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" His beaning earlier that year of Mike Piazza, followed by the notorious broken-bat incident in the 2000 World Series, cemented Clemens ' surly, unapologetic image in the minds of many detractors.
Plutarch says that this incident firmly cemented their friendship, and Pelopidas would be Epaminondas's partner in politics for the next twenty years.
The incident cemented La Follette's resolve to reform the party.
The incident forever cemented Carl Mays as a head hunter.
Schwarzkopf says in his autobiograpy It Doesn't Take a Hero that this incident firmly cemented his reputation as an officer who would risk his life for the soldiers under his command.
His point was that there had been nothing wrong with the equipment or the training, just bad luck, but the incident cemented his popularity among certain sectors of the population.
An incident in 1170, while Motofusa was on his way to the Hōjuji Palace, further cemented his rivalry with the Taira clan.

incident and reputation
The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.
Robinson received a two-year suspended sentence, but the incident — along with other rumored run-ins between Robinson and police — gave Robinson a reputation for combativeness in the face of racial antagonism.
Press coverage of the incident fueled punk's reputation as a social menace.
On December 1, an incident took place that sealed punk rock's notorious reputation: On Thames Today, an early evening London TV show, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was goaded into a verbal altercation by the host, Bill Grundy.
This incident long damaged the army's reputation, leading to persistent calls for its abolition among left-wing politicians.
One of the more drastic measures employed to accomplish the eradication of the old schools of thought was the infamous burning of books and burying of scholars incident, which almost singlehandedly gave the Qin Dynasty a bad reputation among later scholars.
The Diamond Necklace incident further ruined her reputation.
Thus this report of a feud between Eadwig and Dunstan could either have been based on a true incident of a political quarrel for power between a young king and powerful church officials who wished to control the king and who later spread this legend to blacken his reputation, or it could be an urban legend ; the Chronicle also tells of Odo putting aside the King's marriage on the grounds Eadwig and his wife were " too related ".
Lopes, who was sentenced to five years probation and therapy at a halfway house, was never able to shake the incident from her reputation.
This incident increased Arkan's criminal-political reputation in Belgrade as it now became clear to every one of his underworld rivals that he enjoyed protection from the highest circles.
The incident served to increase his reputation as a ladies ' man.
It is unknown whether charges of either filing false charges resulting in a murder or miscegenation were filed against Crow, but it is known by those aware of Richardson that he had lived in the area for a number of years with a fair reputation prior to the incident.
For decades after this incident, Erwin and Unicoi County had a reputation for being hostile to African-Americans.
No incident in Rundstedt's career has damaged his posthumous reputation as much as his involvement in this process.
They were without adventure, almost without incident, but he achieved so much distinction that at his death in 1558 he had the highest scientific and literary reputation of any man in Europe.
Fadiman added that " it is worth noting that in this incident, far from tarnishing Vang Pao's reputationas, for example Ted Kennedy's fudged Spanish exam at Harvard tarnished his — merely added to his mythology: this was the sort of man who could never be held back by such petty impediments as rules.
This incident gave Razin the reputation of an “ invincible warrior endowed with supernatural powers .” He continued his travels down the Volga and into the Caspian Sea, defeating several detachments of streltsy, or armed guardsmen.
On June 7, 1997, Foyt ( as an owner ) was involved in an incident that helped shape the history of the Indy Racing League and added to his reputation as a man of little patience.
Although Lewis was never formally sanctioned, the incident sullied his reputation, which was confirmed by his cheating discovered in subsequent fights.
The British Daily Telegraph newspaper said of the incident that ' For one with Meads ' worldwide reputation for robust play, this was rather like sending a burglar to prison for a parking offence.
These rumors were never proven, but they persisted long enough that, combined with an already negative reputation among other players both from the Chapman incident and from having a personality that few found agreeable, he was never elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame despite having lifetime statistics comparable to some other pitchers who were.
The Alejandrina Cox incident seriously damaged General Prats ' public reputation.
The incident may have been minor, but the resulting controversy did considerable damage to both Martel's reputation and that of the provincial NDP.
After the incident, Huo stamped out anyone who could be considered to be a conspirator, gaining a reputation for autocracy and heavy-handedness.

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The peace of the community was badly disturbed, and people across the nation, reading of the incident, felt uneasy.
She reportedly slapped Eugénie across the face, almost resulting in an international incident.
The STEM rasters a focused incident probe across a specimen that ( as with the TEM ) has been thinned to facilitate detection of electrons scattered through the specimen.
Banks was still making his way across the line from Jairzinho's cross and in the split-second of assessment the incident allowed, it seemed impossible for him to get to the ball.
This incident spurred reprisal killings and sabotage across the Rhineland, and when Krupp held a large, public funeral for the workers, he was fined and jailed by the French.
After the film Patton was released in 1970, Charles H. Kuhl recounted the incident, stating that Patton had slapped him across the face and then kicked him as he walked away.
This was discovered while underway, and local militia rallied to the scene, and riders spread word of the incident across the colony.
During the interview, Ventura denied the rumors and claimed that he never met Kyle nor has he heard of him before and argued that had the confrontation occurred, Kyle would be admitting to assault and that the incident would have become known across the Navy SEAL community, as Ventura was a member of the SEALs.
Before the incident, Pleasureland and Muller's Park were popular summer destinations that had since the 1950s and earlier ( Muller's was built in 1935 ) attracted families from across the Tri-state area.
The incident spurred an FBI investigation and made news across the globe.
* The 2011 India – Pakistan border shooting incident took place between 30 August ( Tuesday ) and 1 September 2011 ( Thursday ) across the Line of Control in Kupwara District / Neelam Valley, resulting in one Indian soldier and three Pakistani soldiers being killed.
Many additional codes have been added by individual local or regional first-response agencies ; these are not standard across jurisdictions and may be problematic if multiple organizations must respond to the same incident.
The Dorm Troopers, Logan's Heroes and Slacker's Hackers are part of some of the other local gaming groups across whom the Knights come at intervals, most notably in the incident of the Player Exchange Program ( and resulting intergroup grudge match ).
In one incident 300 fencers arrived at the roadline near Pungarehu, dug up the road, sowed it in wheat and constructed a fence, with a newspaper reporting: " They looked like an immense swarm of bees or an army of locusts, moving with a steady and uninterrupted movement across the face of the earth.
In 1524, in an incident that resonated across Switzerland, local peasants occupied the cloister of Ittingen in the Thurgau, driving out the monks, destroying documents, and devastating the wine-cellar.
Beforehand, the soldiers of both sides were permitted to go back and forth across the MDL inside of the JSA, a privilege since revoked as a result of this incident.
Another incident occurred on November 23, 1984, when a Soviet tourist, who was part of an official trip to the JSA ( hosted by the North ), ran across the Military Demarcation Line ( MDL ) shouting that he wanted to defect.
As soon as Tunku received news of the incident, about three hours after it occurred, he asked his " Young Men " to set off across the country to Alor Janggus and restore order.
" The light sentence and the dropping of the more serious charges triggered outrage across Canada, as well as more extensive investigation of events leading up to the incident prompting the arrest, which led to allegations Jaffer met with several escorts.
It is a reference to an incident in 1337 when a raiding party of English soldiers were picking wild plums close to the town and were caught by Scots who came across them by chance and slaughtered them all.
To this day, Canadian political commentators still point to this incident as one of Canada's foremost examples of " image politics ", because the photo was chosen for the front pages of newspapers across Canada even though many other photos of Stanfield catching the same football were also available.
The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law ( Ontario Bill 68 )-an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities.
In 2005, professor Kim Rekho ( 김려춘 ; 金麗春 ) of the Russian Academy of Sciences came across a written account of the incident by a Russian architect Afanasy Seredin-Sabatin ( Афанасий Иванович Середин-Сабатин ) in the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire ( Архив внешней политики Российской империи ; AVPRI ).
Individual racers must be of a specific nationality and meet specific age requirements ; this is necessary to allow teams to obtain the necessary passport documentation to travel across the world without incident.

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