As she gained composure during the second act, her technical resourcefulness emerged stronger, though she had already revealed a trill almost unprecedented in years of performances of `` Lucia ''.

There is a fine second act, as an example, one in which Samuel Groom, as Dillon, has an opportunity to blaze away in one impassioned passage after another.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

At its second reading, if the Parliament approves the text or does not act, the text is adopted, otherwise the Parliament may propose further amendments to the Council's proposal.

The National Telecommunications act in the second period of Estonian independence granted a Monopoly on international and local fixed line telephony to Estonian Telecom ( Eesti Telecom ).

If Pierre takes a second bite, it is not caused by his pleasure from the first ; If Pierre says, " That was good, so I will take another bite ", his speech act is not caused by the preceding pleasure.

" Beauchamp & Davidson also highlight Baruch Brody's " an act of euthanasia is one in which one person ... ( A ) kills another person ( B ) for the benefit of the second person, who actually does benefit from being killed ".

:" One thing I believe I can assure you: that of my works will certainly endure the second act of Guglielmo Tell, the third act of Otello, and all of il Barbiere di Seviglia.

A second German force was sent into Belgium and the Netherlands to act as a diversion to this main thrust.

The second is to promote, as a deliberate act of Government policy, creativity and the dissemination and application of its results and to encourage fair trading which would contribute to economic and social development.

As a reward for his act of faith in one God, he was promised that Isaac, his second son, would inherit the Land of Israel ( then called Canaan ).

In 1816, Congress passed another bill to charter a second national bank ; Madison signed the act, having learned the bank was needed from the war with Britain.

This put both Belle & Sebastian and Jeepster firmly on the map, and enabled them to release several EPs with Belle & Sebastian throughout 1997, as well as signing their second act, Snow Patrol, later in the year.

The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of an Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again.

King Arthur does attempt to fulfil this quest in the second act until the Lady of the Lake tells him that he is already in a musical.

The Romanian composer George Enescu uses the musical saw at the end of the second act of his opera Œdipe to express the death of the sphinx killed by Oedipus.

This act led to his engagement by Val Parnell to appear in the Starlight Roof revues starring Vic Oliver, where he met and married his second wife Clementina, with whom he had four children.

Thus C1 restores its charge and prepares for the next State 1 when it will act again as a time-setting capacitor ... and so on ... ( the next explanations are a mirror copy of the second part of Step 1 ).

The final song he wrote was " Edelweiss ", which was added during rehearsals near the end of the second act.

To end all British claims, a second act of annexation by the U. S. Government was made in 1911.

Because fifteen days can separate the first and second rounds of a presidential election, this means that the President of the Senate can only act as President of the Republic for a maximum period of fifty days.

) The first act was called for, owing to an alarm, lest plague should be imported from Poland and the Baltics ; the second act of 1721 was due to the disastrous prevalence of plague at Marseille and other places in Provence, France ; it was renewed in 1733 owing to a fresh outbreak of the malady on the continent of Europe, and again in 1743, owing to the disastrous epidemic at Messina.

* 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.

When the second novel, Dune Messiah, opens, Muad ’ Dib ’ s religion has sent his fanatical soldiers on an interstellar jihad, destroying the traditional structures of government and leaving billions dead.

In Ghent it opens with the OdeGand City festivities that takes place on the second Saturday of September.

* 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.

* 1954 – Frandor Mall opens – first in the area, and second in the state.

Wigner's friend is a variant on the experiment with two external observers: the first opens and inspects the box and then communicates his observations to a second observer.

The issue here is, does the wave function " collapse " when the first observer opens the box, or only when the second observer is informed of the first observer's observations?

* 1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

* April 19 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, a musical play based on Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.

** The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.

** The second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, opens in the UK.

* May 14 – The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris ( as part of the Paris World Exhibition ).

* May 23 – The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles.

** Extended portion of Sanyo Shinkansen between Okayama Station and Hakata Station opens, thus making Shinkansen reaching second island, Kyushu, Japan.

** In Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney World opens the second largest theme park, EPCOT Center, to the public for the first time.

The underground segment opens up to a room representing the rainforest understory, which leads to a second room representing the canopy.

The second collection opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's " assertion that there were only ' Four Hundred ' people in New York City who were really worth noticing.

The second of these essays opens with the striking remark,

Focal-plane shutters are also difficult to synchronise with flash bulbs and electronic flash and it is often only possible to use flash at shutter speeds where the curtain that opens to reveal the film completes its run and the film is fully uncovered, before the second curtain starts to travel and cover it up again.

* 1912: Horn & Hardart opens a second Automat in Manhattan

The second book opens with the election of Otto the Great as German king, treats of the risings against his authority, again omitting events in Italy, and concludes with the death of his first wife Edith of England in 946.

A contrast agent is injected into the parotid duct, which opens from the cheek into the vestibule of the mouth opposite the neck of the upper second molar tooth.

When Gwydion later opens the chest he discovered the lump of flesh to be a second child.

Some time later, he hears screams from within the chest, and opens it to discover a second baby boy.