After the war, Paraguay's mostly rural populace continued to subsist as it had done for centuries, eking out a meager existence in the hinterland under difficult conditions.

" Varietys Todd McCarthy criticised the film for its lack of originality, writing " After the overwrought Unbreakable and now the meager Signs, it's fair to speculate whether Shyamalan's persistence in replicating the otherworldly formula of The Sixth Sense might not be a futile and self-defeating exercise.

After a meager education, he was apprenticed in 1821 at age 17, to Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a prosperous Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1825.

After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père.

After 1920 Hagerty lived on the streets of Chicago in conditions of dire poverty, eking out a meager existence as a beggar.

After having been awake all night, and having had little or nothing to eat in the previous twenty-four hours, at dawn they looked over their meager redoubt to see five British warships in the East River near their position.

After the war, he worked on the theory and practice of time series analysis, and conclusively demonstrated ( with the meager computing resources available at the time ) that unsmoothed sample periodograms were unreliable estimators for the population spectrum.

After spending a cold winter and making meager finds, they moved to Grass Valley on the news of a new lode.

After the Spanish occupation, it was largely abandoned and its inhabitants were left to survive a meager existence.

After her mother's premature death, Ellen, who is only eleven years of age, takes charge of the meager household finances.

After he retired from baseball, he spent many years as an alcoholic, making a meager living as a migrant worker.

After more than ten years of painfully slow rebuilding with only meager outside help, the United Nations intervened resulting in the Paris Peace Accord on October 23, 1992 and created conditions for general elections in May 1993, leading to the formation of the current government and the restoration of Prince Sihanouk to power as King in 1993.

After fifty years of coastal exploration, the Portuguese finally reached Elmina in 1471, during the reign of King Afonso V. However, because Portuguese royalty had lost interest in African exploration as a result of meager returns, the Guinea trade was put under the oversight of the Portuguese trader, Fernão Gomes.

After a near-fatal stroke in 1981, Crawford spent five years in rehabilitation before moving to the Northwest where she ran a meager bed and breakfast called " Seven Springs Farms " in Tensed, Idaho, between 1994 and 1999.

After a slow start to the 2007 season which saw him hit a meager. 249 through May 29, Canó found his stroke batting. 385 in the month of July with 6 HR and 24 RBI to raise his season average to. 300 by the end of the month.

After a recent increase in profits by 60 %, the company refused to raise worker's pay by more than 30 %.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

After 4 – 8 weeks, individuals with active infections enter the chronic phase of Chagas disease that is asymptomatic for 60 – 80 % of chronically infected individuals through their lifetime.

After a 60 Minutes / Washington Post investigation in November 2007 ( two years later ), the bureau agreed to identify, review, and release all of the pertinent cases, and notify prosecutors about cases in which faulty testimony was given.

After Lee's army had withdrawn back to Virginia, Stuart performed another of his audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac — 120 miles in under 60 hours, from Leesburg, Virginia, to as far north as Chambersburg and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — once again embarrassing his Union opponents and seizing horses and supplies, but at the expense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.

After Danish and Swedish troops in 1389 defeated the Swedish king, Albert of Mecklenburg, and he subsequently failed to pay the required tribute of 60, 000 silver marks within three years after his release, her position in Sweden was secured.

After 1990, the square became the focus of attention again, as a large ( some 60 hectares ), attractive location which had suddenly become available in the centre of a major European city.

After an organism has been dead for 60, 000 years so little carbon-14 is left that accurate dating can not be established.

After scoring 60 and 37 and taking 1 / 60 in an Australian XI against the South Africans following the Test, he forced his way into the team for the Second Test.

" After an alleged attempt to overthrow President Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was removed from office, convicted for plotting the coup, and executed by hanging in 1989 along with 5 others.

After being used primarily as a punt returner during his first 2 seasons, wide receiver John Taylor had a breakout season, catching 60 passes for 1, 077 yards and 10 touchdowns, while also returning 36 punts for 417 yards.

After more than 60 actresses had been auditioned, the first choice to play the role was Elizabeth Shepherd.

After a six-month hiatus in late 1971, CBS thus found a prime place for 60 Minutes in a portion of that displaced time, 6 – 7 p. m. ( Eastern time ; 5 – 6 Central ) on Sundays, in January 1972.

After discovering they were £ 60, 000 in debt, Blur toured the United States in 1992 in an attempt to recoup their financial losses.

After one distillation, the distillate, called " low wine ," will contain roughly 30 % alcohol by volume ( 60 US proof ).

After 40 to 60 days, juvenile walleyes become piscivorous.

After 20 years of diabetes, nearly all patients with Type I diabetes and > 60 % of patients with Type II diabetes have some degree of retinopathy ; however, these statistics were published in 2002 using data from four years earlier.

After the October 10, 2004 speech by President Chen, polls showed as little as 5 % support for reunification, with 60 % support for maintaining the status quo and 65 % opposition to the founding of a Republic of Taiwan in 2008 ( the projected date for completion of the 2006 constitutional reforms proposed by President Chen in his speech ).

After the investigation new members swear four oaths: the oath of purification, the oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the oath of loyal discharge of their office are demanded by Article 60 ; the oath of loyalty to King and Statute is demanded by Article 47 of the Statute of the Kingdom, the higher Constitution of the Realm.

After Settepozzi, Michael VIII dismissed the 60 Genoese galleys that he had hired earlier, and began a rapprochement with Venice.

After trading for Rafer Alston, the Magic finished the regular season with a 59-23 record, it was the most games the team had won in a season since the 1995 – 96 season in which they had 60 wins.

After a decline in use as wine-stoppers due to the increase in the use of cheaper synthetic alternatives, cork wine-stoppers are making a comeback and currently represent approximately 60 % of wine-stoppers today.

After the main house burned, the couple moved for a short time with their two children into the 20 by 60 foot Honeymoon Cottage, a one-story building with attic.

After we got a script and the spots for the songs were blocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every day.

After a week of precarious uphill landings and downwind takeoffs, Fogg one day looked down at the shattered yellow wreckage of an Army plane strewn across snow-covered Towne field.

After a day at Nikko, Mrs. Kodama put me on the train for Kyoto.

After a supper of unagi ( rice with eel -- eel which is raised in an ice-cold pond at the foot of Mt. Fuji ), I returned to my beautiful room to sleep as hard as possible to be ready for another busy day.

After that day, Blanche still didn't know exactly what had happened.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

* 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before ( citing religious reasons ), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

After waking up on flight day four, the crew began preparations for the maneuver that would brake the spacecraft into orbit around the Moon, or lunar orbit insertion.

After transfers were completed, the crew would sleep before jettisoning the empty lunar module ascent stage the next day, when it was to be crashed intentionally into the lunar surface.

After years of fighting, Paul is finally killed in October 1918, on an extraordinarily quiet, peaceful day.

After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean " in a single day and night of misfortune ".

After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge four-day popular feast and people celebrated with fireworks, as well as fine wine and running naked through the streets in order to display their great freedom.

After a one day series against South Africa, he scored his first Test century against the visiting Pakistanis in the first Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados which the West Indies eventually won.

" 9: 24 After making a comparison with events in the history of Israel, many scholars have concluded that each day in the seventy weeks represents a year.

After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

After miracles were reported to take place at her grave, Raymond moved her inside the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where she lies to this day.

After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.

After the seven day Deluge, the flood hero frees a swallow, a raven and a dove in an effort to find if the flood waters have receded.

After that, the souls return to their bodies which will be resurrected on the Day of Judgement, on which day they will receive whatever they deserve according to their beliefs and deeds in life.

After a 45-minute term of office, Pedro Lascuráin was replaced by Huerta, who took over the presidency later that day.

After the canal was opened, Motala Verkstad focused on producing equipment, locomotives and rolling stock for the newly constructed railways, beginning a tradition of railway engineering that continues to this day in the form of AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning ( ASJA ) that was bought by the aeroplane manufacturer SAAB in Linköping.