Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

He had attained local popularity and could draw crowds as a natural raconteur in New Salem, though he lacked an education, powerful friends, and money, which may be why he lost.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

Stuart Little initially received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community due in part to the reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but still powerful children's librarian from the New York Public Library.

Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Winchell's main rivals, setting the El Morocco nightclub in New York as his unofficial headquarters against Winchell's seat of power at the nearby Stork Club.

Responding to popular disdain for the sometimes corrupt City Council, LaGuardia successfully proposed a reformed 1938 City Charter that created a powerful new New York City Board of Estimate, similar to a corporate board of directors.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.

They still had 26, 000 troops occupying New York City, Charleston and Savannah, together with a powerful fleet.

The Gathering occurs in modern-day ( 1985 ) New York City, when the Highlander, who has fallen in love again despite trying to cut himself off from humanity, narrowly defeats his powerful and evil enemy, The Kurgan, whom he has encountered repeatedly over the previous centuries, and who has slain Ramírez and many others.

* Monk Eastman ( 1875 – 1920 ), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

The Saints ' flagship station is WWL ( 870 AM / 105. 3 FM ), one of the oldest radio stations in the city of New Orleans and one of the nation's most powerful as a clear-channel station with 50, 000 watts of power.

Within groups such as New York Radical Women ( 1967 – 1969 ), no relation to Radical Women, a present-day socialist feminist organization ), which Ellen Willis characterized as " the first women's liberation group in New York City ", a radical feminist ideology began to emerge that declared that " the personal is political " and " sisterhood is powerful ", formulations that arose from these consciousness-raising sessions.

Spain had to fight against the relatively powerful civilizations of the New World.

These slings were apparently very powerful ; in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, historian Charles C. Mann quoted a conquistador, who said that an Incan sling " could break a sword in two pieces " and " kill a horse.

The 1990 New York Giants were built to head coach Bill Parcells ' specifications of " power football ": a powerful defense and an offense that sustained extremely long drives.

One strength of the Whigs, however, was a superb network of newspapers ; their leading editor was Horace Greeley of the powerful New York Tribune.

Having 12 regional banks was meant to weaken the influence of the powerful New York banks, a key demand of Bryan's allies in the South and West.

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

In 1530, King Henry VIII acquired York Place from Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a powerful minister who had lost the King's favour.

* December 16 – In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

Dewey was the acknowledged leader of the GOP's powerful eastern establishment ; in 1946 he had been re-elected governor of New York by the largest margin in state history.

The New York Times critic A. H. Weiler also hailed the film as a masterpiece, calling it " an uncommon powerful, exciting, and imaginative use of the screen by gifted professionals.

With Jaeckle's help, Dewey also created a powerful political organization that allowed him to dominate New York state politics and influence national politics.

The Reds lost the World Series to the powerful New York Yankees in 1939, but would bounce back to win the pennant again in 1940, and defeat the Detroit Tigers in a seven-game thriller.

Most notably, he tried to shorten the rather distant fences by creating a Pennant Porch in right field, fronting a tiny bleacher section, to mock the famed short fence in right field at Yankee Stadium, home of the powerful Yankees.

As a member of the 1950 team dubbed the " Whiz Kids ," Del was the scourge of the National League and he helped the Phillies to win their first pennant since in an exciting finish that saw Philadelphia beat out the powerful Brooklyn Dodgers on the last day of the season, only to be swept in the World Series by the New York Yankees, with Ennis hitting only. 143 with no RBI.

Moreover, his Yankees were one of the most powerful teams of all time, winning consecutive World Series championships from 1936 to 1939, and again in 1941 and 1943.

The Giants would go down in defeat against the powerful New York Yankees in the 1936 World Series.

The Yankees met the powerful Cleveland Browns in the championship game.

He signed with the New York Yankees in 1950, and was a little used reserve outfielder on the powerful Yankee teams of the early 1950s.

But fortified by young players such as Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, Jim Kaat, Zoilo Versalles and Bob Allison, the Twins challenged the powerful New York Yankees in before placing second.

In November 1924, it was rumored that the Yankees were trying to trade for Williams, which would have teamed him with Ruth to make one of the most powerful home run combinations in baseball.

He wound up as a utility infielder on the powerful Yankees, winning the 1961 World Series with them against the Cincinnati Reds.

He won election to the state legislature ; though he ran as a Whig, many Democrats favored him over a more powerful Whig opponent.

Venizelos quickly established himself as a powerful political figure, and his allies won the August 1910 elections.

Someday, not too distant, there can come streaking out of somewhere – we won ’ t be able to hear it, it will come so fast – some kind of gadget with an explosive so powerful that one projectile will be able to wipe out completely this city of Washington.

He wrote an essay on the conference, concluding that the powerful had won out.

* North had not won a premiership yet, and thus was not considered a powerful club " The Inaugurals ".

On the other hand, the Montana-led 49ers with their powerful offense had already won 3 Super Bowls.

In 1964, he won appointment to a seat on the powerful Rules Committee.

The suitor who won was Menelaus ( Tyndareus, not to displease the powerful Agamemnon offered him another daughter Clytaemnestra ).

Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful woman, Atalanta, who won its hide by first wounding it with an arrow.

Since these engagements were almost invariably won by the heaviest ships carrying the most powerful guns, the natural progression was to build sailing vessels that were the largest and most powerful of their time.

Long won fame by taking on the powerful Standard Oil Company, which he sued for unfair business practices.

After a three week siege, Rupert took the powerful fortress of La Bassée through quiet negotiations with the enemy commander — an impressive accomplishment, and one that won him favour in French court circles.

Palmerston's policy was triumphant, and the author of it had won a reputation as one of the most powerful statesmen of the age.

A notable feature of Graf's game was her versatility across all playing surfaces, having won each of the four Grand Slams at least four times, the only player to do so, and she is best known for her great footwork and for her powerful forehand drive.

Politically, the leader of a powerful clan won control over much of west Honshū and the northern half of Kyūshū and eventually established the Imperial House of Japan.

There, he allegedly won the friendship of a powerful chief, whom he cured of a disease, and his life was spared.

The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as " not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media ".

Pepper won a special election held in 1922, but was challenged by both Pinchot and Congressman William Scott Vare, the head of Philadelphia's powerful political machine.

Forming a powerful midfield partnership with French compatriot Emmanuel Petit, Vieira won the Premier League and FA Cup Double in 1998, his first full season at the club.

Smyslov won the 1942 Moscow Championship outright with a powerful 12 / 15.

Initially higly critical of the calling of the second Lambeth Conference ( 1878 ) he was won over by the experience, writing in his biography that, ' I feel I have learned much from the Pananglican and I see, too, that it is really an institution which will root itself and will ... exercise a powerful influence in the future of the Anglican Communion.

Although he was the only Farmer-Laborite in the Senate, he won appointment to the powerful Foreign Relations Committee.

He won at Havana 1967 with a powerful 15 / 19, ahead of a strong group which included Mark Taimanov, Smyslov, Polugaevsky, Gligoric, and Miroslav Filip.