Samuel reacted to the Byzantine campaign with a daring stroke ; he launched a large-scale raid into the heart of Byzantine Thrace and surprised the major city of Adrianople.

Former Australian Test batsman Jack Fingleton described Harvey's innings as " a superb century, rich in youthful daring and stroke production ".

The Praetorians placed Claudius on the throne, daring the Senate to oppose their decision.

" On the tactical level, Kenneth Pollack notes that Egypt ’ s commandos performed " adequately " though they rarely ventured in risky operations on par with the daring of Israel ’ s commandos.

In a message sent to all officers in early 1940, Raeder exclaimed: " The great aim of the Führer has set forth for the German nation requires the utmost exertion in all places ... A navy which undertakes daring actions against the enemy and suffers losses through this will be reborn on an even larger scale.

But his comrades and superiors, without being much attached to him, recognized his keen intelligence, his retentive memory, his remarkable capacity for work ; he was known as a well-informed officer, a daring and vigorous horseman, with decided opinions, which he knew how to set forth skillfully and to uphold under discussion.

In the winter of 1859-60, Scammon, again in the bark Ocean Bird, along with several other vessels, performed a similar feat of daring by entering San Ignacio Lagoon to the south where he discovered the last breeding lagoon.

Jimmy Buffett references a run-in he had with Pusser in the lyrics of two of his songs: " Presents to Send You " (" But my last little bout / I had my hair pulled out / by a man who really wasn't my friend ") and " Semi-True Stories " (" A walkin ' tall sheriff / and a big Cadillac / and me in my golf shoes / on the hood makin ' tracks / this daring young singer / was under attack ").

Monck at first refused to make available some of his small number of sloops, as they were needed to move supplies ; when he at last found the captain of the Matthias willing to assist, Pett answered that it was too late as he was busy sinking the blockships and there was no pilot to be found daring to take such a risk anyway.

During his last decade he not only wrote more serious, even sombre music, but experimented with chromaticism in a daring manner surpassed only by Gesualdo.

Paifu makes a daring rescue by learning flight at the last minute and saves Maruyama and himself from immediate death.

No remedy remains but to leave the black earth, and hasten down to the sands of Atbara ; and there they remain, while the rains last, this cruel enemy not daring to pursue them further.

Goodwin's work on Manhunter, in which he both updated an obscure Golden Age hero, and, in the series ' last episode, took the daring approach of killing him off ( one of the few comic book deaths that has actually " taken " and not been reversed or retconned away in the decades since it occurred ) is very well regarded by both fans and other comics professionals, winning a number of Shazam Awards.

Nelson Piquet ( Benetton-Ford ) won his second F1 GP in a row having won the previous race in Japan, but the driver of the race was Ferrari's Nigel Mansell who set numerous lap records chasing both Senna and late in the race in his pursuit of his former Williams team mate Piquet only to finish 2nd by 3 seconds after a daring passing move on the last lap at the hairpin at the end of the Brabham Straight just missed taking both cars out.

Afterwards, during the heat of Star Dust's initial outing, Daba and Gavlet board Giwaza's ship for one last attempt to rescue Olibee, and after a daring duel with Giwaza Olibee is finally rescued as the two make their escape.

Roger Ebert praised " The Talent Given Us " as " one of the most original, daring, intriguing, and honest films of the year ," while 2004 CineVegas juror Wendy Mitchell, writing about the film for indieWIRE last year, said that the movie " could qualify as the bravest movie I have ever seen.

The highlight of this week long festival is watching bulls run down the main street Marqués de Campo, only to be chased into the Mediterranean sea by those daring enough to enter a makeshift bull ring with them.

-- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''.

" We bring you the circus — that Pied Piper whose magic tunes lead children of all ages, from 6 to 60, into a tinseled and spun-candied world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter ; whirling thrills ; of rhythm, excitement and grace ; of daring, enflaring and dance ; of high-stepping horses and high-flying stars.

The competition between Holly and Sebastian for the center ring develops into a romantic triangle as well, with both Sebastian and Brad vying for Holly as the aerialists ' acts become increasingly daring and dangerous.

Britain's first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941 when, what was then known as II Special Air Service ( some 37 men of 500 trained in No. 2 Commando plus three Italian interpreters ), parachuted into Italy to blow up an aqueduct in a daring raid named Operation Colossus.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

Valjean was assigned a new number of 9430, but escapes from a sailing vessel after only a few months ' imprisonment, on the 16. 11. 1823, by apparently falling into the sea after a daring rescue of a sailor who had gotten stuck in a dangerous situation up in the ship's rigging.

The barbarian incursions into the Empire were becoming more and more daring and frequent whereas the Empire was facing a serious economic crisis in Decius ' time.

Even after stereo became standard and into the 1970s, Decca boasted a special, spectacular sound quality, characterised by aggressive use of the highest and lowest frequencies, daring use of tape saturation and out-of-phase sound to convey a lively and impactful hall ambiance, plus considerable bar-to-bar rebalancing by the recording staff of orchestral voices, known as " spotlighting.

:"... demonstrates a great facility and even felicity, with occasional daring excursions into dodecaphony.

In the meantime he had travelled around the world: Russia and Central Asia ( 1888-9 ), a long tour of Persia ( September 1889-January 1890 ), Siam, French Indochina and Korea ( 1892 ), and a daring foray into Afghanistan and the Pamirs ( 1894 ), and published several books describing central and eastern Asia and related policy issues.

He accused Aristarchus of impiety for daring to put into motion " the hearth of the universe " ( i. e. the Earth ).

In 1711 St Omer, on the verge of surrendering because of famine, was saved by the daring of Jacqueline Robin, who risked her life to bring provisions into the town.

Greatly daring, he even rescues love from the convention which had made it the prerogative of the nobly born ; contrasts the titles " woman " ( wîp ) and " lady " ( froûwe ) to the disadvantage of the latter ; and puts the most beautiful of his lyrics — Unter der linden — into the mouth of a simple girl.

At Badajoz, a month later, the successful storming of the fortress was due to his daring self-reliance and penetration in converting the secondary attack on the castle, delivered by the 3rd Division, into a real one.

But Dumouriez, who had been training his raw troops at Valenciennes in constant small engagements, with the purpose of invading Belgium, now threw himself into the Argonne by a rapid and daring flank march, almost under the eyes of the Prussian advance guard, and barred the Paris road, summoning Kellermann to his assistance from Metz.

Another French success was the daring expedition into Germany made by Custine from Alsace.

The next generation took the young art form into more daring and sophisticated directions, with such creative musical virtuosos as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Red Allen.

The Novatianists suffered perhaps even more fearfully than the orthodox and some of them were stung into a desperate resistance: those of Constantinople removing the materials of their church to a distant suburb of the city ; those at Mantinium in Paphlagonia daring to face the imperial soldiers sent to expel them from their home.

“ Like the feminine garb, the feminine intellect has this advantage over the masculine, that its possessor by a single daring movement can rise above all the prejudices of civilization and bourgeois conventionality, at once transporting herself into the state of innocence and the lap of Nature ".

Eliot also alludes to the lines near the end of Marvell's poem, " Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball ," with his lines, " To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question ," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an act of daring would have been worth it.

Gradually, dancing became more daring, with men lifting the ballerinas into the air.

I discern no limits to a faith vested in God and Christ, who is the sum of all wisdom and knowledge, and daring to trust Him even though called to stand alone before the world.

Now to the Christian, the Jew is the incomprehensibly obdurate man who declines to see what has happened ; and to the Jew, the Christian is the incomprehensibly daring man who affirms in an unredeemed world that its redemption has been accomplished.

The German juristic world was still under the dominating influence of the Savigny cult, and the older school looked askance at the daring of the young professor, who attempted to adapt the old to new exigencies and to build up a system of natural jurisprudence.

Another of his shows is Sekai Marumie (" The World Exposed "), a weekly collection of various interesting video clips from around the world, often focusing on the weird aspects of other countries, and with a regular section on daring rescues, taken from the American program Rescue 911.

Professional illusionist David Avadon featured pickpocketing as his trademark act for more than 30 years and promoted himself as " a daring pickpocket with dashing finesse " and " the country's premier exhibition pickpocket, one of the few masters in the world of this underground art .".

Built on the request of Innocent XII and created by Francesco De Sanctis in the eighteenth century, this daring architectural feat with its ramps and stairs that intersect and open out like a fan definitively provided a solution for connecting the square and the Trinità Church above, providing the city with a particularly intriguing attraction that is adored by tourists from all over the world.

Built in only three years ( 103 – 105 AD ) by the famous architect Apollodorus of Damascus, the bridge was considered the most daring work in the Roman world.

With a rare clarity of spirit and penetrating vision, he captures and conveys with poetic daring the climate of dissolution and the impasses of his generation, as well as the traumas of his own inner spiritual world.

While he upholds what he calls the great achievements of these revolutions and what he claims they have proven in terms of the possibility of people being able to create a better world, at the same time Avakian has been developing new thinking which he characterizes as real ruptures with elements of the past understanding and experience, a synthesis which he describes as reviving the " viability and, yes, the desirability of a whole new and radically different world, and placing this on an ever firmer foundation of materialism and dialectics … a source of hope and of daring on a solid scientific foundation.

At the time, the thought of using a mid-engine layout in a production car was quite daring, although the design was common in the world of sports car racing.

As of 1904, Flagler started what everybody considered a folly: the extension of the FEC to Key West which would later be known as the Overseas Railway, at the time considered the eighth wonder of the world and surely the most daring infrastructure ever built exclusively with private funds.

Disgusted with how far the leaderless Decepticons had fallen as they eked out a miserable existence on the barren world of Chaar, Cyclonus resolved to locate Galvatron, daring even to enter Unicron's deactivated, disembodied head and replaying its memory banks, tracing Galvatron to the world of Thrull.

The Dome of Soltaniyeh paved the way for more daring Iranian-style cupola constructions in the Muslim world, such as the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi and the Taj Mahal.

*" A daring fellow is the jewel of the world ...." — Michael Flaherty

Throughout the world, some daring male bathers did not wear a top.

Actress Yoon Yeo-jeong, a constant collaborator, has said of Im, " Many actors shy away from working with him because he is provocative and daring, but that is how he views the world.

The novel culminates in a daring attack on the Imperial stronghold of Borleias, the first step in an invasion of the capital world Coruscant.

The novel culminates in a daring attack on the Imperial stronghold of Borleias, the first step in an invasion of the capital world Coruscant.

Her daring stunts made her famous, and she took her act around the world, including Germany, France, Britain, Australia, and Indonesia.

J. Pierrepont Finch is a much more " cuddly betrayer ... and audiences were less willing to confront Wholesale's unflinching portrayal of Harry's little world of " men and ulcers on parade "... that shouldn't detract from the fact that it was a daring and distinctive musical.