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With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.
Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.
Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.
On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.
But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.
Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 49 ), seeing that the Protestant Reformation was no longer confined to a few preachers, but had won over various princes, particularly in Germany, to its ideas, desired a council.
Had the Bears won either championship, the club would have completed a championship three-peat – a feat completed only by the Packers ( twice ), although no team has done it since the AFL-NFL merger.
On the Western Front, no Allied army had penetrated the western German frontier, and on the Eastern Front, Germany had already won the war against Russia, concluded with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Mayr never won a Nobel Prize, but he noted that there is no Prize for evolutionary biology and that Darwin would not have received one, either.
In law, frivolous litigation is the practice of starting or carrying on law suits that, due to their lack of legal merit, have little to no chance of being won.
CBC won the lawsuit as U. S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies.
Hurst continued to play and score for England, and although he won no further honours with West Ham or England in the 1960s he still maintained his England place for much of the period ; for the 2 – 3 seasons immediately after 1966 he was an internationally renowned striker and goalscorer.
Bob Davis acknowledges the possibility that had Coleman played, Essendon may well have won, given that Geelong had no true match for him, as Coleman was simply too skilled.
There was little or no violence, but the new Catholic Center Party won a fourth of the seats in the Reichstag ( Imperial Parliament ), and its middle position on most issues allowed it to play a decisive role in the formation of majorities.
Just as a thousand years ago, the Huns under Attila won a reputation of might that lives on in legends, so may the name of Germany in China, such that no Chinese will even again dare so much as to look askance at a German.
In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience.
However, since there was no effective opposition party, these issues were contested mainly within the coalition government, which won all but one seat in the first post-independence Malayan Parliament.
As of 2012, no American school has won the world competition since.
After Milan's Miracle in the 1950s, no school with an enrollment of less than 500 won another boys ' State title under the all-comers format.
On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.
In this sense external wars and strife are seen but a satanic counterfeit of the true " jihad " which can only be fought and won within ; no other Salvation existing can save man without the efforts of the man himself being added to the work involved of self-refinement.
His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port – at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain – but at the time the public were disappointed that he had lost more ships ( mainly due to dangerous ammunition-handling procedures on British battlecruisers ) and had not won a victory as crushing as Trafalgar.
There was no European Formula Two championship that year, but Brabham won the Trophées de France, a championship consisting of six of the French Formula Two races.
Raymond Edler, an American university student studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, took up kickboxing and won the AJKC middleweight title in 1972 ; he was the first non-Thai to be officially ranked in the sport of Thai boxing, when in 1972 Rajadamnern ranked him no.
In the first round, no candidate took the required majority, Weah won this round with 28 % of the vote.

won and electoral
Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.
In 1956, Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson again and won by an even larger landslide, with 457 of 531 electoral votes and 57. 6 % of the popular vote.
Impatient demands for victory centered around short-term electoral cycles play into the hands of the guerrillas, though it is equally important to recognize when a cause is lost and the guerrillas have won.
Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the Liberal Party of Honduras won the 27 November 2005 presidential elections with less than a 4 % margin of victory, the smallest margin ever in Honduran electoral history.
Hezbollah won all twelve seats which were on its electoral list.
When Election Day arrived, Andrew Jackson won, although narrowly, pluralities of the popular and electoral votes, but not the necessary majority of electoral votes.
Adams ' victory shocked Jackson, who had won the most electoral and popular votes and fully expected to be elected president.
Jackson won the rest of the states, picking up 178 electoral votes to Adams ' 83 votes, and succeeded him.
King carried only Connecticut, Delaware, and Massachusetts and won only 34 of 217 electoral votes cast.
Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.
The party won 12, 811 votes ( 0. 82 %), just 2, 857 ( 0. 18 %) short of the electoral threshold at the time ( 1 %) for winning a seat.
It was widely said that Cardenas had won the election, but that the then government-controlled electoral commission had altered the results after the infamous " glitch in the system " ( se cayó el sistema, as it was reported ).
The party won 12, 811 votes ( 0. 82 %), just 2, 857 ( 0. 18 %) short of the electoral threshold at the time ( 1 %) for winning a Knesset seat.
In the 1992 elections the Natural Law Party won 1, 734 votes ( 0. 06 %), and in the 1999 elections, won 2, 924 votes ( 0. 09 %), both below the then 1. 5 % electoral threshold required to enter the Knesset.
In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party. PDS ( Die Linkspartei. PDS ), entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ) and won 8. 7 % of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections ( more than double the 4 % share achieved by the PDS alone in the 2002 election ).
In the first all-German elections in 1990, the PDS won only 2. 4 % of the nationwide vote, but under a one-time exception to Germany's electoral law entered the Bundestag with 17 deputies led by Gysi, one of Germany's most charismatic and articulate politicians.
He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Australian Labor Party and was party leader and premier from 1999 to 2007.
Despite allegations of electoral fraud, Eyadéma won 57 % of the votes in the 2003 elections, which international observers from the African Union described as generally free and transparent.
Andrew Jackson expected the House to vote for him, as he had won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes.
Wirt won 7. 78 percent of the popular vote, and the seven electoral votes from Vermont.
In the end, Taft won by a comfortable electoral margin, giving Bryan his worst loss in three presidential campaigns.

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