Things were no better in 2005, despite a career year from first baseman Derrek Lee and the emergence of closer Ryan Dempster.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

The atomic poems ( such as ' All Things are Governed by Atoms ') and natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish were influenced by Epicurus.

Things initially went well, and for much of the season Chelsea were on course for promotion, but two wins from their final seven league games ensured the club finished 4th.

Things like the “ kingly ornaments ” which were “ always purple garments or cloth of gold ”, both very ostentatious assertions of wealth and power, were to ensure he was “ recompensed ” for his “ limitation of authority ”.

Things were going as they should for a team that could win the west.

Things were going so well for the company, that in 1973, the company's German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz when they had meant to open one in Koblenz.

Things were much the same in the government and temple records on papyrus of Ancient Egypt.

The song " All Things Dull and Ugly " and the parody scripture reading " Martyrdom of St. Victor " were performed on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( 1980 ).

Things were changing in the republic after the fall of anti-Renaissance Priest and leader of Florence, Girolamo Savonarola, ( executed in 1498 ) and the rise of the gonfaloniere Piero Soderini.

Things were improving on the international front too.

Things were not helped by the very close proximity of Hitler's Reich Chancellery, just one block away in Voßstraße, and many other Nazi government edifices nearby as well, and so Potsdamer Platz was right in a major target area.

Things were at their worst during the winter of 1771.

Tracks from the album were featured on a number of film soundtracks, including Night Watch, Wild Things, Jawbreaker, Never Been Kissed, Charlie's Angels and Cheaters.

Although the subtitle states that the book comprises " 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates ", the book's preface mentions that originally four dates were planned, but last-minute research revealed that two of them were not memorable.

Things were not quite as dire as they seemed to the German commanders in Berlin.

Singles were released in various territories for three of the album's songs, " If You Were Here ", " Things She Said " and " 747 " ( featuring the English version of " Kräm ", entitled " What It Feels Like ").

Moore would later reveal, in an attempt to connect the original one-off Swamp Thing story from House of Secrets to the main Swamp Thing canon, that there had been dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Swamp Things since the dawn of humanity, and that all versions of the creature were designated defenders of the Parliament of Trees, an elemental community also known as " the Green " that connects all plant life on Earth.

Lakoff's 1987 work, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, answered some of these criticisms before they were even made: he explores the effects of cognitive metaphors ( both culturally specific and human-universal ) on the grammar per se of several languages, and the evidence of the limitations of the classical logical-positivist or Anglo-American School philosophical concept of the category usually used to explain or describe the scientific method.

In contrast, " Better Things " ( 1981 ), " Come Dancing " ( 1982 ), " Don't Forget to Dance " ( 1983 ) and " Good Day " ( 1984 ) were sentimental songs of hope and nostalgia for the aging Air Raid Generation.

Things such as sex and condoms were never mentioned and so Zamora never identified himself as someone at risk.

Prévert's poems were collected and published in his books: Paroles ( Words ) ( 1946 ), Spectacle ( 1951 ), La Pluie et le beau temps ( Rain and Good Weather ) ( 1955 ), Histoires ( Stories ) ( 1963 ), Fatras ( 1971 ) and Choses et autres ( Things and Others ) ( 1973 ).

Things got heated in 2011 during a game when Roman Harper illegally hit Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith after Smith scored a touchdown.

Things got so heated between the two programs that D-X was sent to Atlanta, Georgia to film a segment near Turner's headquarters for a " war " storyline that was done when both shows were in nearby areas on the same night ( Raw in Hampton, Virginia and Nitro in nearby Norfolk ), sending D-X to the Norfolk Scope arena which Nitro was broadcasting from and interacting with WCW fans.

Things became heated after July 11, when Hungary declared its independence.

After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced two more significant publications, The Birth of the Clinic ( 1963 ) and The Order of Things ( 1966 ), which displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, a theoretical movement in social anthropology from which he later distanced himself.

Society Must Be Defended and Security, Territory, Population pursued an analysis of the broader relationship between security and biopolitics, explicitly politicizing the question of the birth of humankind raised in The Order of Things.

In " All Good Things ...", the two-hour concluding episode of The Next Generation, Captain Picard travels between three different times.

Things as small as the distinction, or lack thereof, between beer and ale to the various disguises of Jean Harrington add depth to the plot line.

One true innovation of the system was the People, Places and Things metaphor that attempted to provide the user with tools to easily move documents around between people and things ( like fax machines ) as easily as they could print them using current technologies.

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Shea went on to write historical action novels, including Shike ( 1981 ), a two-volume novel set in Ancient Japan about the warrior monk Jebu and his love Lady Shima Taniko, All Things Are Lights ( 1986 ), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon de Gobignon.

To coordinate the choice of interview partners in cultural coverage between TOTN and other NPR shows ( as of 2010: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Tell Me More ), NPR set up a " dibs list " system around 2005, whereby the first show to declare interest in a particular guest can " reserve " that person.

Things that are not relative-that are " ends in themselves ", in Kant's terminology-are by extension beyond all value, and a thing is an end in itself only if it has a moral dimension ; if it represents a choice between right and wrong.

How to Do Things With Words is based on lectures given at Oxford between 1951 and 1954, and then at Harvard in 1955.

In Meditation VI: Concerning the Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body, Descartes addresses the potential existence of material outside of the self and God.

The cause of her pregnancy is never formally revealed ; however the most probable of theories is that Mulder fathered the child, as growing intimacy in the later portion of the series seemed to propose a sexual relationship between the two ( season 7 episode " All Things " is seen as proof due to its opening scene, though the remainder of the episode takes place prior to the opening scene, and the closing scene can also be interpreted as proof against this ).

Much of the critical discussion about Things Fall Apart concentrates on the socio-political aspects of the novel, including the friction between the members of Igbo society as confront the intrusive and overpowering presence of Western government and beliefs.

In " The Dreams in the Witch-House ," the central character is sent through a dimensional portal to a planet in a triple star system ( with a yellow, red, and blue star ) located " between Hydra and Argo Navis ", and populated by Elder Things.

His opening monologue poked fun at the change ( or rather the lack thereof ) between the time he had hosted the ceremony in 1991, and the current one: " Things were so different then.

* Internet of Things, a self-configuring wireless network between objects

Things were not good between the band and Mystic Records.

Most Big Things began as tourist traps found along major roads between destinations.

Things between them became rocky several times, once because of his son's opposition to the relationship.

He wrote over one thousand scripts for the Cecil and Sally radio program ( originally titled " The Funniest Things ") broadcast between 1928 and 1933.

Things began heating up between him and Brooke, and they became engaged.

Things are complicated further when Rahne Sinclair walks in on them during an intimate moment, which leads to a brief fight between Shatterstar and Rahne.

Tracks for Hidden Things were recorded between 1986 ( by Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls ) to September 1991 ( by Paul Kelly & the Messengers ).