Williamson's bold innovations in preventive medicine, especially his strenuous efforts to indoctrinate raw troops in the importance of sanitation and diet, kept the command virtually free of disease during the six months that it inhabited the swamp -— a rare feat in 18th-century warfare.

He performed the bold and extraordinary feat of recasting the entire mass of existing Roman law and restating it concisely in what he believed to be a rational system.

A parody of Metastasian opera-seria it featured dazzling parodies of the high flown and emotive aria's found in that genre, as well as bold and innovative orchestrations, including the first known use of three tympani.

Their first UA Buzzcocks single, " Orgasm Addict ", was a playful examination of compulsive sexuality that was ( and remains ) uncommonly bold.

Motoyasu fought his first battle at the Siege of Terabe and later succeeded in delivering supplies to a border fort through a bold night attack.

Polisario made the weak Mauritanian army its main target, and after a bold raid on the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott ( where a gunshot killed El-Ouali, the first president of the SADR ), Mauritania succumbed to internal unrest.

The second acrostic is found by taking the first letters of the first ( in bold ) and reading them backwards to get " J. S. Bach " ( just as the first acrostic claims ).

The first of each pair is derived from Old English and the second is of Anglo-Norman origin: pig / pork, chicken / poultry, calf / veal, cow / beef, wood / forest, sheep / mutton, house / mansion, worthy / honourable, bold / courageous, freedom / liberty.

For the first two seasons, Riker is portrayed as bold and confident, an ambitious young officer ; however, over time Riker's character becomes more reserved, as experience teaches him the wisdom of a patient, careful approach.

* 426 Demosthenes, Athenian general, and Cleon, Athenian demagogue, revitalizes Athenian forces, makes bold plans opposed by Nicias, his first military campaign barely succeeds

When Seldon first visited Trantor to deliver his speech at the Decennial Convention, fashion in the sector called for bold, bright colors and wearing hats without chinstraps.

Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.

While the first two books focus on the lives of the two giants, the rest of the series is mostly devoted to the adventures of Pantagruel's friends – such as Panurge, a roguish, erudite maverick, and Brother Jean, a bold, voracious and boozing ex-monk – and others on a collective naval journey in search of the Divine Bottle.

The bold player who was lucky and adventurous, and could push on his couch with a considerable stake to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, etc., must in a wonderful manner have multiplied his couch, or first stake ; but this was seldom done ; and the loss of the players, by the very nature of the game, invariably exceeded that of the bank ; in fact, this game was altogether in favour of the bank ; and yet it is evident that, in spite of this obvious conviction, the game must have been one of the most tempting and fascinating that was ever invented.

The first advertisement for the town of Chenoa appeared under the bold heading, GREAT SALE OF LOTS IN THE TOWN OF CHENOA, MAY 15 1856.

Jonathan Swift is quoted as having said, " He was a bold man that first ate an oyster ", but evidence of oyster consumption goes back into prehistory, evidenced by oyster middens found worldwide.

Paintings in this style usually portrayed castles as indistinct, faintly coloured objects in the distance ; in writing, the picturesque account eschewed detail in favour of bold first impressions on the sense.

Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor Arcadius a speech entitled De regno, full of topical advice as to the studies of a wise ruler, but also containing a bold statement that the emperor's first priority must be a war on corruption and a war on interpenetration of barbarians in Byzantine army.

His rise from so obscure a station to the first dignities of the empire seems to prove that he was a bold and able leader.

Showing a bold front, and shifting troops where needed to stop Russian advances, engaged the Russians first in the Sortlack Wood and in front of Posthenen ( 2. 30-3 A. M. on the 14th ), Lannes held Benningsen in place until the French had massed 80, 000 troops on the left bank of the river.

Characterised at first by hard, bold typography and photo-collage, Garrett's designs for the band would later incorporate pop-religious iconography in clean, integrated package designs that befitted the band's idealised image as neo-romantic purveyors of European anthemic pop.

Teams participating for the first time in bold.

Teams participating for the first time in bold.

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

In the following lists, the first names, listed in bold type against a blue background, are the winners, and the following names are the remaining nominees.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

These articles were bold, as Washington was an enemy general who commanded an army in a cause that many Britons believed would ruin the empire.

Rex Ingram's films were considered by many contemporary directors to be artistic and skillful, with an imaginative and bold visual style.

596 – 597, Leuven, 1782 ), exposing gross abuses in the Curia, in the church administration and public worship ; and proffering many a bold and earnest word on behalf of abolishing such abuses.

Piracy in the Caribbean declined for the next several decades after 1730, but by the 1810s many pirates roamed American waters though they were not as bold or successful as their predecessors.

While Berlioz is best known as a composer, he was also a prolific writer, and supported himself for many years by writing musical criticism, utilising a bold, vigorous style, at times imperious and sarcastic.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.

In many ways his social liberalism was as bold in the 1970s as Trudeau's was in the 1960s.

: They are proud and wilful, but they are true-hearted, generous in thought and deed ; bold but not cruel ; wise but unlearned, writing no books but singing many songs, after the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Cnossus.

This bold initiative resulted in many historic firsts in video game history.

Leakey's bold and incorruptible nature also offended many local politicians.

Ads for zip code use appeared in many issues of " LOOK ", " Life ", and, " Saturday Evening Post " magazines and displayed a caricature of a large snail outfitted as a letter carrier, with the term " Snail Mail " in bold lettering.

Simon Leys described him as :-' an adventurer from peasant stock, poorly educated, a man of action, a bold and shrewd tactician, a visionary mind, in many respects a creative genius ; naturally coarse, cynical, and ruthless, he eventually showed symptoms of paranoia, bordering on psychopathy.

As General Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War II, pointed out, General Eisenhower and many of his staff officers, products of these academies, " were imbued with the idea of this type of wide, bold maneuver for decisive results.

The Kanō School was well known at the time for their large bold paintings that decorated the castle walls of many a wealthy warlord patron.

After a period of time in Kyoto, Tōhaku developed his own style of Sumie which in many ways departed from the bold techniques indicative of the Kanō School, and called back to the minimalism of its predecessors.

Halil rode with the new sultan to the Mosque of Eyub where the ceremony of girding Mahmud I with the Sword of Osman was performed ; many of the chief officers were deposed and successors to them appointed at the dictation of the bold rebel who had served in the ranks of the Janissaries and who appeared before the sultan bare-legged and in his old uniform of a common soldier.

This bold move proved successful, as many of the insurgents joined him, though the remainder retreated to the south.

Two years later, at the age of 81, Santisteban was the oldest national director for the organization but was inexplicably removed from her duties, a bold move that many people interpreted as age-discriminatory.

This is accompanied by a sedate guitar jingle which contrasts with the bold and brassy fanfares used by many ITV companies of the time.

Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, referring to French, later said " his willingness to accept responsibility, and his bold and sanguine disposition have relieved me from many anxieties ".