Under the terms of the Bank of England Act 1998 ( which came into force on 1 June 1998 ), the bank's Monetary Policy Committee was given sole responsibility for setting interest rates to meet the Government's stated Retail Prices Index ( RPI ) inflation target of 2. 5 %.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States did not diminish its global ability to project force, remaining " the sole superpower " and what has been called a " unipolar " situation of domination by it globally came into force.

And, it asserts that Jesus came to both initiate and fulfill the promise of the covenant for those Gentiles whose sole connection to the covenant is through him.

Eventually the farmers grew to become the sole recognised inhabitants of the planet, and the era of Trantor as the central world of the galaxy came to a close.

When Louis of Bar died in 1430 René came into sole possession of his duchy, and in the next year, on his father-in-law's death, he succeeded to the duchy of Lorraine.

Some came into being when large estates and farmland were broken up for the sole purpose of suburban building: these include Blackfen, Lamorbey and part of Falconwood.

During the 70s, 80s Sesto created many hit songs and a great fortune, and almost every song came from his sole inspiration, being the author, interpreter, composer, and producer of all of his works.

In 1310, Bátor came into the sole possession of Briccius when he reached an agreement with his nephew Michael and his cousin Vid to divide the joint possessions.

A TR-808 was also David Byrne's sole accompaniment ( apart from his acoustic guitar ) at the beginning of Stop Making Sense ( 1984 ), prior to the gradual appearance of the rest of Talking Heads, although Byrne created the illusion that the sound came from, he said, " A tape I want to play ," on a boombox he brought onstage.

In 1962, strong opposition to the establishment of a London base for the RSC came from the Royal National Theatre which — led by Viscount Chandos and Laurence Olivier — wished to be the sole subsidized company operating in London.

One such developer was the Honourable William Dickson who, in 1816, came into sole possession of of land along the Grand River that was later to make up North and South Dumfries Townships.

The final moments of the old WNEW-FM came on September 12, 1999 ; sole remaining long-time jock Richard Neer signed off his Sunday morning show by playing Bruce Springsteen's elegiac dirge " Racing in the Street ", and identifying the station one last time, changing the slogan to " Where Rock Lived ".

Over the course of his life, Shinran read the Complete Sutras five times, and, as stated in his short book " Shoshinge " ( True Faith Hymn ), he came to the conclusion that Sakyamuni's appearance in this world was for the sole purpose of teaching Amida's Vow.

Once Theodosius came of age to rule as sole Emperor, according to many historians, the teachings of his sister had been ignored.

A fundamental part of ` Abdul-Bahá's teachings on evolution is the belief that all life came from the same origin: " the origin of all material life is one ..." He states that from this sole origin, the complete diversity of life was generated: " Consider the world of created beings, how varied and diverse they are in species, yet with one sole origin " He explains that a slow, gradual process led to the development of complex entities:

With the new agreement the entire central part of Poland, including the core ethnic area of the Poles came under sole German control.

Aristagoras next went to Athens, where he made a convincing speech, promising “ everything that came into his head, until at last he succeeded .” Won over, the Athenians sent ships to Ionia, and Aristagoras went before them with the sole intention of irritating Darius.

Chris Beebe on bass completed the lineup that released Lock Up's sole album on Geffen Records, Something Bitchin ' This Way Comes, which came out in 1989.

His sole failure to convert came on 24 March 1993 in a match against Nottingham Forest, his spot kick being saved by Forest keeper Mark Crossley, the feat being so unique that Crossley describes it as the save of which he is most proud.

Additional radars came under the command's control for the sole purpose of detecting, identifying, tracking and sending back to NORAD data on any SLBM.

According to Vorilhon, in a secluded area within a French volcanic crater, an extraterrestrial being came out of a craft that had descended gently from the sky, and told him, in French, that he had come for the sole purpose of meeting with him.

Creed also came to join the Upstarts, a group of wealthy and powerful individuals who had banded together by Selene and the enigmatic telepathic Gamesmaster with the sole purpose of killing mutants for points in a twisted game.

Promotion became rarer as the reserve sides of the bigger clubs such as and came to dominate ; Brechin City's victory in the North-East section in the 1953 – 54 season was the sole promotion achieved in the new format before its final season.

By the late 1960s Brown's poetry was renowned internationally, so that, for example, the American poet Robert Lowell came to Orkney for the sole purpose of meeting him.

When Delany married his first wife he acquired sole ownership, but it became famous as the home of Delany and his second wife-Mary Pendarves.

The idea of the two halves, the East and the West, re-emerged and eventually resulted in the permanent de facto division into two separate Roman empires after the death of Theodosius I ( though it is important to remember that the Empire was never formally divided, Emperors of East and West legally ruling as one imperial college until the fall of Rome's western empire left Byzantium, the " second Rome ", sole direct heir ).

For six years, Tamar was a co-ruler with her father upon whose death, in 1184, Tamar continued as the sole monarch and was crowned a second time at the Gelati cathedral near Kutaisi, western Georgia.

The plant was the sole assembly site for the second generation Lancia Ypsilon built between 2005 and 2011.

During the season, Häkkinen took six more podium finishes to add to his sole podium of 1993, including a second place in Belgium.

It was this experience that led the second Caliph Umar to say that all the good Umar did cannot stand as an equivalent to Abu Bakr's sole virtue of companionship with Muhammad at the Thawr cave.

Dominion, under its former corporate name Video Satellite Systems Inc., was actually the second from among the first nine companies to apply to the FCC for a high-power DBS license in 1981, and it was the sole surviving DBS pioneer from that first round of forward-thinking applicants until the sale of their license to EchoStar Communications Corporation in 2007 and departure from satellite distribution in 2008.

His catch in the first innings equalled Border's 156 and another in the second made him the sole owner of the record.

Due to Morroco's long history with French colonialism, alongside neighbouring countries including Algeria and Tunisia, sole French-medium education is very widespread, with Arabic being introduced and taught as a second language, as well as the study of a third language later on, usually either English, Spanish, or Italian ( in Libya ).

Contemporary signings, such as Slaughter & The Dogs and the pre-stardom Adam and the Ants ( whose sole single with Decca, Young Parisians, would later be a UK Top 10 hit on the back of the band's success at CBS ), were second division when compared to the likes of PolyGram, CBS, EMI, and newcomer Virgin's rosters of hitmakers.

The conductor and the sole passenger on the railway's second train, which was descending the mountain in the same tunnel from above the burning carriage, also died of smoke inhalation.

The second one, " Static ", aired on March 10, 1961 as episode 20 ; the third, " The Whole Truth ", appeared on January 20, 1961 as episode 14 ; the fourth was Twilight Zones sole Christmas entry, " The Night of the Meek ", shown as the 11th episode on December 23, 1960 ; the fifth, " Twenty Two ", was seen on February 10, 1961 as episode 17 and the last one, " Long Distance Call ", was transmitted on March 31, 1961 as episode 22.

On September 10, 1974, Brock stole two bases, tying Maury Wills ' mark of 104 with a first inning steal of second base and then capturing sole possession of the single season record with another swipe of second in the seventh inning.

Demetrius II Nicator remained sole ruler of the Seleucid Empire and became the second husband of Cleopatra Thea.

In fact, in Daniel 5: 7, 16, 29 Belshazzar implies that he is the second ruler in the kingdom, not the sole ruler ; and yet, he has sufficient power to make someone the third ruler in the kingdom.

Third baseman Juan Uribe, who switched positions from second base to start the seventh inning, committed an error on a ground ball, his first chance at third, that allowed Chase Headley to reach first — the latest an error has resulted in the sole baserunner in an otherwise perfect game.

The second son of Louis the Stammerer and his first wife, Ansgarde, he succeeded his father to reign jointly with his younger brother Carloman II, who became sole ruler on Louis's death.

At his death his estate was estimated to be $ 100 million ( USD ), ($ today ) divided equally among his three living children: second son Rodman Wanamaker, who was made sole inheritor of the store businesses ( Rodman died in 1928 leaving the businesses with a documented worth of $ 35 million

* In the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz ( later merged into present-day Saudi Arabia ), the sole Vizier was ( 10 June 1916-3 October 1924 ) the future second king Ali ibn Hussein al-Hashimi, under his father Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi ( the first to assume the title Malik, i. e. King, instead of Grand Sharif ), maintained after the assumption of the Caliphal style ( only 11 March 1924-3 October 1924 )

Led by outfielders Boo Moore and Ray Moon and pitchers Jeff Gregg, Brian Heil, David Holland and Eric Lovedahl, the team finished in second place in the league's sole season of existence.

The second Anglican Prayer Book, that of Edward VI in 1552, prescribed the surplice as, with the tippet or the academic hood, the sole vestment of the minister of the church at " all times of their ministration ", the rochet being practically regarded as the episcopal surplice.

The first, ' that it was, and is, the undoubted right of the commons … to prepare and resolve the ways and means of raising money ’ and the second, ‘ that it was, and is, the sole and undoubted right of the commons to prepare heads of bills for raising money '.

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

While some maintain that this doctrine is the opposite of " works ' righteousness " and conflicts with some of the aspects of the Roman Catholic doctrine of merit, it might be asserted that this article, taken at face value, conflicts in no way with Roman Catholic teaching ; while the doctrine that grace is truly and always a gift of God is held in agreement between both views, the difference in doctrine lies mainly in two facts: that of God as sole actor in grace ( in other words, that grace is always efficacious without any cooperation by man ), and second, that man cannot by any action of his own, acting under the influence of grace, cooperate with grace to " merit " greater graces for himself ( the latter would be the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church ).