His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

A cultivar ' Walker's Low ' was named perennial of the year for 2007 by the Perennial Plant Association.

Christian Munch's military pay was very low, and his attempts at developing a private side practice failed, keeping his family in perennial poverty.

In addition Keith Hernandez, former National League MVP and perennial gold-glove winner was obtained by the Mets in 1983.

Another reason for the Raiders ' success on offense was their offensive line, led by left tackle Art Shell and left guard Gene Upshaw, as well as perennial all pro center Dave Dalby.

In this overwhelmingly Democratic state, he was elected after the Democratic nominee, George P. Mahoney, a Baltimore paving contractor and perennial candidate running on an anti-integration platform, narrowly won the Democratic gubernatorial primary out of a crowded slate of eight candidates, trumping early favorite Carlton R. Sickles.

One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz ( published in 1865 ), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller.

By inference Tacitus was criticizing his own Roman culture for getting away from its roots — which was the perennial function of such comparisons.

T. hybridum, alsike or Swedish clover, is a perennial which was introduced early in the 19th century and has now become naturalized in Britain.

The perennial problem, however, was the status of Gascony within the kingdom of France, and Edward's role as the French king's vassal.

A perennial seeker after the Danish throne, he was briefly ‘ king ’ of both Denmark and a large part of Sweden.

The sanitary situation in the palaces was a perennial problem, and a talk with Leicester about these issues inspired John Harington to construct a water closet.

Traditionalism was advocated by a group of U. S. university professors ( labeled the " New Conservatives " by the popular press ) who rejected the notions of individualism, liberalism, modernity, and social progress, and sought instead to promote cultural and educational renewal, and a revived interest in what T. S. Eliot referred to as " the permanent things " ( those perennial truths which endure from age to age and those basic institutions that ground society such as the church, the family, the state, and community life.

Despite no history of radio programming to draw on and perennial cash shortages, DuMont was an innovative and creative network.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Hall was in charge of Australia's leading domestic studio, Cinesound Productions, and was particularly successful with a series of comedies based on the popular writings of author Steele Rudd, which featured the adventures of a fictional Australian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, ' Dad and Dave '.

He was traded to the perennial second-division-dwelling Boston Braves during the offseason with Dave Bancroft and Bill Cunningham for Joe Oeschger and Billy Southworth after the 1924 season .< ref >

Eventually Anna's form appeared to them and Anna explained that she was now a river nymph hidden in the " perennial stream " ( amnis perennis ) of Numicus and her name was therefore now Anna Perenna.

The perennial debate about the fall of the Qin Dynasty was also explained in Marxist terms, the peasant rebellions being a revolt against oppression – a revolt which undermined the dynasty, but which was bound to fail because of a compromise with " landlord class elements ".

From the mid-1950s on, Johnson was a perennial polling favorite in jazz circles, even winning " Trombonist of the Year " in Down Beat magazine during years he wasn't active.

George Carlin was a perennial favorite who appeared in fourteen HBO comedy specials.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

Elisha R. Potter was the Democratic candidate.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

Despite the warning, there was a unanimous vote to enter a candidate, according to Republicans who attended.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.

As editor, Mackenzie was perhaps a little too vocal, leading the paper to a suit of law for libel against the local conservative candidate.

Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected.

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).

As the great grandson of the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon, and as a Duke in Prussia who was fluent in Polish, Albert Frederick was seriously considered for a time as a possible candidate for the Polish throne.

Another French candidate was Marie Zéphyrine's sister Marie Clotide ( later Queen of Sardinia ) but again nothing happened.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

He was naked except for a clout.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.