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The League praised Moore for supporting right-to-know legislation regarding the Toxics Release Inventory program, the Clean Water Act, and energy and weatherization assistance for low-income families, as well as for opposing oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opposing salvage logging, opposing logging roads in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, and for opposing measures designed to expedite the production of new oil refineries.
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President of the League, Joseph J. DioGuardi, praised Rohrabacher for his support to the Kosovo Liberation Army, saying " He was the first member of Congress to insist that the United States arm the Kosovo Liberation Army, and one of the few members who to this day publicly supports the independence of Kosovo.
Cobden and the rest of the Anti-Corn Law League believed in the view that cheap food meant greater real wages and Cobden praised a speech by a working man who said:
Allardyce praised Milner highly during the season, saying he was " a hugely experienced Premier League player ".
He stood down as Secretary-General on 31 December 1991, praised " for the high profile the League achieved under his guidance " and was replaced by Don Foreman, Secretary of the Kent Branch, who remained in post until 2002.
" The Anti-Defamation League noted that " extremist chatter on the Internet has praised Rudolph as ' a hero ' and some followers of hate groups are calling for further acts of violence to be modeled after the bombings he is accused of committing.
Like his history of the League of Cambray, it was highly praised by Voltaire.
Manager Frank Robinson praised Soriano's leadership in the clubhouse, and further suggested that Soriano should be considered for MVP of the National League.
Ferreira came on in the 42nd minute for the injured Florent Malouda in the last game of the Premier League season on 13 May, a 2 – 1 win over relegated Blackburn Rovers and the Portuguese defender was praised for his performance and his name was repeatedly chanted by the home fans.
The nomination was praised, however, by Gene Karpinski, President of the League of Conservation Voters.
Detroit manager Jim Leyland praised Williamson's experience: " I think Scott Williamson has an excellent chance ... You're talking about a pretty big-time Major League pitcher at one time.
After scoring a brace, manager Roy Hodgson praised the striker good performance His next match after scoring a brace came when he scored a winning goal in a 1-0 over Newcastle United on 16 May 2009 which Newcastle United were later relegated Football League Championship at the end of the 2008 – 09 season, the first time the club had left the Premier League after joining it in 1993.
He has regularly praised the fans of the Premier League.
" It was also praised by the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish newspaper The Forward, which called it " perhaps the most biting critique of ' The Passion ' to date.
Alexander was highly praised for his work at Lincoln during the 2002 – 03 season, taking a club that had finished two places off the bottom of the League and was working its way out of administration, to a play-off position on a shoe-string budget.
Pirates manager Jim Tracy admitted his surprise and praised him, " If you handed out ballots at the start of the season listing potential candidates to win the National League batting championship, I don't know that his name would have been on it.
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The comic book character Orlando is a blend of several fictional characters with the name Orlando as well as being known during the mid-sixties as O while engaged in sexual games with the descendants of the Silling Castle survivors, according to Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.
Alan Moore did likewise in his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book ( and its sequels ) in which various Victorian era literary characters meet and join up with the eponymous League ( though they are not descended from a single family ).
Moore calls the Wold Newton stories " a seminal influence upon the League ".
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O ' Neill, publication of which began in 1999.
According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a " Justice League of Victorian England " but quickly grew into an opportunity to merge several works of fiction into one world.
Moore and O ' Neill have stated that they plan to map out many different eras in the League series with Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray being the two constants.
In a 1997 interview with Andy Diggle for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as " The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk ".
After several additional complaints over DC interference, Moore decided to wind up his ABC projects, intending to only continue with League ( the only title he, with O ' Neill, actually owned ).
When no such apology was forthcoming, Moore ( and O ' Neill ) decided to withdraw future volumes of the League from DC in protest.
In an interview with Andy Diggle in 1997, Alan Moore first gave a synopsis of the series which then had the working title of The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk.
Kevin O ' Neill is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law ( with writer Pat Mills ), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( with Alan Moore ).
* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.
More recently, the popular graphic novels of Alan Moore, " From Hell " ( 1989 ) and " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen " ( 1999 ) contain a number of references to the notorious criminality of the area in Victorian London.
* Jackie Moore, Major League Baseball Manager, coach and player.
* In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic by Alan Moore, Prospero appears as a founding member of the first such grouping in 1610, alongside his familiars Caliban and Ariel.
* Earl Moore, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians and the first pitcher in the American League to throw a no-hitter on May 9, 1901.
Several football alumni play in the National Football League, including Patrick Ramsey ( New Orleans Saints ), J. P. Losman ( Buffalo Bills ), Anthony Cannon ( Detroit Lions ), Mewelde Moore ( Pittsburgh Steelers ), Matt Forté ( Chicago Bears ), and Roydell Williams ( Tennessee Titans ).
Caligari himself appears as a member of Die Zwielichthelden ( The Twilight Heroes ), a German mercenary group in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill.
Alan Moore in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen enlists The Pilgrim's Progress protagonist, Christian, as a member of the earliest version of this group, Prospero's Men, having become wayward on his journey during his visit in Vanity Fair, stepping down an alleyway and found himself in London in the 1670s, and unable to return to his homeland.
Beginning in 1953, inspired by the Boston Braves ' move to Milwaukee, Gerald Moore, the president of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, led the drive to lure a Major League team to Minnesota by constructing a modern stadium.
He is known for his film work, which has included roles in British films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) and Snatch ( 2000 ), both for Guy Ritchie, as well as Hollywood productions such as Rob Roy ( 1995 ) along with the Alan Moore comic book adaptations From Hell ( 2001 ) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 2003 ).
Some John Bull imagery appears in the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill.
Donnie Ray Moore ( February 13, 1954 – July 18, 1989 ) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs ( 1975, 1977 – 79 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1980 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1981 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1982 – 84 ) and California Angels ( 1985 – 88 ).
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While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.
Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.
If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.
-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.
Ryne Duren and Roland Sheldon, a rookie righthander who posted a 15-1 record last year for the Yanks' Auburn ( N.Y. ) farm club of the Class-D New York-Pennsylvania League, are the probable rival pitchers.
-- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, Ga., relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin Hospital here.
The 53-year-old Shea, a prominent corporation lawyer with a sports background, is generally recognized as the man most responsible for the imminent return of a National League club to New York.
His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.
He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.
A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.
Transylvania Symphony Conductor Pfohl said yesterday that Mrs. Kennedy's Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige, told about plans for White House youth concerts before the National Symphony Orchestra League in Philadelphia last spring.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
Hanford College, Little Ivy League, had no room for football players with low grades.
Through Heigo, Akira devoured not only films but also theater and circus performances, while exhibiting his paintings and working for the left-wing Proletarian Artists ' League.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs
* Academic Sports League, an academic organization set up as round one competition for the USAD in Erie, PA
* Anti-Saloon League, once the leading organization lobbying for Prohibition in the United States
Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.
This was the Athenians ' main ( public ) reason for moving the treasury of the League from Delos to Athens, further consolidating their control over the League.
One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.
In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.
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