As Kids ' WB shared more and more of its programming with Cartoon Network, because of the 1996 Turner-Time Warner merger and the fact that Cartoon Network was outrating Fox Kids, airing Kids ' WB became financially unattractive as broadcast stations started showing only live-action talk shows and sitcom reruns in the afternoon to compete and go after a different audience, figuring children had all moved to watching cable networks in the afternoons.

During September 1963 the ITA invited new applications for franchises to operate from July 1964 for three years or until the arrival of ITV2, whichever came first ( in the event, " ITV2 ", the second commercial channel, did not begin until 1982, under the guise of Channel 4 ), but in fact no changes were made to any franchise holders at that time, except for confirming the merger of the South Wales and the West franchise held by TWW and the Wales West and North franchise held by WWN following the financial collapse of WWN.

The proposed privatisation and merger with Afriqiyah Airways has also been postponed, despite the fact it was originally planned to be effective in November 2010.

Third Trinity still hold the record for the most wins in the Visitors ' Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta, standing at 14, despite the fact that they've not entered for at least 60 years since the merger.

Ironically, Pete Rozelle is erroneously given credit for the merger, even though he consistently refused to have a game between NFL and AFL champions, and the fact that Rozelle was " out of the loop " when the AFL and NFL owners negotiated the merger.

The fact that the merger took place in Toronto, a region with a lower proportion Conservative MPPs, further polarized the debate on the merit of the merger.

Unlike the aforementioned mergers, however, a NYC merger proved tricky due to the fact that the railroad still operated a fairly extensive amount of regional and commuter passenger services that were under mandates by the Interstate Commerce Commission to maintain.

It is rumoured that the FSA is particularly concerned that the Co-operative bank is still behind schedule in the integration of its IT systems with those of the Britannia Building Society, despite the fact that the merger took place in 2009.

This fact, and the fact that the company headquarters were located in Sogn og Fjordane, has made the merger somewhat unpopular in Møre og Romsdal.

One way to ensure that the contract will be found to be a final and complete integration is through the inclusion of a merger clause, which recites that the contract is, in fact, the whole agreement between the parties.

" In fact there ’ s a misconception that there ’ s a merger between the two parties.

To support his thesis, Rifkin notes that in addition to the EU having more people and a greater Gross Domestic Product than the U. S., the potential of the EU as an economic superpower is shown by having: 14 / 20 of the top banks in the world, 61 of the 140 of the top companies of the world as measure by the Global Fortune 500 ( the U. S. has 50 ), a homicide rate that is 1 / 4 than in the U. S., the 18 most developed countries in Europe all have more broadly distributed wealth than the U. S. ( the U. S. ranks 24th in the world ), higher lifespan than the U. S., higher literacy rates than the U. S., and higher quality of life than the U. S. Also, Europeans provide 47 % of all the humanitarian aid in the world, and are seen by Rifkin as being more effective in global economic market regulation, evidenced by the fact that the EU stopped the merger of General Electric and Honeywell, fined Microsoft for anti-trust, and blocked genetically modified food despite U. S. opposition.

The fact that Brugg and Windisch have grown into one another, along with the close cooperation necessary for the realization of the project " Vision Mitte ," led to calls for the merger of the two communities.

At the time, neither Lugard nor other British administrators, nor Africans, considered Nigeria to constitute a potential national unit-in fact the north and south were considered culturally radically different-and the merger was an economic and administrative convenience.

On 4 July 2011 UWIC pulled out of merger talks with Swansea Metropolitan University and Trinity St David for a new University of Wales citing the fact that it was ‘ dissatisfied with a lack of attention to good governance, due process and administration ( in the University of Wales ).

In fact, the town of Hrazdan was formed through the merger of a group of separate settlements.

In fact the merger was marked by poor communication and intense rivalry, and the two companies generally worked at cross purposes.

After this merger, his compulsion to hunt Rand, Mat and Perrin grew even stronger, aided by the fact that he could already sense where they were.

The European Commission blocked the merger on 1 February 2012, citing the fact that the merged company would have a near monopoly.

In fact, UBS studied the deal and claims that the merger through the stock swap option is a " win-win " situation.

On December 19, 2005, FPL Group, Inc. ( owner of Florida Power and Light ) announced the acquisition of Constellation Energy in a merger transaction valued at more than US $ 11 billion as well as the fact that it would adopt " Constellation Energy " as its name for the post-merger entity.

He was, in fact, showing signs of reviving.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.

The obvious natural fact to ancient thinkers was the diurnal rotation of the heavens.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

One cause of Schopenhauer's pessimism was the fact that he failed to learn the guitar.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.