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They moved slowly, toward the main gate, following the wall.
Johnston started his army in motion on April 3, 1862, intent on surprising Grant's force as soon as the next day, but they moved slowly due to their inexperience, bad roads and lack of adequate staff planning.
The Achill Mission began to decline slowly after Nangle was moved from Achill and was finally closed in the 1880s.
Also as Salieri aged he moved slowly away from his more liberal political stances as he saw the enlightened reform of Joseph II's reign, and the hoped for reforms of the French revolution, replaced with more radical revolutionary ideas.
The Bank of England moved to its current location on Threadneedle Street, and thereafter slowly acquired neighbouring land to create the edifice seen today.
John's part in the general strategy was carried out at first, but the allies in the north moved slowly.
In early medieval Riez in upper Provence, alluvial silt from two small rivers raised the riverbeds and widened the floodplain, which slowly buried the Roman settlement in alluvium and gradually moved new construction to higher ground ; concurrently the headwater valleys above Riez were being opened to pasturage.
As months passed, Carías moved slowly but steadily to strengthen his hold on power.
They slowly moved south, and the earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal Province are believed to date from around 1050.
It was previously thought that all lorisids moved slowly, but investigations using red light proved this to be wrong.
Ambedkar complained that Gandhi moved too slowly, while Hindu traditionalists said Gandhi was a dangerous radical who rejected scripture.
The procession moved slowly, and found it necessary to encamp three times before passing the Egyptian frontier — some believe at the Great Bitter Lake, while others propose sites as far south as the northern tip of the Red Sea.
After World War II, Bahrain moved slowly towards independence and eventually in 1971 the British pulled out leaving Manama in charge of its own affairs.
In agriculture, the government moved more slowly towards a command economy.
During Bradshaw's long tenure, his government slowly moved into a statist approach to economic development.
This structure moved so slowly, however, that he called it the testudo ( the Latin word for " tortoise ").
Concerted French exploration of West Africa began in the mid-nineteenth century but moved slowly and was based more on individual initiative than on government policy.
Consequently, while General Motors and Ford were quick to begin downsizing their largest cars, Chrysler ( and Dodge ) moved more slowly out of necessity.
It remained in Alsace and moved slowly south, attacking and destroying the French defensive garrisons in the vicinity.
Much to his surprise, Catiline was in attendance while Cicero denounced him before the Senate ; however, the senators adjacent to Catiline slowly moved away from him during the course of the speech, the first of Cicero's four Catiline Orations.
Beginning in late April, a Union force of 100, 000 moved slowly against Corinth, under Halleck's command with Grant relegated to second-in-command ; Sherman commanded the division on the extreme right of the Union's right wing ( under George H. Thomas ).
The superposition of these emitted waves from many oscillators would then lead to a wave which moved more slowly.
During the Industrial Revolution draftsmanship gradually became a specialized trade and drawing tables slowly moved out of the libraries and offices of most gentlemen.
Following Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Warner Bros. has slowly moved the spotlight away from Bugs and more towards Daffy, as shown in the 2006 video release Bah, Humduck!

moved and along
During much of the year the general level of business activity has moved along on a record-high plateau, but there have been persistent signs of slack in the economy.
By varying the formula, this curve may be moved forward or backward along the coordinates to produce any desired compression strength / density ratio.
The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.
In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.
The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.
A series of paddles on chains moved along the bottom of the boat to propel it over the water.
As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper.
Another occurred in issue 2674, dated 16 October 1993, when the whole comic was now printed in full colour, along with some new strips such as The Numskulls, which had been moved from The Beezer.
Sediment deposited by waves comes from eroded cliff faces and is moved along the coastline by the waves.
If unsuccessful, the shot disc is " fouled " and removed from the board, along with any of the player's other discs that were moved during the shot.
It was regarded as a Protestant custom by the Roman Catholic majority along the lower Rhine, and was spread there only by Prussian officials who were moved there in the wake of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The horses moved by being pulled along on a trolley which meant the viewer never saw their feet when they were moving.
The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
In 1814 the Harmony Society moved to the Indiana Territory, where it initially acquired approximately of land along the Wabash River in Posey County and later acquired more.
With a series of men trained to do a single task on a product, then having it moved along to the next worker, the number of finished goods also rose significantly.
Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.
After his coronation, John moved south into France with military forces and adopted a defensive posture along the eastern and southern Normandy borders.
Weissmuller lived in Florida until the end of 1973, then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a greeter at Caesars Palace along with boxer Joe Louis for a time.
The cemetery was also where the Ηiera Hodos ( the Sacred Way, i. e. the road to Eleusis ) began, along which the procession moved for the Eleusinian Mysteries.
In 1840, after several setbacks with the school, the Alcott family moved to a cottage on of land, situated along the Sudbury River in Concord, Massachusetts.
From Peking, Mao moved along to Shanghai, working as a laundryman and meeting with Chen Duxiu, who had been recently freed from prison ; together, they discussed Marxism, which Chen was also beginning to accept.
" But where Jesus ' response to Martha is one of teaching calling her to hope and faith, his response to Mary is more emotional: " When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
Many newly arrived immigrants and others moved west along the railway to the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, sparsely settling Northern Ontario.
Spaniards moved northwestward across the Chaco to found Santa Cruz in Bolivia ; eastward to occupy the rest of present-day Paraguay ; and southward along the river to refound Buenos Aires, which its defenders had abandoned in 1541 to move to Asunción.

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