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This was the last commission entrusted to him, since Peter had not been satisfied with his son's performance and his lack of enthusiasm.
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).
Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.
A second series of three more F1 races was held until 1976, but even higher demands by the F1 drivers and the FIA's CSI commission were too expensive or impossible to meet, so the 1976 race was deemed the last ever, even before it was held.
After the last foreign troops had gone in 1876 and an international commission headed by Rutherford B. Hayes awarded Paraguay the area between the Río Verde and Río Pilcomayo, the era of party politics in Paraguay was free to begin in earnest.
Pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years ( excluding any period of imprisonment ) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.
The death of Julius in 1513 did not interrupt the work at all, as he was succeeded by Raphael's last Pope, the Medici Pope Leo X, with whom Raphael formed an even closer relationship, and who continued to commission him.
Holbein's last commission in this period was the decoration of two clock faces on the city gate in 1531.
Raeder's last attempt at using a capital ship as a raider occurred in June 1941, when he ordered the pocket battleship Lützow into the North Atlantic ; she was badly damaged by an attack from British torpedo planes on 13 June 1941 that put her out of commission for six months.
For his last commission in Florence, Donatello produced reliefs for the bronze pulpits in the church of San Lorenzo, with help from students Bartolomeo Bellano and Bertoldo di Giovanni.
The series wraps with the story of William Shakespeare creating his other commission for Dream, The Tempest, his last work not in collaboration with other writers.
The last tutor and Vice-Principal Richard Hewitt continued to live in his rooms without students until May 1816, when a commission declared Hertford College dissolved.
The last major commission of Barry's was Halifax Town Hall ( 1859 – 62 ), in a North Italian Cinquecento style, and a grand tower with spire, the interior includes a central hall similar to that at Bridgewater House, the building was completed after Barry's death by his son Edward Middleton Barry.
His last symphony, a commission for the American Bicentennial in 1976, was mauled by the critics at its first performance.
Stained glass windows in the Christ Church cathedral and other buildings in Oxford are by William Morris & Co. with designs by Burne-Jones Stanmore Hall was the last major decorating commission executed by Morris & Co. before Morris's death in 1896.
His last major commission was to paint the chapel at Wimpole Hall, he started work on the preliminary sketches in 1713 and the work was finished by 1724, the north wall has fictive architecture and four statues all in Trompe-l ' œil of the four Doctors of the Church: St. Gregory, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine & St. Jerome.
*, the lead ship of the Alaska class large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to 1947 ; she saw action in the last days of World War II
At his death, in 1702, Verro continued his royal service and painted for Queen Anne his last royal commission in the Queen ’ s Drawing Room.
It has been speculated that Bartók's previous work, the String Quartet No. 6 ( 1939 ), could well have been his last were it not for this commission, which sparked a small number of other compositions, including his Sonata for Solo Violin and Piano Concerto No. 3.
However a 2nd lieutenant in Pakistan Army last for only 6 months after commission from PMA Kakul and promoted to a Lieutenant.
His last public act was to attend a meeting of the university reform commission.
Finally, the third test is about four selected subjects of the last year, and it is written by every single examining commission.
The interview section is to assess that the student has really reached a personal and intellectual maturity concerning the various subjects of his or her last school year ; the examining commission is supposed to ask about every subject, but has got to make sure that the candidate is also able to discuss about a variety of themes explaining and justifying his or her opinion.
His last major commission was the Great Fountain at Perugia ( 1277 – 1278 ).

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The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.
At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.
He set down that `` I gave Mr. Greene a pynte of muskadell and a roll of bread that last morning I went to have his company to Master Attorney ''.
After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier Magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons:
Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.
`` Nobody does, but they gave me ten last year ''.
The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.
Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.
Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.
The last of Alfred's works is one to which he gave the name Blostman, i. e., " Blooms " or Anthology.
Alexis Korner gave one of his last radio interviews to BBC Midlands on the Record Collectors Show with Mike Adams and the Late Chris Savory.
The Electress gave birth for last time in 1799 to another stillborn child.
Dale then married his last wife, Teresa Houston ( niece of NASCAR driver Tommy Houston ) in 1982, who gave birth to their daughter, Taylor Nicole in 1988.
Emmanuel Levinas in 1929 gave a presentation at one of Husserl's last seminars in Freiburg.
Fichte gave a wide range of public and private lectures in Berlin from the last decade of his life.
For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.
The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.
Gupta gave Cronje $ 30, 000 to persuade the South Africans to lose wickets on the last day to lose the match.
The first answer would provide a subtle hint, the second a less subtle hint, and so forth until the last one gave an explicit answer.
Nevertheless, Pompey's sons escaped to Spain ; Caesar gave chase and defeated the last remnants of opposition in the Battle of Munda in March 45 BC.
Grimm had, at last, awakened to the full conviction that all sound philology must be based on rigorous adhesion to the laws of sound change, and he never afterwards swerved from this principle, which gave to all his investigations, even in their boldest flights, that iron-bound consistency, and that force of conviction that distinguishes science from dilettanteism.
On the last day of the league season, his goal in a 1 – 0 away win over Chelsea gave Liverpool their 16th league title.
Wilson canvassed the country to generate support for the treaty and the league, but his health was failing, and he gave his last speech on the subject on 25 September 1919.

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