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But the unexpected fall of Arkona had terrified the garrison, which surrendered unconditionally at the first appearance of the Danish ships.
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" The album was slow to garner attention, until " All I Wanna Do " became an unexpected smash hit in the fall of 1994.
This is especially true if the unexpected shock is one ( like a fall in consumer confidence ) which tends to lower both output and inflation ; in that case, expanding the money supply ( lowering interest rates ) helps by increasing output while stabilizing inflation and inflationary expectations.
The unexpected French advance from the west and the fall of the Shevardino redoubt threw the Russian formation into disarray.
With the unexpected fall of the second Prodi government in January 2008, the organisation of the People of Freedom was completed, but only two parties formally joined, Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the National Alliance.
After experiencing mild harassment and propositioning throughout their journey, they fall subject to an unexpected tragedy.
Ronald Reagan won an unexpected victory in the fall of 1966 and was elected Governor ; the newly elected governor directed the UC Board of Regents to dismiss UC President Clark Kerr because of the perception that he had been too soft on the protesters.
In midsummer, the fall of Warsaw seemed certain but in mid-August the tide had turned again as the Polish forces achieved an unexpected and decisive victory at the Battle of Warsaw.
But the Roman Republic would fall to another, unexpected enemy.
Montcalm responded, " Unless we have unexpected luck, or stage a diversion elsewhere within North America, Canada will fall during the coming campaign season.
The title track is actually a medley of six cover versions ( of artists as diverse and unexpected as The Association, The Carpenters, and Tammy Wynette ) strung together to create a storyline of two people who fall in love, have an unplanned pregnancy, rush into marriage, and end up divorced.
In case of an unexpected fall the device can work quite automatically.
Ironically, just as Desjardins had helped bring the NDP into government in 1969, his decision to leave the legislature in 1988 played a major role in the party's unexpected fall from power.
Shortly after Nirvana released Nevermind in the fall of 1991, its unexpected success was large enough that Pocketwatch eventually became noticed.
In Forgotten, their marriage start to fall apart due to a lack of communication and personality differences, and an unexpected accident changes their life entirely.
Airborne operations on the first two days had been successful to an unexpected degree, but nevertheless the overall operation had begun to fall seriously behind schedule, and only grew worse as the weather deteriorated.
The disorder is characterized by an exaggerated response to unexpected stimuli which is followed by a temporary but complete muscular rigidity often resulting in an unprotected fall.
A person may fall overboard for many reasons: they might have been struck by a part of the ship, they may lose their footing due to a slippery deck or an unexpected movement of the boat, or any number of other reasons.
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`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.
Unfortunately she returned later, just as I had taken advantage of the friendlier atmosphere in the room by stating that perhaps an unexpected result of the Cultural Exchange Program would be the re-emergence of Abstract Art in Russia, with Social Realism regaining dominance in the U.S..
It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.
Berg had interrupted the orchestration of Lulu because of an unexpected ( and financially much-needed ) commission from the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner for a Violin Concerto ( 1935 ).
Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.
Captain Thomas Foley had noticed as he approached that there was an unexpected gap between Guerrier and the shallow water of the shoal.
It was clear, however, that Leonidovich himself felt he had not come as well as he should out of his unexpected conversation with the Leader.
The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).
However, the government had become destabilized by Alfonso XII's unexpected death in 1885, followed by the assassination of prime minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo in 1897.
A political shift in the 1980s had strong and unexpected repercussions on the country's economic condition.
His brilliant adaptation of Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith deeply impressed later Jewish thinkers, and had an unexpected immediate historical impact.
With his second feature film, Istanbul Under My Wings ( 1995 ), he also brought an unexpected vivacity to the Turkish Cinema whose film production had decreased dramatically and whose number of viewers had neared to nothing during the past 20 years.
Following the unexpected death of the Bahá ' í Faith's first Guardian Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the 27 living Hands of the Cause, having the responsibility to acknowledge any appointment of a successor, gathered and decided that he had died " without having appointed his successor ," and that the Universal House of Justice would decide on the situation after its first election.
Later work on modification of histones led to the identification of an unexpected covalent modification of the histone protein by a bond between a lysine side chain of the histone and the C-terminal glycine residue of ubiquitin, a protein that had no known function.
Mayr later complimented Eldredge and Gould's paper, stating that evolutionary stasis had been " unexpected by most evolutionary biologists " and that punctuated equilibrium " had a major impact on paleontology and evolutionary biology.
One study in this line of research has been conducted by Bloom who noticed that speakers of Chinese had unexpected difficulties answering counter-factual questions posed to them in a questionnaire.
Others, however, emphasized its theoretical novelty, and argued that evolutionary stasis had been " unexpected by most evolutionary biologists " and " had a major impact on paleontology and evolutionary biology ".
Pak Subuh explained ( in talks to Subud members given beginning in the 1940s ) that during 1925 he was taking a late-night walk when he had an unexpected and unusual experience.
The jail sentence was unexpected as previously only fines had been imposed, and Watson appealed.
In 1981 Carl was well into his retirement but his stories remained popular and had gained him unexpected fame.
unexpected and terrified
Confronted with the unexpected and having to deal with the superstitious and now terrified crews, Pulcher quickly figured an alternative interpretation.
unexpected and garrison
Meanwhile, the garrison had paused in their retreat and upon hearing the sound of gunfire from the town, turned about and launched a surprise attack back across the bridge, which caught the rebels, distracted by the unexpected pockets of resistance, completely by surprise.
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This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.
The discovery and elucidation of aberration is now regarded as a classic case of the application of scientific method, in which observations are made to test a theory, but unexpected results are sometimes obtained that in turn lead to new discoveries.
Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").
Lets may occur because of some unexpected disturbance such as a shuttlecock landing on court ( having been hit there by players on an adjacent court ) or in small halls the shuttle may touch an overhead rail which can be classed as a let.
His two chief works are valuable for the numerous quotations from the works of earlier authors, which are otherwise lost, and for the surprising lore, which offers unexpected glimpses into the Greco-Roman world-view.
: One or more episodes of amnesia in which the inability to recall some or all of one's past and either the loss of one's identity or the formation of a new identity occur with sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home.
A power struggle between Korechika and Michinaga continued until Teishi's unexpected death in 1001, which sealed Michinaga's power since Shōshi became the only empress after Teishi's death.
In spite of the big sibling rivalry that has resulted in trash talk between the players, both teams have formed an unexpected and consequently strong partnership sharing Giants Stadium for twenty six years and MetLife Stadium, a venture in which both teams own a fifty percent share of the stadium.
They are constructed in a triadic manner which consists of a statement ( often a proverb ), an identification of a speaker ( person or animal ) and a phrase that places the statement into an unexpected situation.
Italian writer Luigi Malerba used the confusion among the leaders of the Catholic Church, which was created by Adrian's unexpected election, as a backdrop for his 1995 novel, Le maschere ( The Masks ), about the struggle between two Roman cardinals for a well-endowed church office.
The audience listens to the story with certain expectations, which are either simply not met or met in some entirely unexpected manner.
The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying, since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.
Presented as a parody of the complicated RPG systems which were prevalent at the time while still being a playable game in its own right, its simple structure and humorous nature gave it unexpected popularity.
Even more unexpected than the panoply of Indo-European cognates for Dao ( drog ) is the Hebrew root d-r-g for the same word and Arabic t-r-q, which yields words meaning " track, path, way, way of doing things " and is important in Islamic philosophical discourse.
To avoid a " runaway convention ", in which unexpected or damaging amendments could be considered, the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress ; on June 12, 1911, it passed in the Senate by a vote of 64 to 24, with 4 not voting, and on May 13, 1912, passed in the House by a vote of 238 to 39, with 110 not voting.
For borrowers needing quick financing for an unexpected change, the IBRD operates a Deferred Drawdown Option which serves as a line of credit with features similar to the Bank's flexible loan program.
This unexpected development sets the stage for the second act ( December 2001 — November 2005 ), in which humans from Earth colonize the deserted planet, occasionally having contact with the few surviving Martians, but for the most part preoccupied with making Mars a second Earth.
The unexpected hanging paradox, hangman paradox, unexpected exam paradox, surprise test paradox or prediction paradox is a paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event ( e. g. a prisoner's hanging, or a school test ) which he is told will occur at an unexpected time.
Finally, Chow suggests that because the statement which the prisoner is supposed to " know " to be true is a statement about his inability to " know " certain things, there is reason to believe that the unexpected hanging paradox is simply a more intricate version of Moore's paradox.
Murgen searches for a way to free the 4000 men trapped within, and eventually finds it, shattering the Tain, at which point Soulblighter flees, startled by the unexpected destruction of the powerful artifact.
The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers.
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