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Speakership and its
The Speakership evolved into its modern form — in which the holder is an impartial and apolitical officer who does not belong to any party — only during the middle of the 19th century.
Due to the Great Depression, the Republican party lost its majority in a landslide, and, with John Nance Garner elevated to the Speakership, Rainey ran for, and defeated John McDuffie for the Majority leadership.

Speakership and during
The most famous incident during his Speakership came during the trial of the preacher Dr. Henry Sacheverell, in which Onslow played a large part.

Speakership and Republican
Armey was out of the running after fending off a bruising challenge to his majority leader's post from Steve Largent of Oklahoma, and DeLay, as the third-ranking House Republican, appeared to have the inside track to the Speakership.
He won the Speakership in 1980 with 28 Republican and 23 Democratic votes.

Speakership and Joseph
In the 1890s and 1900s, Reed and his successor, Joseph Gurney Cannon ( R-Illinois ) used the Rules Committee to centralize the power of the Speakership.

Speakership and Cannon
However, his iron rule of the House was broken, and Cannon lost the Speakership when the Democrats won a majority later that same year.
* The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the Speakership.

Speakership and
* Strahan, Randall ; Moscardelli, Vincent G .; Haspel, Moshe ; and Wike, Richard S. " The Clay Speakership Revisited " Polity 2000 32 ( 4 ): 561 593.
After the 1993 elections, however, the National Party held a majority of only a single seat as the Speaker could not vote, re-appointing Gray to the Speakership would leave Parliament deadlocked.

Speakership and ).
Despite this Santos considers Josh his top advisor ( akin to Leo McGarry to Jed Bartlet ) and tends to listen to Josh more often than not ( examples would be when Josh recommended Leo McGarry as Santos's running-mate and also when Josh told Santos not to meddle in the Speakership race ).

reached and its
The Brannon outfit -- known as the Slash-B because of its brand -- reached Hondo Creek before sundown.
This hysteria reached its height under the leadership of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.
The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.
Steele lost his seat in Parliament, and his personal quarrel with Swift, by now a public issue, thus reached its climax.
These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.
It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.
`` U.S. pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status of West Berlin has reached its apogee.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.
Felix Kopstein states that `` when the snake reaches its maturity it has already reached about its maximal length '', but goes on to cite the reticulate python as an exception, with maximum length approximately three times that at maturity.
It reached its ultimate philosophical statement in notions of `` state will '' put forward by the Germans, especially by Hegel, although political philosophers will recognize its origins in the rejected doctrines of Hobbes.
This scheme failed, and the following decade brought a deluge of infringement suits among individual manufacturers that reached its crest in 1912.
Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.
Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.
But he rejects, perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.
During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.
The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests of its founder Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 2279 BC ).
Under Amasis or Ahmose II, Egypt's agricultural based economy reached its zenith.
Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.
Theosophists believe the civilization of Atlantis reached its peak between 1, 000, 000 and 900, 000 years ago but destroyed itself through internal warfare brought about by the inhabitants ' dangerous use of magical powers.

reached and apogee
Just as his apogee of fame was being reached abroad, his influence in Vienna would begin to diminish with the death of Joseph II in 1789.
Mithraism reached the apogee of its popularity during the 2nd and 3rd centuries, spreading at an " astonishing " rate at the same period when Sol Invictus became part of the state.
Psychedelic rock reached its apogee in the last years of the decade.
Although the site shows signs of continuous occupation from before 3000 BC, its power grew and reached its apogee in the second half of the following millennium.
V12 engines reached their apogee during World War II.
In order to cover large distances, ballistic missiles are usually launched into a high sub-orbital spaceflight ; for intercontinental missiles the highest altitude ( apogee ) reached during free-flight is about 1200 km.
A second Nike Tomahawk rocket was launched from Johnston Atoll on September 22, 1966, at 17: 13 UTC and reached an apogee of 160 km, with spin-stabilization at 5. 6 rps.
After the decline of Ghana, the Mali Empire grew into a powerful Muslim state, which reached its apogee in the early part of the fourteenth century.
The Xianbei reached their apogee under Tanshihuai ( 檀石槐 ) ( d. 180 CE ), who consistently defeated Chinese armies.
The era of literary freedom and experiments, which reached its apogee during the Prague Spring of 1968, came to an abrupt end the same summer, with the Soviet invasion and subsequent " normalization.
Under the reorganization of the empire by Diocletian, Rouen became the chief city of the divided province of Gallia Lugdunensis II and reached the apogee of its Roman development, with an amphitheatre and thermae of which the foundations remain.
Archaeological excavations of a number of sites, later identified as Canaanite, show that prosperity of the region reached its apogee during this Middle Bronze Age period, under leadership of the city of Hazor, at least nominally tributary to Egypt for much of the period.
In the 1880s and ‘ 90s, the pantomime reached a kind of apogee, and Pierrot became ubiquitous.
The theme system reached its apogee in the 9th and 10th centuries, as older themes were split up and the conquest of territory resulted in the creation of new ones.
They reached an apogee of and speeds of about Mach 1. 5.
This reached its apogee in the first decade of the 18th century with successive collections of pieces by Louis Marchand, Gaspard Le Roux, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Jean-François Dandrieu, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Charles Dieupart, and Nicolas Siret.
Champa reached its apogee in the 9th and 10th centuries.
This was a systematic treatise on civil and praetorian law, cited by many later Roman legal writers, which has been described as “ A comprehensive collection of responsa on real and hypothetical cases ; in general, it followed the edictal system ... With Iulianus, the Roman jurisprudence reached its apogee .”
Though monumental architecture at the site dates back as far as the 4th century BC, Tikal reached its apogee during the Classic Period, ca.
The system reached its apogee during the Song dynasty.
These elaborate scenes reached their artistic apogee in the Kingdom of Naples in the 16th to 18th centuries, but also Genoa had an important tradition in the same period, which major artist was Anton Maria Maragliano.
During his reign, the fusion between Indian and Greek coin standards reached its apogee.
It was originally a slapstick adaptation or variant of the Commedia dell ' arte, which originated in Italy and reached its apogee there in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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