A combination of deception and brilliant administration – designed to conceal his true destination from friend and foe alike – enabled Marlborough to march unhindered from the Low Countries to the River Danube in five weeks.

A combination of strategic deception and brilliant administration enabled Marlborough to achieve his purpose.

His concept for a new type of accelerator, the Omnitron, is acknowledged to have been a brilliant advance that probably would have enabled the Berkeley lab to discover numerous additional new elements, but the machine was never built, a victim of the evolving political landscape of the 1970s in the U. S. that de-emphasized basic nuclear research and greatly expanded research on environmental, health, and safety issues.

She was tall and had a striking figure, brilliant beauty, powerfully expressive eyes, and solemn dignity of demeanour which enabled her to claim the character as her own.

In spite of his failures as a general and diplomat, his good looks and brilliant wit enabled him to retain the intimacy and confidence of his king.

When his plane was disabled by hostile fire and no other ships were operative, Captain Elrod assumed command of one flank of the line set up in defiance of the enemy landing and conducting a brilliant defense, enabled his men to hold their positions and repulse determined Japanese attacks, repeatedly proceeding through intense hostile fusillades to provide covering fire for unarmed ammunition carriers.

In 1971 Lance Gibbs ' magnificent bowling enabled them to come second, whilst brilliant batting gave them a clear Championship win in 1972.

An appealing sorrentino sung by Célestine Marié, known as Galli-Marié, and a brilliant and effective ballet entitled Carnaval ( a movement from his " First Orchestral Suite ") enabled the work achieve a long run.

Around 1900, the development of diamond saws and good jewelry lathes enabled the development of modern diamond cutting and diamond cuts, chief among them the round brilliant cut.

For a Prussian official to venture to give uncalled-for advice to his sovereign was a breach of propriety not calculated to increase his chances of favor ; but it gave Gentz a conspicuous position in the public eye, which his brilliant talents and literary style enabled him to maintain.

Cleveland was described by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, as " a man of signal courage and an excellent officer "; his cavalry charge at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, where he routed John Middleton's Parliamentary horse and then with Lord Wilmot's horse led another charge that captured the Parliamentary artillery, was one of the most brilliant incidents in the Civil War, and it was by his bravery and presence of mind that King Charles II was enabled to escape from Worcester.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

" GM Robert Byrne called him " perhaps the most brilliant theoretician and teacher in the history of the game.

In the book, Nasiri describes al-Libi as one of the leaders at the Afghan camp, and characterizes him as " brilliant in every way.

During production the only phrase Gould objected to was a line in the script that introduced him as the " world's most brilliant paleontologist ".

She and Marshall had been unable to have children, and when she brought the baby home, Marshall told her that she could " keep him, provided he did not squall ..." Marshall grew to love the boy and wrote that he " never walked the streets of Washington with as sure a certainty as he walked into my heart ", and, as the boy grew older, that he was " beautiful as an angel ; brilliant beyond his years ; lovable from every standpoint.

Crash was, despite his erratic behavior, generally regarded as a brilliant lyricist ( a contemporary critic described him as " ransacking the dictionary "), and the final lineup of Smear, Doom, and Bolles had become a world-class rock ensemble by the recording of ( GI ), turning in a performance that spurred an LA Weekly reviewer to write, " This album leaves exit wounds.

Cicero ( Oratore, III, 50 and de Fato, 2 ) described him as a brilliant epigrammist but sometimes too fond of imitation.

His son Constantine I joins him on campaign and they win a brilliant victory.

A brilliant actor and mimic ( or so we are told, by Smith himself ), he is down to his last coin when a spaceman hires him to double for a public figure.

Johnson's brilliant handling of the press, the efficiency with which his committee issued new reports, and the fact that he ensured every report was endorsed unanimously by the committee all brought him headlines and national attention.

By 1477, Margaret's position as Duchess of Burgundy was no longer as brilliant as it had been: after Isabel's death in 1471, Charles had become increasingly tyrannical and grandiose, dreaming of assembling a Kingdom of Lotharingia from the North Sea to the Mediterranean ; to accomplish this, he warred continuously with his neighbours, who responded by allying against him.

About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aachen, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.

They saw each other but seldom, for Ferrante was one of the most active and brilliant captains of Charles V ; but Vittoria's influence was sufficient to keep him from joining the projected league against the emperor after the battle of Pavia ( 1525 ), and to make him refuse the crown of Naples offered to him as the price of his treason.

His brilliant campaigning and startling victories brought his country to the pinnacle of her prestige and power, posthumously earning him the epithet " last of the Vikings ," although the Great Northern War resulted in Sweden's defeat and the end of her empire within years of his own death.

While not known for extensive learning or brilliant speech, Huntington's steady hard work and unfailing calm manner earned him the respect of his fellow delegates.

Taylor's brilliant hand and foot speed and boxing abilities gave him the early advantage, allowing him to begin building a large lead on points.

Vasari said of him " He did nothing but make bozzetti and finished little ", and modern commentators have remarked on the vitality of Bandinelli's terracotta models contrasted with the finished marbles: " all the freshness of his first approach to a subject was lost in the laborious execution in marble ... A brilliant draughtsman and excellent small-scale sculptor, he had a morbid fascination for colossi which he was ill-equipped to execute.

A speedy transfer to the West End established him as a brilliant comic actor, squatting at a crowded dining table on a tiny chair and sublimely agonising over a choice between black or white coffee.

Ostracized by his brilliant classmates, Bart visits Springfield Elementary, where his old friends also reject him.

") But his rumpled charm, Scottish burr, and mouthful of brilliant white teeth make him irresistible to women, and he manages to eke out a day-to-day existence by leaning on the kindness of strangers.

His imposing height, his noble features, his brilliant eloquence, as well as his renown for zeal and charity, made him a prominent feature in French life for many years.

In recognition of his brilliant achievement, King Louis XV of France conferred on him the Château de Chambord for life, and in April 1746, he was naturalised as a French subject.

He was apprehensive about how this breach of the rules would be received at the Académie, but their response to Don Procopio was initially positive, with praise for the composer's " easy and brilliant touch " and " youthful and bold style.

In this painting from 1872, Monet was interested in studying how unblended dabs of color could suggest the effect of brilliant sunlight filtered through leaves The Walters Art Museum.

The New York Times praised her: " Because Ms. Watts reinvents herself with each performance, it's easy to forget how brilliant she is.

Agreeing with GameZone, Nintendo World Report called the game a masterpiece and the perfect example of how a Metroid game should be done: " The designers carefully mix all the best elements from the other games and layer them on top of the already brilliant level design and concepts of the original Metroid.

" In his 1999 book, Inside Game / Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America, urban policy consultant David Rusk wrote “… in my view, ( Cisneros was ) the most successful of the ten secretaries of Housing and Urban Development since the cabinet agency was formed in 1965 .” Clinton said Cisneros was a brilliant public servant, and additionally said that people had no idea how much he contributed to the government.

There was also the intellectual interest of how someone can be so brilliant and her life goes so wrong, and also, that she was so forgotten and misunderstood.

While the Mad Hatter has no inherent superpowers, he is a brilliant ' neurotechnician ' with considerable knowledge on how to dominate and control the human mind, either through hypnosis or direct technological means.

This is mainly used as the backdrop for Bron's ( ultimately disastrous ) relationship with a brilliant young woman known as the Spike, but Delany speculates interestingly on how an interplanetary war might actually unfold.

Nikolai Nadezhdin, who initially entertained the westernized, Schellingian notion of nationality, radically changed his mind in favor of Official Nationality in the wake of the Chaadaev affair ( 1837 ), writing that " nationality had always consisted of love of the Tsar and obedience, and which in the future should display in itself, to Europe's dismay, a brilliant lesson of how from the holy unity of autocracy, must arise an exemplary and splendid national enlightenment ...".

Half way through the end credits, there is a sequence shown where two of Paula's college mates are discussing how Hein was brilliant in his work in dissection and preservation, how Professor Grombak is going to be substituted soon, and how in their respective practices they will keep a low profile while experimenting for the Anti-Hippocratic Society.

He knew how to charm with brilliant and striking phrases without expressing any well-defined thought.

She reportedly told the Brigadier that all the Doctor really needed was someone to pass him his test tubes and tell him how brilliant he was ; this feeling probably contributed to her decision to return to her own research.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com wrote that Shin Megami Tensei: Persona " is a perfect example of how to remake a great game -- graphics notwithstanding -- and this release makes a brilliant game feel fresh and relevant again.

W. M. Hirsch gives this picture of the man: " McKendrick was a truly Christian gentleman, a tall and handsome man, brilliant in mind, kind and modest in person, a skilful counsellor and administrator who gave of himself and knew how to enable others.

The song speak about nostalgia for the homeland, homesickness, how they are satisfied with life, whether they are poor or rich, and how brilliant they are in war and peace.

It didn ’ t matter how brilliant the arrangements were if you didn ’ t make the singer sound their best.

Mackenzie gave a brilliant speech that was well received and Sutcliffe said to him: " Oh, my, how I wish I could speak like you ".

Remember how our forces distinguished in Junin, the 2nd of May, Abtao, Ayachucho and other battlefields, to win us our glorious and dignified independence, and our consecrated and brilliant laurels of freedom, and as Commandant of the Navy will never let Peru be defeated.

They are made of so many of those things that we do not even know where and when and how: a book we read, or a song, the memory of a person or the wish to forget, an instant moment or a long run of years, Fontana, with his brilliant simplicity ( apparent simplicity, as matters from the mind and from the heart appear in a complicate way ) registers this and meanwhile gives space by suggesting to enable us to fill in with our own memories. from our times, with all our own fantasmagoria as everyone of us makes.

I think he is Steve Martin level funny, and it's too bad more people don't know how to use his comic gift, because he is absolutely brilliant.