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.

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.

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 ).

The game is played most notably during the final scene of the series finale " All Good Things ", when Captain Jean-Luc Picard for the first time joins the others as the dealer and, after revealing that he was quite the card player in his youth and being told he had been always welcome, gives the final words of that episode and of the series overall: " Five-card stud, nothing wild ... and the sky's the Limit " as the camera pans overhead the table.

However, as claimed by Richard John Neuhaus in the November 2001 issue of his blog-like online journal ' First Things ', when “ asked in 1971 about the correct version of the quote, Niemöller said he was not quite sure when he had said the famous words but, if people insist upon citing them, he preferred a version that listed ‘ the Communists ’, ‘ the trade unionists ’, ‘ the Jews ’, and ‘ me ’.” However, historian Harold Marcuse could not verify that interview.

John Bergstrom of PopMatters describes All Things Must Pass as " the sound of Harrison exhaling ", noting: " He was quite possibly the only Beatle who was completely satisfied with the Beatles being gone.

Things did not quite work out as the optimistic author hoped ; the film did not earn enough to cover its costs.

Things did not go quite as smoothly for Igor Smirnov in the Moldovan Supreme Soviet.

Things, however, do not go quite as planned.

Things do not go quite this way.

* The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown ( a children's book quite unlike the adult-oriented cartoons in his cartoon collections )

Things actually started quite positively for the team, with an opening-day tie over their old rivals, Long Island Rough Riders, and then two straight wins on the road, 2-1 over the Cape Cod Crusaders and 3-2 over the Rhode Island Stingrays.

" Things here are not quite as bad as I expected to find them.

Things are not quite as they appear however.

Things as we see them, and as they really are, are one, that each stresses the nature of the other in a single unity.

" Wisdom " refers to order Kodashim ( Holy Things ) and " knowledge " refers to order Tehorot ( Purities ) because they are so difficult to understand.

Things have a relative value in proportion to how they aid the natural instinct for self-preservation.

* Things are not what they seem at first.

" Things are seldom what they seem " ( Buttercup and Captain )

According to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul ; whether they be living, dying, or already dead.

Things became considerably more tense in 1962 when the new CDC 3600 started to near production quality, and appeared to be exactly what management wanted, when they wanted it.

Now playing as the Washington Wild Things, the Wild Things opened new Falconi Field with a bang as they established a League Record for wins in a single season and took the powerful East Division crown.

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.

* In the episode " Branch Wars " of The Office, Pam, Oscar, and Toby have a meeting of the " Finer Things Club ," in which they discuss A Room with a View.

* A. Kaldellis, ' Things are not what they are: Agathias Mythistoricus and the last laugh of Classical ', in Classical Quarterly, 53 ( 2003 ) pp 295 – 300.

In " The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library ," the illustrators have changed the Things ' appearance so that they have pink skin and yellow hair and wear blue sleepers.

He is a talented singer and guitar player ( as Head is in real life ) which the gang discovered, to their astonishment, when they saw him singing " Behind Blue Eyes " by The Who in " Where the Wild Things Are ".

Things which distinguish Pākehā culture from British culture include higher levels of egalitarianism, anti-intellectualism, and the idea that most people can do most things if they put their minds to it.

In another memorable event, Flatow took former All Things Considered host Susan Stamberg into a closet to crunch Wint-O-Green Lifesavers, proving they spark in the dark.

gained mainstream recognition when they released their first English single " All the Things She Said ", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland and other European countries.

Later they were to draw artistic influence from contemporary rock acts including The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Joe Brown, Cream, The Kinks, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Rufus Thomas, The Who, The Pretty Things, and Screaming Lord Sutch.

Sometime around 1742, they adopted him as an honorary sachem, or civil chief, and gave him the name Warraghiyagey, which he translated as " A Man who undertakes great Things ".

Things finally came to a head at a gig in Niagara Falls in autumn 1956, when, as a result of a fight, Dorsey quit the group a week before they were to appear in Alan Freed ’ s film Rock, Rock, Rock.

Various themes recur ; notably the " Little Squelchy Things " which appear in a wide variety of guises and tend to be visual gags, though they may take part in the story ( for instance, James may trip over one ), and a constant scatter of winning lottery tickets, notes with a large sum of money on them, diamonds, gold bars, and bags with ' Vast Dosh ' written on them which James walks past yet somehow never manages to notice.