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One and evening
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
One night, at the close of the evening service, he came forward, left his resentment at the altar and gave his heart to God.
One soft evening -- that marvelous sea-blessed time when the sun's departing warmth lingers and a smell of spume and wrack haunts everything -- Amy had picked herself off the floor and begun to walk.
One evening, a masked thief sneaks into Sir Te's estate and steals the sword.
One who attends an evening of contra dances in North America does not need to bring his or her own partner.
Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.
" He did not have much time for Kurtz: " One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, ' I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.
One evening Susan was studying an endgame with their trainer, a strong International Master.
In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?
After the huge success of the show in its early evening slot on BBC Two, a prime-time edition was shown on BBC One, usually broadcast on Wednesday evenings.
One evening in September of that year, Wagner read the finished poem of " Tristan " to an audience including his wife, Minna, his current muse, Mathilde, and his future mistress ( and later wife ), Cosima von Bülow.
One evening in the autumn of 1531, Anne was dining at a manor house on the river Thames and was almost seized by a crowd of angry women.
One evening, Intaphernes went to the palace to meet Darius, but was stopped by two officers who stated that Darius had retired for the night.
One of the most controversial Archers episodes was broadcast on 22 September 1955, the evening of the launch of the UK's first commercial television station, ITV.
One evening on a lonely country road, Hammer gives a ride to Christina ( Cloris Leachman ), an attractive hitchhiker wearing nothing but a trench coat.
One evening Kaufman insisted on finding a beer can as a prop to be used in a scene, but while he was absent, Eastwood ordered Surtees to quickly shoot the scene as light was fading and then drove away, leaving Kaufman before he had returned.
One evening when giving a political address, he was hailed by his supporters as he leaned over the podium pointing at a long-haired heckler.
" One evening in the following year, the Prime Minister mentioned to Governor General the Lord Byng of Vimy that Buchan would be a suitable successor to Byng, with which the Governor General agreed, the two being friends.
One of the poems, Vespers – which describes young Christoper Robin saying his evening prayers – was said by Christopher Milne as " the one work that has brought me over the years more toe-curling, fist-clenching, lip-biting embarrassment than any other ".
* " One for the money: Rukeyser ’ s Friday evening pavane " Current ( September 28, 1998 )
One evening in mid-May, 1862 General James Shields and his staff conferred in the parlor of the local hotel.
One evening he serenades " Katerina " outside her dorm, with Cyril providing guitar accompaniment.
Wheeler had a home at what is now One Ocean hotel ( now in Atlantic Beach ), and had to walk all the way home from Mayport each evening after taking the Florida East Coast Railway train home from work in Jacksonville.
One evening Mrs. Wetherell was startled by a noise at the well and looking out saw a big black bear down on his haunches trying to get a drink.

One and passed
One instance occurred in February 1988, when the government in Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian region in the Azerbaijan SSR, passed a resolution calling for unification with the Armenian SSR.
When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).
One can for instance acquire a shotgun license through a skeet shooting club but may only use it for clay pigeon shooting until an actual hunting examination has been passed.
One surviving example is the Motobu-ryū school passed down from the Motobu family by Seikichi Uehara.
One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.
One third of people, according to the survey agree that their password protected data is important enough to be passed on in their will.
One problem with the horse towing path where it passed under a bridge was abrasion of the rope on the bridge arch.
One version was passed by the Congress, while another is found in the copies distributed to the States and then ratified by them.
One notable effort by " Providence Plantations " ( Providence and Warwick ) during the time when Coddington had separated " Rhode Island " ( Newport and Portsmouth ) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law which attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony.
One important constitutional principle which is stated in Article 8 of the Legislation Law of the People's Republic of China is that an action can become a crime only as a consequence of a law passed by the full NPC and that other organs of the Chinese government do not have the power to criminalize activity.
One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen, which led astronomer Camille Flammarion to claim that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas " would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.
One year later, in 1481, when Charles died, the title passed to Louis XI of France.
One column passed through Saxony, another through Lusatia, while a third advanced from Silesia.
One infantry officer recommended it to the exclusion of all other designs, noting that " the intrenching tools of an army rarely get up to the front until the exigency for their use has passed.
One easy trick for legacy code to adopt a more efficient model without major changes to its source code is simply to set the sleep parameter passed to WaitNextEvent to a very large value — on OS X, this puts the thread to sleep whenever there is nothing to do, and only returns an event when there is one to process.
One of the last Roman strongholds to surrender to the Germanic tribes, Metz passed into the hands of the Franks about the end of the 5th century.
Within Taiwan, there is a distinction between the positions of the Kuomintang ( KMT ): the Kuomintang also believes in the " One China Principle " and maintains its claim that under the ROC Constitution ( passed by the Kuomintang government in 1947 in Nanjing ) the ROC has sovereignty over most of China ( including by their interpretation both mainland China and Taiwan ) and, according to some interpretations of that constitution, Mongolia.
In March 2005, the PRC passed an Anti-Secession Law which authorized the use of force to prevent a " serious incident " that breaks the One China policy, but which at the same time did not identify one China with the People's Republic and offered to pursue political solutions.
At the same session of the PRC Congress, a large increase in military spending was also passed, leading blue team members to interpret those measures as forcing the ROC to adhere to the One China Policy or else the PRC would attack.
One of his few contributions was to insist that a system of written staff orders should replace the existing haphazard system of orders passed by word of mouth.
Joyce himself tacitly acknowledged this radically different approach to language and plot in a 1926 letter to Harriet Weaver, outlining his intentions for the book: " One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
One student named Abe no Nakamaro passed the Chinese civil examination to be appointed to governmental posts in China.
One by one they passed through to the other side.
One of the Cherokee Trail of Tears routes passed through Sedgewickville while another route passed through Glennon and Zalma.

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