Key tracks include the title song, " Splendid Isolation ", " Run Straight Down " ( which had a promotional video that featured Zevon singing in a factory while Gilmour played his guitar solos ) and " They Moved the Moon ", the latter among Zevon's eerier ballads.

In that capacity, he managed Britain's foreign affairs, famously pursuing a policy of " Splendid Isolation ".

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Some historians, such as John Charmley, have argued that Splendid Isolation was a fiction for the period prior to the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1892, and only something forced on them against their will following it.

The policy of ' Splendid Isolation ' is perceived to have been characterized by a reluctance to enter into permanent European alliances or commitments with the other Great Powers and by an increase in the importance given to British colonies, protectorates and dependencies overseas in an era of increasing competition in the wider world, a situation relatively unknown since Britain's conflicts with France during the eighteenth century.

As such much modern historiography now discounts Splendid Isolation as a conscious policy choice.

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In 2005 his second LP Splendid Isolation followed the line.

* 2005 Splendid Isolation ( Mole Listening Pearls )

Splendid, too, is the performance of Yuri Tolubeyev, one of Russia's leading comedians, as Sancho Panza, the fat, grotesque `` squire ''.

" Splendid it is ," was the travelers reply, " but methinks not it confers much strength.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, after examining the philosophical works of Khayyám, maintains that it is really reductive to just look at the poems ( which are sometimes doubtful ) to establish his personal views about God or religion ; in fact, he even wrote a treatise entitled " al-Khutbat al-gharrå ˘" ( The Splendid Sermon ) on the praise of God, where he holds orthodox views, agreeing with Avicenna on Divine Unity.

The song of fairywrens is pleasant and complex, and at least two species ( Superb and Splendid ) possess, in addition to the alarm calls common to – and universally understood by – most small birds, another vocalization used when confronted by predators.

* Shinichi Segi, Yoshitoshi: The Splendid Decadent ( Kodansha, Tokyo, 1985 ) is an excellent, but rare, overview of him

The provincial slogan is The Frontier of the East, Beautiful Forests and Splendid Waterfalls, Plenty of Ancient Civilisations and the Commercial Venue between Thailand and Cambodia.

In " Blue Harvest " he can be seen in a cantina, and in " The Splendid Source ", he is one of the people who had heard and told a dirty joke whose original author Peter, Joe and Quagmire are seeking.

The Splendid Sunbird, Cinnyris coccinigastrus ( formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia ), is a sunbird.

Within the genus, the Superb Fairywren's closest relative is the Splendid Fairywren ; these two " Blue wrens " are also related to the Purple-crowned Fairywren of northwestern Australia.

The Splendid Shilling, like Pope's poetry and the other poetry by the " Tory Wits ," is a statement of the social man.

That the Bronze plays live music is not only used as a plot device for Oz's band Dingoes Ate My Baby but also as a subtle means for the production team to showcase new bands from the Los Angeles area, as well as more well-known artists and bands such as Aimee Mann, Splendid, Cibo Matto, Angie Hart, Michelle Branch, K's Choice, Garbage and Nerf Herder.

Madog is referred to as " Splendid Madog ... / Of Owain Gwynedd's line, / He desired not land ... / Or worldy wealth but the sea.

" Splendid summarized " It is impossible to understand a Robot Ate Me album from a written description.

* The Splendid Fairywren ( Malurus splendens ), a passerine bird in the Maluridae family, is colored azure.

James is one of the few characters to have their own song ( James The Really Splendid Engine ) in the TV series, the chorus of which is based on his theme music used in the early seasons.

Splendid sublime is completely pervaded with beauty, like a deep and wide waterfall surrounded with colorful flowers.

It was a sister park to Splendid China in Shenzhen, China which is still open and receives many visitors.

Splendid China Folk Village ( Chinese: 锦绣中华民俗村, pinyin: Jǐnxiù Zhōnghuá Mínsú Cūn ) is a theme park including two areas ( Splendid China Miniature Park & China Folk Culture Village ) located in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.

Splendid China is situated by the Shenzhen Bay in a tourist area of Overseas Chinese Town ( OCT ) in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

The expansion is necessary to compete with the new rival mall Splendid China Tower on the opposite side of Steeles Avenue East.

Splendid Geyser is a geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.

Nicknamed " The Kid ", " The Splendid Splinter ", " Teddy Ballgame ", " The Thumper " and, because of his hitting prowess, " The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived ", Williams ' career was twice interrupted by service as a U. S. Marine Corps fighter-bomber pilot.

They Leap Madly Upon the Splendid Pleasure Palace by the Bay of Monterey, Encircling Del Monte in Their Ravenous Embrace From Pinnacle to Foundation.

An excerpt from The Splendid Century appeared first in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, a volume edited by his brother as an informal Festschrift to benefit Williams ' widow.

He's also a frequent guest on the Today Show, Martha Stewart Radio program " Living Today " hosted by Mario Bosquez, Good Food with Evan Kleiman, and Connecticut Style and reads his essays and columns on public radio's food program " The Splendid Table hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper ".

* The third Splendid was a submarine of the S class, launched in 1942 and sunk in 1943 by a German destroyer.

Prior to Ambrose Philips, John Philips, whose The Splendid Shilling of 1701 was an imitation of John Milton's blank verse for a discussion of the miseries of poverty, was championed by Addison's Kit-Kats.

Initially, the grades were indicated by Book 1, Book 2 and so on, but in later editions each grade had its own title in the series, e. g., Ready to Roll and Rolling Along were the Open Highways books for the first grade, Moving Ahead and More Power the books for the second grade, and Splendid Journey and Speeding Away the books for the third grade.

* " The Splendid Enterprise-The First Fifty Years of Plas y Brenin The National Mountain Centre ( UK )", by Lyndsey King, Published 2006, ISBN 978-0-9554675-0-9

* a play by Splendid Productions which performs the scenes as they were found, rather than chronologically

Philips was loath to publish his verse but his Splendid Shilling was included, without his consent, in a ` Collection of Poems ' published by David Brown and Benjamin Tooke in 1701.

The Splendid Shilling, a burlesque in Miltonic blank verse, was described by Joseph Addison as " the finest burlesque poem in the English language ".

* A Thousand Splendid Suns ( the second novel by Khaled Hosseini )

The lakes and waterside pavilions in Chinese gardens were also influenced by another classic of Chinese literature, the Shishuo Xinyu by Liu Yiqing ( 403-444 ), who described the promenades of the Emperor Jianwen of Jin along the banks of the Hao and the Pu River, in the Garden of the Splendid Forest ( Hualin yuan ).

Splendid China was criticized for being owned by the government of the People's Republic of China in that officers of the corporation that owned, controlled and operated Florida Splendid China ( China Travel Service ) were appointed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China.