Cautiously she sampled her first pineapple and another fruit whose taste she likened to that of `` a rich pear ''.

Wallace Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste.

My folks wouldn't dream of having alcohol in the house, so my first taste of it had been -- of course -- with Johnnie.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

Edward Gibbon remarks, " f the first fifteen emperors, Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct.

During the " The Dark Phoenix Saga ", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called " Dark Phoenix ", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's solar system, and jeopardizing the entire universe.

John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah ’ s behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: “ Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor ”.

Full preterists argue that a literal reading of Matthew 16: 28 ( where Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw him coming in his kingdom ) places the second coming in the first century.

Despite this, the album was the band's first taste of commercial success and their first platinum album in Canada.

Reeling from their first taste of failure, personal problems began to surface for the trio.

In 1899, the Swiss botanist Moisés Santiago Bertoni, during his research in eastern Paraguay, first described the plant and the sweet taste in detail.

At first it attempted to present the género grande, but it soon yielded to the taste and economics of the time, and became the " temple " of the more populist género chico in the late 1870s.

She got her first taste of singing solo at a fire hall, where she soaked up the crowd ’ s appreciation.

) is said to also be the first to age the distillation in charred oak casks, " a process that gives the bourbon its reddish color and unique taste ".

The first Europeans to taste sweet potatoes were members of Columbus ' expedition in 1492.

The band records, first marketed simply as a novelty, were a surprise hit, and gave many Americans their first taste of jazz.

Through such films as Wild Style and Beat Street, German youths developed a taste for breakdancing, spraypainting, and freestyling, thus beginning hip hop's first wave of popularity.

Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.

Shearer also had his first taste of European football in the UEFA Cup that season, and scored in the second leg as Blackburn went out in the first round, losing to Trelleborgs FF of Sweden.

* Westminster School, the Dormitory: 1722 – 1730 ( altered, bombed and restored ), the first public work by Burlington, for which Sir Christopher Wren had provided a design, which was rejected in favor of Burlington's, a triumph for the Palladians and a sign of changing English taste.

Their duties at first were simply ministerial.

They were the first in Europe to gain the franchise, and by the 1980s they routinely constituted about one-third of the membership of the Eduskunta ( parliament ) and held several ministerial posts.

Micronesia was one of ten Pacific countries to send a government member to the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting, held in Havana in September 2008.

* Elections: A prime ministerial candidate is first nominated by the Speaker of the Riksdag and is confirmed as Prime Minister following a vote in the Riksdag.

In 2009, the king made significant personnel changes to the government by appointing reformers to key positions and the first woman to a ministerial post.

In September 2008, a representative of the ni-Vanuatu government attended the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana.

Coalitions with the PSI became usual after the first centre-left government led by Moro in 1963 which saw the participation of the Socialists in key ministerial posts.

Koizumi gained his first senior post in 1979 as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance, and his first ministerial post in 1988 as Minister of Health and Welfare under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

A type of ministerial government was introduced for the first time in Dutch history and many of the current government departments date their history back to this period.

Thus, the responsibility for instituting a new and comprehensive National Health Service, as well as tackling the country's severe post-war housing shortage, fell to the youngest member of Attlee's Cabinet in his first ministerial position.

In 1840, when a new revision was made necessary by the independence of Belgium, a first step to a more parliamentary system was taken by the introduction of penal ministerial responsibility.

Her first full-time ministerial work was as pastor of the Amity ( Arkansas ) church, where a new stone church was built and paid for under her leadership.

After completing his Masters of Divinity in 1815, Crowe accepted his first ministerial assignment in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

From this point onwards the relationship with the University of London, which began as early as 1841, began to develop and for the first time Baptist ministerial students were able to associate closely with the University of London.

Miller did eventually share his views — first, to a few friends privately, and later to some ministerial acquaintances.

Seddon's first ministerial position was obtained when the Liberal Party, led by John Ballance, came to power in 1891.

In 2009, FitzGerald received a new ministerial car, the first and only one to be purchased by the state since an economic recession hit the country in 2008.

In September 2008, a PNG government representative attended the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana, aimed at " strengthening cooperation " between Cuba and Pacific Island countries, notably in coping with the effects of climate change.

Samoa participated in the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana in September 2008, aimed at " strengthening cooperation " between Cuba and Samoa, notably in coping with the impact of climate change.

Dunglass was appointed to his first ministerial post: Anthony Eden remained in charge of the Foreign Office, and Dunglass was appointed as one of his two Under-secretaries of State.

On 2 November 1795, Canning received his first ministerial post: Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

He was the first to propose parliaentary control over ministerial appointments, the militia, and its own duration, He supported the Grand Remonstrance of 7 November 1641.