Thanks also to Lawrence's involvement in the Ohio Company, a land investment company funded by Virginia investors, and Lawrence's position as commander of the Virginia militia, Washington came to the notice of the new lieutenant governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie.

The word " Moonie " was first used by the American news media in the 1970s when Sun Myung Moon moved to the United States and came into public notice through a series of public speeches he gave, including at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1974 and Yankee Stadium and the grounds of the Washington Monument in 1976.

Amos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called " More Than Just a Friend ".

However, many of these criticisms simply fail to notice that Coleridge's original statement came in a restrictive clause.

He first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided: his wife had a public affair with Lord Byron — she coined the famous characterisation of him as " mad, bad, and dangerous to know ".

The wood first came to the notice of Europeans with the beginning of Spanish colonisation in the Americas.

In 2009, the school's musical protégés came to wider notice when featured in a TV documentary A Boy Called Alex.

Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, and was one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state.

Harris first came to general notice as the editor of a series of London papers including the Evening News, the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review, the last-named being the high point of his journalistic career, with H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw as regular contributors.

Manuel came to the notice of Basil II because of his defence, in 978, of Nicaea against the rebel Bardas Skleros.

The book, written by Christopher Paolini, was self-published and self-promoted by tour throughout the United States without much attention until it came to Hiaasen's notice in 2002.

As the people came back day after day and week after week, they began to notice the hair had shriveled and turned grey and had begun spreading from tree to tree.

It is never explained in the epic why Dolon, specially mentioned as a man of lesser intelligence, came to notice this flaw while Hector ( in spite of all his boasting ) completely missed / ignored it.

His first break came when he was offered -- on 2 weeks ' notice -- a chance against Willie ' the Worm ' Monroe, who was being trained by Joe Frazier.

* Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi — Opera singer, she first came to public notice as a member of the world-famous opera band Amici Forever

They first came to notice in the UK when radio DJ John Peel played " Birthday ".

The first public reaction from an established Leipzig publisher came five weeks after Zedler's notice.

Matthew Fletcher had in 1789 been employed as a technical advisor and had surveyed the route of the proposed canal, but the first public notice came from Manchester on 4 September 1790.

The bocage form of the word came to English notice during the Second World War.

It came to the notice of the elector palatine Frederick III, who had it translated into German and published in 1566.

Bondage as a sexual activity first came to notice in Japan in the late Edo period.

The Movement poets as a group came to public notice in Robert Conquest's 1955 anthology New Lines.

The site for the zoo, a 16th century manor house, Les Augres Manor, came to Durrell's notice by chance after a long and unsuccessful search for a suitable site.

He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

Heavily armed and mobilized as a fast-moving Civil Defense outfit, 23 operators and office personnel stand ready to move into action at a minute's notice ''.

Those persons who were lucky enough to see and hear the performance of his work at the Brest-Silevniov Festival in August, 1916, will certainly welcome his return to public notice ; ;

With respect to positions not covered by subparagraph ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) of this paragraph, any individual may be referred to a place of employment in which a labor dispute exists, provided he is given written notice of such dispute prior to or at the time of his referral.

The secretary's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful.

Therefore, her wardrobe is largely mobile, to be packed at a moment's notice and to shake out without a wrinkle.

One could hardly blame Newbold Morris, the Parks Commissioner, for devoting so much grateful mention to the department's technicians who at short notice provided the stage with its rising platforms, its balcony, its generous wings and even its impressive trapdoors for the use of the villains.

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

Few people took notice of Nagaoka's work at the time,

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

" I thought, oh well, maybe nobody will notice it, but not at all.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

Preparations for an emergency launch proceeded at fever pitch and led to the NRO's institution of " R7 " status, that is, keeping a Corona spy satellite ready for launch on 7 days ' notice in case of an emergency.

As part of the blockade, the US military was put on high alert to enforce the blockade and to be ready to invade Cuba at a moment's notice.

An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.

According to one nineteenth-century writer, at a time when it was hard for unknown painters to come to the attention of the Royal Academy, he first found notice by displaying a painting at the " small Corpus Christi " ( held eight days after the regular one ) on the Place Dauphine ( by the Pont Neuf ).

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

This notice was found later that year by Astorians looking to establish an inland fur post, contributing to their selection of a more northerly site at Fort Okanogan.

The Baudot apparatus was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle ( 1878 ) and won him the Exposition's gold medal, as well as bringing his system to worldwide notice.

However, while the members of the expedition are at first stunned by the sheer beauty of the land around them, they begin to notice that things are not as perfect as they seem.