In this first phase of his career, Lang alternated between art films such as Der Müde Tod (" The Weary Death ") and popular thrillers such as Die Spinnen (" The Spiders "), combining popular genres with Expressionist techniques to create an unprecedented synthesis of popular entertainment with art cinema.

This first grand final in the VFA between two previously undefeated teams, Geelong and South Melbourne, stimulated unprecedented public interest.

The company's breakout product was 1992's Wolfenstein 3D, a first person shooter ( FPS ) with smooth 3D graphics that were unprecedented in computer games, and with violent game play that many gamers found engaging.

The first such honour ever bequeathed on an illustrator or cartoonist, his fellows saw his knighting coming as gratitude for “ raising what had been a fairly lowly profession to an unprecedented level of respectability .” With knighthood, Tenniel elevated the social status of the black and white illustrator, and sparked a new sense of recognition of and occupational honour to his lifelong profession.

His first order of business, after changing the team's name and jerseys, was to sign Joe Namath to an unprecedented contract.

This was not wholly unprecedented ; Hürrem Sultan, who established herself in the early 1530s as the successor of Nurbanu, the first Valide Sultan, was described by the Venetian Baylo Andrea Giritti as " a woman of the utmost goodness, courage and wisdom " even though she " thwarted some while rewarding others ".

Alfonso VI was first and foremost a tactful monarch who chose to understand the kings of taifa and employed unprecedented diplomatic measures to attain political feats before considering the use of force.

The phonograph patent, in contrast, was unprecedented as describing the first device to record and reproduce sounds.

This powerful and unprecedented statement from the Hall of Fame podium was " a first crack in the door that ultimately would open and include Paige and Gibson and other Negro League stars in the shrine.

Indeed, in the period immediately after his death, Mozart's reputation rose substantially: Solomon describes an " unprecedented wave of enthusiasm " for his work ; biographies were written ( first by Schlichtegroll, Niemetschek, and Nissen ; see Biographies of Mozart ); and publishers vied to produce complete editions of his works.

The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts with the Klingons, Andorians, and Romulans.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

VW announced the end of production in June 2003, citing decreasing demand, and the final original Type 1 VW Beetle ( No. 21, 529, 464 ) rolled off the production line at Puebla, Mexico, on 30 July 2003 – 65 years after its original launch and unprecedented 58-year production run ( counting from 1945, the year VW recognizes as the first year of non-Nazi funded production ).

President Joel's nomination as president was unprecedented and considered by some to be controversial, because he is the first president of YU who is not a rabbi.

Although it was England's first ever defeat in a World Cup or European Championship qualifying match under Eriksson, it brought his position under unprecedented pressure and he was criticized, both by some fans and by BBC commentators, for his alleged lack of charisma and tactical awareness.

During his tenure, the Philharmonic enjoyed a period of unprecedented success and prosperity and performed its first world premiere written by a world-renowned composer in the United States – Antonín Dvořák's Ninth Symphony " From the New World ".

Warner Bros. gave Moore $ 3 million for distribution license, a very large amount for a first time filmmaker and unprecedented for a documentary.

The band played with a speed and ferocity that was all but unprecedented in rock music ; critic Ira Robbins declared that " Black Flag was, for all intents and purposes, America's first hardcore band.

The years following the construction of this first building brought unprecedented growth, development, and economic prosperity for the young settlement.

In 1976 Thomas was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, in which role the first broadcasting of parliamentary proceedings brought him unprecedented public attention.

The first broadcasting of parliamentary proceedings brought him unprecedented public attention, but he proved more impartial than party colleagues had expected.

In a series of five speeches to the nation in January 1935, Bennett introduced a Canadian version of the " New Deal ," involving unprecedented public spending and federal intervention in the economy.

After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets, of University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract.

The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism.

Willkie centered his presidential campaign around three major themes: the alleged inefficiency and corruption of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, Roosevelt's attempt to win an unprecedented third term as President, and the government's alleged lack of military preparedness.

In 1838, at least twenty-eight Aborigines were murdered at the Myall Creek in New South Wales, resulting in the unprecedented conviction and hanging of seven white settlers by the colonial courts.

Determined to pursue his literary career, in 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $ 10, 000, " an unprecedented sum at the time.

Claiming their rights as well as Schoenfeld's had been violated, the Devils appealed to New Jersey Superior Court judge James F. Madden — an unprecedented appeal to authority outside the league.

The unprecedented appeal of New York salsa, particularly the Fania " sound ," led to its adoption across Latin America and elsewhere.

Although The exception to the code was granted as a " special and unique case " and was described by The New York Times at the time as " an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent ", in his 2008 study of films during that era, Pictures at a Revolution, author Mark Harris wrote that the MPAA's action was " the first of a series of injuries to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years.

In A New Constitution Now ( 1942 ), published during Franklin D. Roosevelt's unprecedented third term as President of the United States, Hazlitt called for the replacement of the existing fixed-term presidential tenure in the United States with a more Anglo-European system of " cabinet " government, under which a head of state who had lost the confidence of the legislature or cabinet might be removed from office after a no-confidence vote in as little as 30 days.

In 2008 it was announced that the Bledisloe Cup would be contested over an unprecedented four matches, with three games played in Australia and New Zealand and a fourth and potentially deciding game in Hong Kong in an effort to promote the game in Asia ( the first time Australia and New Zealand played in a third country outside the World Cup ).

In New Hampshire, the governor has no term limit of any kind, but no governor had served more than three terms since the 18th century ( when the term was for only one year ) until John Lynch won an unprecedented fourth two-year term on November 2, 2010.

The early New Deal also began the Tennessee Valley Authority, an unprecedented experiment in flood control, public power, and regional planning.

The Vietnam War was unprecedented for the intensity of media coverage — it has been called the first television war — as well as for the stridency of opposition to the war by the " New Left ".

In 1999 Sensation toured to The National Galerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in the autumn, and then to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, creating unprecedented political and media controversy and becoming a touchstone for debate about the " morality " of contemporary art.

The New York team ( now called the Jets ) began to draw record crowds, aided by the signing of quarterback Joe Namath to an unprecedented $ 427, 000 contract.

Secondly, Franklin D. Roosevelt desired someone with similar political sensibilities to fill the post and to help convince the American public that the New Deal was working and that he had the right to run for an unprecedented third term in office.

This was almost an unprecedented move in New York State ; in the no fewer than 497 grand jury presentments that had been filed in New York county since 1869, not one had ever been sealed.

" In a key period in late March and early April, as Israel suffered a wave of unprecedented Palestinian terrorism prompting the Israel Defense Forces to respond with incursions into areas under Palestinian Authority control, the New York Times presented a decidedly skewed picture of events.

Such a form of poetry is unprecedented in Arabic or New Persian, but it is part of the Middle Persian ( Pahlavi ) tradition.

In 2002, Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand made an unprecedented move and apologised to Samoa for New Zealand's treatment of Samoans during the colonial era.