However, he turned out to be a complete failure in his new position.

" One of his secretaries concluded that John was " a great man in temporal things, but a complete failure and worthless in spiritual things.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

Whether or not this led to complete electrical failure will never be known.

Although Constans called the Council of Sardica in 343 to settle the conflict, it was a complete failure and by 346 the two emperors were on the point of open warfare over the religious dispute.

This can continue to the point of complete breakdown of normal resistance at a semiconductor junction, and failure of the device ( this may be temporary or permanent depending on whether there is physical damage to the crystal ).

The exploration of the territories of Nueva Toledo, which lasted 2 years, was marked by a complete failure for Almagro.

The book was a complete financial and critical failure.

This coupled with voucher schools not being required to put their students through the same tests and performing poorly on SAT and ACT testing in the 11th and 12th grades has led the academic community to declare it a complete and total failure.

In the event of a complete failure of the main line, the throne would pass to the nearest collateral branch, again in the male line.

His failure to complete the cantata may be a further indication that he was not committed to the Nazi cause.

Babbage's failure to complete the analytical engine can be chiefly attributed to difficulties not only of politics and financing, but also to his desire to develop an increasingly sophisticated computer and to move ahead faster than anyone else could follow.

John's defeat was swift and his attempts to reconquer his French possession at the decisive Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ) resulted in complete failure.

These procedures specify how an IFR pilot should respond, even in the event of a complete radio failure, and loss of communications with ATC, including the expected aircraft course and altitude.

* 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.

In the game, a natural 1 usually is great success with added bonuses and a natural 20 means a complete failure.

The subsequent Siege of Damascus was a complete failure ; when the city seemed to be on the verge of collapse, the crusader army suddenly moved against another section of the walls, and were driven back.

Although this difference is trivial in bulk chemistry calculations, it can result in complete failure in situations where the behavior of individual molecules matters, such as in mass spectrometry and particle physics ( where the mixture of isotopes does not act as an average ).

His long progress to the place of assembly resembled a triumphal procession, and the Council of Mantua of 1459, a complete failure as regards its ostensible object of mounting a crusade, at least showed that the impotence of Christendom was not owing to the Pope.

A malicious ( or erroneous ) revocation of some ( or all ) of the keys in the system is likely, or in the second case, certain, to cause a complete failure of the system.

Following the failure to complete a debut album, Warner Brothers withdrew their support for the Modern Lovers, and Robinson left the band.

Due to Cole's efforts, Crowe's unfinished business — rectifying his failure to understand and help Vincent — is finally complete.

To prevent the complete loss of instrumentation in the event of an electrical failure, the instrument panel is deliberately designed with certain instruments powered by electricity and other instruments powered by the vacuum source.

In a classroom, common characteristics of working memory impairment include a failure to remember instructions and an inability to complete learning activities.

However, Portuguese rule remained characterised by deep-seated racism, mass forced labour and an almost complete failure to modernize the country.

The total number of French casualties cannot be calculated precisely, so complete was the collapse of the Franco-Bavarian army that day.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

After World War II, the French Constitution of 1946 inaugurated the first of a series of reforms that led eventually to complete independence for all French territories in western and equatorial Africa.

The complete text of the Italian manuscript has been published in photo-facsimile ; with a French translation and extensive commentary and textual apparatus:

Both proved to be complete failures for the French King.

The Course of French History ( 1991 ), standard French textbook excerpt and text search ; also complete text online

During the French occupation of Algeria in the 1830s five manuscripts were discovered in Constantine, including two that contained more complete versions of the text.

Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.

Ribbentrop wanted to buy time to complete German rearmament by removing preventive war as a French policy option.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

In 1958 the renamed Sudanese Republic obtained complete internal autonomy and joined the French Community.

Letronne was at last able to complete his commentary on the Greek text and his new French translation of it, which appeared in 1841.

* 800: The Franks complete the reconquest of all of today's southern French territory and the Pyrenees and establish the Spanish March.

The stamp collection assembled by French / Austrian aristocrat Philipp von Ferrary ( 1850 – 1917 ) at the beginning of the 20th century is widely considered the most complete stamp collection ever formed ( or likely to be formed ).

For complete detailed references in French, see the original version at http :// fr. wikipedia. org / wiki / Vassily_Kandinsky

* Chambers of Reunion ( French courts under Louis XIV ) decide on complete annexation of Alsace.

The complete uncut French version was performed first at the Hamburg State Opera in 2001, then and as filmed for DVD at the Staatsoper in Vienna ( 2004 ) and at the Liceu, Barcelona ( 2006 ); its conductor in Vienna was Bertrand de Billy.

The victory was made complete in 1760, when, despite losing outside Quebec City in the Battle of Sainte-Foy, the British were able to prevent the arrival of French relief ships in the naval Battle of the Restigouche while armies marched on Montreal from three sides.

In fact, although they were strongly opposed to the practices of association, educated Ivoirians believed that they would achieve equality with their French peers through assimilation rather than through complete independence from France, a change that would eliminate the enormous economic advantages of remaining a French possession.