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Take the case of Major Marcus A. Reno, who survived the Battle of The Little Big Horn in 1876.
The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.
In the case of the San Andreas fault continental transform, many earthquakes occur away from the plate boundary and are related to strains developed within the broader zone of deformation caused by major irregularities in the fault trace ( e. g., the " Big bend " region ).
Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.
Occasionally, this leads to bizarre acts of violence, such as in the case of Big Lurch, a former rapper who claimed his room mate was the devil and ate part of her lung.
A well-known example of a reality-competition show is the globally syndicated Big Brother, in which cast members live together in the same house, with participants removed at regular intervals by either the viewing audience or, in the case of the American version, by the participants themselves.
Source and victim are usually electronic hardware devices, though the source may be a natural phenomenon such as a lightning strike, electrostatic discharge ( ESD ) or, in one famous case, the Big Bang at the origin of the Universe.
For a few years during the mid-1990s, observations suggested that this might be the case, causing astrophysicists to talk about a Big Bang nucleosynthetic crisis, but further observations were consistent with the Big Bang theory.
However, if a player chooses to draw so that 11 cards fit into melds, he or she can declare Big Gin in which case the player receives a Big Gin bonus of 31 points ( or another established amount ) plus any deadwood in the opponent's hand.
As might be expected, all this cannibalizing — especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by literally cutting and pasting paper — sometimes resulted in a plot that had a few loose ends ; in the case of the Big Sleep there is the famous story of who killed the chauffer.
Furthermore, both Brigham Young University and the University of New Mexico, then in the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ), were also considered for membership in the new conference ; in anticipation of this possibility, the new conference trademarked not only the name " Big 12 " but also the name " Big 14 ", in case of future expansion.
Another episode, " The Big Trio " ( July 3, 1952 ), detailed three cases in one episode, including reckless and dangerous ( in this case, fatal ) driving by unlicensed juveniles.
The case was made the subject of a song by Big Black titled " Jordan, Minnesota ", which appears on the album Atomizer.
Some artists, such as the J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, had their careers cut short by death ( in the Big Bopper's case, in a fatal plane crash that also killed two other musicians ), while others, such as New Radicals broke up immediately after their one hit.
In May 2011, during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival to promote The Big Fix, a documentary produced by Fonda and Tim Robbins which examined the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its impact on the Gulf of Mexico, Fonda stated that he had eviscerated President Barack Obama in a letter over the spill, calling him a " fucking traitor " for allowing " foreign boots on our soil telling our military — in this case the Coast Guard — what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do .’"
BBV moved away from characters-who-might-be-the-Doctor ( a field that, in any case, lost some of its appeal for fan audiences once Big Finish Productions began producing officially licensed Doctor Who audio dramas featuring the original actors reprising their incarnation of the character ) and, following the success of the Auton trilogy, focussed more on stand-alone dramas featuring various Doctor Who alien races, licensed directly from the writers who created them.
In other cases zaibatsu are used simply to provide the background for a character from an influential family, such as in the case of the F4 in Boys Before Flowers who are the sons and heirs of the four ( fictional ) biggest corporations in Japan ; this is a reference to the Big Four.
Corporate culture can be found as a cause of injuries and be a reason for fining companies in US like in the case of U. S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration that fined of $ 10, 825, 368 Performance Coal Co. in April 2010, the largest fine in agency history, following its investigation of explosion at the Upper Big Branch-South Mine, operated by Performance Coal Co., a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co.
In the case of Sony BMG, there existed a " Big Five " ( now " Big Four ") of major record companies, while The CW's creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the " Big Four " of American network ( terrestrial ) television ( this despite the fact that the CW was, in fact, partially owned by one of the Big Four in CBS ).

case and two
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
( There are two receivers in case one should be dropped and damaged.
In a recent book called `` World Peace Through World Law '', two distinguished lawyers, Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, call for just such an overhaul of the U.N., basing their case on the world-wide fear of a nuclear holocaust.
In case of a deadlock between prison boards and inmates, a federal arbitration board to include a `` lifer '' and two escapees should decide the issue.
Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.
Another less ambiguous case read as follows: `` The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.
For if such were the case, either the plane of the two lines would meet **zg in more than K points or, alternatively, the order of the image regulus of the pencil determined by the two lines would be too high.
Continuing with the case in which **zg is a Af curve on a quadric Q, we first observe that the second regulus of Q consists precisely of the lines which join the two free intersections of **zg and the planes through any one of the multiple secants.
When, as in this case, the two forms match, the address Af is saved to represent the occurrence Af.
The Court, nevertheless, relied on the Seaboard case and also mentioned that the shareholders of the two corporations were the same.
In the two other cases he ruled that the state had been `` unable to make a case ''.
Soon after Loper leaked the news that Frankie had ordered `` two of everything '' just `` in case he spills anything '', Frankie got so mad at the chic designer that he vowed he would not wear a stitch of Loper clothing.
two of those poetic adagios in Greek veils ( and superb esthetic acrobacy ) by Alla Osipenko and Igor Chernishev in one case and Inna Zubkovskaya and Yuri Kornevey in the other ; ;
So British subjects voluntarily naturalized in a foreign state are deemed aliens from the time of such naturalization, unless, in the case of persons naturalized before the passing of the act, they have declared their desire to remain British subjects within two years from the passing of the act.
Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna ’ s farewell performance won ’ t be in it with yours, Poirot.
A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!
Some convictions triggered an automatic penalty, but where this was not the case the two litigants each proposed a penalty for the convicted defendant and the jury chose between them in a further vote.
For example a two dimensional array with three rows and four columns might provide access to the element at the 2nd row and 4th column by the expression: ( in a row major language ) and ( in a column major language ) in the case of a zero-based indexing system.
The other two are more interesting, both essentially being my father is MLK, with MLK being the reference found elsewhere in the Bible in prohibitions such as do not pass your children through the fire to MLK, in which case the following possibilities arise:
The death penalty was the automatic sentence by North Carolina law at the time, if two requisites in the case were satisfied.
Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian, have two cases to mark objects, the accusative and the partitive case.
A legal case was filed against two of the Church's leaders, Hans Bogers ( one of the original founders of the Dutch Santo Daime community ) and Geraldine Fijneman ( the head of the Amsterdam Santo Daime community ).
In the first case two cracks can be initiated and in the second only one crack can propagate.

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