The departure of the Giants and the Dodgers to California left New York with only the Yankees.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

In 1960, the country was in a very unstable state — regional tribal leaders held far more power than the central government — and with the departure of the Belgian administrators, there were almost no skilled bureaucrats left in the country.

After recovery from a genetic bottleneck that might be due to the Toba supervolcano catastrophe, a fairly small group left Africa and briefly interbred with Neanderthals, probably in the middle-east or even North Africa before their departure.

It was inspired by the departure of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner, who had left for Australia.

While relations were cordial between the two companies at first, the departure of Jim Levy from Activision left Bruce Davis in charge.

King Richard, who had left Kyningestun soon after Ivanhoe's departure, arrives at the Templar Preceptory, banishes the Templars and declares that the Malvoisins ' lives are forfeit for having aided in the plots against him.

Hanson found the work tedious and wished to resign, but his departure would have left Congress without a quorum to select a successor, and so, out of a sense of duty, he remained in office.

Upon his departure from the Middle East, Louis left a significant garrison in the city of Acre for its defence against Islamic attacks.

This change in status was also affected by the 1386 departure of John of Gaunt who left England to pursue the Crown of Castile.

In the words of John Walker, the record was " a turning point for the whole New York scene " if not quite for the punk rock sound itself — Hell's departure had left the band " significantly reduced in fringe aggression ".

The Torah says that it is because the Hebrews left Egypt with such haste that there was no time to allow baked bread to rise ; thus flat, unleavened bread, matzo, is a reminder of the rapid departure of the Exodus.

The departure of the Norman lords enabled Rhys to strengthen his position, and the death of Owain Gwynedd in late 1170 left him as the acknowledged leader of the Welsh princes.

The departure of the Boers and later removal of the remaining garrison in 1906 ( with the disbandment of the St Helena Volunteers, this was the first time the island was left without a garrison ) both impacted on the island economy, which was only slightly offset by growing philatelic sales.

Asau, with the Potlatch sawmillers and Samoa Forest Products, was one of the busiest parts of Savai ' i in the 1960s and 1970s ; however, the departure of Potlatch and the scaling down of the sawmill has left Asau a ghost town in recent years.

After Osmond ’ s departure, Huxley and Maria left to go on a three-week, 5, 000-mile car trip around the national parks of the North West of the USA.

In 1938, Theremin left the United States, though the circumstances related to his departure are in dispute.

John Squire left the band on 1 April 1996, releasing a statement describing his departure as " the inevitable conclusion to the gradual social and musical separation we have undergone in the past few years ".

Everybody has left Mars to go to Earth, except Walter Gripp — a single miner who lives in the mountains and does not hear of the departure.

In 1228, with the departure of the Almohad prince, Idris, who left Iberia to take the Almohad leadership, the ambitious Ibn al-Ahmar established the longest lasting Muslim dynasty on the Iberian peninsula-the Nasrids.

Their departure left only one remaining group of Mexican soldiers in Texas, those under Cos at Béxar.

With Burnside's departure, Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin left as well.

Gandalf left a letter to Frodo ( urging his immediate departure ) with Barliman Butterbur at the inn in Bree, and headed towards Isengard.

The Japanese colonial experience left an indelible mark on many older aborigines who maintained an admiration for the Japanese long after their departure in 1945.

Within the first years following Fish's departure as chair, many of his most prominent hires left, including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( citing anti-intellectualism and homophobia ), Michael Moon, and Jonathan Goldberg.

The first historical information we have from the area where today is the state of Paraná, comes from the Bandeirantes, groups of the first settlers from São Paulo, a city that already in the 16th century served as a departure point to colonizing expeditions around the future Brazil, and parts of what today is Argentina and Paraguay in searching gold mines.

After Weiland's departure, the band began recording and searching for a new singer.

With the departure of the final two mainland members, Montana State University-Billings and Western New Mexico University, to join the Heartland Conference in 2005, the four Hawaii universities played one season as “ independents ” after receiving a waiver from the NCAA to keep the conference in name, while searching for new members, because in order to be eligible for conference membership in the NCAA, a conference must consist of a minimum of six member institutions who sponsor at least ten sports, with two team sports for each gender.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

Gun on shoulder, he would march smartly for a few yards, bring his heels together with a click, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march back to his point of departure.

She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.

In fact, as the time for their departure approached, his solicitousness increased.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

On departure for Lambaréné in 1913 he was presented with a pedal piano, a piano with pedal attachments ( to operate like an organ pedal-keyboard ).

After Lane's departure, Alcott fell into a depression and could not speak or eat for three days.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

In Earth orbit, the crew faced multiple minor technical issues, including a potential problem with the environmental control system and the S-IVB third stage's attitude control system, that were eventually resolved or compensated for in preparation for departure towards the Moon.

Anne was particularly close to Emily especially after Charlotte's departure for Roe Head School, in January 1831.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment.

The departure of Johan Cruijff for FC Barcelona in 1973 signalled the end of this period of success.

The native Britons, whose Christian church survived the departure of the Romans, earn Bede's ire for refusing to help convert the Saxons ; by the end of the Historia the English, and their Church, are dominant over the Britons.

And in our own language ,— for he was familiar with English poetry ,— speaking of the soul ’ s dread departure from the body:

The tathāgathagarbha sutras, in a departure from mainstream Buddhist language, insist that the potential for awakening is inherent to every sentient being.

With the departure and the completion of the new White Wing ( fronting Montague Street ) in 1884, more space was available for antiquities and ethnography and the library could further expand.

The departure of the British Library to a new site at St Pancras, finally achieved in 1998, provided the space needed for the books.

Some modern scholars use the belief of Jesus ' followers in the resurrection as a point of departure for establishing the continuity of the historical Jesus and the proclamation of the early church.

Before their departure, the ship of the commander Belisarius was anchored in front of the Imperial palace, and the Patriarch offered prayers for the success of the enterprise.

An additional reason for his departure was the fact that the arms of Thierry had prevailed against Theodebert, and thus the country on the banks of the Upper Rhine had become the property of his enemy.

Maria and Liam's baby son was stillborn in April, and during an estrangement from Maria upon the death of their baby, Liam had a one night stand with Carla, a story which helped pave the way for his departure.

The Senate had become accustomed to ruling without an emperor between the departure of Tiberius for Capri in AD 26 and Caligula's accession.