Even though Byzantine emperors maintained a claim over the territory, and no barbarian king in the west dared to elevate himself to the position of Emperor of the West, Byzantine control of most of the West could not be sustained ; the reconquest of the Italian peninsula and Mediterranean periphery by Justinian was the sole, and temporary, exception.

Even as late as 1733, a 2300 volume, 《 武英殿聚珍版丛书 》, was printed with 253500 wooden movable type on order of the Yongzheng Emperor, and completed in one year.

Even though Francis Stephen was his favourite candidate for Maria Theresa's hand, the Emperor considered other possibilities.

Even though Charlemagne was the first to receive papal coronation as Emperor of the Romans, Otto I is considered the first Holy Roman Emperor in historiography.

Even though the Emperor was wounded and bleeding, the collar saved his life.

Even after the consolidation of the shogunate's power in the east, the Emperor continued to rule the country, particularly its west.

Even Zhu Di's troops praised his effectiveness, especially when Emperor Hongwu rewarded them for their service.

Even though the Hongwu Emperor may have meant for his descendants to be buried near his own Xiaoling Mausoleum ( this is how Hongwu's heir apparent, Zhu Biao was buried ), Yongle's relocation of the capital to Beijing necessitated the creation of a new imperial burial ground.

Even the teenage Nguyễn Emperor Hàm Nghi left the Imperial Palace of Huế in 1885 with regent Tôn Thất Thuyết and started the Cần Vương, or " Save the King ", movement, trying to rally the people to resist the French.

Even as it became clear the Greek Church would never consent to the Filioque clause, the Emperor continued to press for a reconciliation.

Even before he was formally enthroned, Emperor Xianzong immediately had Wang Shuwen and Wang Pi exiled, on September 2 — in Wang Pi's case, to be the military advisor to the prefect of Kai Prefecture ( 開州, in modern Chongqing ).

Even Tsar Ivan the Terrible expressed horror at the carnage in a letter to the Emperor.

The American historian Henry Charles Lea wrote: " Even in distant Germany Philippe's death was spoken of as a retribution for his destruction of the Templars, and Clement was described as shedding tears of remorse on his death-bed for three great crimes, the poisoning of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and the ruin of the Templars and Beguines ".

Even a city or a prince on the side of the Emperor had to pay taxes towards the war.

Even after Emperor Gaozu ( Liu Bang )' s victory over Xiang Yu, there were still unstable areas in the empire, requiring the new government to launch military campaigns to pacify these regions thereafter.

Even worse, Buzz comes into cahoots with another Buzz Lightyear action figure, who is deluded like Buzz was in the first film, and is pursued by a deluded Emperor Zurg action figure.

Even after what happened, however, Emperor Ling did not change his wasteful and corrupt ways.

Even after Emperor Joseph II proclaimed toleration in 1781, only Lutherans and Calvinists were allowed to openly practice their faith.

Even though Emperor Fei was an adult, he did not have actual power, as not only were governmental matters largely in the hands of his granduncle Sima Yu the Prince of Kuaiji, but Sima Yu himself was not fully able to make decisions, as the paramount general Huan Wen imposed many of his own decisions on the imperial government, which had no choice but to accept.

Even though he had a younger brother, Sima Dewen, born of Consort Chen as well ( in 385 ), who was described to be intelligent and careful, and who learned to take care of him throughout the years, for reasons unknown, Emperor Xiaowu appeared to have never seriously considered making Sima Dewen his heir, and in 387, Sima Dezong was created crown prince.

Even after the Shunzhi Emperor came to power, there was still much friction between Hooge and Dorgon.

Even after his great victory, Emperor Napoleon considered Archduke Charles ' large army a threat.

Even though Emperor Louis IV, in return for Henry's mediation in the dispute with Frederick the Fair, had assured him in 1330 that his daughter could succeed him, Louis reneged on his promise in a secret treaty with the House of Habsburg in the same year.

Even after the Meiji restoration in 1868, when the emperor was placed back in the center of the political bureaucracy, the throne itself had very little power vis-à-vis the Meiji oligarchy.

Even though quite a few techniques were lost, especially in the beginning of the Meiji era, Tennen Rishin-ryū is still practiced today, among other koryū.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

Even yet there was no realization in his eyes.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

Even Hemingway, for all his efforts to formulate a naturalistic morality in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms never maintained that sex was all.

Even after the incident between Bang-Jensen and Shann in the Delegates' Lounge and this was not the way the Chicago Tribune presented it ''.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Even before the century was out the tide of reaction had set in.

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

Even though he would later be resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

Even when the intensity of the shocks was increased gradually, it failed to evoke any signs of pain.

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

Even among the fast set in which she was moving, her method for keeping an escort from departing too early was unique.

Even Hudson, experienced in Arctic sailing and determined as he was, must have had qualms as he slid down the Thames.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.