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After and attempt
After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.
After Constantius ' death in 361, his successor Julian the Apostate, a devotee of Rome's pagan gods, declared that he would no longer attempt to favor one church faction over another, and allowed all exiled bishops to return ; this had the objective of further increasing dissension among Christians.
After an attempt to arrest the queen herself failed, Joan called Sforza who defeated the Aragonese milices near Castel Capuano in Naples.
After a first unsuccessful attempt at colonisation in 497 BC by the Milesian Tyrant Histiaeus, the Athenians founded a first colony at Ennea-Hodoi (‘ Nine Ways ’) in 465, but these first ten thousand colonists were massacred by the Thracians.
After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean " in a single day and night of misfortune ".
After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years.
After one such attempt, Bright noted in his diary that Disraeli " seems unable to comprehend the morality of our political course.
After the 1974 invasion following a Greek junta-based coup attempt, Makarios secured international recognition of his Greek Cypriot government as the sole legal authority on Cyprus, which has proved to be a very significant strategic advantage for the Greek Cypriots in the decades since.
After the croquet stroke, the player plays a " continuation " stroke, during which the player may again attempt to make a roquet or run a hoop.
After a further attempt at pop success with 1987's Rainbow, Parton refocused on recording country material.
After an urgent call for help from the Legation, Seymour set out on 10 June with 2000 troops to attempt to break through to Peking.
After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf, a large IRA bomb exploded at South Quay on 9 February 1996.
After more light rain in June, the lake finally began to dry enough for an attempt to be made.
After Russian forces began to advance, previously buried victims were also exhumed and burned in Sonderaktion 1005, a Nazi attempt to destroy evidence of the Holocaust.
After an aborted attempt to rally troops against Ankō, Kinashi no Karu ( and his sister ) were exiled and committed suicide.
After Montag starts to rip a few pages from the beginning of a rare copy of The New Testament ( one of the few left that actually contains God's word, rather than the bastardized versions that have Jesus and other Biblical characters shilling products ), Faber relents and teaches Montag about the importance of literature in its attempt to explain human existence.
After more than a century of strained relations and intercepted fighting Greece and Turkey agreed under the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 to a population exchange as an attempt to reduce tensions between the two countries in the future.
After Caesar's expeditions, the Romans began their real attempt to conquer Britain in 43 CE, at the behest of the Emperor Claudius.
After Albania signed trade agreements with Yugoslavia and Greece in 1934, Mussolini made a failed attempt to intimidate the Albanians by sending a fleet of warships to Albania.
After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a very poor country, and Turabi fell from favor.
After the collapse of the short-lived Third Reich, and the failure of its attempt to create a great land empire in Eurasia, Germany was split between Western and Soviet spheres of influence until Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.
After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944, he was imprisoned for a second time as an opponent of the regime.
After an apparently successful attempt to enforce the baptism of all Jews and Montanists in the empire ( 722 ), he issued a series of edicts against the worship of images ( 726 – 729 ).

After and lure
After days of efforts to lure ( or frighten ) the whales in the direction of the ocean, the whales eventually made their way south into San Francisco Bay, where they lingered for several days.
After touring India in 1976 Hadlee, plagued by stomach troubles, had decided never to play cricket there again, however the opportunity to make history was too strong a lure to pass up.
After almost two decades of decline, when " gospel suffered as its array of vital talent fell for the lure of the devil's loot and moved from the pulpit to the snake pit of pop ", by the end of the 1970s gospel music had resurrected in its popularity.
After an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to lure Red Grange to Rochester ( he instead signed with the Chicago Bears ), the team suspended operations after the 1925 NFL season ; by this point, the team had been losing money ( to the point where Lyons ' house had been foreclosed upon because of his dumping of virtually all his assets into the team ) and had been a traveling team for two seasons ( 1920 and 1925 ).
After many weeks of phone calls with McMahon trying to lure Bruno back, Sammartino demanded a title run.
After an unsuccessful ploy designed to lure the Pompeians down the hill, Caesar ordered a frontal attack ( with the watchword " Venus ", the goddess reputed to be his ancestor ).
After they do so, the Mathra trap becomes invisible, and the Cluefinders lure the returning Limburger to fly his plane into it.
After the Triple Crown Seattle Slew was sent to Hollywood Park Racetrack, which offered a $ 400, 000 purse to lure him to run in the Swaps Stakes on July 3.
After capturing the northern heights above Lang Son, the Chinese surrounded and paused in front of the city in order to lure the Vietnamese into reinforcing it with units from Cambodia.
After the Master allows Darla to destroy the minions who failed to kill Buffy, Darla tries to lure Angel to the Master's side, but Angel stakes and kills her, further thwarting the Master's plans.
After the show's cancellation, Stuart, along with several other cast members played their characters on the soap opera As the World Turns in an attempt to lure fans of Another World to watch the other soap ( also a Procter & Gamble soap ).
After receiving a distress message from Rosh, returned to the Light Side and now a prisoner, Kyle and Jaden go to rescue him, but Jaden makes it to him first, only to discover that the distress signal was just a scheme to lure the two to destroy them.
After L. A. ( Light Album ) failed to live up to expectations, the executives at CBS expected Brian Wilson's full involvement, and thus, there was another attempt to lure him back into the producer's chair.
After trying and failing several times to shore up declining interests, First Comics decided to lure Chaykin back into the writer's seat.
After Mister Fantastic ruins his robots, he decides to prove to be superior to Mr. Fantastic and lure him into his Murderworld.
After the principal series of killings, one of these meths-drinkers is disguised as Lionheart as a diversion to lure the police away while the remaining critic Devlin is kidnapped.
After failing to lure the Qin army to attack, Xiang Yan ordered a retreat and Wang Jian seized the opportunity to launch a surprise counterattack.
After Princess Lynette left the castle, the Mystic Knights went after her and divised a plan to lure Grindon out into the opening.
After several failed attempts to lure it out ( including Homer crawling into the kennel, thinking it is Milhouse but getting attacked by the badger ), Homer calls animal control.
After he gets noticed, he had to lure them out to the ocean.
After the failure of these efforts, Lenin, assuming that capitalism was not going to collapse at once as he had hoped, made a major effort in the early 1920s to lure German corporations into investing in the Soviet Union as a way of modernizing the country.
After the costume tries to take control of Thor and the Hulk, the gathered heroes lure it to an abandoned area where Black Bolt uses his voice to attack the suit's weakness to sonic vibrations and drive it to separate from Thor.
After disengaging from the stalemate at Spotsylvania Court House, Grant moved his army to the southeast, hoping to lure Lee into battle on open ground.
After some conflict, Moyo and Tarzan cooperated to rescue the family and lure Hista into the tar pit, where the great snake became stuck and sank, forever ending the python's reign of terror.

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