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 the evolution of armoured warfare, mechanised infantry were mounted in armoured fighting vehicles and replaced light infantry in many situations.

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

After some delay and desultory fighting, he and his uncle, Azam Khan, occupied Kabul ( March 1866 ).

After a month and two days of fighting, the war ended as a moral disaster for Bulgaria, in the same time its economy was ruined and the military – demoralized.

After a Chinese invasion to assist the North Koreans, fighting stabilized along the 38th parallel, which had separated the Koreas.

After more than a month of fighting, Mehmed ’ s advisors were beginning to lose hope.

After a period of fighting there, he became ill with dysentery and was sent to a hospital in Malta to recover.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

After judging the communists as an immediate threat to the country, the Balli Kombëtar sided with the Germans, fatally damaging its image among those fighting the Fascists.

After fierce fighting, the Carthaginians were defeated and the city fell.

After the duke died without a male heir in 1447, fighting broke out to restore the so-called Ambrosian Republic.

After seven days of fierce fighting, the battle in the north for Tel el Eisa salient petered out.

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 several days of fierce fighting, the Portuguese forces retreated without achieving most of their goals.

After fighting many battles, his defeat at Brunanburh was followed by his retirement as a Culdee monk at St. Andrews.

After the Soviet-Yugoslav split, Albania and Bulgaria were the only countries the Soviet Union could use to funnel war material to the communists fighting in Greece.

After the Saxons had lived on Thanet for " some time " Vortigern promised them supplies of clothing and other provisions on condition that the Saxons assist him in fighting the enemies of his country.

After fighting the Arabs to a standstill in the North Caucasus, Khazars became increasingly interested in replacing their Tengriism with a state religion that would give them equal religious standing with their Abrahamic neighbors.

After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957.

After the fighting ended in Lebanon, General Charles de Gaulle visited the area.

After an incident involving sentries on the Greek-Bulgarian border in October 1925, fighting began between the two countries.

After several decades of almost incessant fighting, Bulgaria came under Byzantine rule in 1018.

* 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.

* 1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

After Pepin's long rule, his son Charles Martel assumed power, fighting against nobles and his own stepmother.