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 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.

Things were heated between the ladies for some time, with Thomas speaking out against Lopes, calling her antics " selfish ", " evil ", and " heartless.

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 are looking up these days for many of the State turnpikes on which investors depend for income from their toll-road bonds.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

The contemporary New Zealand composer David Downes includes a setting of " March " on his CD The Rusted Wheel of Things.

In addition to these works on astronomical timekeeping, he also wrote De natura rerum, or On the Nature of Things, modelled in part after the work of the same title by Isidore of Seville.

*" Leap In and Try Things "-Interview with Brian Kernighan – on " Harmony at Work Blog ", October 2009.

* The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith

The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith.

Finn and Hester performed " Not the Girl You Think You Are " with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for " Sister Madly " and a version of Paul Kelly's " Leaps and Bounds ", which also featured Kelly on vocals.

Lucretius in his first century BC philosophical poem On the Nature of Things denied the existence of centaurs based on their differing rate of growth.

Examples on radio are the BBC's Hordes of the Things and ElvenQuest.

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

In his " On the Nature of Things ," Lucretius appears to suggest this in the best-known passage on Epicurus ' position.

* Cogitations de Natura Rerum (' Thoughts on the Nature of Things ') ( 1604 )

* Cogitationes de Natura Rerum (' Thoughts on the Nature of Things ') ( 1624 )

Among the most important are a controversial treatise on the Catholic Faith, in which are refuted what he saw as the principal errors of the Chinese ; The True Origin of All Things ; and The Life of God, the Saviour, from the Four Gospels.

He is the author of a best selling book on the problem of evil, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes ( directed by David Koepp ) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

When the final episode, " Things Aren't Simple Any More " originally aired on 20 November 2000 at 21: 00, it coincided with the broadcast of the first jackpot winner in the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, which had been filmed the Sunday before the broadcast.

In January 2000, the album's second single, " All the Small Things ", hit the sixth spot on the Billboard Hot 100.