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led and league
These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.
The Second Athenian Empire, a maritime self-defense league, was founded in 377 BC and was led by Athens ; but Athens would never recover the full extent of her power, and her enemies were now far stronger and more varied.
* Second, it led to the playing of a " World Series " in 1903 between the two major league champions.
He played three seasons with the Blades, and in his final year with the club he led the league in assists and points in both the regular season and playoffs.
The new offense was much better suited to Carter's physical abilities ; he led the league in pass completion percentage in 1971.
He led the league in home runs during a season twelve times, slugging percentage and OPS thirteen times each, runs scored eight times, and RBIs six times.
The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >
It was Graham's last game ; the win capped a 10-year run in which he led his team to the league championship every year, winning four in the AAFC and three in the NFL.
O ' Connell had played well in the previous two seasons – he led the league in passing in 1957 – but lacked the stature and durability Paul Brown wanted in a starter.
Spalding won 47 games and Barnes led the league in hitting at. 429 as Chicago won the first ever National League pennant, which at the time was the game's top prize.
The Rockies once again led the league in attendance for the season.
Walker came very close to winning the Triple Crown that year, leading the league in home runs but finishing second to Tony Gwynn in batting average and third in RBI ( teammate Galarraga led the league.
During June, the Rockies led all of major league baseball with 151 total runs.
Pitching to Criger, who had also jumped to Boston, Young led the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, thus earning the colloquial AL Triple Crown for pitchers.
Young led his league in wins five times ( 1892, 1895, and 1901 – 1903 ), finishing second twice.
Young also led his league in strikeouts twice ( with 140 in 1896, and 158 in 1901 ), and in shutouts seven times.
Young led his league in fewest walks per nine innings thirteen times and finished second one season.
In 2009, caretaker manager Guus Hiddink guided Chelsea to another FA Cup success, and in 2009 – 10, his successor Carlo Ancelotti led them to their first league and FA Cup " Double ", becoming the first English club to score 100 league goals in a season since 1963.
In 1957 Ted Lindsay, who scored 30 goals and led the league in assists with 55, teamed up with Harvey to help start the National Hockey League Players ' Association ( NHLPA ).
Joseph, despite being one of the highest-paid players in the NHL, spent part of the season in the minor leagues, but after Hasek was sidelined for the season with an injury, Joseph led the team to the top of the Central Division and the league standings.
However, Per Thulberg, director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, has said that the system " has not led to better results " and in the 2000s Sweden's ranking in the PISA league tables worsened.
A July 8, 1980 New York Times Article titled " What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisseries League " set off a media storm that led to stories about the league on CBS TV and other publications.

led and Ryerson
The station was founded by a group of civic-minded Chicagoans, led by Inland Steel executive Edward R. Ryerson.
Starting at the same time that Mulock arrived, Egerton Ryerson led a sustained attack on the University over money and the proper purpose of a university education.
For Ryerson, an understanding of social relations was paramount if one was to garner an understanding of history ; his encounter with Innis ’ s materialism led Ryerson to the charge that equated Marxism and economic determinism.
The math team is led by its coaches: William Frazer, Ziwei Lu, and Britt Ryerson.

led and was
My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face
Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.
To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.
The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.
It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.
However, in this case the district manager was led to see the errors of his ways.
In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.
One is led to speculate as to why the empty space was there, left for our century to finish.
Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;
The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.
It was the low yield of the Selkirk plots and the ravages of grasshoppers in 1818 that led to the dispersal of the settlement southward.
While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.
The insistence of Bienville upon giving liberal prices to the Indians, in order to drive back the Carolina traders, was probably a factor that led to his recall in 1724.
Now, at this moment, there should be none unless skin diving was much more dangerous than he had been led to believe.
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.
It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.
He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.
It was an impulse when she was here in Me'a She'arim -- I was with her -- that led her to stay in Israel.

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