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Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.
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These became known as the Negro Leagues, though these leagues never had any formal overall structure comparable to the Major Leagues.
Major and his government were responsible for the United Kingdom's exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) after Black Wednesday on 16 September 1992, after which his government never gained a lead in the opinion polls.
On 22 June 1995, tired of continual threats of leadership challenges that never arose, Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and announced he would contest the resulting leadership election – he continued to serve as Prime Minister while the leadership was vacant, but would have resigned had he not been re-elected by a large enough majority.
In their 1962 inaugural season, the Mets posted a record of 40 – 120, the worst regular season record since Major League Baseball went to a 162-game season ( two games from their inaugural season were never made up ).
They were one of only two current Major League teams to never have a pitcher throw a no-hitter, the other being the San Diego Padres.
On May 28,, Sosa announced that he instructed his agent not to offer his services to any Major League team for the 2008 season, and planned on filing for retirement, but never did.
The Mariners are one of eight Major League Baseball teams without a World Series title, and one of two ( along with the Washington Nationals ) to never have appeared in a World Series.
They are also one of two teams, along with the Miami Marlins, in Major League Baseball history to never have a player hit for the cycle.
Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, never acted on that application.
In Selma, Alabama, Major J. P. Houston noted that whites who killed 12 African Americans in his district never came to trial.
Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.
According to Coleman, Muldoon responded by yelling, " Fire me, Major, and you'll never finish first.
" His father ( a Major ) appears in two episodes, but his mother, though mentioned throughout the series, never appears.
The county is named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss ( a recording error in the State Clerk's office accounts for the error in spelling, which was never corrected ), the United States Attorney who unsuccessfully prosecuted Aaron Burr.
* Bruce Dostal ( born 1965 ), former professional baseball player who spent four games on active roster of the Baltimore Orioles in June 1994, but never played in a Major League game.
By mid-1944, Major General George E. Stratemeyer's Eastern Air Command dominated the skies over Burma ; this superiority was never to be relinquished.
Some stars within the far northern constellations, such as Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor, roughly north of the Tropic of Cancer (+ 23½ °), will be circumpolar stars that never rise or set.
The song, the story of an astronaut named Major Tom who goes into space and is entranced by the beauty of seeing Earth from such a great distance and consequently lets himself float off into space, never again to return, was chosen by the BBC as the theme song for the television coverage of the moon landing.
In a postwar analysis of the unpreparedness of U. S. Army forces deployed to Korea during the summer and fall of 1950, Army Major General Floyd L. Parks stated that " Many who never lived to tell the tale had to fight the full range of ground warfare from offensive to delaying action, unit by unit, man by man ... hat we were able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat ... does not relieve us from the blame of having placed our own flesh and blood in such a predicament.
He was one of the few prime ministers ( others include William Pitt the Younger, Sir Winston Churchill, George Canning, Spencer Percival, William Ewart Gladstone, Edward Heath, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ) who never acceded to the peerage.
Even well-known scientists such as Joseph Sidebotham, Richard Kennett, Major Russell and Frederick Charles Luther Wratten attempted, but never met with good results.
What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.
Owen maintained his long standing position that he would never join the Conservative Party, although the memoirs of at least three of John Major's cabinet ministers refer to Major being quite keen to appoint Owen to his cabinet, but threats of resignation from within the Cabinet prevented him from doing so.
Howe never attempted a major engagement with the Continental Army, which had come under the command of Major General George Washington.
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The Continental League folded before it ever started, but if its real object was to secure Houston a Major League franchise, it clearly succeeded.
After the defeat, Major resigned as the leader of the party, and was succeeded by William Hague.
Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons — previously an area in which he was seen as weak — and finally Conservative MPs challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 22 November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major.
Nelson-Williams succeeded the retiring Major General Edward Sam M ’ boma on 12 September 2008.
In 1988, Thailand became more democratic after General Prem Tinsulanonda decided to step down and was succeeded by Major General ( later, General ) Chatichai Choonhavan, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand since 1976.
The battalion second-in-command was killed when his tank was hit in front of Whitelaw's eyes and Whitelaw succeeded to this position, holding it, with the rank of Major, throughout the advance through the Netherlands into Germany and until the end of the war.
In July the US Army Service of Supply, SWPA succeeded the former command for the US Army Forces in Australia and he became Commanding General, with promotion to Major General.
In March 1849 Major Warden was succeeded at Bloemfontein as civil commissioner by Mr C. U. Stuart, but he remained British resident until July 1852.
Truscott was succeeded in command of 3rd Infantry Division by Major General John " Iron Mike " O ' Daniel.
A younger brother, John Blackwood succeeded to the business ; four years later he was joined by Major William Blackwood, who continued in the firm until his death in 1861.
John succeeded his brother as head of the business in 1834, on William's death ; four years later he was joined by Major William Blackwood, who continued in the firm until his death in 1861.
On 20 August Major General Innis P. Swift succeeded General Eichelberger as commander of the corps.
Rear Admiral Snelson was succeeded by Major General Tony Milton, Commandant General Royal Marines as maritime forces commander on 16 April 2003.
On 11 July 2003, 1st Armoured Division handed control over south-east Iraq to 3rd Mechanised Division, Major General Wall was succeeded by Major General Graeme Lamb as commander of British ground forces in Iraq.
At the end of 2004 General Rollo was succeeded by Major General Jonathan Riley and in November of that year 4 Armoured Brigade rotated to replace 1 Mechanised Brigade.
British Maritime Component Commander-Rear Admiral David Snelson ( succeeded by Major General Tony Milton 16 April 2003 )
* GOC 1st Armoured Division-Major General Robin Brims ( succeeded by Major General Peter Wall )
This visit was made necessary because Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who had succeeded Brock as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, was ill and unable to perform his various duties.
He was succeeded by Major General Guy Simonds, whose lack of experience was offset by an impressive career and a formidable military intellect.
Nevertheless, the detachment pressed on and, under the command of the Regimental Sergeant Major, they succeeded in securing one of the barracks buildings near the redoubt that formed the key to defence of the position.
Vaughan left shortly afterwards to take over command of the Commando Depot at Achnacarry and was succeeded by Lord Lovat with Major Derek Mills-Roberts becoming the 2IC.
Finally, Major Wickham succeeded in getting Collis Huntington interested helping to complete the line.
In 1828, when Zafar was 53 and a decade before he succeeded the throne, Major Archer reported, " Zafar is a man of spare figure and stature, plainly apparelled, almost approaching to meanness.
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