After Cen Peng is unable to break through, he constructs several " castle ships " with high ramparts and ramming vessels known as " colliding swoopers ", which break through Gongsun's lines and allow Cen to quell his rebellion.

After the purge of Peng Zhen, the Beijing Party Committee had effectively ceased to function, paving the way for disorder in the capital.

After his training, Hu worked in the political department, and was assigned to work as a member of Peng Dehuai's Third Front Army.

After Mao's death, Peng was posthumously rehabilitated with full honors.

After Wang was defeated, Peng briefly rejoined Chiang Kai-shek's forces before joining the Chinese Communist Party, allying himself with Mao Zedong and Zhu De.

After the Japanese surrendered, in 1945, Peng was given command of Communist forces in Northwest China.

After the incident, Peng began to think seriously about leaving the service of his provincial warlord army.

After Tang's forces were decisively defeated by Chiang, Peng commanded the rear guard, protecting the retreat of Tang's forces back into Hunan.

After rejoining Chiang's Nanjing government, Peng was stationed in the mountainous Pingjiang County, northwest of Changsha.

After joining forces with communist guerrillas, one of Peng's first actions was to save Mao, whose forces were being encircled by Kuomintang units: Peng broke the encirclement and drove the enemy off.

After the consolidation of the Jiangxi Soviet, a number of USSR-trained Communist Party leaders arrived and took power in the Soviet: Peng, like most communist military leaders, supported their leadership until the Jiangxi Soviet was eventually overrun.

After the Japanese advanced towards Taiyuan on September 13, 1937, Peng directed overall operations from a base in Wutaishan, but was called from duty to attend a Politburo meeting on December 13.

After being recalled to Yan ' an, Peng was subjected to a political indoctrination campaign in which he was criticized as an " empiricist " for his good relations with the Comintern, and only survived professionally through an unconditional conversion to Mao's leadership.

After the People's Republic of China was declared on October 1, 1949, Peng was appointed Chairman of the Northwest China Military and Administrative Commission and Commander-in-Chief and Political Commissar of Xinjiang, with Wang Zhen as his deputy.

After Zhou and Lin negotiated Stalin's approval, Peng attended a conference in Beijing with Mao, Zhou, and Gao Gang on October 18, and they ordered the first wave of Chinese soldiers — in total more than 260, 000 men — to cross into Korea on the night of October 19.

After the government representatives emphasized their inability to meet the demands of the war, Peng, in an angry outburst, shouted: " You have this and that problem ... You should go to the front and see with your own eyes what food and clothing the soldiers have!

After being recalled back to China in April 1952, Peng succeeded Zhou in managing the day-to-day affairs of the Central Military Commission in July 1952 ; and, in the spring of 1954, Peng was confirmed as the vice-chairman of the Commission ( Mao was its chairman ), becoming effectively the most senior military leader in China.

After returning to China from the Korean War, Peng became engaged in a rivalry with Mao Zedong over the political future of China.

After Peng returned from his first tour abroad, in September 1955, he began to seriously implement his " Four Great Systems ": the implementation of standardized military ranks, salaries, awards, and rules of conscription.

After gaining the consensus of several of his peers, Peng developed his opinions more systematically, but was hesitant to bring up the full range of his criticisms in public.

After private discussion with other senior leaders, Peng considered the prestige of Mao and the unity of the Party and agreed to make a self-criticism, which was publicly reviewed at the conference, in which he admitted that he had made " severe mistakes " associated with his " rightist viewpoint ", that he had been a follower of Li Lisan and Wang Ming, and in which he openly implicated his supporters in his " mistakes ".

After the conference, Peng said privately to Zhou Enlai regarding his self-criticism: " For the first time in my life, I have spoken out against my very heart!

After his forced retirement, Peng lived alone, under constant surveillance from the Central Guard Unit of the PLA, accompanied by a secretary and a bodyguard.

After Mao Zedong purged Peng in 1959, Mao appointed Marshal He Long to the head of an office to investigate Peng's past in order to find additional reasons to criticize Peng.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

After his passage, the street was empty again.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

After that, violence was exultantly easy.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

After trimming off the excess on the frames and transom which was used to fasten them to the jig at a working height, the top of the side planking is installed.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

After five minutes with Blanche, one might welcome the astringency of Grazie, who was a sort of Gwen Cafritz to Francesca's Perle Mesta.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

After a while, we became aware that the money was disappearing as fast as we replenished it.

After dialysis the sample was centrifuged and the supernatant placed on a Af cm column of EEAE-cellulose equilibrated with starting buffer.

After blotting out most of the saline around the sections, a drop of Af was layered over each of the sections, allowed to react for 30 minutes, and then washed with PBS for 15 - 30 minutes.