" Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive and loathed by many of his fellow professionals, but his career batting average of. 366 has yet to be bested.

He won five Formula One World Drivers ' Championships — a record which stood for 46 years until bested by Michael Schumacher — with four different teams ( Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati ), a feat that has not been repeated.

His enraged comrade Sthenelus urges Diomedes to stand up to Agamemnon by responding that he has bested his father and avenged his death by conquering " Seven-gated " Thebes.

He has also become more compassionate, allowing him to earn the friendship of Winslow ( the former Captain of the Screaming Narwhal that he had bested ) and Morgan LeFlay ( the pirate hunter and his fan ).

In X-Men # 5, it is revealed that in order for Wolverine to fully infiltrate the ranks of the vampires that were attacking Utopia at the behest of Dracula's son ( when Wolverine thought the vampire virus had simply bested his healing factor ), Cyclops has to infect him with nanites that are capable of shutting off Wolverine's healing factor.

It has dropped from fourth to sixth place among parties, having been bested by the Social Democratic Party and ( narrowly ) by the Greens.

Although he has never again recorded a song as commercially successful as " Romeo's Tune ", his first recording for Geffen Records, 1988's Streets of This Town, has been credited with " intelligence and maturity that bested most of his previous work ".

The two seem doomed never to defeat each other, for though Jack has bested Aku on numerous occasions, Aku merely transforms into a small creature and escapes, usually calling out a taunt over his shoulder as he flees, a fact that he himself is aware of and even makes a reference to in one episode.

Raphael and Michelangelo mostly have a love-hate relationship in which Michelangelo frequently antagonizes Raphael ( it especially hurts Raphael's pride that Michelangelo has bested him more than once, both times because Raphael's anger got in the way ), but Raphael shows that he cares about him whenever he's in danger.

Kurri has since also been bested in goals by Teemu Selänne ( the current record-holder for NHL goals scored by a Finn ), and in assists by Nicklas Lidström.

Where go back to the Cryptkeeper, where he has apparently bested the Mummy at the game and reduced him to nothing but a head.

This record has never been officially bested, therefore it is widely agreed that Zorba may have been the heaviest dog ever.

He has bested werewolves and vampires in combat as well as easily overpowered Batman, who stated that Jackie was " infinitely stronger " than himself.

Suddenly, Caleb shows up from behind the woman, kills her, and almost has Buffy bested when Angel ( David Boreanaz ) steps in to save her.

IGN stated that the game has improved in terms of car and environment variety, the physics engine, and gameplay, but the missions seem trite, adding that the game also bested Twisted Metal 4.

The Hulk has struck him to the ground ; and he can be bested by superior strategy, cosmic or mystic prowess, or scientific expertise which he is unaccustomed to, such as when Pym banished him from Earth.

She has bested the Big Texan's challenge on more than ten occasions since then, and one such event was filmed for the Ripley's Believe It Or Not television program in 2000.

Tsao, the emperor's first eunuch, has successfully bested General Yu, his political opponent.

Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.

One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.

If this was in fact Mr. Remarque's intention he has achieved a notable failure.

General semantics has helped guide the thinking of artists contemplating what to say to society, or how to study society, influencing a notable a lyricist, a filmmaker, and other writers.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

This district includes notable schools such as the magnet Liberal Arts and Science Academy, which, by test scores, has always been within the top thirty high schools in the nation.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

The suite of ten piano pieces Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, has been arranged over twenty times, perhaps the most famous and notable being that of Maurice Ravel.

The most notable of these are Skyfox ( shown on the back of the original system box ) and Electrocop ( artwork has since been uncovered ).

Other notable acts include Ali B ( who has been featured on other artists ' tracks, most significantly with Marco Borsato on the song " Wat zou je doen?

Its blind cave form, however, is notable for having no eyes and being albino, that is, completely devoid of pigmentation ; it has a pinkish-white color to its body.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

The United States is a notable non-Party to the Convention and has a number of such agreements for allowing the shipping of hazardous wastes to Basel Party countries.

However, as of 2011 adoption of the new terms has been slow and usage has been limited in the marketplace and in the press, with notable exceptions such as Linux operating systems, several textbooks and scientific research papers.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

Since the area has been referred to as the Balkans, notable conflicts have included the following

While the complexity, size, construction, and general form of CPUs have changed enormously since 1950, it is notable that the basic design and function has not changed much at all.

The country also has several airlines, of which the most notable is Croatia Airlines.

Also notable is the work of British zoologist and cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, who has published 12 books and countless articles on numerous cryptozoological subjects since the mid-1980s.

Capital punishment has in the past been practised by most societies ( one notable exception being Kievan Rus ); currently 58 nations actively practice it, and 97 countries have abolished it ( the remainder have not used it for 10 years or allow it only in exceptional circumstances such as wartime ).

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

A notable publication is Kris Dhillon's book The Curry Secret, which was first published in 1989 but has been reprinted as recently as 2008.

Two of the most notable differences are that the balls are always played in the same sequence ( blue, red, black, yellow ) throughout the game, and that a ball's " deadness " on other balls is carried over from turn to turn until the ball has been " cleared " by scoring its next hoop.