In addition to the heart and aorta, successful measurements of liver and spleen have also been made by this technique.

Between 1935 and 1939 Letch and I made ten films together, each less successful, both artistically and commercially, than the one before it.

An engineer had been made the works manager of a firm, supplanting a retired employee who had been considered outstandingly successful.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

After spending the winter organizing a cavalry force ( hippeis ), he made a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring of 395 BC.

Ambrose also made successful efforts to improve the moral life of women in the Milan of his time by promoting the permanent institution of Virgins, as also of widows.

First team regulars Siem de Jong, Urby Emanuelson and Gregory van der Wiel are former youth internationals who made the successful step up to the senior side.

A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.

A very successful Portuguese feature film was made in the early 20th century that dramatically captured the primitive and dangerous life of these fishermen.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Its characteristically " cute " Japanese animation and music, along with its play mechanics and level designs, made it successful as an arcade title and spawned several sequels and ports to home gaming systems.

Seed, an ex-miner who had made a career as a footballer despite suffering the effects of poison-gas in the first war, remains the most successful manager in Charlton's history and he is commemorated in the name of a stand at the Valley.

The last substantive and successful classical cavalry charge of the war that made on March 1, 1945 during the Battle of Schoenfeld by the 1st " Warsaw " Independent Cavalry Brigade.

Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.

This certainly was a successful device as water clocks of similar design were still being made in Baghdad when the Mongols captured the city in 1258 A. D. A variety of automatic devices have been used over the centuries to accomplish useful tasks or simply to just entertain.

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

Later Coleco continued adapting newer successful arcade games like Subroc, Time Pilot and Frenzy, the company also made inferior ports of many of these games for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision, in an effort to broaden its market.

The following year, she made a cameo in the successful horror film Scream.

Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, but his high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures.

For an appeal from an acquittal to be successful, the Supreme Court of Canada requires that the Crown show that an error in law was made during the trial and that the error contributed to the verdict.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

The most successful example, in that several were made and one is still flying, is the 1949 Taylor Aerocar.

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.

In addition, new technologies and tactics were developed, making most defences obsolete ; this led to the construction of star forts, specifically designed to withstand artillery bombardment though these too ( along with the Martello Tower ) would find themselves rendered obsolete when explosive and armour piercing rounds made even these types of fortifications vulnerable.

In order to bolster the defences of the kingdom against the growing strength of the Muslims, Baldwin III made the first direct alliance with the Byzantine Empire, by marrying Theodora Comnena, a niece of emperor Manuel ; Manuel married Baldwin's cousin Maria.

Consequently, the very features that made Bermuda such a prized base for the Royal Navy ( its headquarters in the North Atlantic and West Indies ' til after the Second World War, also meant it was perpetually threatened by US invasion, as the US would have liked to both deny the base to an enemy, and use it as a way to extend its defences hundreds of miles out to sea, which would not happen ' til the Second World War.

The French Navy lacked the necessary heavy weaponry to deal with these coastal defences, while the difficult topography of the Prussian coastline ( see the article Wadden Sea ) made a seaborne invasion of northern Germany impossible.

The attack was a great success and showed that the German defences could no longer stop well-prepared attacks made in good weather.

For Operation Dracula, an ad hoc parachute battalion group made up of personnel from the 153 and 154 ( Gurkha ) Parachute Battalions of the Indian Army secured Japanese coastal defences, which enabled the seaborne assault by the 26th Indian Division to attain its objectives with a minimum of casualties and time.

A long-standing plan of the French had been the concept of an invasion of Great Britain which they hoped would lead to a swift end to the war if it was successful: in 1779 Spain entered the war on the side of France, and the increasingly depleted state of British home forces made an invasion more appealing and Amherst organised Britain's land defences in anticipation of the invasion which never materialised.

By mid-morning the first phase of the attack was a success with nearly all objectives taken, a gap also being made in the German defences.

The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defences despite often being the underdog due to his size.

made the second attempt in October 1918 but encountered the sophisticated defences then in place ; it was detected by hydrophones before entering the anchorage, then destroyed by shore-triggered mines.

A water-filled moat made the practice of mining, digging tunnels under the fortifications in order to effect a collapse of the defences, very difficult as well.

At the same time, Maiden Castle's defences were made more complex with the addition of further ramparts and ditches.

At the same time, the defences around the eastern entrances were made more complex.

Maiden Castle's southern defences were made up of four defensive wall | rampart s and three ditch ( fortification ) | ditches.

All the while Jervis and Barrington made notes on defences, harbour charts and safe anchorages.

On the new axis of attack little progress was made until 1st Armored were in position on May 29, when the front advanced to the main Caesar C Line defences.

Together with the Gustav Line and the Hitler Line, it made up the German Winter Line defences.

This is employed when in the course of a campaign it becomes desirable to protect some locality with the best imitation of permanent defences that can be made in a short time, ample resources and skilled civilian labour being available.

In London at about this time, large efforts were made to improve the city's defences.

Further challenges and defences were made well into the nineteenth century, but the issue was moot by then.

These defences were later rebuilt and a third bank added on all sides except the south east where the hill's steep slope made further strengthening unnecessary.

To assist with the movement of troops between Dover Castle and the town defences Twiss made his case for building the Grand Shaft in the cliff:

On the section of the line in Essex, between Great Chesterford and Canvey Island, the defences were made up of around 400 FW3 type concrete pillboxes, which were part of the British hardened field defences of World War II.

Wotton was at the time on leave in England, and made two formal defences of himself, one a personal attack on his accuser addressed to Marcus Welser of Strassburg, and the other privately to the king.