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His second premiership was short and frustrating, and Russell failed in his great ambition of expanding the franchise-a task that would be left to his Conservative successors, Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.
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The nearest miss came in 1957 when the Bombers ( as they were popularly known by this time ) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16 point second semi final defeat of Melbourne, only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a fortnight later.
Geelong moved to Corio Oval for the 1878 season – the year the club won its first VFA premiership in only the second VFA season.
The government also failed to meet its 1964 manifesto commitment to tie increases in national insurance benefits to increases in average earnings, although this reform would later be implemented during Wilson ’ s second premiership in 1975.
Despite his successes and one-time popularity, Harold Wilson's reputation took a long time to recover from the low ebb reached immediately following his second premiership.
The club won a second consecutive minor premiership in 2011, and qualified for the Grand Final after a three point victory against Hawthorn in the preliminary final.
The club finished second in the 1965 premiership season after being beaten by Essendon 14. 21 ( 105 ) to 9. 16 ( 70 ) in the 1965 VFL Grand Final.
The Kangaroos went on to win another premiership in 1977, but it very nearly wasn ’ t, as North Melbourne gave up a late lead against Collingwood in the second ever drawn VFL grand final.
In 1905, Richmond confirmed their status with a second premiership, this time overcoming bitter rivals North Melbourne, a club perceived as the antithesis of Richmond.
Home's premiership was the second briefest of the twentieth century, lasting two days short of a year.
On April 8, 1948, the military forced Khuang out of office and Phibunsongkhram assumed his second premiership.
** The Adelaide Crows win the 102nd VFL / AFL premiership and second premiership in a row by 35 points ( Adelaide Crows 15. 15 ( 105 ) d North Melbourne 8. 22 ( 70 ))
" His premiership had lasted 144 days, which was then, and at 2012 remains, the second shortest in British history, three days longer than that of his immediate predecessor, Canning.
A second attempt in 1925 was successful when Wood intervened to convince Brownlee to accept the premiership and Greenfield assured him that he would be pleased to be rid of it.
Symbolic overtures, in fact, such as Queen Victoria's grandiose title " Empress of India ", celebrated during the second premiership of Benjamin Disraeli in the 1870s, helped to obscure this fact.
Lisa Cropp won the 2006 New Zealand jockeys ’ premiership for the second consecutive season.
By the end of his premiership, Roacrd not only had a good economic record, but also a record of social reform second only to that the Mauroy Government.
While his first premiership was not particularly notable, Newcastle precipitated the Seven Years War, which would cause his resignation from his high position. After his second term as Prime Minister, he served for a short while in Lord Rockingham's ministry, before retiring from government.
McGuinty is the second Roman Catholic to hold the premiership.
In 2004 Wanganeen won his second premiership medal in Port's first AFL premiership side.
His son, Charles Herries, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue by Disraeli during the latter's second premiership in 1877.
She was the first woman to win a premiership in Canada through a partisan general election, the second being Pat Duncan who won the Yukon general election, 2000, and the third being Kathy Dunderdale who won the Newfoundland and Labrador general election in 2011.
After a stellar year in 1997 ( in which he received his second All Australian guernsey ) he ended up missing the 1997 premiership due to a late season injury.
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The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.
His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.
Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
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As shown in Fig. 4, an external antenna is placed over or around the patient and excited 3000 times a second with short 400-kc. bursts.
One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.
The growth center depicted here, in the distal phalanx of the second finger, is listed as the fifth of those in the seven short bones.
-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.
This second post he seems also to have left after a short interval, for he appeared again in Constantinople, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the brothers of Eudoxia.
On September 5, 1901 Patrick T. Powers, president of the Eastern League announced the formation of the second National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the NABPL or " NA " for short.
Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.
The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.
In the second half of the twentieth century, physics laboratories became able to produce nuclei of chemical elements with half-lives too short for an appreciable amount of them to exist at any time.
ITV then confirmed to the Mail that a second version had been recorded in the 1970s, but was only used for a very short while before reverting to Hunt's 1960 recording.
The first, known as Meyer's Bridge, is in the second foot: if the second foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables must be part of the same word-unit.
The second, known as Hermann's Bridge, is the same rule in the fourth foot: if the fourth foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables must also be part of the same word-unit.
As the city continued to prosper during the 18th century, Georgian Dublin became, for a short period, the second largest city of the British Empire and the fifth largest city in Europe, with the population exceeding 130, 000.
A second Canadian production by the Sock ' n Buskin Theatre Company opened on March 12, 2009 for a short run in Ottawa at Kailash Mital Theatre at Carleton University.
Morris went on to make a second short for the 79th Academy Awards in 2007, this time interviewing the various nominees and asking them about their Oscar experiences.
The second part, " They Shalt Not Pass ", was based on a short film No Pasaran!
Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice ( after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way ); when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete.
Iota participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, with both long and short vowels as the first element.
The first or " Semitic " form showed Jesus with short and " frizzy " hair ; the second showed a bearded Jesus with hair parted in the middle, the manner in which the god Zeus was depicted.
Though he fell two votes short of the required winning margin of 187 in the second ballot, the result was sufficient to secure immediate concessions from his rivals.
( September 20, 2004 to April 25, 2005 ), also fell short of a second season.
MOS Technology, Inc. (" MOS " being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor ) was originally started in 1969 by Allen-Bradley to provide a second source for Texas Instruments ( TI ) designed electronic calculators and the chips inside them.
The rear overhang may be short as in a hatchback or long like in station wagons, changing the cargo area vs seat balance – the first option is more common in smaller minivans and the second in large minivans.
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