In the most recent municipal election on November 3, 2009, Tony Allen was defeated in his bid for a fourth term as supervisor by Democrat Benjamin Bamford in a very close race.

Throughout the bidding process and leading up to the vote at the 117th IOC Session, Paris was widely seen as the favourite, particularly as its bid was the city's third in recent history ( previous bids being for 1992 and 2008 ).

The games were then offered to the other North American entry, Vancouver / Garibaldi, but political turmoil due to the recent change in government led to their bid being withdrawn as well, and in desperation the IOC returned the games to Innsbruck for a second time in a row.

The successful application to protect the Cornish pasty is another recent example ; with Ginsters of Cornwall central to the bid ( itself owned by the ‘ extra-local ’, Leicestershire-based Samworth Brothers – also makers of fellow PGS protected Melton Mowbray Pork Pies ).

Recently, a growing rift within the leadership of the party has emerged another faction within the ambit of the Muslim League calling themselves the ' Like-minded ' bloc, who are seriously opposed to the recent Chaudhry's of Gujrat leadership bid.

Its most recent king before the present monarch was King Olerve, who was shot with a crossbow by an assassin hired by the original Duke of Sto Helit, a thoroughly nasty man who staged a bid for the succession, thwarted only by Mort in Mort.

Under the name " Lico Reyes " he has appeared in movies, commercials and a variety of political campaigns, the most one recent being a bid to get elected to the United States House of Representatives as the candidate of the Democratic Party in Texas District 26.

His 2010 bid for reelection was fraught with legal doubts, as a recent federal statute ( Complementary Law 135 / 2010, commonly known as Lei Ficha Limpa or " Clean Record Act ") allowed electoral courts to refuse to register the candidacies of people already found guilty by a higher, collegiate court ( possibility of further appeals notwithstanding ); however, as the Brazilian STF decided in March 2011 that the " Clean Record Act " didn't apply to the 2010 elections, according to the principle of anteriority ( no offence being punished when defined by a non-previously existing law, and a Brazilian electoral law must be in force at least a year before the election is held ), all charges against Maluf's registration and subsequent office-taking were eventually dropped.

Cowan recently quit from Marc Emery's Pot TV, citing recent events i. e.: The DEA extradition bid against Emery in late 2005, for selling cannabis seeds to Americans over the internet.

Conventional wisdom used to assert that a LIBID rate could be calculated by subtracting a fixed amount ( often given as ⅛th of 1 %) from the prevailing BBA LIBOR rate, however this is no longer the case as bid / offer spreads have tightened in recent years.

At a recent presentation of the England bid to key football administrators in which he was given just 12 minutes to make the case for the bid, Dein joked that " the last time I did it in 12 minutes I was 18 years old ".

Kyzer's most recent bid for parole was denied on August 3, 2010, with 3, 371 years remaining on his sentence, and he will be eligible again in 2015.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

The recent experiments in the new poetry-and-jazz movement seen by some as part of the `` San Francisco Renaissance '' have been as popular as they are notorious.

Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

-- The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children wishes to commend the recent announcement by the Catholic charities of the archdiocese of Chicago and DePaul University of the establishment of the Institute for Special Education at the university for the training of teachers for physically handicapped and mentally retarded children.

A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

A further possibility is suggested by the example of the G. I. bills and also by some recent trends in attitudes toward improving college education: that is to provide financial assistance to individuals for vocational training when local facilities are inadequate.

The 2% increase in retail sales in October to a 4-month high is encouraging in this connection as well as the most recent consumer survey by the National Industrial Conference Board, which shows a decided pickup in consumer spending plans.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

No meteorites have ever been recovered from paleoexplosion craters, and recent craters containing impact glass have all been produced by metallic meteorites with the exception of Aouelloul crater, Adrar, Western Sahara Desert.

`` All too frequently '', points out James O'Gara, managing editor of Commonweal, `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter, by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and, particularly, by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades ''.

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

In recent decades Toronto has emerged as a leader on progressive gay and lesbian policy in North America.

The Toronto Star has been profitable in most recent years.

One exception in recent years resulted from Toronto mayor Mel Lastman's request for military assistance following a snow storm in 1999, whereby 300 reservists were activated to assist in snow removal after the Ontario government acceded ; this deployment was deemed by the Canadian government to be a trivialization of the military's emergency response role and the requesting authority was billed accordingly.

The studio's most recent completed projects include the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington, Kentucky, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario.

The most recent ( 2009 ) was as co-recipient of the William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations from the City of Toronto for his outstanding achievements and commitment in making a distinct difference in racial relations in Toronto.

Although the Toronto – Montreal line is double tracked throughout its length ( a rarity in Canada ), the high volume of freight traffic on the line in recent years has reduced the percentage of passenger trains that arrive on time.

It was formed by local residents to oppose expansion on the grounds of increased air and noise pollution, safety concerns and that the increase in air traffic will hamper recent government initiatives to rejuvenate the Toronto waterfront.

Specific programs are also run by the association, including those that permit recent graduates to volunteer as mentors to students, and Old Boy reunions are set up around the world by the association's fifteen branches outside of Toronto: Calgary, Halifax, Kingston, London, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver in Canada ; Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco in the United States ; London in the United Kingdom ; Hong Kong in China ; and Budapest in Hungary.

Her most recent shows include " New Paintings and Works on Paper " at the Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto, Canada ( May / June 2012 ) and Inside Light at the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, Canada ( May / June 2011 ).

His most recent film is Moving Day, released in Toronto and Halifax on July 20, 2012.

For planning purposes the neighbourhood is known officially by the City of Toronto as " Kingsway South " to differentiate it from a more recent extension of The Kingsway north of Dundas Street.

With a 33. 3 % unemployment rate in youth aged 15 – 19 ( City of Toronto, 2006 ), the Blake-Jones corridor of Riverdale has seen an increase in crime within recent years.

Toronto Pride Week has not been without controversy, as the growth of the event in recent years has led to questions about whether it has become an overly commercial enterprise at the mercy of its sponsors and business interests.

In recent years housing prices in Parkdale have caught up with much of the rest of Toronto.

His most recent feature film, Glorious 39, starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy and Julie Christie, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009 and was released in the UK that November.

The AEA came into being when John Alexander Douglas McCurdy and his friend Frederick W. " Casey " Baldwin, two recent engineering graduates of the University of Toronto, decided to spend the summer in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

In a more recent example, according to a report issued by the commission for public complaints against the RCMP, at the 2010 G20 summit held in Toronto, at least two plainclothes police officers posing as protesters were among those arrested, suggesting that the tactic has been employed on more than one occasion in Canada.

A well known landmark on the Toronto skyline, one of its attractions was said to be its spectacular view overlooking the vast expanse of Lake Ontario, seems to have been lost to the recent condominium development of Harbourfront.

Segal's most recent book is The Long Road Back: The Conservative Journey, 1993-2006 ( Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006 ).

His most recent campaign was for Mayor of Toronto in 2006.

In recent years, CBUT, as with all CBC-owned stations, had de-emphasized local programming in favour of network programming out of Toronto.