After enduring a few losing seasons, the team returned to contention in 1930.

After enduring persecution from the pagan tribes for 13 years, Muhammad emigrated ( see Hijra ) in 622 with his companions, the Muhajirun, to Yathrib ( later called Medina ).

After the First World War and re-establishment of Polish independence, the convocation of parliament, under the democratic electoral law of 1918, became an enduring symbol of the new state's wish to demonstrate and establish continuity with the 300 year Polish parliamentary traditions established before the time of the partitions.

After enduring much misery, Wagner persuaded Minna, who had a heart condition, to rest at a spa while Otto Wesendonck took Mathilde to Italy.

After enduring a harsh winter in 1133, the monks applied to join the Cistercian order and in 1135 became the second house of that order in northern England, after Rievaulx.

After two days of defending against an enemy with an overwhelming numerical superiority, enduring heavy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, and with many of his troops in open flight, it became obvious to Tang that a general retreat was inevitable.

After its premiere on 3 March 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure ; he died of a heart attack three months later, unaware that it would prove a spectacular and enduring success.

After enduring two bitterly cold nights, they moved across the creek and circled their wagons by Heap's Spring and Pratt's liberty pole, seeking the protection of the hills.

After an enduring battle fought pretty much against Scrooge alone, eventually the President's troops fold against the infamous temper of Scrooge's sister Hortense.

After enduring privations and sufferings of the severest kind, he returned to Cairo in June 1815 in a state of great exhaustion ; but in the spring of 1816 he travelled to Mount Sinai, whence he returned to Cairo in June, and there again made preparations for his intended journey to Fezzan.

After playing drums in a variety of swing orchestras, including Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders, and Harlan Leonard's Rockets, he founded his own band in 1945 and had one of the most enduring hits of the big band era, " Harlem Nocturne ".

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 couple celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary, McEntire stated that the secrets to her enduring marriage were " Respect, faith, love, trust, and lots of patience ".

After enduring seven months of rehabilitation for his injury, Killebrew remained in pain but rebounded to have his best season in 1969.

After enduring 12 years of a bitter and fiercely contested newspaper war, the Arkansas Gazette published its final edition, ending what had become a 172 year-old business.

After enduring the winter of 1941 – 1942, the German army prepared for further offensive operations.

After tyranny, war and destruction, the country had to be reconstructed while enduring hunger and deprivation.

After the Second World War this became an enduring tradition, but since horses have great difficulty going down steps, a ramp is now provided for the horse to return.

After a while of enduring Edgar's temper tantrums and hysterical accusations and self-pitying moping, she began to stay longer at her office or on the film set: it is hardly surprising she craved laughs and pleasant conversation with youthful, handsome colleagues instead of being harangued by Edgar.

After enduring three grueling rounds of voting in the 1971 – 1972 campaign, Edwards pushed a bill through the legislature that limited state elections to two rounds by having Democratic, Republican, and independent candidates run together on the same ballot in an nonpartisan blanket primary.

After enduring years of natural disaster and war, the world of Sand Land is left without its main supply of water ; the river that provided water to the country dried up long ago.

After enduring multiple fires and earthquakes, the construction was eventually resumed in Nara in 745, and the Buddha was finally completed in 751.

After enduring negative press in Massachusetts, he was pleased with the enthusiastic cooperation he received from the Japanese government.

After enduring 34 years of warfare, the Armenian nobility of Artsakh and most of other provinces of Armenia revolted, refusing to support the Armenian king Arsaces II ( Arshak II ) anymore out of war-weariness.

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 the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

After gathering a large coalition of peoples, Alboin crossed the Julian Alps in 568, entering an almost undefended Italy.

After he married Cornelia Boschman in 1658, the number of works produced by him declined almost to nothing.

After being pulled through a time portal, Ash Williams lands in 1300 AD, where he is almost immediately captured by Lord Arthur's men, who suspect him to be an agent for Duke Henry, with whom Arthur is at war.

After settling, all larvae undergo a radical metamorphosis that destroys and rebuilds almost all the internal tissues.

After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ).

After the end of the Berriasian, however, temperatures increased again, and these conditions were almost constant until the end of the period.

After the Second World War, surviving European monarchies almost invariably adopted some variant of the constitutional monarchy model originally developed in Britain.

After that point mail was almost all made from riveted rings only.

After spending almost the entire 2009 / 2010 season in the top six of League One, Charlton were defeated in the Football League One play-offs semi-final second leg on penalties to Swindon Town, condemning Charlton to another season in the third tier of English Football.

After Kuttner's death in 1958, Moore wrote almost no fiction and taught his writing course at the University of Southern California.

After retirement, Jones worked assiduously at his publications almost up to the end of his long life.

After completing Low and " Heroes ", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

After the collapse of the Western Empire the study of Galen and other Greek works almost disappeared in the Latin West.

After almost 30 years of its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of " I Will Survive ", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows.

After the devastating 1354 earthquake, the Greek city of Gallipoli was almost abandoned, but swiftly reoccupied by Turks from Anatolia, the Asiatic side of the straits, making Gallipoli the first Ottoman position in Europe, and the staging area for their expansion across the Balkans.

After almost a year he returned to Drayton, where he engaged Nathaniel Stephens, the clergyman of his hometown, in long discussions on religious matters.

After graduating, he attended Crenshaw High School, which was almost entirely made up of black students.

After Stalingrad, Hitler increasingly withdrew from public view, almost never appearing in public and rarely even broadcasting.

After the Napoleonic wars ( which ended in 1815 ), almost all of Spain's and Portugal's colonies in Latin America revolted and declared independence.

After a victory at Faenza in 542, they reconquered the major cities of Southern Italy and soon held almost the entire peninsula.

After architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti had won an international competition to create its new galleries for Islamic art, the new 3, 000 sq m pavilion eventually opened in 2012, consisting of ground-and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof ( fashioned from almost 9, 000 steel tubes that form an interior web ) that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre ’ s south wing.