In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a 3 1 / 2 out of four stars, calling it " an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.

An annotated argument supporting Fessenden as the world's first radio broadcaster was offered in 2006 by Dr. John S. Belrose, Radioscientist Emeritus at the Communications Research Centre Canada, in his essay " Fessenden's 1906 Christmas Eve broadcast.

Examples of typical projects are sponsoring youth athletic leagues, scholarship essay and speech contests and supporting local schools.

Phoenix of cityofangel. com declared Connor's return as “ triumphant ”, saying this “ shy, sweet, happy young man ” is the kid Angel always wanted, and “ for the audience, a version of the character finally worth liking and supporting .” Roz Kaveney, in his essay " A Sense of the Ending: Schrödinger's Angel ," praised the new Connor as a “ heroic youth ”.

The essay accused these writers of participating in an " onslaught against Zionism and the Jewish State ," which he considered a veiled form of supporting a rise in anti-Semitism.

" Aaronovitch also criticized Atzmon for circulating an essay by Paul Eisen defending Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel and supporting many aspects of Zündel's Holocaust denial theories.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The head is mounted on a horizontal arm that swivels on the supporting column to position the drill bit instead of the work.

Now Teng on the contrary possesses granaries and treasuries, so the ruler is supporting himself by oppressing the people ’.

Accordingly, Ahmed spent his wealth instead on supporting the works of scholars, calligraphers and pious men.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

This would eliminate the need for more ports on the back of the machine, and allowed for the elimination of expansion slots for supporting more complex devices ( the Atari 8-bit family used a similar solution, known as SIO ).

However, this left many universities with the problem of supporting IP on their many LocalTalk-equipped Macs.

The Aster used 64KB of RAM memory and had the unique feature of supporting two fundamentally different internal architectures: when turned on without a boot floppy or with a TRS-DOS floppy, the Aster would be fully TRS-80 compatible, with 48KB or RAM.

Also inscribed, on the shorter sides of the four supporting columns, are the names of the major victorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

As the two couples began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the girls ' voices convinced the songwriters to model their ' group ' on the like of MOR acts Blue Mink, Middle of the Road and The Sweet.

Initially, BASIC concentrated on supporting straightforward mathematical work, with matrix arithmetic support from its initial implementation as a batch language and full string functionality being added by 1965.

EFI booting has been supported in only Microsoft Windows versions supporting GPT, the Linux kernel 2. 6. 1 and later, and Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs.

However, they remained sitting on the government benches supporting it in Parliament, though in the country local Liberal activists bitterly opposed the government.

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus (" the King of Thieves ") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.

With most Bolshevik leaders either supporting Bogdanov or undecided by mid-1908 when the differences became irreconcilable, Lenin concentrated on undermining Bogdanov's reputation as a philosopher.

The Rolling Stones, still barely known outside London at that time, appeared as a supporting act on the same bill.

Of particular note is the endemic type of humid subtropical laurel forest of macaronesian laurisilva, found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the North Atlantic and Macaronesian African mainland enclaves, namely Madeira Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands, a relict of the Pliocene subtropical forests, supporting numerous endemic species.

O ' Higgins insisted on supporting that campaign because he realized that Chilean independence would not be secure until the Spaniards were routed from the Andean core of the empire.

The city is built on marshy islands, with wooden piles supporting the buildings, so that the land is man-made rather than the waterways.

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

However, deteriorating relations between Britain and the USSR and Britain's economic reliance on America steered policy towards supporting America.

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

Gabriel's assistant, sidekick, and sometime romantic interest Grace Nakimura is a major supporting character in Sins of the Fathers.

Although the majority of his motion picture career was spent in supporting roles, he starred alongside John Carradine in Isle of Forgotten Sins ( 1943 ), which was re-issued as Monsoon.

He suspended Father William DuBay, who had called for McIntyre's removal in 1964 for not sufficiently supporting.

He suspended Father William DuBay, who had called for McIntyre's removal in 1964 for not sufficiently supporting civil rights movement, after the latter advocated a labor union for Catholic priests and published a book sharply critical of the Catholic Church hierarchy.

In that same year, movie audiences saw him in supporting roles in the films McLintock !, Palm Springs Weekend and The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

The supporting cast includes Robert Young ( Jim Anderson on " Father Knows Best ", and Marcus on " Marcus Welby, MD "), Robert Stack (" The Untouchables ( 1959 TV series )"), Frank Morgan ( Professor Marvel and the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz ), Dan Dailey, Ward Bond ( Bert the Cop on " It's a Wonderful Life "), Maria Ouspenskaya, William T. Orr, and Bonita Granville, who was the first actress to play Nancy Drew onscreen.

During Father Le Loutre's War, the Acadians at Grand Pre played a significant role in supporting the Acadian Exodus out of mainland Nova Scotia, which started in 1749.

Like Euripides, both Aeschylus and Sophocles created comic effects contrasting the heroic with the mundane but they employed minor supporting characters for that purpose whereas the younger poet was more insistent, using major characters too.

Volstagg, a comic book character that appears as a supporting character in Marvel Comics ' version of Thor, was created as a Falstaff-type character.

Shang-Chi returned as a main character in the 2007 Heroes for Hire comic book, and both he and several characters of his supporting cast appear in that year's Wisdom miniseries.

Basses have a long history in opera, having been used in opera seria in supporting roles, and sometimes for comic relief ( as well as providing a contrast to the preponderance of high voices in this genre ).

The Inspector Clouseau character plays only a supporting role as Lytton's incompetent antagonist, and provides slapstick comic relief.

Gideon Goat or Giddy Goat is an anthropomorphic goat, a supporting character in the Mickey Mouse comic strips of the 1930s.

Horace has never really been more than a supporting character, though he has starred in numerous European comic book stories of his own.

Proinsias Cassidy, the supporting lead male in Garth Ennis's comic book series Preacher ( DC / Vertigo, 1995 ), is a vampire of Irish origin.

The Jordans were experts at transforming the ethnic humor of vaudeville into more rounded comic characters, no doubt due in part to the affection felt for the famous supporting cast members who voiced these roles, including Bill Thompson ( as the Old Timer and Wimple ), Harold Peary ( as Gildersleeve ), Gale Gordon ( as LaTrivia ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( as Dr. Gamble ; Bryan also voiced Elmer Fudd for the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, which also borrowed lines from Fibber McGee and Molly from time to time ), Isabel Randolph ( as Mrs. Uppington ), Marlin Hurt ( a white male who played in dialect the McGee's maid, Beulah ), and others.

The show was set in a fictional summer camp run by Candy, featured his two children in supporting roles, and also spawned a brief comic book series published by Marvel Comics ' Star Comics imprint.

Supergirl ( Kryptonian name Kara Zor-El ) plays a supporting role in various DC Comics publications, including Action Comics, Superman, and several comic book series unrelated to Superman.

The modern Kara Zor-El stars as Supergirl in an eponymous comic book series, in addition to playing a supporting role in various other DC Comics publications.

The independent comic Elf-Thing featured not only Cornelius but members of his supporting cast in a very close homage.

Ackbar played a supporting role in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, and later became a prominent character in the novels, comic books and other media of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

In addition to supporting roles in a number of novels and comic books, Oz is central to the comic book trade paperback Oz ( 2001 ) and the novel Oz: Into the Wild ( 2002 ).

Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional character that started as a supporting player in the comic story Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own series, which is entitled Anderson: Psi-Division.

Mary Jane Watson, often shortened to MJ, is a fictional supporting character appearing originally in Marvel comic books and later in multiple spin-offs and dramatizations of the Spider-Man titles as the best friend, love interest, and one-time wife ( as Mary Jane Watson-Parker ) of Peter Parker, the alter ego of Spider-Man.

* Hojo, a supporting character in comic strip Mandrake the Magician

Aside from this, supporting characters like Bolivar Trask, Nick Fury, Captain America, Destiny, Agatha Harkness, and Amanda Sefton were all taken from the X-Men comic, usually serving to homage to originals without necessarily staying completely faithful to their form.

The Marvel comic books based on the show also add a supporting character to him: his niece Vanna, on whom Duckula has a crush.

* Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic about a boy's surreal dreams, includes a supporting character named " King Morpheus.

She is an active participant and the driving force of the school's newspaper. The animated Frieda is made as only a supporting character, as opposed to her comic counterpart, in which she plays Gear's role as Virgil's best friend / confidant / and unofficial sidekick to his Static persona.

This meant utilizing Titania-and her husband Auberon-as supporting characters for most of his run on the comic, which in turn meant frequent visits and explorations to Faerie.

Due to the unavailability of Harvey Korman ( who, ironically, had been under contract to ABC since he had left Burnett's show in 1977 ), comic actors Kenneth Mars and Craig Richard Nelson were added to the supporting cast, thereby joining Lawrence and Conway.