Unusually, Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State.

He suggested that in the wake of the collapse of modern metanarratives, people are developing a new " language game " -- one that does not make claims to absolute truth but rather celebrates a world of ever-changing relationships ( among people and between people and the world ).

Other titles following in the wake of the fighting game renaissance include Persona 4 Arena, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Soulcalibur V, and crossover titles such as PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Tekken X Street Fighter.

In the wake of his record setting 118 stolen bases during the 1974 season, Brock was named the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award in March 1975, for best exemplefying the game of baseball both on and off the field.

Despite this, Cicotte and his alleged co-conspirators were subsequently made permanently ineligible for baseball by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball's new commissioner, recently hired to restore the integrity of the game in the wake of the 1919 scandal.

The player begins the game by creating an adventuring party, which becomes enlisted as a caravan guard in the wake of strange events.

* In the wake of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, the Super Rugby team, the Crusaders, moved at least one seasonal game to Timaru.

The game appeared in 1994, shortly after the introduction of Magic: The Gathering, in the wake of the success enjoyed by trading card games.

He tells them that later that night, he will wake them and that they can join him in a game of kick the can.

The game begins with Gerdy attempting to wake his sleeping father, Master Herder Gedryn, who is going to be late for the annual herding competition.

Barbie's levels are " dreams " and each " dream " has Barbie walking left to right while avoiding obstacles or else her " Zs " will drop and she will wake up and have to replay the level, or sometimes restart the entire game.

The game starts inside Silver G's house in Ruuri, with Silver G trying to wake Red and Blue up ( there is a sequence in Tania about Red being busted out of his house and Blue ( who is really Silver G ) hitting Red to ' wake him up '.

In the wake of the banning of the Virginia Pep Band from all future editions of an ACC-tied bowl game ( the Meineke Car Care Bowl ) a donation was made by Carl Smith for the establishment of an official university marching band.

The show aired daily in the morning and once a week in the evening until 1959, when the networks began canceling game shows in the wake of the quiz show scandal.

The first major changes to the stadium were made in the wake of a chaotic game between Eintracht Frankfurt and 1.

The game ends when Bart loses all of his Zs ( Windy World will be covered in a white fog, suggesting Bart is about to wake up ) and takes damage one more time, or if he accomplishes all the mini-games.

He was originally slated to wake up in bed with Edna Krabappel and miss the game, but Canseco's then-wife, Esther Haddad, objected.

Zoo Tycoon was created in the wake of the success of the 1999 Hasbro Interactive game RollerCoaster Tycoon, which sold well for many years.

In the wake of the controversy, corporate sponsors emerged who were willing to organize an LSU-USC game to settle the matter ; nevertheless, the NCAA refused to permit the matchup.

The game ends rather abruptly after the player escapes Daedalus in an experimental spacecraft in the wake of the moon's destruction, escorted by several Phyxx Blockships.

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

On 23 June 1936, in the wake of the collapse of League efforts to restrain Italy's war against Abyssinia, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons that collective security had

On June 8, 2003 a failed coup attempt was made against President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya by forces unhappy with his imprisonment of Islamic leaders in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq and his establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel.

Oman closed the Israeli Trade Office in October 2000 in the wake of public demonstrations against Israel during the Second Intifada.

Friction between Athens and Peloponnesian states, including Sparta, began early in the Pentecontaetia ; in the wake of the departure of the Persians from Greece, Sparta attempted to prevent the reconstruction of the walls of Athens ( without the walls, Athens would have been defenseless against a land attack and subject to Spartan control ), but was rebuffed.

In the wake of Nur ad-Din's death, Saladin faced a difficult decision ; he could move his army against the Crusaders from Egypt or wait until invited by as-Salih in Syria to come to his aid and launch a war from there.

In the wake of the plot against Hitler's life by a group of regular military generals in July 1944, the Führer came to distrust his regular military, putting ever more trust in the SS, particularly Himmler, who had acted against the plotters and their families.

The work was written in the wake of pogroms against Jews following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II of Russia.

As the rider edges towards the wake against the pull of the rope, the rider builds pressure against the water on the bottom of the board and gains speed and momentum toward the wake.

( For example, oil was a factor in Japan's decision to go to war against the United States in 1941, and the oil cartel, OPEC, used an oil embargo of sorts in the wake of the Yom Kippur War in the 1970s ).

** Cable 243: In the wake of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the Kennedy administration orders the US Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in South Vietnam, opening the way towards a coup against Diem.

The wake of the pace-car reduced the aerodynamic drag against which Rompelberg pedalled to almost zero.

Since the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims have participated in the Pilgrimage to promote and increase awareness of civil rights protections in the wake of widespread suspicions harbored against them in the post 9 / 11 world.

Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

The majority of his party, most notably Roman Catholics and trade union representatives, was bitterly opposed to this, especially in the wake of the British government's reprisals against the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916.

Franz Pfeiffer attempted to found it again in 1983 in the wake of a wave of prostest against the Pinochet regime.

In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics ( 335 BCE ), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general ( where the tragic divides against epic and lyric ) or at the scale of the drama ( where tragedy is opposed to comedy ).

Patel now energetically fought against veth — the forced servitude of Indians to Europeans — and organised relief efforts in wake of plague and famine in Kheda.

They had lost their best players two years before, when they fled in the wake of the failed uprising against the communist regime.

The WWF hit a low point in the wake of allegations of steroid abuse and distribution made against it in 1994 ; there were also allegations of sexual harassment made by WWF employees.