Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

John de Courcy Ireland, and his wife Beatrice, aiming to campaign for the Irish government to support international efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament and to keep Ireland free of nuclear power.

John died of dysentery contracted whilst on campaign in eastern England during late 1216 ; supporters of his son Henry III went on to achieve victory over Louis and the rebel barons the following year.

As president, he did not want the United States to annex Texas, an act which John Tyler would achieve eight years after Van Buren's initial rejection.

With the failure of Magna Carta to achieve peace or restrain John, the barons reverted to the more traditional type of rebellion by trying to replace the monarch they disliked with an alternative.

‪ File: Wheeler, John-Archibald 1963 Kopenhagen. jpg ‬‬| John Wheeler ( 1911-2008 ): revived interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II, worked with Niels Bohr to explain principles of nuclear fission, tried to achieve Einstein ’ s vision of a unified field theory, coined the terms black hole, quantum foam, wormhole, and the phrase “ it from bit ”.

Early American advocates of Universal Salvation such as Elhanan Winchester, Hosea Ballou and John Murray taught that all souls would achieve salvation, sometimes after a period resembling purgatory.

A critically panned film he made about the life of Richard Wagner ( noted for having the only onscreen teaming of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the same scenes ) was shown as a television miniseries in 1983 after failing to achieve a theatrical release in most countries, but Burton enjoyed a personal triumph in the American television miniseries Ellis Island in 1984, receiving a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his final television performance.

The management thinker and inventor of The Vanguard Method, Professor John Seddon claims that shared service projects based on attempts to achieve ' economies of scale ' are a mix of a ) the plausibly obvious and b ) a little hard data, brought together to produce two broad assertions, for which there is little hard factual evidence ..

In 1916 Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe claimed that the Germans could achieve victory in the Atlantic and force Britain to terms.

The only Detroit blues performer to achieve national fame is John Lee Hooker, as record companies and promoters have tended to ignore the Detroit scene in favor of the larger, more influential Chicago blues.

When Spain closed the port of New Orleans to American commerce in 1784, Congress sent John Jay to Madrid to achieve terms to open the Mississippi to Americans.

The SLP had a number of members who would later go on to achieve a name for themselves as a mainstream Labour politician, including John McAllion who became MP and then MSP for Dundee East, Maria Fyfe one time MP for Glasgow Maryhill, Colin Boyd, the former Lord Advocate, and Charlie Gordon, the former MSP for Glasgow Cathcart.

" and her lead vocals on " Gigantic ", Albini moved the studio equipment and recorded in a studio bathroom to achieve real, rather than studio, echo ; according to John Murphy, Deal's husband at the time, " Albini didn't like the studio sound.

Holmes quotes with approval John Terraine ’ s verdict that French was the most distinguished English cavalry leader since Cromwell, and argues that although he did not achieve victory, his personality inspired the BEF in 1914, a fact acknowledged even by Robertson, marred by his “ undisciplined intellect and mercurial personality ”.

John at that time was trying to assist British performers whom he personally liked to achieve success in the US ( he had released records in the US by veteran British pop singer Cliff Richard on his own Rocket Records label.

This tale went on to achieve greater currency because its inventor linked Brutus to the diaspora of heroes that followed the Trojan War, and thus provided raw material which later mythographers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael Drayton, and John Milton could draw upon, linking the settlement of Britain to the heroic age of Greek literature, for their several and diverse literary purposes.

During its first 60 years, influential artists associated with the school included Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and pioneer of motion graphics ; Maynard Dixon, painter of San Francisco ’ s labor movement and of the landscape of the West ; Henry Kiyama, whose Four Immigrants Manga was the first graphic novel published in the U. S .; Sargent Claude Johnson, one of the first African-American artists from California to achieve a national reputation ; Louise Dahl-Wolfe, an innovative photographer whose work for Harper ’ s Bazaar in the 1930s defined a new American style of “ environmental ” fashion photography ; John Gutzon Borglum, the creator of the large-scale public sculpture known as Mt.

During this time, Symantec was advised by Jim Lally and John Doerr — both were board members of Symantec at that stage — ( Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ) that if Symantec would cut its expenses and grow revenues enough to achieve cash flow break-even, then KPCB would back the company in raising more venture capital.

Continuing its ethos of helping small independent businesses gain a strong foothold under the " Quiggins " banner, it had long been Quiggins ' intention to acquire the lease to the John Lewis Store ( formerly George Henry-Lee ) on Church Street, and lengthy negotiations took place with Grosvenor and City Council in an attempt to achieve this.

Birmingham had been a centre for the printing and publishing of books since the 1650s but the rise of John Baskerville and the nine other printers he attracted to the town in the 1750s saw this achieve international significance.

One of the policemen helping to chase and kill the werewolf is John Altman, who would later achieve fame as " Nasty " Nick Cotton in EastEnders.

Authors John Taffin and Mike Venturino have demonstrated that modern black powder loadings of the 45 Colt cartridge frequently achieve velocities in the vicinity of with the 7½ " " cavalry " barrel length, even though modern solid-head cases make it impossible to load a full 40 grains.

England had won the First Test of the three-match series ; however, Ganguly scored a century, becoming only the third cricketer to achieve such a feat on debut at Lord's, after Harry Graham and John Hampshire.

This is not how English works, where word order and prepositions are used to achieve this.

A trade union ( British English ), labour union ( Canadian English ) or labor union ( American English ) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.

The ranges the sling could achieve with molded lead glandes was only topped by the strong composite bow or, centuries later, the heavy English longbow, both at massively greater cost.

The numerical and material inferiority of the Scottish forces would be mirrored by that of the English in the Hundred Years ' War, who, in turn, abandoned chivalric warfare to achieve decisive victory in similar engagements such as Crécy and Poitiers.

In some contexts, German has adopted the English loanword Gender to achieve this distinction.

This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not speak English well, but the humour of each others ' mistakes actually helps him to achieve his aim.

However, in order to mount his invasion, he needed to achieve naval superiority — or at least to pull the British fleet away from the English Channel.

In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them.

Notice how such a comparison of these two standpoints is neither exclusively religious nor secular, a factor which perhaps offers some small insight as to how Boyle managed to achieve what seems to us now the extraordinary feat of gaining strong favour at various times with the leaders on either side of the English Civil war.

Kent briefly attempted an international career with English versions of the albums Isola and Hagnesta Hill and an accompanying American tour for the former, but they gave up after failing to achieve the breakthrough they had hoped for.

" To achieve a resonant sense of the lost past, the now-legendary time of a peaceful alliance of the Horse-lords with the city of Gondor, Tolkien has adapted lines of the Old English poem The Wanderer.

Hadlee, and his immediate successor at Nottinghamshire Franklyn Stephenson, are the only two players to achieve this feat in English county cricket since the number of county games per season was reduced in 1969.

This interpretation suggests that the " English Revolution " was the final act in the long process of reform and consolidation by Parliament to achieve a balanced constitutional monarchy in Britain, and laws were made that pointed towards freedom.

During this period, Everton were the first English club to achieve five consecutive years in European competitions — seasons 1961 – 62 to 1966 – 67.

70 % of the school's pupils speak English as a second language, with a majority speaking Sylheti, a dialect of Bengali, at home, but the Ofsted inspectorate deemed Bangabandhu a " successful and effective school " where pupils " achieve well and make good progress ".

Otago graduates are among the most dispersed university alumni in the world, due in part to New Zealand being considered a relatively affordable and safe destination by many Asian students to improve their English and achieve a high quality western education.

British and American English ), since it does not have the Mindestabstand, or ' minimum divergence ' necessary to achieve language status through standardisation and codification.

As a result, he was awarded the International Master title in 1972, the first English player to achieve this since Jonathan Penrose in 1961.

Mordecai became the Smyrnan agent of an English trading house and managed to achieve some wealth in this role.

The win made them the first team in the English football leagues to achieve promotion in the 2009 – 10 season.

The faculties for law, medicine, economics, history, English studies, German studies, biology, dentistry, and pharmacology achieve especially high scores.