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But the Turks, with the aid of fresh reinforcements from the Asian provinces, established their third and strongest defensive position at the Chataldja Line, across the peninsula where Constantinople is located.
In the 1920 elections the Communists won 59 seats in the parliament and became the third strongest party.
It is now the second strongest party in three states, all of them in the former GDR, ( Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia ) and the third strongest in four others, all but Saarland in the former GDR, ( Saarland, Berlin, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ).
Feltham claimed that in 18th-century London a popular beverage called " three threads " was made consisting of a third of a pint each of ale, beer and twopenny ( the strongest beer, costing tuppence a quart ).
He did not win any money on the 1, 000th episode, and was voted off in only the third round, despite having been the statistical strongest link in the first two rounds.
Then in 1886 second baseman Frank Grant joined the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, the strongest minor league, and hit. 340, third highest in the league.
Three hundred years later, the American astronomical historian William Ashworth suggested that what Flamsteed may have seen was the most recent supernova in the galaxy's history, an event which would leave as its remnant the strongest radio source outside of the solar system, known in the third Cambridge ( 3C ) catalogue as 3C 461 and commonly called Cassiopeia A by astronomers.
The local LR — which held on to Fortuyn as its leader — was hugely successful in the March 2002 local elections, as it won more than one third of the vote and became Rotterdam's strongest party.
This area boasts the third strongest economy in Japan and this influence can sometimes extend into the more remote parts of these prefectures that are farther away from Nagoya.
Their strongest state tournament showing came in 1973, when they finished third.
Because the shortstop typically fields some of the ground balls that have traveled farthest in the infield and has a longer throw to first base from the point at which he fields the ball than any infielder other than a third baseman and less time in which to make a throw, a shortstop must have one of the strongest throwing arms on the field.
; The Goat: The third strongest animal on the farm ( the first being Horse and the second Aunt Dolly ), The Goat lives tethered to a chain in Wal's backyard.
In this round, female contestants were allowed a head start over their male competitors, and in early series, contestants were given staggered starts to the assault course ; following practice sessions with army officers, the contestant of the weakest physical ability would set off first, followed by the contestant of the third strongest physical ability, followed by the contestant of the second strongest physical ability, leaving the contestant of the strongest physical ability to start last.
In 1996, Piper, Beckmann's German publisher, released the third and last volume of the artist ’ s letters, whose wit and vision rank him among the strongest writers of the German tongue.
Short is often regarded as the strongest English player of the 20th century as he was ranked third in the world, from January 1988 to July 1989.
Nevertheless, Caldera had much influence as a leader in his political party, which was the third strongest political force in the country at the time.
It changed its name in 1943 to PCI and became the strongest political party of the Italian left after World War II, attracting the support of about a third of the voters during the 1970s.
Later, he would also receive the Plain Blue Banner from his fifth brother Manggūltai, which was the third strongest banner.
Multiple web sites had sprung up that were matching supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, in nonswing states, with supporters in swing states of the strongest third party candidate, Ralph Nader.
Hurricane Camille was the third and strongest tropical cyclone and second hurricane during the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season.
The club remained in the division until winning promotion in 1999 – 2000, going on to establish itself as one of the strongest clubs in the Conference, finishing third, second and fifth in its first three seasons back following promotion.

third and line
The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Below this crack is another group of eleven parallel lines, again divided into two sections by a line perpendicular to them, but with the semicircle at the top of the intersection ; the third, sixth and ninth of these lines are marked with a cross where they intersect with the vertical line.
AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).
In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:
A second lane leads alongside the railway line to Aberdour Castle, while a third leads to the restored Aberdour House.
It is assumed that internal interaction forces obey Newton's third law of motion in its strong form, that is, that the forces between particles are equal and opposite and act along the line between the particles.
During the first years of the reign of his older brother as Elector, Anton was the third in line, preceded only by his older brother Karl.
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
: This is the third line in the Pascal: s triangle.
Restless legs syndrome can be treated using clonazepam as a third line treatment option as the use of clonazepam is still investigational.
On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
Comb printers, also called line matrix printers, represent the third major design.
A third line is planned to connect Phnom Penh with Vietnam, the last missing link of the planned rail corridor between Singapore and the city of Kunming, China.
One starts by deleting the open middle third (, ) from the interval, leaving two line segments:
*, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1783
*, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1823
Tramlink runs on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated track in public roads, and off-street track consisting of new rights-of-way, former railway lines, and one section of alignment, though not track, shared with a third rail electrified Network Rail line.
Classes within Chinese society were not closed, and imperial China had not been aristocratic since the third century BCE because of " the meritocratic line in Confucian thinking would eventually find realization under the empire in the remarkable Chinese civil service examination.
The first line represents the subject, the second the author ( and perhaps title ), the third and fourth dates of editions, indications of translations, and critical works on particular books or authors.
On the third line a capital Y indicates a work about the author or book represented by the first two lines, and a capital E ( for English — other letters are used for other languages ) indicates a translation into English.
Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).

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