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 when he is called upon for impromptu remarks, he has notes written on the back of handy envelopes.

Even before the benches had dried, the Civil War veterans were straggling back to their places.

Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.

Even after local lemming peaks, the arctic fox population tends to collapse back to levels dangerously close to non-viability.

Even a small improvement in operating policies or procedures could have set back the deciphering process by months, or even permanently.

Even though Viscount Meng Yi gave his word not to interfere with an attempt, he went back on his earlier promise to dismantle the walls.

Even if causes and effects in the universe looped back on themselves, they would still, at any particular moment, be contingent and thus would have to be caused by God.

Even with its athletic and competitive development, cheerleading at the school level has retained its ties to the spirit leading traditions started back in the 1890s.

Even that was bittersweet as he quit VFL football to move back to his native Western Australia, where Moss finished out his career as a player and coach at Claremont Football Club.

Even before news of the defeat at Ticinus had reached Rome, the Senate had ordered the Consul Sempronius Longus to bring his army back from Sicily to meet Scipio and face Hannibal.

Even a sound card that contains high-quality sampled sounds will have inconsistent quality from one instrument to another, and early budget cards, such as the AdLib and the Sound Blaster and its compatibles, used a stripped-down version of Yamaha's frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) technology played back through low-quality digital-to-analog converters.

Even with this route open, he would have difficulties besieging Rome with a hostile territory at his back.

Even so, it was unclear how proton – proton fusion might proceed, because the most obvious product, helium-2 ( diproton ), is unstable and immediately dissociates back into a pair of protons.

" Even today, tourist guides in Stockholm spice up their guiding of the old town ( Gamla Stan ) with the news about Christian II's " rehabilitation " back in Denmark.

" Even during the violence of the Reign of Terror in France, Jefferson refused to disavow the revolution because " To back away from France would be to undermine the cause of republicanism in America.

Even though wuxia, as the name of a genre, is a recent coinage, stories about the xia date back more than 2, 000 years.

" Even when platforms went completely out of style, I kept wearing them because I didn't want to go back to being in heels ", she told Allure magazine in 1995.

# Even when the original vendor is genuinely interested in promoting a healthy competition ( so that he may also benefit from the resulting innovative market ), post-facto interoperability may often be undesirable as many defects or quirks can be directly traced back to the original implementation's technical limitations.

Even further back, in 1978 Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz coined the term groupware ; their initial 1978 definition of groupware was, “ intentional group processes plus software to support them .” Later in their article they went on to explain groupware as “ computer-mediated culture ... an embodiment of social organization in hyperspace.

Even though there was the stated goal of getting back the " northern lost lands ", paranoia within the royal family and a constant string of disruptions to the throne caused the loss of support of many officials.

Even though most Maya tales are the results of an historical process in which Spanish narrative traditions interacted with native ones, some of the tales reach back well into pre-Spanish times.

Even though Widukind allied himself with the Frisians, Charlemagne's winter attacks of 784 / 785 were successful, and Widukind and his allies were pushed back beyond the River Elbe.

Even single-pane glass works for this process, because glass is transparent to the incoming visible light and near-visible shorter-wavelength higher-energy infra-red radiation that warms the wall mass, but less so to the longer-wavelength infra-red radiation that is the heat that is radiated back out from the wall mass.

Even earlier evidence for human occupation dating back as much as 14, 500 years ago is emerging from Paisley Caves in central Oregon.

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

Even Poirot acknowledges that Rossakoff has told several wildly varying accounts of her early life.

Even as early as the 1920s he held a vision for school students of New Zealand to be involved in planting native trees and plants in their school grounds.

Even in his early years, Linnaeus seemed to have a liking for plants, flowers in particular.

Even though Rome abandoned its Britannic provinces around 400 AD, the Germanic mercenarieswho had largely become instrumental in enforcing Roman rule in Britanniaacquired ownership of land there and continued to use a mixture of Roman and Teutonic Law, with much written down under the early Anglo-Saxon Kings.

Even at this early time, cavalry used swords, shields, and bows.

Even then light cavalry remained an indispensable tool for scouting, screening the army's movements, and harassing the enemy's supply lines until military aircraft supplanted them in this role in the early stages of World War I.

Even today, the procedure is credited with ending the devastation caused by the early epidemics, and vaccination, in many ways an updated and modernized form of the procedure, continues to be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for at-risk populations, such as potential victims of bioterrorism, and research scientists who work with surviving strains of the virus.

Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.

Even though Julius's early career goal was to become a doctor, the family's need for income forced Julius out of school at the age of twelve.

Even more broadly, " Gulag " has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the " meat-grinder ": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.

Even before the concept of immunity ( from immunis, Latin for " exempt ") was developed, numerous early physicians characterized organs that would later prove to be part of the immune system.

Even though the referenda held in the early 1990s resulted in a position in favour of retaining the Netherlands Antilles, the arrangement continued to be an unhappy one.

Even then, the opportunity was almost lost as the League delegates debated into the early hours of the morning on which clubs should be invited to join the intake.

Even in these early stages, penicillin was found to be most effective against Gram-positive bacteria, and ineffective against Gram-negative organisms and fungi.

Even at this early stage, Rodríguez's trademark style began to emerge: quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor that offsets the action.

Even so, republicanism flourished in the " country " party of the early 18th century, which denounced the corruption of the " court " party, producing a political theory that heavily influenced the American colonists.

Even as late as the early 18th century, there were many Sami who were still settling on these farms left abandoned from the 1350s.

Even during this early stage of his career, Peckinpah was developing a combative streak.

Even as a personal sidearm, the sword began to lose its preeminence in the early 19th century, paralleling the development of reliable handguns.

Even though combinatorial chemistry has been an essential part of early drug discovery for more than two decades, so far only one de novo combinatorial chemistry-synthesized chemical has been approved for clinical use by FDA ( sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor indicated for advanced renal cancer ).

Even before Russia's financial crisis of 1998, Russia's GDP was half of what it had been in the early 1990s.

Even before Washington returned, Dinwiddie had sent a company of 40 men under William Trent to that point, where in the early months of 1754 they began construction of a small stockaded fort.