In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

The two conference title games led to a hot bidding war between the clubs for players ; the Niners signed cornerback Deion Sanders from the Atlanta Falcons and also signed linebacker Ken Norton, Jr. from the Cowboys ; they defeated the Cowboys 21-14 in the 1994 regular season and then hosted the Cowboys in that year's Conference title game, with the Cowboys now coached by Barry Switzer ; the 49ers raced to a 21-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the first quarter and won 38-28 en route to Super Bowl XXIX.

The 1970 World Conference concluded that several sections that had been added between the 1835 and 1844 editions — mainly dealing with the subjects of temple worship and baptism for the dead — had been published without proper approval of a church conference.

* 481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.

At one such conference, celebrating the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley ’ s birth, Mr. Pappas propounded a new approach to the relationship between Berkeley ’ s anti-abstractionism and " esse est percipi " principle.

The object of the conference was " To consider the advisability of all maritime nations adopting similar methods in preparation, construction, and production of their charts and all hydrographic publications ; of rendering the results in the most convenient form to enable them to be readily used ; of instituting a prompt system of mutual exchange of hydrographic information between all countries ; and of providing an opportunity to consultations and discussions to be carried out on hydrographic subjects generally by the hydrographic experts of the world.

" After a conference in Berlin between Hitler, Molotov and Ribbentrop, Germany presented Molotov with a proposed written agreement for Axis entry.

At this conference, she stated that she believes that the education system in the United States needs to be improved, as there is a link between the quality of education and the crime rate.

At a conference held in 1960 in London, agreement was reached between the African members and the English settlers of the New Kenya Group, led by Michael Blundell.

Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.

The growing tension brought about a conference in London from March to May 1867 in which the British served as mediators between the two rivals.

In November 1921, a conference was held in Geneva to negotiate a convention between Germany and Poland.

At a conference between the two Houses, it was concluded that the Commons should consent to except him from the act of indemnity, the Lords agreeing, on their part, to concur with the other House in petitioning the King, in case of the condemnation of Vane, not to carry the sentence into execution.

The word Oxbridge may also be used pejoratively: as a descriptor of social class ( referring to the professional classes who dominated the intake of both universities at the beginning of the twentieth century ), as shorthand for an elite that " continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment " while Woxbridge is seen in the name of the annual Woxbridge conference between the business schools of Warwick, Oxford and Cambridge.

From that time until 2004 the team continually improved, returning to the playoffs in 2000, then succeeding in winning the NFC East and playing in four consecutive conference championship games between 2001 and 2004.

In a craft conference in Kyoto in 1979, a heated debate sprang up between Western raku artists Paul Soldner and Rick Hirsh and the youngest in the dynastic raku succession, Kichiemon, ( of the fourteenth generation of the " Raku " family of potters ) concerning the right to use the title " raku ".

A few months later, the Empire sent prototype holoships remote-controlled from Romulus to disrupt a peace conference between Andorians and Tellarites.

Notably, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan sat with his Romulan cousins during the conference, indicating a dialogue, or at least a display of goodwill between the two peoples.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

In 1913, representatives of Great Britain, China and Tibet attended a conference in Simla regarding the borders between Tibet, China and British India.

The Office of the Historian of the United States Department of State held a two-day conference in late June 2005 on U. S. policy in South Asia between 1961 and 1972.

* October 21 – A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.

* January 14 – The Hampton Court conference is held between James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of the Puritans.

* February 1 – King Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

The methodologies and research questions of the participants were considered so different that the conference proceedings were published as two volumes.

Walsh would later write that the 49ers ' two wins over the Rams showed a shift of power in their division, while the wins over the Cowboys showed a shift of power in the conference.

The isotope effect was reported by two groups on the 24th of March 1950, who discovered it independently working with different mercury isotopes, although a few days before publication they learned of each other's results at the ONR conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

After nine seasons with the Panthers, Fox finished with a record of 78 – 74 ( including the playoffs ), two division titles, and one conference championship.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

CODATA sponsors the CODATA international conference every two years.

Compaq was hit with two class-action lawsuits, as a result of several executives selling $ 50 million USD of stock before a conference call with analysts, where they noted that demand for PCs was slowing down.

In 1989, two professors from the University of Wisconsin at Madison published an article at an ACM associated conference outlining their methods on increasing database performance.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

For example, in the United Methodist Church, bishops are elected for life, can serve up to two terms in a specific conference ( three if special permission is given ), are responsible for ordaining and appointing clergy to pastor churches, perform many administrative duties, preside at the annual sessions of the regional Conferences and at the quadrennial meeting of the worldwide General Conference, have authority for teaching and leading the church on matters of social and doctrinal import, and serve to represent the denomination in ecumenical gatherings.

Arriving in London in August 1932 he attended a conference on prehistory and protohistory at King's College London, attending at least two lectures which described the cult of the Mother Goddess.

Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3. 1's replacement ( Windows 95, codenamed Chicago ), which would unify the two into one operating system.

Each member state has four representatives at the conference: two government delegates, an employer delegate and a worker delegate.

The Colts moved to Indianapolis in 1984 and have since appeared in the playoffs fourteen times, with two conference championships and one Super Bowl championship coming against the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.

In a Division III college football game on October 27, 2007, Trinity University was trailing by two points with two seconds left in a game against conference rival Millsaps College.