From 1916 to 1918, the two dominant nationalist movements, Sinn Féin and the Irish Parliamentary Party, fought a tough series of battles in by-elections.

The 5, 000 m final started in less than two hours, and Nurmi faced a tough challenge from countryman Ville Ritola, who had already won the 3, 000 m steeplechase and the 10, 000 m. Ritola and Edvin Wide figured that Nurmi must be tired and tried to burn him off by running at world-record pace.

Camelids and Ruminantia tend to be longer-legged, to walk on only the central two toes ( though the outer two may survive as rarely-used dew-claws ) and to have more complex cheek teeth well-suited to grinding up tough grasses.

Sohn Pow-Key claimed that Bi Sheng's baked clay was " fragile " was refuted by facts and experiments, Bao Shicheng ( 1775 – 1885 ) wrote that baked clay moveable type was " as hard and tough as horn "; experiments show that baked clay moveable type is hard and difficult to break, a clay moveable type dropped from a height of two metres onto a marble floor remained intact.

In 1984, the Pistons lost a tough five-game series to the underdog New York Knicks, three games to two.

After winning 59 games and a third straight division title, the Pistons cruised through the first two rounds of the playoffs before playing a tough Eastern Conference Finals series against Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.

) In the playoffs, the Spurs would get a surprisingly tough test from the Sacramento Kings in the first round as they need an overtime win in Game 2 to win the first two games at home, before losing the next two on the road.

" It was a tough name to cope with, so two years later in 1958 it separated from its parent and became " San Fernando Valley State College.

Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 12 rounds two of the judges had Durán ahead in a tough contest.

It is about two people who find they have to make tough and emotionally difficult choices about their lives.

This slag content made the iron very tough, gave it considerable resistance to rusting, and allowed it to be more easily " forge welded ," a process in which the blacksmith permanently joins two pieces of iron, or a piece of iron and a piece of steel, by heating them nearly to a white heat and hammering them together.

After the war, Dempsey spent two years in Salt Lake City, Utah — " bumming around ," as he called it — in a very tough America, before returning to the ring.

Brennan had given Dempsey a tough match two years earlier.

The rough road to the finals and the tough play of the Shock wore down the Sparks, which lost the series, two games to one, and failed to three-peat.

After the 2009 budget, the Sunday Times editorialised that Lamont's budget had been so badly received that he was out of his job within two months, " but it fixed the public finances and set up the prosperity of the 1990s and beyond " and Derek Scott, Tony Blair's economic adviser from 1997 to 2003, wrote that Lamont was " rightly praised " for putting in place the post-ERM framework, that stage of Lamont's career being " due for rerating since, in addition to designing a proper framework for monetary policy ( later consolidated by Bank of England independence in 1997 ), he also took most of the tough decisions on spending and tax to put the public finances on the road to recovery.

* At birth, the skull features a small posterior fontanelle, an open area covered by a tough membrane, where the two parietal bones adjoin the occipital bone ( at the lambda ).

However the progress of the SDP-Liberal Alliance as a whole was hampered with policy splits between the two parties, first over the miners ' strike ( 1984-5 ) where Owen and most of the SDP favoured a fairly tough line but the Liberals preferred compromise and negotiation.

The Whalers got off to a good start in this playoff series by winning the first two games at home but, beginning in Game 3, the Nordiques were able to successfully get the Whalers off of their game by playing a very tough, dirty, and chippy style of hockey.

Even though economic reasons provided a strong need to connect these two cities, the region through which the railway track passed was geographically very tough and would be an engineering challenge.

In 1990, Leigh made a significant career breakthrough when she was voted the year's Best Supporting Actress by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her portrayals of two very different prostitutes: the tough streetwalker Tralala who submits to a brutal gang rape in Last Exit to Brooklyn, and Susie, a teenage prostitute who falls in love with ex-con Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues.

Although Byrnes's tough position against the Soviets paralleled the feelings of the President, personal relations between the two men grew strained, particularly when Truman felt that Byrnes was attempting to set foreign policy by himself, and only informing the President afterward.

' Speke ', Baker says, ' appeared the more worn of the two: he was excessively lean, but in reality he was in good tough condition ; he had walked the whole way from Zanzibar, never having once ridden during that wearying march.

The money has come from a combination of draconian cuts over the last two years, tough bargaining with industry and a one per cent increase in the equipment budget.

Newspaper advertising was mainly concentrated in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Eastern and Midwestern editions ) which averaged two prominent ads per month, and to a lesser degree the New York Herald Tribune and, for the west coast, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Pacific Coast edition ).

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

The first and most prominent professional clubs of the NABBP era were the Cincinnati Red Stockings in Ohio, which lasted only two years.

Measuring about long by wide, the skull was lacking its lower jaw but possessed two sharp, prominent canines that suggested that it might have been a leopard.

The two most prominent grading services at present are the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation ( NGC ) and the Professional Coin Grading Service ( PCGS ).

Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

These fields have produced prominent figures within these two industries.

In Ireland, several priests have maintained " secret " families, the two most prominent being Bishop Eamonn Casey and Father Michael Cleary ( priest ).

The False Cross is diamond-shaped, somewhat dimmer on average, does not have a fifth star and lacks the two prominent nearby " Pointer Stars.

Of those seven times, Paul lists Priscilla first in five of those, suggesting that he may have viewed her as the more prominent of the two, but it is clear that he did not follow the tradition of always listing the male's name first for a married couple.

This thesis is not confirmed by the extensive study on the causes of the dissolution of the Soviet Union by two prominent economists from the World Bank — William Easterly and Stanley Fisher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The two species of Maihuenia have small globe-shaped bodies with prominent leaves at the top.

" In 1038, two years after the death of al-Zahir, the Druze movement was able to resume because the new leadership that replaced him had friendly political ties with at least one prominent Druze leader.

Between 1870 and 1900, two journals emerged as the most prominent.

The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, may be seen as representatives of the value based versus apolitical philosophies, as well as the Gnu versus Linux coding styles.

There are four prominent schools ( madh ' hab ) of fiqh within Sunni practice and two within Shi ' a practice.

The demographic situation in Georgia, like that of some other former Soviet republics ( especially Estonia and Latvia ), has been characterized by two prominent features since independence: decline in total population and significant " Georgianization " of the ethnic composition.

Gibraltar has two prominent monthly magazines ; Insight and the Gibraltar Magazine.

Its head's ventral surface lacks the numerous prominent furrows of the related rorquals, instead bearing two to five shallow furrows on the throat's underside.

Towards the end of the day, two prominent Republicans and a friend of theirs were arrested and killed by Crown Forces.

* 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.

He is most famous for his star atlas Uranometria Omnium Asterismorum, first published in 1603 in Augsburg and dedicated to two prominent local citizens.

After two years of imprisonment, Davis was released on bail of $ 100, 000, which was posted by prominent citizens of both Northern and Southern states, including Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerrit Smith.