Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.

Sixty-nine cars started the selection event that would show which entrants would be allowed to start the main event, the race from Paris to Rouen.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

Beginning in 1975, " Bert " was used for Jet Assisted Take Off ( JATO ) and short aerial demonstrations just prior to the main event at selected venues, but the JATO demonstration ended in 2009 due to dwindling supplies of rockets.

The impact of a meteorite or comet is today widely accepted as the main reason for the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

The Test-playing nations qualify automatically for the World Cup main event, while the other teams have to qualify through a series of preliminary qualifying tournaments.

In the event of a complete failure of the main line, the throne would pass to the nearest collateral branch, again in the male line.

Gladiatorial combats were the main event and usually held around this time of day.

Double leg work however, is the main staple of this event.

Another common workaround is to run GLUT's event loop in a separate thread, although this may vary by operating system, and also may introduce synchronization issues or other problems: for example, the Mac OS X GLUT implementation requires that be run in the main thread.

Jon often attempts to ask her out on a date, but rarely succeeds ; however, in an extended story arc from June 19 to July 29, 2006 ( the main event on July 28 ), Liz and Jon kiss.

The main event in the First Republic in the sixties was the inclusion of the Socialist party in the government, after the reducing edge of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) had forced them to accept this alliance ; attempts to incorporate the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) in the Tambroni government led to riots, and were short-lived.

There are two main types of legal expenses insurance: before the event insurance and after the event insurance.

Hulk Hogan wrote in his autobiography that Mr. T saved the main event of WrestleMania I between them and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper and " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff because when he arrived, security would not let his entourage into the building.

In 2007 MSP organized the first Mars Festival, a two-day event which drew 600 visitors, with Discovery Channel as the main sponsor.

The film's main action sequence, when Nanook hunts a walrus, was also a staged event.

Berkeley's idealism has two main strands, phenomenalism in which physical events are viewed as a special kind of mental event and subjective idealism.

Historians that attribute responsibility for the war to Athens cite this event as the main cause for blame.

Such preliminary contests were held prior to the major games to determine who would participate in the main event.

Face special referees will often fight back against hostile heel wrestlers, particularly if the special referee is either a wrestler himself or a famous martial artist ( such as Tito Ortiz at the main event at TNA Hard Justice 2005 ).

In WCW, Kevin Nash was banned from using his finishing move, the Jackknife powerbomb, not because the move itself was dangerous, but because he was kayfabe billed as being so good at the move that it would end careers ( this was designed to help push him towards the main event ).

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.

The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.

Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.

The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.

The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.