Reigning World Cup holders Uruguay declined to participate, in protest at the refusal of several European countries to travel to South America for the previous World Cup, which Uruguay had hosted in 1930.

Reigning World Series MVP Manny Ramirez was featured on the cover of the 2005 installment of the series.

Reigning World Champion ( and local favourite ) Nelson Piquet qualified 7th in his Brabham-BMW, while a Formula One rookie by the name of Ayrton Senna qualified 17th for his first ever Grand Prix in his Toleman-Hart.

Reigning World Champion Alain Prost finished 3rd in his McLaren-TAG, one lap down on the Williams pair.

Reigning World Champion Ayrton Senna of McLaren was only in fourth place, having accumulated eight points.

Reigning world driver's champion Nelson Piquet and his Brabham-BMW were usually the fastest combination on track but appalling early season reliability, where the reigning Drivers ' World Champion failed to score a point due to numerous engine and turbo failures before his win in Canada, meant he was never able to challenge consistently, and by half way through the season it was apparent he wouldn't repeat as champion.

Reigning World Doubles Champions Alistair Graham & Julian Mitchell ( Hartham Park )

* World Chess Championship 1981: Reigning champion Anatoly Karpov retained his title when challenger Viktor Korchnoi conceded the 18th game of the series, giving Karpov the sixth win in the match, that had started on October 1 at the Kurzentrum playing hall in Merano, Italy.

* JP Donovan III – Reigning National Champion XTerra Triathons

Reigning five-time Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, the dominant driver of the 1950s and one of the greatest of all time, competed in only two races as a privateer, retiring after the French Grand Prix.

Reigning champion Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4 / 3 finished third.

Reigning from the death of his father Oscar II in 1907 until his own death 43 years later, he holds the record of being the oldest monarch of Sweden and the second-longest reigning after Magnus IV ; the longest-reigning as an adult.

By 1730 Nana Abla Poukou was entooled as the First Reigning Queen of the New Akan Kingdom of Baule after the death of Nana Osei Tutu I. thereby with the stools of Obiri Yeboah and DENKYIRA UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE NEW KINGDOM, Nana Poukou established Baule Dakon Clan as the undesputed leader and Ruler of the Akans.

Reigning champions Williams had a poor season overall, with only 3 podium finishes.

Reigning as Donald III, the new monarch represented the interests of " a resentful native aristocracy ", driving out the Anglo-Saxons and Normans who had staffed the court of Malcolm and Margaret.

Reigning champion Alberto Ascari had a less successful switch of teams, choosing to leave Ferrari for the newly formed Lancia team.

Reigning bearers of forms of Highness included grand princes, grand dukes, sovereign princes, reigning dukes and princely counts, their families and the agnatic descendants of emperors and kings.

* Reigning Sound This song which opens their 2002 album Time Bomb High School.

According to their House Laws, the Reigning Prince shall bear the titles:

Reigning champions Ireland hosted the European Cricket Championship ( Division One ) in late July and they won their third European title, winning every game, including the decisive encounter against Scotland by seven wickets.

It has since been performed by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Clodagh Rodgers, and Reigning Sound and most famously by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday.

Ntombi laTwala's image has been widely disseminated in the West since her inclusion in Andy Warhol's portrait series during her exercise of the regency for her son, as one of four Reigning Queens, along with Queens Beatrix of the Netherlands, Margrethe II of Denmark and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound ( aka Greg Oblivian of The Oblivians ) has been a constant creative force along with Nagy and Ramirez, who have been around since the group's genesis.

* Alex Greene ( also of Big Ass Truck and Reigning Sound ) — organ: 1989 – 1990

1576 she married Stephen Bathory ( 1533 – 1586 ), then Reigning Prince of Transylvania, who was 1576 elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

* Waller, Maureen ( 2006 ) Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England.

Reigning for only ten months, Romulus was then deposed by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer and sent to live in the Castellum Lucullanum in Campania ; afterwards he disappears from the historical record.

Reigning alone, Caracalla was noted for lavish bribes to the legionaries and unprecedented cruelty, authorizing numerous assassinations of perceived enemies and rivals.

* January 20 – Kalākaua, Last Reigning King of Hawaii ( b. 1836 )

* June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.

After its release, Rolling Stone deemed her " The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll.

* Reigning grand dukes and grand duchesses hold the style of Royal Highness.

* Reigning dukes and duchesses bore the style of Highness, as did other members of ducal families.

Reigning for 40 years from A. D. 618 to 658, he expanded the causeway system and saw an increase in the site ’ s population.

: Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Count of Rietberg, Sovereign of the House of Liechtenstein.

Two songs taken from the album (" Mandatory Suicide " and " South of Heaven ") have become near constant fixtures in the band's live setlist, notching up appearances on the following: the live DVDs Live Intrusion, War at the Warfield, Still Reigning, Soundtrack to the Apocalypses deluxe edition's bonus live disc, and the live double album Decade of Aggression.

" Metal Maniacs asked Slayer in a 2006 interview whether they would consider playing South of Heaven in the footsteps of the Still Reigning tour, to which Araya replied, " It's becoming a trendy thing now.

Reigning as Duke Carl Eduard, or Charles Edward, under the regency of the Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg until he came of age in 1905, the new duke also continued to use his British title, Duke of Albany.

" Strangers on a Train: Hitchcock's Rich Imagery Reigning Supreme " on Noir of the Week, April 20, 2008.

) Reigning female Russian rulers were styled imperatritsa.

Bands like Reigning Sound, Goober & the Peas and The Black Keys have all cited Fortune artists as influential.