A full-scale invasion was not the administration's first option.

* 1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4, 000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.

The following year, the first full-scale one-day competition between first-class teams was played, the knock-out Gillette Cup, won by Sussex.

Although the British Army had established a base at King George Sound ( later Albany ) on the south coast of western Australia in 1826 in response to rumours that the area would be annexed by France, Perth was the first full-scale settlement by Europeans in the western third of the continent.

The first car was the Saab 92 ; full-scale production started December 12, 1949, based on the prototype Ursaab.

He is among the first to witness the initial missile launches signaling the start of a full-scale nuclear war.

That was the first full-scale Japanese-English / English-Japanese dictionary, which had a strong influence on Westerners in Japan and probably prompted the spelling " yen ".

Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world.

Given their long range, high survivability and ability to carry many medium-and long-range nuclear missiles, submarines were credible and effective means for full-scale retaliation even after a massive first strike.

The first reactor-bred plutonium was produced in the B-Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium-production reactor in the world.

The first full-scale, stand-alone museum of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States ( and only the second in the world after the Schwules Museum in Berlin ), The GLBT History Museum is a project of the GLBT Historical Society.

It was the first time that a full-scale female figure was portrayed nude.

For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible.

This system has operated since the line opened in 1968, making the Victoria line the world's first full-scale automatic railway.

The size and capacity of the Concert Hall enabled the Festival to present full-scale orchestras for the first time, and for many years Simon Rattle brought his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to Snape.

Following the Soviet Union ’ s first atomic test on September 24, 1949, the focus of the Bulletin shifted to warning against the dangers of full-scale atomic war.

The village is referred to as " The Cradle of Aviation " and is home to The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, dedicated to the memory of the pioneer aviator and housing such exhibits as a full-scale replica of the first naval aircraft and many original planes and developed by Curtiss.

Early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also referred to as Mormons or LDS, began the first full-scale settling of what is now known as San Juan County, Utah.

This was the first full-scale meeting of American underworld leaders since the Chicago meeting in 1932.

The band's first full-scale U. S. tour ( in support of this album ) was as the opening act for Kiss on their Animalize tour.

In the summer of 1958, Nelson conducted his first full-scale tour, and averaged $ 5, 000 nightly.

Later Cayley turned his research to building a full-scale version of his design, first flying it unmanned in 1849, and in 1853 his coachman made a short flight at Brompton, near Scarborough in Yorkshire.

The film also documents the scope of the first full-scale LinuxWorld Summit conference, with appearances by Linus Torvalds and Larry Augustin on the keynote stage.

Ioannis Rinopoulos ), the first full-scale opera in Greek.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

With destructive tensions and pressures removed men have the vigor and energy to construct a new human life -- rebuilding entire cities, expanding facilities for entertainment, providing unlimited opportunities for education -- indeed, for the first time giving everyone the chance to employ his talents to the fullest.

This involves a shift in Patchen's attitude and it is a first step toward writing a new jazz poetry.

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

The Pilgrims gathered to thank the Lord for His benevolence during their first year in the new land.

The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.

By 1853, the new partnership announced the precision vernier caliper as the first fruit of their joint efforts.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.

The actual over-all cost, for the first month, will perhaps not be too much lower than the rental charges for the same period of time, but you will receive a new car.

After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.

Feelings of a community of interest will have to be recreated -- in some of the new nations, indeed, they must be built for the first time -- on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past.

In the first place the new doctrine brought a formal separation of international from municipal law, rejecting the earlier view that both were parts of a universal legal system.

The first slanting rays of the new day cannot yet dispel all the dark shadows which lie across the Aegean world ; ;

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.