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.

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 that the Romans might not like to hear he did not mention ; for example, there is no allusion to the considerable fortune that he acquired by plunder.

Locke withheld his " An Examination of P Malebranche's Opinion Of Seeing All Things In God " from publication, " because he looked upon it to be an opinion that would not spread but was like to die of itself, or at least to do no great harm.

Home's novels in this period no longer incorporated subcultural elements and instead focused on issues of form and aesthetics: 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess contains capsule reviews of dozens of obscure books as well as elaborate descriptions of stone circles, while in Down and Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton every paragraph is exactly 100 words long.

Things were no better in 1998, when the team finished 13 – 19 and well out of playoff contention.

Notes From The Edge, 2002 ( retrieved 17 August 2012 ).</ ref > Maurice Gibb was also present during the All Things Must Pass sessions, having been a friend of Starr's, and is said to have played keyboards on " Isn't It a Pity ", although there is no definitive evidence as to which version.

In 1985, drummer Roy McDonald ( formerly of The Things, and no relation to the brothers ) joined the band.

Things are fungible if substituting one for another has no legal implications.

* Things for which there is no word

Though able to " understand " the Elder Things ' language, they had no real consciousness and were controlled through hypnotic suggestion.

no: Wild Things

The second album, Little Things ( 2003 ) was no less successful, with the singles " Livin ' My Life " and " Why Worry ".

Mahfouz ' concern with the nature of time was no accident, as he had studied the French Philosopher Henri Bergson as an undergraduate, and was also deeply impressed by Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Proust being another of Bergson's admirers.

In an interview for All Things Considered, Guthrie said the song points out that any American citizen who was convicted of a crime, no matter how minor ( in his case, it was littering ), could avoid being conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War.

Things were by no means well at the company and Lasseter and his team of animators knew this, and were afraid to ask for money to finance another short, which they storyboarded as Tin Toy.

* In Stephen King's novel Needful Things, Mr. Gaunt gives Ace Merrill some cocaine said to be fabricated in " the plains of Leng ", though no other explanations are given.

Real Things was their first album that PWL made no changes to, perhaps because by then rap in dance records had become more common and accepted.

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Things get worse when Jimmy's jet pack sets the living room on fire ( breaking a rule that no rockets are allowed in the house ), and Jimmy is now grounded.

In " So Much Things to Say ", by Bob Marley & The Wailers, subsequently covered by Lauryn Hill, Marley mentions Bogle in the same breath as Jesus Christ and Marcus Garvey and states, " I'll never forget no way they turned their backs on Paul Bogle, so don't you forget no youth who you are and where you stand in the struggle.

Things declined further in 1962, under the leadership of Joe Blackledge who had had no previous first-class experience, as Lancashire dropped to 16th, winning only two matches.

Things returned to normal in 1945 when the IRFU and the Hamilton Tigers resumed play while the Wildcats ( no longer known as the Flying Wildcats ) continued on in the ORFU.

' Things have become so bad, in some Westernized urban spaces, that two men can no longer hold hands — something which was a common sight in India, not too far back.

no: Getting Things Done