As it was, his absence because of his final illness was a blow to the administration.

Samples obtained from this boulder delivered the final blow to the pre-mission volcanic hypothesis, proving it incorrect.

Some sources record that the final blow, with the back of an axe, was delivered as an act of kindness by a Christian convert known as " Thrum.

If the player dies, they are still put on the list, but are categorized as " Dead ", with their experience point total listed as at the final killing blow.

In some occasions it also proved its ability to strike a decisive tactical blow against a weakened or unprepared enemy, such as the final charge at the Battle of Aquilonia.

The final blow was the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, which provided a great shortcut for steamships between Europe and Asia, but was difficult for sailing ships to use.

However, when Baden was transferred west to fight the French in 1692 his successors, first Caprara, then from 1696, Frederick Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, proved incapable of delivering the final blow.

The final blow to the cause of the Finnish Reds was dealt when the Bolsheviks broke off the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, leading to the German eastern offensive in February 1918.

The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.

Conquest by the Mongol Golden Horde in the 13th century was the final blow.

The final blow was the loss of the Romanian oil fields as the Soviet Army advanced through the Balkans in September.

Ultimately Kievan Rus ' disintegrated, with the final blow being the Mongol invasion of 1237 – 40, that resulted in the destruction of Kiev and the death of about half the population of Rus '.

The final blow against corpuscular theory came when James Clerk Maxwell discovered that he could combine four simple equations, which had been previously discovered, along with a slight modification to describe self propagating waves of oscillating electric and magnetic fields.

The final blow to the Jackson-Calhoun relationship came when the President nominated Van Buren to serve as Minister to the United Kingdom and the vote in the Senate ended in a tie, which Calhoun broke by voting against confirmation on January 25, 1832.

The death of his eldest son, Pier Luigi, on 28 April 1873, was the final blow which hastened his end ; he fell ill immediately, and died of cerebral meningitis.

Mao would deliver his final blow to Peng Zhen at a high-profile Politburo meeting through loyalists Kang Sheng and Chen Boda.

The final blow for Psion's Organiser and PDA business came in January 2001 when Motorola pulled out of a joint project with Psion, Samsung, and Parthus, to create " Odin ", an ARM-based PDA-phone.

However it was not until 19 October 1922 that the coalition was dealt its final blow.

Organic chemistry delivered the final blow for the cochineal color industry.

The final blow was that the new regime reneged on its promise to elect an entirely new Representative Assembly.

But the final blow to the Helsinki system came in 1932 when UEA did not pay its contributions for the common budget, and the same was true for some of the national associations.

Octavius cries out that it is unjust, and Henrietta triumphantly drives the final blow ; " In her letter to me Ba writes that she has taken Flush with her ..." The film closes with a brief scene of Elizabeth's and Robert's marriage, with Wilson as a witness and Flush waiting patiently by the church door.

The final blow is dealt towards the end of the play, in Act 4, Scene 5, when Katherina is made to switch the words moon and sun, and she acknowledges that she will agree with whatever Petruchio says no matter how absurd:

In Buchan, in some words the stem final w may be realised, often with a glide before the preceding vowel, for example awe ( awe ), blaw ( blow ), gnaw, law, snaw ( snow ) and taw ~ often written yaave, blyaave, gnaave, snyaave and tyauve ~ tyaave ~ chaave in dialect writing.

In the final Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653 Tromp was killed, a blow to Dutch morale, but the English had to end their blockade of the Dutch coast.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

The final section of this pamphlet is of special interest in a consideration of Steele's relations with Swift.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.

Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.

The total of these three volumes is the `` final combustion chamber volume ''.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

When cut, the planking is clamped in place for a final and careful trimming.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

A final class of exceptional lines is identifiable from the following considerations: Since no two generators of Af can intersect, it follows that their image curves can have no free intersections.

In I wanted to tell him, but I was afraid to the final to is lightly stressed because it represents to tell him.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

this final reminder of his guilt is the fatal one.

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

It is obvious that such an influence can only be expected in the final stage of an image intensifier at rather high output levels.

If, however, we are seeking the optimal R-stage policy for a given feed state, only one search for a maximum is required at the final step.