The fact that Moshood Abiola ( a Southern Muslim ) was able to secure a national mandate freely and fairly remains unprecedented in Nigeria's history.

If van der Heul was indeed of African ancestry, this fact would make him the highest ranking black pirate so far identified.

It is missing only one fact: The ranking order of the original Knights Templar, plus one discovered in an ancient Xanadu manuscript.

However, even at that time the anomalously low luminosity ( the absolute magnitude would have been 18. 5 ) and high uncertainty in the parallax suggested that it was in fact somewhat farther away, still one of the Sun's nearest neighbors but not nearly as high in the ranking in order of distance.

As the highest ranking survivor aboard the ship ( despite being a hologram ), Rimmer often deludes himself into believing that he is in charge and that he has somehow been moulding " his " crew into an effective spacegoing unit, despite the fact that the others tend to take suggestions from Lister or Kryten in a crisis.

This phenomenon has been explained by the fact that prominent party members control the ranking of candidates on party lists for elections and a candidate's place on a list determines whether or not he or she is elected.

As the ranking Army officer, Kearny claimed command of California at the end of hostilities despite the fact that California was brought under U. S. control by Commodore Stockton's Pacific Squadron's forces.

Contrary to common perception, scaling is not based on the difficulty of the subject, as each study score is in fact a ranking.

In point of fact, Harman had been the ranking Democrat on the House committee prior to the 2006 election, making her the most likely appointee.

It has been suggested that in fact this ranking understates the extent of the problem due to the difficulties of assessing deprivation in dispersed rural populations, and the socially and economically polarised nature of rural communities.

Nawbab was also the rank title — again not an office — of a much lower class of Muslim nobles — in fact retainers — at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar State, ranking only above Khan bahadur and Khan, but under ( in ascending order ) Jang, Daula, Mulk, Umara and Jah ; the equivalent for Hindu courtiers was Raja Bahadur.

She played one of her best matches in 2009 by beating Serena Williams in a thriller three sets match, by 6 – 4, 3 – 6, 7 – 6 ( 5 ), in the third round despite the fact that Williams was just about to snitch back the World No. 1 ranking from Dinara Safina the following week due to the Russian's second round loss.

However, there have been rare historical circumstances in which a diplomatic post, formally ranking as chargé d ' affaires, was in fact employed in a more significant colonial role, as commonly held by a Resident.

During her reign, Anna relied heavily on Ernst Johann von Biron ( her longtime adviser and lover ), making many refer to her reign as “ Bironovshchina ” ( Biron ’ s repressive regime ) Together, they repealed Peter I ’ s legislature which prohibited nobles dividing up their estates amongst their sons while similarly reducing the nobility ’ s state service requirements Many associate her reign as a time of foreign domination, particularly German, in the court However, this mainly stems from the fact that a few Germans had high ranking positions During her reign, Anna remained involved in external conflicts.

This was largely contributed to the fact that Foodstuffs ' private brand Budget is lacking in many categories, which meant the more expensive Pams private brand was used-resulting in many prices ranking above Progressive Enterprises ' Home Brand.

Sales rose to 22, 209 units in 1959, the Metropolitan's best-selling year, promoting it to second place behind Volkswagen in sales of cars imported to the U. S. American Motors ' advertising " made much " of this ranking, while it omitted the fact that the Volkswagen outsold the Metropolitan by 5½ to 1.

However, a week later the Los Angeles Times quoted a high ranking intelligence official who claimed that U. S. special forces were in fact inserted in a European country allied with the United States through NATO, in order to carry out a snatch operation under strikingly similar circumstances to the Krekar case.

In fact, in a business solution, it is very normal to search multiple UDDI registries or WSIL documents and then aggregate the returned result by using filtering and ranking techniques.

A small consolation in this time period was the fact that, due to Nadia Petrova failing to defend her title at Paris in 2007, she climbed a spot to a career high ranking of 12.

While the Children appear to be a fervent religious order-and, in fact, some of the low ranking members may not even be privy to the more sinister reason behind the cult's existence-in reality, the Children and Morpheus are simply a front that the Master uses to advance his plan for the future of mankind: " The Unity ".

When the list was adjusted to account for the fact that goalies and defensemen are traditionally overlooked for the Hart, Kennedy's ranking even improved to # 8.

According to one gay magazine, Poland is one of the 10 " anti-gay countries in the world ", ranking at number eight ( despite the fact that homosexuality is criminalised in over 70 countries around the world, while not in Poland ).

In fact, in several countries, achieving a high ranking in any ISO guarantees access to a university of choice and a fellowship.

His high ranking and the fact that he was playing in the 2011 world championship Candidates tournament suggested that Aronian was a hot favorite for winning the title from Anand.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.

Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

In fact, modern scholarly opinion in the main has not retreated all the way back to the destructive scepticism of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

No good can come of contemplating the sad, inevitable fact that once youth has passed `` a worse and worse time still succeeds the former ''.

He has shown considerable ingenuity in adapting his earliest symbols and devices to the new work, and the fact that he has kept a body of constant symbols through all of his experiments gives an unexpected continuity to his poetry.

They insisted on the `` fundamental fact '' that `` the whole of Berlin has a quadripartite status ''.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

In fact, over the years, the American farmer's capacity to over-produce has cost the taxpayers a large dollar.

But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem.