After a lengthy battle at Singasteinn, Heimdall wins and returns Brísingamen to Freyja.

After a lengthy engagement, he forced the large and well-armed merchant ship to surrender.

After a lengthy battle with his syndicator, Watterson won the privilege of making half page-sized Sunday strips where he could arrange the panels any way he liked.

After a lengthy civil war, the CPC defeated its primary rival, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and assumed full control of mainland China by 1949.

After a lengthy search the tag " AXP " was found to be entirely unencumbered.

After reuniting with the other Pythons in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Chapman began a lengthy series of American college tours where he would tell the audience anecdotes about Monty Python, the Dangerous Sports Club, Keith Moon, and other subjects.

After finishing his talks with Stalin and Molotov, Ribbentrop, at a dinner with the Soviet leaders, launched into a lengthy diatribe against the British Empire, with frequent interjections of approval from Stalin, and then exchanged toasts with Stalin in honour of German-Soviet friendship.

After being sent on a lengthy tour of Europe starting 1927 – including London, Paris and towns in Germany – during which he demonstrated his invention to full audiences, Theremin found his way to the United States, arriving on 30 December 1927 with his first wife Katia.

After a lengthy development process of roughly 20 years, it was finally decided that testing of the Istrebitel Sputnik be canceled.

After a lengthy court fight, in 2004 the families of the Munich victims reached a settlement of € 3 million with the German government.

After a lengthy investigation conducted by the National Football League's security department, the league alleged on March 2, 2012 that 22 to 27 defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a " pay for performance " program that included " bounty " payments administered by then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons.

After lengthy negotiations between Anglo-Persian representatives and Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim, on 17 May 1935 the sheikh put his signature to a concession agreement for a period of 75 years in return for 400, 000 rupees on signature and 150, 000 rupees per annum with royalties.

After a lengthy period of restricted intermittent or no water exchange between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean basin, approximately 5. 33 million years ago, the Atlantic-Mediterranean connection was completely reestablished through the Strait of Gibraltar by the Zanclean flood, and has remained open ever since.

After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, cost around US $ 46 million, and then earned only about US $ 8 million in US ticket sales.

After a lengthy tour of Europe, during which time he demonstrated his invention to packed houses, Theremin found his way to the United States, where he patented his invention in 1928 ().

After lengthy wars, the Sumerians recognized the benefits of unification into a stable form of national government and became a relatively peaceful, well-organized, complex technocratic state called the 3rd dynasty of Ur.

( 3 ) After a lengthy debate whether it was less appropriate to refuse a triumph to man, in his presence, in whose name when absent a thanksgiving ( supplicatio ) had been decreed and honour paid to the Immortal Gods by reason of the things successfully accomplished under his leadership, ( 4 ) or for a man to triumph as though a war had been concluded whom they had ordered to hand over his army to a successor ( something that would not be decreed if no war remained in the province ) when his army, the witness of a deserved as of an undeserved triumph, was far away, the middle course seemed best: that he should enter the City in ovation ( ovans ).

After a lengthy fight and DNA testing an American court ruled in 1989 that Jones is the boy's father.

After a lengthy hearing, a decision was made in favour of John Balliol on 17 November 1292.

After lengthy legal battles, informal contact between Fish and the other four band members apparently did not resume until 1999 ; Fish would later disclose in the liner notes to the 2-CD reiussue of Clutching at Straws that he and his former bandmates had met up and discussed the demise of the band and renewed their friendship, and had come to the consensus that an excessive touring schedule and too much pressure from the band's management led to the rift.

After a lengthy delay the performance continued with only the Hammond L-100 functioning.

After the shipyard was sold, Bergh received a share of the inheritance and set forth on a lengthy journey throughout Western Europe with his young bride, Catherine Matilda Taylor.

After lengthy negotiations, on February 1, 2005, the Nigerian and Sao Tomé governments entered into an exploration and production sharing agreement over the first of six different exploration blocs with a US dominated consortium led by ChevronTexaco with 51 % of the equity, ExxonMobil with 40 % and Dangote Energy Equity Resources, a small Nigerian and Norwegian company with the remaining 9 %.

After a lengthy decision-making process in which FIFA's executive committee met eight times, Italy was chosen as the host nation at a meeting in Stockholm on 9 October 1932.

-- After 52 rainless days, moisture finally came to Del Mar, resulting in but one workout during the week for most of the horses, and leaving us with less than half our total average rainfall during the season.

After a medical examination three days later, Richard was told to rest his arm and he collapsed during a July 30 workout.

After a High Intensity workout, as with any workout, the body requires time to recover and produce the responses stimulated during the workout, so there is more emphasis on rest and recovery in the HIT philosophy than in most other weight training methods.

After being told by scouts that he was too much of a “ tweener ” ( 6 ′ 4 ″) to make the NBA, Gates arranged a workout in front of NFL scouts.

After an intensive offseason workout regimen, Delcarmen lost 15 pounds.

After completing an agonizing interval workout of 60 quarter miles, Cassidy finally believes he is ready to face Walton.

After a debate that divided members largely along the lines of generation and gender, the Chickahominy Neighborhood Association voted unanimously yesterday not to bring a controversial Revolutionary War mural back to Hamilton Avenue School because its content is too violent.

After being visited by the abrasive yet well-intentioned Christmas ghosts, Daffy is redeemed, and as part of a surprise Christmas celebration, gives Marvin a rocket that will go faster than the speed of light, allowing him to make it to Mars by yesterday.

After publication of Hiroshima, Hersey noted that " the important ' flashes ' and ' bulletins ' are already forgotten by the time yesterday morning's paper is used to line the trash can.

President Nixon accused Democrats of having an anti-Southern bias as a result saying, " After the Senate ’ s action yesterday in rejecting Judge Carswell, I have reluctantly concluded that it is not possible to get confirmation for the judge on the Supreme Court of any man who believes in the strict construction of the Constitution as I do, if he happens to come from the South.

After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.

After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

After a tortuous drive in an open truck and a World War 2, army jeep down soggy trails, the band arrived at a small clearing squeezed between a long, low ridge and a creek-filled gully.

After some time he came to an open field.

After Thursday's open date, Solly plans to open with Larry Jackson against the Cubs here Friday night.

After the sad impatient moment, waiting for comfort which could not come, she slipped out of bed and went to the open window.

After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

After all that had happened, open shadowing, friends turning away, Pasternak ’ s suicidal condition at the time, one can ... understand her: the memory of Stalin ’ s camps was too fresh, she tried to protect him.

After the 1997 publication of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond was for a number of years frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement.

After six months in practice, Elizabeth wished to open an outpatients dispensary, to enable poor women to obtain medical help from a qualified practitioner of their own gender.

After a few skirmishes, disease struck the Roman army while supplies in Agrigentum were running low, and both sides saw an open battle as preferable to the current situation.

After an open letter from ICANN issuing an ultimatum to VeriSign, later supported by the IAB, the company voluntarily shut down the service on October 4, 2003.

After the pelvic exam, the vagina is held open with a speculum, the same device used during a pap smear.

* 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.

After the death of a Soviet leader it was customary for his successors to open his safe and look in it.

After the fall of the Taliban, there were open calls for a return to the monarchy.

After General Manager Walt Jocketty acquired shortstop Royce Clayton during the offseason, La Russa emphasized an open competition for the spot that would give the Cardinals the best chance to win.

After all players have brought their closed hands above the table, they all then open their hands to reveal their choices: for example, no chips in the hand means the player is declaring " low ", one chip " high ", and two chips " swing " ( both ways ).

After liquid paint is applied, there is an interval during which it can be blended with additional painted regions ( at the " wet edge ") called " open time.

After the death of Maglione in 1944, Pius left the position open and named Tardini head of its foreign section and Montini head of the internal section.

After his return to Vienna, his father was concerned about Rudolf's aloof and stiff manner, typical of the more conservative Spanish court, rather than the more relaxed and open Austrian court ; but his Spanish mother saw in him courtliness and refinement.

After entering the town under heavy rain, Caparzo is wounded by a sniper in the chest, and slowly bleeds to death, since nobody can go out into the open without getting hit.