So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

Ownership of the track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack, whilst passenger operations were franchised to individual private sector operators ( originally there were 25 franchises ) and the freight services sold outright ( six companies were set up, but five of these were sold to the same buyer ).

We just sold our farms and set out north-westwards to find a new home.

The highest auction record for the artist was set on November 6, 2007 at Christie's in New York, where a group of four paintings, " Les Quatre Saisons " ( the Four Seasons ) sold for $ 14, 601, 000 ( estimate $ 12, 000, 000-$ 18, 000, 000 ).

On February 22, 2010, a copy of Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) sold at auction from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer for $ 1 million, besting the $ 317, 000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year.

De ensomme ) set a new record for his prints when it was sold at an auction in Oslo for 8. 1 million NOK ( 1. 27 million US $).

On 3 November 2008, the painting Vampire set a new record for his paintings when it was sold for 38. 162 million US $ at Sotheby's New York.

This set marked the first time in history that a musician had signed an exclusive music distribution deal with a single retailer .< ref name =" newman "> The set sold more than 500, 000 physical copies on its issue date, proving that Brooks still had a large fan base.

As a result, Mattel Electronics set up a competing internal engineering team whose stated mission was to produce an inexpensive add-on called the BASIC Development System, or BDS, to be sold as an educational device to introduce kids to the concepts of computer programming.

His top auction price was $ 20. 8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et verres, until Christie's Imp / Mod sale in November 2010, when " Violon et guitare " sold for $ 28. 6 million.

Described as the first guitar Hendrix set fire to, another of his Stratocasters was sold at an auction for a record price in London two years later in 2008.

On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

The first DVD box set sold over 100, 000 copies in the first month of release, from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.

Single, natural pearls are often sold as a collector's item, or set as centerpieces in unique jewelry.

It was sold as Pentium with MMX Technology ( usually just called Pentium MMX ); although it was based on the P5 core, it featured a new set of 57 " MMX " instructions intended to improve performance on multimedia tasks, such as encoding and decoding digital media data.

Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.

Hi Infidelity sold over 10 million copies and set the bar for rock bands across the country.

The two faucets were probably sold as a coded set, but the code is unusable ( and ignored ) as there is a single water supply.

He obtained the exclusive right to sell newspapers on the road, and, with the aid of four assistants, he set in type and printed the Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold with his other papers.

The main rules were detailed in three such booklets, sold as a boxed set while the same format was used for early support material, such as the Adventures, Supplements and further Books.

The online retailer Tux Games at one point sold a box set including the Linux version.

On 28 January 1999, Volvo Group sold its business area Volvo Car Corporation to the Ford Motor Company for US $ 6. 45 billion, with the resulting group largely set on commercial vehicles.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

Hansen will be getting a late spring training start, which might very well set him back.

`` The Dictionary Of Occupational Titles '' published by the U. S. Department of Labor describes him as follows: `` Designs, plans and furnishes interiors of houses, commercial and institutional structures, hotels, clubs, ships, theaters, as well as set decorations for motion picture arts and television.

We have set up a central R & D department, as well as engineering-management departments -- about 80 people working on problems related to those of our plants.

In a set of case studies of teachers with various social-class backgrounds, Wattenberg illustrates a variety of approaches to students and to teaching which depend upon the teacher's personality as well as on his social-class background.

The plants along Route 128 are mostly well designed and nicely set against the New England rocks and trees.

The set of equations ( 5 ), ( 6 ), and the starting equation ( 7 ) is of a recursive type well suited to programming on the digital computer.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

The rangy, Albany ( Cal. ) native, a surprise slugging sensation for the Flock last year as well as a defensive whiz, set `` improved fielding '' as his 1961 goal.

This set his tone: richness of texture and color, and another kind of richness as well, for his clothing and decorations would have paid the Brush-off's rent for a year.

It contains 2800 proposed cognate sets, a set of sound laws based on those proposed sets, and a number of grammatical correspondences, as well as a few important changes to the reconstruction of Proto-Altaic.

The design is a burying variety, and once well set can develop high resistance.

On the other hand they perform relatively well with low rode scopes and set fairly reliably.

* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.

As such, the workers would have been well within their rights to protest, and subsequent government action would have been a set of criminal procedures designed to crush what was seen as a pivotal demonstration of the growing labor rights movement, strongly opposed by management.

It was from tribute paid to the league that Pericles set to building the Parthenon on the Acropolis, replacing an older temple, as well as many other non-defense related expenditures.

An elaborate set of stairs were built and the well served as an invaluable, protected source of drinking water during times of siege for some portion of the Mycenaean period.

ASCII included the distinction of upper and lower case alphabets and a set of control characters to facilitate the transmission of written language as well as printing device functions, such as page advance and line feed, and the physical or logical control of data flow over the transmission media.

The set started selling on eBay at very high prices, sometimes over $ 300 USD ; As well as fetching over $ 1000 USD in ' New ' condition on websites such as " Amazon. com ".

A search in the genomes of vertebrates turned up a set of analogous genes, which were found to play similar roles in the mouse biological clock — and therefore almost certainly in the human biological clock as well.

Typical examples of binary operations are the addition (+) and multiplication (×) of numbers and matrices as well as composition of functions on a single set.

Well-known communications protocols are Ethernet, a hardware and Link Layer standard that is ubiquitous in local area networks, and the Internet Protocol Suite, which defines a set of protocols for internetworking, i. e. for data communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host data transfer, and application-specific data transmission formats.

The Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ) character set contains 65 control codes, including all of the ASCII control codes as well as additional codes which are mostly used to control IBM peripherals.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.