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Almost and immediately
Almost immediately they began to sizzle.
Almost immediately she was ashamed of herself for feeling vain, at such a time, in such a place, and she tossed back her long yellow hair, smiling shyly as she entered the room.
Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the gate of Hebron.
Almost immediately after publication of the photographs of this sensational archaeological find some claimed that the Anubis Shrine could be the Ark of the Covenant.
Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.
Almost immediately, Constans was required to deal with a Sarmatian invasion in late 337, over whom he won a resounding victory.
Almost immediately however, the world witnessed division into broad two camps during the Cold War ; one side was led by the U. S., and the other by the Soviet Union, but this situation also led to the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.
" Almost immediately after the federation went into effect, however, these rights began to be abridged or violated.
Almost immediately, Alfonso returned from exile in Toledo and took his seat as king of Castile and León.
Almost immediately, French forces faced defeat on many fronts, and were driven out of their newly conquered territories in the spring of 1793.
Almost immediately the party was plunged into a crisis by the question of German participation in the NATO actions in Kosovo.
Almost immediately, the Russian troops deployed along the northern banks of the Danube River, implying that they may cross the river.
Almost immediately after the announcement, a pair of Indian automakers, including Mahindra & Mahindra, expressed interest in purchasing all or part of Hummer.
Almost immediately, however, serious problems with the tower became evident.
Almost immediately, however, a controversy, which had been begun ten years before and been temporarily silenced, broke out more violently than ever.
Almost immediately after Theobald's departure, Richard of Cornwall arrived.
Almost immediately, he accepted a position at Hebrew Union College and subsequently wrote articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.
Almost immediately after the recording of Milestones, Davis fired Garland and, shortly afterward, Jones, again for behavioral problems ; he replaced them with Bill Evans — a young white pianist with a strong classical background — and drummer Jimmy Cobb.
Almost immediately, however, the Rio de la Plata Province-now consisting of 800 Europeans-split into two warring factions.
Almost immediately, Gregory began the task of repairing the Walls of Rome, beginning at the Porta Tiburtina.
Almost immediately after his election, Eugene was forced to deal with the heresy of Monothelitism, i. e., that Christ had only one will.
Almost immediately after Serbia's autonomy, the Serbs began seeking expansion and unity with all the rest of Serbs and other Slavs in neighbouring regions ; project of Greater Serbia under the panserbic intellectual influence of Ilia Garasanin and Vuk Stefanovic Kadarzic.

Almost and Howard
Almost 400 of Columbia's 529 two-reel comedies were released to television in the late 1950s ; to date, only the Stooges, Keaton, and short films starring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe DeRita have been released to home video.
Almost eighty years after his death, the Howard Association was formed in London, with the aim of " promotion of the most efficient means of penal treatment and crime prevention " and to promote " a reformatory and radically preventive treatment of offenders ".

Almost and daughter
Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.
Almost all Wilder scholars and her biographers consider that the writing of the books was a tense but ultimately effective continuing collaboration between mother and daughter: Wilder writing the books and her daughter editing them.
( Almost ) anyone else who eats it, apart from Bamse's pet bee and his daughter, ends up with three days of stomach ache.
Almost immediately after being awarded her Ph. D., Haghighatjoo left Iran for the United States with her husband, a journalist, and their daughter.
Almost 30 years later in 1988, it became a hit again for Guzman's daughter, Alejandra Guzmán, on her debut LP Bye Mama.
Almost coincident with his ordination as associate pastor came his marriage with Theodosia Alleine, daughter of Richard Alleine.
Almost a century after her father founded the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nancy Susan Reynolds Bagley Verney, his youngest daughter and last surviving child, decided to give back to the region of her father's boyhood.

Almost and up
Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).
Almost on the same day that the National Council of Education was set up, a rival organisation, the Society for Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal, was set up by Taraknath Palit.
Almost all of the Royals ' bullpen was called up in 2011 and the call up of the infielders Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Manny Piña, Johnny Giavotella, and Salvador Pérez.
Almost uniformly, people who are darker-skinned and of indigenous descent make up the peasantry and working classes, while lighter-skinned, Spanish-descent Latin Americans are in the ruling elite.
Almost every book contains one or more incidents where Flashman had to fight or perform some other daring action, and held up long enough to complete it.
Almost all Class C fireworks are allowed for sale and use in Moriarty including firecrackers, mortars, Roman candles, and cakes up to 500 grams ( the maximum allowance ), and though pop rockets have been banned throughout New Mexico for the last three years, larger stick rockets are still allowed.
Almost half of Collingdale's area is made up of four cemeteries, three of which are active.
However, drug and alcohol problems interfered throughout Farley's film work, and production of his final film, Almost Heroes, was held up several times so Farley could attend rehab.
Almost immediately, the project of a legislative union between the British and Irish parliaments, which had been from time to time discussed since the beginning of the 18th century, was taken up in earnest by Pitt's government.
Almost the entire Bulgarian mtDNA pool is made up of West Eurasian lineages, with just 0. 9 % of Eastern Asian lineages.
Almost all sections of the river have been paddled by kayakers and canoeists: the whitewater sections high up on the moor, all the way down to the estuary.
Almost any stable kite design can be used to lift lightweight camera rigs ( up to approx 500g / 1lb ).
Almost every Sunday, thousands of people would line up to meet briefly with Schneerson and receive a one-dollar bill, which was to be donated to charity.
: Almost everything which I have introduced I have displayed with exact proof, in order that those further seeking this knowledge, with its pre-eminent method, might be instructed, and further, in order that the Latin people might not be discovered to be without it, as they have been up to now.
Almost immediately, Terry and much of his staff started up the Terrytoons studio.
Almost two months later, on 19 October 2004, Masri was charged with 15 offences under the provisions of various British statutes, including encouraging the murder of non-Muslims, and intent to stir up racial hatred.
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme " AbAbCCddEffEgg ", where the uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes.
Almost all these islands are as individual towers in a classic fenglin landscape with heights from 50m to 100m, and height / width ratios of up to about six.
Almost immediately, Armstrong reported back, " Hey, Houston, I'm looking north up toward Aristarchus now, and there's an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area.
Almost all licensed adult stores in the UK are forbidden from having their wares in open shop windows, which means often the shop fronts are boarded up or covered in posters.
), the show or film's theme song ( e. g. the final scene of " Homer's Triple Bypass ", from The Simpsons ; when Sam Carter hums the theme from Stargate SG-1 during the episode " Chimera "; the second Collector from Demon Knight ; when Mr. Incredible whistles theme music from The Incredibles ; when all the characters in the film Magnolia begin to sing the background music-" Wise Up " by Aimee Mann ; in Almost Famous, when one character begins to sing the background music-" Tiny Dancer " by Elton John-and all of the other characters around him immediately pick it up and sing along as well ; the moments when Sam Lowry of Brazil hums / listens to / sings the film's self-titled theme song ; when Daryl Van Horne whistles theme music from The Witches of Eastwick ; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Rubeus Hagrid is briefly heard playing the main theme on a recorder ); when Quinton ' Rampage ' Jackson ( as B. A.

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