Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

First, State coercion may very easily be arbitrary – indeed technically very specific, according to the above definition.

He eventually started appointing First State Commissioners ( known elsewhere as Prime ministers ), with largely coordinating powers, and very little executive power.

First, the very nature of the application may require the use of a communication network that connects several computers.

First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

" Unfazed, Beatty replied, " And you seem very young to be First Lord.

The Italian communes were granted almost complete autonomy from the very early days of the Kingdom, thanks to their military and naval support in the years following the First Crusade.

However, the political process from Liberia's founding in 1847, despite widespread corruption, was very stable until the end of the First Republic in 1980.

His reasoning for this is twofold: First, a failed check-raise gives other players the chance to see free cards that may improve their hand ; second, it makes it obvious to other players that you potentially have a very strong hand.

The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.

First demonstrated the form of the world by a plain wooden sphere ... thus expressing a very big thing by a little model.

The Romans fared very poorly during the initial revolt facing a completely unified Jewish force ( unlike during the First Jewish-Roman War, where Flavius Josephus records three separate Jewish armies fighting each other for control of the Temple Mount during the three weeks time after the Romans had breached Jerusalem's walls and were fighting their way to the center ).

First, they argued that the statute was overly vague because it prohibited the teaching of " evolution ," a very broad term.

First, the rails guiding the projectile must carry very high power.

First, it is very difficult to conceive of a world wherein every man, woman, and child grew up in the same environment, because their spatial and temporal dispersion upon the planet Earth makes it impossible.

Consequently, very few changes were made in the first two centuries after the ratification of the First Amendment.

The albums ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango and Tejas were remixed with the result that the sound of the material from the first five albums was changed to sound like they had been recorded in the 1980s, with echo and drum machines, and very unlike their original album sound.

( In the very first series of the British version and until the end of the 2003 season in the Australian version, Fastest Finger First required the contestants to answer one multiple choice question correctly as quickly as possible.

First, for a reasonable number of bits ( required for adequate sound reproduction quality ), the physical size of a speaker system becomes very large.

First held in 1949, the Badminton event was created after a poor performance by the British Eventing Team at the 1948 Olympic Games, with the purpose of being a high-class preparation event, and as extra exposure for the military horses, who very rarely had the chance to compete.

Coming as the same time as the defeat in the First World War, and the High Seas Fleet mutiny of 1918 which toppled the German monarchy, both of which were very traumatic events for Raeder, the years 1918-1919 were some of the most troubled in his life.

First, there is scattering from the wire boundaries, whose effect will be very significant whenever the wire width is below the free electron mean free path of the bulk material.

He allowed the Trustees of the First Bank of the United States to use some offices and space in the vaults to continue the process of winding down the affairs of the closed bank at a very nominal rent.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

First we must also define where our view point is, that is, from what vantage point will the scene be drawn.

For instance, many periodization schemes use the First Opium War as the starting point for the modern period.

First, he claims only the certainty of his own existence from the first-person point of view — he has not proved the existence of other minds at this point.

They reached the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished 3rd in the First Division in 1920, the club's best league campaign to that point.

The battle of Jutland was the major naval engagement of the First World War and marked a turning point in the naval war.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

It is traditionally believed that the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 added the section that follows the words " We believe in the Holy Spirit " ( without the words " and the Son " relative to the procession of the Holy Spirit, which would become a point of contention in the Great Schism of Orthodoxy from Catholicism ); hence the name " Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ", referring to the Creed as modified in the First Council of Constantinople.

In other words, Y is colored in a two-step process: First, for every x in X, the point f ( x ) is colored green ; Second, all the rest of the points in Y, that are not green, are colored blue.

* First point of Cancer and first point of Capricorn.

Maugham had begun collecting theatrical paintings before the First World War and continued to the point where his collection was second only to that of the Garrick Club.

First he ran up the stock of his M & M Railroad while secretly buying stock in the depressed Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad ( CR & M ), then running up CR & M stock with new plans to connect the Union Pacific to it at which point he began buying back the M & M stock at depressed prices.

The title may also point to the passing of an old order following the cataclysm of the First World War ; the inadequacies of patriotism, the rise of atheism, feminism, socialism and pacifism, the changes to traditional married life, and not least the emergence of new styles of literary expression, are all treated in the work, bearing as they did directly on Graves's life.

The First Defenestration was thus the turning point between talk and action leading to the prolonged Hussite Wars.

His career accelerated from this point, as he advanced from professor to Rector of the Academy, becoming head of the Royal Gobelins Manufactory in 1755 and finally Premier Peintre du Roi ( First Painter of the King ) in 1765.

Expanding on the accounts of Albert of Aix, Peter the Hermit is given prominence in the preaching of the First Crusade, to the point that it was he, not Pope Urban II, who originally conceived the crusade.

First strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation while the opposing side is left unable to continue war.

In the First Punic War it was at first dependent upon Carthage ; and though the citizens, alarmed at the progress of the Roman arms, were at one time on the point of revolting to Rome, they were restrained by the Carthaginians, who carried off all the chief citizens as hostages.

Chinese reunification at some point in the future is supported to varying degrees in Taiwan by the Kuomintang ( KMT ), the People First Party, and the New Party, known collectively as the Pan-blue coalition.

Located on the highest point of the Vimy Ridge, the memorial is dedicated to the commemoration of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War.