How did he start on such a ride to brief glory??

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

They did well at first, but then they start losing again.

Contrary to popular belief, rats did not directly start the spread of the bubonic plague.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.

Bishop Christian asked the new Pope Honorius III for the consent to start another Crusade, however a first campaign in 1217 proved a failure and even the joint efforts by Duke Konrad with the Polish High Duke Leszek I the White and Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia in 122 / 23 only led to the reconquest of Chełmno Land but did not stop the Prussian invasions.

He is not aware of all of his powers at the start of the show ; for instance, his heat vision and super breath do not develop until seasons two and six, respectively, and his power of flight did not emerge until the series finale, up until that point the power appeared only in a few rare cases, such as when he was temporarily're-programmed ' to assume a Kryptonian persona or when he was trapped in a virtual reality.

The Wings played nine games against the Canadiens and went 3-5-1 ; they did not play in Europe again until the preseason and start of the 2009-10 NHL season in Sweden against the St. Louis Blues.

Elizabeth from the start did not really back this course of action.

At that time, Crick was not aware of Chargaff's rules and he made little of Griffith's calculations, although it did start him thinking about complementary replication.

Giving the order to start production in spring 1962, Fellini signed deals with his producer Rizzoli, fixed dates, had sets constructed, cast Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, and Sandra Milo in lead roles, and did screen tests at the Scalera Studios in Rome.

The area was of difficult access and settlement did not start before 1823.

Not until the 13th century in Germany did hops begin to start threatening the use of gruit for flavoring.

Only in the mid-20th century did the Republic's population start to grow once more, but emigration was still common until the 1990s.

At the start of his term, Madison was a party to the United States Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison ( 1803 ), in which the doctrine of judicial review was asserted by the high Court, much to the annoyance of the Jeffersonians who did not want a powerful federalist judiciary.

Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.

Moreover, Luftwaffe leadership from the start poached the training command, which undermined its ability to replace losses, while also planning for " short sharp campaigns ", which did not pertain.

As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point ( Belt Bay ) until late March little bird life appeared preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of Birdsville, where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.

Recent research indicates that the specialized animals that formed complex ecosystems, with high biodiversity, complex food webs and a variety of niches, took much longer to reestablish, recovery did not begin until the start of the mid-Triassic, 4M to 6M years after the extinction and was not complete until 30M years after the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start.

Although the personality cult of the two Kims remained, as did the promotion of Juche, in effect North Korea by the start of 21st century had become a markedly different nation than it had been during the Cold War.

Brahmagupta ( 628 CE ) started the systematic study of indefinite quadratic equations — in particular, the misnamed Pell equation, in which Archimedes may have first been interested, and which did not start to be solved in the West until the time of Fermat and Euler.

Only in the 17th century did people start to notice his reliance on earlier, mainly classical sources.

The charges caught Pike off balance, coming as they did from an unexpected quarter.

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

Once more and roared off into the fog, his foot evidently surprising him with the suddenness with which it pressed the accelerator, just as his hand did when he worked.

Yet a moment did come that night when the adventurous letter writer and fantasist seemed to stride off my flashy pages, out of my mind, and plant himself in reality.

`` Why on earth did I send him off to work??

Men blew dust on objects in a room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Dumont and blew it off again, and did the same in a tiny, almost airless room in a tenement in the West Forties.

The Broncs did hit two quick strikes in the final period against the Texans, but Dallas had enough of a lead to hold them off.

Roy smiled -- he did have a nice smile -- took off his hat most politely, told her to hop in, and he'd give her a lift to Quinzaine.

Then she continued with energy, `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run off to find the father.

Where the hell did he get off threatening to report any laxness on their part to the captain??

In his view, there were three possibilities: ( 1 ) Korean did not belong with the other three genealogically, but had been influenced by an Altaic substratum ; ( 2 ) Korean was related to the other three at the same level they were related to each other ; ( 3 ) Korean had split off from the other three before they underwent a series of characteristic changes.

Peter threatened to cut him off if he did not acquiesce in his father's plans.

Not wishing to see Nicomedia or the other few remaining forts in Asia Minor suffer the same fate, Andronikos III sought to pay off the Ottomans with tribute — the Ottomans did not stop at this and seized Nicomedia as well in 1337.

Although metics had no direct political influence many were wealthy business owners who could, and sometimes did, influence policy by not allowing their citizen employees time off to attend the assembly, as well as having the simple expedient of wealth.

The Cinque Ports did indeed later founder off the coast of what is present-day Colombia.

Because of a failure by the crew to activate a certain switch in the LM before sealing it off, it initially tumbled after separation and did not execute the rocket burn necessary for the craft's intentional de-orbit.

He did, however, understand that there is a risk over using leech, and advised patients that leech need to be cleaned before being used and that the dirt or dust " clinging to a leech should be wiped off " before application.

Once " stand off " nuclear weapon designs were developed, bombers did not need to pass over the target at high altitude to make an attack ; they could fire and turn away to escape the blast.

The IMF granted standby credit in September 1995, but Belarus has fallen off the program and did not receive the second tranche of funding, which had been scheduled for regular intervals throughout 1996.

This was one of his traits as a filmmaker-showing off his budget-as he did with Brigitte Bardot in Le Mepris ( Contempt ).

The Union navy, although much smaller than the Royal Navy, did posture off Maritime coasts at times.

HP laid off thousands of former Compaq, DEC, HP, and Tandem employees, its stock price generally declined and profits did not perk up.

However his hasty return on August 18 sparked off fierce inter-tribal clashes between the Issa and the Gadabuursi, which in turn caused the Gadabuursi to withdraw from Djibouti politics and did not return to the political scene until after Djibouti's independence.

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.