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.

They won seven Nobel Prizes.

Gerty Cori and Carl Cori jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of the Cori cycle at RPMI.

The caption reads, " I won the Nobel Prize for literature.

She also won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light.

* Willem Einthoven ( 1860 – 1927 ), a physiologist who built the first practical ECG and won the 1924 Nobel prize in medicine

Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

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.

Loewi won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

He, like Loewi, won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in endocrinology.

His theory of the photoelectric effect ( for which he won the Nobel prize for physics ) posited that light could exist in discrete particle-like quantities, which later came to be known as photons.

Milton Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1976.

Although Dyson has won numerous scientific awards, he has never won a Nobel Prize, which has led Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg to state that the Nobel committee has " fleeced " Dyson.

The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25.

He won the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in 1991, the Prince of Asturias Award in 1992 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid.

Fellini won the Praemium Imperiale, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts, awarded by the Japan Art Association in 1990.

Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.

He won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that liver fed to anemic dogs reverses the effects of the anemia.

In recent years, George Mason faculty have twice won the Nobel Prize in Economics.