In the meantime, Marlborough led combined English, Dutch and German forces in the Low Countries, where he captured several important fortresses, most notably Liège.

Since the Allied forces had landed in Normandy ( France ) on D-Day, 6 June 1944, the British 2nd Army had pushed forward into the Low Countries and captured Brussels and Antwerp, the latter with its ports still intact.

Since the introduction of a national minimum wage in the UK in 1999, its effects on employment were subject to extensive research and observation by the Low Pay Commission.

Economic expansion was also a central goal of the government: communications were improved with the completion of the Saint-Quentin canal ( linking the Oise and Somme rivers ) in 1738, later extended to the Escaut River and the Low Countries and the systematic building of a national road network.

The Inter-Provincial, which replaced the High Low Doubles, became a national event in 2008 and is pins over average format.

* In 2005, Juliette Low was honored as part of a new national monument in Washington, D. C. named The Extra Mile Points of Light Volunteer Pathway.

The song called " Get Low " ( 2003 ), performed by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz with the Ying Yang Twins, is credited as the track which put crunk music into the national spotlight.

In line with the President's global advocacy, Guyana ’ s Low Carbon Development Strategy sets out a national scale, replicable model to protect Guyana ’ s 18 million hectare forest, to address the 17 % of global greenhouse gas emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation, and re-orient the Guyanese economy onto a long-term “ low deforestation, low carbon, climate resilient trajectory ”.

At the party's first national convention in 1944, delegates decided to abandon the name New Democracy and founded the Social Credit Association of Canada as a national party and chose Alberta Treasurer Solon Earl Low as the party's first national leader.

Evidence at some early Henges ( Mayburgh Henge, Ring of Brodgar, Arbor Low ) suggests that there were staging and trading points on a national ' motorway ' during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

In 1947, when Low was federal leader of the Social Credit party, he used a national Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) broadcast to lambaste " the international power maniacs who aim to destroy Christianity " and the " international gangsters who are day-to-day scheming for world revolution.

Blackmore remained party leader until 1944 when Social Credit held its first national convention and acclaimed Solon Earl Low as leader.

John Horne Blackmore was criticized for his views on Jews and it was said he " frequently gave public aid and comfort to anti-Semitism " along with his successor as national Social Credit leader, Solon Low.

In certain disciplines, there are specific titles for champions, either descriptive, as the baspehlivan in Turkish oil wrestling, yokozuna in Japanese sumo wrestling ; or copied from real life, such as the koenig and kaiser (' king ' and ' emperor ') in traditional archery competitions ( not just national, also at lower levels ) in the Low Countries. Final Day of the 2009 season, Fitzroy celebrate their first championship in nine years.

" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " has been sung by rugby players and fans for some decades, but became associated with the English national side, in particular, in 1988.

Low voting thresholds within individual constituencies, along with a five percent national threshold allocated to a small portion of the Sejm, additionally contributed to party fragmentation.

Low End Theory has garnered much attention after multiple performances by Thom Yorke, who played for the normal price of ten dollars.

The cathedral drew world attention on November 25, 1963, when a recited ( not sung ) Pontifical Requiem Low Mass was offered by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston and a Kennedy family friend, during the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy.

His sermons attracted the favorable attention of the Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Low Countries, while he was attached to the monastery of Dunes in Flanders, and in 1638 he was honored with the degree of Doctor of Theology by the University of Louvain.

At first these were purchased as speculations, but Low turned his attention to their development.

In later years Low turned his attention to developing his own properties.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

* In November 2000, nuclear spin temperatures below 100 pK were reported for an experiment at the Helsinki University of Technology's Low Temperature Lab.

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Low productivity and competitiveness on the European and world markets alike due to inadequate R & D funding and a lack of a clearly defined development policy remain a significant obstacle for foreign investment and economic growth.

Low interest rates guaranteed availability of funds for investment and consumption.

Low concentrations are not a problem for bacteria because they simply ignore the waste that surrounds the metals, attaining extraction yields of over 90 % in some cases.

This gave R. D. Low, the head of children's publications at D. C. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of ' funnies ' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

* EN 60335-2-50 Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety – Part 2. 50: Particular requirements for commercial electric bains-marie ( 73 / 23 / EEC Low Voltage Directive )

A cultivar ' Walker's Low ' was named perennial of the year for 2007 by the Perennial Plant Association.

London: Published for the Author by Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870.

The majority of their ARIAs were awarded for their first two albums, Crowded House and Temple of Low Men.

Low per capita income has been proposed as a cause for grievance, prompting armed rebellion.

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

Low voltage reduces the specimen damage by the incident electrons and increases image contrast that is especially important for biological specimens.

File: vitlkW1. gif | thumb | Low key lighting for sinister effect in The Mystery of Temple Court

The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.

In it, Gans writes of an audience between the Maharal and Rudolph II: " Our lord the emperor … Rudolph … sent for and called upon our master Rabbi Low ben Bezalel and received him with a welcome and merry expression, and spoke to him face to face, as one would to a friend.