After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain.

After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months.

After several minor skirmishes and a stalemate in the siege that was initiated by the caliph, Saladin intended to find a way to withdraw from the siege without damage to his reputation while still keeping up some military pressure.

After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

After Lee held at bay Grant's attempt to seize Petersburg on June 15, the battle settled into a stalemate.

After months of stalemate, and using the money of his mistress, Harriet Howard, he staged a coup d ' état and seized dictatorial powers on 2 December 1851, the 47th anniversary of Napoleon I's crowning as Emperor ( hence another of Louis-Napoléon's nicknames: " The Man of December ", " l ' homme de décembre ").

After several months of stalemate, on 14 March 1800, Chiaramonti was elected as a compromise candidate, certainly not the choice of die-hard opponents of the French Revolution, and took the name of Pius VII.

After the arrival of General George Washington two weeks after the battle, the siege reached a stalemate until March the next year, when cannon seized at the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga were positioned on Dorchester Heights in a deft night manoeuvre.

After the war ended in a stalemate between North and South Korea and with the two nations ' borders were roughly established back to the 38th parallel, Primorsky Krai became the site of extreme security concern for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

After another stalemate in the Fifth Test, Gavaskar scored 123 in the Sixth Test in Bombay, where Australia collapsed by an innings after India posted their fourth first innings in excess of 400 for the series.

After defeating Shibata at the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583 and enduring a costly but ultimately advantageous stalemate with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute in 1584, Hideyoshi managed to settle the question of succession for once and all, to take complete control of Kyoto, and to become the undisputed ruler of the former Oda domains.

After the initial attack and after the German counter-attack had been repulsed, the Anzio beachhead settled down to stalemate.

After 58 ballots, Bilbo on February 28 was one of several candidates to break the stalemate by switching his vote to Percy, who won by an 87 – 82 majority.

After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

After more than hundred days of stalemate, a famine breakout forced Lü to give up his position and seek refuge under Liu Bei in Xiapi ( 下邳 ; present-day Pizhou, Jiangsu ).

After some weeks of stalemate, Spring decided to enter negotiations with Reynolds over the Christmas period on a new Programme for Government.

After the stalemate at Prairie Grove, Hindman was transferred back across the river and participated in the Battle of Chickamauga alongside his friend Pat Cleburne.

After more than 100 days of stalemate, a famine forced Lü Bu to abandon the city.

After several days of maneuver and stalemate, Pausanias ordered a night-time retreat towards the Allies ' original positions.

After a prolonged stalemate, Lord Napier was forced, sapped by typhus, to retire to Macau in September 1834, where he died of the fever on 11th October.

After the IPKF left in 1990, the government's war with the LTTE resumed, and resulted in stalemate.

After several months of fighting, during which the British forces were withdrawn from the Aisne and sent north into Flanders, the northern flank had developed into a similar stalemate.

After two 0 – 0 draws, a third game was played which was also a stalemate, this time 2 – 2.

After a three-day standoff Howard arrived with his command, on October 3 and the stalemate was broken.

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 almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

After Mr. Jack drove away, Winston went on looking out the window.

After a minute he went on, `` People must think the curse is on me, seeing you fresh as an apple and me old and gray ''.

After well broken and equipped with 12-oz. shoes on behind, bare-footed in front, she would trot a real storm with the master, Delvin, driving.

After figuring out how to regulate the barrels so that they shot to the same point of impact, we fired this little 20-inch-barrel job on my home range and in Marlin's underground test gallery.

After lunch, in the arcade on my left just before reaching the street I found a pastry shop that sells some of the best baklava -- a sweet, flaky cake -- in Istanbul.

After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.

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 decking is on, the cabin sides are installed.

After selecting a sheet and inspecting it for flaws ( even the best sometimes has foreign ' nubbins ' on its surface ), I sponge it thoroughly on both sides with clean, cold water.

After it has been seen, have the child start on a mat on hands and knees ( a thin, inexpensive mat is quite sufficient for anything that does not require falling ).

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 a `` busy '' overture, the curtain rises on a farm scene -- the Ranavan Valley in northern Maine.

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

After `` a prolonged study of the Oder line on a map '', at Teheran, Churchill `` liked the picture ''.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.