On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.

On the eve of trial, the case settled worldwide to the parties ' " mutual satisfaction "; the amount that CBS paid to the Orwell Estate was not disclosed.

On the eve of the election, Davenport citizens acquired the temporary service of Dubuque laborers so they could vote in the election.

On the eve of the National Equality March in Washington, D. C., October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but he offered no timetable.

On the eve of the First World War in 1914, Beatty was knighted with the KCB, and promoted to acting Vice-Admiral a month later.

On the eve of K .' s thirty-first birthday, two men arrive at his apartment.

On the eve of War, an agreement about rendering the military help for Ethiopia was concluded.

On the eve of World War II, Soviet archives indicate a combined camp and colony population upwards of 1. 6 million in 1939, according to V. P. Kozlov.

On the eve of his death in 1556, the Mughal empire spanned almost one million square kilometers.

On the eve of Yom Kippur, before candles are lit, a prefast meal, the " seuda mafseket ", is eaten.

On the eve of the First World War a growing tension and unease with the social order, already seen in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the agitation of " radical " parties, also manifested itself in artistic works in every medium which radically simplified or rejected previous practice.

* 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.

On May Day eve, country women won ’ t work in the field as well as in the house to avoid devastating storms and hail coming down on the village.

On the eve of his tour of Pakistan later that year, doubts were cast on his ability to trouble subcontinental batsmen.

On the eve of the marathon, all the entrants of the race except for the Finns, whose positions were known, filed a petition asking Nurmi's entry to be accepted.

On May 17, 1980, the eve of the presidential elections, it burned ballot boxes in the town of Chuschi.

On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp.

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

** Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.

On the eve of his flight, he wrote:

On the eve of the election the Democrats widely published a letter — allegedly over Garfield's signature — which favored Chinese immigration, in an attempt to affect the outcome of the election.

On the eve of perestroika the ECP claimed about 100, 000 members ; less than half were ethnic Estonians and they totalled less than 7 % of the country's population.

On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned down the pardon request, citing a " lack of conclusiveness and the historical ambiguity " over Wallace's actions.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

On 8 November 1941, the Communist Party of Albania ( later renamed the Albanian Party of Labour in 1948 ) was founded.

On 20 October the Finnish Labour Union proclaimed the need to establish Worker's Guards in the country.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

On 20 July, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Matthew Cheung announced the waiver commencement date would be brought forward by one month.

On 11 September 1997, the 700th anniversary of Battle of Stirling Bridge, the Blair led Labour government again held a referendum on the issue of devolution.

On 1 May, Goebbels organised demonstrations and parades to mark the " Day of National Labour ," which preceded the Nazi takeover and destruction of the German trade union movement.

Smith On Labour Value Bilbo, Biscay, Spain: University of the Basque Country Working Paper.

On July 23, 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday.

On occasion, opposing trade unions clashed on this day, so in 1972, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley promoted Labour Day as a showcase for the importance of labour to the development of Jamaica, and a day of voluntary community participation to beneficial projects.

The ERP guerrillas and their supporting network of militants came under heavy attack in April 1976, and the Montoneros were forced to come to their assistance with money, weapons and safe houses. On 21 June 1976, the Labour Relations Manager of Swift ( an American food processing company ), Osvaldo Raúl Trinidad is shot and killed outside his home in the La Plata suburb of Buenos Aires after coming under fire from a car load of masked peronist guerrillas.

On polling day, Labour easily took second place, but with only 31 per cent to the SDP-Liberal Alliance's 22 per cent.

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

On 8 July 1970, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the Common Market, while the party opposed it.

On 25 February, he made another speech at Shipley and urged a vote for Labour and saying he did not believe the claim that Wilson would renege his commitment to renegotiation, which Powell believed was ironic because of Heath's premiership: " In acrobatics Harold Wilson, for all his nimbleness and skill, is simply no match for the breathtaking, thoroughgoing efficiency of the present Prime Minister ".

On 23 March 1977, in a vote of confidence against the minority Labour government, Powell, along with a few other Ulster Unionists, abstained.

On 8 October 1924, the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald suffered defeat in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence, forcing MacDonald to go to the King to seek a dissolution of Parliament and new elections.

On 11 June 1942 he made his last-ever speech in the House of Commons, and he cast his last vote in the Commons on 18 February 1943 as one of the 121 MPs ( 97 Labour ) condemning the Government for its failure to back the Beveridge Report.

On Saturday 20 February 2010, the Labour Party withdrew from the government after arguments over Afghanistan.

On the eve of the Nationalist attack, Wang Shouhua, who was both the head of the CCP Labour Committee and the Chairman of the General Labour Committee, accepted a dinner invitation from " Big-eared Du " ( a Shanghai gangster ) and was strangled after he arrived.

On 15 September 1916 the NSW executive of the Political Labour League ( the Labor Party organisation at the time ) expelled Hughes from the Labor Party.

On July 22, 2011, Norwegian conservative Anders Behring Breivik launched a terror attack on the capital, bombing government offices in Oslo and orchestrating a shooting at Utøya Island in Buskerud, where the Workers ' Youth League ( the youth wing of the Labour Party ) was holding an annual youth camp.