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third and phase
The third phase, the " strategic offensive ", would see Massoud's forces taking control of large parts of Northern Afghanistan.
Cuyp ’ s third stylistic phase ( which occurred throughout his career ) is based on the influence of his father.
A third census, expected to take years to produce results, began on November 11, 2005, with a three-week interviewing phase.
Thus, the third phase of the war ( roughly August 1920 – July 1921 ) involved the IRA taking on a greatly expanded British force, moving away from attacking well defended barracks and instead using ambush tactics.
The focus of the third phase ( 2003 – 2008 ) is not yet clarified, but will require the completion of the indigenization process and the withdrawal of foreign economic support.
Upon the completion of the dikes, the third phase began by the digging of the actual waterway.
* Bids are invited for construction of a rail network in three phases: The first phase would be a double-track electrified coastal route from Masqat to Suhar ; the second phase would be an extension from Masqat to Daq ; the third phase an extension from Suhar to Al-Ayn ( in UAE ).
It also helps explain why the first phase of the layer's extinctions was land-based, the second was marine-based ( and starting right after the increase in C-12 levels ), and the third land-based again.
In the third phase stolons develop from lower leaf axils on the stem and grow downwards into the ground and on these stolons new tubers develop as swellings of the stolon.
In a system consisting of ice and water in a glass jar, the ice cubes are one phase, the water is a second phase, and the humid air over the water is a third phase.
In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War One, Steiner worked to establish various practical endeavors, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
* University of Washington – designed and built proportional counter tubes for detection of neutrons in the third phase of the experiment
After launch on a Delta 7925-8 ( a Delta II launch vehicle with nine strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 48 ( PAM-D ) third stage ) and exit from Earth orbit, NEAR entered the first part of its cruise phase.
The overall loop response is controlled by the two individual low-pass filters that precede the third phase detector while the third low-pass filter serves a trivial role in terms of gain and phase margin.
Obstacles in the first Fresnel zone will create signals that will be 0 to 90 degrees out of phase, in the second zone they will be 90 to 270 degrees out of phase, in third zone, they will be 270 to 450 degrees out of phase and so on.
In the third and final phase, beginning in March 1900, the Boers launched a protracted hard-fought guerrilla war against the British forces, lasting a further two years, during which the Boers raided targets such as British troop columns, telegraph sites, railways and storage depots.

third and Patterson's
A thin smile faded from Patterson's lips as the clerk read his third death sentence.

third and career
In 1908, Young pitched the third no-hitter of his career.
He was the third driver in NASCAR history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Cup Series championship in his career, joining David Pearson and Richard Petty.
Continuing the shakeup of the Red Wings roster, the offseason saw the departure of Brendan Shanahan and the return of Dominik Hasek, while Steve Yzerman announced his retirement after a 23-season Hall of Fame career with the Wings, having played the third most games in history ( behind fellow Wings Alex Delvecchio and Nicklas Lidström ) all with a single team.
He became South Africa's second youngest Test captain, after Murray Bisset in 1898-99, when he led the team for the third test at Adelaide but it was an unsuccessful start to his captaincy career as the series was squared.
Aaron is also in the top five for career hits with 3, 771 ( third ) and runs with 2, 174, which is tied for fourth with Babe Ruth.
On July 31, 1969, Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle ; this moved him into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.
On April 27, 1971, Aaron hit his 600th career home run, the third player ever to do so.
Toward the end of his career, he played about 2, 000 innings at third base and about 1, 175 innings in the outfield, excelling at both.
For the last three seasons of his career, Bench caught only 13 games and played mostly first base or third base.
Many of the team's highlights from this era instead centered around the end of Brett's career, such as his third and final batting title in 1990 – which made him the first player to win batting titles in three different decades – and his 3, 000th hit.
Dixit's role of a modern yet family-oriented young girl fetched her the third Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career.
* Early in his career, he hit 100 runs against the West Indies in 78 minutes, the third fastest Test century of all time ( in terms of minutes at the crease, not balls faced ) and the second fastest by an Australian.
The Barry Bonds era began auspiciously as Bonds put up the numbers for the third MVP of his career: 46 homers, 129 runs and 123 RBI, (. 336 BA,. 458 OBP,. 677 SLG, for a total of 1. 135 OPS ), all career highs.
The Steelers joined the Cowboys in their attempt to be the first team to ever win a third Super Bowl, after wins in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw had the best season of his career, completing 207 of 368 passes for 2, 915 yards and 28 touchdowns, with 20 interceptions.
The Giants ' defensive leader was Hall of Fame outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor who led the league with 20½ sacks during the regular season, won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award for the third time in his career, and became just the second defensive player to ever win the NFL Most Valuable Player Award.
At the 1999 World Championships, she lost the title again, finishing third, but in 2000 she won the only title missing in her career with a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney.
For the rest of Williams ' career, the Yankees won eight pennants and five World Series titles, while the Red Sox never finished better than third place.
Five times in his career, the first in 1907, Cobb reached first, stole second, stole third, and then stole home.
Mid-2004 saw the release of Christine's new solo album, In the Meantime, her third in a career spanning five decades.
The third inscription reveals the career of Marcianus, another leading general by the time that Gallienus died.
He then put his stage career on the back burner to concentrate on film, although he received a third Tony Award nomination when he reprised his Hamlet under John Gielgud's direction in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).
In March 2009 Jones went to the top of the UK Music Charts for the third time in his career thanks to a cover of " Islands in the Stream ", sung with Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon and Robin Gibb, who co-wrote the original with his brothers Barry and Maurice.
She finished the year ranked first for the third time in her career.

third and began
As the third round of the tournament began on Saturday and the duel was resumed in earnest, it was Player's superior aggressiveness that carried him into the lead.
Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome.
However, his public life began with the accession of his third brother, Æthelred of Wessex, in 866.
These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.
In October 1989, Holbrook began his second strip, Safe Havens, and his third strip, Kevin and Kell was launched in September 1995.
Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use the Finn songs.
The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.
Elements of Geology began as the fourth volume of the third edition of Principles: Lyell intended the book to act as a suitable field guide for students of geology.
Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.
The third wave began in the 1970s as land shortages intensified and the pool of educated labor greatly exceeded job openings in Nepal.
With the introduction of the third actor ( an innovation attributed to Sophocles ), acting also began to be regarded as a skill to be rewarded with prizes, requiring a long apprenticeship in the chorus.
After the Great Depression began, many people from across the political spectrum blamed laissez-faire capitalism, and fascists promoted their ideology as a " third way " between capitalism and communism.
This went through a third revision on December 4th, and then yet another on December 28th of that same year before it was met with approval and filming began.
Banks joined Stoke City and maintained his England place, while Shilton lost in Leicester's third FA Cup final of the 1960s ( the 1969 game against Manchester City ) and began to make his name.
The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.
Gender different peoples across the globe also formed minority rights movements – Hijra activists campaigned for recognition as a third sex in India and Travesti groups began to organize against police brutality across Latin America, while activists in the United States formed direct-confrontation groups such as Transexual Menace.
Next, was his third published novel, The Shining ( 1980 ), which was a sleeper at the box office, with mixed reviews, but eventually began to be considered a classic.
The horror film style has changed over time, but in 1996 Scream set off a " chain of copycats ", leading to a new variety of teenage, horror movies .< ref name = Stack > This new approach to horror films began to gradually earn more and more income as seen in the progress of Scream movies ; the first movie earned six million and the third movie earned one-hundred and one million.
According to some scholars, a third division, the Anthropocene, began in the 18th century.
In November 2007, a consultation process began for the building of a new third runway and a sixth terminal, which was controversially approved on 15 January 2009 by UK Government ministers.
In March 1832, one third of the group left the Society and some began following Bernhard Müller, who claimed to be the Lion of Judah.
Most of the English clergy were irritated by this encounter, and attacks upon Wycliffe began, finding their response in the second and third books of his work dealing with civil government.
Grimm then began a third edition, of which only one part, comprising the vowels, appeared in 1840, his time being afterwards taken up mainly by the dictionary.

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