Copernicus' achievement was to have invented systematic astronomy.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.

That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

The final sample was not significantly different from a normal distribution in regard to reading achievement or intelligence test scores.

No significant difference was found in achievement between high and low compulsive children within the unstructured school.

Indeed their achievement scores were somewhat better on an absolute basis although the difference was not significant.

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.

By that time it was commonly agreed that patent warfare was sapping constructive achievement and blocking the free exchange of technical information.

With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William A. ( ( Bill ) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.

This result was his first major achievement in algebraic geometry.

The crowning achievement of naval artillery was the battleship, but the advent of airpower and missiles have rendered this type of artillery largely obsolete.

The biggest achievement of Abdülaziz was to modernize the Ottoman Navy.

His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions.

The whole operation was an outstanding military achievement.

It was a success, reaching Nº3 in the UK, equalling the chart achievement of " Smalltown Boy ".

" One major achievement was the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

It seems that the Athenian playwright Aeschylus considered his participation at Marathon to be his greatest achievement in life ( rather than his plays ) since on his gravestone there was the following epigram:

Only his former team mate, Bruce McLaren, has since matched the achievement.

Only his two former team mates, Bruce McLaren and Dan Gurney, have since matched this achievement.

Two million copies were sold in France alone, an achievement matched by no other British group.

When it won the League Cup once more in 2008, it meant that it had won a major trophy in each of the last six decades – an achievement only matched by Manchester United.

In the first European election, the DP won 2 seats: an achievement that it hasn't matched since.

This meant he had won six out of season's first seven races ; an achievement matched only by Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark and Michael Schumacher, who all went on to win the world title.

In 1963 he matched the achievement of his brother Marcus, winning the English Amateur Championship.

One of his four-baggers matched his famous achievement on the mound, and in the same season, as he stroked a grand slam against the Boston Red Sox on April 22, 1956, a game in which he pitched 4 innings.

They failed to qualify for the finals again until 1994 when they reached the semi-finals, an achievement matched twice since.

It would have been an incredible achievement if the gameplay had matched the outstanding art direction ".

Ryan Giggs later matched this achievement on 20 October 2007, and passed it on 8 February 2009.

The line was named shipping line of the year in 2007 for the sixth time in eleven years by Lloyds Loading List, which is an achievement not matched by any other shipping line.

Part's achievement of dropping only one set in winning a World Championship is only matched by Eric Bristow's similar feat in the 1984 World Championship.

In the past 20 years, JPS has won many National Jewish Book Awards, an achievement matched only by major presses such as Random House, Doubleday, Yale, Princeton and Oxford University Press.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

It is the discrepancy between the actual attained achievement test score and the score that would be predicted by the I.Q..

In this manner, the factors measured by the intelligence test were controlled, allowing discovered differences in achievement to be interpreted as resulting from other variables.

Successful teaching involves getting enough information about each pupil to understand why he behaves as he does in certain situations and how his achievement in school is being influenced by various factors in his environment.

association by level of achievement is the dominant principle of informal relations.

The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

The turn of the 20th century saw Cape Breton Island at the forefront of scientific achievement with the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi.

That rare type of achievement by a woman prompted one local newspaper to state, " It is a legitimate source of pride to Philadelphia that one of its most cherished institutions has made this innovation.

In 2011 he was awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Urban Design Group.

Thompson's 1814 map, his greatest achievement, was so accurate that 100 years later it was still the basis for many of the maps issued by the Canadian government.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

As a means of overcoming objections to EVM's lack of connection to qualitative performance issues, the Naval Air Systems Command ( NAVAIR ) PEO ( A ) organization initiated a project in the late 1990s to integrate true technical achievement into EVM projections by utilizing risk profiles.

The published research resulted in a Technical Performance Management ( TPM ) methodology and software application that is still used by many DoD agencies in informing EVM estimates with technical achievement.

After her major achievement, she was plagued by various injuries.

In a 2010 interview by Kevin Kelly for an article in Wired Magazine, Brooks was asked " What do you consider your greatest technological achievement?

Such an achievement was made all the more remarkable by the fact that he was only five months and eight games into his international career, and was not considered his country's premier centre forward.

When the arms of a knight and his wife are shown in one achievement, the insignia of knighthood surround the husband's arms only, and the wife's arms are customarily surrounded by a meaningless ornamental garland of leaves for visual balance.

His most notable achievement was breaking the career home run record set by Babe Ruth.

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.