When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst.

This move to leadership was not unusual ; he was known among his contemporaries to be willing to step forward and take control.

A spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of Unification said the move was " very unusual ".

In an unusual move, a code to unlock the controls was placed in an onboard envelope, for Gagarin's use in case of emergency.

This was an unusual move by Wagner, who almost never set to music poetic texts other than his own.

Nevertheless Garfield, in an unusual move, drew up a report of the council's deliberations, and thus convinced Rosecrans to proceed with an advance against Bragg.

Humans ' ability to move out of reach with the help of others, thus foiling the attack, is unusual for a great white's prey.

The knight move is unusual among chess pieces.

Pawns are unusual in how they move.

Another unusual move is the en passant capture.

The geometrids, also known as inchworms or loopers, are so named because of the way they move, appearing to measure the earth ( the word geometrid means earth-measurer in Greek ); the primary reason for this unusual locomotion is the elimination of nearly all the prolegs except the clasper on the terminal segment.

In an unusual move, the federal council of the FFF appealed the suspension, arguing that the punishment should have been for a minimum of six full months.

Some minerals exhibit unusual optical phenomena, such as asterism ( the display of a star-shaped luminous area ) or chatoyancy ( the display of luminous bands, which appear to move as the specimen is rotated ).

In an unusual move at that time, the Tribune in October 1993 fired its longtime military-affairs writer, retired-Marine David Evans, with the public position that the post of military affairs was being dropped in favor of having a national security writer.

Because of this multi-directional flow, coupled with the fact that sap cannot move with ease between adjacent sieve-tubes, it is not unusual for sap in adjacent sieve-tubes to be flowing in opposite directions.

In November 2006, the Oregonian commissioned an outside editor to investigate the deteriorating relationship, a move the rival Willamette Week called " unusual ".

Unaccustomed to this type of protests, the Mexican Government made an unusual move by asking the United States for assistance, through LITEMPO, a spy-program to inform the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) of the US to obtain information from Mexico.

Sidney Rosenzweig argues that Curtiz did have his own distinctive style, which was in place by the time of his move to America: " high crane shots to establish a story's environment ; unusual camera angles and complex compositions in which characters are often framed by physical objects ; much camera movement ; subjective shots, in which the camera becomes the character's eye ; and high contrast lighting with pools of shadows ".

Children of armed forces members may move around to different military bases or international postings, which gives them an unusual childhood.

Additionally, and in an unusual move, Mr. Bush waived client-attorney privileges so the attorneys could be questioned, with no doubts remaining on the subject.

During the summer it is not unusual to see storms move in from the southwest.

“ In a visit to Paris in January 1961, Barbara … informed Beckett that she intended to move to live permanently ” “ a move which had been discussed more than once with Sam .” His response was unusual.

In an unusual move Marciano returned to the amateur ranks and fought in the Golden Gloves All-East Championship Tournament in March 1948.

Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Interactive, which just started in that time, needed fresh and unusual projects, and TenNapel approached Spielberg with the idea of claymation game, with Spielberg accepting it for publication.

Tracking east from here and past the two Church of England parish churches, both called Saint Mary's ( Stoke Newington strangely decided to retain the old one, unusual in a London parish ), leads to Abney Park Cemetery, one of the most splendid and enlightened of Victorian London cemeteries.

At this point ( 1907 ) a development unusual in British 20th century musical history transformed Brian's life ; whether for better or for worse has never been decided.

After further thought, Anderson decided that " Scarlet " would make an unusual codename for this organisation's " indestructible " agent who can come back to life, while " Blue " could be his partner's designation.

Even though it was considered unusual in his era, he still decided to study the topic of moral judgement following Piaget's footsteps.

A series of fresh depositions were sent in against her, and in June 1679 it was decided that she must stand her trial ; but she was protected by the king, who in this instance showed unusual chivalry and earned her gratitude.

In 1994, President Clinton was looking for a new lawyer as Bernard Nussbaum had resigned, so he decided to hire Lloyd Cutler under unusual terms.

Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman spotted the word printed in the Polish language section of a multi-languaged " Instructions for Use " sheet accompanying a bottle of aspirin, and Kurtzman, who was fascinated with unusual words, decided it would make an appropriate but meaningless background gag.

In an unusual decision, the newly established school decided not to await official recognition and to start its educational programme in September 1974, promising an innovative approach to academic education by adopting a new teaching method known as problem-based learning.

Especially on 13 March many soldiers of all involved forces killed died during fighting, so that a short truce, decided to recover the dead, which was unusual.

This was the very unusual year in which the Orioles had four twenty-game winners in their starting rotation, and their manager, Earl Weaver, decided to continue his usual pitching rotation that had already been established.

They decided to drop the name, and came up with the name Wicked Lester, which Simmons liked because it was unusual.

Having tried to register a number of more conventional company-names and having them rejected as already taken, the founders decided to deliberately create an unusual name in order to ensure that the name was accepted.

With the short notice, Barris thought the Futura might work well, and using Jeffries initial car, decided that its unusual winged shape would be an ideal starting point for the Batmobile.

Colonel Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez promised a reward for his head but the Mapuche decided to defend their unusual ally.

It is highly unusual to base the monitoring team outside of the country where the election is being held, but the observers decided this was necessary for safety reasons.

The wife died soon after but Anna did not forgive Galitzine and decided to punish him in an unusual manner.

William Moultrie noted that the lopsided casualty count was not unusual for similar battles in which one side gained a decided advantage early in a battle.

This was very unusual in the early 20th century but Lillian decided that she would follow her father's example.

" Hayes, Terry " Bam Bam " Gordy, and Buddy " Jack " Roberts decided to form a " three man gang " type of tag-team -- an unusual concept at the time.

The band was so struck by his unusual name that they decided it needed to be saved from obscurity.

With competition from Honda's CBR600F4i, Suzuki's GSX-R600, and Yamaha's YZF-R6 getting more aggressive, Kawasaki decided to make an unusual move for the late 2002 models.

This she does, and settles in for a long stay, having decided that the Garden is full of unusual plants that will take year to catalogue.

Hayes, known as the " First Lady of the American Theater ," was still living at the time, and because of the unusual and embarrassing nature of her having outlived her monument, it was decided to rechristen the Little Theatre in her honor.

In the second hearing, which also took place in 1968, the court did raise the issue but decided that the death penalty was neither cruel nor unusual.