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 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.

In a final twist, Bradley later went on to discover the existence of the nutation of the Earth's axis – the effect that he had originally considered to be the cause of aberration.

If a naive rendering algorithm is used without any filtering, high frequencies in the image function will cause ugly aliasing to be present in the final image.

In Aristotle's Metaphysics, there are four causes of existence or change in nature: the material cause, the formal cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause.

1959 saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism.

For the Saxons, this value is the final admittance of the hopelessness of the Saxon cause.

The plague ravaged the densely packed city, and in the long run, was a significant cause of its final defeat.

In terms of his sources, the One is like a combination of the Platonic Form of the Good, because it confers being and intelligibility on all things, and Aristotle's Unmoved Mover, which is the final cause of all things.

His conflict with the Ottoman Turks was the final cause of his undoing.

Aristotle recognized four kinds of causes, and where applicable, the most important of them is the " final cause ".

The final cause was the aim, goal, or purpose of some natural process or man-made thing.

Aquinas notes that the existence of final causes, by which a cause is directed toward an effect, can only be explained by an appeal to intelligence.

Entries that take advantage of some loophole in the rules ( whether or not they pass a final round of judging ) can cause the rules for the following year's contest to be adjusted accordingly ( although often other subtle loopholes are deliberately introduced in the process ).

# After a litigation has been finally determined against the person, repeatedly relitigates or attempts to relitigate, in propria persona, either ( i ) the validity of the determination against the same defendant or defendants as to whom the litigation was finally determined or ( ii ) the cause of action, claim, controversy, or any of the issues of fact or law, determined or concluded by the final determination against the same defendant or defendants as to whom the litigation was finally determined.

* Casualties and Medical Statistics published in 1931. was the final volume of the Official Medical History of the War, gives British Empire Army losses by cause of death.

* The final cause is that for the sake of which a thing exists, or is done-including both purposeful and instrumental actions.

The final cause, or telos, is the purpose, or end, that something is supposed to serve.

As Bryan spoke his final sentence, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus, he placed his hands to his temples, fingers extended ; with the final words, he extended his arms to his sides straight out to his body and held that pose for about five seconds as if offering himself as sacrifice for the cause, as the audience watched in dead silence.

Contrary to speculation, studio meddling was not the cause of the shortened length ; Cameron held final cut as long as the film met a running time of roughly two hours and 15 minutes.

The Allied fleet now sailed from Artemisium to Salamis to assist with the final evacuation of Athens ; en route Themistocles left inscriptions addressed to the Ionian Greek crews of the Persian fleet on all springs of water that they might stop at, asking them to defect to the Allied cause.

He would spend the final three decades of his life proselytizing for the socialist cause.