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.

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.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.

One had to believe in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing.

Lublin was the seed of action for the `` final solution '' of the Jewish problem.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

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.

in the sphere was starting buffer and in the cone was final buffer, 0.50 M in both Af and Tris, pH 4.1.

The final sample was not significantly different from a normal distribution in regard to reading achievement or intelligence test scores.

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

By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

Over 1,000 returns were received within two weeks after the final mailing was made.

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

The final proof was a small incident.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.