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 Howard and his daughter Debora drove up in the Cadillac.

Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the gate of Hebron.

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 forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Almost all EWDs appearing after 1972 were hand-written.

Almost one hundred years after Tenji's death, the throne passed to his grandson Emperor Kōnin.

Almost 70 years after Copernicus's death and building on his theories, astronomer Johannes Kepler from Stuttgart was a leader in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Almost two years after Boyer had consolidated power in the west, in 1821, Santo Domingo declared independence from Spain and requested from Simón Bolívar inclusion in the Gran Colombia.

Almost all hedge fund performance fees include a " high water mark " ( or " loss carryforward provision "), which means that the performance fee only applies to net profits ( i. e., profits after losses in previous years have been recovered ).

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 the neutrons created in the Big Bang were absorbed into helium-4 in the first three minutes after the Big Bang, and this helium accounts for most of the helium in the universe today ( see Big Bang nucleosynthesis ).

Almost 60 % of the country's area is located within this region, ( or ) giving Peru the fourth largest area of tropical forest in the world after Brazil, Congo and Indonesia.

Almost all of the dedications have their origins in the medieval era, after the account of Ailred was written.

Almost immediately after this deistic upsurge, the Second Great Awakening began.

Almost immediately after retirement, several NHL teams approached him about an ownership role.

Almost immediately after John Cage finished teaching at the New School for Social Research in the summer of 1960, Ono was determined to rent a place to present her works along with the work of other New York avant-garde artists.

Almost immediately after entering the Netherlands, the Rhine splits into many branches.

Almost as time-consuming has been the preparation and publication of the 2nd edition of Paleoanthropology ( 1999, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-071676-5 ), Wolpoff's detailed 878 page presentation of the fossil record for human evolution and the many levels of explanation for the pattern it reflects.

Almost certainly ( there is no precise evidence ) he revived the title from the 1711 publication by Addison & Steele.

Almost all the science fiction magazines had to find a new distributor, and the smaller independent companies remaining in the market often demanded monthly publication and a larger format from the magazines they took on.

Richard Wright was catapulted to fame by the publication in subsequent years of his now widely studied short story, " The Man Who Was Almost a Man " ( 1939 ), and his controversial second novel, Native Son ( 1940 ), and his legacy was cemented by the 1945 publication of Black Boy, a work in which Wright drew on his childhood and mostly autodidactic education in the segregated South, fictionalizing and exaggerating some elements as he saw fit.

Almost always these electronic versions are available to subscribers immediately upon publication of the paper version, or even before ; sometimes they are also made available to non-subscribers, either immediately ( by open access journals ) or after an embargo of anywhere from two to twenty-four months or more, in order to protect against loss of subscriptions.

Almost twenty years later, on November 23, 2007, an on-line trade publication noted, " While NASA uses the ( TDRSS ) satellites to communicate with the space shuttle and international space station, most of their bandwidth is devoted to the Pentagon, which covers the lion's share of TDRSS operations costs and is driving many of the system's requirements, some of them classified.

Almost immediately after the publication of Geochronologia Suecica Principles De Geer's Swedish Time Scale underwent the first of many revisions, as other geologists became involved in the study of varves and more sites were examined.

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Almost three-quarters of a century after its publication it remains an important guide to Pepys's career.

Almost all of these magazines were ordered to discontinue publication in the 1940s as the Japanese tightened their grip with the spread of their aggressive war to the Pacific and all of Southeast Asia.