The Federals pursued the retreating Army of Tennessee, which left stragglers, cannons, and small arms in its wake.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

As a wake spreads and divides from a boat passing the centre of the loch, it hits both sides almost simultaneously and deflects back to meet again in the middle.

As whiskey, the " water of life ", causes both Finnegan's death and resurrection in the ballad, so the word " wake " also represents both a passing ( into death ) and a rising ( from sleep ).

In the wake of this victory, the Athenians captured Cyzicus and constructed a fort at Chrysopolis, from which they extracted a customs duty of one tenth on all ships passing through the Bosporus.

A passing cargo ship, the Buffalo, moving at excessive speed, created a wake that caused the Jupiter to break free of its berth.

It was soon found that the wake from ships passing through the canal undermined the walls, causing further landslips.

While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim — fully clothed — in the Wolf River, when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat.

In the wake of the referendum passing, Marović said that on June 1, 2006, he would " hold the last session of the Council of Ministers and resign ... from the post of the president of the state union.

It left in its wake a sea of happy owners, and many no doubt mourned its passing.

An oration condemning the practice of dueling, it was delivered in the wake of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's passing.

Five men from the first crew of H. L. Hunley died during early tests when she was accidentally swamped by the wake of a passing ship through her open hatches ; four managed to escape.

In the cold season the district is affected by cold waves in the wake of passing western disturbances and the minimum temperature occasionally drops down to about a degree or two below the freezing point of water.

The article received new attention in the wake of Jobs ' passing.

Riders can often become airborne while passing over waves or wake from the motor boat or personal watercraft.

At the wake of British colonialism, the emerging town of Gusau became an important commercial and administrative center with road and rail networks passing through it.

" Regarding the killing of bin Laden, she says " Let us not sink into a false sense of triumphalism in the wake of Bin Laden's passing.

Before her daughter's passing, she would love to wake up every morning and sit by the garden in silence.

Burroughs chronicles his thoughts about his approaching mortality, particularly in the wake of the death of his longtime friend Allen Ginsberg on April 5, 1997, and the passing of several beloved pets.

In the wake of this surrender, the Spartan navarch Lysander imposed a strict oligarchic government on Athens, which came to be known as the Thirty Tyrants.

Sachs pointed to strict monetary and contractory fiscal policies implemented by the governments on the advice of the IMF in the wake of the crisis, while Frederic Mishkin points to the role of asymmetric information in the financial markets that led to a " herd mentality " among investors that magnified a small risk in the real economy.

His mother raised the children by regimen, described by Henri Louis: " I was accustomed to a very strict discipline: it was necessary to wake up on time, to prepare for your duties and lessons, to eat everything on your plate, etc.

In the wake of the oil-crises of the 1970s the American muscle-car had effectively died off, the result of ever-rising fuel costs and the advent of more strict safety and emissions controls imposed worldwide.

Parishioners had been beaten in the wake of Schwerner and Chaney's voter registration rallies for CORE.

In the wake of Schwerner and Chaney's voter registration rallies, parishioners had been beaten by whites.

The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a landmark study by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Senate, in conjunction with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which found that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70 % of wrongful convictions.

Though the ACLU had taken on the trial as a cause, in the wake of Scopes ’ conviction, they were unable to find any volunteers to take on the Butler law and by 1932, the ACLU gave up.

In its wake the UN sanctioned the Special Court for Sierra Leone ( SCSL ) to try the participants for war crimes and other breaches of humanitarian law.

In 1990, in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act to consolidate various oil spill and oil pollution statutes into a single unified law, and to provide for a statutory regime for handling oil spill cleanup.

The North Carolina General Assembly went on in the wake of Brewer v. Valk to enact House Bill 1013, removing the constitutional objections to the law, thereby forming the Eugenics Board and creating the framework which would remain in force for over thirty years.

In the wake of the fight, boxing regulators pushed for a new law limiting the amount of weight a competitor can gain between the weigh-in and time of the fight.

Some scholars call for collaborative efforts between parents, schools, lawmakers, and law enforcement to curtail this kind of harassment in the wake of some alarming tragedies including suicide.

In 1973 and 1974, in the wake of the Nixon Administration's implosion, Baker returned to full-time law practice at Andrews & Kurth.

The trial went ahead without him and on January 22, after two days of deliberations, the jury found Luster guilty on 86 of 87 charges against him ( many of which had been added to California state law in the wake of the 1996 federal drug-induced sexual assault law ) and deadlocked on a single poisoning charge.

In the wake of the murder, politicians in California and other U. S. states supported three strikes laws, and California's Three Strikes act was signed into law on March 8, 1994.

Passed in the wake of a moral panic following the 1954 rape and murder of a young boy, the law had been used to detain dozens of gay men in mental institutions in the 1950s.

Having the head shaved can be a humiliating punishment prescribed in law, but also something done as " mob justice "-a stark example of which was the thousands of European women who had their heads shaved in front of cheering crowds in the wake of World War II, as punishment for associating with occupying Nazis during the war.

As governor he was sympathetic to the French-Canadians, favouring them over British merchants who came to settle in the wake of the conquest and allowed the continuance of French civil law.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866,, enacted April 9, 1866, is a federal law in the United States that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, in the wake of the American Civil War.

This brings the Next Men to the attention of law enforcement authorities investigating the damage left in the wake of the Next Men's escape from the Project.

He also served on the House-Senate conference committee which produced the first terrorism risk insurance law in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

A nationally-agreed-upon government would require at least one loya jirga to be convened ; however, in the absence of law and order in the wake of the rapid victory of American and Afghan Northern Alliance forces, immediate steps were felt to be required.

Having the head shaved can be a punishment prescribed in law, but also something done as " mob justice "-a stark example of which was the thousands of European women who had their heads shaved in front of cheering crowds in the wake of World War II, as punishment for associating with occupying Nazis during the war.

In the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Regulations and government orders issued in the wake of this law, especially those issued by the Tokyo Board of Education, have also been challenged in court by some Japanese due to conflicts with the Japanese constitution.

The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 is a United States federal law that was passed in the wake of the Nixon Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre.

This law was proposed in the wake of the Government's recent dispute with Elections Canada, which has refused to bar people with veiled faces from polling places.

In 1975, in the wake of both the Watergate scandal and the exposure of COINTELPRO, the Church Committee was formed to investigate overstepping on the part of federal law inforcement and intelligence gathering agencies.

As a result, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in the wake of Irish rebellion, Scottish invasion, the Black Death and a lack of interest on the part of the London government, many of the outlying English territories returned to the control of Irish lords ; in others, such as those controlled by the great dynasties of Butler, Fitzgerald and Burke, the rulers achieved effective independence, raising their own armed forces, enforcing their own law and adopting Gaelic-Irish language and culture.