`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.

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

Even some of the queens will die before the winter is over, falling prey to enemies or disease.

Even before his death this influence had begun to ebb.

Even before he saw the necessity of growing better food and planning good nutrition, Mr. Clark felt the school had a good health program.

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.

Even before his mind had rounded out the idea, he thrust one hand into his trousers pocket and pulled out the six slugs he had taken from the revolver.

Even before he hit big money, he had begun buying modern paintings.

Even the stable-garage, which housed nothing now but the scent of rot, had a lawn before it.

Even before Johnston arrived in Tennessee, two forts had been started to defend the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River which provided avenues into the State from the north.

Even before the fight began, dissension spread through some of Abd al-Rahman's lines.

Even before the Nazis came to power, political pressure on Bauhaus had increased.

Even earlier I would take my coffee at Martin's, at 54th Street – now, alas, vanished – where I would see creatures of the night life before they disappeared with the

Even before the completion of the new house, the pattern of the royal couple's life in the Highlands was soon established.

Even before the Ionian Revolt, Darius had begun to expand the Empire into Europe, subjugating Thrace, and forcing Macedon to become allied to Persia.

Even before the publication of Client-Centered Therapy in 1951, Rogers believed that the principles he was describing could be applied in a variety of contexts and not just in the therapy situation.

" Even before the absence of the AME and AMEZ churches at the January 2011 plenary, some in CUIC had noticed the lack of commitment to racial reconciliation.

Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah to power.

Even D-Cinema itself had evolved over time before the DCI standards were framed.

Even worse, these delays occurred a couple of days before the election day and some have indicated the governments role in these delays, but couldn't provide substantial proof for their accusations.

Even before the Crusade, Eleanor and Louis were becoming estranged.

Even before the Declaration of Boulogne, the language was remarkably stable ; only one set of lexical changes were made in the first year after publication, namely changing " when ", " then ", " never ", " sometimes ", " always " from kian, tian, nenian, ian, ĉian to kiam, tiam, neniam etc., to avoid confusion with the accusative forms of kia " what sort of ", tia " that sort of ", etc.

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

Even though the clutch may physically be located very close to the pedal, such remote means of actuation are necessary to eliminate the effect of vibrations and slight engine movement, engine mountings being flexible by design.

Even the dialectal differences within Alutiiq and Central Alaskan Yup ' ik sometimes are relatively great for locations that are relatively close geographically.

Even if the prison were to be close down, lawmakers were unwilling to let its more severe criminal sociopaths from allowing into America's prisons.

Even as Rajiv remained aloof from politics, his younger brother Sanjay became a close advisor to their mother.

Even though Darius did not have the support of the populace, Darius had a loyal army, led by close confidants and nobles ( including the six nobles with whom he removed Gaumata ) with whom he was able to suppress and quell all revolts within a year.

Even his close allies were not prepared to support such a drastic step.

Even so, the submarine must be very near the aircraft's position and close to the sea surface for detection of the change or anomaly.

Even spacecraft directly orbiting the Sun do so in planes close to the ecliptic because a direct launch into a high-inclination solar orbit would require a prohibitively large launch vehicle.

Even if their style was close to the Roman originals, Visigothic coins contained less precious metal ; it was probably for this reason that Majorian issued a law obliging the tax collectors to accept golden coins at their nominal value, with the exception of the " Gallic " coin, of lesser value.

Even close friends and family were disapproving of Joyce's seemingly impenetrable text, with Joyce's brother Stanislaus " rebuk him for writing an incomprehensible night-book ", and former friend Oliver Gogarty believing the book to be a joke, pulled by Joyce on the literary community, referring to it as " the most colossal leg pull in literature since Macpherson's Ossian ".

Even though the Texas Department of Transportation started contraflow lane reversal at FM 1488, it did not alleviate the traffic jam deep into the city, as that starting point was even north of The Woodlands, which is close to Conroe, the northern terminus of the greater Houston area.

Even if the universe is not exactly spatially flat, the spatial curvature is close enough to zero to place the radius at approximately the horizon of the observable universe or beyond.

Even though the Kansas Turnpike toll road is somewhat close to Matfield Green, a driver must travel to the toll plaza in Cassoday to enter.

Even in the higher areas close to the river, many of the homes were not savable and will have to be destroyed and re-built.

Even assuming that lay interview diagnoses are highly accurate in terms of sensitivity and specificity and their corresponding area under the ROC curve ( that is, AUC, or area under the receiver operating characteristic curve ), a condition with a relatively low prevalence or base-rate is bound to yield high false positive rates, which exceed false negative rates ; in such a circumstance a limited positive predictive value, PPV, yields high false positive rates even in presence of a specificity which is very close to 100 %.

Even today, the area is still prone to flooding in areas close to the River Dove, a tributary of the River Waveney which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk.

Even more so than their close relatives, the scombrids, marlin are incredibly fast swimmers, reaching speeds of about.

Even close friends and longtime readers criticized the novel for its perceived lack of morality in its open depiction of sex and drug use, a criticism that indeed remained the primary rebuff of the novel for many years.

Even for n as small as 100, the probability of an open path from the top to the bottom increases sharply from very close to zero to very close to one in a short span of values of p.

* Even if music is used in the Liturgy, it is not used to open and close the Liturgy, nor is there a formal recessional ( closing procession ).

Even when nesting close to other birds they may exhibit some territorial behavior.

Even after Shingen's death, there remained several daimyo powerful enough to resist Nobunaga, but none were situated close enough to Kyoto to pose a threat politically, and it appeared that unification under the Oda banner was a matter of time.