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At times, prime ministers ' spouses have used their public status to promote charitable causes ; Mila Mulroney was a spokesperson for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and other children's charities, Aline Chrétien was an active campaigner for literacy programs, and Laureen Harper is known for her support of animal welfare organizations such as the Ottawa Humane Society.
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At such times Thomas wondered when and where a counterattack would strike him.
At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest, but it was an objective pain, in no way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; ;
At times, three ships a day from the Soviet bloc are unloading in Cuban ports.
At times, clumps of 10 to 15 closely-packed nuclei were also observed.
At times pioneer children got lice in their hair.
At different times he served as glee-club and choir leader and as organist.
At times we can say that it was the major factor.
At times they would ride frenziedly through the camp, letting the women see their courage, how handsome they were in their regalia.
At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.
At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.
At times it was applied to various priests, e. g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus (' of the palace ') and Abbas castrensis (' of the camp ') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns ’ court and army respectively.
At times, Alcott offered his own hand for an offending student to strike, saying that any failing was the teacher's responsibility.
At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were supported by a fairly significant faction of religious cardinals and secular kings and kingdoms.
At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.
At times the development of armour has run parallel to the development of increasingly effective weaponry on the battlefield, with armourers seeking to create better protection without sacrificing mobility.
At various times the choice was made by the canons of Canterbury Cathedral, the King of England, or the Pope.
At magnitude 5. 5, it is only 1 / 370th as bright visually as Antares A, although it shines with 170 times the Sun's luminosity.
At times he rose, at other times he shrank to the ground, he moved as if he wanted to play all the instruments himself and sing for the whole chorus.
At times during the piece, Beethoven directs that the beat should be one downbeat every three bars, perhaps because of the very fast pace of the of the movement, with the direction ritmo di tre battute (" rhythm of three bars "), and one beat every four bars with the direction ritmo di quattro battute (" rhythm of four bars ").
At a pressure of 55 GPa ( roughly 540 times atmospheric pressure ) bromine converts to a metal.
At the time of his retirement from the England team in 1970, he was the nation's most capped player, having turned out 106 times at the highest level.
At times, Charlton was not on speaking terms with United's other superstars George Best and Denis Law, and Best refused to play in Charlton's testimonial match against Celtic, saying that " to do so would be hypocritical ".
At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.
At and prime
At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Rudolf Diesel's prime model, a single iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time.
At the same time, the system's commercial regimentation and focus on glamorous escapism discouraged daring and ambition beyond a certain degree, a prime example being the brief but still legendary directing career of the iconoclastic Erich von Stroheim in the late teens and the ‘ 20s.
At its prime, the site attracted around 80, 000 visitors a year, but in March 2010 BT announced that the visitor centre would be " Closed for Easter and beyond, until further notice.
At the time of his defeat, he was the longest-serving member of the lower house of the Diet, and he was also the first former prime minister to be defeated at a re-election since 1963.
At slow speeds, a diesel-electric prime mover can potentially produce more power than can be usefully used by its own traction motors ; a slug increases the number of traction motors available to use the power more effectively.
At the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, analysts — such as Jeffrey Simpson, Donald Savoie, and John Gomery — argued that both parliament and the Cabinet had become eclipsed by prime ministerial power.
At other times, there appeared to be two prime ministers.
At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.
At the first meeting of the 24 members of the Board of Trustees ( November 13, 1749 ) the issue of where to locate the school was a prime concern.
At the end of 1934, Maserati pulled out of Grand Prix racing and Nuvolari returned to Ferrari, who were reluctant to take him back, but were persuaded by Mussolini, the Italian prime minister.
* At a receiver facility, the power required for all receivers and auxiliary equipment that may be operated on prime or spare antennas simultaneously, those in standby condition, multicouplers, control and keying equipment, plus lighting, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment required for full continuity of communications.
* At a transmitter facility, the power required for all transmitters and auxiliary equipment that may be operated on prime or spare antennas or dummy loads simultaneously, those in standby condition, control and keying equipment, plus lighting, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment required for full continuity of communications.
At the 5th session of the DRV First National Congress ( 1955 ), Dong was appointed prime minister.
At the death of Cardinal Dubois on 10 August of that year, the young king offered the Duke the position of prime minister, and he remained in that office until his death a few months later.
At the time, Zhao Zheng was still young, so Lü Buwei acted as the regent prime minister of the State of Qin, which was still waging war against the other six states.
At the same time, they occupied the heart of prime buffalo range and also an excellent region for furs which could be sold to French and American traders for goods such as guns.
At the turn of the century, Hendrickson Park became a prime vacationing spot for people from Brooklyn and Queens.
At its prime, 900 men were employed and over 3, 000 tons of coal were mined daily.
At the same time, Kummer developed powerful new methods to prove Fermat's Last Theorem at least for a large class of prime exponents using what we now recognize as the fact that the ring is a Dedekind domain.
At the Azores conference of 16 March, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and Spanish prime minister José María Aznar announced the imminent deadline of 17 March for complete Iraqi compliance, with statements such as " Tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world ".
At the election after prime minister Harold Holt failed to return from a swim, artist and film-maker David Perry produced a highly acclaimed poster featuring a stylised pig wearing a bow tie.
At the end of the 1960s, Brock's career was entering its prime.
At the height of the Profumo scandal, the first prime minister of independent Malaya ( now Malaysia ) Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived in London for a visit.
Beginning in 1961 with NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, a prime time network showing of a television premiere of major studio film, the other networks soon copied the format with each of the networks having several of the Week Night At The Movies that led to a shortage of movie studio product.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the textile industry flourished and added cotton as one of its prime materials.
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