U. S. Bankruptcy Judge Pamela Peppers threw out the filing in December 2010 after finding there was no state law enabling a municipality to declare bankruptcy.

A body of redcoats were seen marching down a nearby slope, a tempting target for the riflemen, who threw a volley into their ranks and `` messed up '' the smart formation considerably.

When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

He got to his feet and threw the flashlight beam into the pit.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

In the most famous version of her myth, her birth was the consequence of a castration: Cronus severed Uranus ' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea.

When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.

Preferring to die rather than give up his chastity, he threw himself into the river Amazonius, which was subsequently renamed Tanais.

Later, on the way south, Abbasid horsemen again caught up with the trio: Abd al-Rahman and his companions then threw themselves into the River Euphrates.

There, he started a great fire and threw his scabbard into the flames.

When Sultan Murad V began to show signs of paranoia, madness and continuous fainting and vomiting even on the day of his coronation and threw himself into a pool yelling at his guards to protect his life, they were afraid the public would become outraged and revolt to bring the former Sultan back.

Sher Ali threw Afzal Khan into prison, and a serious revolt followed in southern Afghanistan.

The quarrels among Timur's descendants that threw Afghanistan into turmoil also provided the pretext for the intervention of outside forces.

Goldoni thanked his critic, went back to his inn and ordered a fire, into which he threw the manuscript of his Amalasunta.

After he became Emperor, Caligula claimed to have planned to kill Tiberius with a dagger in order to avenge his mother and brother: however, having brought the weapon into Tiberius's bedroom he did not kill the Emperor but instead threw the dagger down on the floor.

The story has it that, for her hospitality, Mrs. Raymond was bid to hold out her apron, into which Kidd threw gold and jewels until it was full.

Romo then threw 3 touchdown passes to Miles Austin as the Cowboys rallied to send the game into overtime.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

When the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes emerged from the drops of blood, while Aphrodite was born from the crests of seafoam.

Mononobe no Okoshi and his men promptly threw the statue into a river in Naniwa and burned the temple that the Soga's had built to hold it.

He garroted women with the strings of musical instruments and then threw the bodies into a lake.

Upon their arrival, Odin threw Jörmungandr into " that deep sea that lies round all lands ", and then threw Hel into Niflheim, and bestowed upon her authority over nine worlds.

In 1527 Erasmus threw doubt on the accuracy of ascribing the authorship of this document to Ambrose, and its author is now usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster, or pseudo-Ambrose.

This threw further doubt on the case.

These events threw doubt on Macnaghten's capacity for dealing with the problems of Indian diplomacy, though his fearlessness and integrity were unquestioned.

The writing of this note was disguised, but the place it came from left no room for doubt that it came from Colonel Max von Schwartzkoppen ; the office possessed another document, known to have been written by him, and signed with the same initial " C ." The " petit bleu " had not been sent by mail ; apparently, after having written or dictated it, Schwartzkoppen decided not to send it and threw it away, taking care to tear it up into more than fifty very small pieces.

This prompted a formal study by the Society for Psychical Research, which rejected most of the sightings as either imagined or fabricated, and threw doubt on Price's credibility.

The Chief Justice on this occasion threw doubt on the trustworthiness of Bedloe and Oates as witnesses, and warned the jury to be careful in accepting their evidence.

He would later testify at the 1987 trial of Barbie in Lyon, although the prosecutor " threw doubt " on Thomas ' testimony with regard to the " difficulties of identification " after so much time had elapsed.

His results threw doubt on the validity of three traditional concepts dear to biologists in the earlier part of the twentieth century: " stability " of the cell, in which the cell and its components are unchanging, permanent structures ; " specificity " of cell function, in which each cell type has a distinct, unique function ; and " activity-rest alternation " of cell function, in which each period of cellular activity is followed by a period during which the activity ceases.

Swansea City have expressed a desire to have the capacity of the stadium increased and have held talks with Swansea Council during the 2011 / 2012 season for the future expansion of the Liberty stadium which would be completed in a number of phases beginning with expansion or redevelopment of the east stand. Plans for a new McDonald's fast food restaurant to be opened near the stadium threw expansion plans into doubt.

Nonetheless, Prager points out in The Echoing Green that Thomson hit over. 100 higher after the sign stealing scheme began in July 1951 and " no doubt " received advanced notice of the two fastballs Branca threw at him that day.

In the First Test Stackpole should have been run out for 18 as Geoff Boycott threw down the wicket at the bowler's end, but the batsman was given the benefit of the doubt by Lou Rowan.

His future at Tottenham was left in doubt after he pulled off his shirt and threw it to the ground after being substituted during a Premier League match against Blackburn on 10 May 2007.

The arrival of Brian Marwood in March threw his first team chances into serious doubt.

A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.

Although Vikings quarterback Jeff George threw for 423 yards and 4 touchdowns, 3 of his scores occurred late in the fourth quarter after the Rams had already put the game away.

When the Hafsid Emir of Tunisia, Muhammad I al-Mustansir, who had put himself under James the Conqueror, died in 1277, Tunisia threw off the yoke of Aragonese suzerainty.

To put an end to her torture he had the statue and the sacred offerings burned on a pyre he had made, but Laodamia, not enduring her grief, threw herself on it and was burned to death.

Mistrustful, Conchobar then sent another spy, Gelbann, who managed to catch a glimpse of Deirdre but was seen by Naoise, who threw a gold chess piece at him and put out his eye.

She also put in numerous personal appearances to hospitals, threw parties, performed at United Service Organizations ( USO ) shows and war bond rallies, to raise funds to support the war, on behalf of the Victory Committee.

: And above them all this president is enthroned, a man who threw his beliefs out of the window at the very moment that he became able to put them into practice.

Holloway reassured him over a lunch at Claridge's: Lerner recalled, " He put down his knife and fork, threw back his head and unleashed a strong baritone note that resounded through the dining room, drowned out the string quartet and sent a few dozen people off to the osteopath to have their necks untwisted.

She also threw dinner parties for him and put on plays that exalted him.

Local Irish youths, incensed that anyone would dare to put the " British " red above the " Irish " green, threw stones at the signal and broke the red light.

When a man threw ashes and tares about to try to see King Goldemar's footprints, the kobold cut him to pieces, put him on a spit, roasted him, boiled his legs and head, and ate him.

* Death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, which threw many writers out of position and put them into opposition.

Meanwhile, Thorpe threw a touchdown pass to put the Indians on the scoreboard.

To delay the British advance 600 Māori threw up a defence line, north – south on the Hairini ridge using an old trench – they deepened it and put up a parapet and defended it against a British attack.

Perkins joined in, claiming that he once put colleague Peter Donaldson's feet in concrete and threw him into a canal.

He came second to Ulf Timmermann of East Germany, who threw 22. 47 m. On January 20, 1989, he set a new indoor world record at the Sunkist Invitational in Los Angeles with a put of 22. 66 m ( 74 ft 4. 25 in ), which was better than his outdoor personal best at the time.

( In the 2009 MLB season, 3. 1 % of starts were complete games ) To put this in perspective, as recently as the 1980s, 10 – 15 complete games a year by a star pitcher was not unheard of, and in 1980, Oakland Athletics pitcher Rick Langford threw 22 consecutive complete games.

" At the beginning of their 1971 playoff for the U. S. Open, he threw a rubber snake that his daughter had put in his bag as a joke, at Jack Nicklaus, who later admitted that he asked Trevino to throw it to him so he could see it.

She was later put into a coma when Moon Knight threw one of his crescent blades at her, hitting her in the head when she was about to kill Black Cat.

Therefore the younger brother of the latter, Oduduwa, took the three items of creation from him, climbed down from the heavens on a chain and threw a handful of earth on the primordial ocean, then put a cockerel on it so that it would scatter the earth, thus creating the land on which Ile Ife would be built.

Emmett Kelly, the tramp clown, threw a bucket of water at the burning canvas tent in a futile effort to put the fire out, but ultimately more than 100 people were killed.

" " Yeah-hunkered down, drank the pint of rye, went home, threw up, and wrote ' Tom Traubert's Blues ' [...] Every guy down there ... everyone I spoke to, a woman put him there.

Legend has it that after the Liverpool players had been presented with the Super Cup trophy and were leaving the field at Goodison Park, Reds striker Ian Rush threw the trophy to an Everton ball boy, and suggested that he keep it and put it in his bedroom.

Black, sticky tar was put onto alley walls which damaged Salvation Army uniforms as they marched past and threw eggs filled with blue paint at the “ Sally Army ”.

Though this is commonly remembered as the tournament Norman threw away, Faldo's 67 was a memorable display of concentration and consistency which put pressure on Norman.