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Many see this understanding as the final nail in Luke the historian's coffin.
The final nail in the coffin for the peripheral came in October 1995, when Sega's CEO, Hayao Nakayama, ordered that the 32X and other Sega consoles be cancelled in order to focus its limited resources on the Saturn system.
The final nail in the coffin of the formerly thriving business district, mainly along 8th Avenue, was the opening of many big box chain stores and restaurants in the new ( 1990s ) Waterfront development.
It also ended any chance of European recognition, being viewed " by many as the final nail in the Confederate coffin.
Stephen Hawking said that the fact that microwave radiation had been found, and that it was thought to be left over from the Big Bang, was " the final nail in the coffin of the steady-state theory.
Nitschke said the proposals were the " final nail in the coffin for euthanasia advocacy " in Australia, where people are banned from discussing end-of-life issues over the phone, buying books about it or importing printed material on it.
Placing the final nail in LOVE Park's status as a world renowned skate – spot, Mayor Street ordered the park to undergo a $ 800, 000 remodeling which added planters to block ledges, covered other areas with grass and flowers and replaced stone benches with wooden ones.
Furthermore, Spruance's conservative battle plan, while not destroying all of the Japanese aircraft carriers, did effectively drive the final nail into the coffin of the Japanese naval aviation forces by killing most of the remaining trained pilots and destroying their last operational reserves of naval aircraft.
That appeared to be the final nail in their coffin, but Ultravox undertook a self-financed US tour at the beginning of 1979.
The EF won by good fortune and it would be the final nail in the coffin for the declining power.
His resignation over the technicalities of how and when to bring in the local government reforms which the British Labour Government was pushing for was probably the final nail in the political coffin of Terence O ' Neill, who resigned in the aftermath of his failure to achieve a good enough result in the Northern Ireland general election, 1969.
In 1887, Paulding County, Ohio residents put the final nail in the canal system's coffin: unhappy with mosquitoes breeding in the stagnant waters of Six Mile Reservoir, they cut the dike and drained it in the Reservoir War.
This was the final nail in the coffin of all that Mustafà, Moreschi and their colleagues stood for, since one of its decrees stated: " Whenever.
The arrival of the United States ' Mariner 4 by NASA in 1965, which took pictures revealing impact craters and a generally barren landscape, was the final nail in the coffin of the idea that Mars could be inhabited by higher forms of life.
In the final match, Pakistan manages to win the match in a nail biting finish as Bangladesh falls short of target score of 236 by a mere 2 runs.
In 1974, the final nail in the coffin of Citroën selling autos in North America was delivered — the decision by the U. S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) to prohibit passenger vehicles with height-adjustable suspension.
The lateness of the installation of the Heel Stone being the final nail in the coffin.
A 5 – 1 defeat by Athletic Bilbao would prove the final nail in Koeman's time with Valencia.
The formation of the Confederation was the final nail in the coffin of the moribund Holy Roman Empire and subsequently its last Habsburg emperor, Francis II, changed his title to simply Francis I, Emperor of Austria.
The final ' nail in the coffin ' for ABC1 was evidenced by the fact that its broadcasting label on satellite ( which is seen when manually adding channels ) 10. 862, H, 22. 00, 5 / 6, under the label " 9010 ".
Rob Wilfong appeared to put the final nail in Boston's coffin with an RBI double in the seventh, and the Angels led 5 – 2 after eight innings.
This was the final nail in thecoffinof great Eduard Schulte ’ s repatriation scheme.
By that time, the three stations together so thoroughly dominated the New York-area radio ratings that they sent rock-and-roll-formatted radio fleeing to the suburbs — and drove the final nail into the coffin for music-formatted AM radio in New York, as WABC and WNBC each saw a sharp decline in their respective audiences.
The second game against # 15 BYU was a nail biter and Washington scored the final touchdown in the final minute.

final and coffin
The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on 10 November 1920, and put in its final resting place on 28 January 1921.
* Historical Cemetery with final resting place for Goethe, and Schiller's coffin but without Schiller's mortal remains
At the end of the play, as Lucius delivers his final speech, the camera stays on Young Lucius rather than his father, who is in the far background and out of focus, as he stares in horror at the coffin of Aaron's child ( which has been killed off-screen ).
In sealing a coffin a ritual, final anointing of the mummy was observed.
His final wish was to be buried in Bulgaria, and for this reason his coffin was temporarily placed in the crypt of St. Augustin's Roman Catholic Church in Coburg, next to his mother's and father's coffins.
** Also changed is the fate of Aaron's baby, who is seen dead in a coffin in the final scene.
This was the last time that the Soviet manned Moon landing hardware was tested in orbit, and the failure seems to have been one of the final nails in the coffin of the programme.
This was the last time that the Soviet crewed Moon landing hardware was tested in orbit, and the failure seems to have been one of the final nails in the coffin of the programme.
John Waters gave a speech, and was one of the pallbearers who then carried the coffin to its final resting place, next to the grave of Divine's grandmother.
The other two, however, are of better quality, with hieroglyphic inscriptions naming the Osiris Neferkheprure Waenre, a reference to Akhenaten's nomen .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > The Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ), p. 58 </ ref > The fact that all four bricks were orientated correctly and that three of them were positioned in close association with the coffin suggests that they were intended as a set and were made for the coffin's final occupant, who would therefore be Akhenaten.
As a final insult, a large rock was thrown at the coffin .< ref > Reeves, Nicholas.
The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves ' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.

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The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.
Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.
As this somewhat lighter overture seems to work best of the four as a start to the opera, Beethoven's final intentions are generally respected in contemporary productions.
" According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the inscription " seems to begin as a benevolent formulation before abruptly switching to the infliction of distress and misery, presumably upon the recipient of the charm rather than the baleful valkyrie ", and they posit the final line appears " to constitute a rather spiteful kind of charm aimed at securing the love of a woman ".
The " Freedonia National Anthem " is used frequently throughout the film, both as vocal and instrumental ; the entire song seems to consist of " Hail, Hail, Freedonia, land of the brave and free ", contrasting with the final line of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Having won back Jack's loyalty after Hook slays Rufio-the previous leader of the Lost Boys-in front of Jack, Peter and Hook engage in a final duel amid a circle of Lost Boys holding him at bay with clocks, and is apparently " eaten " by the crocodile who seems to temporarily come back to life and falls on top of him.
) The period of its final decay is uncertain ; but it seems to have been abandoned during the Middle Ages, when the inhabitants took refuge at a place called Terranova ( Terranova da Sibari ), about 12 miles inland, on a hill on the left bank of the Crathis.
There are other theories, from a sudden death to a range of legends that talk of Orosius ’ s final arrival in Hispania and his founding of a monastery near to Cabo de Palos where he ended his days, although this latter idea now seems improbable.
During the film's denouement, mention is made of an octopus which seems like an exaggeration of the actual events but actually refers to a scene that was excised from the final cut.
He seems to have sailed back to Tahiti at least once before his final departure.
Although the exact date of the final show is currently unknown, it seems to have petered out sometime in 1983 and was replaced with WLVI-TV's Martial Arts Theater, showing cheap English dubbed Hong Kong martial arts movies, as a replacement.
In the Los Angeles Times ( July 3, 1979 ), Joe Stone, an ex-referee and boxing writer, asserted that in film of the fight an object could be seen lying on the canvas after the final knockdown and that this object appears to be removed by someone who seems to be from Dempsey's corner.
" After a final ascent that seems directed toward some otherworldly realm, Beethoven adds a single forte chord.
Here he falls in love with a woman named Fenchurch and seems set to live happily ever after — at least until the following — and final — novel, Mostly Harmless.
However, there seems to be some uncertainty whether or not the New Hampshire section of the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail will be included in the final NST designation.
Thus it seems possible that Shakespeare, in conforming to the growing " Tudor Myth " of the day, as well as taking into account new theologies of divine action and human will becoming popular in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, sought to paint Richard as the final curse of God on England in punishment for the deposition of Richard II in 1399.
From Martí's ' Campaign Diaries ', written during the final expedition in Cuba, it seems evident that Martí would have reached the highest position in the future Republic of Arms.
It seems that a national final was held in 1996 for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was won by Maja Odzaklijevska.
A. O. Scott, in The New York Times, said, "' The Passion of the Christ ' is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus ' final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it.
If the lifestyle of the family still seems to us lavish, even wasteful, nevertheless we have the half sense that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Edwardian summer, that the era of country-house living has entered its final phase.
Some critics speculate that it was his Arcades Project in a final form ; this is very unlikely as the author's plans for the work had changed in the wake of Adorno's criticisms in 1938, and it seems clear that the work was flowing over its containing limits in his last years.
Second, regarding the Palestinian refugees ' right of return, Bush also stated: " It seems clear that an agreed, just, fair and realistic framework for a solution to the Palestinian refugee issue as part of any final status agreement will need to be found through the establishment of a Palestinian state and the settling of Palestinian refugees there rather than Israel.
There is speculation about what caused the rift between Swift and his employer, but, as A. C. Elias persuasively argues, it seems that the final straw came with Swift's work on Temple's Letters.

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