In a brief statement, Short said she was " ashamed " of Tony Blair's government and backed proportional representation, which she hoped would be achieved through a hung parliament.

He served as member of the English parliament for Boroughbridge during the six parliaments which met between 1614 and 1629 and also during the Short Parliament of 1640.

He refused to contribute to the expenses of the king's expedition to Scotland in 1639, and was returned to the Short parliament by Oxford University.

He was a Member of parliament for Worcestershire, 1620-2, 1624 – 26, and the Short Parliament of 1640.

When parliament reassembled for the Short Parliament in April 1640, Grenville was chosen as MP for Launceston again.

' Herbert replied with ' A Short Account of the Authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales's case ,' in which he argued that ' whatever is not prohibited by the law of God, but was lawful before any act of parliament made to forbid it, the king by his dispensation granted to a particular person may make lawful again to that person who has such dispensation, though it continues unlawful for everybody else.

There have also been several instances of MPs being elected under the auspices of a particular party, then resigning the party whip, or having it withdrawn: examples in the 2005-2010 parliament included Clare Short and Robert Wareing ( formerly Labour ) and Derek Conway ( formerly Conservative ).

A point of hot controversy today is the so-called " Rifkin hypothesis ," which re-examines the famous " Entwurff ," Bach's 1730 memo to the Leipzig City Council ( A Short but Most Necessary Draft for a Well Appointed Church Music ) calling for at least 12 singers.

This resulted in the calling of the assemblies known historically as the Short Parliament of 1640 and the Long Parliament, which sat with several breaks and in various forms between 1640 and 1660.

Although calling it a " Short Chassis " is a bit of a misnomer as the " short " comes from comparing it to the subsequent DB6, which has a longer chassis.

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

* An accessible primer for the literary aspect of critical theory is Jonathan Culler's Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction ISBN 0-19-285383-X

Jones ' animated short film The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics won the 1965 Oscar for Best Animated Short.

Short term enlistments were abandoned and the Dragoons joined for three years, or " the war ".

The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit " Blue Jean ", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, " Jazzin ' for Blue Jean ".

Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

The London Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-affiliated festival which takes place in January every year and is dedicated to finding and showcasing the work of new UK talent, including specific screenings for low budget work.

Finland, 2005: won the 2005 New York Short Film Festival Jury Award for Best Screenplay.

Short distances and the extensive network of motorways and railways make airplanes uncompetitive for travel within Germany.

* GPS – Short for Global Positioning System, also occasionally refers to the receiver itself.

* GPSr – Short for GPS receiver.

In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

* Short biography, bibliography, and links on digitized sources in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.

For the first time in twenty years since she lost to her sister Susan, Polgár lost her first classical game to a female player as Women's World champion Hou Yifan won their individual game and tied for first before losing the playoff to Nigel Short.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

* Short for Spanish jugar, meaning play.

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story " Gold Coast " for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ( Houghton Mifflin ).

The glorious news had been held up pending Heavenly confirmation of the elevation of a new Supreme Bishop, Huey Short -- a candidate accepted by the Boone faction after lots had been cast repeatedly.

Even in relatively new story collection translated as Russian 19th Century Gothic Tales ( from 1984 ), the editor used the name „ Фантастический мир русской романтической повести “ ( The Fantastic World of Russian Romanticism Short Story / Novella ).

Short lessons are included based on phonics elements that students are having trouble with, or on a new or difficult phonics pattern that appears in a class reading assignment.

Short of equipment at the outset when they set up base at Kibrit Air Base, particularly tents and related gear, the first operation of the new SAS was to relieve a well-equipped New Zealand unit of small tents, a large tent and contents including a bar and a piano.

Except for June Angela, an entirely new Short Circus was cast for Seasons Five and Six.

Balin had recently completed several new songs, including " Emergency " and the elongated R & B-infused " You Wear Your Dresses Too Short ," both of which later appeared on archival releases.

When Short indicated that he might take the team to new rival league that was developing however, the owners held another vote that same day and allowed the relocation ( 8 – 0 ).

Short after that the situation became better with several new orders including an increasing amount of warships.

In 1887, following the construction of the Oregon Short Line, most of the railroad facilities were removed to Pocatello where the new line branched off the U & NR but Eagle Rock was fast becoming the commercial center of an agricultural empire.

Short films such as The Critic, Bambi Meets Godzilla, Lupo the Butcher, and many others were almost unknown to mainstream audiences ; however, these independent animated films continued to keep the yearly category of the Academy Award for Animated Short Film alive, as well as introducing a number of new names into the field of animation — names that would begin to bring change to the industry in the 1980s.

Whilst the major world airlines abandoned flying-boats at the end of WWII, BOAC continued with theirs until 1950, and even introduced the new Short Solent on the leisurely Nile route to South Africa.

" Shortly after the founding of the PRC, land reform, according to Mao biographer Philip Short, " lurched violently to the left " with Mao laying down new guidelines for " not correcting excesses prematurely.

Meanwile off the pitch, Irish-American tycoon Ellis Short completed a full takeover of the club from the Irish Drumaville Consortium, and Steve Bruce was announced as the new manager on 3 June.

Television and rock ' n ' roll captured taste and fashion, including the new " short shorts " fad, since Bermuda shorts were considered old, dull, and " fuddy-duddy " although, as History of Costume author and FIT Professor Rachel Kemper noted, " Short shorts left a girl's ass hanging out.

After Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Short said that the change offered " a new beginning ", and hinted that she might re-join the parliamentary Labour party if Brown changed the policies that had caused her to leave.

In January 1640, in accordance with the king's new policy of moderation, Strode was released and on 13 April took his seat as MP for Bere Alston in the Short Parliament.

* Short, Lester L. ( 1970 ): A new anseriform genus and species from the Nebraska Pliocene.

He began a new column " Short Stories " for New in Chess magazine in January 2011.

However, Cantor's relentless attention to his own earnings in order to avoid the poverty he knew growing up caused him to use his writing talent, quickly building a new bank account with his highly popular, bestselling books of humor and cartoons about his experience, Caught Short!

A solution to the problem was found by the British government, who in 1933 had requested aviation manufacturer Short Brothers to design a big new long-range monoplane for use by IAL.