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Ironically, this led to the foundation of United Artists by Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, Pickford, and Chaplin, and to the loss of First National's biggest stars.
For instance, in India, the biggest threat seems to be habitat loss followed by poaching, while in China, the biggest threat seems to be hunting and poaching.
* October 12 – WWI: The biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand.
The country's economy suffered in the aftermath of the 1973 global energy crisis, the loss of New Zealand's biggest export market upon Britain's entry to the European Economic Community, and rampant inflation.
During one of these bombings, the beautiful Eremitani church, with Mantegna frescoes, was destroyed ( considered by some art historians to be Italy's biggest wartime cultural loss ).
NR's biggest error, to date, is the loss of several minutes of the Dancing with the Stars results show live telecast on March 27, 2007 to 104 affiliates.
In the last game of the season, Manchester City suffered an 8 – 1 loss to Middlesbrough, the biggest defeat of Eriksson's career.
In the round 24 match, Geelong thumped the Magpies by a record margin of 96 points, which was also Collingwood's biggest ever loss at the MCG.
The film recorded a loss of $ 740, 000, making it one of the biggest financial disasters in RKO's history.
Real's biggest loss at home in the Champions League came at the hands of Bayern on 29 February 2000 ( 2 – 4 ).
The biggest single loss of life was the first Markale marketplace massacre on 5 February 1994, in which 68 civilians were killed and 200 were wounded.
Habitat loss is the grebe's biggest threat.
Motherwell's biggest win was a 12 – 1 victory over Dundee United in 1954, with the clubs heaviest defeat being the 8 – 0 loss to Aberdeen in 1979.
" The biggest part of my life was the acquiring and the loss of a son.
The defense of the common man led to antiparliamentatism ( Poujade called the Chamber of Deputies " the biggest brothel in Paris " and the deputies a " pile of rubbish " and " pederasts ") a strong anti-intellectualism ( Poujade denounced the graduates from École Polytechnique as the main culprits for the woes of 1950s France and boasted that he had no book learning ), xenophobia, and antisemitism especially aimed against Pierre Mendès-France ( claiming " Mendès is French only as the word added to his name "), who was perceived as responsible for the loss of Indochina.
The official Fire website stated there were several reasons, the biggest being the loss of developers, followed by the fact that most components libraries used by Fire are no longer in active development.
Isabela City residents mourned the loss of the slain Mayor in what probably is the biggest funeral procession ever seen in Basilan.
In 2004 Crown Wallcoverings, previously one of the biggest businesses in the town, closed with the loss of more than 200 jobs.
Ironically, according to Parker's Archive of American Television interview, Ford had originally wanted to cast Parker in Hunter's role in The Searchers but Disney refused to loan him out and Parker didn't hear about until years later ; Parker referred to his loss of that part to Jeffrey Hunter as his single biggest career setback.
The biggest loss was goaltender Bernie Parent, a superstar in the making, who was offered a WHA contract with financial terms far beyond what Ballard was prepared to match.
On 9 December 2005, it was announced that Bennett had resigned as Australia's coach, after the Kangaroos lost an international series for the first time in 27 years, and equalled their biggest loss in 98 years, going down 24-0 to New Zealand in the final of the 2005 Tri-nations series.
Their biggest single loss of life came at Clones in February 1922, when a patrol, changing trains in Southern territory, refused to surrender to the local IRA garrison and took four dead and eight wounded in a firefight.
The team's biggest ever win was a 8 – 0 defeat of East Preston in September 2009, and the heaviest defeat was a 7 – 1 loss to Poole Town in April 1984.

biggest and course
42 of his 61 officers and men were killed, wounded or captured far from the target after being blown off course or landing in the wrong area, during one of the biggest storms for thirty years.
* The course of the seventh biggest river in the world was shifted, as were 50 million tons of earth and rock.
At Lyon, which is the biggest city along its course, the Rhone meets its biggest tributary.
Small businesses are also abundant and the biggest employers are the municipality and the local golf course.
It has got a length of more than 16 km, ceiling heights up to 50m, a stream course flowing in the cave and is entitled “ exceptional ” andthe most significant find and the biggest highlight ” in northern Laos by several speleological magazines.
It went on to become the biggest success for the nascent network and one of the greatest hits over the course of the network's entire run.
Shamrock emerged as one of the biggest stars in the history of mixed martial arts, headlining over 15 main events and co-main events in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships during the course of his career and set numerous pay-per-view records with his drawing power.
The most famous fence is Becher's Brook which is 5ft high but has a 7ft drop on landing and is widely regarded as the biggest challenge on the course.
I believe the passage from home to school is the second biggest trauma of childhood ; the first is, of course, being born.
Most of the course of the Yug runs through the Northern Ridge, and the Yug is one of the biggest rivers crossing the ridge.
The festival also includes one of the two biggest Hunter Chases of the season, the Foxhunters ', which is run on the Friday over the same course as the Gold Cup, and is sometimes referred to as the " amateurs ' Gold Cup ".
It's a world wide established technical society, not to mention its the biggest of course " To have an IEEE student branch in an institution brings credit to the institution, since IEEE is the top most professional bodyin the world. Students of the first batch have taken the initiative in forming the IEEE students branch in this year, the students of the subsequent batches have taken the initiative in getting the branch recognized by IEEE and also increasing the membership.
The biggest change was the removal of the Doubler, which of course affected the Goldmine, as there's now one more chance to choose the Eliminator.
Banks, pharmacies, shops, grocery stores and even an 18-hole championship golf course can be found here, along with one of the biggest and most modern shopping malls in Central America, Multiplaza.
They owned the biggest estates ( Kuhara Estate ), and a golf course.
Agriculture was still the biggest employment sector with 41 people but other job fields had become a lot more popular over the course of fifty years.
The first Boliden ore was extracted in the spring of 1926 at what would become the Boliden mine – a mine that would prove, over the course of several decades, to be Europe ’ s biggest and richest gold mine.
Over the course of its existence, the congregation grew from less than a dozen to an estimated 4, 000 making it the biggest New Thought church in the state.
The demonstrating organisations arranged many conferences, the biggest conference ( besides, of course, the EU summit itself ) being Fritt forum ( Free Forum ) which hosted 50 lectures and seminars and was funded by the city of Gothenburg, the Swedish justice department and Sweden's foreign ministry department among others.
Of course, the biggest attraction was the infamous Cyclone, among the largest roller coasters in the United States and regarded as one of the most extreme coasters ever created.
" The biggest capital power in London is of course the Bank of England, but its position as a semi-state institution makes it impossible for it to assert its domination in so brutal a fashion.
The biggest current local issue is the battle between foreign developers, who have proposed two 18-hole golf courses and a 500 +- bed resort in the valley below the town, extending the existing 9-hole course and some of the local community, who are opposed to the proposals because of objections against the real estate speculation around the project, rejection of 123 building sites for villas in the protected natural environment and concerns about possible damage to their truffles growing on the other side of the river.
The test where Rohan Kanhai scored 256, was as good as it could get, he hit 42 fours in that innings, West Indies made 614 for 5 declared and Indians replied with 124 and 154, losing by innings and 336 runs, is the biggest win ( with innings win ) for the West Indies and of course biggest defeat still for the Indians.

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