Using his extensive contacts Keating gained Labor endorsement for the federal seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election when he was 25 years of age.

Relying on his bank president father's connections, his political contacts, and his own business skill, Yerkes gained a name for himself in the local financial and social world.

In RMSS and RFRP, they can also be spent on Training Packages, which represent a specific bundle of skills, equipment and contacts gained through training.

The Duke refused, and after Weadick gained the support of political contacts in Ottawa, including future Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, the path was cleared.

He profited financially, and also gained contacts and knowledge about the world through traveling, as well as a greater understanding for business.

He also wrote a manual on the Court's practice, and through his position gained a large number of contacts and connections, as well as visibility, which aided his legal career significantly.

During the period, Chinese contacts were increased and Zen Buddhism gained influence, which had broad cultural consequences.

Emulating Soviet détente policy of the 1970s, Bulgaria gained Western technology, expanded cultural contacts, and attracted Western investments with the most liberal foreign investment policy in Eastern Europe.

Concentrating on shipping, shipbuilding and purchasing grain, Allan advanced rapidly, aided by capital raised and contacts gained through family connections, as well as social bonds he developed himself in the predominantly Scottish business community at Montreal.

Lord Londonderry subsequently gained notoriety for his informal diplomatic contacts with senior members of the German government.

He has also gained many international contacts and a vast fortune, gained over centuries.

Alexander then struck a deal with Michael Garibaldi: he would use his contacts, gained both when he was the Head of Covert Intelligence for the Interstellar Alliance, and those from his current position as the head of Edgars Industries, to help her avoid prosecution, as well as provide funding for her cause.

He gained a reputation as a loner, but he maintained social contacts, enjoyed writing letters, and continued to travel on occasion to visit friends.

Several additional years of travels on the European continent, to England, and in Sweden, gained him experience, knowledge of natural resources and important contacts.

In Lenski's view, members of any given society are united by a shared and distinctive culture, though these ties become attenuated to varying degrees as their society's store of information increases, their cultural and organizational patterns become more diverse, and intersocietal contacts increase with the acquisition of signals, and later, symbols, early humans gained the critically important ability to share information gained through individual experience.

He used his extensive list of contacts that he gained from his work at fanzine, Horrendlfled, to network not only the label but also the artists Matthew had signed.

His grandfather, Enisi, contacts him from the spirit realm and tells him that such power is only an illusion, as the price is greater than what he has gained, and that he needs to look in his heart and make the right decision.

O ' Brien gained a reputation for working towards unity on the far right, establishing contacts not only with the NDP, but also the Monday Club, the Union Movement, the Integralists led by white Russian George Knuppfer and a number of local anti-immigration groups, with the NF ultimately absorbing a number of such groups.

Bacon gained close contacts with individuals who were active in establishing the Federal Housing Authority, such as Catherine Bauer and Lewis Mumford.

If we add to these contacts with friendly members the `` contacts with an organization of the church '' ( 11.2 per cent of the cases ), then a substantial two thirds of all recruitment is through friendly contact.

Besides that, I'm acquainted more or less with the defense hardware situation through my contacts in the Air Force.

The fourth founder, Herbert Richman, had been a salesman for Fairchild Semiconductor and knew the others through his contacts with Digital Equipment.

* The gathering and use of demographic data through Web contacts

Source and drain terminal conductors are connected to the semiconductor through ohmic contacts.

Chinese thought on the form of the earth remained almost unchanged from early times until the first contacts with modern science through the medium of Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century.

In the early sixties, he attended the Gallerie Carrefour of Marcel Stal and, through his contacts with artists, critics and collectors, he began to buy works from Fontana, Poliakoff and many others.

Some people who are in a relationship but want to hide homosexual or heterosexual activity from their partner, may solicit consensual sexual activity with others through personal contacts, online chat rooms, or, advertising in select media.

Beginning slowly through contacts with Berber and Arab merchants engaged in the important caravan trades and rapidly advancing through the Almoravid conquests, Islamization did not take firm hold until the arrival of Yemeni Arabs in the 12th and 13th centuries and was not complete until several centuries later.

Wesley maintained the Arminian doctrines that were dominant in the 18th-century Church of England, while Whitefield adopted Calvinism through his contacts with Calvinists in Scotland and New England.

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.

As a further snub, the Regent, who scorned Bismarck as a " Landwehrleutnant " ( reserve lieutenant ), had declined to promote him to the rank of major-general, normal for the ambassador to Saint Petersburg ( and important as Prussia and Russia were close military allies, whose heads of state often communicated through military contacts rather than diplomatic channels ).

André Matsoua got his education and contacts with European thinking through the church.

For example, if the user dials " 6 " on a North American phone, electrical contacts wired through the cam mechanism inside the phone will open and close six times as the dial returns to home position, thus sending six pulses to the central office.

As for any switch, the current through the relay contacts ( unrelated to the current through the coil ) must not exceed a certain value to avoid damage.

Consequently for relays which may be used to control inductive loads we must specify the maximum current that may flow through the relay contacts when it actuates, the make rating ; the continuous rating ; and the break rating.

The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.

Both in its regular bilateral contacts with South Korea and through its FTA with Korea, the EU is seeking to improve this situation.

On the other hand, some scholars hold that Judaism refined its concept of monotheism and adopted features such as its eschatology, angelology and demonology through contacts with Zoroastrianism .< ref >

The religion of Dvaravati is thought to be Theravada through contacts with Sri Lanka, with the ruling class also participating in Hindu rites.

When the top and bottom contacts were connected by a wire, an electric current flowed through the voltaic pile and the connecting wire.

The university maintains close contacts with most of these companies.

Just as a screwdriver ( physical capital ) or a university education ( cultural capital or human capital ) can increase productivity ( both individual and collective ), so do social contacts affect the productivity of individuals and groups ".

The university has well-established contacts with the most distinguished universities in the world, exchanging students and lecturers with the leading international institutions of higher education.

Initially almost unemployed due to the lack of education and contacts which a university education would have provided, his business increased thanks to his friendships with John Dunning, who, overwhelmed with cases, allowed Kenyon to work many, and Lord Thurlow who secured for him the Chief Justiceship of Chester in 1780.

Manganiello traveled to New York and Los Angeles through his university to participate in group auditions, which provided him contacts in the entertainment business.

The university was able to make use of its contacts to petition the queen, Katharine Parr who, in turn, persuaded Henry to spare most colleges.

Again with Merivale and his Cambridge contacts he instigated the first university boat race in 1829.

In the 1970's, KALX was taken off the air for a short period by the faculty oversight Radio Policy Board after the station manager and friends had abused their use of university automobiles for private use and run up large bills for long distance phone calls to their contacts in Los Angeles and elsewhere.