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After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.
After four centuries of urban life, this abrupt climatic change evidently caused abandonment of Tell Leilan, regional desertion, and collapse of the Akkadian empire based in southern Mesopotamia.
After suffering a collapse of health in 1278, he died on November 15, 1280, in Cologne, Germany.
After the collapse of the Sanhaja union, Awdagust passed over to the Ghana empire and the trans-Saharan routes were taken over by the Zenata Maghrawa of Sijilmassa.
After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.
After the collapse of the Warsaw pact, Bulgaria lost the ability to acquire cheap fuel and spares for its military.
After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland freed itself from the last restrictions imposed on it by the Paris peace treaties of 1947.
After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.
After the collapse of the Western Empire the study of Galen and other Greek works almost disappeared in the Latin West.
After the Battle of Leipzig and subsequent collapse of the French Empire in 1813, the Netherlands was restored as a " sovereign principality " with the House of Orange providing a monarch.
After the collapse of the Axis powers, Albania became a communist state, the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, which for the most part of its duration was dominated by Enver Hoxha ( died 1985 ).
After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there were many new independent nations in Central Asia.
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 collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States did not diminish its global ability to project force, remaining " the sole superpower " and what has been called a " unipolar " situation of domination by it globally came into force.
After the collapse of the Ottoman empire at the end of World War I, Jericho came under the rule of the British Mandate.
After the collapse of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, Marx, still living on the Rue Vaneau, began writing for what was then the only uncensored German-language radical newspaper in Europe, Vorwärts !.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, the base's role was cast into doubt.
After the collapse of the Songhai Empire, no single state controlled the region.
After 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave way to the surge of religious freedoms and people's hunger for spiritual and hopeful message.
After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis / St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.
After Germany's collapse, British, French and Japanese troops intervened in the Russian Civil War.
After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.

After and desperate
After defeat in 310 BC he took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.
After the slaves were freed, the plantation owners were desperate for new sources of labour.
After nearly having their position overrun, the men in the southern LZs were in a desperate position, pinned down all day and short of ammunition.
After the Battle of Menin Road the German defensive system was changed, beginning an increasingly desperate search for expedients, to counter the inexorable British advance.
After a desperate struggle, he succeeds in standing up.
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone.
After receiving considerable criticism in London following Yalta regarding the atrocities committed in Poland by Soviet troops, Churchill wrote Roosevelt a desperate letter referencing the wholesale deportations and liquidations of opposition Poles by the Soviets.
After the calf had satisfied its thirst, they turned back to the barn, but at the doorway the calf stubbornly braced its feet, and despite my father's desperate pulling on the halter, he could not budge the animal.
He was awakened by the alarm, and was instantly at his post .... After three desperate onsets, the besiegers retired behind the ditch.
After a major defeat in the Battle of Neerwinden in March 1793, he made a desperate move to save himself from his radical enemies.
After missing selection for UEFA Euro 2004, in the second group stage match of the 2006 World Cup against Poland Neuville, who had replaced Lukas Podolski, buried a desperate injury-time cross from fellow substitute David Odonkor, beating goalkeeper Artur Boruc on the way to a 1 – 0 victory.
After one final, desperate visit to Sue in freezing weather, Jude becomes seriously ill and dies within the year.
After a diplomatic session with the mafia leader Don Tommasso, which evolved into a desperate fight to survive inside Tommasso's villa, Hamilton's companion and friend Joar Lundwall was gunned down and killed on an open street in Palermo.
After only one win in 10 games, Sánchez too was fired, with former Spain national football team manager Javier Clemente replacing him, in a desperate move to avoid relegation with only eight games remaining.
After the Battle of the Somme, Canada was in desperate need to replenish its supply of soldiers ; however, there were very few volunteers to replace them.
After studying Ramus's work, Ong concluded that the results of his " methodizing " of the arts " are the amateurish works of a desperate man who is not a thinker but merely an erudite pedagogue ".
After a year of desperate fighting and splendid heroism on the part of the defenders he took the city of Carthage, taking about 50, 000 survivors ( about one-tenth of the city's population ) prisoner, and, complying with the mandate of the Senate, ordered the city razed to the ground and plowed over after being evacuated and set on fire, ending the Third Punic War.
After this, Khrushchev made many desperate attempts to reconstitute the Sino-Soviet alliance, but Mao considered it useless and denied any proposal.
After desperate fighting, they punched their way through the 3000 Uesugi warriors defending the ford ( under the command of Uesugi general, Amakazu Kagemochi ), and pressed on to aid Takeda's main force.
After joining the Cossacks, Rakoczi's army decided not to attack Lwów, but set off towards Kraków, in which the situation of Swedish garrison commanded by Paul Wirtz was desperate.
After a few days of desperate fighting, however, Grey was wounded and his soldiers refused to fight.
After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, Stalin was desperate for more men to fight for the nation, offering prisoners freedom if they joined the army.
After three months, Van Dyke departed the show, and CBS, in a desperate attempt to save the series, moved The Carol Burnett Show from Saturday nights at 10: 00 P. M to Sunday nights at 10: 00 pm beginning in December, 1977.
After interviewing every robot separately and going down several blind alleys, Dr. Calvin starts growing desperate feeling that the robot may be gaining a superiority complex that might allow it to directly hurt a human.

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