The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

He conducted it with less diplomacy and more spontaneous violence than the Sicilians, but he had his huge North Side portion to exploit and he made a great deal of money.

Next, Alexios had to deal with disturbances in Thrace, where the heretical sects of the Bogomils and the Paulicians revolted and made common cause with the Pechenegs from beyond the Danube.

The surviving fragments also show that Alexis invented a great deal of words, mostly compound words, that he used normal words in an unusual way, and made strange and unusual forms of common words.

Former commissioner Pete Rozelle and Smith made the deal in about five minutes and the Atlanta Falcons brought the largest and most popular sport to the city of Atlanta.

The Diamondbacks and Florida Marlins made a deal March 26 to acquire RHP Yusmeiro Petit in exchange for Jorge Julio and cash.

In 1997 it bought The Minet Group, as well as insurance brokerage Alexander & Alexander Services, Inc. in a deal that made Aon ( temporarily ) the largest insurance broker worldwide.

There had been, however, a good deal of other evidence available before 1876, which, had it been collated and seriously studied, might have discounted the sensation that the discovery of the citadel graves eventually made.

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

If the auction is passed out, i. e. no bids are made and only four passes are called, the hands are abandoned and the turn to deal passes in rotation.

Pre-dealt hands also have the advantage that, at the end of the session, diagrams of each deal can be made available to the players for later analysis.

But the sponsorship deal was terminated before it commenced after it was revealed that British steel only made up a tiny fraction of steel used in construction of the stadium-the bulk of the steel had been imported from Germany.

She made a public statement after her release, saying: " I would just like to thank the court for allowing me these 90 days ... helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is behind me ...

This was the first time that the Conservatives and Lib Dems had made a power-sharing deal at Westminster.

McBride said he made the deal simply because he'd " had his fling " with football and wanted to move on to other activities.

The team's commitment to contend was complete when Green made a midseason deal on June 15 to shore up the starting rotation due to injuries to Rick Reuschel ( 5 – 5 ) and Sanderson.

" One of the biggest stories of the season transpired as the club made a midseason deal for Fred McGriff, which was drawn out for nearly a month as McGriff debated waiving his no-trade clause, as the Cubs led the wild card race by 2. 5 games in early September.

Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the league's players to the NHL and cease league operations.

The Lindsay deal was one of several questionable trades made by Adams in the late 1950s.

Speculative trading in derivatives gained a great deal of notoriety in 1995 when Nick Leeson, a trader at Barings Bank, made poor and unauthorized investments in futures contracts.

Where a distinction is made, usually outside of the United States, electrical engineering is considered to deal with the problems associated with systems such as power transmission and electrical machines, whereas electronic engineering deals with the study of electronic systems including computers and integrated circuits.

Science 299: 1523-1524 ( concluding that evolutionary biology is not a religion in any sense but noting that several evolutionary biologists, such as Edward O. Wilson, in their roles as citizens concerned about getting the public to deal with reality, have made statements like " evolution is a myth that is now ready to take over Christianity ").

These rights were subject to the following conditions: only good quality goods were to be supplied by the Faroese and were to be made in numbers proportionate to the rest of the market ; the goods were to be brought at their market value ; and the traders were to deal fairly and honestly with the Faroese.

Aristide spent years negotiating with the Convergence Démocratique on new elections, but the Convergence's inability to develop a sufficient electoral base made elections unattractive, and it rejected every deal offered, preferring to call for a US invasion to topple Aristide.

While modern systems distinguish between offences against the " State " or " Community ", and offences against the " Individual ", the so-called penal law of ancient communities did not deal with " crimes " ( Latin: crimina ), but with " wrongs " ( Latin: delicta ).

Perry initially refused to deal with Japanese officials and demanded to speak with the Japanese Head of State.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

The invariable policy of the State has always being to break down all intermediate authorities and to deal directly with the individual.

Herein lies the basic difference between Public and Business Administration ; the first deals with the public weal while the second deals basically in profit but both require a great deal of education and ethical conduct to avoid the mishaps inherent in the relationship not only of business and labor but also the State and the Administration.

In 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected the offer made to him by Ehud Barak based on the two-state solution and declined to negotiate for a more favorable offer, it became clear that Arafat would not make a deal with Israel unless it included the full Palestinian right of return, which would demographically destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

Fridell argues that scholars call the period 1868-1945 the " State Shinto period " because, " during these decades, Shinto elements came under a great deal of overt state influence and control as the Japanese government systematically utilized shrine worship as a major force for mobilizing imperial loyalties on behalf of modern nation-building.

* Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis

The group tried and failed to unseat Willie Brown, who was serving as Speaker of the Assembly of the California State Assembly at the time, by making a deal with assembly Republicans.

State courts deal with independence of the judiciary in many ways, and several forms of judicial selection are used for both trial courts and appellate courts ( including state supreme courts ), varying between states and sometimes within states.

Dobrynin was told by Kissinger to deal with the Secretary of State only on a limited range of less vital matters.

It designated the Secretary of State as chairman of the Senior Interdepartmental Group for Foreign Policy ( SIG ( FP )), and established a " permanent secretariat, composed of personnel of the State Department ," augmented " as necessary " by other agency personnel requested by the Secretary of State, to deal with foreign affairs matters.

Stauffer's book deal with bestseller-writer Sally Jenkins and Random House for State of Jones arose from Ross's screenplay.

Areas in and around Dunnellon served as filming locations for the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers, with a great deal of location work on Tiger Trail, the road to Dunnellon High School, officially known as SW 180th Avenue Rd., just outside of Rainbow Springs State Park.

" A great many of the High Schools in the State publish a weekly paper ," Mr. Jedlicka said, " and this paper is the result of a great deal of punch on the part of both the students and faculty which groups have both wanted the paper.

The State of New York has abandoned a deal to sell the property to Cherokee Northeast / Arker Companies for remediation and future redevelopment.

The song's lyrics deal with depression and suicide, a noticeable departure from the toilet humor present in most of the other songs on Enema of the State.

IBM also did a good deal of business with the Soviet State in the 1930s, including supplying punch cards to the Stalin Automobile Plant.

The Navy, the State of New York and Luciano eventually concluded a deal.

Secretary of State for Defence George Younger announced to the House of Commons that Vickers would receive £ 90 million contract for a demonstrator vehicle, a deal that was finalised in January 1989.

In June, 2008, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Beirut, stating that " the United States believes that the time has come to deal with the Shebaa Farms issue ... in accordance with

He established two intelligence agencies — the Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order ( Kopkamtib ) and the State Intelligence Coordination Agency ( BAKIN )— to deal with threats to the regime.