Mrs. Frisby's son, Timothy, is ill just as the farmer Mr. Fitzgibbon begins preparation for spring ploughing in the field where the Frisby family lives.

Timothy's survival is the key motivation behind Mrs. Frisby's quest in the film and the book ( As Mrs. Frisby ).

Although his appearance in the movie was limited, in the book Timothy is said to be the most potentially intelligent of all of Mrs. Frisby's children to make up for his physical frailty.

Terence Frisby's There's a Girl in My Soup, opening in 1966, ran for 1, 064 performances at the theatre, a record that was not surpassed until Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of the Olivier Award-winning comedy Daisy Pulls It Off by Densie Deegan opened in April 1983 to run for 1, 180 performances, the theatre's longest run.

Before Mrs. Frisby's arrival, a group of seven rats led by a rat named Jenner left the colony because they disagreed with " The Plan ", and are presumed to have died in an accident at a nearby hardware store.

The level four tournaments, known as International Challenge, International Series and Future Series, encourage participation by junior players.

The U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) mission is focused on improving access of underserved populations to quality health care and combating HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis ; promoting economic growth through policy reform, support for CAFTA-DR implementation, and technical assistance to small producers and tourism groups ; environmental protection and policy reform initiatives ; improved access to quality primary, public education and assistance to at-risk youth ; a model rural electrification program ; and improving participation in democratic processes, while strengthening the judiciary and combating corruption across all sectors.

In the 1990s, a series of International Monetary Fund arrangements, coupled with massive external debt relief resulting from Egypt's participation in the Gulf War coalition, helped Egypt improve its macroeconomic performance.

The Engle Award honors an individual who, like Engle, longtime director of the Iowa Writers ' Workshop and co-founder of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts.

In addition to its participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace program, Moldova is also a member state of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Francophonie and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

With the authorization of the Colombian government and the participation of the International Red Cross, a Venezuelan helicopter transported them to Caracas from San Jose del Guaviare.

International organization participation:

The party opposes foreign aid, asking that no further funds be appropriated for any kind of foreign aid program, and encourage the idea that the United States terminate its participation in international lending institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the Export-Import Bank.

He also strongly promoted world Naval disarmament at the 1921 – 1922 Washington Naval Conference, and urged U. S. participation in a proposed International Court.

Harding stunned the capital when he sent to the Senate a message supporting the participation of the U. S. in the proposed Permanent Court of International Justice.

The ICSU Advisory Committee, which is in the Research Council's Office of International Affairs, facilitates participation of members in international scientific unions and is a liaison for U. S. American Civil Warnational committees for the individual scientific unions.

Large scale dew harvesting systems have been made by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ( IIMA ) with the participation of the International Organisation for Dew Utilization ( OPUR ) at coastal semi arid region Kutch.

In 1987, the government implemented an International Monetary Fund structural adjustment program, and invited greater private participation in management of the parastatals, as well as in the agricultural, commercial, banking, and tourism sectors.

Explorer 1 ( 1958 Alpha 1 ) was the first Earth satellite of the United States, launched as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year.

Underlying its status is the fact that the IPF is the federation responsible for coordinating participation in the World Games, an international event affiliated with the International Olympic Committee.

Within this strategic orientation, focus is retained on the academic programme and, more specifically, on three axes of work, namely: Attitude and Behaviour, centred both on academic factors and on increasing the competitiveness of degree courses, in the constant pursuit of quality, excellence and merit ; Research for Chile which seeks in-depth commitment and involvement with the country aimed at achieving insertion, integration and participation between the Public-and Private Sectors, in which academic research and findings based upon truth, goodness and the beauty of human beings, society and nature aspire to contribute to the formation of social innovators of vision and realism ; and The Development of International Links which, through the differentiation of professors and students from a Latin American perspective, endeavours to work in foreign markets ( student and academic staff exchanges ).

International Napoleonic Congresses are held regularly and include participation by members of the French and American military, French politicians and scholars from different countries.

Along with her participation in Farm Aid and Amnesty International concerts, Raitt traveled to Moscow in 1987 to participate in the first joint Soviet / American Peace Concert, later shown on the Showtime television network.

In 2003, Pettibon was awarded the Grand Prize of Honor for his participation in the 25th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Slovenia.

World politics affected the lead-up to the Games with tension between the United States and Soviet Union intensifying, and the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) was forced to debate the participation of China, Taiwan, North Korea and East Germany because of the Cold War.

* International mission participation

* Kalpana Chawla ISU Scholarship fund founded by alumni of the International Space University ( ISU ) in 2010 to support Indian student participation in international space education programs.

An article in Business Day on Oct. 9 about journalists who attended a secret meeting in November 2001 called by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, referred incorrectly to the participation of Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist.

Gentile da Fabriano ( c. 1370 – 1427 ) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style.

The team was nationally ranked fourth in Debate at the 2010 Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament — the same national tournament the team was denied participation at over seventy-five years ago.

Return of $ 9, 362 in funds provided by the NCAA Division II for the men ’ s basketball team ’ s participation in the 2009 NCAA Division II Tournament.

The participation of the men's soccer team in the 2011 NCAA Tournament was the most successful postseason run in Saint Mary's history.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Skeeter uses the quill to interview Harry about his participation in the Triwizard Tournament for her column in The Daily Prophet.

Spin-offs of the Saimoe Tournament include RPG Saimoe, which exclusively features video game characters, and SaiGAR, a competition between the manliest men of anime ; despite the participation of Takamachi Nanoha in SaiGAR 2007.

The University at Albany has used the facility for past games against Syracuse University and has been approached to use the facility for some dates in the future in the wake of their participation in the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

In June 2010, Chinese JJJ's " The First Beijing Invitational Tournament " held successfully, having participation by foreign players such as " German Shuttlecock King " Martin, who was a former professional soccer player before studying in Beijing.

His most notable participation in the World Chess Championship events was the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 in Dortmund 2002.

The commercial utilized a sound bite from that interview as a backdrop to the camera capture of Tiger's face, and it was widely interpreted as a skewing of Earl's words to posthumously address Tiger's own marital issues which had recently come to light ; the commercial was released on the same day that Tiger had made his anticipated return to competition at the Masters Tournament following a five-month self-imposed absence during the resulting public fallout, and it was the first commercial to feature Tiger's participation since the scandal first breached public scrutiny.

After his participation in the 1996 Youth Panamerican Tournament in Puerto Rico, where he represented the junior national team of Argentina, he moved to Philadelphia where he played for the Temple Owls college team for 4 years under Hall of Fame coach John Chaney, and finished his career as the # 2 player in the NCAA in steals ( he is currently in third place in career steals ).

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

Prior to and since 1960 the rest of the support allotment is matched at rates related to the fiscal capacity of the State, with a pivot of 40% State ( or 60% Federal ) participation in total program costs.

The percentage of Federal participation in such costs for any State is referred to in the law as that State's `` Federal share ''.

The pre-1960 rate of Federal participation with respect to any State's base allotment, as well as the adjusted rate in effect during the 1960 - 1962 period, is designated by the statute as that State's `` adjusted Federal Share ''.

the Carleton Student Association includes all students in college and is intended `` to work for the betterment of Carleton College by providing student government and student participation with the college administration in the formulation and execution of policies which pertain to student life and activities ''.

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

Broadly speaking the total Catholic atmosphere is such an intangible but the larger demand is for a sense of creative participation and mature responsibility in the total work of the university.

In any case it is by no means clear that formally structured organs of participation are what is called for at all.

In itself there is nothing wrong with this form of `` participation '': the only difficulty on the Catholic campus is that those faculty members who are in a position to implement policy, i.e., members of the religious community which owns and administers the institution, have their own eating arrangements.

Angola is basically interested in the participation of the FAA operations of the African Union and has formed special units for this purpose.

The status of full communion means, ideally, that there is mutual agreement on essential doctrines and that full participation in the sacramental life of each church is available to all communicant Anglicans.

The Communion is held together by a shared history, expressed in its ecclesiology, polity and ethos and also by participation in international consultative bodies.

* 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the " Beer Hall Putsch ".

But all of them seemed to agree that, " There is some body or other that is of its own nature supremely cold and by participation of which all other bodies obtain that quality.

For the non-univocal agent is the universal cause of the whole species, as for instance the sun is the cause of the generation of all men ; whereas the univocal agent is not the universal efficient cause of the whole species ( otherwise it would be the cause of itself, since it is contained in the species ), but is a particular cause of this individual which it places under the species by way of participation.

Litigation for the purpose of profit is referred to as “ Ambulance chasing ”: If for the purpose of harassment, for example to silence critics, it is known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation ( SLAPP ).