When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

The team finished with a franchise best 14 – 2 regular season record and the NFC West division championship.

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.

Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

Beginning in 2007, MLB has implemented a new rule to give the team from the league that wins the All-Star Game with the best regular season record a slightly greater advantage.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

Levine was best noted for his work on TV shows such as Cheers and M * A * S * H, but only lasted one season in the Orioles broadcast booth.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

Motley, the team's best rusher and blocker in its early years, retired at the beginning of the season with a bad knee.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

1997 – 98 was Charlton's best season for years.

The Cowboys became the surprise team of the 2003 season, posting a 10 – 6 record and a playoff berth by having the best overall defense in the NFL.

In his first season as head coach, Phillips and his coaching staff led the franchise to its best seasonal start ever, a conference-best 13 – 3 record, and the franchise's 16th NFC East championship title, the most of any team in that division.

The Wings posted the league's best record in the 2001-02 regular season and defeated Colorado in seven games in the Western Conference Finals after beating the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues in rounds one and two.

It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape ( and escapist ) movies of the season.

Just three players – Mark Johnson, Brent Stanton and Scott Lucas played all 22 matches that season, the latter winning Essendon's best and fairest award, as well as being Essendon's leading goalkicker that season.

Essendon started season 2012 with four straight wins, its best start to a season since 2000.

The policy of the Bond is best summarised by an excerpt from De Patriot, a paper published in the colony and an avowed supporter of the Bond.

The Patriot is one of Orange's best selling models and was the best selling performance mountain bike in Britain for several years.

It was in the spring of that year that a young man born Nguyen Sinh Cung — then using the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc ( Nguyen the Patriot ) but best known today by a later party-name, Ho Chi Minh ( Ho the Enlightened One ) — established a Communist political organization called the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth Association ( Việt Nam Thanh Niên Kách Mệnh Hội — commonly: " Thanh Niên ").

Seeking to prevent the outbreak of war and to keep the peace between the American Patriot ( Whig ) majority and the Loyalist ( Tory ) minority, he believed that the best way to accomplish this was by secretly removing military stores from storehouses and arsenals in New England.

Wilkes is perhaps best known, however, for his masked persona, The Patriot, in the Global Wrestling Federation, and World Championship Wrestling, and in World Wrestling Federation.

Kate tells him if he had trained them, Patriot might not have been injured and it was best for him to help the Young Avengers by accepting them.

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

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

It was best to die fighting the marines.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.