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The publication of the results was delayed and Balard published his results first.
In more recent years, pure steals of home are rare, although a player may steal home plate during a " delayed double steal ," in which a runner on first attempts to steal second, while the runner on third breaks for home as soon as the catcher throws to second base.
But due to some internal problems, the census was delayed till start of 2011 and its first phase was started in April allover the country.
Nineteen days after his election, Obama's advisers announced that plans to repeal the policy might be delayed until 2010, because Obama " first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus, and then present legislation to Congress.
De Molay arrived first in early 1307, but de Villaret was delayed for several months.
If an event is sent on two channels at once, the event on the higher-numbered channel cannot transmit until the first one is finished, and so is delayed by 1ms.
Intel at first planned to demonstrate the P5 in June 1992 at the trade show PC Expo, and to formally announce the processor in September 1992, but design problems forced the demo to be cancelled, and the official introduction of the chip was delayed until the spring of 1993.
The first available chip deploying such dynamic buffering and scheduling techniques was the NexGen Nx586, released in 1994 ; the AMD K5 was severely delayed and released in 1995.
The development of the training was delayed by World War I, so the first Wood Badge course was not held until 1919.
The rest of the series after the first episode a week before was delayed one week.
was delayed because the first episode involved a terrorist hijacking a plane.
* 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
Tinker passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because her train was delayed due to a bomb scare, and she did not want to go in late.
An attacker's first step is usually information gathering ; this step is delayed by security through obscurity.
Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.
In 1935 and 1936, Carlyle Jacobsen and colleagues were the first to show the deleterious effect of prefrontal ablation on delayed response.
The first Cray-1 was delayed six months due to problems in the cooling system ; lubricant that is normally mixed with the Freon to keep the compressor running would leak through the seals and eventually coat the boards with oil until they shorted out.
Melanogenesis leads to delayed tanning and first becomes visible about 72 hours after exposure.
Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances.
In 2005, Hillig published a genetic analysis of the same set of accessions ( this paper was the first in the series, but was delayed in publication ), and proposed a three-species classification, recognizing C. sativa, C. indica, and ( tentatively ) C. ruderalis.
De Gaulle's veto delayed the first enlargement.
Each row is delayed beyond the first row by an amount related to the speed of sound in air ; typically a few milliseconds.
Whitlam was delayed in leaving Parliament House, while Fraser left slightly early, with the result that Fraser arrived at Yarralumla first.
As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

first and steal
Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.
For example if a runner on first base reached third base on a single, it would count as a steal.
1910 saw the first addressing of the double and triple steal attempts.
While it is not recorded as a " steal ", in a practical sense a batter can be said to " steal first base " by successfully running to first base ( without being tagged or thrown out ) in rare circumstances following an uncaught third strike ; the rarely-seen play avoids an " out " and gains a baserunner.
In baseball's earlier decades, a runner on second base could " steal " first base, perhaps with the intention of drawing a throw that might allow a runner on third to score ( a tactic famously employed by Germany Schaefer ).
The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.
The team set a major-league record by scoring 658 runs at home on the season, and Burks and Bichette became the first pair of teammates since Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson of the 1987 New York Mets to both steal 30 bases and hit 30 homers in the same season.
He returns in Superman # 4, first trying to use a stolen Earthquake machine and challenging Superman to a duel of his science vs Superman's powers, which Superman wins ; however, this was just a distraction to allow him to steal the machine.
The first one Jaxon Xavier ( played by Andy Berman ) who was also a top scientist in one of Lex's companies called Lex Labs, entrapped Lois and Clark in a virtual reality world to steal information for mind control before the two with the help of Jimmy Olsen tricked him into letting them out by stealing his wrist watch escape window leaving him stranded.
When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.
Meanwhile, Armitage assigns them their first job: they must steal a ROM module that contains the saved consciousness of one of Case's mentors, legendary cyber-cowboy McCoy Pauley, nicknamed " Dixie Flatline.
In poker, a steal is a type of a bluff, a raise during the first betting round made with an inferior hand and meant to make other players fold superior hands because of shown strength.
Therefore, if the second player has a winning strategy, the first player could " steal " it by making an irrelevant move, and then follow the second player's strategy.
In the first game, Keen is exploring on Mars when aliens steal four spaceship components that he must get back.
The amateur historian Richard Bales has suggested the fire started when Daniel " Pegleg " Sullivan, who first reported the fire, ignited hay in the barn while trying to steal milk.
The first time, when he was 12 years old, he and some friends broke into a foundry to steal some brass.
In Jude Watson's Legacy of the Jedi, he is first tempted by the dark side of the Force as a child, when he and fellow Padawan Lorian Nod steal an ancient Sith Holocron from the Jedi Archives, and he informs his friend to stay in the Order ; he is intrigued by the Sith's open embrace of power, and realizes that he is just as capable of treachery as they are.

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