* " My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done.

Jardine, in a letter to Verity's father, wrote: " Hedley has come through his first tour triumphantly, no mean feat to start with the stiffest tour, but particularly for a slow left-hander.

This stiffness is due to, among other things, the thickness and width of the basilar membrane, which along the length of the cochlea is stiffest nearest its beginning at the oval window, where the stapes introduces the vibrations coming from the eardrum.

However, the show's stiffest weekly competition came from CBS's newsmagazine 60 Minutes.

The stiffest resistance came from the Earl of Kent at La Réole, who managed to hold out for a few weeks before he too surrendered.

In 2008, Culberson faced his stiffest challenge to date in businessman Michael Skelly in the November 2008 election.

While this is not generally recognized, it was Pacini, rather than Donizetti, Mercadante or Bellini, who gave Rossini the stiffest competition in Italy during the 1820s.

Ousting the Danish leaders who recently conquered parts of England and provided some of the stiffest resistance to the Normans, and largely replacing the powerful English territorial magnates, while co-opting the most powerful of them, the Normans imposed a new political structure that is broadly termed " feudal " ( historians debate whether pre-Norman England should be considered a feudal government — indeed, the entire characterization of Feudalism is under some dispute ).

Buying a rod based solely on the modulus rating is a mistake because other factors must be considered, for example, if the fisherman does not want the stiffest rod for light line techniques or cranking.

In May 1990, he enacted the stiffest laws in the U. S. on owning or selling semi-automatic firearms.

There were, however, some special edition models, most notably the RS model of the 1987 model year, available only in white body color with pewter color trim, and featuring the stiffest suspension available on any Impulse, very close to the Irmscher suspension sold only in Japan.

This not only gave the new Cadillac the stiffest chassis on the market, but it was also 3 inches lower than other Cadillacs-with no sacrifice in headroom.

Of all the Central Asian peoples, the Turkmen put up the stiffest resistance against Russian expansion.

An Nasiriyah witnessed some of the heaviest fighting and some of the stiffest resistance against invading U. S. forces in 2003.

He was not entirely powerless, however -- during the Anschluss crisis, he provided some of the stiffest resistance ot the Nazi demands.

He repeatedly rode the winners over the stiffest steeplechase courses, including the Punchestown ( Ireland ) Grand National.

One consists of formal and partly sacred odes and cantatas of the stiffest character, of which perhaps the Ode a la fortune is the most famous ; the other of brief epigrams, sometimes licentious and always, or almost always, ill-natured.

The stiffest resistance to desegregation busing was the brief mass movement in Boston, Restore Our Alienated Rights.

It and the salmon shark are the thickest-bodied members of their family ( length-depth ratio approaching 4. 5 ), and consequently have the stiffest swimming style: they oscillate their tails while holding their bodies mostly rigid, which confers propulsive power with high energy efficiency, but at the cost of maneuverability.

He " was expected to give Moss his stiffest competition, but did not compete.

In the 2001 general election less than 50 % of voters voted for unionist parties for the first time in its history, but this has been attributed to a collapse in the vote for the small Progressive Unionist Party as well as to Smyth's fierce opposition to the Good Friday Agreement which is estimated to have sent many pro-Agreement unionist voters to vote tactically for the Social Democratic and Labour Party.

The opposition to this point of view has its staunchest support in the work of Miller ( '50 ).

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.

Chandrasekhar's work on the limit aroused controversy, owing to the opposition of the British astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington.

This attack was probably caused primarily by the hypocrisy of the organization and their personal opposition against his work, as seen in previous episodes in David's life.

His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and belief in democratic socialism.

Serious civil disturbances led to an agreement between the government and opposition factions to work toward a political settlement.

Serious civil disturbances, which were heavily respressed by the presidential guard, led to an agreement between the government and opposition factions to work toward a political settlement.

The objections to his work were occasionally fierce: Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a " grave disease " infecting the discipline of mathematics, and Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a " scientific charlatan ", a " renegade " and a " corrupter of youth.

However, his work encountered too much opposition for that to be possible.

In 1890, Cantor was instrumental in founding the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung and chaired its first meeting in Halle in 1891, where he first introduced his diagonal argument ; his reputation was strong enough, despite Kronecker's opposition to his work, to ensure he was elected as the first president of this society.

Numerous opposition leaders had been imprisoned, and some had reportedly been chained and put to work in the streets of Tegucigalpa.

In 2001, Finnish philosopher Pekka Himanen promoted the hacker ethic in opposition to the Protestant work ethic.

Moderate reformists who accept and work within the democratic process include the Justice and Development Party of Turkey, Tunisian author and reformer Rashid Al-Ghannouchi and Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Calvin encountered bitter opposition to his work in Geneva.

Some of the teachings of Schwenckfeld included opposition to war, secret societies, and oath-taking, that the government had no right to command one's conscience, that regeneration is by grace through inner work of the Spirit, that believers feed on Christ spiritually, and that believers must give evidence of regeneration.

The doctrines included the opposition to all metaphysics, especially ontology and synthetic a priori propositions ; the rejection of metaphysics not as wrong but as having no meaning ; a criterion of meaning based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's early work ; the idea that all knowledge should be codifiable by a single standard language of science ; and above all the project of rational reconstruction, in which ordinary-language concepts were gradually to be replaced by more precise equivalents in that standard language.

Schaeffer stated: " when I proposed the term ' musique concrète ,' I intended … to point out an opposition with the way musical work usually goes.

Because of this, Postmodern music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist, or postmodern, but not both.

Islamic political philosophy has a long history of opposition to absolute monarchy, notably in the work of Al-Farabi.

Germain published her prize-winning essay at her own expense in 1821, mostly because she wanted to present her work in opposition to that of Poisson.

The wide availability of high quality cryptography was disturbing to the US government, which seems to have been using a security through obscurity analysis to support its opposition to such work.

Ditheistic belief systems ( a kind of dualism ) explain the problem of evil from the existence of two rival great, but not omnipotent, deities that work in polar opposition to each other.

While the government and the now incorporated former opposition continue to distrust each other, they have often found a way to work with each other and are committed to peacefully resolving their differences.