However, the greatest glory of the Historical Cycle is the Buile Shuibhne ( The Frenzy of Sweeney ), a 12th century tale told in verse and prose.

Sweeney told his mother about the hijacking, and mentioned that passengers were considering storming the cockpit and taking control of the aircraft, as the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which had not yet been hijacked, would.

In her monologue, Sweeney shared a story of when her mother told her her birthday was really October 10 instead of September 10, and how traumatic it was to discover she was not a winsome Virgo but really a Libra, symbolized as a cosmic scale.

He praised the crowd and was about to sing and dance for them until Sweeney stepped in and told him he wouldn't be doing either until their demands were met.

However, the greatest glory of the Historical Cycle is the Buile Shuibhne ( The Frenzy of Sweeney ), a 12th century tale told in verse and prose.

The jury were told by Nigel Sweeney QC that " we have to make you sure that Stone confessed " and so the jury tested the evidence of Damien Daley by actually visiting the cells in question where an extract from one of the Harry Potter stories was read out through the duct in the cell wall.

Right-handed Sweeney told Elle that producers considered using an old Hollywood trick to create the illusion that he was hitting lefty.

His most notable recurring character was a portrayal of then-First Lady Nancy Reagan ; Sweeney was told by Ron Reagan, who hosted one of that season's episodes, that he was " more like his mother than she is.

Books sets himself up to die on his birthday rather than die of cancer and sends Gillom to three specific men: Mike Sweeney ; Jack Pulford ( Hugh O ' Brian ), a professional gambler and pistol shot ; and Jay Cobb ( Bill McKinney ) ( each one being unaware that Gillom told the others ) with a message saying he will be at the Metropole saloon on January 29, his 58th birthday.

On June 1, 2006, Senator Sweeney and two Assembly Democrats, Paul Moriarty ( D, 4th legislative district ) and Jerry Green ( D, 22nd legislative district ), held a press conference to announce their support for cuts of as much as 15 % to New Jersey state worker salaries and benefits, as part of an effort to avoid a one-point increase in the state's sales tax proposed by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine that had been supported by unions representing state government workers.

Sweeney served as press secretary for Senator Gary Hart from 1983 until 1987, including Hart's 1984 presidential campaign.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

Sweeney had also said that the main goal of the programming on Disney Channel was not to entertain, but to solely make money, officially stating that Disney Channel would be " the major profit driver for the ( Walt Disney ) Company.

On February 8, 2007 at the Disney Investor Conference, Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, announced that they would rebrand Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in order to tie its successful productions more closely with the ABC brand.

* Scotland Yard's real Flying Squad lost an important surveillance technique when The Sweeney exposed their use of the roadside tents erected by telephone engineers, who would place them over open manholes in the street to protect them from the weather.

Boxer John Kraynak ( December 15, 1894, Plymouth, Pennsylvania – June 14, 1961, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA ) used the name Bob " KO " Sweeney because it was a more " Irish-sounding " name that would result in a bigger draw for his fights.

Sweeney also promised that more attention would be paid to these bodies, which the New Voice ticket saw as important in supporting locallabor actions and enlarging the federation's political capabilities.

Sweeney recommended creating a National Labor Political Training Center to recruit and train candidates and political campaign directors, and establishing a Labor Center for Economic and Public Policy that would develop policy analysis, support the federation's legislative agenda and expand the political activities of the state federations and central labor councils.

When Sweeney had first been elected of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he had proposed a constitutional amendment which would bar anyone 70 years of age or older from seeking executive office.

The proposed amendment was never acted on, but Sweeney promised the convention he would not remain in office beyond the age limit he had proposed.

Sweeney said he would chair a committee composed of the federation's 25-member executive committee which would make reform recommendations to the February 2005 AFL-CIO executive council meeting.

Other guests that would appear were his family members, such as Macaulay Culkin playing his nephew or Julia Sweeney playing his sister, who suffers from battered wife syndrome.

Cariou's film credits include Flags of Our Fathers, About Schmidt, Thirteen Days, The Four Seasons, the Harold Prince-directed screen adaptation of A Little Night Music with Elizabeth Taylor and Secret Window in which he starred alongside Johnny Depp who would later go onto play Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the Tim Burton directed musical based on the Broadway show.

He said Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the Park with George were two of his biggest influences, and had it not been for them, he would have joined a rock band and tried to be Billy Joel.

Murphy later attempted to broker a trade to the Boston Braves in which the Cubs would receive Boston star Bill Sweeney.

Sweeney sponsored legislations that would create mandatory drug testing for all federal employees, and legislations that would ban all research pertaining to legalization of drugs.

In 2001, Sweeney voted against a bill that would require increasing average fuel efficiency standards and offer incentives for alternative fuel vehicles.

Vance is also the first ( and so far only ) SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( according to the SNL 30th Anniversary edition of Trivial Pursuit, Vance had dyslexia, which made it hard for her to memorize lines and read from cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in some cases ) the only black, female cast member who is now dead ( Vance died of breast cancer in 1994 ), and was the show's first lesbian cast member ( nearly 27 years later, SNL would hire another lesbian cast member -- Kate McKinnon, who, unlike Danitra Vance and much like Terry Sweeney, is openly gay ).

Nigel Sweeney QC for the Crown, said that at the trial Daley had accepted " he was an individual who would lie when it suited him " but had nothing to gain by lying about Stone.

" Notable in the large and excellent cast of Eight Men Out are D. B. Sweeney, who gives Shoeless Joe Jackson the slow, voluptuous Southern naivete of the young Elvis ; Michael Lerner, who plays the formidable gangster Arnold Rothstein with the quietest aplomb ; Gordon Clapp as the team's firecracker of a catcher ; John Mahoney as the worried manager who senses much more about his players ' plans than he would like to, and Michael Rooker as the quintessential bad apple.

On the April 12 ROH show, Larry Sweeney announced that he had opened a " Diva School " and invited Sytch to be the " trainer ", an offer she claimed she would consider.

A two-thirds vote of the delegates was needed to create the position, but the Sweeney camp's internal vote count showed that only about 57 percent of the delegates supported the proposal.

Juror 9 ( Joseph Sweeney ) is the first to support Juror 8, feeling that his points deserve further discussion.

The SIS has continued to publish updates of this ongoing discussion, in particular the work of historian Emmet Sweeney.

Sweeney was strongly pro-life, and was vocal about his views on the subject.

Dicuil had met a " man worthy of trust " who related to his master, the abbot Sweeney ( Suibhne ), how he had landed on the Faroe Islands after having navigated " two days and a summer night in a little vessel of two banks of oars.

This version of the story was the first to give Todd a more sympathetic motive: he is a wrongfully imprisoned barber who returns to London after 15 years in an Australian penal colony under the new name Sweeney Todd, only to find that the judge responsible for his imprisonment has raped his young wife and driven her to suicide, and adopted his daughter.

She met Mike Sweeney while still living on the East Coast ; after moving to Sonoma County, California, they married.

In writers Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky's original script for " Bart the Daredevil ", Hibbert was a woman, named " Julia Hibbert ", who they named after comedic actress Julia Sweeney ( Hibbert was her married last name at the time ).

Sweeney was ejected in a game versus the Detroit Tigers on August 10 ( 1st career ejection ) after charging pitcher Jeff Weaver in the sixth inning.

Danny reluctantly agrees after Sweeney threatens expulsion.

He is forced to write a story about the events leading up to Derek's incarceration after a paper he wrote concerning his choice for a civil rights hero being a supremely racist, was thrown in the trash by Dr. Sweeney.

* Avery Brooks as Dr. Robert Sweeney, Derek's former honors English teacher, Principal at Danny's high school, and Danny's impromptu history teacher after Murray refuses to teach him any further

The role of flight attendants received heightened prominence after the September 11 attacks when flight attendants ( such as Sandra W. Bradshaw and CeeCee Lyles of United Airlines Flight 93, Robert Fangman of United Airlines Flight 175, Renee May of American Airlines Flight 77 and Betty Ong and Madeline Amy Sweeney of American Airlines Flight 11 ) actively attempted to protect passengers from assault, and also provided vital information to air traffic controllers on the hijackings.

Caroline Gilchrist Rhea ( born April 13, 1964 ) is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actress who was the original host of the reality television show The Biggest Loser on NBC until she was replaced by Alison Sweeney after the end of the third season.

Minder was devised as a vehicle for Dennis Waterman after his success in The Sweeney, with George Cole's wheeler-dealer character being almost a secondary character, with the plot concept of Arthur assigning Terry a new " minding " job each episode.

The Times stated that in a BBC investigation into Abramovich's wealth, reporter John Sweeney noted that, after the oligarch ( Abramovich ) emerged at the top of the trade, the murders stopped.

In 1982, after completing work on Poltergeist, Dunne met and later moved in with a Los Angeles chef, John Thomas Sweeney ( born and raised in Hazleton, PA ), who was sous-chef at the restaurant Ma Maison.

A few weeks later, on October 30, after she refused to reconcile with him, Sweeney and Dunne argued in the driveway of her home, where she was rehearsing for the TV mini-series V with actor David Packer.

Three months after taking office, Sweeney led the 45, 000 members of SEIU out on a surprise strike against the New York Realty Advisory Board a day before the union's contract was due to expire.

Soon after taking office, Sweeney initiated several programs intended to reverse the decline in union membership and recruit more new members, especially younger people.

Both Sweeney and Change to Win reached out to one another after the break-up of the AFL-CIO, although the relationship was difficult.

Sweeney shot and killed Lowenstein in his New York City law office on March 14, 1980, after which he turned himself in to the police.

As Drake & Sweeney comes after Brock with theft and malpractice allegations, the Clinic launches a lawsuit against the law firm and its business partners.

His father nicknamed him " Pat " before he was born, after the Irish heavyweight boxer Pat Sweeney, " a dirty fighter known for kicking his opponents.

Chavez-Thompson was elected executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO after John Sweeney ran for the presidency of the labor federation in 1995.

Donahue's supporters claimed that the office was created only to ensure Chavez-Thompson's election after Sweeney passed her over in favor of Trumka.

In early October 1995, Sweeney began working to persuade delegates to delay a vote on the issue until after the AFL-CIO presidential election on October 24.