McAleese's initial seven year term of office ended in November 2004, but she had announced on 14 September that she would stand for a second term in the 2004 presidential election.

* Irish Examiner article by Jim Duffy in 1997 on President McAleese's selection of members of the Council of State

McAleese's very approval ratings were widely seen as the reason for her re-election, with no opposition party willing to bear the cost ( financial or political ) of competing in an election that would prove difficult to win.

The Fine Gael party also supported Mary McAleese's bid for a second term.

However, practical difficulties included a lack of support from non-Green Party parliamentarians ( fourteen of whom would be needed to nominate, as well as the six Green Party TDs ), Mary McAleese's personal popularity, and funding issues.

Sinn Féin also supported Mary McAleese's bid for a second term.

* 14 May – President Mary McAleese's official state car is involved in a minor road accident in County Meath.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.

Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.

One sample, which had been exposed to the atmosphere after evacuation at 375-degrees-C, showed the presence of adsorbed water ( about 0.3 wt ) ) as evidenced by a weak resonance line which was very narrow at room temperature and which disappeared, due to broadening, at low temperature.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

No wonder that Pozzatti and I had at times difficulty in remembering the real purpose of our presence, namely, Cultural Exchange.

The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.

The display of potency from Aaron's rod had already been demonstrated in the presence of Pharaoh's magicians ; when Aaron's rod was thrown down to the ground it had turned into a snake, so Pharaoh's magicians performed the same act with their own rods.

That Latin learning had not been obliterated is evidenced by the presence in his court of learned Mercian and West Saxon clerics such as Plegmund, Wæferth, and Wulfsige, but Alfred's account should not be entirely discounted.

On 25 June 1870, he was recalled to Paris, where his mother abdicated in his favour, in the presence of a number of Spanish nobles who had tied their fortunes to that of the exiled queen.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

But, there is no evidence whatever of a Greek presence on the west coast and the Ionians at Aleria on the east coast had been expelled by the Etruscans long before Roman domination.

Although the Umayyads did not have a historical presence in the region ( no member of the Umayyad family was known to have ever set foot in al-Andalus before ) and there were grave concerns about young Abd al-Rahman's inexperience, several of the lower-ranking Yemenite commanders felt they had little to lose and much to gain, and agreed to support the prince.

However, the most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a cultural movement whose origins lay as far back as the 1880s, and which had already made its presence felt in Germany before the World War, despite the prevailing conservatism.

Each Episcopal see had its own bishop and his presence was necessary to consecrate any gathering of the church.

Several years later, Purcell would give the Herald a suburban presence it never had by purchasing the money-losing Community Newspaper Company from Fidelity Investments.

Further investigation revealed that the fixture's mounting apparatus had failed, due to galvanic corrosion of incompatible metals, caused by having aluminum in direct contact with stainless steel, in the presence of salt water.

The presence of three Greek loanwords that only occur in Daniel chapter 3, have supporters of a late date say that Daniel had to have been written after Alexander the Great ’ s conquest of the Orient, from 330 BCE.

As the Romans advanced in a wedge formation, the Britons attempted to flee, but were impeded by the presence of their own families, whom they had stationed in a ring of wagons at the edge of the battlefield, and were slaughtered.

Even a 1958 return to KVOO, where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for.

Most Christians, even those who deny that there is any real change in the elements used, recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite.

L Explosive substance or article containing an explosive substance and presenting a special risk ( e. g., due to water-activation or presence of hypergolic liquids, phosphides, or pyrophoric substances ) needing isolation of each type ( 1. 1L, 1. 2L, 1. 3L ).

In installations where copper pipe has been fitted to replace a section of corroded galvanized pipe, a special dielectric fitting called a " union " must be used to join the two types of pipes ; otherwise the presence of water in contact with differing metals creates an electrical current that can cause " galvanic corrosion ".

The presence of fictitious forces indicates the physical laws are not the simplest laws available so, in terms of the special principle of relativity, a frame where fictitious forces are present is not an inertial frame:

Now the " aether of special relativity " is still " absolute ", because matter is affected by the properties of the aether, but the aether is not affected by the presence of matter.

The nervous system is defined by the presence of a special type of cell — the neuron ( sometimes called " neurone " or " nerve cell ").

The SD also maintained a presence at all concentration camps and supplied personnel, on an as-needed basis, to such special action troops as the Einsatzgruppen.

This is typically regarded as a fudge factor to make the model fit the data, but can have theoretical meaning, for example showing the presence of a range of activation energies or in special cases like the Mott variable range hopping.

) On numerous occasions, for example in the 1983 TV special Star Trek Memories ( which is often syndicated along with The Original Series ), Nimoy recounts how as a child, he peeked during the blessing and witnessed the gesture, although the congregation are supposed to put hands over eyes or turn away at this moment in acknowledgement of the presence of the Almighty.

") Accordingly, in classic Jewish thought, the Shekhinah refers to a dwelling or settling in a special sense, a dwelling or settling of divine presence, to the effect that, while in proximity to the Shekhinah, the connection to God is more readily perceivable.

Some male cadets also believed that the presence of women had softened the rigors of Academy life and that women received special treatment.

This is a significant departure, with the goal of streamlining application code by removing capability-checking code and special cases based on the presence or absence of specific capabilities.

He found the presence of an audience distracting, and those in the seats frequently did not understand some of the more elaborate visual gags and special effects, which could only be appreciated by watching studio monitors instead of the stage.

Contrary to popular belief, Scheveningen never was an independent municipality ; even in the Middle Ages it was part of the same administrative region as The Hague ; the region had a special status within the county of Holland because of the presence of the Count of Holland.

The presence of SJU has special implications for the demographics of the township.

He was conspicuous in the Whiskey Insurrection and having been prominent in some of the meetings of the insurgents, his arrest was ordered but in the meantime before any action could be taken he appeared November 6, 1794, before Thomas McKean, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the presence of William Bradford, Attorney General of the United States, voluntarily entered into recognizance to the United States for his appearance before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States at the next special session of the Circuit Court held for the district of Pennsylvania " then and there to answer such charges of treasonable and seditious practices and such other matters of misdemeanor as shall be alleged against him in behalf of the United States and that he will not depart that court without license.

In fantasy, the presence of the supernatural code is perceived as problematic, something that draws special attention — where in magical realism, the presence of the supernatural is accepted.

Stainless steel can pose special corrosion challenges, since its passivating behavior relies on the presence of a major alloying component ( chromium, at least 11. 5 %).

Action potentials result from the presence in a cell's membrane of special types of voltage-gated ion channels.

New Zealand acknowledges the presence of its indigenous Māori and the special place they have in New Zealand culture.

Because the presence of the mosaic color screen made the finished Autochrome image very dark overall, bright light and special viewing arrangements were needed for satisfactory results.

Since a dead section is, by definition, always dead, no special signal aspect was developed to warn engineers of its presence.

This has led to a strong and very visible police presence in the city along with special security measures for major events such as the Feria Internacional Tapachula.

In beacon-enabled networks, the special network nodes called ZigBee Routers transmit periodic beacons to confirm their presence to other network nodes.