The development of radar in the U. K. was started by Sir Henry Tizard's Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence in 1935.

* Judith Tizard's speech to Parliament at the passing of the amendment to the Copyright Act

Following the end of the Cold War, Minister of Defence Bob Tizard's term of office saw the RNZAF begin to consolidate its facilities.

" Tizard's chosen problem became aeronautics.

After qualifying, Rivers sought to follow his ambition and join the army but was not passed fit.

In 1928, aged 16, he made the decision to join a monastic order, but he had to wait until he was seventeen and a half to fulfill this ambition.

Under Shevardnadze's strongly pro-Western administration, Georgia became a major recipient of U. S. foreign and military aid, signed a strategic partnership with NATO and declared an ambition to join both NATO and the European Union.

Speaking to reporters he said: " What I have to offer is my ambition, enthusiasm and passion .... What I have to offer is my experience over many years in Parliament and campaigning around the country to motivate people to join us.

" The Chinese state enforced a rapid fertility transition designed to cultivate a generation of " high-quality " people with resources and ambition to join the global elite.

Most European states have either joined, or stated their ambition to join, the European Union.

In his later life, Sweet would see his ambition to join the “ Talented Tenth ” vindicated when W. E. B.

He also had an ambition to join Manchester United at the age of 19.

Toulouse's ambition to join the European Super League grew but in 2003, their application was rejected by the Rugby Football League in favour of Union Treiziste Catalane.

His ambition may have been to establish himself in the chief command in the Peloponnese: but the reconciliation of Polyperchon with Cassander must have frustrated this: and on the arrival of the Egyptian king with a fleet at Cos, Ptolemy repaired from Chalcis to join him.

He nursed an ambition to join the Indian Army and won the Best Cadet award from West Bengal and participated in the Republic Day parade.

Along with a number of other navy pilots, Talbot therefore realised that he was more likely to achieve his ambition of being posted overseas if he joined the Marines.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

To be presiding officer of it was the end of his desire and ambition.

But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan, that man's ambition when linked with God would be a driving, indefatigable force for good in the world.

In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.

It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

It was the kind of work I was doing, the quality of the ambition it awoke in me, that kept me from painting.

Since her adulteress mother was his own sister, Afonso V had not only ambition, but the family honour to protect.

Adam Kirsch, in his biography of Disraeli, states that his Jewishness was " both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine.

In a 1996 New York Magazine piece on women in rock music, it was noted that Love " had the ambition most people would associate with a male rock star ... one thing you have to admire her for is that she refuses — just refuses — to be overlooked in any way.

Future coup attempts could rally around the pair, and Agrippina was already showing such ambition.

Peter, however, cannot be accused of ambition or the lust of power when a monastic superior, any more than when he insisted on divesting himself of the Papacy, to which he was subsequently raised.

The artistic challenge was resurrected with increasing ambition as art became more and more realistic with the invention of photography, film ( see Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat ), and immersive computer simulations.

Although it initially received widespread support from the diving community, the FINA requirement that international competitors had to be registered with their National Governing Body was a major factor in the abandonment of this ambition a few years later.

Ethiopian ambition in the Horn was apparent in the expansionist ambition of its monarch when Haile Selassie claimed Italian Somaliland and Eritrea.

At 15, he was reading the original papers of Joseph Louis Lagrange, such as the landmark Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations which likely motivated his later work on equation theory, and Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions, work intended for professional mathematicians, yet his classwork remained uninspired, and his teachers accused him of affecting ambition and originality in a negative way.

The Catholic Church teaches that juridical oversight over the Church is not a power that derives from human ambition, but strictly from the authority of Christ which was given to his twelve apostles.

" His vanity, though child-like, was monstrous, his ambition unbridled.

However, it is not clear the extent to which Maximus sought this position due to his own ambition or if he was merely a pawn in the power struggle.

Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.

But this arrangement soon gave way before the ambition of one of these tetrarchs, Deiotarus, the contemporary of Cicero and Julius Caesar, who made himself master of the other two tetrarchies and was finally recognized by the Romans as ' king ' of Galatia.

His ambition was further thwarted by the person of John Comyn.

Finally, after he had restored his reputation at Lausanne, his ultimate ambition was thwarted by George V.

Thus for Creighton, Canadian history after 1891 was for the most part the story of missed opportunities, thwarted ambition, and hopes scattered as the dream that was Canada was slowly allowed to unravel.

Taking into account his aggressive ambition and statements suggesting he dreamed of world conquest, most historians agree that Mehmed the Conqueror was initially interested in occupying Hungary and expanding as far into Europe as possible but was thwarted by the defeat at Belgrade and contained by Matthias ' military strength as well as fierce resistance by Vlach vassals.

Mary's ambition to play for the college hockey team is thwarted when she falls foul of Mary de Putron, the aggressive and authoritarian college games captain, over the question of a borrowed bicycle.

However early in 1936, the Society discovered that this ambition was thwarted by the Explosives Act of 1875, which prevented any private testing of liquid-fuel rockets in the United Kingdom.

His sons Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger both studied medicine, a thwarted ambition of Platter's own early life.

His ambition to be a physician was thwarted by a disastrous piece of research and a nervous breakdown, after which he turned his attention to psychiatry.

It also set itself apart from the other branches due to its history of thwarted political ambition — the founder, Munetake, had hoped to become his father's heir but was passed over for Yoshimune's eldest son, Ieshige.

And when finally Kartini's ambition was thwarted, many of her friends expressed their disappointment.

He had hoped to enter at Shelsley Walsh somewhat earlier, but had been thwarted in this ambition as there were no spaces left in the entry list.