On June 15, the last place Chicago White Sox made a flurry of deals.

Because all three of the singers were African American and the frontrunners of the competition, music icon Elton John deemed the voting as " racist ," igniting a flurry of news and speculation over the validity of the voting system.

Aware that the escape of the Dutch fleet into the North Sea at such a vulnerable time could be disastrous for Britain, Duncan maintained position off the Texel for three days during which the wind was ideal for a Dutch foray, and he disguised his two vessels as different ships on each day and ordered the frigate HMS Circe to make a flurry of nonsensical signals to a fictitious British fleet beyond the horizon.

This led to a flurry of interest in hedge funds and within the next three years at least 130 hedge funds were started, including George Soros's Quantum Fund and Michael Steinhardt's Steinhardt Partners.

While it is somewhat difficult to separate the actions of various Red Army and Wehrmacht units within the flurry of movements involved in the larger scope of the Soviet operations, for the most part these below are derived from Glantz and Isayev.

The judgement in CFPH's applications was the first in a flurry of UK court cases since 2005 involving re-consideration by the High Court of patent applications refused by the UK Patent Office.

It is especially used in the last ten or so overs as variation in speed, in addition to line and length, is the key in preventing a late flurry of runs from the batsmen.

Crowe said, " The timekeeper smacked the mat with his hand toward the end of the fight to indicate ten seconds were left, and that's when I went after Greg with one last flurry.

This feature gave Eternal Champions an added element of strategy that made it unique among similar titles of its genre at the time, though it was not without its critics: while its intention was to keep the action fast-paced by preventing fighters from trading endless projectiles from opposite ends of the screen and barring players from cheap wins due to repeated hits on opponents trapped at the edge of the screen, players found they could exploit the game's controls to achieve wins by retreating into a defensive shell to constantly recharge their meter or by circumventing special moves altogether and blitzing their opponent with a flurry of simple button presses.

Murray made a flurry of trades in 2011, after the Senators had fallen out of contention, and promoted many younger players from the team's Binghamton farm club.

The takeover was immediately followed by a flurry of bids for high profile international players such as, Belgian international Émile Mpenza from Sion, Bahodir Nasimov from Rubin Kazan, Macedonians Igor Mitreski and Slavčo Georgievski.

The takeover was immediately followed by a flurry of bids for high profile players.

Although the team is not highlighted in the 1991-92 campaign for the Third, the enthusiasm was sparked by a flurry of good players potosinos as Carlos Arreola, Enrique Lopez Mireles, Jacobo Alonso and Isaiah Romero.

In 2004, a decision to step back involvement in the Tigers ' " leadership group " ( the small group of senior players who help lead the club on and off-field ) and focus on additional strength training paid off, with a flurry of goals in the early part of the season including a career best 10 against the Western Bulldogs.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

The move triggered a flurry of legal activity that ended when representatives of Baltimore and the Colts organization reached a settlement on March 1986 in which all lawsuits regarding the relocation were dismissed, and the Colts would endorse a new NFL team for Baltimore.

It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930.

In one episode, foreigners would appear on stage one by one, hurling a flurry of insults at Letterman in their native languages.

Coalition solidarity manifested, however, when the government rejected the flurry of no-confidence and nonbinding motions initiated by the opposition, such as the one introduced in mid-December that would have held the government responsible for the plummeting living standards.

As broadcast of the fourth season finale approached, there was a flurry of news reports suggesting that the series was coming to an unexpected end, based upon televised promotions for the episode, leaked plot details, and wording of a CTV press release issued on March 6, 2007, that implied that the series finale would air on March 12, 2007.

On the pitch, Portsmouth's late transfer of funds called for a flurry of transfers at the end of the window, including the loan signing of Ivory Coast international Aruna Dindane who would go on to score a hat trick against Wigan Athletic.

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When it was announced in 1903, that the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway would be coming through near Hazelton, another flurry of excitement erupted and hundreds of settlers poured into the district, buying whatever land they could get a hold of.

The Boston Bruins, despite a flurry of offense, sparked by the UKE Line, Slick centre Don McKenney ¸¸ who would lead the NHL in assists while winning the Lady Byng Trophy and versatile Doug Mohns, narrowly missed the playoffs.

Given that many of those most actively involved in early efforts were academics ( drawn from a variety of disciplines including Anthropology, Computing Science, Development Studies, Information Science and Systems, Management, Planning, Sociology, and Social Work among others ) it is only inevitable that a process of " sense-making " with respect to these efforts would follow on quite quickly from the flurry of " tool-making " efforts.

As the 2004 – 2005 term of the Supreme Court ended, there was a flurry of rumors that Rehnquist, who was undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, would soon retire.

Despite a late flurry in the final weeks of the campaign Ballymena just weren't good enough and suffered relegation to the First Division after failing to defeat Portadown at home, when a win would have at least guaranteed another shot at survival in the play-offs.

Kenyon departed his post amid a flurry of speculation that he would replace Garry Cook at Manchester City.

Although a flurry of negotiations took place in the fall of 2005, WTO director-general Pascal Lamy announced in November 2005 that a comprehensive agreement on modalities would not be forthcoming in Hong Kong, and that the talks would “ take stock ” of the negotiations and would try to reach agreements in negotiating sectors where convergence was reported.

In 2008 the oxypnictide or iron-based superconductors were discovered which led to a flurry of work in the hope that studying them would provide a theory of the cuprate superconductors.

The Fraser Gold Rush in what would as a result become the Colony of British Columbia saw a flurry of settlement and merchant activity in northern Puget Sound which gave birth to Port Townsend and Whatcom ( which became ( Bellingham ) as commercial centres, at first attempting to rival Victoria as a disembarkation point of the goldfields until the colony's governor ordered that all access to the Fraser River go via Victoria.

" The phrase sparked a small flurry of letters and calls, almost all in his favor, but Heatter would likely have been inclined to keep it in, anyway.

Other drugs are commonly used to abort an active seizure or interrupt a seizure flurry ; these include diazepam ( Valium, Diastat ) and lorazepam ( Ativan ).

Rybczynski ( 2000 ) describes a flurry of patents for alternative drive types in the 1860s through 1890s in the US, which are confirmed to include internal-wrenching square and triangle types ( that is, square and triangular sockets ) (), but he explains that these were patented but not manufactured due to the difficulties and expense of doing so at the time.

The remarkable components include a missile turret on the back that can shoot out a flurry of mini-missiles that actually explode on impact!

Drawing on the work of a number of string theorists ( including Ashoke Sen, Chris Hull, Paul Townsend, Michael Duff and John Schwarz ), Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study suggested its existence at a conference at USC in 1995, and used M-theory to explain a number of previously observed dualities, initiating a flurry of new research in string theory called the second superstring revolution.

" Chris Barsanti of Filmcritic. com gave a negative review as well, and wrote that the episode is " lost amid a flurry of celebrity walk-ons and lazy jokes.

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

It can cut a red squirrel neatly in two or burst a crow into a flurry of feathers.

Glendora dropped a chicken and a flurry of feathers, and went with her through the drizzle, to the storehouse.

He finished with a flurry of good wishes to Hanford College and signed the letter.

This generated a flurry of interest in the topic, during which Maxwell's classmate Edward John Routh generalized Maxwell's results for the general class of linear systems.

The late twentieth century saw a flurry of creativity and innovation in the Chianti zones as producers experimented with new grape varieties and introduced modern wine-making techniques such as the use of new oak barrels.

The " Carnage " mix was, by comparison, altogether more conventional, featuring enhanced string treatments, a percussive midpoint flurry of vocal samples ( from Allen and the group's B-side interview ), but broadly following the prevailing instrumental-vocal 12-inch structural paradigm.

The era of modern computing began with a flurry of development before and during World War II.

* In 2010, Butler reached their first Final Four as a # 5 seed, beating # 12 seeded UTEP in the first round behind a flurry of 3-pointers, edging out a very good # 13 seed Murray State ( who upset # 4 seed Vanderbilt in the first round ), and then in the Sweet 16, Butler upset # 1 seed Syracuse, and in a thrilling Elite Eight game Butler upset # 2 seed Kansas State.

His reasoning behind this was that the public was not in a position to deconstruct the growing and complex flurry of information present in modern society, and so an intermediary was needed to filter news for the masses.

These " aether-wind " experiments led to a flurry of efforts to " save " aether by assigning to it ever more complex properties, while only few scientists like Emil Cohn or Alfred Bucherer considered the possibility of the abandonment of the aether concept.

Starting in mid-March 1939, the Soviet Union, Britain and France traded a flurry of suggestions and counterplans regarding a potential political and military agreement.

Observant Jews spend the weeks before Passover in a flurry of thorough housecleaning, to remove every morsel of chametz from every part of the home.

From Einstein's simple postulation was born a flurry of debating, theorizing, and testing.

Beginning in the late seventeenth century, France and neighbouring areas saw a flurry of independent missals published by bishops influenced by Jansenism and Gallicanism.

It gained currency in the mid-1990s, when a flurry of articles and books came out on the subject.

The project encouraged a brief flurry of other companies to offer VR products.

As the Rabbis were required to face a new reality — mainly Judaism without a Temple ( to serve as the center of teaching and study ) and Judea without at least partial autonomy — there was a flurry of legal discourse and the old system of oral scholarship could not be maintained.

After a flurry of interest in America following the end of the Second World War, the theremin soon fell into disuse with serious musicians, mainly because newer electronic instruments were introduced that were easier to play.

The introduction of the torpedo boat resulted in a flurry of activity in navies around the world, as smaller, quicker-firing guns were added to existing ships to ward off the new threat.

It also led to a flurry of railway construction that had started under Austrian partronage ( Venice – Milan ; Milan – Monza ) that made Milan the rail hub of northern Italy.

The British fleet's arrival in New York set off a flurry of panic amongst the Loyalist population.