If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

Lilian Steichen was an exceptional student.

In some exceptional cases an abbot was allowed to name his own successor.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

But even these exceptional instances show that Rome was not entirely spared the horrors which usually accompany the storming of a besieged city.

His devotion to the classics was exceptional even for the time.

The canonical age for the ordination of a deacon was 25 ; Bede's early ordination may mean that his abilities were considered exceptional, but it is also possible that the minimum age requirement was often disregarded.

The document, which ran to an exceptional 52 pages, not only sought heavy material gains but was designed to ruin Chaplin's public image.

Feynman was also widely known outside the physics community as an exceptional teacher and colorful, unconventional character.

However, a truly exceptional cold snap swept the island in February 2004, during which period the whole island was blanketed with snow.

" In addition to his exceptional control, Young was also a workhorse who avoided injury.

The Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) was exceptional because both sides of the war received support from intervening great powers: Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported opposition leader Francisco Franco, while France and Russia supported the government ( see proxy war ).

( Douglass was exceptional at the time for holding a medical degree from Europe.

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

However, this was an exceptional case, and it is not until 1912 that there were the first signs of the special expressive use of Insert Shots ; that is, shots of objects rather than people.

It entirely dissipates the dream that the apostolic church was in an exceptional condition of holiness of life or purity of doctrine.

The video game King of Dragon Pass was released by A Sharp, allowing the player to play an Orlanthi hero who seeks to unite the clans and tribes of Dragon Pass in a kingdom ; the game features exceptional depth of coverage of the area of Dragon Pass, and featured the first compelling public view of Stafford's ideas about the hero quest.

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

On June 15, 2012, Powers was posthumously awarded the Silver Star medal for demonstrating “ exceptional loyalty ” while enduring harsh interrogation in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow for almost two years.

Henry I was crowned after Robert's death in 1031, which is quite exceptional for a French king of the times.

The Levush was exceptional among the codes, in that it treated certain Halakhot from a Kabbalistic standpoint.

The honorific " Hasid " was frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the Talmudic and early medieval periods.

Bardeen was one of 11 recipients given the Third Century Award from President George H. W. Bush in 1990 for " exceptional contributions to American society " and was granted a gold medal from the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

`` It was a terrible loss to me '', said Kate quietly, feeling the pain twist again at the mention, knowing now that Juanita must have written to him at Grafton.

In 1861, Mr. Brown's attention was called to yet another basic production problem -- the manufacture of twist drills.

There was an extra pause here, a gasp or a sigh there, here and there an extra little twist of a word or note, all in the interest of effect.

There was the freshness of color, the freedom of perception, the lack of self-consciousness, but with a twist that made the forms leap from the page and smack you in the eye.

The same twist was used in Big Brother 4 Bulgaria.

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a comic twist was added to rhyming slang by way of spurious and fabricated examples which a young man had laboriously to explain to his father ( e. g. ' dustbins ' meaning ' children ', as in ' dustbin lids ' = ' kids '; ' Teds ' being ' Ted Heath ' and thus ' teeth '; and even ' Chitty Chitty ' being ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ', and thus ' rhyming slang '...).

They also released it as an Atari-compatible controller called " Video Command " it was also first released without the extra fire button, before that only the downwards plunge motion was connected and acted as the fire button, the pull-up and twist actions weren't connected to anything.

There was another twist on 28 July, however, when FMF Chairman Hari Punja called the lifting of the ban a fabrication.

* Professor Campbell: This recurring segment featured Archie Campbell dressed in a graduate's gown telling viewers the meaning of words, with a comic twist ... sometimes wads of paper would fly into the scene as a way of punishing the bad joke that was told.

This was rigorously proved and extended by Vladimir Arnold ( in 1963 for analytic Hamiltonian systems ) and Jürgen Moser ( in 1962 for smooth twist maps ), and the general result is known as the KAM theorem.

In a curiously " Shandean " twist in events, it appears that Sterne's body was stolen shortly after it was interred and sold to the anatomists.

One of the most sophisticated tools was a 25 mm diameter twist drill bit, perfect for drilling hole for treenails.

Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem.

It was a continuous process, the yarn was coarser, had a greater twist and was stronger so was suited to be warp.

The first medal was presented in 1909 to Elihu Thomson and, in a twist of fate, was awarded to Nikola Tesla in 1917.

A similar twist was incorporated into a 1980 Australian production at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre in Sydney, where Lady Bracknell was played by female impersonator Tracey Lee.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

To live correctly in an interdependent moral and material universe of living and dead was decisive for man's fate.

If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.

Davis believed the loss of Johnston " was the turning point of our fate ".

Lawry was not informed of the decision privately and heard his fate over the radio.

Classical dramatisations differ on how willing either father or daughter were to this fate, some include such trickery as claiming she was to be married to Achilles, but Agamemnon did eventually sacrifice Iphigenia.

From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.

Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.

Deciding the weight of " truth " by weighing the Heart against Ma ' at, who was often depicted as an ostrich feather, Anubis dictated the fate of souls.

As of July 2002, the fate of the Minas Gerais was still unknown, with China having reportedly made a surprise bid for its purchase.

Clérambault's insistence on confining his huge force in the village was to seal his fate that day.

Isaiah's warning that Judah would meet the same fate as Israel was ignored.

" There was nothing we could do but accept poor mother's fate ", Chaplin later wrote, and she remained in care until her death in 1928.

Chaplin could be inspired by tragic events when creating his films, as in the case of The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), which was inspired by the fate of the Donner Party.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

Nabopolassar's position, and the fate of Assyria was sealed when he entered into an alliance with another of Assyria's former vassals, the Medes, the now dominant people of what was to become Persia.

Elwes was set to portray George Harrison in Zemeckis's 3D performance capture re-telling of Yellow Submarine ; however in May 2011, Disney withdrew from the project, leaving its fate uncertain.

Historians agree that the fate of Jerusalem and thereby the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was of concern if not the immediate goal of papal policy in 1095.

On 19 March 1967, a second plebiscite was held to determine the fate of the territory.

As he was falling, Athena, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, perdix, the partridge.

Notably, there was some confusion regarding the fate of those who die before the arrival of the new kingdom.

His fate was changed in 757 when Empress Kōken, his first cousin twice removed, appointed him to her crown prince instead of Prince Funado who had been appointed to this position by the will of the Emperor Shōmu.