In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Keep the direct sun from reaching the house and you've won the first battle.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

That's how he first won the Masters in 1958.

Those Dodgers won their first 10 games and owned a 21-2 mark and a nine-game lead by May 8.

As if to confirm his stature, he quickly won three of the first eight tournaments.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

In the latter, President José Eduardo dos Santos won the first round election with more than 49 % of the vote to Jonas Savimbi's 40 %.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In 2002, Alumni won its first Nacional title, defeating Jockey Club de Rosario 23-21 in the final.

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

However, the Australians fought back and Bradman won his first series in charge 3 – 2.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

He won his first Lenaean victory in the 350s BC, most likely, where he was sixth after Eubulus, and fourth after Antiphanes.

It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

Prominent poker pro Antonio Esfandiari won the event, also receiving a special platinum WSOP bracelet.

He won his ninth gold bracelet in a mixed games event in 2003, and in 2004, he finished 53rd ( in a field of 2, 576 ) in the No Limit Texas hold ' em Championship event.

Johnson began playing poker in 1974 and won a World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) bracelet in 1997 in the $ 1, 500 seven-card razz event.

He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1998 for the $ 5, 000 Limit Hold ' em event.

Williams won his sole WSOP bracelet in 2006 in the $ 1, 500 Seven-card stud event when his () defeated John Hoang's ().

As the reigning world champion, Ungar won his second bracelet in 1981 in the $ 10, 000 Deuce to Seven Draw event, defeating 1978 world champion Bobby Baldwin in heads-up play.

In the 1983 WSOP, Ungar won his fourth bracelet.

On June 27, 2005, Tilly won a World Series of Poker bracelet ( and $ 158, 625 ) in the Ladies ' No-Limit Texas Hold ' Em event, outlasting 600 other players.

In 2010, Hansen won the £ 10, 350 No Limit Hold ' em High Roller Heads-Up event at the WSOPE, winning his first WSOP bracelet and £ 288, 409, equivalent to $ 451, 880.

Annie Duke ( born Anne LaBarr Lederer ; September 13, 1965 ) is a professional poker player and author who won a bracelet in the 2004 World Series of Poker $ 2, 000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event and was the winner of the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, where she earned the Winner-Take-All prize of $ 2, 000, 000.

During this same World Series, she won her first gold bracelet, in an Omaha Hi-Lo tournament.

Duke has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, in Omaha HiLo, and more than three million dollars in tournament play.

He won his first WSOP bracelet in 1992 and won his eighth and most recent bracelet in 2007.

The same year as his main event win, he also won a bracelet in the $ 2, 500 No-Limit Hold ' em event for $ 249, 000 and the Seven-card stud event at European Poker Open in London.

On September 17th, 2007, Raymer won his first World Championship of Online Poker ( WCOOP ) bracelet by winning Event # 6 of the 2007 WCOOP, a $ 320 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys event.

In 1979, he won the $ 10, 000 Deuce to Seven Draw event again, earning his fourth and most recent bracelet at the WSOP.

Moore played at the World Series of Poker regularly, beginning in 1974, and won his bracelet in the $ 5, 000 Seven Card Stud event in 1994.

Seed won the 1996 World Series of Poker main event, his second bracelet, and the $ 1, 000, 000 first prize.

In 1994, he won the World Series of Poker main event bracelet.

Bechtel earned the top prize of $ 1, 000, 000 and the WSOP bracelet, becoming the first amateur player at the time to win the WSOP Main Event since Hal Fowler won the 1979 WSOP Championship.

The table included two world champions, Bechtel himself and Doyle Brunson, WSOP bracelet winners T. J. Cloutier, Phil Ivey, Dewey Tomko, Chip Reese, as well as established professionals David Singer who has since won a bracelet, Patrik Antonius, and Andy Bloch who finished runner-up in the tournament.