I am highly privileged today to commemorate the brilliant career of this parliamentary giant.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

The duke was amused, and this joke started Alberoni's brilliant career.

In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I's reign, he became the adsessor ( legal adviser ) for Belisarius, Justinian's chief military commander who was then beginning a brilliant career.

** Hadrian, a Spaniard like Trajan, is an excellent officer who has had a brilliant career.

The reviews that followed were scathing ; Dorothy Manners writing for the Los Angeles Examiner described the film as " an unfortunate finale to her brilliant career ".

Milo of Croton ( Greek: Μίλων, Mílōn ; gen .: Μίλωνος, Mílōnos ) was a 6th century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton in southern Italy, who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece.

They marry, but Mr. Lewisham is forced to abandon his plans for a brilliant scientific career followed by a political ascent.

Despite ruling for only three years, Henry remained in the memories of Silesia, Greater Poland and Kraków as the perfect Christian knight and lord, whose brilliant career was stopped by his early death.

During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857.

He was called " The Pride and Sorrow of Chess " because he had a brief and brilliant chess career, but then retired from the game while still young.

He was criticised by many, including John Strachan, for his retreat at the Battle of York, and was shortly after recalled to England, where he continued a successful, if not brilliant, military career.

After a brilliant career of thirty-five years of uninterrupted service, he retired in 1828.

This brilliant military career increased his popularity and prestige.

After a brilliant school and college career the future Duc de Morny received a commission in the army, and the next year he entered the staff college.

The novel ends with no suggestion that she will ever have the " brilliant career " as a writer that she desires.

She chooses a ' brilliant ' career over love and getting married, getting a book published in 1901.

Here he had a brilliant career, and seems to have been almost immediately recognised as the leading man of his year.

He " was not a brilliant student, and throughout his entire school career he did not get a single nomination for a prize, not even for the drawing classes.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford.

His career at Trinity College, Cambridge was a brilliant one.

The elder son in particular, Osborne ( Tom Hollander ), is expected to make a brilliant marriage after an excellent career at Cambridge: he is handsome, clever and more fashionable than his brother.

His eldest son, Douglas, died in 1829 at the outset of what had promised to be a brilliant career.

Educated at Eton and at Brasenose College, Oxford, his university career was brilliant.

He felt himself victimized when he learned that the purchasers knew of a project of building the Massachusetts State House at the top of the hill, and he sent his son John Singleton Copley, Jr., then at the beginning of his brilliant legal career, to Boston in 1796 seeking to annul the arrangement.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

Within the narrow frame of military tactics, too, the experts agree that the campaign was brilliant.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

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.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

Now, under the impact of his wife's disclosures, he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance, however brilliant, however far-famed the offender might be.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Prokofieff's outlook as a composer-pianist-conductor in America was, indeed, brilliant.

To the Traditionalists, it was a brilliant satire on modernism ; ;

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

The autofluorescence from the walls of the xylem cells was particularly brilliant.

During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.

It seemed to me that my life was destined to be one brilliant failure after another.

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

The day was brilliant around her -- flower-scented, crisp with breeze -- yet her inner turmoil darkened it.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but his laboratory was often untidy.

As a practitioner, he was flawless in executing complex and risky maneuvers of troops in the heat of battle, achieving brilliant victories in the face of almost certain defeat.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).