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The unexpected vacancy in Venice opened the way for the elevation of Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII.
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Farrington was elected to the United States Congress in a special election to fill a vacancy left by her husband's unexpected death.
In 1988, following the unexpected death of Mayor Harold Washington, Burke was one of several candidates who sought to fill the vacancy in the Chicago mayor's office.
Knox-who had been called on to return to Oxford but was unenthusiastic-proposed the merger to the Archbishop of Birmingham as a solution to the unexpected vacancy he was being asked to fill ; as a confident Evelyn Waugh would later put it, Knox " was the author of the temporary amalgamation, which persists to this day.
unexpected and Venice
Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.
He was defeated the following year, but this unexpected event, as it is explained in a contemporary source, encouraged Venice and Hungary to renew their war on the Ottomans, and Moldavia to free herself from any Ottoman influence.
unexpected and opened
Londoners nicknamed the bridge the " Wobbly Bridge " after participants in a charity walk on behalf of Save the Children to open the bridge felt an unexpected, and, for some, uncomfortable, swaying motion on the first two days after the bridge opened.
Nevertheless computers and real time computing made the task easier and opened the field of virtuality-the potential emergence of unexpected ( although possibly pre-written ) futures-to contemporary arts.
After he had passed his 80th year, the success of the intrigue of Aelia Eudoxia, queen of emperor Arcadius, and Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, against Chrysostom opened an unexpected way for his elevation to the archiepiscopal throne.
Despite damage caused by storms and unexpected costs from the city of Toronto, the company survived and opened its first show in its new location on October 23, 2009.
The original production of Bye Bye Birdie opened to mostly positive reviews, with several critics marveling at the unexpected success of a musical crafted by an inexperienced production team.
* According to Ulkesh, Sheridan opened an unexpected door on Z ' ha ' dum.
A month later, in December, they caught Ernie O ' Malley completely by surprise in County Kilkenny: the IRA officer was reading in his room when a Temporary Cadet opened the door and walked in ; " He was as unexpected as death ," said O ' Malley.
The Series opened in unexpected fashion as unheralded catcher Gene Tenace of the A's hit a home run in each of his first two at-bats, leading Oakland.
Gable's performance as Rance Brett, an unshaven former criminal who does not feel sorry about the crimes he has committed, made him an important supporting actor overnight as the result of an avalanche of unexpected fan mail and opened the door for him to become " The King of Hollywood " during the 1930s.
He also asserts that the novel was born out of an attempt to write a story about a woman ( an idea he credits to Kathy Acker ) since his previous books had been about " men who found life a task they never doubted until an unexpected collision opened their eyes and changed their habits.
Liverpool was opened by Frank Oliveri, the mayor of Liverpool at the time, and ran until its sudden and unexpected closure in 1989.
The year opened with an unexpected 3-1 defeat to expansion franchise Springfield Demize, and went from bad to worse, with a loss ( to St. Louis Lions ) and a tie in their next three games.
unexpected and way
* Orbits precess in a way unexpected in Newton's theory of gravity.
Even more unexpected than the panoply of Indo-European cognates for Dao ( drog ) is the Hebrew root d-r-g for the same word and Arabic t-r-q, which yields words meaning " track, path, way, way of doing things " and is important in Islamic philosophical discourse.
Murgen searches for a way to free the 4000 men trapped within, and eventually finds it, shattering the Tain, at which point Soulblighter flees, startled by the unexpected destruction of the powerful artifact.
If the branch goes the unexpected way, the compiler has already generated compensatory code to discard speculative results to preserve program semantics.
Dancing modern Western square dance is constantly challenging and surprising due to the unknown or unexpected choreography of the caller ( that is, the way the caller ties together the " calls " and the formations which result )— unlike traditional square dance, very rarely are two modern Western dances ever alike.
Transporting crowns in soil removed from a kudzu infestation is one common way that kudzu " miraculously " spreads and shows up in unexpected locations.
Means of transport, however, were not forthcoming, and the two travellers eventually found their way to Madrid, where the unexpected patronage of the minister Don Mariano Luis de Urquijo convinced them to make Spanish America the scene of their explorations.
Some of it is shoddy and gross and cruel ; the rest is funny in an entirely unexpected way.
This reflects the role of a coroner: to determine the cause of death of a deceased in cases where the death was sudden, unexpected, occurred abroad, was suspicious in any way, or happened while the person was under the control of central authority ( e. g., in police custody ).
" Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote " An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance, ' Jerry Maguire ' runs an unusual pattern on its way to scoring an unexpected number of emotional, social and entertaining points.
Shadbolt often has a way of seeming to say one thing and then coming back at you with something totally unexpected.
Exception handling is one language feature designed to handle runtime errors, providing a structured way to catch completely unexpected situations as well as predictable errors or unusual results without the amount of inline error checking required of languages without it.
The digital scheme allows that conversion ratio to be adjusted, without stopping the clock, if the length of the day changes in an unexpected way.
The colon has distension sensors that can tell when there is unexpected gas pushing the colon walls out — thus the " second brain " tells the person that he or she is having intestinal difficulties by way of the sensation of nausea.
But before they can reach their objective they encounter an unexpected obstacle standing in their way.
This particular method does not take into account any unexpected events ( such as new wind directions ) which may occur on the way to the flight's destination.
On their way out Bobby's father, Roberto, makes an unexpected appearance, telling him that he heard from ESPN that he may go to the NFL.
* Back for Christmas — A man plots a foolproof way to murder his wife, but the murder is exposed because of an unexpected gift she left for him to find.
His arrangements ( many already well known to some listeners from their original cabaret, concert hall or Broadway stage arrangements ) revealed aspects of the music in a wholly original way, sometimes in an unexpected contrast to the original atmosphere of the piece, and sometimes taking a dark ballad such as Weill's " Barbara Song " into an even darker place.
The film paved the way for many later stalker films ( such as Fatal Attraction ), particularly those with a psychotic female antagonist, and also those where the villain made an unexpected return.
The Pyrrhic victory of British arms in India was a quiet embarrassment which played a small but critical role in the nascent scramble for Africa ; in this way, Lytton and his war helped shape the contours of the 20th century in dramatic and unexpected ways.
He resigned on March 19, 2008 in an unexpected move, saying that he wanted to make way for " new people.
Various non-living substances were successfully sent through and retrieved, but when a common rat was inserted into the portal, it activated the artifact in an unexpected way: the device immediately teleported itself, as well as all matter in a 2000 kilometer wide radius around it, to the planet Morgana Prime.
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`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.
When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.
There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.
It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.
The vast, dungeon kitchens may seem hardly worth using except on occasions when one is faced with a thousand unexpected guests for lunch.
And, for all his lacquered, almost Byzantine self-consciousness, he can make one recognize the aptness of an unexpected comparison.
Saladin's rise to Sultan was an unexpected reprieve for Jerusalem, as Nur ad-Din was now preoccupied with reining in his powerful vassal.
Roma returned to form after being inconsistent for much of the late 1930s ; Roma recorded an unexpected title triumph in the 1941 – 42 season by winning their first ever scudetto title.
Berg had interrupted the orchestration of Lulu because of an unexpected ( and financially much-needed ) commission from the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner for a Violin Concerto ( 1935 ).
Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.
Though some explain Housman's unexpected failure in his final exams as a result of Jackson's rejection, most biographers adduce a variety of reasons, indifference to philosophy, overconfidence in his praeternatural gifts, a contempt for inexact learning, and enjoyment of idling away his time with Jackson, conjoined with news of his father's desperate illness as the more immediate and germane causes.
Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").
:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.
High levels of lateral support are useful for activities where lateral motion is undesirable and unexpected.
He stressed the dialectical interaction of diverse factors, noting how unexpected developments unfolding under the " fog of war " ( i. e., in the face of incomplete, dubious, and often completely erroneous information and high levels of fear, doubt, and excitement ) call for rapid decisions by alert commanders.
The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).
His two chief works are valuable for the numerous quotations from the works of earlier authors, which are otherwise lost, and for the surprising lore, which offers unexpected glimpses into the Greco-Roman world-view.
Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.
They frequently used unexpected strategies, engaging in what modern generals would call psychological warfare — waiting for the enemy to be paralyzed with terror and then attacking them suddenly ; distracting the enemy with a small group of soldiers, etc.
The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $ 245. 7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
An unexpected olive branch came from King George V, who, in a speech in Belfast called for reconciliation on all sides, changed the mood and enabled the British and Irish Republican governments to agree to a truce.
Commercial players have come down in price, though, and some unexpected devices ( including the Sega Saturn video game console and XBMC Media Center on the Xbox 1 ) can decode the graphics ; in fact, karaoke machines, including video and sometimes recording capability, are often popular electronics items for sale in toy stores and electronics stores.
Some people have suggested that contraception may influence the desire for sex by women, by decreasing the anxiety level from an unexpected pregnancy.
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