Is it not ironical that Roger Williams's state, Rhode Island, should have been the very last of the forty-eight to establish a state university??

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

This colt arrived at the Raceway early last November, and immediately was put into harness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to cart and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

This is to surrender in advance to whatever attack may yet be mounted, to the very last ; ;

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

The named kings of Uruk may have been contemporaries of the last kings of Akkad, but in any event could not have been very prominent.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.

The lightness of modern racquets allows players to use a very short hitting action for many strokes, thereby maintaining the option to hit a powerful or a soft stroke until the last possible moment.

For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

" Pasternak's last words were, " I can't hear very well.

The rabbis recognize a positive value to the yetzer hara: one tradition identifies it with the observation on the last day of creation that God's accomplishment was " very good " ( God's work on the preceding days was just described as " good ") and explain that without the yetzer ha ' ra there would be no marriage, children, commerce or other fruits of human labor ; the implication is that yetzer ha ' tov and yetzer ha ' ra are best understood not as moral categories of good and evil but as selfless versus selfish orientations, either of which used rightly can serve God's will.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

El Salvador is also the very last Latin American nation to do so.

However, Satie's military career did not last very long ; within a few months he was discharged after deliberately infecting himself with bronchitis.

All of the aspects of the game make for a very exciting race to visit the most cities while never quite being sure who is winning until the last round.

In film, however, continuity is very nearly last on a film editor's list of important things to maintain.

* The flag of Turkey, which is very similar to last flag of the old Ottoman Empire, has been an inspiration for the flag designs of many other Muslim nations.

In the early years of the formula there was much concern about safety, with a high number of accidents resulting in injuries to drivers and, unfortunately, one fatality in the International Championship-Marco Campos in the very last round of the 1995 series.

These are rare and wonderful to see as they are very delicate and last usually less than a day.

Of all the causes of defection, that connected with arrears of tribute and vessels, and with failure of service, was the chief ; for the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.

Philosophically, the tank is, by its very nature, an offensive weapon.

Batters, on occasion, have been given intentional walks with the bases loaded ( effectively giving the offensive team a risk-free run ), although this occurs very infrequently.

The casino called this " very offensive "; they identified him from a surveillance tape, fired him, and tried to prevent him from receiving unemployment insurance benefits.

For example, the bread-and-butter Soldier class has medium armor, medium speed, and a well-rounded selection of weapons and grenades, while the Scout class is lightly armored, very fast, has a scanner that detects nearby enemies, but has very weak offensive weapons.

Sierra Leone has a very small air component with a limited offensive capability.

Matt Williams was very good ( 38 HR, 110 RBI,. 294 BA ), with Robby Thompson and Will Clark ( in his last season with the Giants ) providing offensive support.

Washington's offensive line also had trouble handling Dolphins ' defensive tackle / nose tackle Manny Fernandez, who was very quick.

The Vikings offensive line was also very talented, led by Ron Yary and six-time Pro Bowl player Mick Tingelhoff.

That year, the introduction of a new offensive skill, the backrow attack, allowed Poland to win the men's competition over the Soviets in a very tight five-set match.

The dink is another very effective offensive shot designed to end the point.

At the very beginning of his reign, Leo V faced a new Bulgarian offensive that reached the walls of Constantinople and ravaged large sections of Thrace.

He told General Abel Douay, commander of MacMahon's 2nd Division, on 1 August that " The information I have received makes me suppose that the enemy has no considerable forces very near his advance posts, and has no desire to take the offensive ".

In modern usage the slang term bitch has different meanings depending largely on social context and may vary from very offensive to endearing, and as with many slang terms its meaning and nuances can vary depending on the region in which it is used.

Rick Sanchez of CNN went on to comment: "... a horrible word that is used to do nothing but demean women ... Obviously, the word that's used here is very offensive.

Owing to the shortage of surface vessels, Raeder's strategy was very much a guerre de course strategy that he reluctantly followed because the U-boats were the only offensive weapons at his disposal.

Long after it was first invented, slugging percentage gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage ( OBP ) to form a very good measure of a player's overall offensive production ( in fact, OBP + SLG was originally referred to as " production " by baseball writer and statistician Bill James ).

The use of offensive tactics against snipers will occur very rarely in a bodyguard context.

He very rarely went on the offensive unless he felt his position was completely secure.

The Allied preparation was very important in countering the German offensive.

After a few initial victories, such as in Galicia in 1915 and with the Brusilov offensive in 1916, the Tsar's armies were confronted with a number of very serious defeats.

He was now in the position of having to launch a new offensive against his better judgement, with exhausted troops in very adverse conditions.

The term " berdache " is seen as very offensive by many Two-Spirit and Native people because of its historical roots ; It was first applied by European settlers as a derogatory term, meaning a submissive, effeminate man.

While the Ming army was initially very effective, it lost its capacity for offensive operations after the death of the Yongle Emperor, and was defeated by the Mongols in 1449 during the Tumu Crisis.