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Luxembourg has promised to give Kosovo € 30 million over the next five years.
The triumvirate was renewed for a period of another five years ( ending in 33 BC ) and Octavian promised again to send legions to the East.
There are five military barracks in the city, and after the explosion officials said the government had promised to move all munitions out of the capital.
At the age of five and a half, Mary was brought to the French court, where she was promised to the Dauphin, Francis.
Eventually, the newly formed Republic of China promised a new nation of five races ( Chinese, Manchu, Mongol, Tibetan and Muslim ), and suppressed the Mongol rebellions in the area, forcing the Inner Mongolian princes to recognize the Republic of China.
Bradley had promised that the magazine would stay in Boston for the foreseeable future, as it did for the next five and a half years.
In Ireland, the government elected in March 2011 has committed to establishing a " constitutional convention " to recommend constitutional amendments on six specified issues and others it may consider ; the government has separately promised amendments on five other issues.
His will promised various properties to his wife and five surviving children.
Old Mr Malcolm M ’ Cleod, who had obligingly promised to accompany me, was at my bedside between five and six.
Extraordinary circumstances called for extraordinary sacrifice: in one of the many crises of the Second Punic War, Jupiter Capitolinus was promised every animal born that spring ( see ver sacrum ), to be rendered after five more years of protection from Hannibal and his allies.
The regiment was disbanded five years later, and Picton quelled a mutiny amongst the men by his prompt personal action and courage, and was promised the rank of major as a reward.
French promised Roberts ( 10 February ) that if he were still alive he would be in Kimberley, where the civilian population was urging Colonel Kekewich to surrender, in five days.
Participants at Brook Farm were also shareholders and were promised five percent of the annual profits or free tuition for one student.
In return, Simpson's promised not to build any stores outside of those five cities.
In 1548, he commanded the French naval fleet that took Mary, Queen of Scots, then five years old, to France, since she was promised to marry the Dauphin of France.
In January 1994, Geoffrey Richmond came from Scarborough to take over as chairman, and promised to guide City to the Premier League within five years.
With sufficient whining, they know how to get their way with their parents, such as asking for five dollars to pay for school supplies from their mother by saying that their father promised that they could have the money.
For five long days the founder waited for the arrival of the two companions who had promised to join him in his undertaking: a weaver and a tailor.
By presenting the Commission with its own rulings in a May 29, 1961 petition, Kennedy was able to prompt it to do what it had promised in 1955, five years before the Boynton ruling was handed down, and six years before the Freedom Riders set out to test Boynton across the Deep South.
Infinium is best known for developing The Phantom, a cancelled video game console that had promised on demand gaming via the internet in 2004, a full five years before it became commonplace, although no such product ever made it to market leading some to suggest it was vaporware.
Groza also promised a series of land reform programs to benefit military personnel which would confiscate and subsequently redistribute all properties in excess of one hundred and twenty five acres in addition to all the property of traitors, absentees, and all who collaborated with the wartime Romanian government, the Hungarian occupiers during Miklós Horthy and Ferenc Szálasi's régimes, and Nazi Germany.
They were eligible for reduced fares on all Chinese owned railways in Manchuria, received funds to build a dwelling and were promised total ownership after five years of continuous occupation.
Tegh Bahadur gave him his blessings and remarked that his offering was considerably short of the promised five hundred.
Alsemero proposes to Beatrice but, in an aside, she regrets that five days ago she was promised in marriage to Alonzo de Piracquo.

promised and decades
The town of Guellen eagerly surrenders to the temptation of modern-day fiscal freedom promised by billionairess Claire Zachanassian in exchange for the dead body of the Alfred Ill. Now the recently elected mayor-to-be, he was also the man who jilted Zachanassian ( and their unborn child ) several decades ago leaving her destitute.
Because the first two decades of the 20th century were unusually wet, the new settlers reaped harvests of wheat on a scale " that promised to turn even owners of modest farms into wealthy men.
The gospel of Matthew was probably written in the last two decades of the 1st century, not by Matthew the companion of Jesus but by a highly educated Jew who believed that Jesus was the promised Messiah, " God with us ".
In 1996 the museum suffered yet another serious blow when the Gilbert Collection of Italian mosaics and other decorative objects, promised as an eventual bequest, and parts of which had been on display for decades, was withdrawn.
For decades, the collection was on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Sir Arthur had promised eventually to make it a permanent gift.

promised and later
His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue promised the city of Cleveland that an NFL team would be located in Cleveland, either through relocation or expansion, " no later than 1999 ".
Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.
The stanza recounts that Freyja was once promised to an unnamed builder, later revealed to be a jötunn and so killed by Thor ( recounted in detail in Gylfaginning chapter 42 see Prose Edda section below ).
When the vote was nearing, and the constitution still looked likely to be defeated, Madison pleaded with a small group of anti-federalists, and promised them he would push for a bill of rights later if they changed their votes.
Allan had promised to keep American capital out of the railway deal, but had lied to Macdonald over this vital point, and Macdonald later discovered the lie.
Two years later, under the pressure of Allies ( especially France desperate to open a new front ), on August 14 / 27 1916 it joined the Allies, for which they were promised support for the accomplishment of national unity, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.
Earlier, he had been promised the treasury ; however, Wilson later decided to appoint Denis Healey as Chancellor instead.
Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.
Many days later, they arrive in the promised land, on the American continent.
Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to four ironmasters, for a total of £ 27, 000, but the licensees failed to produce the quality of steel he had promised it was " rotten hot and rotten cold ", according to his friend, William Clay and he later bought them back for £ 32, 500.
William may have visited Edward during Godwin's exile, and he is thought to have promised William the succession at this time, but historians disagree how seriously he meant the promise, and whether he later changed his mind.
However, he later regretted his words and promised to officially apologise to Ivanov.
Those orders, which became the basis of the claim that the Union government had promised freed slaves " 40 acres and a mule ", were revoked later that year by President Andrew Johnson.
The Life of Edward the Confessor, written fifty years later, claimed that when Emma was pregnant with him, all Englishmen promised that if the child was a boy they would accept him as king.
Burnham automatically became Guyana's first executive president and promised elections later in the year.
Astor later proposed creating a " Women ’ s Party ", but the female Labour MPs thought it was a ridiculous idea because at that time their party had power and promised them positions.
As part of a deal, the NBA promised that Charlotte would get a new team ( which took the court two years later as the Charlotte Bobcats ).
John Hubley, the segment's art director, explained that it was later curtailed by Disney to avoid controversy from creationists, who promised to make trouble should he connect evolution with humans.
He was buried much later in Shechem () after the children of Israel came into the promised land.
At the time of the role switch, Woods was promised by the studio that it would be made up to him with later assignments, but this was never followed through and Woods subsequently fell into obscurity.
Some years later, Paris, a Trojan prince came to Sparta to marry Helen, whom he had been promised by Aphrodite.
He would later state " I told them I could not absorb a serious retaliatory raid, and they accepted the logic of this and promised there would never be one ".
The International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) promised to allow Canada to use a limited number of minor professional players at the 1970 tournament but later reneged, leading Hockey Canada to withdraw the nation from all international competition in 1970.

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