I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

As Player began his second round in a twosome with amateur Bill Hyndman, his share of the gallery was not conspicuously large for a contender.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

In the third round game ( Trinidad got a bye in the second round ).

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).

Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.

Further, members of Kolingba's Yakoma tribe in the south posed a potential threat to Bozizé's government because of their widespread boycott of the second round of the legislative elections.

The dealer flips a button to the " On " side and moves it to the point number signifying the second phase of the round.

The second round wins if the shooter rolls the come bet point again before a seven.

The second round wins if the shooter rolls a seven before the don't come point.

That same year he received a second round of funding from the Rosenwald Fund to travel South, and he spent extended time at Atlanta University.

After this second round, if there is still no winner, during the regular season the game ends as a tie.

Bangladesh progressed to the second round for the first time, after defeating India, and they later went on to defeat South Africa in the second round.

Ireland making their World Cup debut tied with Zimbabwe and defeated Pakistan to progress to the second round, where they went on to defeat Bangladesh to get promoted to the main ODI table.

During world war one and two service personnel were issued pressed fibre Identity disks, one green octagonal shaped disc, and a red round disc ( some army units issued a second red round disk to be attached to the service respirator.

A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

The second major aspect of the election is the actual procedure of registration, nomination and voting.

The next session of Congress produced a second Reconstruction Act to further implement the first with specific voting regulations, which the President vetoed and Congress overrode.

The US version, however, has since 2001 taken on a significantly different format from the others in their second season, with a far stronger emphasis on strategy, competition and voting, where the public does not choose who to evict.

Two years earlier, Hampton had won 22 games and finished second in voting for the Cy Young Award as a member of the Houston Astros, while Neagle had been a 20-game winner in 1997 for the Atlanta Braves and had won fifteen games in 2000.

* Kevin Brown ( 1996 – 1997 ) — In 1996, Brown posted a 17 – 11 record with 159 strikeouts and an MLB best 1. 89 ERA, finishing second in the Cy Young Award voting.

A second strategy, cracking, involves spreading out voters of a particular type among many districts in order to deny them a sufficiently large voting bloc in any particular district.

The presidential elections were the most competitive in the history of the country in which the difference in the ballot count between the winner and the first runner up was less than one percent point, and in which neither candidate got absolute majority in a system in which a second round of voting has not been instituted.

Smith finished the 1978 season with a. 258 batting average and. 970 fielding percentage, placing second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Bob Horner.

With 12. 8 percent of the Porsche voting shares, he also remains the second largest individual shareholder of Porsche AG after his cousin, F. A. Porsche, ( 13. 6 percent ).

The second meaning of poll tax, namely a tax to be paid as a prerequisite to voting, is more widely known in the United States today.

Martínez paid immediate dividends in 1998, with a 19 – 7 record, and finishing second in the American League in ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, and the Cy Young voting.

The two-round system ( also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage ) is a voting system used to elect a single winner where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate.

However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes ( usually an absolute majority or 40-45 % with a winning margin of 5-15 %), then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting occurs.

The two-round system is known as run-off voting in the United States, where the second round is known as a run-off election.

The main difference between a nonpartisan blanket primary and a standard two-round system is that a second round of voting is required, even if one candidate wins an absolute majority of votes in the primary.

Since the voters in the two-round system don't have to choose their second round votes while voting in the first round, they are able to adjust their votes as players in a game.

Under runoff voting this tactic, known as " compromising ", is sometimes unnecessary because, even if a voter's favourite candidate is eliminated in the first round, they will still have an opportunity to influence the result of the election by voting for a more popular candidate in the second round.

However the tactic of compromising can still be used in runoff voting because it is sometimes necessary to compromise as a way of influencing which two candidates will survive to the second round.

The purpose of voting for the " push over ", in theory, is to ensure that it is this weak candidate, rather than a stronger rival, who survives to challenge a one's preferred candidate in the second round.

Under runoff voting, between rounds of voting eliminated candidates, and the factions who previously supported them, often issue recommendations to their supporters as to who to vote for in the second round of the contest.

Jeff Kent paced the attack with clutch RBI hits ( 33 HR, 125 RBI ) en route to winning the MVP award, despite Bonds's 49 HR, 106 RBI season ( Bonds finished second in MVP voting to Kent ).

Managed by Bruce Bochy and aided by the talents of players such as Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminiti, Wally Joyner, Steve Finley, pitcher Andy Ashby and premier closer Trevor Hoffman ( 4 – 2, 1. 48 ERA and 53 saves ) – who tied the then-National League record for saves in a single season and finished second in the Cy Young voting that year – the Padres had their best year in history, finishing 98 – 64 and winning the NL West division crown.

His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.

" In September 1925 he went to Insein, the home of Insein Prison, the second largest jail in Burma.

Saloth Sar was born on May 19, 1925 — the eighth of nine children and the second of three sons to Pen Saloth and Sok Nem.

Historically, the President of Weimar Germany was popularly elected in 1925 and 1932 by a two-round system that in the second round allowed any candidate to run and did not require an absolute majority.

In both elections the Communist candidate Ernst Thälmann did not withdraw and ran in the second round ; in 1925 this probably ensured the election of Paul von Hindenburg ( with only 48. 3 % of the vote ) rather that Wilhelm Marx the candidate of the centre parties.

Harri Nevanlinna ( 1922 – 94 ) was a prominent hematologist and director of The Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Arne Nevanlinna ( born 1925 ) is an architect with a second career as a novelist.

On November 14, 1925, the Yount-Lee Oil Company brought in its McFaddin No. 2 at a depth of about, sparking a second boom, which culminated in the field's peak production year of 1927, during which 21 millions barrels ( 3. 3 GL ) were produced.

This second version of the SS, sometimes known as the " Pre-Himmler SS ", existed from 1925 to 1929 ; the more recognizable SS under Heinrich Himmler then came into being.

In his laboratory on 2 October 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist's dummy nicknamed " Stooky Bill " in a 30-line vertically scanned image, at five pictures per second.

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (), known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934 ) was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934.

Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life one more time in 1925 to be elected as the second President of Germany.

After the war, Russell and Whitehead seldom interacted, and Whitehead did not contribute to the 1925 second edition of Principia Mathematica.

A 1925 New York Times article singled out his and Sam Kasten's performances at the People's Theater as among the highlights of that year's Yiddish theater season, describing them as second only to Ludwig Satz.

He married his second wife, Hedwig Kramer, in 1925 ; the marriage lasted until his death.

Zhou participated in two military operations conducted by the Nationalist regime in 1925, later known as the first and second Eastern Expeditions.

When Chen regrouped and attacked Guangzhou again in September 1925, the Nationalists launched a second expedition.

In 1925, the company Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co published Childe's second book, The Dawn of European Civilisation, in which he synthesised the varied data about European prehistory that he had been exploring for many years.

The club have a proud history, having played in the French Championship Final in 1925, and currently compete in Pro D2, the second tier of French rugby.

Curtiz's second marriage, to another actress, Lili Damita, lasted from 1925 to 1926.

Alice Heine ( February 10, 1858 – December 22, 1925 ), styled HSH The Princess of Monaco, and also The Duchess of Richelieu, was the American-born second wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, a great-grandfather of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

When it burned a second time in 1925 the mill was dismantled and Lake Stevens lost the very industry which caused its founding.

Balfour was again not initially included in Stanley Baldwin's second government in 1924, but in 1925 he once again returned to the Cabinet, serving in place of the late Lord Curzon as Lord President of the Council until the government ended in 1929.

Reenlisting at Omaha, Nebraska, on July 19, 1921, David served his second enlistment in a succession of ships:,,,, and, reenlisting on board Texas on May 12, 1925.

In the 1925 election, it declined somewhat, but had the consolation of soon overtaking the Liberals as the second largest party.