The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal.

Runoff advocates counter that voters first preference is more important than lower preferences because that's where voters are putting the most effort of decision and that, unlike Condorcet methods, runoffs require a high showing among the full field of choices in addition to a strong showing in the final head-to-head competition.

Disillusionment with railroad performance led to a new emphasis on roads in a readjustment of the Five-Year Plan in 1973 — the so-called Interim Action Program — and a decision to encourage competition between rail and road transport as the best way to improve services.

At the time the decision was made, Japan had never qualified for a World Cup finals ( although the Japanese did subsequently qualify for the 1998 competition ).

However, in its final years Young Talent Time began to struggle for ratings, particularly following the decision of the rival Nine Network to move its popular early morning variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday to an evening slot in 1984, putting it in direct competition to YTT on Saturday nights at 6. 30pm.

Because of anger over the decision to hold a second successive World Cup in Europe, neither Uruguay nor Argentina entered the competition, while Spain became the first country to be prevented from competing by war.

The FCC's decision to locate television service on the limited VHF band changed the ways of television service and network competition in the industry.

In the European Union, the treatment of VoIP service providers is a decision for each Member State's national telecoms regulator, which must use competition law to define relevant national markets and then determine whether any service provider on those national markets has " significant market power " ( and so should be subject to certain obligations ).

Such responses were to be received no later than 10 days following publication of the invitation and the decision on whether to open the " tender " to competition was to remain solely within the discretion of the government.

Finally, with the further expansion of the UEFA Champions League to include as many as three or four teams from the top footballing nations, the decision was taken to abolish the competition after the end of the 1998 / 99 tournament.

The decision to abolish the London TDRs and to let Virgin Atlantic operate at Heathrow in competition with British Airways became the trigger for BA's so-called " dirty tricks " campaign against Virgin.

Scott's design had originally been placed third in the competition, the winner being one in a Florentine inspired style by Gottfried Semper, but the decision was overturned by a faction who favoured a Gothic design.

The March 2006 issue of Chicago magazine cites a mid-1970s decision to make and keep all parking in downtown Naperville free, in order to keep downtown Naperville " alive " in the face of competition with Fox Valley Mall in Aurora and the subsequent sprawl of strip shopping malls.

Due to this unpredictability, sponsors finally decided to move it into June, although this decision puts it in direct competition with the much larger Utah Arts Festival, held in Salt Lake City on the same dates.

Integrating these two concepts, he stated that the decision cycle was the central mechanism of adaptation ( in a social context ) and that increasing one's own rate and accuracy of assessment vis-a-vis one's counterpart's rate and accuracy of assessment provides a substantial advantage in war or other forms of competition.

* On October 2, 2007, The CW ( WB and UPN's successor ) announced that it would end the Kids ' WB block starting May 2008, due to the effects of children's advertising limits and cable competition, in a joint decision between Warner Bros. and CBS, parent companies of The CW.

The decision is also in part due to competition from other on-demand movie services such as Netflix, and to change Cinemax's image from a channel mostly known for its softcore pornographic series and movies.

He also points out that competition separates individuals from one another and while concentration of workers and development of better communication alleviate this, they are not a decision.

In academic literature, the phenomenon of regulatory competition reducing standards overall was argued for by AA Berle and GC Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property ( 1932 ) while the concept received formal recognition by the US Supreme Court in a decision of Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case Ligget Co. v. Lee ( 288 U. S. 517, 558 – 559 ).

In 1806 Napoleon made his decision to erect a memorial, a Temple de la Gloire de la Grande Armée (" Temple to the Glory of the Great Army "); following an elaborate competition with numerous entries and a jury that decided on a design by the architect Claude Étienne de Beaumont ( 1757 – 1811 ), the Emperor trumped all, instead commissioning Pierre-Alexandre Vignon ( 1763 – 1828 ) to build his design on an antique temple ( Compare the Maison Carrée, in Nîmes ) The then-existing foundations were razed, preserving the standing columns, and work begun anew.

Mariska Majoor of the Prostitution Information Center and representatives of the sex worker rights group De Rode Draad have decried the decision, claiming it would not reduce crime but would only lead to higher rent and more competition for the remaining windows.

While the Roughriders had planned on traveling east without the five ineligible players, the CRU remained steadfast in their decision to disallow the team from competition.

The decision on the singer, Kenneth McKellar, had already been made, without any open competition.

The decision to construct the additional facility was influenced by growing energy demand, regulated river flows stipulated in the Columbia River Treaty with Canada and competition with the Soviet Union.

St-Laurent supported King's decision to introduce conscription in 1944, despite the lack of support from other French Canadians ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ).

The decision may not have improved Władysław's relations with the Order, but it served to introduce closer ties between Lithuania and Poland, enabling the Polish church to freely assist its Lithuanian counterpart.

It was between these drafts that Wagner made the decision not to introduce Wotan in act 1, instead leaving the sword the god had been going to bring on stage already embedded in the tree before the action starts.

In 1968, arguably in response to sensationalist stories about supposed “ scroungers ” and “ welfare cheats ,” the government made the decision to introduce a controversial new rule terminating benefits for single men under the age of 45 was introduced.

The established NSC process was used when the question involved a policy debate between departments with strongly held, contending positions, as it did in the case of the debate between the Departments of State and Defense in 1956 / 1957 over whether to introduce a more modern generation of weapons into Korea, where it focused debate and produced the necessary agreed-upon decision after discussion of three draft policy papers.

Having missed a potential bonanza from a premiership play-off, the VFA decided to emulate the VFL and introduce a finals series in 1903, a fateful decision for the Tigers.

At the U. N. General Assembly in November 1957 the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia condemned the decision of the United Nations Command to introduce nuclear weapons into Korea.

The cost of the war meant that savings had to be found from other budgets, and a controversial decision was made to introduce charges for prescription glasses and dentures on the National Health Service.

Sutcliffe made this decision because the Bondage material he began to introduce in the late 1970s issues of the original AtomAge bothered some rubber enthusiasts.

This decision made it necessary to introduce some minor alterations for the coat of arms for Öland, and it included the introduction of a collar and differentiating the color of its armament, antlers and hoofs.

His decision to introduce budget deficits in his first three budgets was even welcomed by the opposition.

Many citizens in the middle class were alienated by his decision on August 1 to introduce the value-added tax, never before levied in Guatemala.

On 28 September 2008, the Irish government made the decision to introduce a bank guarantee to cover Anglo Irish Bank, Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland.

Hampton disapproved of many of the Rae government's centrist policies ; in particular, he opposed Rae's decision to retreat from an election pledge to introduce public automobile insurance in the province.

Like Howard Hampton and Peter Kormos, Martel also opposed Rae's decision to retreat from an election pledge to introduce public automobile insurance in the province.

When sales of “ President ’ s Blend Gourmet Coffee ” started outselling every other grocery item on the shelf, the decision was made to introduce a premium line of store brand products.

When Dow Jones took control of the magazine, efforts to introduce more lifestyle features sparked protests from Review loyalists-as did its decision to make it into a monthly rather than a weekly title.

As of December 18, 2006, this population numbered about 53 birds, but a decision was made not to introduce further birds into this population until problems with high mortality and lack of reproduction are resolved, and as of May 2011, the population had shrunk to 20 cranes.

This decision to adopt the coat of arm originally intended made it necessary to introduce some minor alterations for Öland.

Michael defended his decision not to introduce Sarah's law saying, " These are extremely difficult issues and people are understandably very upset, but there is a danger of serious mistakes being made and this has been shown on a number occasions .".

In December 2010 chairman Dale Vince publicly announced his consideration that for the 2011 – 12 season the club would introduce a pink away kit and in May 2011 the club released a consultation for supporters inviting opinions on the clubs decision to change its badge.

The decision to order and introduce the Pioneer in the mid-1970s was in large part due to Ustoinov's wishes to shift military procurement out of the hands of the military into the design bureaus, who in turn pressed for more and varied weapons as a way of increasing orders.

A decision to introduce a highly pressurized ball hastened the decline of the sport.

If the test is successful a decision will be made in early July of 2012 to formally introduce the system On July 5, 2012 FIFA approved of this technology along with GoalRef to be part of the new goal line technology system.