National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

This was a culmination of the Russia — US collaboration on the synthesis of elements 113 to 118.

The belief that the Historia was the culmination of Bede's works, the aim of all his scholarship, a belief common among historians in the past, is no longer accepted by most scholars.

It was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.

The culmination of their investigations, the Arzelà – Ascoli theorem, was a generalization of the Bolzano – Weierstrass theorem to families of continuous functions, the precise conclusion of which was that it was possible to extract a uniformly convergent sequence of functions from a suitable family of functions.

The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.

The culmination of the festival was a display of an image of the gods, usually hidden in the sanctuary, to worshippers.

The merger was the culmination of an organizational process begun in 1961.

The event was the culmination of civil disobedience in the Ballarat region during the Victorian gold rush with miners objecting to the expense of a Miner's Licence, taxation ( via the licence ) without representation and the actions of the government and its agents ( the police and military ) The local rebellion in Ballarat grew from a Ballarat Reform League movement and culminated in organised battle at the stockades against colonial forces.

In 1541 Cardinal Contarini was papal legate at the Conference of Regensburg, the diet and religious debate marking the culmination of attempts to restore religious unity in Germany by means of conferences.

His hospitalisation was a culmination of a growing addiction to the pills.

Meant to be the culmination of previous show trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the Soviet Union and hand out her territories to Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

Berlioz's epic masterpiece Les Troyens, the culmination of the Gluckian tradition, was not given a full performance for almost a hundred years.

The ultimate culmination was the theory of quantum electrodynamics, which explains all optics and electromagnetic processes in general as being the result of the exchange of real and virtual photons.

This New Compilation of Decretals was the culmination of a long process of systematising the mass of pronouncements that had accumulated since the Early Middle Ages, a process that had been under way since the first half of the 12th century and had come to fruition in the Decretum compiled and edited by the papally-commissioned legist Gratian and published in 1140.

The culmination of this process of improvement was Quake done Quick with a Vengeance ( QdQwav ).

The culmination of his life's work was the Institutio oratoria ( Institutes of Oratory, or alternatively, The Orator's Education ), a lengthy treatise on the training of the orator in which he discusses the training of the " perfect " orator from birth to old age and, in the process, reviews the doctrines and opinions of many influential rhetoricians who preceded him.

The culmination of these plans was the Ten Year Crusade that covered the years from 1953 to 1963.

As a result, from 1950 onward, Thailand had received both military and economic aid from the U. S .. With regard to his economic policy, the Phibulsongkram Government set up many state enterprises, which was seen as a culmination of economic nationalism in the country.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

B. Walkey admired the play and was one of few see it as the culmination of Wilde's dramatical career.

The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote.

The institution was defined in the writings of Bahá ' u ' lláh and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Bahá ' u ' lláh's successor, and was officially established in 1963 as the culmination of the Ten Year Crusade, an international Bahá ' í teaching plan.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

Still nursing anger I listlessly thumbed a car that was slowly approaching, its pre-war chrome nearly blinding me.

It was nearly sundown and he went to the back of the wagon, half-swimming his way, for he was not a tall man.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

The girlish voice was nearly a whisper.

It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big Hans to remember going after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa's yellow sick insides.

It was full-of-the-moon ( or a little past ), and nearly light as day.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

Becoming aware that it was nearly lunchtime, I brought myself back to the tasks at hand.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

The top of the sample was nearly flat and the bottom hemispherical.

The Istiqlal-sponsored U.M.C.I.A. ( L'Union Marocaine Des Commercants, Industrialistes et Artisans ) was opposed by candidates of the new U.N.F.P. ( L'Union National Des Forces Populaires ) in nearly all urban centers.

As the first baby boomer president, Clinton was the first president in a half-century not to have been alive during World War II.

For the next half-century, Constantinople was the seat of the Latin Empire.

Alexander did not live long enough to consolidate his realm, and in the half-century following his death ( 323 BC ) it was carved up by his feuding generals.

Aasen composed poems and plays in the composite dialect to show how it should be used ; one of these dramas, The Heir ( 1855 ), was frequently acted, and may be considered as the pioneer of all the abundant dialect-literature of the last half-century of the 1800s, from Vinje to Garborg.

The shroud's origins are still a matter of controversy, but in 1988, a carbon dating analysis concluded that the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390, a span that includes the last half-century of the Templars ' existence.

Throughout the school's first half-century, education and teacher training was the primary focus of the small regional school.

In eight first-class matches after his Test campaign was over, Benaud added a further half-century in addition to the century against Pearce's XI, and took 22 more wickets, including 4 / 20 against the Gentlemen of England.

* On May 18, 2000, Chen Shui-bian was elected to be the president of Taiwan, ending the half-century rule of the KMT on the island, and became the first president of the DPP.

Second only to Paley as the author of CBS's style and ambitions in its first half-century, Stanton was " a magnificent mandarin who functioned as company superintendent, spokesman, and image-maker.

The result was a half-century of often embittered controversy between traditionalists and revisionists that lasted until 1960.

The perceptiveness of the Physiocrats ' recognition of the key significance of land was reinforced in the following half-century, when fossil fuels had been harnessed through the use of steam power.

The issue was considered settled for the next half-century.

MCI's history, combined with the histories of companies it has acquired, echoes most of the trends that have swept American telecommunications in the past half-century: It was instrumental in pushing legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT & T monopoly that dominated American telephony ; its purchase by WorldCom and subsequent bankruptcy in the face of accounting scandals was symptomatic of the Internet excesses of the late 1990s.

The idea of a separate domestic department continued to percolate for a half-century and was supported by Presidents from James Madison to James Polk.

A half-century after his death, John III was canonized as a saint, under the name John the Merciful and was still commemorated annually on November 4 until recent times.

Gamow was a highly successful science writer, with several of his books still in print a half-century after their initial publication.

) A half-century later, a 13-Cent commemorative stamp ( Scott # 1710 ) depicting the Spirit flying low over the Atlantic Ocean was issued on May 20, 1977, the 50th anniversary of the flight from Roosevelt Field.

Frederick Martin " Fred " MacMurray ( August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991 ) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

A half-century after his death Correggio's work was well known to Vasari, who felt that he had not had enough " Roman " exposure to make him a better painter.

For the first half-century of independence, media control by the state was the major constraint on press freedom.

Around 1905, coal mines opened in the area, and coal mining was then a thriving concern for the next half-century.

On January 3, 2000, Shepherdstown was the site of the Peace Talks between Israel and Syria where both sides were urged to make the hard choices needed to end a half-century of conflict.

Although reduced in size from the L Outfit, the No. 10 Outfit became Meccano's flagship set and remained relatively unchanged until it was discontinued a half-century later in 1992.