Warfare between city states had led to a population decline, from which Akkad provided a temporary respite.

" It is unknown when Alfred launched this programme, but it may have been during the 880s when Wessex was enjoying a respite from Viking attacks.

The British thus gained a respite, and peace lasted at least until the time Gildas was writing: that is, for perhaps forty or fifty years, from around the end of the 5th century until midway through the sixth.

Don Purcell, a millionaire Dianeticist from Wichita, Kansas, offered a brief respite from bankruptcy, but the Foundation's finances failed again in 1952.

Washington at the same time refused Carver's requests for a new laboratory, research supplies for his exclusive use, and respite from teaching classes.

Goebbels also resisted the complete Nazification of the arts because he knew that the masses must be allowed some respite from slogans and propaganda.

There was some respite during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, but from 1937 the intensity of his anti-Semitic words and actions began to increase again.

The arrival of the crusade was a brief respite from the Lombard War ; Filangieri remained in Tyre and did not participate.

The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989 to 2003.

After a short respite in 1991 – 1996, when measures taken in 1993 led to economic stabilization, a relatively stable exchange rate, low inflation, sustainable fiscal policies, and growth, Suriname's economic situation deteriorated from 1996 to the present.

According to the Qur ' an, Iblis ( the Arabic name used ) disobeyed an order from Allah to bow to Adam and as a result was forced out of heaven and given respite until the day of judgment from further punishment.

Shaitan then claims that if the punishment for his act of disobedience is to be delayed until the Day of Judgment, that he will divert many of Adam's own descendants from the straight path during his period of respite.

" It may be used to procure diagnostically — or therapeutically — vital information, and to provide patients with a functional respite from catatonia or mania.

After a few months ' respite from the Say You Will tour, Nicks did a four-night stint in May 2005 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and then did a 10-show tour with Don Henley.

His lip had toughened from earlier, more tentative years ; on nine of the Wolverines ' recorded titles he proceeds commandingly from lead to opening solo without any need for a respite from playing.

Although the chaplain persists in attempting to lead Meursault from his atheism, Meursault finally accosts him in a rage, with a climactic outburst on his frustrations and the absurdity of the human condition ; his personal anguish at the meaninglessness of his existence without respite.

This having failed, Basil used a respite from his conflict with the nobility to lead an army of 30, 000 men into Bulgaria and besiege Sredets ( Sofia ) in 986.

The use of eggs would have been a brief respite from the Lenten fast.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a young Quincy Jones, this album proved a respite from the ' Songbook ' recordings and constant touring that Fitzgerald was engaged in during this period.

In respite from the lawsuit, the band returned to the studio to record their next album.

Selim III profited by the respite to abolish the military tenure of fiefs ; he introduced salutary reforms into the administration, especially in the fiscal department, sought by well-considered plans to extend the spread of education, and engaged foreign officers as instructors, by whom a small corps of new troops called nizam-i-jedid were collected and drilled.

The Stavka used the respite offered by the German refocusing of Panzergruppe 1 to re-establish its front using the 9th Coastal Army ( independent ) and either reforming the destroyed armies, or bringing into line reserve 37th and 56th armies from the interior military districts, with the 38th Army eventually left to hold an over-stretched Kharkov sector of the Front.

After a few weeks ' respite Collingwood sailed again, this time for Callao, the main port on the Peruvian coast, giving Markham his first experience of a country that would figure prominently in his later career.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

The tour was broken up into two segments spanning October through December 1996 and May through July 1997 with the band taking a respite between tour legs.

A 48-hour respite that had been previously agreed to with the rebel group was not respected as the government argued that it had already been granted during an earlier crisis in January, when most of the more prominent FARC-EP commanders had apparently left the demilitarized zone.

The Reconquista was a war with long periods of respite between the adversaries, partly for pragmatic reasons, and also due to infighting among the Christian kingdoms of the North spanning over seven centuries.

This was only a brief respite because shortly afterwards Babylon was besieged which led to its fall in 689 BC.

Given a respite, Belisarius was able to regroup his forces south of Ad Decimum and launch a counterattack, which drove the Vandals back and soon routed them.

Manuel II Palaiologos used this period of respite to bolster the defences of the Despotate of Morea, where the Byzantine Empire was actually expanding at the expense of the remnants of the Latin Empire.

Diệm was given a respite in November 1946 when clashes between the French and the Việt Minh escalated into full scale war, forcing the Việt Minh to divert their resources.

The resolution of the video was that the band was planning on getting back together soon, excited to create new music with their diverse experiences over their respite.

Fortunately the plague left Gondor's enemies in no better condition than the realm itself, and Gondor was therefore allowed over a century of respite from attack.

Fursman and Clute's vision was to create a respite where faculty and students could immerse themselves completely in artmaking, surrounded by a supportive community of artists and an inspired landscape of natural dunes, woods and water.

By this time, servitude to the Lord of the Manor was merely token, discharged on purchasing the copyhold by payment of a " fine in respite of fealty ".

Later, in 1547, Charles signed a humiliating treaty with the Ottomans to gain him some respite from the huge expenses of their war, in which he was seen as the equivalent of the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire-Ibrahim Pasha at the time-and was referred to as only the King of Spain since there could only be one Emperor in the world and it was Suleiman.

Catherine came from a wealthy Protestant family and brought with her a dowry of £ 2, 000, but also a religious association that offered Robert some respite from the recusancy laws then in effect.

The practice of an elegant meal eaten out-of-doors, rather than a harvester worker's dinner in the harvest field, was connected with respite from hunting from the Middle Ages ; the excuse for the pleasurable outing of 1723 in Lemoyne's painting ( illustration, left ) is still offered in the context of a hunt.

However, this offered the Dutch a respite from his relentless pressure that they soon put to good use.

The FAI Cup offered some respite, however Shamrock Rovers knocked City out in the semi-finals – in the last match played at the Lodge.

The marriage of her eldest son, the Duke of Calabria, to Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria in 1797 offered Maria Carolina a brief respite from the affairs of war, which had taken a toll on her health.

With its putting green, skeet range, and view of South Mountain, it offered President Eisenhower a much-needed respite from the pressures of Washington.