A year later Essendon were if anything even more dominant, defeating the North Melbourne Football Club in both the second semi final and the grand final to secure consecutive VFL premierships for the third time.

As a young man he would have studied at a Sunni Maliki madh ' hab, ( Islamic jurisprudence school ), the dominant form of education in North Africa at that time.

The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant political party in the North, electing its first president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.

By 1981, hardcore was the dominant punk rock style not only in California, but much of the rest of North America as well.

In the 1840s, two decades after the Monroe Doctrine declared U. S. intentions to be the dominant anti-European imperial power in the Western Hemisphere, North American and French interests became excited about the prospects of constructing railroads and / or canals through Central America to quicken trans-oceanic travel.

In mid-2006, after years of the Boxster ( and later the Cayenne ) as the dominant Porsche in North America, the 911 regained its position as Porsche's backbone in the region.

Both of these dominant cultures have a large and central shrine which still exists today, Ise Shrine in the South West and Izumo Taisha in the North East.

In North America, one or two species of fir and one or two species of spruce are dominant.

What the PDRY government failed to tell the YAR government was that it wished to be the dominant power in any unification, and left wing rebels in North Yemen began to receive extensive funding and arms from South Yemen.

* The Hopewell tradition of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.

France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, confirming Britain's position as the dominant colonial power in the eastern half of North America.

In the face of a divided opposition, the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House without support from the South.

The new Republican party which was created in opposition to the act aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant political party in the North.

He then gathered the most disposals afield in the third quarter and was the catalyst in a dominant quarter for North, before returning to the forward line in the final term to take a spectacular one handed mark and kick the final goal of the game.

Moorish architecture is a term used to describe the articulated Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal where the Moors were dominant from 711 – 1492.

Like other regions, the division of seats favours the dominant party in the region, and the Conservatives have 52, Lib Dems 4 ( also Norwich South, Colchester and Cambridge ) and Labour 2 ( Luton South and Luton North ).

The militarily dominant nations seem to be North America and China.

Because Triceratops teeth, horn fragments, frill fragments, and other skull fragments are such abundant fossils in the Lancian faunal stage of the late Maastrichtian ( late Cretaceous, 68 to 65 mya ) Period of western North America, it is regarded as among the dominant herbivores of the time, if not the most dominant herbivore.

International brands dominant in North America include Wendy's, the number three burger chain in the USA ; Dunkin ' Donuts, a New England based chain ; automobile oriented Sonic Drive-In's from Oklahoma City ; Starbucks, Seattle-born coffee-based fast food beverage corporation ; KFC, a part of the largest restaurant conglomerate in the world, Yum!

Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America — making it the most successful mammal on the planet after humans.

The Upper Towns, located on the Coosa, Tallapoosa and Alabama rivers, were Tuckabatchee, Abhika, Coosa ( Kusa ; the dominant people of East Tennessee and North Georgia during the Spanish explorations ), Itawa ( original inhabitants of the Etowah Indian Mounds ), Hothliwahi ( Ullibahali ), Hilibi, Eufaula, Wakokai, Atasi, Alibamu, Coushatta ( Koasati ; they had absorbed the Kaski / Casqui and the Tali ), and Tuskegee (" Napochi " in the de Luna chronicles ).

By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch had built by far the largest mercantile fleet in Europe, with more ships than all the other states combined, and their economy, based mainly on maritime commerce, gave them a dominant position in European trade, especially in the North Sea and Baltic.

* Direct market, the dominant distribution and retail network for North American comic books

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

The years 1914 – 1919 in America also saw the consolidation of the forms of what was to become the dominant mode of commercial cinema: " continuity cinema ", or " classical cinema ".

More recently, in the 18th century, the sweet potato was taken to New Guinea, having been introduced to the Moluccas from South America by Portuguese traders, representing the locally dominant colonial power.

By 1995, the dominant franchises were the Mortal Kombat series in America and Virtua Fighter series in Japan, with Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors ' Dreams unable to match the popularity of Street Fighter II.

The end of World War II established the two most powerful victors, the United States of America ( USA, or just the United States ) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR, or just the Soviet Union ) as the two dominant world superpowers.

Finally, after precariously defeating Peru during the War of the Pacific ( 1879-1883 ), Chile emerged as the dominant power of the Pacific Coast of South America.

Recited Portuguese poetry | Portuguese lyric PoetryIn the early years of the 20th century rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in America, Europe and the British colonies.

While the city attracted international attention when Mercedes-Benz announced it would build its first automotive assembly plant in North America in Tuscaloosa County, the University of Alabama remains the dominant economic and cultural engine in the city.

" and whose theme " was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully ".

A dominant mode of thought in America would be called manifest destiny by the 1840s.

Furthermore, critics point to a statement made by Omar Ahmad ( a joint founder of CAIR ) in 1998 in which he said that Muslim Americans " have a duty to deliver the message of Islam " and that " Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.

In isolated South America, the phorusrhacids could not be outcompeted by the local metatherian sparassodonts and remained dominant until advanced eutherian predators arrived from North America ( as part of the Great American Interchange ) during the Pliocene.

Class 2, stations operating on clear channels are required to cease operation or operate under nighttime restrictions beginning either at local sunset ( for daytime class 2, stations ) or sunset at the location of the dominant class 1, station where located west of the class 2, station ( for limited-time class 2, stations ).

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

Therefore, under our longstanding allocation rules, on some of these channels no station other than the dominant ( class 1 ) -- A ) station is permitted to operate at night, so that the 1, -- A station can render service, interference free, wherever it can be received.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

The tendency is toward putting dominant stress at the end.

Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England.

In many cases, genotypic interactions between the two alleles at a locus can be described as dominant or recessive, according to which of the two homozygous genotypes the phenotype of the heterozygote most resembles.

The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, the largest ocean current.

Virgil was seen as the pinnacle of Latin literature, and Latin was the dominant literary language of England at the time, therefore making Virgilian influence highly likely.

* In tennis, the serve is dominant to the extent that the server is expected to win most of his service games ( at advanced level & onwards ); a break of service, where the server loses the game, is of major importance in a match.

By the time Mozart arrived at age 25, in 1781, the dominant styles of Vienna were recognizably connected to the emergence in the 1750s of the early Classical style.

The composition of such lintels characteristically consists in a dominant image at the center of a rectangle, from which issue swirling elements that reach to the far ends of the rectangle.

This difference stems from temperature dependency differences between the two reactions ; pp-chain reactions start occurring at temperatures around, making it the dominant energy source in smaller stars.

The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.

Some people suggested Cleveland was at best the dominant team in a minor league, while others were confident of its prospects in the NFL.

The name " Caribbean " is derived from the Caribs, one of the dominant American Indian groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late 15th century.

The dipole term is the dominant one at large distances: Its field falls off in proportion to 1 / r < sup > 3 </ sup >, as compared to 1 / r < sup > 4 </ sup > for the next ( quadrupole ) term and higher powers of 1 / r for higher terms, or 1 / r < sup > 2 </ sup > for the monopole term.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

The stories of the Dying Earth series are set in the distant future, at a point when the sun is almost exhausted and magic has reasserted itself as a dominant force.

Thus gravity is the dominant force at distance in the universe, despite being much weaker.

The Environmental Justice movement seeks to link " social " and " ecological " environmental concerns, while at the same time keeping environmentalists conscious of the dynamics in their own movement, i. e. racism, sexism, homophobia, classicism, and other malaises of dominant culture.

With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position.

Letters are formed by a dominant hand, which is on top of or alongside the other hand at the point of contact, and a subordinate hand, which uses either the same or a simpler handshape as the dominant hand.