Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.

Thereafter, until the Masters, Player gradually increased his lead over Palmer in winnings and added one more tournament victory at Miami.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

The battle which followed on April 6, 402 ( coinciding with Easter ), was a victory for Rome, though a costly one.

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

A victory in the battle is achieved when one of the opposing sides forces the other to abandon its mission, or to surrender its forces, or routs the other, i. e., forces it to retreat or renders it militarily ineffective for further combat operations.

Because of the open-ended style of boxing judging, many fights have controversial results, in which one or both fighters believe they have been " robbed " or unfairly denied a victory.

In one notable instance, Columba appears to King Oswald of Northumbria, in a dream, and he announced the king ’ s incoming victory against King Catlon.

Fans stormed the field after the victory, carting off the goalposts, ripping off one player's jersey and setting a bonfire in the bleachers.

A highlight of the season was a 22 – 0 victory over the New York Yankees on August 31, one of the worst defeats suffered by the Yankees in team history.

The result was a victory for Constantius, but a costly one.

For particularly severe conduct, the game official ( s ) may eject players ( ejected players may be substituted for ), or in exceptional cases, declare the game over and award victory to one side or the other.

Considered one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time, Earnhardt won a total of 76 races over the course of his career, including one Daytona 500 victory in 1998.

Cloth tokens, in turn, are worth one victory point for each pair obtained.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

Italian Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile in The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism promoted the concept of conflict as an act of progress, stating that " mankind only progresses through division, and progress is achieved through the clash and victory of one side over another ".

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

The English army suffered badly from disease, and Henry was not even present at the one notable victory, the Battle of the Spurs.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.

For example, the strophe, antistrophe and epode of the ode form are often separated into one or more stanzas.

" 100 Miles from Memphis ( released July 20 on A & M Records ), the distance from her hometown to the music mecca, is an ode to her formative memories of music-and one that the label hopes can inspire young music fans to investigate the landscape beyond processed pop and Auto-Tune.

Alternative-country artist Robbie Fulks sings a wistful ode to " That Bangle Girl ", a song identified as one of his " personal favorites ", on his 2000 Very Best album.

Athletic victories achieved by Ceans in panhellenic festivals were recorded at Ioulis on slabs of stone and thus Bacchylides could readily announce, in an ode celebrating one such victory ( Ode 2 ), a total of twenty-seven victories won by his countrymen at the Isthmian Games.

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

and vii., as numbered by Kenyon in the editio princeps ) must be parts of a single ode ( for Lachon of Ceos ) – hence even today the poems can be found numbered differently, with Jebb for example one of those following Blass's lead and numbering the poems differently to Kenyon from poem 8 onwards ( Kenyon 9

On Aigina as one goes toward the mountain of Pan-Greek Zeus, the sanctuary of Aphaia comes up, for whom Pindar composed an ode at the behest of the Aeginetans.

Four of the pieces are written in the hendecasyllabic metre, and there is one Alcaic and one Sapphic ode.

Her best-remembered role is probably Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities ( 1934 ), one of the last pre-Code films, in which she sang an ode to marijuana ( Sweet Marijuana ).

His gift indeed is sufficiently attested by work of his having passed for that of Shakespeare, albeit for only one ode.

On December 6, 1961 Burke recorded one of his best known songs, " Cry to Me ", " an ode to loneliness and desire " " one of the first songs to unify country, gospel and R & B in one package ", that is considered " the paradigm for Southern soul ballads.

In 1974, Scottish comedian Billy Connolly adopted a comical ode to the boot called " The Welly Boot Song " as his theme tune, and it became one of his best-known songs.

The song, titled " Divine ," was an ode to the actor, who was one of Antony's lifelong heroes.

La Harpe has said that the poet, called by his friends, perhaps with a spice of irony, Lebrun-Pindare, had written many fine strophes but not one good ode.

According to the tradition of the Orthodox church, Saint Brigit lost one of her eyes which saved her from being married against her will as related in the first and second troparia of the fourth ode of the canon of the saint from the Orthodox Matins service:

In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero – " Seize the Day, putting as little trust as possible in the future ", and the ode says that the future is unforeseen, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine.

* An appendix by Anwan dated the beginning of summer 1246, presented in the same format as one of the 48 main koans and consisting of ( 1 ) an untitled introduction, ( 2 ) a title, " Younger Brother's 49th Standard Talk ", ( 3 ) the body of the case, ( 4 ) a comment beginning with " Anwan says ", and ( 5 ) a verse beginning with " The ode says ", followed by Anwan's signature with the place and date of the writing.

In group bibliomancy, the dīvān will be opened at random, and beginning with the ode of the page that one chances upon, each ode will be read in the name of one of the individuals in the group.