It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

Phillip was accompanied by a contingent of marines and a handful of other officers who were to administer the colony.

To establish his authority, Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict ’ s disciples who lived with the saint and witnessed his various miracles.

At the 9th Party Congress the Democratic Centralists, an opposition faction within the party, accused Lenin and his associates, of creating a Central Committee in which a " small handful of party oligarchs ... was banning those who hold deviant views.

The outstanding handful of Frankish saints who were not of the Merovingian kinship nor the family alliances that provided Merovingian counts and dukes, deserve a closer inspection for that fact alone: like Gregory of Tours, they were almost without exception from the Gallo-Roman aristocracy in regions south and west of Merovingian control.

It was originally initiated by a handful of neighbourhood watch members from a few coloured Cape Town townships who decided to organize public demonstrations to pressure the government to fight the illegal drug trade and gangsterism more effectively.

The first known professional black baseball player was Bud Fowler, who appeared in a handful of games with a Chelsea, Massachusetts club in April 1878 and then pitched for the Lynn, Massachusetts team in the International Association.

Gaynor was one of only a handful of leading ladies who made a successful transition to sound films.

In 2006 the party announced that it would disband itself: it owed a large debt to the Ministry of Home Affairs, who had lent them money for the 2003 elections, and only a handful of paying members were left.

Queer theory and LGBT studies takes the concept one step further, viewing psychoanalytical and modernist views of eroticism as both archaic and heterosexist, written primarily by and for a " handful of elite, heterosexual, bourgeois men " who " mistook their own repressed sexual proclivities " as the norm.

Thus, according to Rubin, " the story of the single polytheist who raised a handful of dirt to his forehead … … attempt of an old disabled man to participate in Muhammad's sūjud … in … a sarcastic act of an enemy of Muhammad wishing to dishonor the Islamic prayer ".

Once, after the 1692 re-conquest, the Spanish were prevented from entering a town when they were met by a handful of men who uttered imprecations and cast a single pinch of a sacred substance.

In his book Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, Brian Aldiss coined the term cosy catastrophe to describe the subgenre of post-war apocalyptic fiction in which society is destroyed save for a handful of survivors, who are able to enjoy a relatively comfortable existence.

Bilbao native Ibai Gomez, who had been playing 5th-level football at Santutxu FC a few years previously, was seriously injured in his 2010 debut for Athletic and had been involved in only a handful of first team games since his return to fitness, played a significant role in the run.

Additionally, up to 39 of the men who were at the station were there as hospital patients, although only a handful of these were unable to take up arms.

Apart from Penguin Books, who for this purpose have resorted to their old green cover and dug out some of their vintage authors, Pan started a series in 1999 entitled " Pan Classic Crime ," which includes a handful of novels by Eric Ambler, but also American Hillary Waugh's Last Seen Wearing ....

.. Sceaf ; who, as some affirm, was driven on a certain island in Germany, called Scandza, ( of which Jornandes, the historian of the Goths, speaks ), a little boy in a skiff, without any attendant, asleep, with a handful of corn at his head, whence he was called Sceaf ; and, on account of his singular appearance, being well received by the men of that country, and carefully educated, in his riper age he reigned in a town which was called Slaswic, but at present Haithebi ; which country, called old Anglia, whence the Angles came into Britain, is situated between the Saxons and the Goths.

The Benedictine priory of St Gregory the Great was founded by Saint John Roberts at Douai in 1605, with a handful of exiled English Benedictines who had entered various monasteries in Spain, as the first house after the Reformation to begin conventual life.

Except for a handful who sided with the rebels, all who enlisted from Owsley County sympathized with the Union cause as did most of the citizens.

In 1916, using funds discretionary to himself, Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence.

Several people were accused of the murder including his own wife after she admitted an affair with one of the accused, but after intense trails and no hard evidence the case was dropped, and no one ever admitted as the murderer. In later years the murder was almost forgotten asides memory from a handful of senior citizens, until Joe Towne one of the community leaders, grew interested in the subject and studied it and interviewed those who remembered the tragic situation and wrote it into a true story novel " Tongues on Fire ".

Its leading career scorers were Ken Gribbons, who played most of his career in the IHL ; Bob McCammon, a lifelong IHLer who went on to be a National Hockey League coach with the Philadelphia Flyers and the Vancouver Canucks ; Bill LeCaine and Larry Gould, who played a handful of NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Vancouver Canucks, respectively.

Lopes was also the host of the MTV series, The Cut, a series on which a handful of would-be pop stars, rappers, and rock bands competed against each other and were judged.

Ritola never competed in the Finnish Nationals, but won a handful of medals in the AAU Championships in United States.

Since then, only a handful of international schools have competed.

Following the Austrian race, the car competed in a handful of non-championship races before being converted to meet Formula 5000 specifications for the 1973 season.

He also competed in a handful of matches in WWE in 2003, before signing an actual contract with the company in 2009.

Sherman competed in a handful of NASCAR Busch Series races in 2004 in the No. 58 Serta Dodge for Akins Motorsports and planned to run a full schedule with the team in 2005.

It also received a handful of performances in 1998, but has not been played live by Elton John since.

According to journalist Lawrence Wright, evidence that bin Laden's accusations have struck a chord among many Muslims was found in the popularity of bin laden T-shirts among Muslims including children in Kenya and Tanzania following the 1998 American embassy bombings, despite the fact that all but a handful 224 people killed were Kenyians and Tanzanians, not Americans.

In the United States, " most favoured nation status " has been renamed " permanent normal trade relations " ( NTR ) in 1998 as all but a handful of countries had this status already, making it a misnomer.

Additionally, the episode was one of a handful of Star Trek recommended for viewing to introduce new viewers to the mythos in Jon Wagnar and Jan Lundeen's 1998 book Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos.

As he had done the previous year, he raced a handful of Busch Series races in 1998.

Eric Fournier, a French diplomat who served as Butler's deputy at UNSCOM in 1998, told an Australian journalist, Christopher Kremmer, that the US bombing of Iraq in 1998 — which made the UNSCOM mission untenable — occurred " because Richard Butler reported that the Iraqis had not cooperated with inspections, even though more than three hundred had taken place in a few weeks and only a handful had been a problem.

He managed a handful of ODI games in 1998 but did not play Test cricket until August 2001.

He received 7th dan in 1998, and is among the handful of westerners who have been given the title Shihan by the Aikikai.

Before Tristeza released Spine and Sensory on Makoto records in 1998, the band was talking with a handful of different indie record labels.

Norlander departed in 1998 and was replaced by Steve Taylor, the band's guitar technician, who had already been performing on a handful of songs on the bands European tour in 1996.

After his 1995 film Peace Hotel, he has made a handful of films in Hollywood which have not seen as much success as Jet Li's: these include The Replacement Killers ( 1998 ), The Corruptor ( 1999 ), Anna and the King ( 1999 ) and Bulletproof Monk ( 2003 ).

After beginning his training at the Power Plant in June 1998, Sanders made his World Championship Wrestling debut on the October 10, 1998 episode of Saturday Night in a losing effort to Chavo Guerrero, Jr .. After being utilized as a jobber in a handful of matches on Saturday Night and WorldWide throughout 1998 and 1999, Sanders picked up his first victory on the July 19, 2000 episode of Thunder by defeating Crowbar.

In 1998, Begay shot a 59 in the second round of the Nike Tour Dominion Open, to join the handful of golfers to ever shoot a 59 in a professional tournament.

In 1998, Davis began racing Late Model Stock Cars in various Southeastern tracks, gaining experience and a handful of top-five finishes.

He is one of only a handful of players that have won a World Cup winners medal ( 1995 ), and Tri-Nations winners medal ( 1998 ) and a Currie Cup winners medals ( 1998 and 2002 ).

Blaudzun had a few wins in his time at Rabobank, but when he switched to German outfit Team Telekom in 1998, he only managed a handful of secondary finishes.