Distracted by hostilities elsewhere in the archipelago, such as Ambon and Ternate, the Portuguese did not return until 1529 ; a Portuguese trader Captain Garcia landed troops in the Bandas.

Distracted by the conversation between John and Peter, Judas reaches for a different piece of bread not noticing Jesus too stretching out with his right hand towards it ( Matthew 26: 23 ).

Distracted by the sound of his troops moving outside the room, he investigates and is told by a panicked soldier that the trees of Spider's Web forest " have risen to attack us.

Distracted by a phantom sighting of land to the southeast, he sailed away before exploring any closer and never discovered the two good harbours.

Distracted by the renewed war with Nicaea, and waiting in vain for assistance from Pope Honorius III and the King of France Philip II, the Latin Empire was unable to prevent the final fall of Thessalonica to Epirus in 1224.

Distracted among themselves, with the formidable Basotho power on their southern and eastern flank, the troubles of the infant state were speedily added to by the action of the Transvaal Boers.

Distracted by Blayac, Ponceludon loses, and is convinced that his disgrace will force him to leave the court.

Distracted by the Duke, he did not notice an approaching locomotive on the adjacent track, Rocket.

Distracted by the preludes to the War of 1812, the United States was unable to respond to the provocations until 1815, with the Second Barbary War, thereby concluding the encompassing Barbary Wars ( 1800 – 1815 ).

Distracted by problems in his life — Chowder's career is going nowhere, and his girlfriend has recently left him — he is unable to begin writing, and instead ruminates on poets and poetry throughout history.

Distracted by the carnage she has witnessed, Ivanova's fighter collides with another Starfury.

* Jackson, Maggie ( 2008 ) Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age Review in Metapsychology by Elisabeth Herschbach, Ph. D.

Distracted by the coming sundown, Arjuna is unable to break through.

Distracted by a gang war with rival mobster Joe Aiello, a brief exile from Chicago, and the 1928 Republican primary election, Capone had to wait until the spring of 1928 to plan retaliation.

Distracted by the success of his " nonfiction novel ," In Cold Blood, the Black and White Ball, television projects, short pieces and increasing personal demons, Capote missed his 1968 deadline.

Distracted by the arrival of hardcore in the early nineties, record collecting was quickly followed by DJing and eventually production.

* The Smitten Sessions EP ( April 6, 2004 )-Released by Distracted Records, and features Pixies drummer, Dave Lovering on the fifth track.

Distracted to some extent by growing his business, Shoen nevertheless took time for multiple marriages and eventually had a total of 14 children, each of whom he made stockholders.

Distracted by Spike's friend Carly ( who was a big fan of the Autobots ) while on guard duty, Ironhide inadvertently allowed the Decepticons to steal Wheeljack's latest invention-a weapon that could freeze anything it fired at, including Transformers.

Distracted by his friend's sudden absence, Roy rolls the most difficult of splits ( 7-10 split ) but is miraculously able to convert it, thereby forcing McCracken to roll three strikes to beat him.

Distracted by a telephone call, he forgot to remove the screwdriver to drop the track circuit relay when the section became occupied by a train, allowing a second train to see green signals and collide with the first.

In 1736 Grey published The Miserable and Distracted State of Religion in England, after previous consultation with Dr. Zachary Grey.

The first Distracted Driving Summit was held in 2009 in Washington, D. C., with the second annual Summit held on September 21, 2010 in Washington.

His sermon was based on Zechariah 14: 9 and entitled, “ Meat out of the Eater ; or, Hopes of Unity in and by Divided and Distracted Times .” Exactly one year later, on June 30, 1648, he preached another fast sermon on Revelation 3: 20, “ England ’ s Spiritual Languishing ; with the Causes and the Cure .” He also participated in the Westminster Assembly as one of three clerks, was later appointed to write a preface to the second edition of the Westminster Confession in 1658, and served Oliver Cromwell as a chaplain and a trier ( an overseeing body that examined men for the ministry ).

Distracted, he failed to disable the second channel, leaving the circuit breaker tagged ( which masked the fact that it was no longer pulled ).

Distracted, he runs into Talia Winters in the Zocalo, spilling his drink down the front of her outfit.

Distracted, he bumps into the back of a florist's van and damaging his stock.

They have released one album under the label Cooking Vinyl, Artist Direct, and Distracted / BMG.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

and talks on how their Christian faith can guide them in learning about and fighting Communism during high school and college days, by Ted Place, director of Greater Miami Youth for Christ, and Jon Braun, director of Campus Crusade for Christ.

Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.

Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar, where Alex insists on following through on Georgie's idea to burgle the home of a wealthy old woman.

Considering the relative weight given to causes of the Civil War by contemporary actors, historians such as Chandra Manning argue that both Union and Confederate fighting soldiers believed slavery to be the cause of the Civil War.

They amuse themselves every day by fighting each other and then going to drink in the big hall.

The city was destroyed partially — and in some parts completely — during the fighting, mostly by American artillery fire and demolitions carried out by the Waffen-SS defenders.

Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.

In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting beside Æthelred in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the invading Danes led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

In November 1087, Abu Bakr was killed in battle by a poisoned arrow, while fighting in the historic region of the Sudan.

Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

He was accompanied by his friend Theseus, who carried off the princess Antiope, sister of Hippolyta, an incident which led to a retaliatory invasion of Attica, in which Antiope perished fighting by the side of Theseus.

That he enjoyed warfare there can be no doubt ; yet he was not like the ordinary fighting bishops of the Middle Ages, whose sole indication of their religious role was to avoid the shedding of blood by using a mace in battle instead of a sword.

The Assyrians were prized by the British rulers for their fighting qualities, loyalty, bravery and discipline, and were used to help the British put down insurrections among the Arabs and Kurds.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

An armoured fighting vehicle ( or armored fighting vehicle ; AFV ) is a combat vehicle, protected by strong armour and armed with weapons.