In later years of his career, Sorsa went into his Social Democratic Party's primary elections as candidate for president in 1993, but was defeated in a humiliating way by the relatively unknown international civil servant Martti Ahtisaari.

Chairman of the Centre Party, Johannes Virolainen, was threatened by Kekkonen with dissolution of parliament when Kekkonen wanted to nominate SDP's Sorsa instead of Virolainen as Prime Minister.

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

In 1974 Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa appointed Halonen as his parliamentary secretary.

In 1969, Sorsa was brought in from relative obscurity by Rafael Paasio to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of national politics.

Despite the opposition of far-left parties, Sorsa supported the European Economic Community ( EEC ) free trade agreement in the 1970s, which would have made the ties between Finland and EEC countries closer.

Many famous social democrats from other countries have visited Bommersvik through the years, including Shimon Peres, Neil Kinnock, Willy Brandt, Trygve Bratteli, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Kalevi Sorsa, Mário Soares, François Mitterrand and Bruno Kreisky.

Soares reminded the memory of Kalevi Sorsa comparing his generosity and those dwarfs, who now want to rule Finland, their ethical values and hostility against Portugal with great difference.

* In 1983, Finnish singer Riki Sorsa recorded the song with original Japanese lyrics as " Sukiyaki ( Ue O Muite Aruko )".

Other famous Suomalainen characters include president Mauno Koivisto ( a man with thick eyebrows and a strand of hair pointing upwards ), prime minister Kalevi Sorsa ( a cross between a man and a duck-in Finnish, " sorsa " means " duck ") and the artist himself ( a short, rotund man with long, black hair and a mushroom-shaped hat ).

At the Arctic Challenge 2007, the organizer and snowboard legend, Terje Haakonsen broke the highest air record in the quarterpipe with 9. 8 m above the lip ( top part of the obstacle ), established by Heikki Sorsa at 9. 3 m in 2001.

* 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland ( b. 1930 )

** Kalevi Sorsa, prime minister of Finland ( d. 2004 )

Taisto Kalevi Sorsa ( December 21, 1930 – January 16, 2004 ) was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972 – 1975, 1977 – 1979, 1982 – 1983 and 1983 – 1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister.

Sorsa was the chairman of Social Democratic Party from 1975 to 1987 and Prime Minister of Finland of four cabinets for about 10 years total ( 1972 – 1975, 1977 – 1979, 1982 – 1983, 1983 – 1987 ).

Sorsa is regarded as one of the most influential prime ministers of Finland.

* January 16-Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland.

The most famous resident of Merihaka was, probably, the former prime minister of Finland, Kalevi Sorsa.

In the 1970s, President Kekkonen seemed to regard Koivisto as his potential rival and supported his Social Democratic colleague, Kalevi Sorsa, instead.

Kalevi Sorsa went to school in Jyväskylä and Lappeenranta.

Sorsa started participating in SDP politics in Lappeenranta 1948.

Before his political career Sorsa worked for UNESCO in Paris 1959 – 1965, and was Secretary-General of Finnish UNESCO board 1965 – 1969, and official in the Ministry of Education 1967 – 1969.

Sorsa was one of the major political figures during presidencies of Kekkonen and Koivisto.

Sorsa also participated actively in the international social democratic movement.

Sorsa had collected inside his party a small, but significant amount of enemies over the years.

Sorsa replaced Ahde as Speaker in 1989.

Kalevi Sorsa died of cancer on January 16, 2004 at his home in Helsinki.

The Kalevi Sorsa Foundation is a social democratic think tank named in his honour.

The Finnish political cartoonist Kari Suomalainen drew a strip where Kalevi Sorsa meets Karjalainen and a strange-looking animal he is carrying on a leash.

" asks Sorsa, and the strange-looking animal replies " No, that's Ahti.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

`` You know '', Norton said to me later, `` I am thinking of setting up the Klinico Brownapopolus.

`` Sit down '', he said, `` and enjoy your drink and look for your checkbook later.

`` I've never done this before '', she said later, when he was arranging himself to leave.

In the child health field, the President said he will recommend later an increase in funds for programs under the children's bureau.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

About five minutes later he jumped up, Slate said, and struck the two policemen again.

While he declined to suggest, how, he said that sooner or later we must get rid of Castro, `` for unless we do we're liable to face similar situations in this hemisphere.

`` I was hitting the ball well '', Player said later, `` and I felt strong.

The details of the suburban concerts next season, and the centers in which they will be given, will be announced later, Mr. Toobin said.

he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said, `` For Christ's sake, Donald, you've got Prussian blue all over your shirt '', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all over his pants as well.

`` I feel I must answer the question '', he said, `` since the onus later, if any, should fall on me -- I don't relish recriminations spread broadcast outside my family.

A long time later, by cosmic clock, she said, `` Mike??

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

Muhammad later reaffirmed this title when he said that Abu Bakr is the ' atiqe ' ( the one saved from hell fire by God ).

There is scarcely anything to be said for the possibility of Ambrose having written the book before he became a bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of Hilary of Poitiers on Romans.

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

Forty-two years later, Henry's first biographer, William Wirt, working from oral histories, tried to reconstruct what Henry said.

* as the subject of an indirect statement ( e. g. Dixit me fuisse saevum, " He said that I had been cruel ;" in later Latin works, such as the Vulgate, such a construction is replaced by quod and a regularly structured sentence, having the subject in the nominative: e. g., Dixit quod ego fueram saevus ).

They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.