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 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.

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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 without exception in early literature, blind people could bring this condition down upon themselves through sin or trespasses against the gods, but were never the sole instruments of its reversal.

Almost all of Bahá ' ís accepted the determination of the Hands of the Cause that upon the death of Shoghi Effendi, he died " without having appointed his successor ".

Almost upon arrival in Syria she began a plot, with her advisor and Elagabalus ' tutor Gannys, to overthrow Macrinus and elevate the fourteen-year-old Elagabalus to the imperial throne.

Almost immediately upon landing, the 48 SEALs came under withering fire from the PDF stationed at the airfield.

Almost the entire structure of the Internet is based upon a client – server model.

Almost at the same time Broglie fell upon a part of the Austrians left on the Vltava and won a small, but morally and politically important, success in the action of Sahay, near Budweis ( 24 May 1742 ).

Almost any material when subjected to high pressure will compact itself into a denser form, for example, quartz, also called silica or silicon dioxide will first adopt a denser form known as coesite, then upon application of more temperature, form stishovite.

Almost all were promptly arrested and put on trial upon the assumption of power by the EPRDF.

Almost immediately upon his arrival in Louisiana, where the legal system had previously been based on Roman, French and Spanish law, and where trial by jury and other particularities of English common law were now first introduced, he was appointed by the legislature to prepare a provisional code of judicial procedure, which ( in the form of an act passed in April 1805 ) was continued in force from 1805 to 1825.

Almost immediately upon marrying Romanos, the fifty-year-old Zoe tried desperately to fall pregnant.

Almost opposite is the former Odeon Cinema, now Habitat, with its iconic façade which carries high upon it a large sculptured medallion of the now almost-forgotten William Friese-Greene, who claimed to have invented celluloid film and cameras before any subsequent patents.

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.

Virgil told the San Francisco Examiner two months later that upon getting off the train in Tucson, " Almost the first men we met on the platform there were Stilwell and his friends, armed to the teeth.

Almost immediately upon becoming operational on the Sentry in 1991, the squadron was deployed on operations over the Balkans.

Almost immediately upon graduating from medical school, Woodworth was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Union Army.

Almost immediately upon coming of age, Sebastian began plans for a great crusade against the Moroccans of Fez.

Almost immediately upon arriving in ECW for his third stint in September, 1999, he shocked the wrestling world by winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at Anarchy Rulz by defeating the reigning champion Taz and arch nemesis Masato Tanaka in a three-way dance, which was signed on the spot.

Almost without exception, the introduced species have been detrimental to the native flora and fauna but some, such as sheep and cows and the clover upon which they feed now form a large part of the economy of New Zealand.

Almost immediately upon return, Glinski became Grand Duke's vice-regent in Utena.

Almost immediately upon his return from Europe, on the very day the Great Strike broke out, Franklin Gowen instituted massive layoffs of brakemen across the railroad, in effect both sanctioning and reinforcing the other railroads ' moves while he was gone.

Almost all pre-revolutionary designs were based upon the concept of building an elevated metro system, similar to the Paris or Vienna metros, however, as was later discovered through the experience of operating open ( ground level ) metro lines in St. Petersburg, such schemes would likely have resulted in a poor metro service.

Almost at once he declared war upon the Swedes, but in October 1636 he was beaten at Wittstock ; and Saxony, ravaged impartially by both sides, was soon in a deplorable condition.

Almost every election in Great Grimsby at this period was followed by a petition from the defeated candidates alleging bribery, although that of 1701 seems to have been the only one which was acted upon.

Almost immediately upon winning the title he underwent a gimmick change, losing the dress and instead adopting martial arts-style trunks, a headband, and wrestling without shoes.