To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Playing across the western U. S., the tour made stops in Hawaii ( although no game was played ), New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, and England.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

The 35-match tour of two host nations included no tests, but the side played provincial, city and academic sides, winning 27 matches.

In European casinos, " no hole card " games are prevalent ; the dealer's second card is neither drawn nor consulted until the players have all played their hands.

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ), and despite not having have played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $ 400, 000 ahead of the IPL players ' auction in early January 2011 ; however, no franchise bought him.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

It also played no little part in motivating Italy's revanchist adventure in 1935 ".

For the majority of games, there is no one set of universal rules by which the game is played, and the most common ruleset is no more or less than that.

Many widely played card games, such as Canasta and Pinochle, have no official regulating body.

These games usually require no materials, and are played with spoken words or hand gestures.

and Odd or Even require no materials and are played using hand gestures, although with the former it is possible for a player to win or lose through skill rather than luck.

In the game of shooting dice, there is no marked table and often the game is played with no back-stop against which the dice are to hit.

They no longer maintain a rivalry, as Carolina was moved to the NFC South in 2002, and the two have played rarely since then.

There is, however, no pre-1858 Irish document that describes the way game was played, in particular there is no reference to the distinctive croquet stroke.

In 1951 it publicly played the " Colonel Bogey March " of which no known recordings exist.

News sources originally stated that Seung-Hui Cho only played the game in high school, however no video games whatsoever were found in the gunman's dorm room, and there is no evidence that he ever played Counter-Strike.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

They played one extra match on this tour, making the total of 21 games, including four tests against South Africa, with the British Isles winning three of them.

The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.

In his teens, he played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones, which later went on to tour with such acts as Bobby Darin and Gene Vincent.

Devo played their first European tour since 1990 in the summer of 2007, including a performance at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim.

They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908.

He also played a role in a tour of Antony and Cleopatra, produced by the actress Katharine Cornell in 1946.

The band also played at the Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour as well, another record at that time.

As part of his tour, he played at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with his final concert of that tour in Paris being recorded for a Valentine's Day special on PBS in 1998.

In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded.

Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

It was during this tour that the first Test Match was played.

Up until the fourth tour in 1877, led by Lillywhite, touring teams had played first-class games against the individual colonial sides, but Lillywhite felt that his side had done well enough against New South Wales to warrant a game against an All Australian team.

Later that year, the Honourable Ivo Bligh led a team of eight amateurs and four professionals to Australia to recover them, with the first two matches of the tour played at the MCG.

Also that year, the band contributed a cover of " I Can't Forget " to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I'm Your Fan, and began an international tour on which they played stadiums in Europe and smaller venues in the United States.

The Pixies played their first reunion concert on April 13, 2004, at The Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a warm-up tour through the U. S. and Canada was followed by an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

In the autumn of 2011 the " Lost Cities " tour continued the " Doolittle Tour " as they played many venues for the first time.

The album was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including first-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played to some of the largest crowds of their career.

Despite this impairment to his bowling shoulder, his team played with an aggressive strategy leading them to lose only one Test match and no other matches during the tour, honouring his pre-series pledge.