On the outbreak of World War I, Brownlee did not enlist ; his biographer, Lakeland College historian Franklin Foster, speculates that this may have been because of his eyesight, but notes that he did not involve himself in patriotic fundraising or volunteer work and questions whether he " completely shared the values and ideals of his generation ".

Brownlee cut spending aggressively: he closed most of the province's agricultural colleges, reduced the civil service by more than a third, cut provincial employees ' salaries, and disbanded the Alberta Provincial Police.

Neil Able started civil assault proceedings against Brownlee, seeking damages of $ 60, 000.

Ward and Brownlee are open to the idea of evolution on other planets which is not based on essential Earth-like characteristics ( such as DNA and carbon ).

As Premier, Brownlee is most remembered for the sex scandal that ended his career ; his accomplishments are largely forgotten.

On the withdrawal Brownlee stated " I suspect few New Zealanders knew the country had such considerable mineral potential before we undertook this process, and I get a sense that New Zealanders are now much more aware of that potential ".

In March 2012 Brownlee sparked a near-diplomatic incident with Finland, after he suggested during a parliamentary session that Finns are uneducated, unemployed murderers who don't respect women.

There are three man-made reservoirs on the Powder River: Phillips Lake, Thief Valley Reservoir, and also the Powder arm of Brownlee Reservoir at the Oregon-Idaho border at the confluence of the Powder and Snake Rivers.

Ward and Brownlee argue to the contrary: planets, planetary systems, and galactic regions that are as friendly to complex life as are the Earth, the solar system, and our region of the Milky Way are very rare.

The Rare Earth equation, unlike the Drake equation, does not factor the probability that complex life evolves into intelligent life that discovers technology ( Ward and Brownlee are not evolutionary biologists ).

In 1974, shortly after taking the reins at Ann Arbor's Community High, Brownlee characterized the student body as sixty-percent " high achievers who are politically disenchanted " and forty-percent students who were " academically disenchanted.

The authors of this figure are Don Brownlee, University of Washington, Seattle, and Elmar Jessberger, Institut für Planetologie, Münster, Germany.

Collection of such particles by high flying aircraft began in the 1970s, since which time these samples of stratosphere-collected interplanetary dust ( called Brownlee particles before their extraterrestrial origin was confirmed ) have become an important component of the extraterrestrial materials available for study in laboratories on Earth.

As lawyer for the UGG, Brownlee began to sympathize with the prevailing farmers ' view that the eastern Canadian business establishment was hostile to their interests ; for example, when UGG wanted to sell twine, no manufacturer would supply it.

Brownlee authored the Drought Relief Act, which created a Drought Relief Commissioner to provide farmers with financial counselling and help them reach settlements with banks when they were unable to pay their debts.

Aberhart did not resist the comparison, retorting that the pied piper had " rid the capitol of all the rats "; Brownlee responded that, after doing that, he had led its children to their destruction.

Brownlee relinquished any claim on the estate in favour of his sister, who had cared for their mother in her last years.

Brownlee's sons became successful at their careers: Alan graduated from law at the University of Alberta and joined his father's firm, which was renamed Brownlee, Baldwin and Brownlee, while John studied photography in Los Angeles and returned to Canada to work as a photographer.

When Calgary planners announced their intention to widen Memorial Drive, where the Brownlees lived, several residents expressed concern that the plan would destroy the street's trees ; they consulted Brownlee, who telephoned the mayor and saved the trees.

Their first attempt to replace him failed when Brownlee, their intended replacement, refused to have anything to do with the plan, but a second attempt, in 1925, was successful when Brownlee agreed to take office if Greenfield personally requested that he do so.

This group — which included George Johnston, George MacLachlan, William Shield, Donald Cameron, Oran McPherson, and Austin Claypool — contacted Brownlee to alert him to their intentions and were taken aback when the Attorney-General told them that if Greenfield resigned, so would he.

In his view Ward and Brownlee have done nothing more than select the factors that best suit their case.

Sophia Grace Brownlee and her cousin Rosie McClelland were first invited to the show after DeGeneres saw their YouTube video cover of " Super Bass " by Nicki Minaj.

Powered by lead singer Archie Brownlee, their single " Our Father " reached the Billboard R & B charts in the early 1950s, one of the first gospel records to do so.

In the mid-1940s, Brownlee and the others relocated to Chicago, and changed their name to the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi.

In their work Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe, Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee argue that microbial life is probably widespread while complex life is very rare and perhaps even unique to Earth.

In October 2006, Slaven and his commentary partner Alastair Brownlee, won an award in New York for their commentary on Middlesbrough's UEFA Cup run in the 2005 – 06 season.

Brownlee ( 1997 ) gives electron microprobe data for 500 cosmic spherules in the 1 micrometer to 1 millimeter size range but the compositions of these melted particles only partly reflect that of their precursors because of effects related to hypervelocity entry into the atmosphere ( Love and Brownlee, 1991 ; Kornblum, 1969 ).

Brownlee became quite close to Bennett ; the future Prime Minister often visited him after hours while Brownlee was studying, and use his honed memory and impressive oratorical skills to give the younger man detailed lectures on whatever area of law he was reading about, illustrated by precise and invariably accurate references to cases.

In Brownlee v The Queen ( 2001 ) 207 CLR 278, the High Court of Australia unanimously held that a jury of 12 members was not an essential feature of " trial by jury " in section 80 of the Australian Constitution.

Meanwhile Ilam is held by the governing National Party's Gerry Brownlee and Wigram is represented by Progressive Party's leader and sole-MP Jim Anderton.

Stage direction was by John Brownlee, principal baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, and the musical director and conductor was Frederick Fennell of the Rochester Eastman Kodak Symphony.

Both Reid and Brownlee concluded that a pool ought to be proceeded with cautiously, if at all, though this view was overruled when a later visit by Sapiro to Alberta generated sufficient enthusiasm that the government had little choice but to go along with the creation of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

Though Brownlee was no more enthusiastic than Reid about deficits, his continued confidence in his Provincial Treasurer was evidenced by his decision to give him yet another ministerial portfolio.

These themes were expounded on by Priestly and Brownlee, both of whom undertook speaking tours and radio addresses, and by legal and economic experts commissioned by the government.

This state of mind was illustrated by a voter's comments to Brownlee on Aberhart's proposals:

In 1934, Brownlee was sued for seduction by Vivian MacMillan, a family friend.

On another occasion, Brownlee reacted to his sons ' displeasure at leaving his parents ' cat in Ontario by acquiring a large bloodhound, which he himself came to enjoy.

Wood held meetings enraptured with his sermons on cooperation and social justice — Brownlee at one point likened the UFA to a religion — while Brownlee explained the services offered by the UFA's central office and answered members ' legal questions.

Crerar introduced Brownlee to Ernest Charles Drury, the newly-elected United Farmers of Ontario Premier of Ontario, and arranged for a meeting between Brownlee and Charles Stewart, by now Alberta Premier.

In 1924, they pressured Greenfield to resign so Brownlee could replace him ; Brownlee scuppered the plot by warning that Greenfield's resignation would be accompanied by his own.

Brownlee returned from Ottawa to Alberta, where he was greeted by 3, 000 cheering supporters.