in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

The problem lies in finding a way to unite the patriarchal theme of divine promise to the primeval history, with its theme of God's continuing mercy in the face of man's sinful nature.

Students and activists for democracy continued their demonstrations and protests for the abolition of the Yushin system and in the face of continuing popular unrest, Park's administration promulgated emergency decrees in 1974 and 1975, which led to the jailing of hundreds of dissidents.

Although the industry has rebounded, the government recognizes the continuing need for upgrading the sector in the face of stiff international competition.

This opposition, however, proved ineffective in the face of continuing and growing popular support for a single overriding concept — independence at an early date.

The steps in the walls help prevent rock falls continuing down the entire face of the wall.

He stabbed McVitie in the face and stomach, driving it deep into his neck, twisting the blade, continuing as McVitie lay on the floor dying.

Steel has been criticised both then and since for not driving a harder bargain ; the opposing case is that the continuing scandal surrounding Thorpe left the party in a very weak state to face an early general election and Steel was wise to buy himself some time from Callaghan.

Pirenne's argument that the long Spanish rule in the Low Countries had little continuing cultural impact has likewise fallen, in the face of new as research since 1970 in the fields of cultural, military, economic, and political history.

In 1839 the government of Upper Canada approved the purchase of shares in the canal company in response to the company's continuing financial problems in the face of the continental financial panic of 1837.

“ In the face of continuing attempts by the fascist provocateurs and the wait-and-see attitude of certain elements of the population the Politburo did not consider it advantageous to terminate martial law ,” the minutes noted.

However, instead of continuing his advance to the Byzantine capital, Simeon quickly withdrew his troops to face a Magyar invasion from the north.

According to Chris Magin, the RSPB's international officer for Africa, " The chance of the lesser flamingoes continuing to breed in the face of such mayhem are next to zero.

The high cost of the series kept it from continuing in the face of budgetary restrictions that were imposed after removing the Fleischers from the studio.

They face many challenges in their relationship, including her discovery of his celibacy vow and Matt's continuing feelings for Nicole.

During a flight from the Cayman Islands to Heathrow Airport, British actress Tracy Shaw, apparently intoxicated, hit her husband, Mr. Ashworth, across the face eight times in the Business Class cabin, just after the Boeing 767 touched down in the Bahamas to refuel before continuing to the UK.

The White Spider tells the story of the first attempts to ascend the Eiger's north face ( called the mordwand or death wall ), beginning with Max Sedlmeyer's and Karl Mehringer's disastrous try in 1935 and continuing to the successful ascent by Kurt Diemberger and Wolfgang Stefan in July 1938.

Theodore Roosevelt, incensed at America ’ s continuing neutrality in the face of Germany's actions — including the sinking of the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania in May 1915, in which 128 Americans drowned — campaigned unsuccessfully on behalf of the 1916 Republican Presidential nominee, Charles Evan Hughes, during which he severely criticized Woodrow Wilson.

In the face of public and political opposition in northern Europe ( including a widespread boycott of Shell service stations, some physical attacks and an arson attack on a service station in Germany ), Shell abandoned its plans to dispose of Brent Spar at sea – whilst continuing to stand by its claim that this was the safest option, both from an environmental and an industrial health and safety perspective.

The club, still known as the Dundalk GNR, and continuing in the black and amber kit from their pre-War origins, travelled to Cork to face Fordsons in their opening match on 21 August 1926.

Ruthenberg was initially supportive of the tactic of continuing to fight " to win the Socialist Party for the Left Wing " at its forthcoming 1919 Emergency National Convention in Chicago, but in the face of federation pressure for immediate formation of a Communist Party of America and the apparently hopeless task faced by Wagenknecht & Co., Ruthenberg shifted his support to the Federations and their call for an immediate Communist Party.

The Oksapmin use a system of counting in which numbers are associated with body parts, starting at one thumb, continuing across the body and face, and ending at the little finger of the other hand.

The United Nations declared 1993 the Year of Indigenous People to highlight the continuing vulnerability of the 300 million aboriginal people in 70 countries as they face a widening spiral of violence.

After another unsuccessful, illuminated rescue attempt, and with his fuel dangerously low and his aircraft significantly damaged, he launched again and commenced another approach in the face of the continuing enemy opposition.

This was due in large part to loose fiscal policies of the Wijdenbosch government, which, in the face of lower Dutch development aid, financed its deficit through credit extended by the central bank.

The impact of the bombing and 40 years of urban development during the East German communist era have considerably changed the face of the city.

The virtual management could be introduced as a part of the virtual human capital development, which has been introduced by Hanandi and Grimaldi 2010, The VHRD model is an approach of utilizing the captured knowledge and information inside the enterprise environment ( top management, external expertise, knowledge worker, workforce ), and leveraging this knowledge to a dynamic T & D e-content for developing and enhancing the human capital competitive advantage, This model focuses on rendering the human capital with the skills needed and driving their performance to face any future situation and solve it, by capturing the knowledge object during the interaction activities between the users and reuse it in producing a dynamic e-content for the training and development purpose and in the same adding value for the enterprise competitive advantage.

Behavioral characteristics may include stereotypic movements ( e. g., hand-flapping ) and atypical social development, particularly shyness, limited eye contact, memory problems, and difficulty with face encoding.

This ship never reached the Old World, and its disappearance stymied New Haven's development in the face of the rising trade power of Boston and New Amsterdam.

There are six steps in development mining: remove previously blasted material ( muck out round ), Scaling ( removing any unstable slabs of rock hanging from the roof and sidewalls to protect workers and equipment from damage ), support excavation, drill rock face, load explosives, and blast explosives.

A part of their mission is to educate people from misconceptions that help justify violations of human rights against indigenous people, and the risks that they face from the advancement of corporations, governments and also good intentions based on an idea of " development " that is forced upon them.

Facial thermographs are in development, which allow machines to identify certain emotions in people such as fear or stress, by measuring the temperature generated by blood flow to different parts of their face.

Lake Forest Park officially incorporated on June 20, 1961, in large part to help maintain its specific identity in the face of increasing local development pressing north from Seattle.

It is precisely in the fields of study relating to massive selection pressures against which other species seem to be without defences-biological development in the face of novel pandemics ( AIDS, mad cow disease )- that the arguments relative to the natural heredity of intelligent acquirements have resurfaced in a way most challenging to science.

In 2000, the radio program This American Life featured a story about the battle to disband the town in the face of development by Ross Perot, Jr ..

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

As Dublin's quays underwent development, Ormonde insisted that the frontages of the houses, not their rears, should face the quay sides, with a street to run along each quay.

By this one development, Ormond changed the face of the city.

Peter Senge believes that real firms in real markets face both opportunities and natural limits to their development.

This resulted in the engagement of Jews in a variety of competing ways within the countries where they lived ; these included the struggle for Jewish emancipation, involvement in new Jewish political movements, and later, in the face of continued persecutions in late nineteenth century Europe, the development of a Jewish Nationalism.

When the embryo's forebrain does not divide to form bilateral cerebral hemispheres ( the left and right halves of the brain ), it causes defects in the development of the face and in brain structure and function.

The development of the face is coordinated by complex morphogenetic events and rapid proliferative expansion, and is thus highly susceptible to environmental and genetic factors, rationalising the high incidence of facial malformations.

It generally consists of all land on the seaward face of the San Joaquin Hills south of Avocado Avenue to the city limits, as well as the development of Irvine Terrace, just north of Avocado.

The handling of the Rose Theatre by government, archaeologists and the developer provided impetus for the legitimisation of archaeology in the development process and led the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher to introduce PPG 16 in an attempt to manage archaeology in the face of development threat.

Multicellular organisms, especially long-living animals, also face the challenge of cancer, which occurs when cells fail to regulate their growth within the normal program of development.