The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

I have just seen Debonnie and Prompt Time work a mile in 2:34, last quarter in :35.3.

With the March pickup, dealers are optimistic that the April-June quarter will equal or top last year.

Steam powered conveyor lifts began being used for loading and unloading ships some time in the last quarter of the 19th century .< ref name =" Wells1890 ">.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

Even in the last pre-crisis year, 2008, the Bulgarian economy was growing rapidly at 6. 0 %, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.

The global financial crisis started to apply downward pressure on growth and employment in the last quarter of 2008.

Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

Bouldering's documented origins may be found in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy in the last quarter of the 19th century.

It is unknown when Habakkuk lived and preached, but the reference to the rise and advance of the Chaldeans in 1: 6-11 places him in the middle to last quarter of the 7th century BC.

To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.

Although Croatian economy had showed signs of recovery in the last quarter of 2010 and officially exited recession in the first quarter of 2011, economic indicators suggest that the recovery may be sluggish with the economy expected to grow by 1. 5-1. 8 % in 2011.

During the last quarter of the 19th century many experiments were done to determine what cathode rays were.

In the last quarter of the 8th century BC there is a steady increase in artifacts found at the settlement site in Delphi, which was a new, post-Mycenaean settlement of the late 9th century.

Elf-shot ( or elf-bolt or elf-arrow ) is a word found in Scotland and Northern England, first attested in a manuscript of about the last quarter of the 16th century.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, the base was used to house Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted on the high seas.

Anagnostis Agelarakis based on recent archaeo-anthropological discoveries of the earliest monumental polyandrion ( communal burial of male warriors ) at Paros Island in Greece, unveils a last quarter of the 8th century BC date for a hoplitic phalangeal military organization.

Samhain was the first and the most important of the four quarter days in the medieval Irish and Scottish calendar and, falling on the last day of autumn, it was a time for stock-taking and preparation for the cold winter months ahead.

The $ 512 billion economy expanded 4. 4 % in the first quarter from a year earlier and last month, the IMF revised its 2009 forecast for the country to 3-4 % from 2. 5 %.

This has led many scholars to conclude that the appellation Catholic Church with its ecclesial connotation may have been in use as early as the last quarter of the 1st century.

As the power of the Iroquois waned during the last quarter of the 17th century, several other, mainly Anishinaabe Native American tribes, displaced them from the territories they claimed on the north shore of the lake.

Below one fills in one-quarter of the rows with T, then one-quarter with F, then one-quarter with T and the last quarter with F. The next column alternates between true and false for each eighth of the rows, then sixteenths, and so on, until the last propositional constant varies between T and F for each row.

He may have arrived in the Caribbean in the last years of the 17th century, on a merchant vessel ( possibly a slave ship ).

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

After the Polish magnates regained control of southern Rus in the last decade of the 17th century, an economic renaissance ensued.

A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell quit touring and released her 17th, and reportedly last, album of original songs in 2007.

From the last quarter of the 17th century, the group consisted of six undisputedly Dutch islands: Curaçao ( settled in 1634 ), Aruba ( settled in 1636 ), Bonaire ( settled in 1636 ), Sint Eustatius ( settled in 1636 ), Saba ( settled in 1640 ) and Sint Maarten ( settled in 1648 ).

Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

Instrumental in the reforms of the early 17th century Swedish state was the long-dominant Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who had spent his own student days in German universities and who for the last years before his death was also chancellor of the university.

The last known form of enforced servitude of adults ( villeinage ) had disappeared in England by the beginning of the 17th century.

His most influential and effective opponent in the last decade of the 17th century was Shaftesbury.

There appears to be an uncertain period of time from when the last Arawaks left what would later be called the British Virgin Islands until the first Europeans started to settle there in the early 17th century, but each period commences with a dramatic change from the time period which precedes it, and so is a convenient way to compartmentalise the subject.

* Kamose, last Pharaoh of the 17th Dynasty of Egypt ( 1575 or 1573 BC – 1550 BC ).

* Kamose, last Pharaoh of the 17th Dynasty of Egypt ( 1573 – 1570 BC ).

The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at 17th in the line of succession to the presidency ( the position was last until the addition of the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2006 ).

A steady increase in regional temperatures over the last 100 years has been reflected in a lengthening of the ice-free period which was as short as four months in the late 17th century.

In the last years of the 16th century and the first part of the 17th century, a number of Italian musicians were guests at the royal courts of Sigismund III Vasa and Władysław IV.

Following 5 wins in the last 12 games it was enough to secure a 17th place finish and another season in the 4th tier of English Football.

Kamose, the last king of the Theban 17th Dynasty, refers to the Hyksos King Apophis as a Chieftain of Retjenu ( Canaan ).

As a consequence, the city entered a period of decadence that would last till the end of the 17th century.

In the 17th century the town was one of the last strongholds in the Revolta de les Germanies ( local guilds ).

This particular species survived until the early 17th century when it was hunted to extinction as the last aurochs, a female, died in Poland.

In the church itself there are several paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries ( amongst others Dirk Bouts famous painting of the last supper ) and the grave of Duke Henry I of Brabant.

Due to its height, from the late 17th century it became an important watchout post for the city for centuries until 1905 ; the last keeper of the tower was forced to leave in 1926.