Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.

The event that sparked the explosion of lobbying was the first direct election of the European Parliament in 1979.

Traditionally Cornish, they have even sparked local events such as the Pasty Fest, where there are eating contests ( with consumption of pasties, of course ), games, events, and even a tug of war event where the losers take a dive into an inflatable pool filled with ketchup.

This event sparked a reign of terror in which dozens of Texans suspected of being loyal to the Union were lynched by Confederate soldiers.

On the night in question, the Station was legally required to have a sprinkler system but did not ; outcry over the event has sparked calls for a national Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act but those efforts have so far stalled.

This event sparked a major change in attitude towards TLP reports.

This event sparked the beginning of the brass industry in Torrington, which later would spread throughout the entire Naugatuck Valley.

The event sparked a series of political controversies where, in the end, the police officers were found guilty of murder and several high-ranking local government officials were accused of planning and / or covering-up the incident.

Further accusations, and hints of accusations, followed, including the suggestion that the murder of Sergey Kirov in 1934, the event that sparked of the Great Terror, could be included in the list of Stalin's crimes.

This event, coupled with the subsequent collapse of several department store chains, sparked a wave of mall renovations in many parts of the country.

This event sparked a mini-feud between Piper and The Ortons.

This event was blamed on the Jews and sparked widespread anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire which lasted for three years.

One story suggests that Comiskey's interest in the game was sparked by an event that occurred when he was 17 years old.

Erekat was also, along with Arafat and Faisal Husseini, one of the three high-ranking Palestinians who asked Ariel Sharon not to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque in September 2000, an event which allegedly sparked off the Second Intifada. He also acted as Yasser Arafat's English interpreter.

For Matt Burden, of Blackfive. net, a specific event sparked his motivation to fill the media void.

The event was meant to foster feelings of reconciliation and cooperation between the two countries by their leaders, but it has also sparked different degrees of discontents on both sides.

However, his promising career was cut short due to his death in an apartment fire 1981 – said to have been accompanied by a suicide note – an event that sparked a progressively diminishing morale in Cziffra, Sr. Cziffra never again performed or recorded with an orchestra, and some critics have commented that the severe emotional blow had an impact on his playing quality as well.

The success of the first Clean Up event in 1989 sparked national interest in the simple but effective community-based idea.

The deciding event in precipitating the First Congo War was the Rwandan genocide, which sparked a mass exodus of refugees known as the Great Lakes refugee crisis.

The Cuban Revolution was a major event all over Latin America and sparked both great concern and a sense of possibility in Nicaragua.

This epochal event sparked a general re-evaluation and revival of Bach's works, which were then largely forgotten and regarded as old-fashioned and beyond resuscitation.

Thus, he sparked the plans to bring the Justice League, leaderless and broken after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, under his exclusive control.

The second season also includes an episode that follows Glasser's efforts to mount an Internet-based telethon to raise money for freedom of speech causes ; this event was in response to his nearly being jailed on obscenity charges several years ago and, according to the episode, was sparked when Glasser discovered a shipment of Seymour Butts tapes that was about to be inadvertently mailed to an American state where importation of pornography is illegal.

The event also sparked interest in the incredible fuel economy of the vehicle-a single tank lasted, even with the tough terrain.

) In perhaps the world's first live mass-media event, the hammers and spike were wired to the telegraph line so that each hammer stroke would be heard as a click at telegraph stations nationwide — the hammer strokes were missed, so the clicks were sent by the telegraph operator.

" The event gained nationwide attention as the men followed an untried strategy called " jail, no bail.

" Apart from its daily nationwide distribution, the term means that back issues are archived on microfilm by every decent-sized public library in the nation, and the Times ' articles are often cited by both historians and judges as evidence that a major historical event occurred on a certain date.

The first nationwide NHRA sponsored event was held in 1955, in Great Bend, Kansas.

This nationwide event, called Hands Across America, was intended to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

The U. S. nuclear power industry was ordered to spend billions of dollars implementing anti-terrorist security measures at commercial nuclear reactors nationwide, including on-site security squads with automatic weapons, remote scram capabilities ( to take control of the plant from a distance and shut it down in the event of an attack ) and the use of " red teams " to probe defenses and thereby eliminate vulnerabilities.

Dissatisfied with the pronouncements of the newspapers as to the public mood, the project's founders initiated a nationwide effort to document the feelings of the populace about the historical event by collecting anecdotes, overheard comments, and " man-in-the-street " interviews on and around the Coronation of George VI.

In the United States, the event has come to be considered one of the first nationwide media events.

The fire, which was one of the worst such tragedies in American history, was widely covered by the national press, which gave Carcieri's public statements on the event nationwide coverage.

DVDs of the event were sold as fund raisers for PBS stations nationwide.

Small Business week was launched by BDC in 1979 and became a nationwide event in 1981.

On 6 June 1993 the big prayer hall was reinaugurated in an event attended by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and televised nationwide in Germany.

* At the 2005 National Science Bowl, the Wootton Science Bowl team earned 5th place out of 63 schools nationwide, all of which had won their respective regional event.

The opening of the Nordstrom store is considered a seminal event as it was the first Nordstrom store outside of the Pacific Northwest and marked the West Coast and later the nationwide expansion of its chain.

His funeral was a televised, nationwide event, where his casket was carried by some of the most prominent members of Russian stage to its burial.

The largest annually held event is called Relay For Life which is a nationwide fundraising program for cancer research.

Established in 1970, the March for Babies, previously called WalkAmerica, is the largest fundraiser of the year for the March of Dimes, as well as the oldest nationwide charitable walking event.

One nationwide event that ALSF is known for are " Lemonade Days ," during which dedicated volunteers host " Alex's Lemonade Stands " across the country, during the same June weekend that Alex first held her original stands, from June 11 to June 13.

This event raised tensions between Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans nationwide and prompted use of higher security in many national banks.

This event also led to the formation of the Chinese Canadian National Council in order to form a stronger voice representing Chinese Canadians nationwide.

On November 2, 2010, McDonald's began six weeks of nationwide McRib availability at the Legends of the McRib event in New York City, honoring three superfans: Joey Erwin, aka Mr. McRib ; Alan Klein, founder of the McRib Locator website ; and Adam Winer.

With support from Phillip H. Savage, Tri-State Director of the NAACP, the pageant received nationwide press coverage as a protest against the Miss America Pageant, an event that Mr. Savage and other NAACP leaders had long condemned for exclusion of black women contestants.

Sponsored by many Polish and worldwide companies, it is a one-day long, nationwide, money-raising event.

In recent years it has been used as a beacon for special occasions such as the millennium night of December 31, 1999 when a large fire was lit as part of a nationwide network of hill top beacons to celebrate the event.

The reading was the highest temperature nationwide during the event, and also broke the record for highest temperature in Victoria.