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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.
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.

final and comes
The final example of the failure to use available evidence, though evidence of a different kind from that which has so far been considered, comes from Fromm's treatment of some other writers who have dealt with the same themes.
Of internationally shipped waste that comes from developed countries, more than half is shipped for recovery and the remainder for final disposal.
Elihu's speech comes after the final words of Job in the third speech cycle ( 31: 40 ) and goes from chapters 32-37.
When it comes to the final battle, Captain America uses Thor's hammer to fight Skadi until Thor manages to kill the Serpent.
One final, amusing example that comments on the importance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of Horace, line 263:
In Sophocle's play, Oedipus at Colonus, it is significant that he comes to his final resting place in the grove dedicated to the Erinyes.
In Sophocle's play, Oedipus at Colonus, it is significant that he comes to his final resting place in the grove dedicated to the Erinyes.
( Taras Shevchenko is especially notable for the fact all four members of the group have left the stage before the final song (" Temptation ") comes to an end.
" Although an all-out final nuclear holocaust is out of the question for man, " nuclear blackmail " comes into question not only on the issue of world peace but also on the issue of national sovereignty.
It is the business of the pope to look after the interests of the Roman empire, since the empire derives its origin and its final authority from the papacy ; its origin, because it was originally transferred from Greece by and for the sake of the papacy ... its final authority, because the emperor is raised to his position by the pope who blesses him, crowns him and invests him with the empire .... Therefore, since three persons have lately been elected king by different parties, namely the youth son of Henry VI, Philip Hohenstaufen, brother of Henry VI, and Otto Brunswick, of the Welf family, so also three things must be taken into account in regard to each one, namely: the legality, the suitability and the expediency of his election ...... Far be it from us that we should defer to man rather than to God, or that we should fear the countenance of the powerful .... On the foregoing grounds, then, we decide that the youth should not at present be given the empire ; we utterly reject Philip for his manifest unfitness and we order his usurpation to be resisted by all .... since Otto is not only himself devoted to the church, but comes from devout ancestors on both sides ..... therefore we decree that he ought to be accepted and supported as king, and ought to be given the crown of empire, after the rights of the Roman church have been secured.
About 16 % of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10 % coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3. 4 % from hydroelectricity.
lang declared that good songwriting comes from being constantly surprised, such as how the entirety of " Running Scared " eventually depends on the final note, one word.
The game's subtitle comes from the final portion, in which Roger has to undergo miniaturization and enter the body of a shipmate and romantic interest.
In a final confrontation, the Twilight comes to pass when Xena kills most of the gods on Olympus to save her daughter, and is herself saved by Ares when he gives up his immortality to heal the badly injured and dying Eve and Gabrielle.
His final turning point comes when he and Angela almost have sex ; after she confesses her virginity, he no longer thinks of her as a sex object, but as a daughter.
In the penultimate mile along The Embankment, the London Eye comes into view, before the athletes turn right into Birdcage Walk to complete the final, catching the sights of Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, and finishing in The Mall alongside St. James's Palace.
When the Walk comes down to the final three-himself, Garraty, and Stebbins-he keeps his word and sits cross-legged in the street.
" The boys jump off the boat and swim away while the Invisible Man lights his cigarette and laughs as the final scene comes to a close.
In the final scene of the book, a teenaged girl comes hiking along the trail where the forest surrounding the dilapidated cabin would have been.
If raw animal manure is used, 120 days must pass before the crop is harvested if the final product comes into direct contact with the soil.
Then comes the story of the struggle between the gods of light and the powers of darkness, and the final victory of Marduk, who clove Tiamat asunder, forming the heaven from half of her body and the earth from the other.
The vehicle comes to a screeching halt over the bridge demolished earlier in the game, and after a final conflict, Ripburger falls to his death.
" " Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown " is the final line in a monologue spoken by Henry IV in Act III, Scene i, of Henry IV, part 2 wherein Henry is pondering how sleep comes to even the most humble peasant easier than it does to the great.

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