Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

The final Allied reinforcements for the cavalry contest to the south were at last in position ; Marlborough ’ s superiority on the left could no longer be denied, and his fast-moving plan took hold of the battlefield.

In 1263 troops commanded by Haakon Haakonarson repeated the feat but the ensuing Battle of Largs between Scots and Norse forces, which took place on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, was inconclusive as a military contest.

Most economists today also contest that the value of capital is limited to the " congealed labor " that it took to build the capital when that capital can increase the productive capability of labor much more than that.

By the end of that month, eight political parties had registered to contest the first stage of the transition process: election to the Constitutional Commission, which took place on 23 – 26 July 1992.

When Germain's correspondence with Gauss ceased, she took interest in a contest sponsored by the Paris Academy of Sciences concerning Ernst Chladni's experiments with vibrating metal plates.

The score proved to be the last one of the contest as the defenses of both teams took over for the rest of the game.

Lipscomb later had a high-school physics course and took first prize in the state contest on that subject.

The Wisconsin primary proved to be the key contest, as Dewey won by a surprisingly wide margin ; he took 14 delegates to four for Harold Stassen, while MacArthur won the three remaining delegates.

During this voyage he took possession of the Falkland Islands on the part of Britain, in 1765, on the ground of prior discovery, and his doing so was nearly the cause of a war between Great Britain and Spain, both countries having armed fleets to contest the sovereignty of the barren islands.

The presentations took the form of a contest between three playwrights, who presented their works on three successive days.

The contest took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, at the height of the Cold War, and consequently was seen as symbolic of the political confrontation between the two superpowers.

Trinidad was matched with Joppy, whom he defeated by technical knockout in the fifth round of a contest that took place on May 12, 2001.

The band took first prize at a high school talent contest playing Merle Haggard's, " Sing Me Back Home.

The 2002 contest took place at the same venue, the Brabazon Course at The Belfry, as had originally been planned and with the teams that had been selected over a year earlier.

Although Tucholsky still took part in a contest for the 9th war bond ( Kriegsanleihe ) in August 1918, he returned from the war in the autumn of 1918 as a convinced anti-militarist and pacifist.

The capture of Thessaloniki against Constantine's whim proved a crucial achievement: the pacts of the Balkan League had provided that in the forthcoming war against the Ottoman Empire, the four Balkan allies would provisionally hold any ground they took from the Turks, without contest from the other allies.

Alongside his Formula One testing duties for Williams, he competed again in F3000 and took the title in a close contest with Nick Heidfeld who was driving for McLaren's F3000 team.

She earned a diploma to teach art, but took a chance on a contest and won a prestigious scholarship to the Chicago Musical College and graduated in 1926.

In the contest for the imperial throne upon the death of Maximilian in 1519, Sickingen accepted bribes from King Francis I of France, but when the election took place he led his troops to Frankfurt, where their presence assisted to secure the election of Charles V. For this service he was made imperial chamberlain and councillor, and in 1521 he led an expedition into France, which ravaged Picardy, but was beaten back from Mézières and forced to retreat.

The contest took place at the indoor ice arena of Malmö where the stage set was in the shape of a Viking ship's bow with a dragon in the centre and stars on each side.

Due to the number of countries, and the time it took for the contest to be held, the EBU set the limit of competing countries to 22.

The contest took place under heavy guard at the 15000 seat Simmonscourt Pavilion of the RDS, which was normally used for agricultural and horse shows.

This year also marked the first performance of Sweden's Carola Häggkvist, who took the third place and went on to win the contest in 1991 and represented her country again in 2006 ( coming fifth ).

Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.

* Alphorn in concert Concert and composition contest taking place annually in Oensingen, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland

He gained the highly respected second place of this prestigious DJ contest ).

Each year arranges the Chalmers Big Jump Open ski and snowboard contest taking place on the union square.

But nobody obeying these orders of his, he gathered together a body of labourers, who worked for him, and overthrew all the scaffolds the very night before the contest was to take place.

When Narmour got a chance to record for Okeh Records as a prize for winning first place in a 1928 fiddle contest, he recommended Hurt to Okeh Records producer Tommy Rockwell.

While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.

At the end of the contest year, the four quarterly first place stories compete for a separate annual grand prize, the " Gold Award ," which includes an additional $ 5000.

During the telecast, NBC switched over to the game between the Orlando Rage and the Chicago Enforcers, which was a closer contest than the blowout taking place in Las Vegas.

Crawford never formally declared himself a candidate, because he believed that he had little chance against Monroe and feared such a contest might deny him a place in the new cabinet.

Upon both of them entering and tying for first place in a scientific contest at the University of Paris, Johann, unable to bear the " shame " of being compared as Daniel's equal, banned Daniel from his house.

Joseph's close friend and ally Margaret Thatcher, who believed an adherent to CPS philosophy should stand, joined the leadership contest in his place alongside the outsider Hugh Fraser.

This was not a big enough margin to give Thatcher the 15 % majority necessary to win on the first ballot, but having finished in second place Heath immediately resigned and did not contest the next ballot.

The Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London.

After achieving second place in a 1928 cartoon contest, the 23-year-old Gottfredson moved to Southern California with his wife and family, just before Christmas.

The game takes place in a haunted mansion when Luigi wins a contest that he never entered.

The family lived in Campbell, California, Later, while a junior at Campbell High School, he was the youngest person voted into the Edwin Markham Poetry Society, and won first place in the Society's student poetry contest.

The same year, she earned second place at the Queen of the World contest.