After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

Clinton also described this event as part of a time of " absolutely astonishing transformation ; a moment of great possibility.

An astonishing event occurred midway through the run of the theatre's next major work, The Dashing Little Duke ( 1909 ), which was produced by Hicks.

The 1, 070 metre long Howqua Poma at Mount Buller, Australia probably set a ski lift speed record by operating at an astonishing 6. 5 metres a second when it was built in 1964, but the ensuing chaos resulted in it being restricted to 4 m / s in later years.

New York Post correspondent Jonathan Foreman, reporting from Baghdad in May 2003, wrote that looting was less widespread than reported, and that " the intensity of the population's pro-American enthusiasm is astonishing ".

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

The Muslims had always been a minority within the subcontinent, and the prospect of an exclusively Hindu government made them wary of independence ; they were as inclined to mistrust Hindu rule as they were to resist the foreign Raj, although Gandhi called for unity between the two groups in an astonishing display of leadership.

There was, consequently, the astonishing spectacle of the definition of murder, still a matter of common law, being the subject of no less than six appeals to the House of Lords within the next 40 years ( Director of Public Prosecutions v. Smith A. C. 290 ; Hyam v. Director of Public Prosecutions A. C. 55 ; Regina v. Cunningham A. C. 566 ; Regina v. Moloney A. C. 905 ; Regina v. Hancock A. C. 455 ; Regina v. Woollin 4 A11 E. R.

In an astonishing upset, O ' Higgins came within 1 % ( or 10, 000 votes ) of defeating de Valera.

By this stage it had cost £ 4, 000, 000 ( a staggering sum in the 1860s ) but according to Bryce in 1876 was of a high quality with two or three lanes and " iron bridges over the torrents ", something he considered astonishing given that within Russia proper at this time decent roads were virtually non-existent.

The British Expeditionary Force suffered some 54, 100 casualties, astonishing figures that would be eclipsed within two years.

Stylistically, his compositions show a generally increasing seriousness of tone throughout his life, but in all periods he was capable of the most astonishing mood-shifts within a single composition, sometimes within a single phrase ; rarely does the music seem disunified, since he closely follows the texts of the poems being sung.

The remainder of the design, prototype fabrication, and system integration was completed within budget, and on-time with delivery accomplished in an astonishing 6 months from the contract award date.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3. 5 out of 4 stars and wrote, " What Midnight Run does with these two characters is astonishing, because it's accomplished within the structure of a comic thriller ...

Foucault then develops a holistic account of power and uses methods not too dissimilar to the astonishing and outstanding Medieval Islamic polymaths scholars Alhazen, Ibn Sīnā, and Ibn Khaldūn and to a lesser extant prominent science figures from 20th century science such as ; Gregory Bateson, James Lovelock ( the founder of Gaia hypothesis ) and Robert N. Proctor ( Proctor who coined the term Agnotology ) and urges us to think outside the box of this new kind of power, therefore, opening up the possibilities of further investigations into this new perceived, impenetrable nature of biopower and according to Foucault he asks us to remember, this type of power is never neutral nor is it independent from the rest of society but are embedded within society functioning as embellished ' control technology ' specifics. Foucault argues ; nation states, police, government, legal practices, human sciences and medical institutions have their own rationale, cause and effects, strategies, technologies, mechanisms and codes and have managed successfully in the past to obscure there workings by hiding behind observation and scrutiny.

Attending reporters remarked on " an astonishing and eerie quiet " within the prison as well as a sense of safety due to the rigorous security measures in place within the facility.

Microglial cells fulfill an astonishing variety of different tasks within the CNS mainly related to both immune response and maintaining homeostasis.

His output as a translator is astonishing: within the span of three years, he published large portions of Kalidassa's Sanskrit Abhignānashākuntala ( a part of them through German translations ), and a new Romanian translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Though composed in imitative style and occasionally homophonic, its individual vocal lines act quite freely within its fairly simple harmonic framework, allowing for an astonishing number of individual musical ideas to be sung during its ten-to-twelve minute performance time.

Zaharoff had knowledge, with astonishing speed, of the young inventor and Spanish Navy officer's works.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

At the age of nine, his dancing during the newly introduced music and movement classes was strikingly imaginative: teachers called his interpretations " vividly artistic " and his poise " astonishing " for a child.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

The digressions can be understood to cover two themes: an account of the history of the entire known world as governed by the principle of reciprocity ( or what today might be more commonly called an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and one good turn deserves another ); and an account of the many astonishing reports and sights gained by the author during his extensive travels.

Robert Hugill for Music and Vision called the production " astonishing … nearly twenty years after its premier ," while City Beats Tom McElfresh called Nixon's score " a character in the drama " and " too intricate, too detailed to qualify as minimalist.

This is an appropriate image, seeing as both the family and the genus are known for their astonishing variety and diversity of flowers and leaves.

Rollie Fingers had one of the greatest seasons for a relief pitcher that season, saving 28 games in the shortened season and sporting an astonishing 1. 04 ERA, earning him both the MVP and Cy Young awards in the American League.

In 1882, one of Steiner's teachers, Karl Julius Schröer, suggested Steiner's name to Joseph Kürschner, chief editor of an important new edition of Goethe's works, who asked Steiner to become the edition's natural science editor, a truly astonishing opportunity for a young student without any form of academic credentials or previous publications.

An astonishing number and variety of sieges, for example, formed the core of Julius Caesar's mid-1st century BC conquest of Gaul ( modern France ).

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

It was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records and was filmed for a TV documentary for its astonishing longevity.

The notion that animals, including human beings, can be taught to react to selected stimuli in a desired way -- by ' brainwashing ' them -- is one that naturally appeals to tyrants and perhaps it was this, along with the favourable light his success was casting on Soviet Russia among western intellectuals, which accounted for the astonishing tolerance with which Pavlov was treated by the Soviet regime.

The arrival of the railroad ushered in an era of astonishing growth for Fort Worth, as migrants from the devastated war-torn South continued to swell the population, and small, community factories and mills yielded to larger businesses.

* 1990 — Preliminary results from NASA's COBE mission confirm the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum to an astonishing one part in 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > precision, thus eliminating the possibility of an integrated starlight model proposed for the background by steady state enthusiasts.

New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell gave the film a generally negative review, although he praised its casting and called Mel Gibson " an astonishing actor ", particularly for his " on-screen comfort and expansiveness ".

Bossuet's conclusions are only drawn from Holy Scripture because he wished to gain the highest possible sanction for the institutions of his country and to hallow the France of Louis XIV by proving its astonishing likeness to the Israel of Solomon.

The film was one of only three profitable movies that year for MGM, grossing what Time magazine called an " astonishing " $ 13 million on a budget of $ 500, 000.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

America sees the absurdities -- she sees the kingdoms of Europe, disturbed by wrangling sectaries, or their commerce, population and improvements of every kind cramped and retarded, because the human mind like the body is fettered ' and bound fast by the chords of policy and superstition ': She laughs at their folly and shuns their errors: She founds her empire upon the idea of universal toleration: She admits all religions into her bosom ; She secures the sacred rights of every individual ; and ( astonishing absurdity to Europeans!

Arsenal's achievement was all the more astonishing given that the team, written off by many in December 1997, had made ground on reigning division champions Manchester United.

Joseph then recruited his brother to balloon building by writing the prophetic words, " Get in a supply of taffeta and of cordage, quickly, and you will see one of the most astonishing sights in the world.

These promises were honored by an astonishing number of removals after Jackson assumed power.

* Pearlasia Gamboa, president of the micronation of Melchizedek, hundreds of aliases ; in 2002, one of Gamboa's banking and investor fraud schemes was described by the Italian newspaper La Republica as " one of the most diabolical international scams ever devised in recent years ", and in 2000, the Asia Times described Gamboa's operations as " an astonishing series of worldwide swindles ".

This vehemence of belief demonstrates that she was, by this time, considered " insane " by secular intellectuals ; it is therefore by all accounts astonishing that she was taken even remotely seriously in later years by the English establishment.

Thompson calls it " astonishing " that they did not, but they were distracted by investing the nearby town of Cassel.

( The opening policy, brought out by Deng Xiaoping, has been proved as a crucial and brilliant turning point in China's modern history, causing the economy to grow at an astonishing rate during the past decades.

It started with comparatively meager assets of $ 11 million but crossed the $ 100 billion milestone in November 1999 ; this astonishing increase was funded by the market's increasing willingness to invest in such a product.

" Other architects, well known ( Frank Lloyd Wright, for example ) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today ... New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form ", according to an online description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by William D. Earls.