Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.

The event that sparked the explosion of lobbying was the first direct election of the European Parliament in 1979.

Traditionally Cornish, they have even sparked local events such as the Pasty Fest, where there are eating contests ( with consumption of pasties, of course ), games, events, and even a tug of war event where the losers take a dive into an inflatable pool filled with ketchup.

This event sparked a reign of terror in which dozens of Texans suspected of being loyal to the Union were lynched by Confederate soldiers.

On the night in question, the Station was legally required to have a sprinkler system but did not ; outcry over the event has sparked calls for a national Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act but those efforts have so far stalled.

This event sparked the beginning of the brass industry in Torrington, which later would spread throughout the entire Naugatuck Valley.

The event sparked a series of political controversies where, in the end, the police officers were found guilty of murder and several high-ranking local government officials were accused of planning and / or covering-up the incident.

Further accusations, and hints of accusations, followed, including the suggestion that the murder of Sergey Kirov in 1934, the event that sparked of the Great Terror, could be included in the list of Stalin's crimes.

This event, coupled with the subsequent collapse of several department store chains, sparked a wave of mall renovations in many parts of the country.

This event sparked a mini-feud between Piper and The Ortons.

This event was blamed on the Jews and sparked widespread anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire which lasted for three years.

One story suggests that Comiskey's interest in the game was sparked by an event that occurred when he was 17 years old.

Erekat was also, along with Arafat and Faisal Husseini, one of the three high-ranking Palestinians who asked Ariel Sharon not to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque in September 2000, an event which allegedly sparked off the Second Intifada. He also acted as Yasser Arafat's English interpreter.

For Matt Burden, of Blackfive. net, a specific event sparked his motivation to fill the media void.

The event was meant to foster feelings of reconciliation and cooperation between the two countries by their leaders, but it has also sparked different degrees of discontents on both sides.

However, his promising career was cut short due to his death in an apartment fire 1981 – said to have been accompanied by a suicide note – an event that sparked a progressively diminishing morale in Cziffra, Sr. Cziffra never again performed or recorded with an orchestra, and some critics have commented that the severe emotional blow had an impact on his playing quality as well.

The success of the first Clean Up event in 1989 sparked national interest in the simple but effective community-based idea.

The deciding event in precipitating the First Congo War was the Rwandan genocide, which sparked a mass exodus of refugees known as the Great Lakes refugee crisis.

The Cuban Revolution was a major event all over Latin America and sparked both great concern and a sense of possibility in Nicaragua.

This epochal event sparked a general re-evaluation and revival of Bach's works, which were then largely forgotten and regarded as old-fashioned and beyond resuscitation.

Thus, he sparked the plans to bring the Justice League, leaderless and broken after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, under his exclusive control.

The event sparked the nationwide Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in the dioceses of the United States.

The second season also includes an episode that follows Glasser's efforts to mount an Internet-based telethon to raise money for freedom of speech causes ; this event was in response to his nearly being jailed on obscenity charges several years ago and, according to the episode, was sparked when Glasser discovered a shipment of Seymour Butts tapes that was about to be inadvertently mailed to an American state where importation of pornography is illegal.

The event also sparked interest in the incredible fuel economy of the vehicle-a single tank lasted, even with the tough terrain.

So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.

An International Council ( IC ) was set up to discuss and decide major issues regarding the WSF, while the local organizing committee in the host city is responsible for the practical preparations of the event.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

So popular was this event that it quickly caught on, becoming a fixture at the Olympic games, with major cities staging their own annual events.

All major Cretaceous mammalian lineages, including monotremes ( egg-laying mammals ), multituberculates, marsupials and placentals, dryolestoideans, and gondwanatheres survived the K – Pg extinction event, although they suffered losses.

* an organization of volunteer emergency workers who have received specific training in basic disaster response skills, and who agree to supplement existing emergency responders in the event of a major disaster.

On March 25, 1980, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards in San Francisco to major record label artists to give the event some " New Wave credibility ", in the words of the organizers.

Until the winter of 1978-79, when a major mixing event took place, the Dead Sea was composed of two stratified layers of water that differed in temperature, density, age, and salinity.

David set out in 1790 to transform the contemporary event into a major historical picture which would appear at the Salon of 1791 as a large pen and ink drawing.

The end is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure ( the " Great Break " in continuity ) or the Eocene – Oligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake Bay.

The first major challenge to conventional eugenics based upon genetic inheritance was made in 1915 by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who demonstrated the event of genetic mutation occurring outside of inheritance involving the discovery of the hatching of a fruit fly with white eyes from a family and ancestry of the red-eyed Drosophila melanogaster species of fruit fly.

These differences stem from the threshold chosen for describing an extinction event as " major ", and the data chosen to measure past diversity.

Murray reports that the only event of major consequence during Kenzō's reign had to do with the filial respect he showed for his murdered father.

Their application was refused due to the lack of a major motorsport event held wholly within Monaco's boundaries.

A major event that greatly influenced the development of fascism was the October Revolution of 1917 in which Bolshevik communists led by Vladimir Lenin seized power in Russia.

An anonymous European official claimed that the US officials implied that they might consider shooting down Galileo satellites in the event of a major conflict in which Galileo was used in attacks against American forces.

The start of the period is marked by the major Triassic – Jurassic extinction event.

However, the end of the period did not witness any major extinction event.

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

A major feat of engineering, the " Uganda railway " ( that is the railway inside Kenya leading to Uganda ) was completed in 1903 and was a decisive event in modernizing the area.

The TCCC will be a major advocacy and partnership building event embedded in the overall context of global and regional ( Pacific ) consultations on climate change.

A separate revival occurred in Hastings in 1983 and has become a major event in the town calendar.

This was considered a major event and victory for the movement by its supporters and participants.