The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

`` You haven't dressed for the occasion ''!!

And those without beards would have stood out as not dressed for the occasion.

But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

The exuberance on this occasion set a standard for subsequent Dartmouth gatherings.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

The Chickasaws finally were the occasion for the most disastrous wars during the French control of Louisiana.

the bridegroom's parents, the Barrett Wendells, who are returning from a winter holiday in Sarasota, Fla., for the occasion ; ;

Meanwhile Russia took every opportunity to meddle in the Congo, sending Lumumba equipment for his `` wars '', dispatching `` technicians '' and even threatening, on occasion, to intervene openly.

Look in this book for weak mortals and only on occasion for virtues and vices on the heroic scale.

There was too little occasion beforehand for resistance, the brave strong delights of emotional clash and meeting.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

Except for one occasion, the Project never played live during its original incarnation.

Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

The Laudes Regiae, or song commending a ruler, that was performed at Matilda's coronation may have been composed by Ealdred himself for the occasion.

Pierre Cartier, a visiteur de longue durée (" long-term guest ") at the IHÉS, wrote a piece about Grothendieck for a special volume published on the occasion of the IHÉS's fortieth anniversary.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

The network airs each season of its original series in a relatively uncommon format for broadcast television or basic cable, as the first half of the season airs with consecutive episodes, followed by a 4-6 month break, then the remaining episodes of the season are broadcast afterward ; ABC Family typically only reruns episodes of their original series in a marathon that airs prior to a season premiere, mid-season or season finale, or other special occasion, though the channel does air week-behind encores of original series that air in the 8 p. m.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great newspaper, the New York Times, on the occasion of a major change in its top executive command.

On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin.

That month, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, the publishers of collections of Doonesbury until the mid-1980s, took out an ad in the New York Times Book Review, marking the occasion by saying: It ’ s nice for Trudeau and Doonesbury to be so honored, " but it ’ s quite another thing when the Establishment clutches all of Walden Commune to its bosom.

They now gathered the various constitutional laws they had passed into a single constitution, showed remarkable strength in choosing not to use this as an occasion for major revisions, and submitted it to the recently restored Louis XVI, who accepted it, writing " I engage to maintain it at home, to defend it from all attacks from abroad, and to cause its execution by all the means it places at my disposal ".

In her book, Kelley touches on customs that arrived from across the Atlantic ; " Americans have fostered them, and are making this an occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas.

' According to him, ' after the 1948 war, the Israelis tended to hail the " purity of arms " of its militiamen and soldiers to contrast this with Arab barbarism, which on occasion expressed itself in the mutilation of captured Jewish corpses.

As the university celebrated its Golden Jubilee on December 24, 2005, a special emblem ( see above ) was created to commemorate the occasion, and the motto ' To Know Is To Grow ' was coined.

On the occasion of most critical events, tis publishes political documents to support its views, which are distributed both to deciders and to the press.

Potentially, each Whiteheadean occasion of experience is causally consequential on every other occasion of experience that precedes it in time, and has as its causal consequences every other occasion of experience that follows it in time ; thus it has been said that Whitehead's occasions of experience are'all window ', in contrast to Leibniz's ' windowless ' monads.

The National Archives of Canada, in its biographical sketches of Canadian Prime Ministers, records show that on one occasion during the war, Trudeau and his friends drove their motorcycles wearing Prussian military uniforms, complete with pointed steel helmets.

On occasion the Court was accused of extending its jurisdiction ; strictly speaking only allowed to intervene in matters of international law, the Court became involved in municipal law during the Loans Cases.

In 1994, the FIFA World Cup had its own samba composed for the occasion, the " Copa 94 ".

This is evident from the biblical name " The Feast of Ingathering ," from the ceremonies accompanying it, from the season – " The festival of the seventh month " – and occasion of its celebration: " At the end of the year when you gather in your labors out of the field " ( Ex.

Apart from the ability to travel in space and time ( and, on occasion, to other dimensions ), the most remarkable characteristic of a TARDIS is that its interior is much larger than it appears from the outside.

In her book, Kelley touches on customs that arrived from across the Atlantic ; " Americans have fostered them, and are making this an occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas.

The Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the obligation to meet annually and agreed to meet as the occasion required.

On that occasion, Kilman reportedly clarified Vanuatu's position with regard to Palestine, saying " Vanuatu will always maintain its position to support the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland but at the same time with Israel existing as a state on its own, with secure borders ".

Venice remained a republic throughout its independent period and politics and the military were kept separate, except when on occasion the Doge personally headed the military.

I do not hesitate to affirm that an effort should now be made to attain this advantage, nor to declare that, according to my judgment, it is in present circumstances practicable ... we ought not to aid the rates, and remove the Income Tax, without giving to the general consumer, and giving him simultaneously, some marked relief in the class of articles of popular consumption ... I for one could not belong to a Government which did not on every occasion seek to enlarge its resources by a wise economy.