In the Synchronistic Kinglist he is listed beside his Babylonian counterpart, Eulmaš-šakin-šumi ( 1004 – 988 BC ) of the Bῑt-Bazi dynasty, an unlikely pairing reflecting perhaps the isolation of the two kingdoms at the time.

Vote pairing allows a person to electorally support a candidate that is unlikely to win an election, without inadvertently preventing the election of another candidate that they would otherwise prefer.

Oury envisaged a further reunion of the two comics in his film La Folie des grandeurs, but Bourvil's death in 1970 led to the unlikely pairing of de Funès with Yves Montand in this film.

The unlikely pairing of the erratic but popular Field Marshal Blücher as Commander in Chief with Lieutenant General von Gneisenau as his Chief of Staff showed this system to its best advantage.

Originally, critics of the soap opera genre panned the unlikely pairing.

This unlikely pairing arose from their mutual love for jazz.

Despite the extremely unlikely pairing, Tracy drugs Roy by slipping Rohypnol into his drink at Peter Barlow ( Chris Gascoyne ) and Shelley Unwin ( Sally Lindsay )' s wedding reception, takes him home and claims to have slept with him.

Guest vocalists on the song included the unlikely pairing of Kemo the Blaxican ( of Latin hip-hop legends Delinquent Habits ) and Loren Sklamberg of Grammy-winning klezmer band The Klezmatics.

And for many years he called Chicago Bears football on WGN-AM radio, in an unlikely and entertaining pairing with the famous Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist Irv Kupcinet.

It was deemed unlikely that a homosexual pairing on a soap opera would be successful, but fan reaction to the Bianca and Frankie pairing was unprecedented.

The most unlikely pairing … to come completely from left field.

When it became clear that Li was unlikely to accept Mao's terms, the Communists issued an ultimatum in April 1949, warning that they would resume their attacks if Li did not agree within five days.

Although the automaker announced two days later that it had been approached with new offers, by April 2010, any sale became unlikely, as inventory was depleted and Hummer dealerships began shutting down.

Despite Henry taking a second wife, Queen Adeliza, it became increasingly unlikely that Henry would have another legitimate son and instead he looked to Matilda as his intended heir.

After the election, Willkie became a fervent internationalist and an unlikely ally of Roosevelt.

After it became obvious that George VI was unlikely to father more children, the option of bestowing the title of Princess of Wales was considered ( but ultimately rejected, due in large part to a lack of enthusiasm for the idea from the heiress presumptive herself ).

It is not unlikely that he became a teacher of rhetoric and that he brought pupils into court with him.

Due to the efforts of Governor McLane, the State of New Hampshire along with Portsmouth and its citizens became the unlikely host for the first international treaty to be signed in the United States.

Miller argues that Alexander's suggestion in 1969 that the reporter became confused, and introduced elements from other plays is unlikely, and instead suggests an adapter at work ( whom he refers to as the ' compiler '), writing in the romantic comedy tradition ; " the most economic explanation of indebtedness is that whoever compiled A Shrew borrowed the lines from Shakespeare's The Shrew, or a version of it, and adapted them.

Despite Henry taking a second wife, Queen Adeliza, it became increasingly unlikely that Henry would have another legitimate son and instead he looked to Matilda as his intended heir.

As sewage, industrial wastewater and urban runoff flowed freely into the river from the surrounding city, the Charles River became well known for its high level of pollutants, gaining such notoriety that by 1955, Bernard DeVoto wrote in Harper's Magazine that the Charles was " foul and noisome, polluted by offal and industrious wastes, scummy with oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water.

Although he was of the staunch republican tradition that rejected partition, by the time he became Taoiseach Lemass had sharply moderated his views, recognizing that partition was unlikely to end in the foreseeable future and that the Republic was better served by disposing of the issue.

Towards the end of the 1960s it became increasingly clear that rail closures were not producing the promised savings or bringing the rail system out of deficit and were unlikely ever to do so.

However, following the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, Israel's position in Beirut became untenable and the signing of a peace treaty became increasingly unlikely.

What became known as the submachine gun had its genesis in World War I, developed around the concepts of infiltration and fire and movement, specifically to clear trenches of enemy soldiers when engagements were unlikely to occur beyond a range of a few feet.

A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road ( the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway ) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time.

Although Rocker is unlikely to have grasped all of the political and philosophical implications of what he read, he became a socialist and regularly discussed his ideas with others.

When it became apparent that the couple were unlikely to have a son, Queen Victoria renamed Alexander Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1900, giving the second dukedom of Fife a special remainder in default of male issue to the Duke's daughters and their agnatic male descendants.

Manara's reputation for producing comics that revolve around elegant, beautiful women caught up in unlikely and fantastical erotic scenarios became solidified with work such as ( 1983, also known as Click or Le Déclic ), about a device which renders women helplessly aroused, ( 1986, Butterscotch ), introducing the heroine Miele ( Honey ) and a sweet-smelling body-paint which makes the wearer invisible, and Candid camera ( 1988, Hidden Camera ) featuring the same protagonist in further explicit adventures.

The great majority ultimately became independent farmers and farm wives, a status they were unlikely to reach in Europe.

But in 1890 Griffith suddenly betrayed his radical friends and became Premier again at the head of an unlikely alliance with McIlwraith, the so-called " Griffilwraith ".

It's worth to be noticed that as a result of The Partitions of Poland at the end of 18th and splitting the country in three parts divided between three, Polish neighbours, in 19th century region of Konin became a part of Russia ( unlikely to the rest of Greater Poland being itself the part of Prussia ).

However, following the transit agency's later decision to build a new bridge for the Milwaukie MAX line, which bridge could also be used by the Portland Streetcar, it became unlikely that rail cars will ever again cross the Hawthorne Bridge.

A subculture of teenage girls in Germany began to emulate her style of dress and to hang around the Bahnhof Zoo station, which became an unlikely tourist attraction.

Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.

Others prefer to follow common popular usage, arguing that the positive form is confusing and unlikely to become widespread in the general public.

As Hamlet was very popular, Bernard Lott, the series editor of New Swan, believes it " unlikely that he would have overlooked ... so significant a piece ".

* Rather unlikely but very popular is the connection to a dragon saga ( see Lindworm ) and the connection with the monastery of Saint George the “ Dragon Slayer ” founded in Limburg.

However for various reasons the numbers of electors in favour of each candidate are unlikely to be proportional to the popular vote.

Some systems are even more likely to lead to a two-party outcome: for example, elections in Gibraltar use a partial block vote system in a single constituency, so the third most popular party is unlikely to win any seats.

The Slavic, or Croatian origin, although popular in Slavic sources, is unlikely.

* The Uffington White horse is often presented as an image of Epona in popular works on Neopaganism, based on stylistic similarity with horses depicted on Iron Age British and Gaulish coinage, although the dating makes this very unlikely.

Mai is the modern Welsh name for the month of May, leading to the popular speculation that the name means " Hawk of May ," but this derivation is unlikely.

Those who pepper their sentences with “ notwithstandings ” and “ heretofores ” and become over excited when discussing dialectical materialism are unlikely to gain much popular support.

By this time, Johnson had become inextricably defined by Vietnam, and this demonstration of divided support within his party meant his reelection ( only four years after winning the highest percentage of the popular vote in modern history ) was unlikely.

Also on the self-titled release was their first hit " Closer To Fine " ( an unlikely collaboration with Irish band Hothouse Flowers ), which scored # 52 on the popular music chart and # 26 on the modern rock chart.

" These works inspired a widespread popular fear of this appalling but unlikely event.

Electronic publishers are able to provide quick gratification for late-night readers, books that customers might not be able to find in standard book retailers ( erotica is especially popular in eBook format ), and books by new authors that would be unlikely to be profitable for traditional publishers.

This reciprocal nature of interpersonal popularity is often overlooked by people ( particularly the young ) who are attempting to become popular: being loud may be successful in gaining attention, but is unlikely to provide mutual respect.

Despite its length ( 171 minutes ) and unlikely commercial genre, it received high critical and popular acclaim.

However, Berlusconi was highly popular among his party fellows, and it was unlikely he could be overthrown if such an election were to occur.

Instead of The Institutes of the Christian Religion, a more helpful English title would probably be An Introduction to Christian Piety or Basic Christian Piety, but the current English title is quite well established and unlikely to be replaced in popular or academic usage.

Also disagreeing with Yang Kuan's hypothesis, Sarah Allan finds it unlikely that such a popular myth as the Yellow Emperor's could have come from a taboo character.

He was a popular local preacher on the local Methodist circuit, and on deciding that he was unlikely to be a good draper, his father allowed him to leave the business in 1904 to become a minister under Charles Bedale.

Shostakovich's friend Ivan Sollertinsky noted that, " the music is significantly tougher and more astringent than the Fifth or the Seventh and for that reason is unlikely to become popular ".

Interest-only loans are popular ways of borrowing money to buy an asset that is unlikely to depreciate much and which can be sold at the end of the loan to repay the capital.

As the " tall poppies " phrase and concept is virtually unknown in American popular culture, it's unlikely that many who heard Thatcher's remarks understood the reference.

* " Design a spy trap " competition ( AP41 ): Another popular competition, readers were asked to design a trap of the kind used by evil geniuses on heroes such as James Bond, with the important addition that, as in James Bond films, the hero had to have an unlikely or ingenious way to escape.