The project that was planned by Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany to arrange that prime works of art in the Medici collections on the piano nobile was effected by Francis I of Tuscany, who commissioned from Buontalenti the famous Tribuna degli Uffizi that united a selection of the outstanding masterpieces in the collection in an ensemble that was a star attraction of the Grand Tour.

Director Gary Ross said he firmly believed Witherspoon was going to be an outstanding movie star.

Such was Lloyd's disdain that he sued Howard Hughes, the California Corporation and RKO for damages to his reputation " as an outstanding motion picture star and personality ", eventually accepting a $ 30, 000 settlement.

As his popularity grew, he made a number of films for Paramount in France and the U. S. While sentimental films such as Cuesta abajo ( 1934 ) and El día que me quieras ( 1935 ) lack lasting dramatic value, they were outstanding showcases of his tremendous singing talents and movie star looks.

This outstanding record is in no small part down to the most influential player to ever star in the competition — fly-half extraordinaire Naas Botha.

Ottawa and the valley are also the home of such outstanding players as Frank Nighbor, Aurel Joliat, Frank " King " Clancy, Frank Boucher, Kurtis Foster and Denis Potvin ; the latter was the star defenceman of the New York Islanders dynasty of the late 1970s.

The baton in India was wielded gloriously, and with outstanding success and public acclaim, by Sanjukta Panigrahi, Kumkum Mohanty and Sonal Mansingh, each of whom was a major and distinctive star.

Coming to America from Shanghai as a child of eight, Charles Wang proved a keen athlete, star student, and an outstanding businessman whose software company, Computer Associates International Inc., became a world leader.

During the next decade the company's two star directors, Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, produced many outstanding silent films, some of the best being adaptations of stories by the Nobel prizewinning novelist Selma Lagerlöf.

Thompson had previously defended the star ’ s conduct and salary in 2006, when he described Ross as “ outstanding ” and claimed that " the very best people " deserved appropriately high salaries.

In ice hockey, the three players who perform best in the game, often either those who accumulate the most points or outstanding goaltenders, are usually designated the Three stars of the game: the top-performing player is the first star, and so on.

The reviews were formerly based on a simple five-star structure, with five stars marking a truly outstanding game, and one star signalling virtual worthlessness.

In 1953 Independiente went on a European tour, which most outstanding victory was the 6-0 over Real Madrid ( with Alfredo Di Stéfano as team's biggest star ).

Earlier this year, Simplot ’ s Conda Pump Station was awarded the star award for their outstanding safety and health results over the last 5 years.

After duty as a patrol officer, someone with an outstanding record or wealth of experience can go on to two or three years at a higher police school or college of public administration to qualify for the upper echelon which starts with Polizeikommissar ( one silver star ) and ascends to Erster Polizeihauptkommissar ( four or five silver stars ).

* Lacrosse star and military hero Raymond Enners for whom the Lt. Raymond Enners Award ( NCAA's most outstanding men's college lacrosse player ) and the Lt. Ray Enners Award ( Suffolk County boy's lacrosse outstanding player ) are named.

Ignoring the dire warnings, Rauch was a three-sport star at Yeadon High School, then put together an outstanding college football career.

Brody was an outstanding basketball star for the Illini, playing point guard while wearing uniform # 12.

* Johannes Hevelius was an outstanding astronomer who published the earliest exact maps of the moon and the most complete star catalog of his time, containing 1, 564 stars.

Tony Curtis, then unknown, was assigned to escort Gibson and Blythe to the premier at the Academy Award Theater at the Academy's then-headquarters on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, where The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce gave each silent star a plaque “ for your outstanding contribution to the art and science of motion pictures, for the pleasure you have brought to millions over the world, and for your help in making Hollywood the film capital of the world .”

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

Foliage is the outstanding photo subject in many of the Southern locales mentioned above and some specific tips on how and where to shoot it are in order.

Because many outstanding problems in number theory, such as Goldbach's conjecture are equivalent to solving the halting problem for special programs ( which would basically search for counter-examples and halt if one is found ), knowing enough bits of Chaitin's constant would also imply knowing the answer to these problems.

Missions in the Oriente were abandoned, and many of the best schools and the most efficient haciendas and obrajes lost the key that made them outstanding institutions in colonial Ecuador.

The propaganda value of her films made during the 1930s repels most modern commentators, but many film histories cite the aesthetics as outstanding.

While heralded by many as outstanding colour photographs, they were harshly criticized by Susan Sontag, who claimed in a review that they were further evidence of Riefenstahl ’ s “ fascist aesthetics ”.

He also found no faults, but still doubted that the solution, which so many outstanding mathematicians had sought for so long, could now really have been found by an unknown student in far-off Christiania.

Emami was an outstanding translator of English in Iran, who had also translated many contemporary Persian poems.

Glamour Women of the Year 2001, 2001 SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award from Johns Hopkins University, Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the U. S. Congress, 2004, Honorary Doctorate from University of Antwerp ( Belgium ) for outstanding non-academic achievements, as well as many other awards.

With a team consisting of many stellar young rookies such as Rubén Sierra, Pete Incaviglia, Mitch Williams, Bobby Witt, and Edwin Correa, the Rangers finished the season 2nd place with an outstanding 87 – 75 record, just five games behind the division champion California Angels.

According to many scholars the most outstanding work of Gombrowicz is Dziennik ( Diaries ), which was published in serial form in Kultura in 1953 – 1969.

Although ZIPI provided many outstanding new features, they did not line up well with existing MIDI-based implementations.

In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that, according to Thurston, it led to a kind of exodus from the field, where advisors counselled students against going into foliation theory because Thurston was " cleaning out the subject " ( see " On Proof and Progress in Mathematics ", especially section 6 ).

Among them many are outstanding leaders in Hong Kong today.

Though many of the masterworks have been dispersed, the cultural value of Mantua is nonetheless outstanding, with many of Mantua's patrician and ecclesiastical buildings being uniquely important examples of Italian architecture.

In his autobiography, Stevens was at pains to point out the outstanding loyalty and shared dedication to justice that he experienced from many RUC officers.

In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her " outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the last decades.

John Mueller summed up Rogers's abilities as follows: " Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable ".

Mueller sums up Rogers's abilities as follows: " Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer, but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable.

The resulting spontaneous concentric precipitation of minerals around a fossil is called a concretion and is responsible for the outstanding preservation of many ammonite fossils.

Diomedes ' aristeia represents many of his heroic virtues such as outstanding fighting skills, bravery, divine protection / advice, carefully planned tactics of war, leadership, humility and self-restraint.

Operas such as Tosca, Aida, Faust and Carmen have been staged here, many with a sumptuous staging and also receiving outstanding acclaim.