The details of his former behaviour towards Elizabeth emerged, and for his brother and the council, this was the last straw.

Gardner was unhappy with the working conditions and the racist attitudes of his colleagues, and when he developed malaria he felt that this was the last straw ; he left Borneo and moved to Singapore in what was then known as Malaya.

The fire proved to be the last straw in the relationship between Burrell and Parsons, who moved into a spare room in Kaufman's house.

To the London Adepts, this was the last straw.

The last straw was the Siege of Paris.

Discontent spread, and the last straw was the request by the Asunción cabildo for Portuguese military support against Belgrano's forces, who were encamped just over the border in present-day Argentina.

The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem ; a new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, was to be built in its place.

These UCLA ’ s would “ sabotage ports, refineries, boats and bridges, and try to make it look like the contras had done it .” In January 1984, these UCLA ’ s performed their most famous, or infamous, operation, the last straw that led to the ratifying of the Boland Amendment, the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors

It was like the last straw.

The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, with a provocative inscription: " Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait ".

This was the last straw for the Staatsbewind.

Marr recalled in 1992, " That was the last straw, really.

The Iranian revolution was the last straw for the disintegrating relationship between Vance and Brzezinski.

Her vociferous disapproval of Meg's impending engagement to the impoverished Mr. Brooke becomes the proverbial " last straw " that actually causes Meg to accept his proposal.

The losses in the preceding decade had been bad enough, but this defeat, apparently caused by the arrogance of the nobility and its refusal to co-operate with talented non-nobles, was the last straw.

His former manager Norman Stone retired on December 22, 2005, stating that the decision in the loss to Valuev was the last straw, and he would continue to support Ruiz from retirement.

The last straw comes when he mentions that he wears " high heels, suspenders, and a bra ," and some of the Mounties stop repeating his lines, and they eventually walk off in disgust.

Good quality straw thatch can last for more than 45 – 50 years when applied by a skilled thatcher.

This proved the last straw for Ó Dálaigh, who believed that Cosgrave had additionally failed to meet his constitutional obligation to regularly brief the President.

Coal for Spalding gasworks arrived by boat until the early 1900s, and the last regular trade was the carriage of corn, hay and straw from Spalding to Fosdyke, where the cargo was transferred to larger ships.

This was the last straw ; bowing to pressure and advice from Bacon, who had long been jealous of Coke, James I suspended Coke from the Privy Council, forbade him from going on circuit and, on 14 November, dismissed him from his post as Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

For God, this complaint is the last straw, he declares Memnoch as his adversary and commands him to rule Sheol and Earth in a devilish form, preparing souls for Heaven in his own fashion.

When Cosgrave then refused to accept Donegan's resignation, this proved the last straw for Ó Dálaigh, who resigned on 22 October 1976 " to protect the dignity and independence of the presidency as an institution.

This disordered the ranks of the French regiment, which began to waiver and the last straw came when they saw Prince Hohenzollern personally leading the 500 cavalrymen from the Vincent Chevaulegers regiment against them: the 10th Light panicked and fled, taking the 57th Line with them.

Ortega's hope that modern psychology might yet bring forth a last flowering of the novel has only been partially fulfilled.

`` Seems to me last time I was here the grate bellowed out smoke as it might have been preparing us for hell ''.

This might be applied to the top of the nose or the back of the neck, pressed on the upper lip, or inserted into the nostril ( cotton was usually used in this last ).

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

Who knew, Angie might not last long.

Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.

Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.

In fact, they've fallen short of it but -- difficult as it is for me to understand -- a modern sophist might say that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and feeling in the name of greater intelligibility.

Most have been extinct since the last ice age, although dwarf forms of mammoths might have survived as late as 2, 000 BCE.

He wrote to Burghley, enumerating years of fruitless attempts to amend his financial situation and complained: ' This last year past I have been a suitor to her Majesty that I might farm her tins, giving £ 3000 a year more than she had made.

The most talented artist might have works last for days.

A connection might also be drawn between the last paragraph's statement that " in him should all the tribes of the earth be blessed ", and the meaning of the name " Muhammad ", the " Praised ( or Blessed ) One ".

If not for the last second deviation, which compromised his autorotative descent, he might have landed safely.

In his last book Mind at the End of its Tether ( 1945 ) he considered the idea that humanity being replaced by another species might not be a bad idea.

" the monstrousness of my crime is immeasurable especially in the new stage of struggle of the U. S. S. R. May this trial be the last severe lesson, and may the great might of the U. S. S. R become clear to all.

For example, if you know that a player always folds rather than showing his hand if he was bluffing, you might call his last bet even with a hand inferior to the one you suspect him of bluffing with, expecting that he will simply fold before he sees that you don't actually have him beat.

This most commonly occurs in a high-low split game where one player knows that he has a guaranteed low hand made, his opponent cannot make a better low no matter what the last card is, but the player who is low might possibly catch a lucky card that gives him a straight or flush, winning high as well.

In fact, Sylvester was said to be petrified at the thought of the new millennium: on the last night of the year A. D. 999, Sylvester nervously celebrated mass, thinking the world might end even as he consecrated the bread and wine.

A standard elimination rubric might run 8-4-2, with eight poets in the first round, four in the second, and two in the last.

For example, the front end might be sensitive to 1 – 30 MHz, the first half of the radio to 5 MHz, and the last half to 50 kHz.

He admits that the last scene of Bickle glancing at an unseen object implies that he might fall into rage and recklessness in the future, and he is like " a ticking time bomb.

We may reasonably suppose, that, when he rose to notice, he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and critics, and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice, which he might have begun by chance.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Pitt's particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

He waited until 1802 ( in Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars ; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens ) to announce the hypothesis that the two stars might be " binary sidereal systems " orbiting under mutual gravitational attraction, a hypothesis he confirmed in 1803 in his Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars ; with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing.