With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

The party was less successful in the 1977 elections, in which it won 4, 396 votes, and in 1980 Kahane was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in a plan to commit an " act of provocation " on the Temple Mount.

Though his early reception in the city seems to have been lukewarm, Procopius won favor quickly by using propaganda to his advantage: he sealed off the city to outside reports and began spreading rumors that Valentinian had died ; he began minting coinage flaunting his connections to the Constantinian dynasty ; and he further exploited dynastic claims by using the widow and daughter of Constantius II to act as showpieces for his regime.

The act encourages whistleblowers by promising them a percentage of the money recovered or damages won by the government and protects them from wrongful dismissal.

The act encourages whistleblowers by promising them a percentage of the money recovered or damages won by the government and protects them from wrongful dismissal.

He raised money to flood the state with campaign circulars and won over conservatives by voting for the Taft-Hartley act ( curbing union power ) as well as by criticizing unions.

But when they won back Congress in 1946, they did not act to remove the tariffs.

To protect himself further, Tiberius Gracchus won re-election to the tribunate in 133 BC, promising to shorten the term of military service, abolish the exclusive right of senators to act as jurors and include other social classes, and admit allies to Roman citizenship, all moves popular with the Assembly.

As well as the popularity of their television series, S Club 7 won two BRIT Awards — in 2000 for British breakthrough act and in 2002, for best British single.

The praetorian guards auctioned off the imperial position, which Senator Didius Julianus won and became the new Emperor, an act which triggered a brief civil war over the succession, won later in the same year by Septimius Severus.

Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders ( Billboard Books, 1998 ) defines a one-hit wonder rather strictly, as " an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once.

This act won him praise from across India, most notably from Mahatma Gandhi.

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.

Its lead single, " Love Overboard ", was a successful hit and won a third Grammy for the act as well.

The previous year, the UK had won the Eurovision Song Contest ( the first time since Brotherhood of Man ) with the two boy / two girl pop act Bucks Fizz.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Lyngstad appeared in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled Our Last Video.

According to the historian John Sugden, Pontiac " was neither the originator nor the strategist of the rebellion, but he kindled it by daring to act, and his early successes, ambition, and determination won him a temporary prominence not enjoyed by any of the other Indian leaders.

The three act work won the Prix Heugel in 1925, and was awarded the one hundred thousand francs prize.

Adams ' work on television began in 1954, when he won on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts with a stand-up comedy act written by boyhood friend Bill Dana.

“ The decisive act through which everything is won or lost is called choice a conception formulated by Kierkegaard and faithfully upheld by the majority of Existentialists.

In 1989, he led the legal defense team for Lt. Gen Christon Tembo, who was accused by the Kenneth Kaunda government of conspiracy to overthrow the government, which was judged as an act of treason worthy of the death penalty ; Tembo won the case against the state, and Mwanawasa's fame among the anti-Kaunda opposition grew.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

He may have entered the situation with predispositions that prepared him to act uncritically in the press of affairs.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

Substitute approved objects for forbidden ones and keep telling him how he is to act.

But slowly they take over as Alain Delon ( Life, Sept. 15 ), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from the act.

In the first two visions, Amos is able to convince God not to act out the scenes of discipline presented to him.

This act well impressed the other American anti-imperialists, who soon elected him vice-president of the Anti-Imperialist League.

In Chapter nine, Job recognizes the chasm that exists between him and God: “ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together .” Job ’ s regret is that he has no arbiter to act as a go-between ; that Job cannot reconcile himself with God anticipates the need for the Messiah to become incarnate.

In act two, scene one, Banquo meets his son Fleance and asks him to take both his sword and his dagger (" Hold, take my sword ... Take thee that too ").

The last act of this secretary of letters was to burn all of Claudius ' correspondence — most likely so it could not be used against him and others in an already hostile new regime.

In inflicting it, they were guided only by their conscientious convictions of duty ; they had to take an oath that they would act biased by neither partiality nor favour ; and, in addition to this, they were bound in every case to state in their lists, opposite the name of the guilty citizen, the cause of the punishment inflicted on him, Subscriptio censoria.

In turn, Clark Kent has a slightly dark side with which he comes to grips over time, made even worse by his experiences with red kryptonite, which causes him to lose his morals and act solely on impulse while under its influence.

As stated in the U. S. Code, the Commandant shall preside over the Headquarters, Marine Corps, transmit the plans and recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, to the Secretary and advise the Secretary with regard to such plans and recommendations, after approval of the plans or recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, by the Secretary, act as the agent of the Secretary in carrying them into effect, exercise supervision, consistent with the authority assigned to commanders of unified or specified combatant commands under chapter 6 of this title, over such of the members and organizations of the Marine Corps and the Navy as the Secretary determines, perform the duties prescribed for him by section 171 of this title and other provisions of law and perform such other military duties, not otherwise assigned by law, as are assigned to him by the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy.

The Roman people did not give enough deference to his supreme authority ; it expected him to act the part of an aristocratic ruler, not a monarchic one.

In this act of separate creation, she gave birth to the monstrous Demiurge and, being ashamed of her deed, wrapped him in a cloud and created a throne for him to be within it.

Some years after the 1900-1901 publication of his main work, the Logische Untersuchungen ( Logical Investigations ), Husserl made some key conceptual elaborations which led him to assert that in order to study the structure of consciousness, one would have to distinguish between the act of consciousness and the phenomena at which it is directed ( the objects as intended ).

In the gospel of John, the account of the Last Supper has no mention of Jesus taking bread and wine and speaking of them as his body and blood ; instead it recounts his humble act of washing the disciples ' feet, the prophecy of the betrayal, which set in motion the events that would lead to the cross, and his long discourse in response to some questions posed by his followers, in which he went on to speak of the importance of the unity of the disciples with him and each other.

She feeds him the last of their food, and Elijah's promise miraculously comes true ; thus, by an act of faith the woman received the promised blessing.

To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself ; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities ; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently ” ( Dewey, 1897, Para.