Leading up to this time, Assyrian armies battled against Damascus for a number of years, which greatly diminished Syria's threat to Israel.

Leading up to the Conference of the Parties ( COP 11 ) meeting on biodiversity in Hyderabad, India 2012, preparations for a World Wide Views on Biodiversity has begun, involving old and new partners and building on the experiences from the World Wide Views on Global Warming.

Leading into each break in the show, one of the hosts leads up to the network identification with a humorous take on a disgusted reaction of some usually famous person to hearing that identification.

Leading up to the Super Bowl and following the 34 – 0 trouncing of the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship, many were calling the 1968 Colts team one of the " greatest pro football teams of all time " and were favored by 18 points against their counterparts from the American Football League, the New York Jets.

Leading up to the 1998 return, an airborne observing campaign was organized to mobilize modern observing techniques by Peter Jenniskens at NASA Ames Research Center.

An enduring cultural icon, Brando became a box office star during the 1950s, during which time he racked up five Oscar nominations as Best Actor, along with three consecutive wins of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Leading up to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, it was announced that NHL players would be eligible to play for the first time.

Leading up to the shrine on the east side are the main steps.

Leading up to the passage of this law, in 1846, supporters issued a pamphlet, probably authored by Judge John Fine, which relied on its readers ' familiarity with the United States Declaration of Independence to demand " That all are created free and equal ...", and that this idea should apply equally to the sexes.

Leading up to the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Shogunate realized there was a need to prepare northern defenses against a possible Russian invasion and took over control of most of Ezochi.

Leading up to the 2008 U. S. presidential election, CNN devoted large amounts of coverage to politics, including hosting candidate debates during the Democratic and Republican primary seasons.

Leading up to the 2002 elections, he positioned his party in equidistance to the major parties and refused to commit his party to a coalition with either the Christian Democrats or the Social Democrats.

" I think it's about time Eli Siegel was moved up into the ranks of our acknowledged Leading Poets ," wrote Kenneth Rexroth, in the New York Times.

Leading up to the Civil War, DeKalb County was typical of Southern Mountain counties in that it voted against secession from the United States.

Leading up to the Civil War Nicola Marschall ( 1829-1917 ), a German-American artist, is generally credited with designing both the first official Confederate flag and the grey Confederate army uniform while a teacher at the old Marion Female Seminary.

Leading up to and during World War I, American sentiment became increasingly anti-German.

Leading up to this new school, Whitewater, Potwin, Brainerd, Elbing, Furley, Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school.

Leading up to this new school, Whitewater, Potwin, Brainerd, Elbing, Furley, Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school.

Leading up to this new school, Whitewater, Potwin, Brainerd, Elbing, Furley, Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school.

Leading his army back up the Euphrates, south of Circesium Philip erected a cenotaph in honor of Gordian III, but his ashes were sent ahead to Rome, where he arranged for Gordian III ’ s deification.

Leading up to the 1913 London performances, Diaghilev's authority was challenged when Monteux declared that he was the composer's representative in matters related to Rite of Spring.

Leading up to the 1990 – 91 Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein advocated that OPEC push world oil prices up, thereby helping Iraq, and other member states, service debts.

Leading motor engineer and car designer Reid Railton set up a manufacturing facility and built the well known Railton road cars at the Fairmile Works from 1933-40.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

Leading companies dating from this period includes Galimard.

Leading historians of the period who testified as " experts " during the trial included Jean-Pierre Azéma, André Kaspi, Marc-Olivier Baruch, Henry Rousso, Denis Peschanski, Maurice Rajsfus, René Rémond, Jacques Delarue, Henri Amouroux, Michel Bergès, as well as US historian Robert Paxton and Swiss historian Philippe Burin.

Leading banker Walter Leaf described these Treasury notes as " essentially a War Loan free of interest, for an unlimited period, and as such was a highly profitable expedient from the point of view of the Government ".

During the Safavid period, Sistani's ancestor Sayyid Mohammad was appointed by Sultan Husayn to the office of Sheikh ul-Islam ( Leading Authority of Islam ) presiding over the Sistan province, where he then traveled with his children and settled, an event which accounts for the usage of the title " al-Sistani " in Ayatollah Sistani's own name today.

Leading up to the free agency period, Gáborík was speculated to have interest in signing with the Vancouver Canucks after The Province reported he had recently bought a home in West Vancouver in the 2009 off-season.

Leading into the Medieval period

Picasso's Picasso's Rose Period | Rose period masterpiece Boy Leading a Horse, recalls the paintings of both Paul Cézanne and El Greco, both of whom heavily influenced Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon

The Rose period produced two important large masterpieces: Family of Saltimbanques ( 1905 ), which recalls the work of Gustave Courbet ( 1819 – 1877 ) and Édouard Manet ( 1832 – 1883 ); and Boy Leading a Horse ( 1906 ), which recalls Cezanne's Bather ( 1885 – 1887 ) and El Greco's Saint Martin and the Beggar ( 1597 – 1599 ).

Leading 78-74 going into the last period of play the Bullets then outscored Adelaide 42-21, setting an NBL grand final record for points scored in the final period and easily accounting for the 36ers 120-95 to record their first ever championship win.

A Supreme Court of California study published in 2007 found that the Washington Supreme Court's decisions were the second most widely followed by the appellate courts of all other U. S. states in the period from 1940 to 2005 ( second only to California ).< ref > Jake Dear and Edward W. Jessen, " Followed Rates " and Leading State Cases, 1940-2005, < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ;"> 41 U. C.

Leading members of the Northern League included the Nazi racial eugenicist Hans F. K. Günther, who continued his work in the postwar period under a pseudonym.

* Shiing-Shen Chern, Leading differential geometers of 20th century

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

Leading Fifth Monarchists also had an influence on Oliver Cromwell, as it was Thomas Harrison's idea to introduce the Nominated Assembly ( Barebones Parliament ) as a body of religious men.

Leading questions may also be permitted on direct examination when a witness requires special handling, for example a child.

She has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for " Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series " for Ready or Not in 1996 and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for Platinum in 1998.

Leading Nicaraguan exports also demonstrated increased diversity, with 274 new products shipped to the United States in the first year.

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

Liberty Leading the People, embodying the Romantic view of the French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution ; its painter Eugène Delacroix also served as an elected deputy

Leading, ultimately, to the establishment of constitutional monarchy, while also along with the Penal Laws, settle the political and religious turmoil that had convulsed Scotland, England and Ireland in the 17th century.

Crazy Heart also won him the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

They also published a magazine called Leading the Way.

Leading the Far Left in the National Assembly, he was an active opponent of Jules Ferry's colonial policy ( which he opposed on moral grounds and also as a form of diversion from the “ Revenge against Germany ”) and of the Opportunist party.

Anchors Aweigh was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gene Kelly ), Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Planck, Charles P. Boyle ), Best Music, Song ( for Jule Styne ( music ) and Sammy Cahn ( lyrics ) for " I Fall in Love Too Easily ") and Best Picture.

She also performed the lead role in an Off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch in which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for her performance.

It was also nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Michael Caine ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Vivien Merchant ), Best Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Alfie ") ( a UK hit record for Cilla Black, but performed by Millicent Martin in the original UK release and Cher in the American print of the movie ), Best Picture and Best Writing ( Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium ).

The school district has built a new middle school designed by SHP Leading Design based in Cincinnati, and the district has also renovated and enlarged Butler High School.

The film was also nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Pete Postlethwaite ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Emma Thompson ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

He also worked with Swedish journalist Bertil Torekull on the book Leading by Design: The IKEA Story.

Cruise was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the movie marked Renée Zellweger's breakout role.

At age 9, he was also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role — an honor that he received for the film Skippy ( 1931 ).

Leading JDO commercial implementations and open source projects also offer a JPA API implementation as an alternative access to their underlying persistence engines, formerly exposed solely via JDO in the original products.

Webb also received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty, the first in a three-film series of comedic " Mr. Belvedere " features with Webb portraying a snide and omniscient babysitter.

Leading religious figures also have styles.

* Leading article, a piece of writing intended to promote an opinion, also called an editorial