She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' first baseman, won the inaugural award.

After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.

Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act.

Later, the heads of various national churches became Patriarchs, but they are ranked below the Pentarchy.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

The addition of the Cotton and Harley manuscripts introduced a literary and antiquarian element and meant that the British Museum now became both national museum and library.

Under his supervision, the British Museum Library ( now the British Library ) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris.

August A. Busch Jr. became president of Anheuser-Busch in 1946 and began the creation of a national network of breweries.

One student of Ethiopia, Donald N. Levine, points out that for the Italians Adwa " became a national trauma which demagogic leaders strove to avenge.

After Habré consolidated his authority and assumed the presidency in 1982, his victorious army, the Armed Forces of the North ( Forces Armées du Nord — FAN ), became the nucleus of a new national army.

However, in the nineteenth century, cuisine became a defining symbol of national identity.

As the leader of guerrilla raids against the Spaniards, Manuel Rodríguez became a national symbol of resistance.

Figueres became a national hero, winning the first election under the new constitution in 1953.

Due to this huge amount of support, Cuba became a major sponsor of Marxist " wars of national liberation " not only in Latin America, but worldwide.

Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

Some bicycle clubs and national associations became prominent advocates for improvements to roads and highways.

Beginning in the colonial age, Crux became used as a national symbol by several southern nations.

When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from episode 25 on Monday 6 March 1961.

In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as it became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased ( the British, in return, began importing Morocco's now famous national drink, gunpowder tea ).

The CCC program became a model for the creation of team-based national service youth conservation programs such as the Student Conservation Association ( SCA ).

Johnson became the first coach to claim a national championship in college football and a Super Bowl victory in professional football.

He became a Catholic in 1980, shortly after completing the Mass To Hope which had been commissioned by Ed Murray, editor of the national Catholic weekly Our Sunday Visitor.

She made headlines and became part of the national debate over troubled child stars, particularly given the difficulties of her Diff ' rent Strokes co-stars, Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.

The protocol became the focus of a surge of Ecuadorian national pride and concomitant opposition which resulted in an uprising and overthrow of the government.

Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.

But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

It is also said in myth that floating rocks known as the Symplegades or Clashing Rocks once crushed any ship that attempted passage of the Bosphorus until the hero Jason obtained passage, whereupon the rocks became fixed, and Greek access to the Black Sea was opened.

Hurst still emerged the hero of the win but, as a result of the third goal, became an icon of the world.

On 11 February 1779 Keppel was acquitted of all charges and became a national hero.

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South.

Although his time there was marked by variable health from asthma attacks, he nevertheless became an intellectual hero of the Whigs.

Some scholars argue that Arthur was originally a fictional hero of folklore — or even a half-forgotten Celtic deity — who became credited with real deeds in the distant past.

He became the hero of many dime novels.

Virgil told how the Trojan hero Aeneas became the ancestor of the Roman people.

The result was that Gandhi became not only a folk hero but the Congress was widely seen in the villages as his sacred instrument.

Kościuszko, mentioned in a stanza now missing from the anthem, became a hero of the American Revolutionary War before coming back to Poland to defend his native country from Russia in the war of 1792 and a national uprising he led in 1794.

The role of the hero was usually written for the castrato voice ; castrati such as Farinelli and Senesino, as well as female sopranos such as Faustina Bordoni, became in great demand throughout Europe as opera seria ruled the stage in every country except France.

The role of the male hero was usually entrusted to a castrato, and by the 18th century, when Italian opera was performed throughout Europe, leading castrati who possessed extraordinary vocal virtuosity, such as Senesino and Farinelli, became international stars.

As the leader of what historians call " revolutionary conservatism " Bismarck became a hero to German nationalists ; they built hundreds of monuments glorifying the iconic symbol of powerful conservative leadership.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

Following the news of his death, Scott became an iconic British hero, a status maintained for more than 50 years and reflected by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation.

The expedition had caught the public imagination, and Scott became a popular hero.

Lee became the great Southern hero of the War, a postwar icon of the " Lost Cause of the Confederacy " to some.

The terror of the villains against their defenseless victims became just as ruthless as in A Fistful of Dollars, or more, and their brutalization of the hero when his treachery is disclosed became just as merciless, or more – just like the cunning used to secure the latter's retribution.