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He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.
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Further international success came in the UK and Europe with their third and fourth albums, Woodface and Together Alone and the compilation album Recurring Dream, which included the hits " Fall at Your Feet ", " Weather with You ", " Distant Sun ", " Locked Out ", " Instinct " and " Not the Girl You Think You Are ".
It rapidly came into widespread international use by multiple stakeholders and has been termed a revolution or transformation in psychiatry.
His international debut came later in 1982 in a match against Romania.
This, however, came at the cost of strong centralisation, harsh punishments for crime and corruption, and a certain degree of international isolation.
On the international front, France came repeatedly to the brink of war with the other imperial powers, such as the 1898 Fashoda Incident with Great Britain over East Africa.
A second conference was held at The Hague in May 1911, and out of it came the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention of 1912.
Suharto came under scrutiny from international lending institutions, chiefly the World Bank, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the United States, over longtime embezzlement of funds and some protectionist policies.
The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is an international organization that was created on July 22, 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and came into existence on December 27, 1945 when 29 countries signed the Articles of Agreement.
However, most of the new states that came out of Yugoslavia-most notably Serbia and the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina-refused to cooperate with the international tribunal.
Several national expert groups came to the same result ; on top of all two international expert groups have in full detail evaluated the available data and finally concluded that any food at any dose is wholesome and safe to consume as long as it remains palatable and maintains its technical properties.
Once a small Persian Gulf sheikhdom known locally as a center for pearl diving and boat construction, Kuwait came to international prominence in the post-World War II era largely because of its enormous oil revenues.
Conditions remained tumultuous, including an August 1994 coup by Letsie III, until 1998 when the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ) came to power in elections which were deemed fair by international observers.
The strongest opposition came from the French delegate, Gabriel Hanotaux, partially in order to protect French, which he argued was already the international language.
Together with widespread hunting in California and British Columbia, the species was brought to the brink of extinction until an international moratorium came into effect in 1911.
Anti-money laundering guidelines came into prominence globally as a result of the formation of the Financial Action Task Force ( FATF ) and the promulgation of an international framework of anti-money laundering standards.
* Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT )— signed 1968, came into force 1970: An international treaty ( currently with 189 member states ) to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.
The regime also increasingly came under international fire in the 1970s for human rights abuses, including allegations of torture and murder.
Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and ' 70s.
The Court's mandatory jurisdiction came from three sources ; the Optional Clause of the League of Nations, general international conventions and special bipartite international treaties.
This came from three sources ; the Optional Clause of the League of Nations, general international conventions and " special bipartite international treaties ".
The idea for reviving the Olympic Games as an international competition came to Coubertin in 1889, apparently independently of Brookes, and he spent the following five years organising an international meeting of athletes and sports enthusiasts that might make it happen.
No result came of those at Paris ( 1852 ), Constantinople ( 1866 ), Vienna ( 1874 ), and Rome ( 1885 ), but each of the subsequent ones has been followed by an international convention on the part of nearly one-half of the governments represented.
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And let me add Murray's new book as another symptom of it, particularly so in view of the attention Time magazine gave it when it came out recently.
After that case Poirot apparently came to the attention of the British secret service, and undertook cases for the British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister.
While at Mondovì, he came to the attention of Francesco Adorno, the local Jesuit Provincial Superior, who sent him to the University of Padua.
Mozart rapidly came to the attention of Haydn, who hailed the new composer, studied his works, and considered the younger man his only true peer in music.
It later came to the attention of the West when it was discovered by Louis Nicolas Vauquelin in the mineral crocoite ( lead ( II ) chromate ) in 1797.
The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.
There they came to the attention of a leading member of the Society, Edward Gardner.
The system had many faults, and opposition to Lenin and what many saw as his excessive centralisation policies came to the leadership's attention during the 8th Party Congress ( March 1919 ) and the 9th Party Congress ( March 1920 ).
While working with a Western band in Denver, Colorado, Atkins came to the attention of RCA Victor.
Morris first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme Zoo Time, but achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape.
However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.
Dark matter came to the attention of astrophysicists due to discrepancies between the mass of large astronomical objects determined from their gravitational effects, and the mass calculated from the " luminous matter " they contain ; such as stars, gas and dust.
He first came to prominence for his fight in 1986 with noted Wing Chun practitioner William Cheung, and he continued to gain attention in the 1990s with a public challenge of the Gracie family.
Bessel came to the attention of a major figure of German astronomy at the time, Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, by producing a refinement on the orbital calculations for Halley's Comet.
At an early age, he came to the attention of the papal nephew, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, and in 1621, at the age of only twenty three, he was knighted by Pope Gregory XV.
But the word " glyph " first came to widespread European attention with the engravings and lithographs from Frederick Catherwood's drawings of undeciphered glyphs of the Maya civilization in the early 1840s.
Meanwhile, Zwingli ’ s ideas came to the attention of Martin Luther and other reformers.
It is speculated that this was due to some occult papers having been found in a hansom cab, in which Westcott's connection to the Golden Dawn came to the attention of his superiors.
This came about in spite of initial disapproval by contemporary medical opinion ( which worried about women's frail health ) and by savoir vivre guidebooks ( which deplored the public attention drawn to what was assumed to be the wife's sexual initiation ).
While many viewers came only to laugh, the Salon des Refusés drew attention to the existence of a new tendency in art and attracted more visitors than the regular Salon.
Grammer came to broader public attention as Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Cheers.
She first came to public attention after winning a musical competition at age six by playing the piano.
" " The crime came to national attention only five days later ".
Mark Edward Whitacre ( born May 1, 1957 ) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ), he was the highest-level corporate executive in U. S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) whistleblower.
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