This period included eighteen consecutive winning seasons ( 1968 – 1985 ) -- an unprecedented run of success that saw the Orioles become the envy of the league, and the winningest team in baseball.

In the meantime, the Romans, hoping to gain success through sheer strength and weight of numbers, raised a new army of unprecedented size, estimated by some to be as large as 100, 000 men, but more likely around 50-80, 000.

Irreverent and unprecedented in its explicit detail, the 1969 film was an instant success.

The success of these programs is often attributed to an emphasis on safety and education that has resulted in an unprecedented scholastic and collegiate athletic safety record.

Limbaugh's unprecedented success is illustrated by Fresno, California's then number-one radio station, KMJ " news-talk radio ," a typical example of how the talk radio format was changed nation wide.

Nevertheless, his partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan, and his careful management of their operas and relationship, created a series of works whose success was unprecedented in the history of musical theatre.

Containing an unprecedented sixty-six oils and fifty drawings from the Netherlands, and poignant excerpts from the artist's letters, it was a major public success and became " a precursor to the hold van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination ".

Oberlin's success was entirely unprecedented in a country that had seen little exposure to anything before Bach, and it paved the way for the recent great success of countertenors there also.

The segment is an unprecedented success and spins off into the long running stage show.

The biggest boogaloo hit of the 60s was " Bang Bang " by the Joe Cuba Sextet, which achieved unprecedented success for Latin music in the United States in 1966 when it sold over one million copies.

During his tenure, the Philharmonic enjoyed a period of unprecedented success and prosperity and performed its first world premiere written by a world-renowned composer in the United States – Antonín Dvořák's Ninth Symphony " From the New World ".

The band's blend of traditional country music and southern rock combined with elements of gospel music, and pop music gave it a crossover appeal that helped lead to their unprecedented success.

In the 1950s, rival club Melbourne enjoyed an era of unprecedented success, winning five premierships in six years ( the last coming in 1960, and having been runner up in 1954 ).

The media blitz was met with unprecedented success ; thanks in great part to the introduction of the Duncan Butterfly, the yo-yo was more accessible to the beginner than ever.

The Gators have particularly had success in football and baseball where they have won an unprecedented 17 State Championships ( Tied for 1st all-time in South Carolina ).

White Pony was released in 2000 to critical acclaim and unprecedented commercial success, peaking in third position in the US.

The album brought the band unprecedented success in the underground scene, selling in excess of 100, 000 copies.

Bonaparte's success gave to the Directory an unprecedented stability, and when, in the summer of 1797, the royalist and surviving Girondist opposition again met the government with resistance, Bonaparte sent General Augereau, a Jacobin, to repress their movement in the Coup of 18 Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ).

The unprecedented success also hit Latin America.

" Need Your Love " had already been recorded for the forthcoming Dream Police album that had already been finished, but after the unprecedented success of At Budokan, Epic postponed the album's release.

The reemergence of Olympic melting pot discourse was driven especially by the unprecedented success of African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in events traditionally associated with Europeans and white North Americans such as speed skating and the bobsled.

In financial terms, " Cog " was an unprecedented success for Honda.

The success in the UK Singles and Albums charts of a number of indie acts associated with a " scene " was unprecedented at the time.

During the 2006 – 07 season, the once-moribund Cougar men's basketball team achieved unprecedented success, including its first Top 10 ranking under then first-year head coach Tony Bennett, reaching as high as No. 9 in the AP poll on 2-20-07.

In a series of five speeches to the nation in January 1935, Bennett introduced a Canadian version of the " New Deal ," involving unprecedented public spending and federal intervention in the economy.

After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets, of University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract.

The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism.

Willkie centered his presidential campaign around three major themes: the alleged inefficiency and corruption of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, Roosevelt's attempt to win an unprecedented third term as President, and the government's alleged lack of military preparedness.

In 1838, at least twenty-eight Aborigines were murdered at the Myall Creek in New South Wales, resulting in the unprecedented conviction and hanging of seven white settlers by the colonial courts.

In an unprecedented first, the New York premiere was given on the same date – 25 November 1882, with the composer's assistant, Alfred Cellier, conducting.

Determined to pursue his literary career, in 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $ 10, 000, " an unprecedented sum at the time.

Claiming their rights as well as Schoenfeld's had been violated, the Devils appealed to New Jersey Superior Court judge James F. Madden — an unprecedented appeal to authority outside the league.

The unprecedented appeal of New York salsa, particularly the Fania " sound ," led to its adoption across Latin America and elsewhere.

Although The exception to the code was granted as a " special and unique case " and was described by The New York Times at the time as " an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent ", in his 2008 study of films during that era, Pictures at a Revolution, author Mark Harris wrote that the MPAA's action was " the first of a series of injuries to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years.

In A New Constitution Now ( 1942 ), published during Franklin D. Roosevelt's unprecedented third term as President of the United States, Hazlitt called for the replacement of the existing fixed-term presidential tenure in the United States with a more Anglo-European system of " cabinet " government, under which a head of state who had lost the confidence of the legislature or cabinet might be removed from office after a no-confidence vote in as little as 30 days.

In 2008 it was announced that the Bledisloe Cup would be contested over an unprecedented four matches, with three games played in Australia and New Zealand and a fourth and potentially deciding game in Hong Kong in an effort to promote the game in Asia ( the first time Australia and New Zealand played in a third country outside the World Cup ).

In New Hampshire, the governor has no term limit of any kind, but no governor had served more than three terms since the 18th century ( when the term was for only one year ) until John Lynch won an unprecedented fourth two-year term on November 2, 2010.

The early New Deal also began the Tennessee Valley Authority, an unprecedented experiment in flood control, public power, and regional planning.

The Vietnam War was unprecedented for the intensity of media coverage — it has been called the first television war — as well as for the stridency of opposition to the war by the " New Left ".

In 1999 Sensation toured to The National Galerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in the autumn, and then to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, creating unprecedented political and media controversy and becoming a touchstone for debate about the " morality " of contemporary art.

The New York team ( now called the Jets ) began to draw record crowds, aided by the signing of quarterback Joe Namath to an unprecedented $ 427, 000 contract.

Secondly, Franklin D. Roosevelt desired someone with similar political sensibilities to fill the post and to help convince the American public that the New Deal was working and that he had the right to run for an unprecedented third term in office.

This was almost an unprecedented move in New York State ; in the no fewer than 497 grand jury presentments that had been filed in New York county since 1869, not one had ever been sealed.

" In a key period in late March and early April, as Israel suffered a wave of unprecedented Palestinian terrorism prompting the Israel Defense Forces to respond with incursions into areas under Palestinian Authority control, the New York Times presented a decidedly skewed picture of events.

Such a form of poetry is unprecedented in Arabic or New Persian, but it is part of the Middle Persian ( Pahlavi ) tradition.

In 2002, Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand made an unprecedented move and apologised to Samoa for New Zealand's treatment of Samoans during the colonial era.