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Jones had been about a hundred and fifty feet from her when he first broke through to the top of the Reef.
The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as `` an inferior man ''.
In practice the operating system ROMs always put the screen into the top 24 KB and as a result this probably only broke compatibility with around 2 % of software.
Thus the castrati came to supplant both boys ( whose voices broke after only a few years ) and falsettists ( whose voices were weaker and less reliable ) from the top line in such choirs.
In 2002 he became the only driver in Formula One history to finish in the top three in every race of a season and then also broke the record for most consecutive podium finishes.
He then turned his attention to the top of the mound, broke through and, over a period of a few days, emptied the main chamber of material that had filled it completely.
In the early 2000s, it broke into the top 10 of varieties planted worldwide for the first time.
McCauley abandoned the score after one of Adamson's officers, positioned on the top floor of a building McCauley and his crew were breaking into, broke protocol to go to the toilet.
There was an earthquake, tombs broke open, and the curtain in the Temple was torn from top to bottom.
Moments after kick-off a crush barrier broke and fans began to fall on top of each other.
) Secretariat broke last, but gradually moved up on the field in the backstretch, then overtook Sham at the top of the stretch, pulling away to win the Derby by 2 lengths.
The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8. 1 million viewers in the U. S. It scored an 86-date concert tour, and was on the top 10 tours of 2006 ; the tour broke a record at the Houston Rodeo that was set by Elvis Presley in 1973.
As I was kneeling on top of the platform, it broke and the faucets came crashing down on my finger and cut it off.
December 1969's " Hold On " broke the run of top 40 US singles for the Rascals, stalling at # 51, as well as the run of Canadian top tens, peaking at # 22.
* July 2 – Michael Jackson with fifth single from Bad, " Dirty Diana ", he broke the record to have five consecutive charting singles from same album at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, is the first artist and only male in history to get this done.
Her ranking broke into the top 100 on April 14, 1997.
On September 8, 1997, her ranking broke into the top 50 for the first time.
On March 30, 1998, her ranking broke into the top 10 for the first time, at World No. 10.
It broke the top 40 in both the UK and USA.
In February 1992 the band broke into the UK top 10 with " Leave Them All Behind ", and the following month saw the release of the band's second album Going Blank Again.
No Angels broke records for becoming the " first act to ever debut at the top position in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland with both its debut single and debut album.
To impress DeLonge, Hoppus climbed to the top of a streetlight outside of DeLonge's home – however, he broke both ankles on the way down, resulting in being in crutches for the next few weeks.
Despite lacking a significant hit, it broke the top 40 in both the UK and USA.
His final Virgin album Junction Seven also broke the UK top 40, but was Winwood's first commercial flop in the USA.
top and perfectly
In the case of a toy top, if the axis is not perfectly vertical, the torque is applied by the force of gravity tending to tip it over.
This means that the top of the tower is displaced horizontally from where it would be if the structure were perfectly vertical.
The initial structures at the base of the hill were perfectly circular: surveying reveals that the centre of the flat top and the centre of the cone that describes the hill lie within a metre of one another.
In the latter case, Devereux hypothesises that ripe cereal crops grown on the intervening hill would perfectly cover the upper portion of Silbury, with the top of the corn and the top of Silbury coinciding.
From the top of this tower, one can see that the AVUS is not perfectly straight.
A music review in the 13 April 2009 edition of The Independent newspaper, described the performance as a " glorious night that has placed one of the Eighties ' most perfectly constructed albums back near the top of the pop pantheon ".
Their heads are perfectly flat on top, with large green eyes sitting on them.
With a constant speed, and with the Levitron perfectly level, the Levitron top can spin for longer periods of time.
This would give a meaning of " the bare hill top shaped like a chair ", which perfectly describes the topography of the hill.
She was also one of the characters featured in UGO's 2008 list of top 11 spies in all media, stating she " perfectly captures the swinging spy style ".
This decision fit perfectly because his first preference was for the new name to start with " A " so it would appear at the top of all directories.
A piece of carpet was also laid on top of his back underneath his jacket, which was laid perfectly on his back.
* Page 13 of The Division Bells CD booklet contains an anagram of the word " enigma ", hidden in third column from the right of the top verse of the lyrics to Wearing the Inside Out, perfectly aligned with the page number " jyusan ".
It may be the case that the values are perfectly precise ( neither top nor bottom ) and hence, abstract execution can decide in which direction to branch.
Denman also is situated near Mount Rombo, a hill that has an unusual geometric shape causing to look like it has a perfectly flat top if it is viewed from Mangoola Road, a road that branches off the Golden Highway.
It was in fact twice the height it had first appeared, its sides perfectly sheer to the ground, its top flat and grassy.
On top of this, she is able to use remote psychokinesis on such a level that she is able to mimic the complex symptoms of the fairy disease Spelltropy perfectly, fooling even Foaly's sensors into believing Artemis ' mother has actually contracted the disease.
That the three players tied at the top of the goalscorers list-Matthew Clare, Luke Ibbetson and Avneet Shergill-scored just two goals each highlighted perfectly the team's main problem.
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