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.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

Dan could hear Clayton Burnside and Eben Jackson summing up their final reckoning for rental on the oxen.

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

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

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.

Read, for instance, in Malcolm MacDonald's Borneo People of Segura and her wise father Tomonggong Koh, and her final adjustment to encroaching civilization.

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.

The final decision went to the executive but a way has been opened for strengthening budgeting procedures and to provide legislators information they need.

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

They were both so young, after all, so unready for any final parting.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.

If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.

When cut, the planking is clamped in place for a final and careful trimming.

Trial and error are better placed in the preliminary sketch than in hoping for miracles in the final painting.

The final choice of material depends upon such factors as costs, method of fabrication, degree of complexity, number of units required, time available for tooling, and projected life expectancy of the unit.

Holding the final corporation entitled to sue on the claim, the Court cited the Seaboard, Novo Trading, and Roomberg cases for the proposition that `` transfers by operation of law or in conjunction with changes of corporate structure are not assignments prohibited by the statute ''.

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.

The same could be said for the song to which they make their entrance in the final scene.

If, however, we are seeking the optimal R-stage policy for a given feed state, only one search for a maximum is required at the final step.