After three months of research, I can state unequivocally that Los Angeles drivers are considerably more courteous and competent than any other drivers I've ever encountered.

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 promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.

After the months in Europe, she returned to Boston and became active in church and community life.

After being closed for seven months, the Garden of the Gods Club will have its gala summer opening Saturday, June 3.

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 three months, they begin supervised foraging and by four months are normally independent.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

* 1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army.

After the Ark had been among them for seven months, the Philistines, on the advice of their diviners, returned it to the Israelites, accompanying its return with an offering consisting of golden images of the tumors and rats wherewith they had been afflicted.

After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.

After 3 months of provisional government, Déby ’ s Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) approved a national charter on February 28, 1991, with Déby as president.

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 some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982.

After several difficult months following the death of Camille in September, 1879, a grief-stricken Monet ( resolving never to be mired in poverty again ) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century.

After seven months the Grandees in the New Model Army removed him and, on 6 May 1659, they reinstalled the Rump Parliament.

After many months of negotiation, agreement was reached between Hydro Quebec and Rediffusion on February 28, 1950 for an initial 5 year period.

After six months he moved to Raleigh and worked with Johnnie and Jack before heading for Richmond, Virginia, where he performed with Sunshine Sue Workman.

After a few months, this engagement was called off.

After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes.

After signing a letter of submission and promising never to write anything prejudicial against the religion again ( with the result that his most controversial works were henceforth published only after his death ), Diderot was released from the dungeons of the Vincennes fortress after three months.

After his release, Ortega was exiled to Cuba, where he received several months of guerrilla training.

After months of chaos in Kabul, Mohammad Akbar Khan secured local control and in April 1843 his father Dost Mohammad, who had been released by the British, returned to the throne in Afghanistan.

After a year and a half of contentious debate and coercion, a papal election finally reached a unanimous decision.

After contentious negotiations between the parliament and Yeltsin, the two sides agreed to hold a national referendum to allow the population to determine the basic division of powers between the two branches of government.

After contentious council meetings, the ban was passed while exempting bars, private clubs and up to 30 % of rooms in a hotel.

After a contentious council of war with several of his generals forcefully arguing for continuing the fight for a third day, at 23: 00 Bennigsen decided to withdraw and, covered by the Cossacks, the Russians silently began to leave.

" After completing his dissertation ( 1907-see Van Dalen ), Brouwer made a conscious decision to temporarily keep his contentious ideas under wraps and to concentrate on demonstrating his mathematical prowess " ( Davis ( 2000 ), p. 95 ); by 1910 he had published a number of important papers, in particular the Fixed Point Theorem.

After Johnson offered to make The Homesteader into a new feature film, negotiations and paperwork became contentious between him and Micheaux.

After a contentious budget session with a Democrat-controlled Senate, he signed a package of fee increases, spending reductions, and government reorganization which eliminated the deficit.

After several months of contentious negotiations, the two sides agreed to a three-year deal worth around $ 2. 9 million per season with an option on a fourth year.

After a contentious meeting in which Deval refused to provide satisfactory answers on 29 April 1827, the dey struck Deval with his fly whisk.

After a contentious debate on carbon pricing in which the Speaker Harry Jenkins declared a " general warning " for all members, Liberal MP Bob Baldwin interjected and was named by the Speaker.

After the Civil War, control over existing churches was a contentious issue.

After weeks of contentious debate, a walkout by the chair and hundreds of delegates, and dozens of amendments, the loya jirga ratified the constitution without taking a vote, but by consensus, on January 4, 2004.

After four contentious years of marriage, they divorced in 1945.

After contentious relations with the military, Chaudhry was relinquished from the office after resigning from his presidency, despite the urging of the Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

* After contentious negotiations between Jackson and the Bulls in that same period, Jackson was signed for the 1997-98 season only.

After retiring from the Governor ’ s office in 1975, Hathaway was nominated by and, following lengthy and at times very contentious confirmation hearings, served under President Gerald Ford as Secretary of the Interior.

After a contentious nomination battle, Chiarelli emerged victorious and on November 15, 1988 Cullen was expelled from the Liberal caucus and sat as an independent MPP.

After winning a contentious strike against the privately owned bus companies in early 1941, during which La Guardia had announced plans to have the police guard strikebreakers in the event that the companies attempted to operate, the union made public preparations for a strike against the City if it challenged the union's right to represent these employees or to roll back their contract rights.

After three years of contentious litigation in the federal and New York courts in a case receiving national attention, Lincoln finally agreed in April, 2011 to dismiss its lawsuit that sought to avoid paying a $ 10 million death benefit on a life insurance policy insuring the life of New York attorney Arthur Kramer, one of the founding partners of the New York City law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

After very contentious debate, the legislature followed the Court ’ s suggestion and passed H. B.

After contentious negotiations, NBC won the broadcast rights to the Games in Moscow.

After defining dialectical reasoning ( syllogism ) and distinguishing it from demonstrative, contentious, and ( one might say ) " pseudo-scientific " syllogism, Aristotle notes the utility of the art of dialectic, then sets out four bases ( accident, property, genus, definition ) from which invention of such reasoning proceeds.

After some contentious debate, the plan was approved, and the URA stopped traffic on the busiest part of Penn Avenue ( the old Greensburg-Pittsburgh turnpike of Jacob Negley's day ) and routed it onto a series of new, one-way thoroughfares ( called Penn Circle ) that formed a ring around the central business district.

After nine months of contentious negotiations over a union contract, the parties ( SEIU and the library administration ) resorted to a hearing in front of a third-party neutral negotiator, who drew up a labor contract.