After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

After the death of Bob Jones, Jr., Erin Jones, the wife of BJU president Stephen Jones became director.

After a pontificate of fifteen days, he is said by some to have died of the gout, by others to have been forcibly ejected to make way for Stephen VI, the candidate of the Spoletan party.

After Constantine was officially dethroned on August 6, Stephen was consecrated pope on the following day, August 7, 768.

After this, a furious Stephen berated Christophorus, demanded he stop harassing Afiarta, and ordered him and his followers to withdraw, to which Christophorus complied.

After visiting Ravenna on his way back from Rheims, Stephen returned to Rome before the end of November 816.

After holding the traditional ordination of priests and bishops in December and confirming Farfa Abbey ’ s possessions on condition that every day the monks would recite one hundred “ Kyrie Eleisons ” as well as a yearly payment to the Roman Church of ten golden solidi, Stephen died on 24 January 817.

After an initial success in which William's forces destroyed the Angevins ' Welsh infantry, the battle went badly for Stephen.

After 1143 the war ground on, but progressing slightly better for Stephen.

After a busy summer in 1154, however, Stephen travelled to Dover to meet the Count of Flanders ; some historians believe that the king was already ill and preparing to settle his family affairs.

After this victory, Stephen organized the Diocese of Transylvania.

After the death of Henry II ( 3 July 1024 ), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II ( who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ).

After his sudden death in 1355, he was succeeded by Stephen Uroš V of Serbia who could not keep the Serbian Empire together and it was fragmented in many small principalities.

After its initial British release, including a one-year theatrical run in London, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was initially banned on the advice of British Board of Film Classification ( BBFC ) Secretary Stephen Murphy, and subsequently by his successor, James Ferman.

* After a forty-year vacancy, Stephen becomes Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the suggestion of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.

After playing King Arthur in Camelot on Broadway for six months, Burton replaced Stephen Boyd as Mark Antony in the troubled production Cleopatra ( 1963 ).

After this first period of training is finished, as a demonstration of their bond and his generosity, René hands O to Sir Stephen, a more dominant master.

After the charter for the First Bank of the United States expired in 1811, Stephen Girard purchased most of its stock as well as the building and its furnishings on South Third Street in Philadelphia and opened his own bank, later known as Girard Bank.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Crane moved to Roseville, near Newark, leaving Stephen in the care of his brother Edmund, with whom the young boy lived with cousins in Sussex County.

After the pioneer Stephen Frank was killed, the settlers called the crossing " Frank ’ s Ford.

After several meetings, they go to a room belonging to a friend and fellow doctor of Alec's, Stephen ( Valentine Dyall ), but they are interrupted by Stephen's unexpected return.

After a four month dating relationship, on 2 August 1975 Stonehill married Sarah Mae Finch ( born 18 February 1953 in Los Angeles, California ), a school teacher, the sister-in-law of Stephen J. Cannell, at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California, In a 1978 interview Stonehill explained how he met Sarah Finch.

After lobbying by Col. James Curry, who represented the area in legislature at the time and a resident of what would become Jerome township, Union County was established by the Ohio legislature, and became official in 1820 with the appointment of the original commissioners: Stephen Bell, Reuben Wallace, and John Huston.

After this brief discussion of neo-, paleocortical, and cortico-hypothalamic relations, let us return once more to the problem of hypothalamic balance and its physiological and pathological significance.

After Charlemagne's columns arrived at the gates of Zaragoza, Sulayman got cold feet and refused to let the Franks into the city.

After Dom Capers was let go following the previous season, George Seifert was hired as the second head coach in Panthers history.

After a disappointing 2010 season, John Fox's contract was not renewed and most of his coaching staff were let go.

After all parties had been financially drained, Frederick II let his ally, King Sigismund II Augustus of Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, know that he was ready for peace.

After he graduated, professors from university supported Abel financially, and Professor Christopher Hansteen let him live in a room in the attic of his home.

After they completed high school and started college in 1982, Simmons and McDaniels finally convinced Russell to let them record as a duo, and they recruited Mizell ( who now called himself Jam-Master Jay ) to be their official DJ.

After firing a shot, the user would raise his pistol vertically as he cocked the hammer back so as to let the fragments of the percussion cap fall out and not jam the mechanism.

He also refused to recognize the need to publicize his policies and decisions, saying " After I have made a definite statement, I have to let it go at that until the time for action arises.

After two days, when the United States determined it had no right under international law to continue to detain the shipment, they let it continue on to Yemen.

After the guards let go of Rather, Rather told Cronkite " Walter ... we tried to talk to the man and we got violently pushed out of the way.

After they are happily fed, the cook realizes what has happened and pleads with the King to let him boil the Storyteller in oil ; but the King instead offers a way out – to tell him a story every day for a year instead.

After seeing Turner and the Kings of Rhythm perform, Anna pursued the bandleader asking him to let her sing.

After Erik's successor John III of Sweden refused to accept a peace favoring Denmark in the Treaties of Roskilde ( 1568 ), the war dragged on until it was ended by a status quo peace in the Treaty of Stettin ( 1570 ) that let Denmark save face but also showed the limits of Danish military power.

; Fantine's Arrest: After Javert has arrested Fantine for assaulting a man, the mayor orders him to let Fantine go.

After a rocky courtship he marries a woman he grows to hold in contempt, though he is too polite to let it show.

After Nonis was fired and replaced with former player agent Mike Gillis in April 2008, longtime Canucks captain Markus Naslund, as well as Brendan Morrison, were let go via free agency.

After their return to Greece, and having been saved from dangers by Athena, she orders Orestes to take the Xoanon to the town of Halae where he is to build a temple for Artemis Tauropolos and let a man be sacrificed there during every festival in atonement for his own sacrifice.

After they left, the gods kept the vat as a symbol of their truce, “ and decided not to let it be wasted and out of it made a man ”.

After springing her from her cage, Silent Bob becomes sympathetic for the other animals, so they let them loose as well.

After the initial shock at the revelation that they are siblings, Tromeo and Juliet are determined not to let their whole ordeal be for naught ; they passionately embrace and drive off into the sunset.

After noticing the man's name and verifying that he had indeed sent Hale some venison, Hale refused to let the case proceed until he had paid the man for the food.

After a final argument over the fate of the governor of Newark, who had let Rupert into the royal court to begin with, Rupert resigned and left the service of King Charles, along with most of his best cavalry officers.

After positive responses from listeners, the station owner let Armstrong start a new program of his own.

After less than a month seeing firsthand how the movie production system worked at Universal, Laemmle decided to return to New York and let Thalberg remain to " keep an eye on things for me.