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.

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 words of Kurtz's seemed to echo in the room with the girl.

In the conference final, the Wizards would fall behind 4 points to 1 to the Los Angeles Galaxy and their season seemed to be coming to an end.

So despite 5 first half turnovers, the Bills were only trailing Dallas 31 – 17 going into the final period, and after their comeback from the 32-point deficit in the playoffs, a 14-point comeback seemed perfectly within their capabilities.

Combining these forces with the undead armies he could raise, the final victory of Balor seemed imminent ; the Leveler would finally succeed in scouring all life from the face of the earth.

Most reviews were very favourable, commenting on Rowling's imagination, humour, simple, direct style and clever plot construction, although a few complained that the final chapters seemed rushed.

Nimoy reasoned that since The Wrath of Khan would be the final Star Trek film, having Spock " go out in a blaze of glory " seemed like a good way to resolve the character's fate.

When Adams died on 11 May 2001, it seemed that Mostly Harmless would become the final book of what Adams called a " trilogy ".

At the Games, Dillard reached the final, which seemed to end in a dead heat between Dillard and another American, Barney Ewell.

In the final of the 100 m hurdles, Devers ' lead event, she seemed to be running towards a second gold medal, when she hit the final hurdle and stumbled over the finish line in fifth place, leaving Voula Patoulidou from Greece as the upset winner.

The author Willie Morris described the audience at Dupree's final high school game as " the most distinctive crowd I had ever seen ... four thousand or so people seemed almost an equal of mix of whites, blacks, and Indians ... "

His final recorded dream, in which he imagined he was strangled by four men, seemed to him a sign of impending rebirth.

Indeed, he almost seemed to take a turn to the political Right during his final two years in the Senate, as witnessed by his opposition to President Richard Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, a form of " reverse income tax " to help the poor get off of welfare and a program similar to a plan he had proposed several years earlier — though it should be noted that many liberal senators and representatives also opposed the plan.

But this young man whose word seemed so final at Universal City.

But all new microprocessor chips seemed to have bugs in this area, and required months of shared work between MIPS and Tandem to eliminate or work around the final subtle bugs.

Gayford also mentions that his final portrait seemed to " reveal secrets — ageing, ugliness, faults — that I imagine ... I am hiding from the world ..." – suggesting how sharp and penetrating Freud's gaze is.

In spite of that event, for many years both Churches continued to maintain friendly relations and seemed to be unaware of any formal or final rupture.

The divided group's final report, issued on 4 March, " failed to seize the opportunity to change directions ... and seemed to recommend that we continue rather haltingly down the same road.

It seemed to work, as he made the 2003 Wimbledon final, finally losing to Roger Federer, 6 – 7 ( 5 ), 2 – 6, 6 – 7 ( 3 ).

By the seventh and final season of the show, it seemed to be implied that he was no longer in the Busey class.

With the assassination of the Tibetan emperor Me Agtsom in 755 in the midst of a major rebellion within the Tibetan polity, final Tang victory over the Tibetan Empire seemed all but assured.

In the playoffs they beat divisional rivals South Carolina Shamrocks 2-1 in the first round before falling 4-0 to Charlotte in the conference semi final, but the progress on the field seemed to bode well for the future.

The Great Depression, which began in 1929, seemed to socialists and Communists everywhere to be the final proof of the bankruptcy, literally as well as politically, of capitalism.

The final episode of the season ended with a cliffhanger as Laura and Steele seemed to be going their separate ways.