The year 1706 had indeed proved to be the Allies ' annus mirabilis.

The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.

1947 proved to be a particularly difficult year for the government ; an exceptionally cold winter that year caused coal mines to freeze and cease production, creating widespread power cuts and food shortages.

This probably convinced him that the sum equals π < sup > 2 </ sup > / 6, which he proved in the same year.

The 1924 season proved to be arguably the strangest year in Essendon's entire history.

His reputation swelled further with the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in the same year in Berlin, and which proved another great propaganda success for the regime as orchestrated by master propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

That same year, investigation proved convicts still had ample access to illicit drugs and four inmates from the Dr. S. Van Mesdagkliniek were arrested for possession of child pornography.

The 2010 season proved a big year for the Jaguars on the field as well.

Although Schrödinger himself after a year proved the equivalence of his wave-mechanics and Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, the reconciliation of the two approaches and their modern abstraction as motions in Hilbert space is generally attributed to Paul Dirac, who wrote a lucid account in his 1930 classic Principles of Quantum Mechanics.

Hunt won on three occasions that year but the Lauda and Ferrari combination proved too strong, Hunt and McLaren managing just fifth and third in the respective championships.

Newton's apparent influence and charisma proved beneficial to him and his parish when local Evangelical merchant, John Thornton, to whom he had sent a copy of his autobiography, offered the parish £ 200 per year, requesting that Newton, in part, provided for the poor.

A constitution was also promulgated in the same year, but it proved ineffective because of the foreign origin of its liberal, democratic tenets.

At the Council of Clermont held in November of the same year, Urban II's sermon proved highly effective, as he summoned the attending nobility and the people to wrest the Holy Land and the eastern churches generally from the control of the Seljuk Turks.

Both proved popular, however Richmond Hill emerged as only a moderate success and was cancelled after one year to be replaced on Ten by E Street ( 1989 – 1993 ).

Per capita GDP growth has proved mediocre, though improving, growing by 1. 6 % a year from 1994 to 2009, and by 2. 2 % over the 2000 – 09 decade.

Desperately needing a win against the Dodgers in the final game of the year to force a one-game playoff with the Braves in San Francisco, the controversial choice of Giants rookie pitcher Salomon Torres proved disastrous as he gave up three runs in the first four innings and the Giants went on to lose the game 12 – 1.

2009 proved to be especially good for Bullock, giving the actress two record highs in her career, as earlier in the year she released The Proposal, with co-star Ryan Reynolds, a huge hit that took in more than $ 314 million at the box office worldwide, making it her most successful picture to date.

2007 has proved to be the most prolific year of touring since the reunion.

Though Democrats reinstated the disappearing quorum when they took control of the House the following year, Reed as minority leader proved so adroit at using the tactic against them that Democrats reinstated Reed Rules in 1894.

: Theorem ( name of person who proved it and year of discovery, proof or publication ).

It has been estimated that over a quarter of a million theorems are proved every year.

In the elections of 1828 the new party proved unexpectedly strong, and after this year it became the main opposition party in New York.

The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the Norse were not able to mount a further attack that year.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

But even so, he had a good year in 1960 and won't do too much better.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

The shift in sentiment from excessive optimism early in the year to the present mood of caution has probably been a good thing, in that it has prevented the accumulation of the burdensome inventories that have characterized many previous swings in the business cycle.

Separate phonographs also had a good year, reflecting the growing popularity of stereo sound and the same tendency on the part of the consumer to upgrade that characterized the radio-TV market.

Although the impact of these increases on our industry's shipments will be gradual, on balance I look for another good increase in shipments in the coming year, to at least $6 billion.

In sum, I look for another good year for the electronics industry in 1961, with total sales increasing about 7% to $10.8 billion, despite the uncertainties in the business outlook generally.

Returns for money and labor invested may be small even in a good year.

If a red Bordeaux of a good name and year is bitter or acid, or cloying and muddy-tasting, leave it alone for a while.

Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

These guns ( some of which were of the three barrelled kind first seen at Elixheim the previous year ) enjoyed good arcs of fire, able to fully cover the approaches of the plateau of Jandrenouille over which the Allied infantry would have to pass.

Great bonfires would mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season in the hope of a good harvest later in the year, and were accompanied with ritual acts to protect the people from any harm by Otherworldly spirits, such as the Aos Sí.

In the UK, it was a custom for tradesmen to collect " Christmas boxes " of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for good service throughout the year.

The Thatcher Conservative government declined to introduce amending legislation to make good the defect in the ' two year rule '.

In November of that year, after having secured Malacca and learning of the Bandas ' location, Albuquerque sent an expedition of three ships led by his good friend António de Abreu to find them.

There, Henry begged in the snow to be let back into the good graces of the Church, having been excommunicated the year before by Gregory.

Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

The maximum shelf life of nitroglycerin-based dynamite is recommended as one year from the date of manufacture under good storage conditions.

He underwent surgery in December that year and started " a little bit of radiation therapy ... as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good ", as he reported in his video autobiography.

The magazines were titled by the year of children's studies, which included Yoiko ( good children ), Yōchien ( nursery school ), and Shogaku Ichinensei ( first grade of primary school ) to Shogaku Yonnensei ( fourth grade of primary school ).

1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.