Chas ( James Fox ) is a soldier in an East London gang led by Harry Flowers ( Johnny Shannon ); his speciality is intimidation through violence as he collects pay-offs for Flowers.

He was a general physician with a speciality in physiology, driven by experience into an interest in pain which later led him to find a neurological basis for sensation in general.

The absence of a similar precaution in construction of his Mosè in Egitto led to disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when the defects in stage contrivance always raised a laugh, so that the composer was at length compelled to introduce the chorus " Dal tuo stellato soglio " to divert attention from the dividing waves.

This led to a visiting professorship in 1935, when she became the first female engineering professor at Purdue ; she was granted full professorship in 1940, dividing her time between the departments of industrial engineering, industrial psychology, home economics, and the dean's office where she consulted on careers for women.

This led to China dividing fellow communist nations into three groups.

By 1969 ELDO was beginning to realise that dividing work up by country led to not enough overall collaboration, with a disjointed framework of planning.

The next morning at a church meeting led by the new MIA head, King, a citywide boycott of public transit was proposed to demand a fixed dividing line for the segregated sections of the buses.

To be able to continue their parliamentary work, the group formed the Sozialdemokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft ( SAG, " Social Democratic Working Group "); concerns from the SPD leadership and Friedrich Ebert that the SAG was intent on dividing the SPD then led to the expulsion of the SAG members from the SPD on January 18, 1917.

On March 18, 2005, Amina Wadud gave a sermon and led Friday prayers for a Muslim congregation consisting of men as well as women, with no curtain dividing the men and women.

* 2005: On March 18, 2005, an American woman named Amina Wadud ( an Islamic studies professor at Virginia Commonwealth University ) gave a sermon and led Friday prayers for a Muslim congregation consisting of men as well as women, with no curtain dividing the men and women.

Congress, led by Gandhi and Nehru remained adamantly opposed to dividing India.

The decision of Jim Anderton and a majority of Alliance MPs to back New Zealand's involvement in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan brought these tensions to a head, dividing the caucus and from the majority in the non-parliamentary party organisation ( led by Matt McCarten ).

Through various incidents, a ditch has been dug through the village dividing it into the party of the left ( led by Cleverdix ) and the party of the right ( ruled by Majestix ).

Overlea Boulevard used to be the dividing line between the industrial and residential sections, but the decline of the industrial sector in Toronto has led to the appearance of retail establishments and service organizations in the former factories on the north side of Overlea.

Montagu led the Indian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, where he opposed plans for dividing Turkey ( including the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the projected removal of the Sultan from Constantinople ).

Forays into digital video technology led him to conceive of and direct Timecode, which took advantage of the technology to create an ensemble film shot simultaneously with four cameras all in one take and also presented simultaneously and uncut, dividing the screen into four quarters.

After two failed attempts at the main gate by British and Sepoy companies, and many casualties, Captain Campbell led the 94th Scottish Brigade ( light company ) up the ravine dividing the inner and outer forts and into the inner fort by escalade.

Although he could have made a substantial profit dividing and selling sections of the property as building lots, Denison's interests in conservation led him to donate the land to the province for the purpose of forming a park in 1959.

Early on, the organization had ambitious plans for building a temple, getting a burial ground, and dividing the land into goðorð, led by individual goðar.

Having already faced the reality of settler life in Beaupré, de Lahontan again led his men to Boucherville to live with local habitants between 1685 and 1687 – himself dividing his time between hunting and classical literature.

The famous murder of William Davis by strike breakers, and the seizing of the New Waterford power plant by striking miners led to a major union sentiment that persists to this day in some circles.

From these circles of spiritual inspiration, the early Hasidic movement arose, led by Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, in 18th century Podolia ( now Ukraine ).

Ramsay's high standing in scientific circles led to him being an adviser in the setting up of the Indian Institute of Science.

Ramsay ’ s high standing in scientific circles led to his unfortunate endorsement in 1905 of the Industrial and Engineering Trust Ltd., a corporation with a supposed secret process to extract gold from seawater.

Over the years, there has been much discussion within square dancing circles about relaxing the dress code, and this has led to the adoption of alternative less restrictive attire designations — " proper " attire and " casual " attire.

Although claiming to be still a supporter of social democracy, his economic policies led people on the left to identify him with neoliberalism and right-wing politics, terms that often carry a very negative connotation in Latin American political debate and academic circles.

The multiplication of epicycles is believed to have led to a nearly unworkable system by the 16th century, and that Copernicus created his heliocentric system in order to simplify the Ptolemaic astronomy of his day, thus succeeding in drastically reducing the number of circles.

Together these circles of interest became a collaborating force led by United States Senator and Lowell native Paul Tsongas to enact legislation for a national park.

Limited reforms within professional management circles have led in the past to activity-based costing, economic value added, and risk measures.

Amsterdam The canals of Amsterdam, when seen from the air, appear as a series of concentric circles emerging from the city centre, which led Camus to liken them to the circles of Hell.

This thinking led to a great debate in military aviation circles.

Nosaka was a founding member of the British Communist Party, but his activity within British communist circles led to him being deported from Britain in 1921.

On his mother's side Samuel Rogers was connected with the well-known English Dissenters clergymen Philip Henry and his son Matthew, was brought up in Nonconformist circles, and became a long-standing member of the Unitarian congregation at Newington Green, then led by the remarkable Dr Richard Price.

This event led to a controversy in medical circles at that time as to the causes of what was later recognised in 1898 as malaria spread by the Anopheles mosquito.

In 1977 a prefectural road was built that circles half of the island, which has led to a few Iriomote cat deaths every year caused by traffic accidents.

Having studied under Runeberg he belonged to Liberal, anti-tsarist circles that agitated for Finland's liberation from Russia by the Swedes during the Crimean War ; and an unguarded speech at a convivial entertainment in 1855 drew the attention of the Imperial Russian authorities to his political views, and led to a dismissal from the university.

Some respectable women in Washington social circles led by Floride Calhoun, the wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun had snubbed her because she and Eaton married shortly after her first husband's death.

Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.

After local government re-organisation in 1974 he continued as leader of the newly-constituted Rhymney Valley District Council and led a campaign for a Fair Rents Act against plans by the Conservative Government of Edward Heath to increase the amount of rent paid by Council house tenants, although in Labour circles it was well known that he wanted to surrender to the government, but was voted down by the local labour party management, led by Ray Davies.

His demonstration in 1806 of a change of form in the Greenwich mural quadrant led to the introduction of astronomical circles at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and to his own appointment as its head.

He caused annoyance in conventional circles, who lost no opportunity to attack his work and led him to seek opportunities outside the UK.

This concession, though discussed in Hamas circles, did not come about soon enough to prevent a serious breakdown in services under Hamas government, and Western ( especially American ) support of Fatah paramilitaries eventually led to the breakout of the Fatah – Hamas conflict ( termed a " Palestinian Civil War " by some ) in December 2006.

His prominence in the United Kingdom's political circles led to resentment at what was seen to be Albert's ( and, generally, German ) intervention in the UK's affairs.