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At the peaceful height of Middle Byzantium, court life " passed in a sort of ballet ", with precise ceremonies prescribed for every occasion, to show that " Imperial power could be exercised in harmony and order ", and " the Empire could thus reflect the motion of the Universe as it was made by the Creator ", according to the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who wrote a Book of Ceremonies describing in enormous detail the annual round of the Court.
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At this time Eisenhower gave his Chance for Peace speech in which he attempted, unsuccessfully, to forestall the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union by suggesting multiple opportunities presented by peaceful uses of nuclear materials.
At a personal level, peaceful behaviors are kind, considerate, respectful, just, and tolerant of others ' beliefs and behaviors -- tending to manifest goodwill.
At first, Valdivia was successful in his efforts to deal benevolently with the native population, but this peaceful coexistence did not last long.
At the time of their arrival there were a few Native American residents of a nearly abandoned village at the harbor, and the mission had peaceful relations with those and other native residents in the surrounding area.
" At the request of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, it began developing nuclear reactors for the nation's peaceful nuclear energy program.
At first, the brothers are not a particularly peaceful lot and end up quarreling with the local constable, jury, vicar, churchwarden, and teachers — not to mention their neighbours in Toukola village.
At length, he came to Chang ' an, then under the peaceful rule of Emperor Taizong of Tang.
At home the " Reduction " was cautiously pursued, while abroad the successful conclusion of the great peace congress at Ryswick was justly regarded as a signal triumph of Sweden's peaceful diplomacy.
At first, Xu refused to make a statement ; however, under persistent questioning, he finally said, " You would be a capable minister in peaceful times and an unscrupulous hero in chaotic times.
At the Kingston Butter Factory in Kingston, Queensland, Australia, Te Korowai Aroha ( Cloak of Love ) Association have been holding Waitangi Day Celebrations since 2002, with an excess of 10, 000 expats, Logan City Council representatives and Indigenous Australians coming together to commemorate in a peaceful alcohol and drug free occasion.
) At the conclusion of the war, the Daleks, heavily mutated by radiation, encased themselves in protective machines and retreated into their city, while the humanoid Thals survived the fallout through the use of an anti-radiation drug and became a peaceful race of farmers.
At 07: 40 Hawaiian Standard Time, seeing all peaceful at Pearl Harbor, Fuchida slid back the canopy of his Nakajima B5N2 Type 97 Model 3 " Kate " torpedo bomber and fired a green flare, the signal to attack.
At the very end of the novel, only the United States has not joined, but the world as a whole is united and peaceful.
At the same time, the party's aging membership demographics and noticeably hollow calls for " peaceful coexistence " failed to speak to a new Left in the United States.
At the time of the OUN's founding, the most popular political party among Ukrainians was the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance which, while opposed to Polish rule, called for peaceful and democratic means to achieve independence from Poland.
At the height of their historic culture, the Mandan were prosperous and peaceful farmers and traders, noted for their excellent maize cultivation and crafting of Knife River flint.
At the beginning of the game, Link and the King of Hyrule is visited by a wizard named Gwonam who tells him that Ganon and his servants have seized the peaceful island of Koridai and captured Zelda.
At the dénouement, we learn Jacob never made it out of Vietnam ; his body is shown in an Army triage tent with two surgeons just after he expired, with a now peaceful look on his face.
At the close of the story, Poole and the other humans land on Europa and attempt to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans.
At the 2004 session of the Boao Forum, Hu Jintao, Chinese president, used instead the phrase China's peaceful development.
At Redwall Abbey, the two rats have arrived and found refuge in the kind, peaceful Abbey.
At that time the Skrulls were a largely peaceful space-faring race, and they set about educating the natives to the point where they could join their trading empire.
At the call of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the people of East Pakistan joined in a peaceful movement for non-cooperation from 3 March 1971, and 7 March and onward, which lasted up to midnight of 25 March 1971.
At first his relations with the Vikings were peaceful, but eventually Utrecht was threatened by the Vikings, at which the bishop and the entire clergy of Utrecht fled to Saint-Odiliënberg, near Roermond.
At and height
At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.
At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.
At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.
* At the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.
At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.
At the height of the rainy season, the front may reach as far as Kanem Prefecture.
At this point, the water pushes northward up the Tonle Sab and empties into the Tonle Sap, thereby increasing the size of the lake from about 2, 590 square kilometers to about 24, 605 square kilometers at the height of the flooding.
At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering ( IPO ) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit — or, in some cases, earned any revenue whatsoever.
At its pre-war height, the movement often pursued pseudoscientific notions of racial supremacy and purity.
At their greatest height they reach an elevation of about, the highest point in southern Finland.
At the party's height it boasted 3, 000 cumainn, an average of 75 per constituency.
" At the height of his fame on Diff ' rent Strokes, he earned as much as US $ 100, 000 per episode.
At their height, the Assyrians dominated all of Syria-Palestine, Egypt, and Babylonia.
At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.
At the height of its popularity, an entire year's worth of shows would be taped in two separate week-long sessions, then individual shows would be assembled from edited sections.
At the height of the inflation, one US dollar was worth 4 trillion German marks.
At the height of the Persian tradition of illustrated book production ( 1300 to 1600 C. E.
At the height of his popularity as a director, Whale directed The Road Back, a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1937.
At the height of her career, she was known as " The Queen of Rock and Roll " as well as " The Queen of Psychedelic Soul ", and became known as Pearl amongst her friends.
At first the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of towns and cities captured during the crusade, but at its height in the mid-12th century the kingdom roughly encompassed the territory of modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Palestine.
At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of modern southern Libya, eastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon.
At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.
At its highest point, it reaches a height of 1, 834 feet ( 559 m ).
At its height Cahokia is believed to have had a population of between 40, 000 and 80, 000 people, making it amongst the largest pre-Columbian cities of the Americas.
At the height of Viking expansion into Dublin and Jorvik 875-954 AD the longship reached a peak of development such as the Gokstad ship 890.
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