The rationale is that the leg is the longest and strongest weapon a martial artist has, and kicks thus have the greatest potential to execute powerful strikes without successful retaliation.

This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 ( Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100 ), are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest aggregate age of a married couple.

The Carry On series is notable for producing the greatest number of films of any British series, and next to the James Bond films, it is the second longest continually-running film series in British film history ( with a fourteen-year hiatus between 1978 and 1992 ).

Although much of the 8: 35 am flight was spent hovering at 230 + feet, the Lightcraft earned a world record for the longest ever laser-powered free flight and the greatest " air time " ( i. e., launch-to-landing / recovery ) from a light-propelled object.

LeMay piloted one of three specially modified B-29s flying from Japan to the U. S. in September 1945, in the process breaking several aviation records at that date, including the greatest USAAF takeoff weight, the longest USAAF non-stop flight, and the first ever non-stop Japan – Chicago flight.

In morphology, examples from degree adjectives, such as long, longer, longest, show that the most extreme degree of length is iconically represented by the word with the greatest number of phonemes.

Elton John holds the all-time record for greatest number of appearances at the Garden with 62 shows ( the 60th occurring on his 60th birthday, March 25, 2007 ), and Billy Joel set a record in 2006 during his 12 performance run, the longest run of a single artist at the venue.

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

Coronation Street became the longest running serial soap in 2010 when it celebrated its 50th anniversary and the ongoing Seven Up documentary series was voted the greatest documentary in a Channel 4 program by film makers.

The greatest challenge was the Romerike Tunnel from Etterstad, beside Oslo Central Station, to Lillestrøm — the longest railway tunnel in Norway, located underneath the geological highly unstable recreational area Østmarka.

Skylab 2 set the records for the longest duration manned spaceflight, greatest distance traveled and greatest mass docked in space.

The club holds the record for the longest winning streak, the most wins and the second greatest margin of victory in Australian rugby league history.

The atoll is oriented east and west and is at its longest point, and at its greatest width.

Though surpassed by many tunnels today, it remains one of the world's longest canal tunnels and one of the greatest engineering feats of its day.

This became the longest and greatest of all Beck ’ s expeditions and, as with the " Academy " expeditions, he was joined by many other accomplished biologists with complementary skills, including E. H. Quayle, J. G. Correia, Dr F. P. Drowne, Hannibal Hamlin, Guy Richards, Ernst Mayr, E. H. Bryan Jr., and others.

Hroar's wife was Arngunnur sister of Gunnar Hámundarson, who is one of the main characters Njáls saga, the longest and generally considered the greatest of the Icelandic Sagas.

Malcolm Wanklyn has described the First Battle of Newbury as being " both the longest battle of the English Civil War and the one that historians have found the greatest difficulty in describing "; this is because there is no contemporary plan of the battlefield or record of the plans of each side while, conversely, there are diverse and contradictory accounts from both sides of the battle.

In their consideration of nāsikh wal-mansūkh the taxonomic predilections of these authors comes out, evinced in their discussions of special verses considered " marvels " ( ajā ' ib ) of the Qur ' ān, such as the verse which abrogates the greatest number of other verses ( Q. 9: 5 ), the verse which was in effect longest until it was abrogated ( Q. 46: 9 ), and the verse which contains both an abrogatee and its abrogator ( Q. 5: 105 ).

In reaching his second 1, 000-yard rushing season, Anderson set several modern-day NFL records ( longest stretch between seasons leading a team in rushing, longest stretch between a player's first and second 1, 000-yard rushing seasons, and greatest number of seasons passed between 1, 000-yard rushing seasons with no intervening seasons rushing for that distance ).

Joe's most memorable fight occurred on April 17, 1909 in a return bout with Sam McVey in Paris, France that lasted three-and-a-half-hours, and 49 rounds, the longest boxing match of the 20th century, and one of the greatest marathons in boxing history.

The weight throw is a family of throwing events within the field events of track and field, where the objective is to throw a heavy weight the longest distance or, less often, the greatest height.

On April 17, 1909 in Paris, Sam McVey fought Joe Jeanette in a bout considered one of the greatest and certainly one of the longest of the 20th century.

The greatest advantage of CIAT has been seen in its treatment of chronic aphasia ( lasting over 1 year ).

I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.

He achieved his greatest influence and most lasting fame as a Senator.

In 1962, Capehart attained his greatest popularity and what would ultimately become his lasting legacy as one of the key figures in the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for a " crack-down on Cuba " and warning of a missile build-up on the Island.

One of Durrell's tutor's friends, the Greek doctor, scientist, poet and philosopher Theodore Stephanides, became Durrell's greatest friend and mentor, and his ideas left a lasting impression on the young naturalist.

… With her are gone the greatest part of my affections to the country, and all that is left of them shall be thankfully and religiously paid to her excellent memory and lasting goodness ".

The greatest lasting impact of the Huayan school was to be seen in Korea, where it was transmitted by Uisang ( hangul: 의상대사 625-702 ), who had been, along with Fazang, a student of Zhiyan.

The Qur ' an, widely regarded as the finest piece of literature work in the Arabic language, would have the greatest lasting effect on Arabic culture and its literature.

IGN considers it to be " One of the greatest late-generation NES games ", praising mostly the sound and the graphics, giving them a perfect score, while giving a 9. 5 ( out of 10 ) to the gameplay and 9 for presentation and " lasting appeal ", giving a total score of 9. 5 out of 10.

However, it was for series of the " Canciones Escolares " ( 1912 ) ( School Songs ), which were co-written with Virgilio Dávila and Manuel Fernandez Juncos, that would give him lasting recognition as one of Puerto Rico's greatest composers.

This new publication is, in Horatius ' words, " a monument more lasting than bronze " to this woman who, along with so many others, fell victim to what many consider to be the greatest crime of the 20th century.

Perhaps his greatest lasting legacy besides his buildings are the numerous respected architects of today who came out of both Pereira's firm and the classes he taught at USC, including Gin Wong, William Blurock, and Frank Gehry.

The Battle of Verdun was one of the two greatest infantry battles of the war, an exclusively Franco-German struggle lasting 10 months and tallying over 700, 000 casualties between both sides.

The commission commemorated Dr. Rosenbach ’ s legacy as one of America ’ s greatest rare book dealers and his lasting contributions to Philadelphia and beyond with a marker in front of the museum, located at 2008-2010 Delancey Place in Philadelphia ’ s historic Rittenhouse Square neighborhood.

This was to be the Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Training School for the remainder of the war and Stephenson's greatest legacy was that his training methods had a lasting influence within the service long after the cessation of conflict.

Farber is frequently named as one of the greatest film critics, and his work has had a lasting impact on the generations of critics that followed him.

For that reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy and help.

" Activist Bill Wilson opined that the expanded presidency was " the greatest threat ever to individual freedom and democratic rule.

The principal event of the golden jubilee of Indian independence was President K. R. Narayanan's midnight address to the nation during the special session of Parliament convened on the night of 14 August ; in this address, he identified the establishment of a democratic system of government and politics to be the greatest achievement of India since independence.

This I intend the Chronicle shall always be, a newspaper for all the people, democratic in fact and in principle, standing for the greatest good to the greatest number, championing and defending what it believes to be right, and condemning and opposing what it believes to be wrong.

McReynolds concludes that a brand of pacifist-socialism is best suited for future socialist experiments since it offers the greatest opportunity to prefigure the kinds of democratic relations necessary to create a functional and free society.

The former focuses on the creation of a new democratic political culture from scratch, assigning the Revolution's greatest meaning here, in a political culture.

" It may well be that restricting the democratic rights and liberties is the only option for the working class to defend the greatest democratic reform we know of-the abolition of exploitation and capitalism.

This Byzantine electoral structure in the US does provide the greatest opportunity for input, but at a cost — by demanding so much of the public it means that many are overwhelmed by the complexity of the system and ultimately fail to vote (" democratic overload ").

Michelsen, though a believer in a democratic republic in Norway, accepted that a democratic monarchy would have the greatest chances to be accepted abroad and among a majority of Norwegians.

Pericles was distinguished as its greatest democratic leader, even though he has been accused of running a political machine.

During the period of emergency, when the democratic set up was facing its greatest peril, SFI organized many protests and student agitations to uphold the principles of democracy.

If one wishes to live, if one wishes to work, if one wishes in social life to possess the greatest human guarantees for production and culture, if one wishes to preserve and increase the moral, intellectual and material capital of civilisation, it is absolutely necessary to destroy all democratic institutions.