The first preliminary was inspecting the unfinished length of frieze, a jumble of roughcast and finish coats, all in bad condition.

Collingwood succumbed first as the Dons powered their way to an 82 point first semi final victory, and a fortnight later it was the turn of the North Melbourne Football Club as Essendon won the preliminary final a good deal more comfortably than the ultimate margin of 17 points suggested.

Nevertheless, they still managed to battle their way to a 6th successive grand final with wins over Footscray by 8 points in the first semi final and Collingwood by 2 points in the preliminary final.

They beat Sydney easily in the first week of the finals, but were beaten by Carlton by one point in the preliminary final.

This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval.

In July of that year, AM General ( a subsidiary of American Motors Corporation ) began preliminary design work, and less than a year later, the first prototype was in testing.

Moreover, in the first century A. D., the Greco-Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria — who was himself probably a practitioner of pankration — makes a statement that could be an allusion to preliminary contests in which an athlete would participate and then collect his strength before coming forward fresh in the major competition.

The preliminary design was first successfully simulated in 1990, followed by the laying-out of the design.

The Court first sat on 30 January 1922 at the Peace Palace, The Hague, covering preliminary business during the first session ( such as establishing procedure and appointing officers ) Nine judges sat, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Ruy Barbosa and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washington Naval Conference.

The IWA held a preliminary conference in 1865, and had its first congress at Geneva in 1866.

In the beginning of the 1960s, the first oil company teams carried out preliminary surveys and the first cargo of crude was exported from Abu Dhabi in 1962.

The preliminary opinion of Peter Wu, the neurosurgeon who saved Lee's life during his first seizure, was that the cause of death should have been attributed to either a reaction to cannabis or Equagesic.

The contestants first have to undergo a preliminary round, called " Fastest Finger First ", where they are all given a question and four answers from the host.

Then, in December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published the first preliminary reports by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh of a chromosome survey of 315 male patients at The State Hospital outside Carstairs, Lanarkshire — Scotland ’ s only special security hospital for the developmentally disabled — that found nine patients, ages 17 to 36, averaging almost 6 ft. in height ( avg.

His coaching career started with a bang, with the Bombers making Hird's presence felt by thrashing triple preliminary finalists the in the first round.

In 1905, Ravel's final year of eligibility for the Prix de Rome, Ravel did not even pass the preliminary test, despite being favored to win one of the two first prizes available.

The process of writing that first edition of the Principia went through several stages and drafts: some parts of the preliminary materials still survive, others are lost except for fragments and cross-references in other documents.

Surviving preliminary materials show that Newton ( up to some time in 1685 ) conceived his book as a two-volume work: The first volume was to be ' De motu corporum, Liber primus ', with contents that later appeared ( in extended form ) as Book 1 of the ' Principia '.

Herefordshire Council announced preliminary work would begin in early 2006, though it was not until late November that the first phase began.

Agatho agreed, but first held a preliminary synod at Rome 680 in order to obtain the opinion of the western theologians.

The landings initially encountered heavy resistance from the German 716th Division ; the preliminary bombardment proved less effective than had been hoped, and rough weather forced the first wave to be delayed until 07: 35.

The methods are sound and complete and work for full first order logic, without requiring any preliminary reduction of formulae into normal forms.

whereas, with a poor formulation, the clothes exhibit a build-up of `` tattle-tale grey '' and dirty spots -- sometimes with bad results even after the first wash.

The first possibility results in a closed interval of tangent points in the f-plane, the end points of which fall into category ( B ) or ( C ).

From the rather tortuous history of electoral planning in Morocco an important point emerges concerning the first elections in a developing country and evaluating their results.

Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 pm on the night of the awards.

Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

The publication of the results was delayed and Balard published his results first.

Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the manuscript in 1786 and published the results in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government.

: Scores and results list England's goal tally first.

The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: the huge number which results ( over 600, 000 ) demonstrates the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham of innumerable descendants, as well as serving as God's guarantee of victory in Canaan.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

In the first year of Allende's term, the short-term economic results of Economics Minister Pedro Vuskovic's expansive monetary policy were unambiguously favorable: 12 % industrial growth and an 8. 6 % increase in GDP, accompanied by major declines in inflation ( down from 34. 9 % to 22. 1 %) and unemployment ( down to 3. 8 %).

First year students are enrolled in first-term classes based upon results of placement exams in math, physics, chemistry, and writing and take all classes in their first two terms on a Pass / Fail basis.

In May 2009, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results of their first true high school participation study.

This first, foundational principle by which congregationalism is guided results in confining it to operate with the consent of each gathering of believers.

Penalties do not affect the yard line which the offence must reach in order to reach first down ( unless the penalty results in a first down being awarded ); if a penalty against the defence results in the first down yardage being attained, then the offence is awarded a first down.

The first results from this mission, disclosed in 2003, were detailed measurements of the angular power spectrum to below degree scales, tightly constraining various cosmological parameters.

The first option is less logical, but results in shorter marks for most English language libraries.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

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

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

Then, six weeks after the day Kitti first came into the office, Stanley announced he and Kitti were married.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

The Diamondbacks announced in early September 2006 that their uniforms, which remained largely unchanged since the team's first season, would be completely redesigned for the 2007 season.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

* 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

In 2010, Clinton announced support of, and delivered the keynote address for, the inauguration of NTR, Ireland's first environmental foundation.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

On April 14, after its first session, the PRA announced that Khieu Samphan would chair the State Presidium for a 5-year term.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

On October 26, 1993, the league announced that the owners had unanimously voted for the Carolinas to receive the 29th franchise, the first new NFL team since 1976 ( Jacksonville was named the 30th team a month later ).

On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.

Robert Mugabe announced Zimbabwe's immediate withdrawal from the Commonwealth at the 2003 CHOGM, and Nigeria's execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others on the first day of the 1995 CHOGM led to that country's suspension.

Busicom introduced the Busicom LE-120A " HANDY " calculator, the first pocket-sized calculator and the first with an LED display, and announced the Busicom LC with LCD display.

ClearType was first announced at the November 1998 COMDEX exhibition.

Compaq PortableIn November 1982 Compaq announced their first product, the Compaq Portable, a portable IBM PC compatible personal computer.