It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.

While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.

The Providence Daily Journal stated that although the guilt of Brown was evident, the South must guarantee him a fair trial to preserve domestic peace.

The readers of the Providence Daily Post, however, learned that it was generally conceded that `` Old Brown '' had a fair trial.

His condition was reported to be fair.

His condition was said to be, `` fair ''.

A 4 – 1 result was a fair reflection as England were left shell shocked.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

He was a man with fair skin, thin, emaciated, with a sparse beard, a slightly hunched frame, sunken eyes and protruding forehead, and the bases of his fingers were hairless.

In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first ; and if they had more than their fair share of service, it was correspondingly easy for them to reduce any that tried to leave the confederacy.

Astrologers, nominated by the National Council for Geocosmic Research, acted as the astrological advisors, and helped to ensure that the test was fair.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

With minor exceptions, balloting was considered free and fair by the local human rights organizations which monitored the contest.

Thus, if a ball went over the fence fair, and curved behind the foul pole, it was ruled foul.

The election was generally considered to be fair, although the absence of Patassé cast a shadow over the legitimacy of the process.

She was said to have had red hair kept in curls, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, elegant, friendly, and gentle, but she was considered to be insane.

The theme of the fair was technological innovation over the century since Chicago's founding.

It was more written about than any other single exhibit at the fair, and received the bronze medal.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

Henry III in 1235 granted to the abbot two annual fairs, one in December ( which still survives ) and the other the great St Matthew's fair, which was abolished by the Fairs Act of 1871.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( USA ) abolished the fair catch from its version of American football in 1950, but restored it in 1951, minus the option of kicking from the mark of the catch, which is retained in rules of the National Federation of State High School Associations and of the National Football League.

American football requires that the catcher signal in advance, as did Canadian football before that game abolished the fair catch.

Scalia also disagreed with the conclusion that Rogers had had fair warning that the year-and-a-day rule was so moribund as to have been effectively abolished.

He was a fair king who introduced the civil code and abolished torture.

Also in 1933, at the Century of Progress Exhibition, a detailed replica of Fort Dearborn was erected as a fair exhibit.

From the time the fair closed until 1920, the Palace of Fine Arts housed the Field Columbian Museum ( now the Field Museum of Natural History, since relocated ); in 1933, the Palace building re-opened as the Museum of Science and Industry.

A 1933 Century of Progress world's fair poster

Originally, the fair was scheduled only to run until November 12, 1933, but it was so successful that it was opened again to run from May 26 to October 31, 1934.

By the time the fair closed in 1933, half of these notes had been retired, with the entire debt paid by the time the fair closed in 1934.

Also, in 1933 Schütte-Lihotzky had presented some of her work at the Chicago world's fair, Century of Progress.

When Ripley first displayed his collection to the public at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, it was labeled Ripley ’ s Odditorium and attracted over two million visitors during the run of the fair.

In 1933, Chicago hosted its second world's fair, the Century of Progress.

Sufficient capital was raised from the Italian government's funding of a fair promoting the colony so as to make the venture possible, and upon the circuit's completion the Grand Prix was scheduled for the spring of 1933.

After visiting the Midget Village at Chicago's Century of Progress in 1933, he realized he was not alone and took a summer job with the fair the next year.

It was the last free and fair all-German election before the Nazi Machtergreifung on 30 January 1933, as the following elections of March 1933 were already accompanied by massive suppression, especially against Communist and Social Democratic politicians.

The exhibitions were ready on time for the opening of the fair, the Century of Progress, on 30 May 1933.

Playing mainly as an inside forward, behind Ted Drake, he still scored his fair share despite his slight build in what was a very physical game at the time ; his goalscoring included a haul of 13 in 1933 – 34, which made him Arsenal's joint-top score in the league, along with Cliff Bastin.

The bore is unrifled but is provided with an insert tube which is rifled and which, surprisingly, gives pretty fair accuracy even though it's only 3-1/2 inches long.

French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation, though complex, are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

In describing the list to readers, Paul MacInnes from British newspaper The Guardian wrote, " Surprisingly enough for an American magazine, the top 10 is fair jam-packed with Yanks ," though he also noted three exceptions in the top 10.

They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).

The vase was pieced together with fair success, though the restorer was unable to replace all of the pieces and thirty-seven small fragments were left when he was done.

This light is quite unmistakable and unique ; but of course her words, though a fair description of it, might equally apply to some other.

" The accused may also request a closure of the trial ; though, it must be demonstrated that “ first, there is a substantial probability that the defendant's right to a fair trial will be prejudiced by publicity that closure would prevent, and second, reasonable alternatives to closure cannot adequately protect the defendant's right to a fair trial.

However, the first American attempt at world's fair in 1876 in Philadelphia, though hugely successful in attendance, lost money.

These recordings are generally regarded as unintentionally camp, though his tongue-in-cheek performance of " The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins " received a fair amount of airplay when Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were released.

The material record is closer to a fair representation of society, though it is subject to its own inaccuracies, such as sampling bias and differential preservation.

Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player ( along with Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, though Gibson's home run has never been conclusively verified ) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game.

:" Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish coroners of that age found it was ' Hero of Sestos.

This effort was to a fair degree successful ; Wolfgang achieved great fame and was for a time quite prosperous ( though poor planning later changed this status ).

Probate is often considered a relatively lengthy and expensive process, albeit one which may provide greater safeguards with regard to the rights of a deceased person's beneficiaries, though probate often is contested by creditors or disgruntled members of the family of the deceased who feel they have not received their fair share of the deceased's property.

The opposition claims that the election was rigged, though 16, 9411 36, 00. html &# 91 ; an article in Time magazine &# 93 ; from 1967 quotes South Vietnamese citizens saying that they thought the election was more fair than any under Diem.

Even though he usually tends to be level-headed, Akira is not afraid to speak his mind or take a stand for what he believes he is fair and just.

He attacked in turn all constituted authorities — lords, commons, council of state, and council of officers — and quarrelsome though he was, it is fair to note that he never fell out with his closer comrades, Walwyn and Overton ().

Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy ; to vote ( suffrage ); to hold public office ; to work ; to fair wages or equal pay ; to own property ; to education ; to serve in the military or be conscripted ; to enter into legal contracts ; and to have marital, parental and religious rights.

The pig belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company, and though Cutler was prepared to pay a fair price for the pig, the Company was not satisfied, insisting he be brought before the British magistrate, thus initiating the territorial dispute that came to be known as the Pig War.

The woods are crossed by several rights-of-way, including the Cleveland Way, though other paths and commission tracks are considered fair game for walkers.

Even though it was a fair duel, because Doc was a Yankee and an outsider he was forced to flee.

It is more rural than its northern partner, though it still has its fair share of suburban sprawl.

" The fair is sometimes considered the first world's fair in the United States, though it was fairly small by later standards, drawing about 30, 000 attendees per year.