There was no reply so he shoved it open with his foot and stepped inside.

We stepped inside.

Horse-racing historian Michael Tanner, in a 2011 television interview at Epsom, pointed out that as Emily Davison was standing on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner, amidst heaving crowds, and with no racetrack commentary like there is today, it would in fact have been impossible for her to have any idea whether the King's horse Anmer had in fact already gone past or not when she stepped out onto the racecourse to make her protest ; and that at the speeds the horses were going it would not have been practicable for her to identify any particular horse anyway even if she'd meant to.

The term step-down referred to Hudson's placement of the passenger compartment down inside the perimeter of the frame ; riders stepped down into a floor that was surrounded by the perimeter of the car's frame.

David the Builder died on 24 January 1125, and upon his death, King David was, as he had ordered, buried under the stone inside the main gatehouse of the Gelati Monastery so that anyone coming to his beloved Gelati Academy stepped on his tomb first, a humble gesture for a great man.

At the 1983 World Championships, his last international appearance in a major event, he broke his foot and tore ligaments when he stepped on the inside of the track after qualifying in the first round of the 800 m. As Juantorena was being carried off the track on a stretcher most viewers must have thought that was the end, but Juantorena returned to training with a view to competing in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

As Rollins unlocked the door and stepped inside, he heard a commotion behind him followed by gunshots.

A crowd gathered inside and someone identifying himself as a doctor stepped forward, made a cursory examination of the body, declared the victim had died of a stomach haemorrhage.

When the posse stepped inside, someone yelled, " Look out!

The exact cause of the wounds is debated, Human Concern International maintains that Khadr was inside one of their refugee camps when he stepped on a landmine, while his son Abdurahman has said that he was hurt by a bomb during the ongoing battles between warlords.

Jets quarterback, Boomer Esiason, attempted to throw for a first down inside the Eagles 10-yard line as Allen stepped in front of the intended receiver at the 6-yard line.

Fox concluded that if he stepped forward when Stribling threw his right, he would be inside the punch and in position to hit Stribling with his left.

The Catalina 30 has a deck stepped mast, which means that there is a compression post inside the salon that transfers the weight of the mast from the deck to the cabin sole.

Then, from a distance no more than four feet away and still some sixty feet inside the Nikolsky Gate, Ivan Kalyayev, a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party ’ s Combat detachment, stepped forward and threw a nitroglycerin bomb directly into Sergei's lap.

In the 1978 game between Ohio State and Clemson, Ohio State coach Woody Hayes lost his temper after a late game interception by Clemson nose guard Charlie Bauman, who stepped in front of the receiver on a pass from quarterback Art Schlichter.

Prior to the battle, the U. S Special Forces had assumed control of Dong Xoai ’ s defences ; they stepped up guard and patrol activities, and ordered the construction of new defensive fortifications around the district headquarters, the Special Forces Camp, and the armoured and artillery positions on the eastern side of the district.

Kendall stepped out of the batter's box and began yelling at Lackey, who told him to stop leaning over the plate with his elbow guard sticking out, trying to be hit by a pitch ( as Kendall has been known to do throughout his career ).

He stepped up well in his new role as starting point guard, scoring a career-high of 27 points on November 26, 2007 in a 112 – 99 win against his former team, the San Antonio Spurs.

Despite playing his entire collegiate career as a tackle, Mankins was moved to left guard by the Patriots, where he immediately stepped into the starting lineup in place of Joe Andruzzi, who departed in free agency.

As Spinks stepped on one of Qawi's feet, Qawi landed a right to Spinks ' chin.

Around 10 clean hard shots from Froch landed before the referee stepped in to stop the bout with only a matter of seconds left in the final round, earning Froch the technical knockout victory.

As Player stepped on the first tee he knew that Palmer had birdied the first two holes and already was 2 under par for the day.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped in as a mediator and chaired a tripartite summit with the two countries ' presidents on 15 November 2002, which established a commission to facilitate the peaceful implementation of the ICJ's judgement.

Tensions had risen between the two nations after the 1796 ratification of the Jay Treaty, made between the US and Great Britain was seen by French leaders as signs of an Anglo-American alliance, and France had stepped up seizures of American ships.

After Junna stepped down from the throne, two former Emperors were alive.

The way in which the Chinese land mine trigger worked was a system of two steel wheels rotated by a falling weight, the chord of which was wound around their axle, and when the enemy stepped onto the disguised boards they released the pins that dropped the weights.

Konaré stepped down after his constitutionally mandated limit of two terms and did not run in the 2002 elections.

In 1923, the number of aldermen per ward was lowered from two to one, and Kenna stepped aside to become a Ward Committeeman, leaving the alderman's position of the First Ward to his partner.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

Chapter 1 contains a concise description of how dinners are cooked in the future, including reference to a " quickthaw ", which would now be called a microwave oven (" I grabbed two Syntho-Steaks out of the freezer and slapped them in quickthaw, added a big Idaho baked potato for Dad ... then stepped up the gain on the quickthaw so that the spuds would be ready when the steaks were.

However, the two latest elections were held on different dates after the predecessing presidents stepped down before the end of their terms since they had to be held within 30 days of Horst Köhler's and Christian Wulff's resignations in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

In Sophocles ' Antigone, when Oedipus stepped down as king of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, both of whom agreed to alternate the throne every year.

When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year.

On June 11, 1963, George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, stood in front of the Foster Auditorium entrance at The University of Alabama in what became known as the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door in an attempt to stop desegregation of that institution by the enrollment of two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood ; when confronted by US Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and federal marshals sent in by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Wallace stepped aside.

Trousdale County is one of two counties in Tennessee to have legalized parimutuel betting on horse racing, but no group has ever stepped forward to build a racetrack.

" Leaving behind the bland clothes he had worn on the first two shows ", Greil Marcus says, Elvis " stepped out in the outlandish costume of a pasha, if not a harem girl.

The most noteworthy relic of antiquity is the sacred lake, on two sides of which can still be seen stepped quays and water-stairs.

He acted when all the other members had stepped outside for the two minutes ' silence, observed on Remembrance Day at 11 AM.

For two years, Walsh pushed forward while Fall stepped backward, covering his tracks as he went.

He followed the usual Ohio custom and stepped down at the end of two two-year terms, returning home to Canton in January 1896 to municipal celebrations.

" He was re-elected on June 8, 2001 for a second term and stepped down on August 3, 2005 after serving his maximum two consecutive terms according to the Islamic Republic's constitution.

After the death of their father in February 1597, Richard and his brother Cuthbert stepped in to rescue the family's interests in two London theatres, and ended up tied up in lawsuits.

When Harcourt stepped down to become a provincial candidate and a renewed NPA led by future premier Gordon Campbell absorbed TEAM's two remaining councilors, COPE became the senior partner in its coalition with the Civic Independents.

In the late 1930s the UK was working on a variety of developments to increase air defence efficiency "... Into this stepped W. A. S. Butement, designer of radar sets CD / CHL and GL, with a proposal on 30 October 1939 for two kinds of radio fuze: ( 1 ) a radar set would track the projectile, and the operator would transmit a signal to a radio receiver in the fuze when the range, the difficult quantity for the gunners to determine, was the same as that of the target and ( 2 ) a fuze would emit high-frequency radio waves that would interact with the target and produce, as a consequence of the high relative speed of target and projectile, a Doppler-frequency signal sensed in the oscillator ".

alt = The staircase has two parts, a double helix, and is of shallow incline, being a stepped ramp rather than a true staircase.