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Far away in Baghdad, the current Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, had long been planning to depose the Umayyad who dared to call himself emir of al-Andalus.
Far away ( for ), the fields approach the limiting form of a radiating spherical wave:
The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.
" I cannot let you go "... " Far away in Australia, soon will fate be kind.
Far and away the most popular of these was the 6507, which was used in the Atari 2600 and in Atari disk drives.
Far away from the narrowest part of the beam, the spread is roughly linear with distance — the laser beam forms a cone of light in the " far field ".
Not all of the ring material would have necessarily been swept up right away ; the thickened crust of the Far Side suggests that a second moon about 1, 000-km in diameter formed in a Lagrange point of the Moon ; after tens of millions of years, as the two moons migrated outward from the Earth, solar tidal effects would have made the Lagrange orbit unstable, resulting in a slow-velocity collision that would have ' pancaked ' the smaller moon onto what is now the Far Side.
" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.
" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.
By the 14th century the castle was purchasing goods from across western Europe, with wine being imported from France, venison from parks as far away as Northamptonshire and spices from the Far East through London-based merchants.
Far and away the most successful effort was the Schoolhouse Rock series on ABC, which became a television classic ; ABC also had several other short-form animated featurettes, including Time for Timer and The Bod Squad, that had long runs.
Far away clouds or snowy mountaintops will seem yellow as well ; that effect is not obvious on clear days, but very pronounced when clouds are covering the line of sight reducing the blue hue from scattered sunlight.
Far from being delighted, Antigonus was angry with his son and struck him, calling him a barbarian and drove him away.
: Far away, I know my brothers have reached the peak ;
Far away from the power base, with few support armies and supplies, Liu led self-sufficient soldiers and broke rounds of heavy blockade, while boosting his strength back to the original 100, 000.
From 1935 to 1939 the base was the main radio interception unit for the Far East Combined Bureau, which was four miles away across the harbour in the naval dockyard.
Far away sprites are drawn before close ones.
Far from turning people away, this ascetic rule attracted thousands.
After the Japanese land invasion of the Philippines on 24 December 1941, the mission of Fifth Interceptor Command changed to provide ground defense of Luzon, with ground and air echelon personnel of unequipped Far East Air Force units on Luzon attached to fight as ground infantry units during the Battle of the Philippines ( 1941 – 42 ) after their aircraft were destroyed or evacuated to locations away from Luzon.
Far away from the aperture, the angle at which the first minimum occurs, measured from the direction of incoming light, is given by the approximate formula:
< I > Far away, far away < BR >
< I > Far away, far away < BR >

Far and standing
Far from standing on the defensive therefore – and unbeknown to Marlborough – Louis XIV was persistently goading his marshal into action.
Far off, Jack, along with Messerach, a normal mummy that had been inside the sarcophagus, watch the explosion, and the cab-driver, standing in the shadow, reiterates to the player as he walks off into the night that " the blood of Caine controls our fate ... farewell, vampire "
The British Trade Dollars, minted exclusively for use in the Far East, depict Britannia standing on shore, holding a trident in one hand and balancing a British shield in the other, with a merchant ship under full sail in the background.
For many years, Braathens was known as Braathens S. A. F. E, the latter part being an acronym standing for South American and Far East, for the destinations Braathens originally served.

Far and before
Amiot made good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his works did more than any before to make known to the Western world the thought and life of the Far East.
Powell desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because " the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore " before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.
In January 1924, she visited Paris with her recently widowed cousin Corinne Mustin, before sailing to the Far East aboard a troop carrier,.
He first released " Too Far to Turn Around " in 1960 as part of The Upfronts before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.
The primary purpose of the development commission was to secure Hokkaido before the Russians extended their control of the Far East beyond Vladivostok.
Far to the west of Khazad-dûm, the great dwarven cities of Belegost and Nogrod were founded in Ered Luin ( The Blue Mountains ) during the First Age, before the arrival of the Elves in Beleriand.
In 1920, Chita became the capital of the Far East Republic, which merged with Russia in November 1922, a month before the Soviet Union was constituted.
The first Braathens SAFE flight was to the Far East started on 24 February from Oslo, with landings at Amsterdam, Marseille, Cairo, Basra, Karachi, Culcutta and Bangkok before Hong Kong, where Norske Skyfarer landed on 8 March.
He served in Borneo during the Indonesia – Malaysia confrontation and the Persian Gulf before Special Forces training in 1965, after which he joined the elite Special Boat Service and commanded a Special Boat Section in the Far East.
However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.
Following Japan's surrender, Hirota was arrested as a Class A war criminal and brought before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
: Far different there from all that charm'd before,
For the first decade of its existence, before Far Eastern auto manufacturers had established their reputations, its cars carried the " Colt " badge in Britain instead of " Mitsubishi ".
Far from being a one-sided victory, in a military sense the Flagstaff War can be considered an inconclusive stalemate, as both sides wished the war to end, both gained somewhat from the fighting, and the situation more or less remained the same as it was before the outbreak of hostilities.
In 1964 he joined The New York Times and worked the city desk for a while before returning to the Far East, first to Indonesia and then to spend another year in Vietnam.
In the Far West settlers began to occupy land in Oregon and California before the federal government secured title from the native tribes, causing considerable friction.
The mastermind of the plan, Doihara, was later prosecuted and convicted for war crimes before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, sentenced to death ; but no actions ever took place against the company which profited from their production.
Far rarer is a play in which the runner attempts to advance before the outfielder catches the fly ball.
On September 14, 1942 — three years before the end of World War II — Reischauer, then an instructor in Far Eastern languages at Harvard University, wrote the " Memorandum on Policy towards Japan " which laid out a plan on how the United States can attain its post-war objective of " winning the peace " in Asia.
The Committee found that " Far from being dignified, the practice of kneeling to the Lord Chancellor is particularly awkward because the new peer, wearing robes, simply kneels down on the floor with nothing to lean on for support see no need to retain the act of kneeling before the Lord Chancellor.
During his trial before the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.
After the surrender of Japan, he was arrested by the Allied occupation authorities and tried before the International Military Tribunal of the Far East as a Class A war criminal together with other members of the Manchurian administration responsible for the Japanese policies there.
After the end of the conflict in Europe, the division was shipped to the United States to stage there before it was to participate in the planned invasion of Japan, but the conflict in the Far East ended before it was required and it remained in the United States.

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