The final straw for many in the Manifesto Group was the behaviour of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey at a meeting with them during the Labour leadership campaign to replace James Callaghan.

" This attack was the final straw that led to the declaration of war by Chad and the alleged deployment of the Chadian airforce into Sudanese airspace, which the Chadian government denies.

But once mixed, for better results in a gun it was discovered that the final product should be in the form of individual, dense, grains ( originally the size of corn ) which allow the fire to spread quickly from grain to grain, much as straw or twigs catch fire more quickly than a pile of sawdust.

Kennedy argues that the famine was considered the final straw to convince people to move and that there were several other factors in the decision making.

Andrew Meikle's threshing machine of 1784 was the final straw for many farm labourers, and led to the 1830 agricultural rebellion of the Swing Riots.

He returned to an embarrassed silence in the pavilion and after the previous year's events at the centenary Test, this possibly was the final straw.

So it may have been that Herod wanted John arrested because he was a political threat, and John's condemnations of Herod's marriage was " the final straw ".

The failure of John's French military campaign in 1214 was probably the final straw that precipitated the baronial uprising during John's final years as king ; James Holt describes the path to civil war as " direct, short and unavoidable " following the defeat at Bouvines.

Pierce, predicted that this would be the final straw for Northern supporters of the slavery forces and would " create a deep-seated, intense, and ineradicable hatred of the institution which will crush its political power, at all hazards, and at any cost.

The final straw for the Cubs was an incident in late 2004.

Stephen responded to rumours of this plan by escorting Henry himself north, but this gesture proved the final straw for Ranulf.

By now, XTC's relationship with their label had almost totally broken down ; the final straw was Virgin's scuttling of their 1992 single " Wrapped in Grey ".

After Fitz goes back to his pregnant wife, it serves as the final straw, and they break up for good in " True Romance ".

Sony wanted MD Data to replace floppy disks, but the Zip drive from Iomega ended up filling that market need and, later on, the advent of affordable CD-writers and very cheap blank CD media, coupled with the availability of memory sticks and cards proved the final straw for MD-Data.

With fewer jobs, lower wages and no prospects of things improving for these workers the threshing machine was the final straw, the machine was to place them on the brink of starvation.

This the Scottish king did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in the war against France.

The final straw between Haywood and the Socialist Party came during the Lawrence textile strike when, disgusted with the decision of the elected officials in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to send police who subsequently used their clubs on children, Haywood publicly declared that " I will not vote again " until such a circumstance was rectified.

The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe Joffer ( James Earl Jones ) and Queen Aeoleon ( Madge Sinclair ), present him with a bride-to-be, Imani Izzi ( Vanessa Bell ), whom he has never met and who is trained to obey his every command.

For the communal leadership of Amsterdam, this was the final straw.

* The first live-action Scooby-Doo theatrical film — where Scrappy played a decidedly negative and darker role as the main antagonist, wanting revenge on Mystery Inc., for abandoning him years ago ( he was kicked out for continuously urinating on Daphne, being obnoxious, and the final straw was when he tried to vote himself as the leader of Mystery Inc .).

Charles Higham has stated that this was the near final straw for what became a lifelong feud, but the sisters did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975.

But the final straw came when between 17 April and 19 April, a large number of elementary school students in Bangui and elsewhere in the country were arrested after they had protested against paying for and wearing the expensive, government-required school uniforms with Bokassa's image on them.

Stephen responded to rumours of this plan by escorting Henry himself north, but this gesture proved the final straw for Ranulf.

The final straw for the magnates of Neustria, however, was Childeric's illegal corporal punishment of the nobleman named Bodilo.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

the final word came forth.

Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.

The world's best golfer, shooting below par, came to the last hole of the opening round of the Los Angeles open with every intention of delivering a final crusher.

Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff before her dog kidnapping campaign came to an end.

Schweitzer, however, writes: " The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth and died to give his work its final consecration never existed.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

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Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

The final victory came on June 4, 2008, against the Pittsburgh Penguins, by a score of 3-2.

As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the ' ones that got away ' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7. 27 ( of which full forward Bill Brittingham contributed 2. 12 ) to tie with Melbourne ( who managed 10. 9 ) in the 1948 grand final.

The nearest miss came in 1957 when the Bombers ( as they were popularly known by this time ) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16 point second semi final defeat of Melbourne, only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a fortnight later.

He was woken by his second understudy, Stepney, who came to his room to signal the devastating final score with his fingers.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

Galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of Paracelsus and the constructivism of the Italian Renaissance anatomists, such as Vesalius in the 16th century.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4 – 2 win over West Germany at the old Wembley.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

It was almost by accident that the final two, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, came together to complete the opera.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

After the World Cup Cronje was part of the tour to the West Indies ; he featured in the three ODI's and in the Test match at Bridgetown that followed he made his Test debut, this was South Africa first Test since readmission and they came close to beating a strong West Indian side, going into the final day at 122 / 2 chasing 200 they collapsed to 148.