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After the party breaks up, Ichabod remains behind for " a tête-à-tête with the heiress ", where it is supposed that he makes a proposal of marriage to Katrina but, according to the narrator, " Something, however ... must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen ", meaning that his proposal is refused, allegedly because her sole purpose in courting him was either to test or to increase Brom's desire for her.
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After and party
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After the meeting, there was going to be a party at someone's house.
After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
After literally dragging Nora home from the party, Torvald goes to check his mail, but is interrupted by Dr. Rank, who has followed them.
After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.
After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.
After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.
" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.
After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.
After extensive legal proceedings Calderon and Rodriguez have been sentenced ; however, the inquiry on Figueres has since been dismissed by the competent judicial party and no charges were ever raised against him.
After the dictator Siad Barre ’ s ousting, conflicts between the General Farah Aidid's party and other clans in Somalia had led to famine and lawlessness throughout the country.
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After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.
After Trumbo and the others were blacklisted, some Hollywood actors and directors, such as Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets, agreed to testify and to provide names of fellow communist party members to Congress.
After a year honing his inquisitorial skills, he joined the front bench in November 1980 as a Scottish affairs spokesman when Michael Foot became party leader.
After bringing cookies to a wrap party for the show Of Mice and Men at the Old Globe Theatre, he spotted 16 year-old Genaro Samano Villanueva, who had broken into a Canadian couple's motor-home.
After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.
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After and breaks
After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
** Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
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* April 9 – After a bizarre weather phenomena of yellowish clouds and dust chokes the air around Hangzhou, Song Dynasty, China, obscuring the sky and sun, a fire breaks out at night in the southeast of the city, which continues into the next day.
After scraping along the underside of the ice, the K-19 finally breaks through and surfaces with no apparent damage.
* War of the Eight Princes: After the death of Emperor Sima Yan ( Jin Wudi ) a civil war breaks out among the princes and dukes of the Jin Dynasty.
After he leaves she breaks down and alternates between sobs and hysterical laughter.
After Yale breaks up with Mary, he suggests Isaac ask her out.
After Wayne admits that he was spying on her, Cassandra breaks off the relationship and hastily gets engaged to Bobby on the rebound.
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After the round his trainer Gil Clancy got into his face and told him " when you go inside I want you to keep punching until Paret holds you or the referee breaks you!
After he breaks off the affair, she makes multiple failed ( and laughable ) attempts to kill him and / or his family.
After Renee leaves, Fred breaks into Mr. Eddy's room, grabs him and takes him away in his Mercedes to the desert, where Fred beats him up.
After 42 rounds, the crowd breaks into the ring and the fight is stopped, both boxers having taken heavy punishment, although Heenan seemingly had the advantage.
After centuries of idleness as a God he eventually breaks with the rest and helps Sam.
After Meryl breaks down and is taken off the show, Christof officially brings back Truman's father, hoping his presence will keep Truman from trying to leave.
After briefly describing Interzone, the novel breaks down into sub-stories and heavily cut-up influenced passages.
After hostility breaks out between Zeon and the Federation, he returns to Side 3 and joins the Zeon mobile suit assault forces under the command of Admiral Dozle Zabi.
After Harley Quinn briefly breaks free of her devotion to the Joker, she attempts to hold up a large party at Wayne Manor, only to find that the Riddler is targeting the building also.
After the American Civil War Dom Pedro offered the potential immigrants subsidies on transport to Brazil, cheap land, and tax breaks.
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After the inmate dies, the prison breaks out in a riot.
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* 1966: March 22: After a fixed rope breaks, American John Harlin falls to his death while attempting a new route: the direttissima, or " most direct " route.
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