Achievements Sentence Examples

Vincenzo Gioberti published in 1843 his famous treatise Del primato morale e civile degli Italiani, a work, which, in striking contrast to the prevailing pessimism of the day, extolled the past greatness and achievements of the Italian people and their present virtues.

There is in the British Museum a poem printed in 1666, entitled Letter to the bishop of Munster containing a Panegyrick of his heroick achievements in heroick verse.

Let our remotest posterity recall your achievements this day with pride.

We crammed in five sessions with three positive achievements, a new record.

C. Licinius Macer (died 66), who has been called the last of the annalists, wrote a voluminous work, which, although he paid great attention to the study of his authorities, was too rhetorical, and exaggerated the achievements of his own family.

Agostino degli Eremitani, by which the great painter's reputation was fully confirmed, and which remain to this day conspicuous among his finest achievements.'

In imagination I can hear Homer singing, as with unsteady, hesitating steps he gropes his way from camp to camp--singing of life, of love, of war, of the splendid achievements of a noble race.

It is an unfinished autobiography containing an account of the achievements of Maximilian, who is called "the young white king."

His greatest achievements were his children.

This work is the earliest known Greek history which centred round the achievements of a single individual.

Child as I was, I at once felt the tenderness and sympathy which endeared Dr. Bell to so many hearts, as his wonderful achievements enlist their admiration.

If we now endeavour to give a general estimate of Pericles' character and achievements, it will be well to consider the many departments of his activity one by one.

The conditions which have the five been described, of despotism, mercenary warfare and bourgeois prosperity, determined the character of this epoch, which was also the period when the great achievements of the Renaissance were prepared.

The fact also that many of the most ancient of these ruins, like Ur, Lagash (Sirpurla), Larsa, Erech, Nippur, Sippara and Babylon, were situated on the banks of the great canals would indicate that the control of the waters of the rivers by a system of canalization and irrigation was one of the first achievements of civilization.

In this connexion his most remarkable achievements were his railway bridges, especially those of the tubular girder type.

While Cynthia was proud of her son Randy's athletic achievements, she always saw those abilities as a means to an end—not an end in itself.

Long before his death, Bright's references in public speeches to the achievements of the Anti-Corn Law League were received with respectful impatience, and Peel's famous speech on the repeal of the corn laws would not convince the German Reichstag or a modern House of Commons.

While the existence of such a personage as Gilgamesh may be admitted, he belongs to an age that could only have preserved a dim recollection of his achievements and adventures through oral traditions.

High above all the medley of kindreds and tongues, untrammelled by national traditions, for he had outgrown the compass of any one nation, invested with the glory of achievements in which the old bounds of the possible seemed to fall away, stood in 324 the man Alexander.

It was remarkable both for the brilliance of its achievements and for the large number of French mathematicians of the first rank who flourished during it.

His retreat from Jaroslau to Warsaw, with the fragments of his host, amidst three converging armies, in a marshy forest region, intersected in every direction by well-guarded rivers, was one of his most brilliant achievements.

I took the greatest delight in these German books, especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life.

Below is the list of 47 achievements in ascending point order.

Some of the criticism of their works, necessary and useful as it has been, will probably be corrected later on by that breadth of view and sense of proportion which has enabled us to appreciate justly the achievements of lesser men in more remote times.

Their achievements in the r9th century will be fully acknowledged, but the relevance of their work to the problems of the zoth century will be admitted less than at the present time.

The refinements of economic analysis, as distinguished from its broader achievements, should be reserved for special studies, in which a technical scientific terminology, specially devised, can be used without danger of misconception.

The greatest of all the hero's achievements was the defence of the frontier of Ulster against the forces of Medb, queen of Connaught, who had come to carry off the famous Brown Bull of Cualnge (Cooley).

If this view be accepted, an entirely new light is thrown on the achievements of the Arabs in the history of chemistry.

Numerous less distinguished adepts also practised the art, and sometimes were so successful in their deceptions that they gained the ear of kings, whose desire to profit by the achievements of science was in several instances rewarded by an abundant crop of counterfeit coins.

Little was known of the buildings on the Acropolis in the pre-Persian period before the great excavations of 1885-1888, which rank among the most surprising achievements of modern research.

His last achievements were the bombardment of Algiers (1682-1683), in order to effect the deliverance of the Christian captives, and the bombardment of Genoa in 1684.

These features established the work in a position which it will always maintain by its unprecedented dramatic qualities and by the glory reflected from Wagner's later achievements; but we shall not appreciate the marvel of its nobler features if we continue at this time of day to regard the bulk of the music as worthy of a great composer.

The construction of this last line is one of the most remarkable achievements of the reign of Abd-ul-Hamid.

But the achievements of the two civil agents were less noteworthy; and in 1905 it was agreed that, in view of the financial necessities of the provinces, the other great powers should each appoint delegates to a financial commission with extensive powers of control in fiscal matters.

Among the most splendid of his achievements was the discovery of the phenomena and laws of magneto-electric induction, the subject of two papers communicated to the Royal Society in 1831 and 1832.

This double cultivation of his scientific powers had the happiest effect on his subsequent work; for the greatest achievements of Riemann were effected by the application in pure mathematics generally of a method (theory of potential) which had up to this time been used solely in the solution of certain problems that arise in mathematical physics.

The two great achievements of his brief reign (he was elected prince of Transylvania on the 5th of April 1605, and died on the 29th of December 1606) were the peace of Vienna (June 23, 1606) and the truce of Zsitvatorok (November 1606).

Although the foundations of the geometrical resolution of cubic equations are to be ascribed to the Greeks (for Eutocius assigns to Menaechmus two methods of solving the equation x 3 = a and x 3 = 2a 3), yet the subsequent development by the Arabs must be regarded as one of their most important achievements.

The Franciscan friar Kacic, who did so much for the revival of popular poetry in Bosnia and Dalmatia in the mid-18th century, shows similar traces of Serbophil feeling, and the achievements of Dusan and other Serbian Tsars have bulked almost as largely in the modern literature of the Croats as of the Serbs themselves.

It was left to the Yugoslav Committee abroad to claim independence as well as unity, to repudiate the Habsburgs (in a manifesto on the eve of the Budapest coronation) and to exalt the achievements of Serbia and the Karagjorgjevic dynasty.

Intellectual activity was not wanting, but the great achievements of the 18th century in philosophy and the moral sciences had fostered a love of abstract speculation; and some sort of cosmical or general system was thought indispensable in every department of special science.

Among the achievements of the medicine of the 19th century the growth of the medical press must not be forgotten.

It is interesting to find that, with all this activity in the present reformed methods of research and verification are not confined to the work of the passing day; in the brilliant achievements of modern research and reconstruction the maxim that "Truth is the daughter of Time" has not been forgotten.

He was under no illusion as to their achievements; his memoir on the work of the congress of Vienna is at once an incisive piece of criticism and a monument of his own disillusionment.

Sayce's phonetic values and interpretations of determinatives are his best assured achievements.

It is interesting to note this early employment of the camera obscura in the field of astronomical research, in which its latest achievements have been of such pre-eminent value.

It is not known whether he was an historical personage; many of the achievements attributed to him border on the miraculous.

Whatever additions it may receive, and whatever corrections it may require, this analysis of social evolution will continue to be regarded as one of the great achievements of human intellect.

Theory and The Study of Religion, and, in some measure, of The Seat of Authority in Religion."' These books expressed his mature thought, and may be said to contain, in what he conceived as a final form, the speculative achievements of his life.

Certainly the Japanese have proved themselves capable of great things, and their achievements seem to have been helped rather than retarded by their attention to detail.

But from the I 5th century the punching of the dots in rigidly straight lines came to be considered essential, and the difficulty involved was so great that namako-making took its place among the highest technical achievements of the sculptor.

Many examples of the above varieties deserve the enthusiastic admiration they have received, yet they unquestionably belong to a lower rank of ceramic achievements than the choice productions of Chinese kilns.

His military achievements were equally brilliant.

His great work was the Vulgate, but his achievements in other fields would have sufficed to distinguish him.

The Camoens grotto, where the exiled poet found leisure to celebrate the achievements of his ungrateful country, lies in a secluded spot to the north of the town, which has been partly left in its native wildness strewn with huge granite boulders and partly transformed into a fine botanical garden.

After its exertions and achievements during the previous five days of incessant fighting the Canadian Corps was in urgent need of rest and refitment.

His fame now rests, however, entirely upon his achievements in mathematics.

Cleitarchus, devoted themselves to the life and achievements of Alexander the Great.

He exhibits the great achievements of the latter part of the 15th and the early portion of the r6th centuries; the art and literature, the material prosperity of the towns and the fostering of the spiritual life of the people.

What is thus suggested is not a rash departure from the general point of view of idealism (by its achievements in every field to which it has been applied, " stat mole sua ") but a cautious inquiry into the possibility of reaching a conception of the world ' The most striking statement of this argument is to be found in Boutroux's treatise De la contingence des lois de la nature, first published in 1874 and reprinted without alteration in 1905.

In particular, it was rendered practicable on board ship, and its application to the manipulation of heavy naval guns and other purposes on warships was not the least important of Armstrong's achievements.

But there is no historical continuity between the two situations, and the immediate prelude to the achievements of Saul and Jonathan is lost.

Maya architecture is the best remaining index of the art achievements of the American race.

A brief consideration of some of the constructive achievements of his administration will show that the "destructive" theory of his political activities is not sustained by the facts.

In 1675 the capture of Dinant formed one of the early military achievements of Louis XIV., and it remained in the hands of the French for nearly thirty years after that date.

Entirely on her own initiative, and moved by admiration for the fine achievements of "her brave Irish" during the war, the queen announced her intention of paying a long visit to Dublin; and there, accordingly, she went for the month of April 1900, staying in the Viceregal Lodge, receiving many of the leaders of Irish society, inspecting some 50,000 school children from all parts of Ireland, and taking many a drive amid the charming scenery of the neighbourhood of Dublin.

The object of the work has been described as the glorification of Vespasian's achievements in securing Roman rule in Britain and opening up the ocean to navigation (as the Euxine was opened up by the Argo).

The middle ages came into being at the time when the political structure of the world, based upon the conquests of Alexander the Great and the achievements of Julius Caesar, began to disintegrate.

Despite his brilliant military achievements (see John King Of Poland), his reign of twenty-two years was a failure.

Even at the close of the previous century the brilliant achievements of French literature had prompted La Bruyere vs.

With good reason geographers have given reluctant consent to some of the bold restorations of ancient continental outlines by palaeontologists; yet some of the greatest achievements of recent science have been in this field.

She was so devoted to her sons Tiberius and Gaius that it was even asserted that she was concerned in the death of her son-in-law Scipio, who by his achievements had eclipsed the fame of the Gracchi, and was said to have approved of the murder of Tiberius.

But the fantastic relations imagined by him of planetary movements and distances to musical intervals and geometrical constructions seemed to himself discoveries no less admirable than the achievements which have secured his lasting fame.

His achievements were the inevitable expression of his character.

Towards the end of the 3rd and during the 4th century, as a result of the orientalizing of the Imperial court by Diocletian, it became customary to celebrate as a matter of course the superhuman virtues and achievements of the reigning emperor.

His work in conjunction with Hort upon the Greek text of the New Testament will endure as one of the greatest achievements of English Biblical criticism.

The principal achievements of the long session of 1902 (which extended to the autumn) were the passing of the Education Act, - entirely reorganizing the system of primary education, abolishing the school boards and making the county councils the local authority; new rules of procedure; and the creation of the Metropolitan Water Board; and on all these questions, and particularly the two first, Mr Balfour's powers as a debater were brilliantly exhibited.

Of his ecclesiastical achievements the bull against simony at papal elections deserves the most honourable mention.

The Lives are not in the true sense biographical, but rather picturesque impressions of leading representatives of an attitude of mind full of curiosity, alert and versatile, but lacking scientific method, preferring the external excellence of style and manner to the solid achievements of serious writing.

The seizure of Montjuich in 1705, and the subsequent capture of the city by the earl of Peterborough, formed one of his most brilliant achievements.

Their efforts, however, were soon completely eclipsed by the magnificent achievements of the apostle Paul,.

Conspicuous among their achievements was the conversion of Mexico, 200,000 converts being enrolled within six years after the capture of the capital (1521), and a million baptized by the Franciscans alone within thirty years.

But his pretensions were ludicrous; he was quickly captured by the Chileans and sent back to France (1862) as a madman; and though he made one more abortive effort in 1874 to recover his "kingdom," and occupied his pen in magnifying his achievements, nobody took him seriously except a few of the deluded Indians.

He was succeeded by poets and philosophers who gave Germany for a time the first place in the intellectual life of the world, and it was Lessing, as they themselves acknowledged, who prepared the way for their achievements.

The Caledonian Railway bridge at Glasgow, the reconstructed Tay bridge (1882-7), Forth bridge (1882-9), the Tower bridge, London, and the Nile lgridge at Cairo were amongst his principal achievements.

In Iceland they lived active, not to say tumultuous, lives, and left fine literary records of their doings and achievements.

His latest official achievements were the greatest.

The secret of Fredericks great popularity was partly the national pride excited by his foreign achievements, partly the ascendance over other minds which his genius gave him, and partly the conviction that while he would forego nmrne of his rights he would demand from his vassals nothing more than was sanctioned by the laws of the Empire.

Patmore is one of the few Victorian poets of whom it may confidently be predicted that the memory of his greater achievements will outlive all consideration of occasional lapses from taste and dignity.

In the earliest existing monument of the Hellenic genius, the Homeric poems, one may already observe that regulative sense of form and proportion, which shaped the later achievements of the race in the intellectual and artistic spheres.

Perhaps his most noted achievements were the raising of a corps at Philadelphia, called the Irish Volunteers, who under him became famous for their fighting qualities, and the victory of Hobkirk's Hill, which, in command of only a small force, he gained by superior military skill and determination against a much larger body of Americans.

But this rectified itself in time, especially through the achievements of General (afterwards Sir David) Ochterlony, who before the end of 1815 had taken all the Gurkha posts to the west, and early in 1816 was advancing victoriously within 50 m.

While the natives of India appreciated the results of Lord Hastings's achievements, the court of directors grumbled at his having extended British territory.

The excavation of the rock temple of Abu Simbel and the completion of the great hail of Karnak were his greatest achievements in architecture.

Few popes can boast of greater enterprise or larger achievements.

Yet this very aristocracy, whose claim to consideration was based not upon its own achievements but upon the length of its pedigrees, insisted upon an amplification of its privileges which endangered the economical and political interests of the state and the nation.

The rule prohibiting them, except in rare cases, from describing the achievements of the different units, who were thus robbed of the glory to which they were entitled, had most unfortunate results.

It was only after continued protests by the Newspaper Proprietors' Association that publicity was given to the gigantic achievements of the Ministry of Munitions, and the manufacturers and millions of workers associated with it.

His dazzling achievements as a general have obscured his more sober qualities as a ruler, and even the sound strategy, with which he aimed to be master of the narrow seas.

Not the least of his achievements was the peaceable disbandment of 800,000 soldiers at the end of the war.

The secular importance of Henry's activity has been somewhat obscured by his achievements in the sphere of ecclesiastical politics; but no small part of his energies was devoted to the task of expanding the royal authority at the expense of temporal competitors.

The system of schools which prevailed till the Education Act of 1872 dated from 1696, when the Act for Settling of Schools was passed - one of the last but not the least of the achievements of the Scots Parliament - providing for the maintenance of a school in every parish by the kirk-session and heritors, with power to the Commissioners of Supply to appoint a schoolmaster in case the primary authorities made default.

Co-operation of the two factors appears to supply a causal theory of the occurrence of evolution; the suggestion of their co-operation and the comparison of the possible results with the actual achievements of breeders in producing varieties were the features of Charles Darwin's theoretical work which made it a new beginning in the science of biology, and which reduced to insignificance all earlier work on the theory of evolution.

Sentiment and tradition have magnified his achievements, and confused his career with tales of portents and magical powers.

Sylvester was a good linguist, and a diligent composer of verse, both in English and Latin, but the opinion he cherished that his poems were on a level with his mathematical achievements has not met with general acceptance.

Monumental works, such as his statue of Queen Victoria at Winchester and his work at Windsor, may be handed down as his greatest achievements, but judged as art metal-work, his smaller productions, such as the centrepiece presented by the army and navy to Queen Victoria on her Jubilee, have been more important.

In verse his main achievements were Lazarus (1864), and Master and Scholar (1866).

He wrote books of travel, of popular biography, or of historical or political discussion, &c., from time to time; but his principal literary achievements were editions, between 1868 and 1888, of Franklin's autobiography and autobiographical writings, copiously annotated; and of the complete works of Franklin, in ten octavo volumes (New York, 1887-1889).

He was also criticized for his vanity and perpetual references to his own achievements.

It is with Tubingen that his greatest literary achievements are associated.

He seems to have been a man of limited capacity, and had very little share in the achievements accomplished in his name.

Aristotle was optimistic of great achievements over the whole range of the sciences.

One of the principal achievements of the towns lay in the field of legislation.

That they have been attributed to Beowulf in particular might seem to be adequately accounted for by the general tendency to connect mythical achievements with the name of any famous hero.

If Beowulf, the champion of the Gautar, had already become a theme of epic song, the resemblance of name might easily suggest the idea of enriching history by adding to it the achievements of Beaw.

Such are but a fraction of its achievements.

The humanists which it produced, interested only in its splendid revelations, forgot or ignored the achievements of the period which intervened between Cicero and Petrarch.

Sesostris is evidently a mythical figure calculated to satisfy the pride of the Egyptians in their ancient achievements, after they had come into contact with the great conquerors of Assyria and Persia.

Among Newcomb's most notable achievements are his researches in connexion with the theory of the moon's motion.

They seem to have been conscious that they could not give the desired impulse to modern literature and art without contact with the classics; and, in spite of the splendour of their achievements in Italian, they found no immediate followers upon that path.

These facts explain the decisive action of the Spanish nation on the side of Catholic conservatism, and help us to understand why their brilliant achievements in the field of culture during the 16th century were speedily followed by stagnation.

What has chiefly to be noted regarding the achievements of the Spanish race in arts and letters at this epoch is their potent national originality.

The shrine of St Sebald, in the church of St Sebald, consisting of a bronze sarcophagus and canopy, in the richest Gothic style, adorned with numerous statues and reliefs, is looked upon as one of the greatest achievements of German art.

The story of his success, related five times under five different years, possibly rests on an historical basis, but the account given in Livy of the achievements of the Roman army is obviously incredible.

Amongst the memorable achievements of the ten days which Faraday devoted to this investigation was the discovery that a current could be induced in a conducting wire simply by moving it in the neighbourhood of a magnet.

If, however, we are to attach weight to English writers of the latter half of the 17th century, we shall find that one of Bacon's greatest achievements was the impetus given by his New Atlantis to the foundation of the Royal Society.

The greatest and most lasting of Colbert's achievements was the establishment of the French marine.

After the death of David he returned to Edom; if, as the narrative implies, he became a troublesome adversary to Solomon, nothing is known of his achievements, and if the royal trading-journeys from Ezion-geber were maintained, Edom could have done little.

Before closing the reign of Mahommed Shah note should be taken of a prohibition to import African slaves into Persia, and a commercial treaty with Englandrecorded by Watson as gratifying achievements of the period by British diplomatists.

He appears at this time to have already formed the belief that important achievements as a thinker were possible to him, and at more than one critical period in his career this belief was the decisive factor in determining his conduct.

In the domain of finance Goulburn's chief achievements were to reduce the rate of interest on part of the national debt, and to allow any one to sell beer upon payment of a small annual fee, a complete change of policy with regard to the drink traffic. Leaving office with Wellington in November 1830, Goulburn was home secretary under Sir Robert Peel for four months in 1835, and when this statesman returned to office in September 1841 he became chancellor of the exchequer for the second time.

But their artillery and superior maritime science made them almost invulnerable at sea, and their principal military achievements consisted in the capture or defence of positions accessible from the sea, e.g.

The epic achievements of the Portuguese in that century, the discoveries and the wars in Africa, hardly find an echo, even in the verses of those who had taken part in them.

Many of them saw the achievements they relate and were inspired by patriotism to record them, so that their writings lack that serene atmosphere of critical appreciation which is looked for if history is to take its place as a science.

Such are Pioneer Hall, the home of the Society of California Pioneers (1850), endowed by James Lick; Portsmouth Square, where the flag of the United States was raised on the 8th of July 1846, and where the Committee of Vigilance executed criminals in 1851 and 1856; Union Square, a fashionable shopping centre, decorated with a column raised in honour of the achievements of the United States Navy in the Spanish-American War of 1898;; also the United States Branch Mint, associated with memories of the early mining days (the present mint dates only from 1874).

One of his greatest achievements was to fix the canon of the genuine plays of Plautus.

It is scarcely too much to say that, in the general opinion of his contemporaries, the whole glory of these years was due to his single genius; his alone was the mind that planned, and his the spirit that animated the brilliant achievements of the British arms in all the four quarters of the globe.

Owing to his early death, Professor Clifford's abilities and achievements cannot be fairly judged without reference to the opinion formed of him by his contemporaries.

Another form of the word, "Egotism," is really interchangeable, though in ordinary language it is often used specially (and similarly "egoism," as in George Meredith's Egoist) to describe the habit of magnifying one's self and one's achievements, or regarding all things from a selfish point of view.

The advance in this branch of history in the 19th century was one of its greatest achievements.

The utmost secrecy, however, was maintained concerning their experiments, and in consequence their achievements were regarded at the time with doubt and suspicion, and it was hardly realized that their success would reach the point later achieved.

Pacioli was equally amazed and delighted at Leonardo's two great achievements in sculpture and painting, and still more at the genius for mathematical, physical and anatomical research shown in the collections of MS. notes which the master laid before him.

In spite of these varied achievements Periander never entirely conciliated his subjects, for he could not trust himself without a bodyguard.

Moreover, as regards her genuine military qualities we have the testimony of Dunois and d'Alencon; and Captain Marin, in his Jeanne d'Arc, tacticien et strategiste (1891), takes a high view of her achievements.

Among its greatest achievements, apart from the philanthropic institutions founded at Halle, were the organization of the Moravian Church in 1727 by Count von Zinzendorf, Spener's godson and a pupil in the Halle Orphanage, and the establishment of the great Protestant missions, Ziegenbalg and others being the pioneers of an enterprise which until this time Protestantism had strangely neglected.

He found a great change in public opinion, and the people indifferent to his achievements abroad.

In other respects, the legislative achievements of the government were not great; and the time of parliament was largely occupied in devising rules for the conduct of its business, which the obstructive attitude of the Irish members made necessary, and in discussing the charges brought against the Nationalist party by The Times, of complicity in the Phoenix Park murders.

It was because Napoleon gave a practical form to these achievements of the Revolution and ensured the public order necessary to their continuance that the Directory was bankrupt of reputation, and he intended to be far more than a mere member of a board.

The development of the science by the successors of Newton, especially Laplace and Lagrange, may be classed among the most striking achievements of the human intellect.

The wonderful achievements of the Irish monks did not affect the body politic as a whole,.

The creative achievements of Qat must be treated of in the next section.

Dagoberts victories over Samo, king of the Slays along the Elbe, and his subjugation of the Bretons and the Basques, maintained the prestige of the Frankish empire; while the luxury of his court, his taste for the fine arts (ministered to by his treasurer Eloi i), his numerous achievements in architectureespecially the abbey of St Denis, burial-place of the kings of Francethe brilliance and the power of the churchmen who surrounded him and his revision of the Salic law, ensured for his reign, in spite of the failure of his plans for unity, a fame celebrated in folksong and ballad.

After Colberts day, when the crutches lent by privilege were removed, his achievements lost vigour; industries that ministered to luxury alone escaped decay; the others became exhausted in struggling against the persistent and teasing opposition of the municipal bodies and the bourgeoisieconceited, ignorant and terrified at any innovationand against the blind and intolerant policy of Louis XIV.

The brief summary of his achievements preserved in 2 Kings xiv.

Even here, however, his achievements are of no mean order, especially when we remember his juridical training and his comparatively late handling of Biblical and doctrinal subjects.

As further explorations bring more inscriptions to light the records of Ethiopia will gradually be placed on a firm documentary basis and the names and achievements of its greatest monarchs will take their place on the roll of history.

In addition to his achievements in black-letter bibliography he threw great light on ancient Celtic language and literature by the discovery, in 1857, of the Book of Deer, a manuscript copy of the Gospel in the Vulgate version, in which were inscribed old Gaelic charters.

Such was the zeal with which Alberti pursued his task that the exterior of the little Rimini church is one of the finest and purest achievements of the Renaissance, and surpasses in beauty and elegance all the rest of his works.

While Cynthia was proud of her son Randy's athletic achievements, she always saw those abilities as a means to an end—not an end in itself.

The evening culminated in the presentation of the Textron trophy for achievements in cricket groundsmanship to a very surprised Geoff Swift.

They were able to emulate the achievements of their predecessors of twelve months ago.

We celebrate achievements; we share in the success of our colleagues.

The awards recognize achievements in the project work of students taking Design & Technology at Advanced Level.

This award scheme has been set up to acknowledge these achievements.

On the field, the young crop of talent continued to make excellent progress, with notable achievements at all levels.

Some of the achievements include converting disused allotments in East Oxford into a Nature Park.

Both were successfully completed and add to the ever burgeoning list of the current band's achievements.

We have rightly celebrated the achievements of the past five years.

French cookery of the grand school suffers by being associated with such commonplace achievements.

Overall, the regulations, and technological achievements of manufacturers, have put a significant crimp in energy consumption.

With all his superhuman qualities and achievements, Sri Krishna never appeared distant to any of his fellow human beings.

Direct and forthright manner with high achievements and results makes this a particular fave of those who prefer action to a more passive approach.

His on field achievements and skills are part of football folklore.

One of the achievements of our spiritual forebears was to embody love.

Recent achievements include the identification of circuits that control body weight homeostasis, which could provide novel targets for the treatment of obesity.

First she went to Ayr where in 2003 Beechgrove visited a housing estate that desperately needed a garden to crown their community achievements.

What makes the disrespect so narrow-minded is that those fans could not recognize Best's achievements should be respected outside of Old Trafford.

These achievements, once gained, are not easily relinquished.

These achievements are especially remarkable for one who was blinded by smallpox at the age of one.

To develop spiritual, moral, personal and social achievements.

The site describes current achievements in planet finding and encourages the reader to become a stargazer.

Some of his achievements in the field of power generation using steam turbines are documented in our 125th anniversary site.

It is terrific to see Queen's students matching their high standards in academic studies with such terrific to see Queen's students matching their high standards in academic studies with such terrific achievements in sport.

As such it is a veritable time capsule describing, among other notable achievements, targeted recombinants for relating genetic differences to pathogenesis.

The German Africa Corps performed outstanding achievements tho they were completely unaccustomed to the climate of this theater of war.

The CV should not underplay your achievements and skills or they may go unnoticed.

She expresses wonderment at the extraordinary achievements of each child.

Its most important achievements were the registration at its eleventh sitting (r 9th December 1516) of the abolition of the pragmatic sanction, which the popes since Pius II.

The great literary achievements of the Greeks in the 5th century lay already far enough behind to have become invested with a classical dignity; the meaning of Hellenic civilization had been made concrete in a way which might sustain enthusiasm for a body of ideal values, authoritative by tradition.

But it is just to remember that without the stern discipline of the law the community of the second temple could hardly have escaped dissolution, and that Judaism alone preserved for Christianity the hard-won achievements of the prophets.3 4.

The Dutch emulated the British in the Arctic seas during this period, directing their efforts mainly towards the discovery of a north-east passage round the northern end of Novaya Zemlya; and William Barents or Barendsz (1594-1597) is the most famous name in this connexion, his boat voyage along the coast of Novaya Zemlya after losing his ship and wintering in a high latitude, being one of the most remarkable achievements in polar annals.

Among his noteworthy achievements are the reform of the calendar on the 24th of February 1582 (see Calendar); the improved edition of the Corpus juris canonici, 1582; the splendid Gregorian Chapel in St Peter's; the fountains of the Piazza Navona; the Quirinal Palace; and many other public works.

But these achievements excited not the gratitude but the suspicion of the szlachta.

Not the least of his achievements on this occasion was the successful attempt, made with extraordinary tact, ability, knowledge and perseverance, to induce the Orientals, Anglicans and Old Catholics present to accept a formula of concord, drawn from the writings of the leading theologians of the Greek Church, on the long-vexed question of the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

In this domain the first place must be assigned to the splendid achievements of Raphael, whom the pope entrusted with new and comprehensive commissions - the Stanza dell' incendio, the Logge, and the tapestry-cartoons, the originals of the last named being now in London.

Instead of following up his victories, Abu Gemaiza retired to Dar Tama to augment his army, to which thousands flocked as the news of his achievements spread far and wide.

Care is taken to record the transference of secular power and of Yahweh's favour from Saul to David, and David accomplishes more successfully or on a larger scale the achievements ascribed to Saul.

The pacification of northern Spain by the subjugation of the Astures and Cantabri, the settlement of the wide territories added to the empire by Julius Caesar in Gaul - the "New Gaul," or the "long-haired Gaul" (Gallia Comata) as it was called by way of distinction from the old province of Gallia Narbonensis (see Gaul) - and the re-establishment of Roman authority over the kings and princes of the Near East, were achievements which fully justified the acclamations of senate and people.

At the pianoforte his achievements culminate in the two books of studies, twice rewritten, and finally published in 1852 as Etudes d'execution transcendante, the Etudes de concert and the Paganini Studies; the two concertos and the Todtentanz, the Sonata the Hungarian Rhapsodies and the fine transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies (the 9th for two pianofortes as well as solo), and of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, and the symphony, Harold en Italie.

Michelangelo and Raphael, who had both, as we have seen, risen to greatness partly on Leonardo's shoulders, were fresh from the glory of their great achievements in the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze.

This degree, from an American college of minor academic status, afterwards led to sarcastic allusions, but Dr Clifford had not courted it, and his London University achievements were evidence enough of his intellectual equipment.

The glory attaching to the name of Prince Henry does not rest merely on the achievements effected during his own lifetime, but on the subsequent results to which his genius and perseverance had lent the primary inspiration.

Other achievements could be highlighted i.e. skill awards, sportsmanship award.

It is terrific to see Queen 's students matching their high standards in academic studies with such terrific achievements in sport.

As regards the achievements so far, I would ask your Lordships not to underrate what has been achieved.

The father is understandably proud of his daughter's scholastic achievements.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is one title that appeals to kids' natural fascination with the grotesque, outlandish, and unbelievable, although it's little more than a collection of vignettes on various human achievements.

Her achievements as author, lecturer and director of the Washington Institute of Dermatology Laser Surgery, have created a partnership to ensure outstanding skin products for women of all ages.

It seems like well-known celebrities everywhere are suddenly adding fragrance entrepreneur to their ever-growing list of achievements.

At the end of the classes, there is also a festive graduation ceremony for you to celebrate your scrapbooking achievements.

For example, why not keep a list of all the notable achievements you've accomplished within the last six months to a year?

This way, when it's time for your performance review, you'll be able to discuss those achievements, and hopefully, snag that promotion!

There are so few times in life that people acknowledge big achievements, but high school is one them, so make the memory a great one.

Compulsive lying comes into play with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder when the individual exaggerates his/her experiences and/or achievements to demonstrate to others how superior he or she is.

In addition to her achievements as an actress, Witherspoon also runs a production company called "Type A Films" with Debra Siegel.

By the early 1920s, the badges had grown to 47 in number, and included colored pictures and included more exotic tasks and achievements such as zoology.

These distinguished teachers are leaders in their field and well-respected for their achievements.

Before you even begin your college scholarship search, take the time to prepare a portfolio showcasing your academic achievements.

Even if some college applications don't require you to list a specific aspect of your experience, having your achievements available at a glance can also help you in writing your application essays and personal statements.

The school must offer a comprehensive program, meet achievements and provide a launching point for career growth.

The SAT practice tests, like the SAT Reasoning Test, are not about measuring academic achievements precisely, but determining whether a student possesses the critical thinking skills he or she will need to succeed in college.

Even though there is variation in the "best" programs, there are still a few schools that are most recognized for their achievements in teaching.

This style sought to evoke a feeling of pride in the achievements of modern industry, and the highly functional nature of art deco reflects a desire in people to move beyond the frivolous, over-ornate trappings of previous movements.

Even if you didn't work with him, try to focus on his achievements in the work world when writing a card or choosing a gift.

These go above and beyond the Xbox Achievements that you can earn, adding extra points to your treasured GamerScore.

In the case of the Xbox 360, players have the opportunity to earn a series of achievements.

What achievements are available in Borderlands for the Xbox 360?

Another article detailing Johnathan's achievements as a professional gamer as well as how he attempted to balance running a business with practising for tournaments.

However, using this cheat will disable some of the achievements you could accomplish in the game.

In order to proudly display your achievements in the online multiplayer portion of Halo 3, you'll want to unlock the highest multiplayer rank possible.

There are a total of 47 Halo 3 ODST achievements that you can accumulate through the game.

While the Xbox 360 keeps track of your ''Halo 3 ODST achievements, it's sometimes helpful to know what you need to do in order to recognize locations or items that complete an achievement.

Among the Madden NFL 09 cheats in this football game, the achievements may be what motivates you the most, perhaps even more than chasing after the Super Bowl.

The reason you may want to store the Mii is for high scores, achievements or your likeness.

Each Mii works as an on-screen avatar of each person playing the game, but the stats and achievements are also linked to the Mii that achieved those stats and records.

Keep this in mind when chasing high scores and going after certain achievements.

Shigeru recently received a star on the Walk of Game, a section of the Metreon in San Francisco that is meant to resemble the Hollywood Walk of Fame and honors outstanding achievements in the video game industry.

These achievements can be earned by using different objects in the action stages and puzzle stages.

An example would be to taste various Oregon's Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs and judge the individual wineries on their achievements.

The older child should be made to feel proud of the achievements and responsibilities that go along with his more advanced age-things the new baby cannot do yet because he or she is too young.

Other achievements include riding a tricycle and throwing a ball, although they have trouble catching it because they hold their arms out in front of their bodies no matter what direction the ball comes from.

Thus, interviews are most effective when used to evaluate the achievements and needs of specific students.

Content may include holiday celebrations, recognizing heroes from different racial and ethnic groups, and focusing on the achievements of women and minorities.

You can also have an awards night, where children are presented with recognition for both dance achievements and other traits such as a positive or helpful spirit.

One of her proudest professional achievements may be her Prime Time Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography, making her the youngest nominee ever included in that particular category.

Actor, comedian, musician, action hero, and mentor, his achievements are numerous and he made a great contribution to the arts.

While some famous homeschoolers were average people who went on to extraordinary achievements after completing their education, others began homeschooling because they were famous, or at least striving to be.

Outside of his culinary achievements, Manrique is also known for his big heart.

With over 1500 plant species on display year round, this conservatory is the oldest Victorian-style flower house in the United States, and has enjoyed plenty of achievements any gardener would envy.

It's difficult to say what new achievements and styles will be added to the tale of the history of Barbie in the future.

Achievements such as setting up the longest road, having the most soldiers, building roads, and developing your town are all worth "victory points," the currency that will allow a player to ultimately win.

Becoming a chess grandmaster is one the greatest achievements a chess player can obtain.

This diamond cut was one of many historic achievements by the Asscher Diamond Company in the early 1900s.

Taurus is often the recipient of industry awards, and he takes great pride in these career milestones and achievements.

Although there is no formal process for declaring someone the "Queen of Couponing," there are plenty of frugal women who deserve recognition for their achievements.

In primitive civilizations, reasons for tribal body scarification included religious ritualism, rites of passage like marriage or creating offspring and documentation of great achievements.

Rand McNally markets the high-tech tool and considers the system among its greatest achievements.

The company prides itself on its position as a market leader and celebrates its achievements.

However, Citizen's historical technology achievements provided an easy-to-navigate path.

To get an idea of the events that led up to the Eco-Drive concept, take a look at the company's important technical and environmental achievements.

Take a look at some of the company's early horological achievements that makes its vintage watches so desirable.

Small achievements, taken for granted by the average family, will be the source of much joy and celebration for yours.

Additionally, the abilities of prodigious savants also exceed the achievements of people in the general population in the same area of expertise.

You'll need bios and resumes on your principal team players, including details of their experience, education, noteworthy achievements and why you'll think they will be an asset.

And always have someone else review your resume to check for typos and clarify achievements points.

In some situations, you may also want to include a personal note regarding some of the employee's achievements.

You should still include information about your past jobs and skills, but the primary emphasis should be on achievements.

Your summary of qualifications will include your achievements, awards, accomplishments, extraordinary skills, and solidifies everything you have said about yourself in the cover letter and objective.

List of achievements - Ask the requestor about achievements; specifically, organizations he or she belong to and a list of any awards or recognitions.

Job seekers can also add their career objective, achievements and interests as part of the process.

If you decide to share something about your working past, focus on your achievements.

The cover letter can also include a summary of your achievements if you would rather list them here than on your resume.

Place the emphasis on your achievements, not on the company you worked for.

Group your experience, qualifications and achievements all together to highlight your specialties.

A Professional Profile is more like a mini biography, the profile resume highlights your achievements.

It highlights your upward mobility, reliability, achievements, education and experience.

Modify it to reflect your achievements best, geared toward the skills that are necessary for the job to which you're applying.

Other exceptions would be when you have a PhD or have written a number of books, important papers, etc. You will want to focus more specifically on these achievements with a functional resume.

The functional resume lists responsibilities and achievements under three main areas that are highlighted.

It puts less emphasis on work experience than on achievements.

It may also be used by professionals who wish to highlight achievements and skills that make them imminently qualified for a specific position.

List your writing experience and achievements.

List certifications, licenses and educational achievements prominently near the top of the resume, since this is one of the most important things your prospective employer will be looking for.

Early European innovations eventually led to technological achievements in the U.S. that formed the birth of the American auto industry.

Many schools, wanting to recognize all the hard work and achievements of all clubs have begun designing separate styles of letters for each club type to be worn on the same jacket.

The awards were named for Antoinette Perry not only for her achievements in American theatre, but because she had recently passed away.

In 2005, T.I. was the recipient of the Lisa Lopez award for Groundbreaking Achievements in Music and Community Service.

The video stunned audiences and critics alike when it debuted on December 2, 1983, and it still sets the bar for music video achievements.

Some parties may be arranged by the school in honor of the departing seniors, while other parties are planned by families to celebrate the graduates' achievements.

Applicants who try to impress casting directors by going on and on about their litany of achievements typically don't go far in the application process.

As scientific progress and achievements approached the climactic period of world war in the 1940s, those scientific achievements also produced some of the most dangerous and tragic weapons known to man.

The Weblog Awards recognizes bloggers for their achievements in 45 different categories spanning a diverse array of topics.

Although each Cub Scout level is based on school grade and age, each boy must complete a specific number of age appropriate requirements, or achievements, before being able to advance to the next level.

If you are a member of a scouting organization, the scout uniform patches you wear tell a story of your experiences and achievements as a member of these upstanding groups.

Boys earn participation patches for community service, completing personal achievements and leadership.

Each scout must complete the required number of achievements before moving up to the next level.

The list of his honors and achievements were exceeded only by his philanthropic connections and contributions.

In great state the tribune moved through the streets of Rome, being received at St Peter's with the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, while in a letter the poet Petrarch urged him to continue his great and noble work, and congratulated him on his past achievements, calling him the new Camillus, Brutus and Romulus.

In the past many conflicting estimates were made of the character and achievements of the pope during whose pontificate Protestantism first took form.

Italy, for her part, could not go back upon the achievements of the Risorgimento by restoring Rome or any portion of Italian territory to the pope.

The hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egypt and the cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria are rich in records of the movements and achievements of armies, the conquest of towns and the subjugation of peoples; but though many of the recorded sites have been identified, their discovery by wandering armies was isolated from their subsequent history and need not concern us here.

He made no attempt at a critical examination of historical traditions, and wrote in a flowery and often bombastic style, but in spite of this drawback, Mirkhond's Rauzat remains one of the most marvellous achievements in literature.

While the history of the great area between the Nile and the Tigris irresistibly emphasizes the insignificance of Palestine, this land's achievements for humanity grow the more remarkable as research tells more of its environment.

The achievements of the Persians in art, literature and religion are by no means contemptible, but somewhat mixed and cosmopolitan.

Though he took the title of imperator more than twenty times, and enjoyed at least one triumph, Domitian's military achievements were insignificant.

But great as the achievements of this school have been, it has not developed any scientific machinery which can take the place of theory in economic investigation.

His scientific achievements would probably have been more striking if they had been less varied.

He took paternal pride in the achievements of his pupils, and delighted to see, through them, his influence spreading in every university.

Her achievements in literature are hardly less great.

These achievements won him a reputation for high courage, which, until the close of 1688, was amply deserved.

Dr Hopkinson presented a rare combination of practical with theoretical ability, and his achievements in pure scientific research are not less intrinsically notable than the skill with which he applied their results to the solution of concrete engineering problems. His original work is contained in more than sixty papers, all written with a complete mastery both of style and of subject-matter.

He was a staunch supporter of Charlemagne's principles of government and educational reforms; he established schools, and by his own literary achievements showed himself a worthy member of the learned circle which graced the Carolingian court.

The question as to whether copper really was first used in Egypt is not yet resolved, and many arguments can be brought against the theory of Egyptian origin and in favour of one in Syria or further north.26 Egypt has also recently been credited with being the inceptor of the whole " megalithic (or heliolithic, as the fashionable word now is) culture " of mankind, from Britain to China and (literally) Peru or at any rate Mexico via the Pacific Isles.27 The theory is that the achievements of the Egyptians in great stone architecture at the time of the pyramid-builders so impressed their contemporaries that they were imitated in the surrounding lands, by the Libyans and Syrians, that the fame of them was carried by the Phoenicians further afield, and that early Arab and Indian traders passed on the megalithic idea to Farther India, and thence to Polynesia and so on so that both the teocalli of Teotihuacan and Stonehenge are ultimately derived through cromlechs and dolmens innumerable from the stone pyramid of Saqqara, built by Imhotep, the architect of King Zoser, about 3100 B.C. (afterwards deified as the patron of science and architecture).

This is the largest of the Halo 3 ODST achievements available.

Gratitude for his achievements and sorrow for his death found expression in universal mourning wherein king and peasant equally joined.

No economic doctrine so well illustrates the achievements and the defects of modern economic analysis.

Fischer may be regarded as one of the most brilliant achievements in modern chemistry.

Wide as were Virchow's studies, and successful as he was in all, yet the foremost place must be given to his achievements in pathological investigation.