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The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.
The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.
The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.
On departure for Lambaréné in 1913 he was presented with a pedal piano, a piano with pedal attachments ( to operate like an organ pedal-keyboard ).
He was implicated during the Peloponnesian War in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure of the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415 BC.
Anne was particularly close to Emily especially after Charlotte's departure for Roe Head School, in January 1831.
While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.
The European population of New South Wales at his departure was 4, 221, of whom 3, 099 were convicts.
Upon his departure, Aegeus told him to put up white sails when returning if he was successful in killing the Minotaur.
The Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.
When the day drew near of the departure of Saint Paul the First Hermit in the desert, Saint Anthony went to him and buried him, after clothing him in a tunic which was a present from St Athanasius the Apostolic, the 20th Patriarch of Alexandria.
And in our own language ,— for he was familiar with English poetry ,— speaking of the soul ’ s dread departure from the body:
The Whig-Radical amalgam could not become a true modern political party, however, while it was dominated by aristocrats, and it was not until the departure of the " Two Terrible Old Men ", Russell and Palmerston, that Gladstone could become the first leader of the modern Liberal Party.
With the departure and the completion of the new White Wing ( fronting Montague Street ) in 1884, more space was available for antiquities and ethnography and the library could further expand.
Before their departure, the ship of the commander Belisarius was anchored in front of the Imperial palace, and the Patriarch offered prayers for the success of the enterprise.
Early on, cyberpunk was hailed as a radical departure from science-fiction standards and a new manifestation of vitality.
Practical results were mixed and mingled emerged ( such as the debate surrounding the constitutional prohibition of extradition, which later was reversed ), but together with the reincorporation of some of the guerrilla groups to the legal political framework, the new Constitution inaugurated an era that was both a continuation and a gradual, but significant, departure from what had come before.
Clausewitz constantly sought to revise the text, particularly between 1827 and his departure on his last field assignment, to include more material on " people's war " and forms of war other than between states, but little of this material was included in the book.
An additional reason for his departure was the fact that the arms of Thierry had prevailed against Theodebert, and thus the country on the banks of the Upper Rhine had become the property of his enemy.
Additionally, the ' 04 season led to the departure of popular commentator Steve Stone, who had become increasingly critical of management during broadcasts and was verbally attacked by reliever Kent Mercker.

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Developed in the late 19th century, stockless anchors represented the first significant departure in anchor design in centuries.
The first two, in 1848 and 1849, failed before departure due to US opposition.
Flockhart's character was significant throughout the series ' first four years, but her appearances were reduced for the 2010 – 2011 season, coinciding with the departure of TV husband Rob Lowe.
1993 saw the release of Bowie's first solo offering since his Tin Machine departure, the soul, jazz and hip-hop influenced Black Tie White Noise.
Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).
The Viceregal Salute — composed of the first and last four bars of the National Anthem (" Advance Australia Fair ")— is the salute used to greet the governor upon arrival at, and mark his or her departure from most official events, although " God Save The Queen ", as the Royal Anthem, is also used.
While relations were cordial between the two companies at first, the departure of Jim Levy from Activision left Bruce Davis in charge.
Exactly when Mellitus and his party arrived in England is unknown, but he was certainly in the country by 604, when Augustine consecrated him as bishop in the province of the East Saxons, making Mellitus the first Bishop of London after the Roman departure ( London was the East Saxons ' capital ).
One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.
Kobe Bryant won his first Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award award in his 13th season after leading the Lakers to their first NBA championship since the departure of Shaquille O ' Neal.
In 1522 he participated in the Siege of Rhodes against the Knights of St. John, which ended with the island's surrender to the Ottomans on 25 December 1522 and the permanent departure of the Knights from Rhodes on 1 January 1523 ( the Knights relocated first ( briefly ) to Sicily and later ( permanently ) to Malta ).
In 2002, however, Paris extradited Paolo Persichetti, an ex-member of the Red Brigades who was teaching sociology, signaling for the first time a departure from the " Mitterrand doctrine ".
Amundsen had problems and hesitation raising funds for the departure and upon hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary claimed the Pole, he decided to reroute to Antarctica.
Subsequent non-canon books have featured him as the Enterprise's new first officer after the departure of William Riker to his own command.
The departure of the Boers and later removal of the remaining garrison in 1906 ( with the disbandment of the St Helena Volunteers, this was the first time the island was left without a garrison ) both impacted on the island economy, which was only slightly offset by growing philatelic sales.
This was their first album to feature the three-piece horn-section which was retained in all their subsequent albums and live performances until Hugh Cornwell's departure in 1990.
It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.
The chosen date they attempt to reach first is August 17, 1421 ( their date of departure is never made clear ), after choosing a time period " nice and safe and dull ".
The Viceregal Salute — composed of the first six bars of the Royal Anthem (" God Save the Queen ") followed by the first and last four bars of the national anthem (" O Canada ")— is the salute used to greet the governor general upon arrival at, and mark his or her departure from most official events.
The Assyrian Christians on the other hand, came to similar conclusion but migrated in stages following each and every eruption of a political crisis with the regime in which boundaries they lived or following each conflict with their Muslim, Turkish, Arabs or Kurdish neighbors, or following the departure or expulsion of their patriarch Mar Shimon in 1933, first to Cyprus and then to the United States.
Released during the first months of 2006, this game marks a departure from the first three games.

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