The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

The only " relevant " post that is not directly appointed by the President is the Vice-President, which is the second in the winning party.

Anne obtained a second post as governess to the children of the Reverend Edmund Robinson and his wife Lydia, at Thorp Green, a wealthy country house near York.

However most of the colleges began in the mid-1960s as a response education and training for the then emerging baby boom generation, and to provide training to the post second World War II European immigrants and newer immigrants from around the world, that were starting to enter the country.

Attlee came first in both the first and second ballots, and subsequently retained the leadership, a post which he would keep until 1955.

The Hudson's Bay Company's second inland trading post was established by Samuel Hearne in 1774 in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan.

In the first post war years Tito was widely considered a communist leader very loyal to Moscow, indeed, he was often viewed as second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc.

Failing to qualify for the post season for the second straight year, the Saints found themselves struggling on defense.

Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere, the second cardinal ( and second cardinal-nephew ) elevated by Julius II, held the lucrative post of Vice-Chancellor and served as Julius II's papal legate in Bologna.

Pneumatic post systems were used in several large cities starting in the second half of the 19th century ( including an 1866 London system powerful and large enough to transport humans during trial runs – though not intended for the purpose ), but were largely abandoned during the 20th century.

All Perry did that summer was post a 21 – 6 record and a 2. 73 earned run average, edging Montreal's Ross Grimsley to earn the Padres ' second Cy Young Award in three seasons.

In the second match, Swans ruckman Mike Pyke had a Goal of the Year contender disallowed as replays showed it had hit the post.

The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to Dungeons and Dragons and is suitable for solitaire, group, and play-by-mail / post gameplay.

A second post on the Chemical Brothers ' own Twitter account seemed to confirm this.

He further alienated the press when recommending that a deficit in the post office be reduced by eliminating the lower second class rates afforded to magazines and newspapers.

During Washington's short second term, the Eddies fell from power: Vrdolyak became a Republican, Kelly was removed from his powerful parks post, and Burke lost his power as finance chair.

With Sir Clements Markham's blessing he accepted a temporary post assisting the outfitting of the Terra Nova for the second Discovery relief operation but turned down the offer to sail with her as chief officer.

Ketches are similar to a sloop, but there is a second shorter mast to the stern of the mainmast, but forward of the rudder post.

Shakespeare's primary source for Richard II, as for most of his chronicle histories, was Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles ; the publication of the second edition in 1587 provides a terminus post quem for the play.

A half rounder is gained if: the player reaches the fourth post having missed the ball ; the player reaches the second post having hit the ball ; if a batter is obstructed by a fielder whilst running ; or if the same batter has two consecutive no balls.

On the second circuit he would record the finishing order from his position and declare any horse that had not passed him before the previous runner passed the finishing post as " distanced ", meaning a non-finisher.

On the second circuit, after the 30th fence the remaining runners bear right, avoiding The Chair and Water Jump, to head onto a " run-in " to the finishing post.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

K. notices a priest who seems to be preparing to give a sermon from a small second pulpit, and K. begins to leave, lest it begin and K. be compelled to stay for its entirety.

The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.

He took the second and third degrees of Freemasonry within the next month, but this enthusiasm seems also to have waned and he resigned the next year, probably because he intended to leave Ceylon.

This second inequality appears to be due to light taking some time to reach us from the satellite ; light seems to take about ten to eleven minutes cross a distance equal to the half-diameter of the terrestrial orbit.

At the end of the second milemnium BC, when the Mycenean city-state collapsed, it seems that the Greek thought was gradually released from the idea that each man was a servant to the gods, and sought a " moral purpose ".

Because of the reflection, these second waves appear to come from a second antenna behind the plane, just as a visible object in front of a flat mirror forms a virtual image that seems to lie behind the mirror.

Socrates asserts that he owed the impulse to write his work to a certain Theodorus, who is alluded to in the proemium to the second book as " a holy man of God " and seems therefore to have been a monk or one of the higher clergy.

Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is, in fact, Captain Nemo, but that seems physically impossible, or at least very unlikely, as Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is set in the second half of the nineteenth century, which would make Hagbard Celine, if the same character and person as Nemo, over a hundred years old.

A second edition of Pope's Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it.

Newton referred to his plans for a second edition in correspondence with Flamsteed in November 1694: Newton also maintained annotated copies of the first edition specially bound up with interleaves on which he could note his revisions ; two of these copies still survive: but he had not completed the revisions by 1708, and of two would-be editors, Newton had almost severed connections with one, Fatio de Duillier, and the other, David Gregory seems not to have met with Newton's approval and was also terminally ill, dying later in 1708.

Pierrot, on the other hand, as a " second " zanni, is a static character in his earliest incarnations, standing on the periphery of the action, dispensing advice that seems to him sage, and courting — unsuccessfully — his master's young daughter, Columbine, with bashfulness and indecision.

As Cambrensis puts it, " an attention to order now requires that, in this second part, we should employ our pen in pointing out those particulars in which it seems to transgress the line of virtue and commendation ".

It should be a building in Gothic style, but it seems that the plan ( which was not found ) was not met, including the abandonment of the second floor, which was yet scheduled.

The military objective, where it exists, seems to take a completely second place.

Adûnaic derived from the closely related Bëorian and Hadorian dialects of Taliska, the language spoken by the first and third houses of the Edain when they first entered Beleriand during the First Age ( the language ( s ) of the second house, the Haladin, seems to have had little or no influence on Adûnaic whatsoever, despite the apparent presence of both the Haladin and the Drúedain in Númenor prior to its downfall ).

Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: one, in two episodes, recounts Tiresias ' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera ; a second group recounts his blinding by Athena ; a third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias.

In at least some parts of Colchis, the process of urbanization seems to have been well advanced by the end of the second millennium BC, centuries before Greek settlement.

" The question, " how fast does time pass " seems to have no satisfactory answer, in which answers such as " a second per second " would be, as some would argue, trivial and thus false.

The account of Zipacna " entering " in search of the crab ( which is specified to be a female ), in particular his going in " on his back " on the second try, seems to be a parody of sexual intercourse.

The song " Ocean Size Love " seems to be the second single of Blue on Blue, and yet was never promoted.