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.

Early in July, a Wellesley College English teacher named Katharine Lee Bates visited the fair.

Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter visited Guyana to lobby for the resumption of free elections, and on October 5, 1992, a new National Assembly and regional councils were elected in the first Guyanese election since 1964 to be internationally recognized as free and fair.

The temporary Hockey Hall of Fame opened as an exhibit within the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in August 1958, and 350, 000 people visited it during the 1958 CNE fair.

At about that time, with a young woman friend, Earhart visited an air fair held in conjunction with the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto.

It remains a touchstone for New York – area Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War, cultural changes, and increasing struggles for civil rights.

It is said that farmers from as far afield as Hastings to the east and Findon to the west visited, and at its peak, more than 9000 lambs were sold at the fair, together with numerous horses, cattle and sheep.

After a strong storm, they had a spell of clear weather and made fair progress: Gilbert came aboard the Golden Hind again, visited with Hayes, and insisted once more on returning to the frigate Squirrel, even though Hayes insisted she was over-gunned and unsafe for sailing.

During the fair, the town is visited by 100, 000 to 150, 000 tourists from surrounding towns and cities.

Beginning May 10, 1876, by the end of the Exposition on November 10, more than nine million people had visited the fair.

In 2009, Nara ’ s mascot Sento-kun visited the event as the streets were lined with various fair foods, games, door prizes, and plants for sale.

More than 40 million people visited the fair, which symbolized for many hope for Chicago and the nation, then in the midst of the Great Depression.

After two years of working for Borrel, Maury visited the fair in Laroques d ' Olmes.

* The Irbit fair is mentioned in the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak as a place visited by Yuri Zhivago's father.

Senigallia used to hold one of the largest fairs in Italy, which dated originally from 1200, when Sergius, count of Senigallia, received from the count of Marseilles, to whose daughter he was affianced, certain relics of Mary Magdalene ; this fair used to be visited by merchants from France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and especially the Levant.

According to one account by the famous Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta, who visited Siti Wan Kembang in 1345, he was enchanted by her " fair complexion " and " appearance of a Turkish princess ".

President Abraham Lincoln visited the fair.

Based on a novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring in London during the Blitz, pursued by foreign agents and incriminated for murder ; all as a result of having visited a village fair and winning a cake after being given its weight by a fortune teller.

Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has some merit.

However it has often been argued that in the dominated countries ( most of the world ) the WSF is little more than an ' NGO fair ' driven by Northern NGOs and donors most of which are hostile to popular movements of the poor.

Moreover they argued that some species have been created for the purpose of being sacrificed and eaten by humans, that it is normal for animals to kill and eat other animals, that agriculture, too, inevitably leads to the death of many animals, that plants are living beings as well and must still be destroyed, that we unintentionally and unknowingly destroy life forms all the time, and that a hunted animal has a fair chance to survive by killing the hunter.

In 2000, some moderately positive developments toward the implementation of recommendations made by the OSCE AMG were observed but were not sufficient in the realm of access to fair and free elections.

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

* H — Hits: times reached base because of a batted, fair ball without error by the defense

In baseball statistics, a hit ( denoted by H ), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches first base after hitting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielder's choice.

:( 1 ) the batter reaches first base ( or any succeeding base ) safely on a fair ball that settles on the ground, that touches a fence before being touched by a fielder or that clears a fence ;

:( 3 ) the batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball that takes an unnatural bounce so that a fielder cannot handle it with ordinary effort, or that touches the pitcher's plate or any base ( including home plate ) before being touched by a fielder and bounces so that a fielder cannot handle the ball with ordinary effort ;

:( 4 ) the batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball that has not been touched by a fielder and that is in fair territory when the ball reaches the outfield, unless in the scorer's judgment the ball could have been handled with ordinary effort ;

:( 5 ) a fair ball that has not been touched by a fielder touches a runner or an umpire, unless a runner is called out for having been touched by an Infield Fly, in which case the official scorer shall not score a hit ; or

A player completes a turn batting when: he strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base ; or he reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ( by a base on balls, hit by pitch, or catcher's interference ); or he hits a fair ball which causes a preceding runner to be put out for the third out before he himself is put out or reaches first base safely ( see also left on base, fielder's choice, force play )

When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

Encouraged by these early gains Louis XIV urged Marshal Villeroi to go over to the offensive in the Spanish Netherlands and, with victory, gain a ' fair ' peace.