" It is believed he was the intended target of the Yes, Minister joke where Jim Hacker, upon being asked for the political implications of becoming an E. U. commissioner, replies: " you're reduced to forming a new party if you ever want to get back in ".

When Yallop, who believed that Craig should have been imprisoned for manslaughter and Bentley thus cleared, asked Goddard about Derek Bentley's execution, he received the following reply, " Yes, I thought that Bentley was going to be reprieved.

Researchers seeking to rebut accusations of anti-Semitism often point to the fact that Kolbe sheltered Jewish refugees during the war, and, according to one person who worked close to him: " When Jews came to me asking for a piece of bread, I asked Father Maximilian if I could give it to them in good conscience, and he answered me, ' Yes, it is necessary to do this because all men are our brothers.

Yes: though not professional musicians, they were a music-loving family.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

Yes, the boy's credentials were in order -- scholastic transcript, character references, picture, health record, successful college boards.

" Yes, that's it, exactly, we were stabbed in the back.

" As our tastes got more obscure ," Geddy Lee said in a recent interview, " we discovered more progressive rock-based bands like Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we were very inspired by those bands.

These instruments were also widely used among progressive rock bassists, particularly Chris Squire of Yes and Geddy Lee of Rush, who achieved distinctive signature sounds with their Rickenbacker bass, strung with round-wound Rotosound bass strings.

He answered the question of whether it could be cured in patients who were moral and determined “ mit einem runden Ja !“ (“ with a round Yes !“).

They were also writing multi-part suites such as " Starship Trooper " on The Yes Album ( 1971 ), " Heart of the Sunrise " on Fragile ( 1971 ), " Close To the Edge " on Close to the Edge ( 1972 ) and " Awaken " on Going For The One ( 1977 ).

Its primary law-making powers were enhanced following a Yes vote in the referendum on 3 March 2011, making it possible for it to legislate without having to consult the UK parliament, nor the Secretary of State for Wales in the 20 areas that are devolved.

" When he explained to Beckett that he was playing Lucky as if he were suffering from Parkinson's, Beckett said, "' Yes, of course.

The 2009 holiday season impacts from the " Yes, Virginia " special broadcast on the CBS television network on December 11, 2009, were: 1 ) " Yes, Virginia " reached more than 3. 7 million television viewers, 2 ) the associated public relations effort resulted in a substantial lift in overall exposure during Macy's most critical season with 1. 84 billion impressions generated, 3 ) On the night of the show on December 11, 2009, " Yes, Virginia " was Google's No. 1 and No. 4 hottest search terms, 4 ) " Yes, Virginia " made TV Guide's coveted Hot List.

The NME wrote about the phenomenon, " Yes, in a week where news leaked that Saddam Hussein was preparing nuclear weapons, everyday folks were still getting slaughtered in Bosnia and Mike Tyson was making his comeback, tabloids and broadsheets alike went Britpop crazy.

After the 35th anniversary tour in September 2004, Yes were inactive for four years.

Cream's supporting acts were Taste ( featuring a young Rory Gallagher ) and the newly formed Yes, who received good reviews.

Says Boyd, “ When we heard our video had been relegated to late night rotation, I think that all of us were secretly like, ‘ Yes !’ ”.

In early 1981, Wetton and former Yes guitarist Steve Howe were brought together by A & R man John Kalodner and Geffen Records to start writing material for a new album.

By this point, many progressive rock bands, such as Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, had folded, so many qualified musicians were available for this proposed group.

They were eventually joined by drummer Carl Palmer, and finally by Howe's recent Yes cohort, keyboardist Geoff Downes.

Two other players auditioned and considered during the band's formation were former The Move and ELO founder Roy Wood and the aforementioned guitarist / singer Trevor Rabin, who would go on to be part of a reformed Yes in 1983.

Asia's logo and cover art were handled by illustrator Roger Dean of Yes and Uriah Heep fame.

Yes songs were omitted from this tour's setlist, though Asia also covered " Roundabout " on earlier legs of the " Four Original Members " tour.

Critics of United States foreign policy such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, and anti-globalist pranksters The Yes Men are widely accepted inside the movement.

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Under the mainstream radar, there have been acclaimed independent musical films, such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Dancer in the Dark ; and foreign musical films, such as 8 Women, The Other Side of the Bed and Yes Nurse!

An explicit formalization of natural languages semantics without confusions with implicit assumptions such as closed world assumption ( CWA ) vs. open world assumption, or subjective Yes / No vs. objective True / False is expected for the construction of a basis of semantics formalization.

Several crew members wore protest t-shirts with slogans such as " Yes Guvnor, my ass " and " Will Rogers never met Ridley Scott " in reference to Will Rogers's most famous quotation, " I never met a man I didn't like ".

In the UK, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers put forward a slate of candidates in the 2009 European Parliament elections under the banner of No to EU – Yes to Democracy, a broad left-wing alter-globalisation coalition involving socialist groups such as the Socialist Party, aiming to offer an alternative to the " anti-foreigner " and pro-business policies of the UK Independence Party.

:" Yes, that's the book ; such unnatural stuff!

Arkenstone was influenced by writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien and Ian Fleming, and grew up listening to bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple and Yes, as well as listening to classical music.

The term is also used to describe existing bands whose members achieved individual fame after the band's founding, such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Genesis and Yes.

Composer and conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst, who had also produced themes for such series as Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister and Only Fools and Horses created the theme for the show.

* It was not until Yes, Prime Minister that another such character appeared regularly: Dorothy Wainwright, special adviser to the Prime Minister, who was played by Deborah Norton.

As a Decca Records artist, the band began to open for such bands as The Kinks, Iron Butterfly, Yes, Traffic, Grand Funk Railroad and Chicago.

Following the release of their 1970 debut album, Glass Harp soon began getting more high-profile opening spots for the biggest bands of the day such as Alice Cooper, Chicago, Yes, Traffic, and Grand Funk Railroad among many others.

After leaving public office, Davis appeared on several shows, such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman, as well as a cameo on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear.

He revitalised the sub-genre of female-led kung fu films, producing cop films such as Yes, Madam aka Police Assassins ( both 1985 ), which introduced stars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock.

Their music is similar to early symphonic progressive rock groups such as Yes, marked by sharp dynamic changes, polyrhythmics, heavy bass, vocal harmonies, abstract and occasionally nonsensical lyrics, and extended song lengths.

The band's lyrics are almost uniformly positive and uplifting, affirming such values as love, peace, and spirituality, and furthering their association with Yes.