After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

After recovering from a liver transplant, in 2003 he managed to make a successful comeback with his album Alma, surprising the audience with the song " Mola mazo " (" It rules ") in an exercise of self-assertion.

After George Washington crossed the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, the fact that thousands of Hessian troops had been drawn to Mount Holly aided in the Continental Army's success in the Battle of Trenton the next day, a surprising American victory that helped turn the Army's fading morale after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fort Washington just weeks before and the ignominious retreat through New Jersey.

After " two thirds of the day " had elapsed a squadron of the elite Persian cavalry broke through the Roman right flank, composed of Belisarius ' Ghassanid allies, with surprising force such that the Ghassanids were accused of treachery after they fled.

After being demolished at tennis by Pancho Gonzales, he wrote that he considered himself to be a fairly accomplished tennis player and that the drubbing by Gonzales was the most surprising of his ventures against the great athletes of his time.

After struggling early in the season, his impressive play later on made him a finalist for the Vezina Trophy for the third straight year, and helped lead the Devils to a surprising comeback in the last two months of the season that resulted in them winning the Atlantic Division in the final game of the year.

After the surprising victory of the National Party in 1948, won on the program of implementing a strict program of apartheid or racial segregation and white minority rule, Malan became Prime Minister of South Africa and Strijdom became Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.

After fellow Family member Charles " Tex " Watson shot and killed teenager Steven Parent in his car in the estates ' driveway, Watson, Susan Atkins, and Krenwinkel entered the house, surprising all inside.

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

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 an unglamorous decade, IFK were led by manager and retired footballer Bertil Johansson to a surprising championship title in 1969.

In 1988 Brehm told author Larry Sneed, " After the car passed the building coming toward us, I heard a ... surprising noise, and ( the President ) reached with both hands up to the side of his throat and kind of stiffened out .... And when he got down in the area just past me, the second shot hit which damaged, considerably damaged, the top of his head .... That car took off in an evasive motion ... and was just beyond me when a third shot went off.

After a Hurricane Hunters plane observed gale force winds, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Arlene late on July 5 ; in the post-season summary, meteorologist Neil Frank noted, " the surprising element in the development of Arlene was the rapidity of the transformation process.

After working itself into more and more ecstatic heights culminating with the final variation, it suddenly goes through a surprising modulation to the original minor key, and the theme from the first movement returns with an even greater gravity, and the entire piece concludes with yet another death march.

After a restart, most top contenders developed problems, which paved the way for Heinz-Harald Frentzen to claim a surprising victory in his Jordan.

After 2 ... d5, 3. exd5 Nxd5 4. Bc4 Nb6 or ... Nxc3 is considered roughly equal ; 4 ... e6 loses a pawn to the surprising 5. Bxd5 exd5 6.

After leading them to a surprising ninth-place finish and having the club in sixth place midway through the 2005 – 06 season, Donadoni resigned over criticism from club chairman Aldo Spinelli.

After a meteoric start to his career, surprising even his original producer at Deram Records with the hit singles " I Love My Dog ", " Matthew and Son " and " I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun ", Stevens ' debut album, Matthew and Son began charting as well.

After a surprising fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Harris coined the term " winnowed in ", saying " The winnowing-out process has begun and we have just been ' winnowed in '".

After his election as commander of the expedition, Crawford led about 500 volunteers deep into American Indian territory with the hope of surprising them.

After making mainly small 2000 cc race cars that were supposed to be closely related to road cars, Porsche made a risky investment by unexpectedly building twenty-five 5000 cc Porsche 917, surprising the rule makers at the FIA.

Jordan contemplated that " soap snobs " may hold the series in disdain for using the Holby brand, but concluded: " After much thought, I remembered who I was as a writer, the joy I take from surprising an audience, by subverting expectation – and HolbyBlue was born.

After saving Schofield from a French aircraft carrier, Mother desperately tries to stop Schofield from committing suicide, surprising him by using his actual name and convincing him to continue with his mission.

After the surprising alliance of PUR with PSD, Romeo Stavarache, the mayor of Bacău, switched to the National Liberal Party after a disagreement with Voiculescu, saying that he found it impossible to cooperate with the " local barons " he had struggled to defeat.

After a promotion in the militia in 1841, Johnson was often locally referred to as " Colonel ".

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

After the first completed film was viewed by General Marshall along with Army staff, Marshall approached Capra: " Colonel Capra, how did you do it?

After the battle at Valverde, Colonel Canby and most of the regular troops were ordered to the eastern front.

After originally rising to power through a military coup d ' etat in 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's governance of Libya became increasingly centric on the teachings of his Green Book, which he published in the mid-1970s chapter by chapter as a foundation for a new form of government.

After submitting his work, " Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information ," Colonel Donovan was appointed as the " Co-ordinator of Information " in July 1941.

After return to civilian life, Roosevelt preferred to be known as " Colonel Roosevelt " or " The Colonel.

After being placed under close arrest for this act of insubordination, Niven finished a bottle of whisky with the officer who was guarding him: Rhoddy Rose ( later Colonel R. L. C.

After the siege, Captain Benjamin Logan and Colonel Richard Callaway — both of whom had nephews who were still captives surrendered by Boone — brought charges against Boone for his recent activities.

After fighting elsewhere in which the Neapolitans were ultimately defeated, the last of them – c. 3, 000 troops Colonel Perrone – were holed up in Capua.

After Colonel Oliver North told Congress that he used a Schleicher Intimus 007 S cross-cut model to shred Iran-Contra documents, sales for that company increased nearly 20 percent in 1987.

After several years of closure resulting from an economic depression after the War of 1812, Queen's College reopened in 1825 and was renamed Rutgers College in honor of American Revolutionary War hero Colonel Henry Rutgers ( 1745 – 1830 ).

After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of General Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre ( near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County ), Marion organized a small unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British Army in the state.

After consulting with Superintendent Hanson and superiors Colonel Richard Cloyd Drum and General George Wright, Captain Starr was ordered by General Wright in Post Order No. 6 to lead 23 soldiers of Company F 2nd Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry and move the now imprisoned people the 110 miles from Camp Bidwell back to Round Valley on what became a 20-day death march now remembered as the KonKow Trail of Tears.

After the Confederate defeat in nearby West Point, Georgia, the Federal troops, led by Colonel Oscar LaGrange, marched north to LaGrange, with Confederate prisoners near the front of the column.

After the American Revolutionary War, Colonel William Grayson, aide-de-camp to George Washington, received a tract of land for his service during the war from the state of Virginia.

After hostile native Americans massacred or captured most of the family from their homestead, the Crocketts sold the property to a new settler in the area, a Huguenot named Colonel Thomas Amis.

After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clanranald until 1838 when Colonel Gordon of Cluny bought the island and initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought Blackface sheep flocks.

After Mengstu had been in Ogaden for quite a short time, Colonel Girma called General Haile to release him for training which was useful in his field.

After Byerley retired ( as Colonel Byerley ), the Byerley Turk retired to stud, first at Middridge Grange, then, from 1697, at Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough.

After graduating from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he served as an instructor in tactics at the Infantry School, where the assistant commandant, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall called him " quiet, unassuming, capable, with sound common sense.

After graduating, he served a stint as a junior officer at Fort San José in the capital Guatemala City and later under " an illiterate Colonel " in a small garrison in the village of San Juan Sacatepéquez.

After the end of the war he moved to London where his administrative talents were recognized when he was appointed a full Colonel, and in 1784 received a knighthood from King George III.