of his death, had raised to the dignity of the purple.

At a ball in Brussels ( based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo ) George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him.

At the eve of the 15th century, Veøy had lost most of its influence, and the island was eventually deserted.

At the eve of the Protestant Reformation, the Imperial states comprised 53 ecclesistical principalities.

At Vienna, in spite of the powerful backing of Alexander of Russia, he failed to secure the annexation of the whole of Saxony to Prussia ; at Paris, after Waterloo, he failed to carry through his views as to the further dismemberment of France ; he had weakly allowed Metternich to forestall him in making terms with the states of the Confederation of the Rhine, which secured to Austria the preponderance in the German federal diet ; on the eve of the conference of Carlsbad ( 1819 ) he signed a convention with Metternich, by which — to quote the historian Treitschke — “ like a penitent sinner, without any formal quid pro quo, the monarchy of Frederick the Great yielded to a foreign power a voice in her internal affairs .”

At the very last moment, on the eve of Gerald's departure, it occurs to Bertha that she might " give Gerald the inestimable gift of her body ", as " there is one way in which a woman can bind a man to her for ever, there is one tie that is indissoluble ; her very flesh cried out, and she trembled at the thought.

At the beginning of the following year, the king's commissioners, Sir James Worsley, John Paulet, George Paulet and William Berners, delivered a report to the government on the monasteries of Hampshire which provides a snapshot of Netley on the eve of the Dissolution.

At the eve of his death, Zhuge Liang predicted that Wei Yan would rebel, and so laid out a secret plan that would remove this threat after his death.

At the eve of WW II the town population reached 8000 citizens.

At the school, Saya runs into a meek nurse, Makiho Amano, on the eve of the school's annual Halloween party.

At the eve of his campaigns, the emperor Maurice visited the city to oversee reconstruction.

At the eve of World War II, 16 June 1939, he fled Czechoslovakia and joined a forming Czechoslovak unit in Kraków, Poland.

At age 16 he was knighted by Louis on the eve of the Battle of Roosebeke ( November 27, 1382 ).

At a ball in Brussels ( based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo ), George gives Becky a note which she hides in her bodice.

At vespers on the eve of the feast, the cross is taken from the vessel repository, placed on a tray that has been covered with an Aër ( liturgical veil ) and decorated with fresh basil leaves and flowers with a candle burning before it, and the priest carries it on his head to the Holy Table ( altar ) where it is laid in the place of the Gospel Book, which is set at the high place.

:* At midnight the eve of the Organic Chemistry final ( traditionally the first, and arguably most notorious, exam of finals week ), Columbia University Marching Band " invades " the main reading room of Butler Library performing ribald scripts in an event known as Orgo Night.

:* At midnight the eve of the first Monday of finals, students participate in a Spring Pillow Fight.

At the eve of that replacement, Natore was decleared as a Subdivision ; that's why Natore is the first Subdivision of Bangladesh.

At the eve of the Yugoslav wars, the salute was popularized by Jovan Rašković, leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina.

At the eve of the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, Dalberg resigned his secular positions and Beauharnais succeeded him as Grand Duke, though this had no practical effect, as the dissolution of the Confederation ( carved up into a revised set of monarchies ) also rendered the position moot.

At the end of the Second World War, on the eve of the liberation of Brussels, the retreating Germans started a fire in the Palace of Justice in order to destroy it.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

At the 1922 and 1923 elections the Liberals won barely a third of the vote and only a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons, as many radical voters abandoned the divided Liberals and went over to Labour.

At the same time, presidential elections were held which were won by a moderate, Stjepan Mesić.

At the 19th Conference, the first party conference held since 1941, several delegates asked for the introduction of term limits, and an end to appointments of officials, and to introduce multi-candidate elections within the party.

At the end of the Conference on 27 January 1960 it was announced that elections would be held in the Congo on 22 May 1960, and full independence granted on 30 June 1960.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

At the beginning of July, the governments of both German states decided on the schedule: elections in the GDR would be held on October 14, and a common election for the entire country on 2 December.

At the November 2000 elections, boycotted by the opposition, Aristide was again elected president, with more than 90 % of the vote, on a turnout of around 50 % according to international observers.

At the May 1969 federal elections, the UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance polled only 48 percent of the vote, although it retained a majority in the legislature.

At the 1999 elections Keadilan formed a coalition with the DAP and the PAS known as the Alternative Front ( Barisan Alternatif ).

At the 1928 Reichstag elections, the Nazis polled less than 2 % of the vote in Berlin compared with 33 % for the Social Democrats and 25 % for the Communists.

At the time of the 1994 mid-term elections, Kemp was widely anticipated to announce his candidacy for 1996, and his supporters wanted a formal announcement by the end of the year.

At the first elections under the new system held that December, Kaunda was the sole candidate.

At the convention, Lions can participate in elections and parades, display and discuss fundraisers and service projects, and trade pins and other souvenirs.

At the last parliamentary elections, 22 January 2005, only non-partisans have been elected.

At the next elections in 2000, Sir Anerood Jugnauth ’ s MSM, in coalition with Paul Bérenger ’ s MMM was returned to power, with Sir Anerood Jugnauth appointed as Prime Minister.

At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.

At this point a transfer pact was decided upon between Fine Gael and Labour, as both parties were normally preferred partners for each other in general elections.

At the same time, social democratic parties won elections and formed governments for the first time, often as a result of the introduction of universal suffrage.

At the elections on 4 September 1924, Charles Andre Weiss was again elected Vice-President and Max Huber became the second President of the Court.

At the end of his term, after winning another three elections, Askin was the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales ; his record has since been overtaken by Neville Wran and Bob Carr.

At the first elections in 1948, most of those elected to the Legislative Council were predictably members of the Planters and Taxpayers Association.

At the April 1974 elections, the DP increased its majority in the Legislative Assembly by three seats, gaining all but two of the fifteen seats with only 52 % of the popular vote.