Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

One of the earliest road suspension bridges by Thomas Telford now carries a footpath whilst Robert Stephenson's tubular iron bridge still carries the main Holyhead to London railway line.

One of Stephenson's attorneys responded to the prosecution's assertion that Gussman was of " proud Castilian descent " by saying " he has descended a long way ".

One of the main characters in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Bobby Shaftoe, is a haiku-writing U. S. Marine Raider during World War II.

One advantage of Stephenson's design over Davy's was that if the proportion of firedamp became too high, his lamp would be extinguished, whereas Davy's lamp could become dangerously hot.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

One said, `` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ''.

One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt " improved the breed " and the " LM " team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

One class lives only in a variety of freshwater environments, and a few members of a mostly marine class prefer brackish water.

One hundred and fifty more occur with the prefix ge-( reckoning a few found only in the past-participle ), but of these one hundred occur also as simple verbs, and the prefix is employed to render a shade of meaning which was perfectly known and thoroughly familiar except in the latest Anglo-Saxon period.

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

One young Belgian officer wrote home: " Happily Gongo's men ate them up a few hours.

One suggested method is to take guaifenesin in the few days before ovulation.

One of the few, if not the only, times he left Scotland was towards the end of his life, when he returned to Ireland to found the monastery at Durrow.

One of the few residential designs by Saarinen, the home is a representation of International Style and was built for J. Irwin Miller.

One of his few religious artworks was created in 1960, Christ Head, with an angular " Modiglianiesque " portrait of Jesus Christ.

* – One of the few comprehensive books on these ships

Christianity, with a few exceptions, sees the One, True God as having triune personhood: God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus ) and God the Holy Spirit.

One of the few socialists to endorse the ERA, she warned that protective legislation for women would mean only discrimination against women.

One of Compaq's few bright spots was its services business, which was outperforming HP's own services division.

One of the few production telephone DTMF keypads with all 16 keys, from an Autovon Telephone.

One of the few general approaches is through the Hasse principle.

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.

One student did find some remains: a young Dutchman named Eugene Dubois went to the East Indies and dug up the remains of Java Man consisting of a skullcap, thighbone, and a few teeth.

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

One of the B-52s crashed from mechanical failures just north of the island with the loss of three of its six-man crew.

One day, Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair, two children from the city of Twin Seeds, go through failures.

One pump fire occurs per 1000 failures.

One of the most significant and far reaching failures was an inability to conclusively detect and apprehend the " Cambridge Five " spy ring which had formed in the inter-war years and achieved great success in penetrating the government, and the intelligence agencies themselves.

One indicator that space weather is a significant driver of spacecraft failure is that 46 of the 70 failures reported in 2003 occurred during the October 2003 geomagnetic storm.

One is to broaden the criteria for individual responsibility so that individuals are held accountable for failing to anticipate failures in the organization.

Comparable failures in Australia ( HIH, One. Tel ) are associated with the eventual passage of the CLERP 9 reforms.

Of the two helicopters that did not make it to Desert One, one suffered avionics failures en route and returned to the USS Nimitz, and the other had an indication that one of its main rotor blades was fractured, and was abandoned in the desert en route to Desert One.

One of the greatest failures to accomplish something later on in Wu's reign was during 255 and during the last few years of the 250's.

One of the longest SI members, and frequent editor of the journal Internationale Situationniste, Vaneigem finally left the SI in November 1970, citing their failures as well as his own in his letter of resignation.

One of the primary problems with preventing electical grid failures is that the speed of the control signal is no faster than the speed of the propagating power overload, i. e. since both the control signal and the electrical power are moving at the speed of light, it is not possible to isolate the outage by sending a warning ahead to isolate the element.

One sociologist notes that advantage and disadvantage are not always connected to individual successes or failures, but often to prior position in a social group.

One point of dispute is whether the failures to meet the constraint are intentional, and therefore potentially meaningful, or are simply editing mistakes.

One night outside the control or arrival after the official closing time ( 8 p. m .) costed 15 points, two nights-45 points, and three failures to reach the control caused a disqualification.

One of the major intelligence failures in this field were the riots by supporters of the PKK in 1998, which the BfV missed due to the Cologne carnival.

Jacques Villeneuve took what proved to be his final Formula One victory, after the race-leading McLaren-Mercedes cars had identical engine failures within moments of each other.

One of his failures was to turn down for Duckworth James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in 1915.

After the two successive failures, and a lack of funds, Willi Kauhsen withdrew from Formula One and closed the team.

He unsuccessfully entered three Formula One Grands Prix in 1978 with ATS ( two failures to qualify ) and Merzario ( one failure to pre-qualify ).

From a statistical point of view, those fourteen failures to pre-qualify make Langes the least successful driver in the history of Formula One.

He entered six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix with uncompetitive teams, firstly Maki for four races in 1975 and 1976, resulting in four failures to qualify.

However, financing for Tucker fell through when Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, filed for bankruptcy after the box office failures of One from the Heart ( 1982 ) and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ).

One of the biggest failures was not to provide a thin-client interface to the Holos Server, and this must have contributed to the product's demise.