His `` monumental '' abstraction, made up of smooth, metallic `` non-objects '' acting upon each other with great tension, won Helion much acclaim during the 'thirties.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

The Spartans toured the battlefield at Marathon, and agreed that the Athenians had won a great victory.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

From fragmentary historical sources it seems he reached the far north of Britain and won a great battle in early summer before returning south to York.

In the 19th century, as Norway was achieving independence after centuries of union with Denmark and Sweden, the stories of the independent Norwegian medieval kingdom won great popularity in Norway.

It was in Larissa that Philip V of Macedon signed in 197 BC a treaty with the Romans after his defeat at Cynoscephalae, and it was there also that Antiochus III, the Great, won a great victory, 192 BC.

: Jealousy of Moses ' excellent qualities induced Chenephres to send him with unskilled troops on a military expedition to Ethiopia, where he won great victories.

No great open ocean race would be won by a monohull, ever again.

Derek Walcott won a Nobel prize to a great extent on the basis of his epic, Omeros.

After boasting that he could put an end to the affair in the Assembly, the inexperienced Cleon won a great victory at the Battle of Sphacteria.

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

Saddam routinely cited his survival as " proof " that Iraq had in fact won the war against the U. S. This message earned Saddam a great deal of popularity in many sectors of the Arab world.

Diomedes won great renown amongst the Achaeans, killing the Trojan hero Pandaros and nearly killing Aeneas, who was only saved by his mother, Aphrodite.

The Oda-Tokugawa force of 38, 000 won a great victory on June 28, 1575, at the Battle of Nagashino, though Takeda Katsuyori survived the battle and retreated back to Kai province.

Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).

The Roman triumph () was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander who had won great military successes, or originally and traditionally, one who had successfully completed a foreign war.

He raised a great deal of money, won backing from many conservatives in the community and party, and put quite a scare into the Anderson team.

The political and popular pressure for reform had grown so great that pro-reform Whigs won an overwhelming House of Commons majority in the general elections of 1831.

A group of English magnates known as The Disinherited, who had lost land in Scotland by the peace accord, staged an invasion of Scotland and won a great victory at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332.

The Whigs vigorously supported the War of the Spanish Succession and became even more influential after the Duke of Marlborough won a great victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

Later that year, he was sent on the Iwakura Mission around the world as vice-envoy extraordinary, during which he won the confidence of Ōkubo Toshimichi, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration.

) The tall, muscular actor won significant acclaim and appeared in two more films the following year.

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

However, both books went on to receive high acclaim and, in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in children's literature.

Such movies were commercially successful and often enjoyed international distribution, but won little acclaim from critics.

In the 1990s, Krzysztof Kieślowski won a universal acclaim with productions such as The Decalogue ( made for television ), The Double Life of Véronique and the Three Colors trilogy.

Cleveland's blunt, honest ways won him popular acclaim, but they also gained him the enmity of certain factions of his own party, especially the Tammany Hall organization in New York City.

While The Sorcerer won critical acclaim, it did not duplicate the success of Trial by Jury.

This novel, subtitled " His Masquerade ", has won general acclaim in modern times as a complex and mysterious exploration of issues of fraud and honesty, identity and masquerade, but when it was published, it received reviews ranging from the bewildered to the denunciatory.

Starting in January 1863, he returned to the Boston Museum for a series of plays, including the role of the villain Duke Pescara in The Apostate that won acclaim from audiences and critics.

Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, Cinema had changed in the ten years since Walsh last directed Cagney ( in The Strawberry Blonde ), and the actor's portrayal of gangsters had also changed.

Opening in the summer of 2001 and scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim and packed houses and was held over several times, the demanding role of the singing Janis attracting rock vocalists from relative unknowns to pop stars Laura Branigan and Beth Hart.

He directed two films for HBO in 1994: Against the Wall and The Burning Season that won him several awards and renewed acclaim.

The film received critical acclaim and won the Magritte Award for Best Co-Production.

She also won acclaim for her performances in The Crying Game and Enchanted April, for which she won a Golden Globe.

Cruz, who learned Italian for the role, earned critical acclaim for her performance and won the David di Donatello.

Although it won early acclaim for its comfort and power, sales were slow.

John Trumbull ’ s Declaration of Independence had won popular acclaim in 1820.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

In fact, in 2009, Le Clos Jordanne winery, of Jordan Village on the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario received critical acclaim for its 2005 Claystone Terrace Chardonnay, which won the top spot for Chardonnay in the " Judgement of Montreal " experts ’ tasting.

Félicien Rops ( 1833 – 98 ) won acclaim as a graphic artist, as did surrealist painters Paul Delvaux ( 1897 – 1994 ) and René Magritte ( 1898 – 1967 ).

Also in 1916, Dodge Brothers vehicles won acclaim for durability while in service with the U. S. Army's Pancho Villa Expedition into Mexico.

His mini-series Jesus of Nazareth won acclaim and is still shown on Easter weekend in many countries.

In 1998 she won acclaim and the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Place Vendôme.