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For centuries, Verdun had played an important role in the defense of its hinterland, due to the city's strategic location on the Meuse River.
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For centuries the North Atlantic nations dominated the world and as long as they did they could afford the luxury of fighting each other.
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For centuries it was the location of historic festivals and open-air sports events.
For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods.
For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, many linguists who studied Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic regarded them as members of a common Ural – Altaic family, together with Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, based on such shared features as vowel harmony and agglutination.
For centuries after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in 331 BCE, Imperial Aramaic — or near enough for it to be recognisable — would remain an influence on the various native Iranian languages.
For many centuries following his death Alboin's heroism and his success in battle were celebrated in Saxon and Bavarian epic poetry.
For instance, the local charter of the Basque-colonized Ojacastro valley ( now in La Rioja ) allowed the inhabitants to use Basque in legal processes in the 13th and 14th centuries.
For centuries, Psovoi could not be purchased but only given as gifts from the Tsar.
For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".
For the next four centuries, the Kingdom of Croatia was ruled by the Sabor ( parliament ) and a Ban ( viceroy ) appointed by the king.
For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.
For several centuries in some of the greater monasteries the two rules were observed conjointly.
For centuries, through the modern times, the majority regarded Cagots of western France and northern Spain as an inferior caste, the untouchables.
For centuries, the priestly caste had remained an unmixed social group.
For example, a continuous chain of speakers across the centuries links Vulgar Latin to all of its modern descendants.
For the first time in centuries, the lake was a homogeneous body of water.
For the upper class of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, diplomatic immunity was an easy concept to understand.
For centuries, Dominicans have been instrumental in spreading the rosary and emphasizing the Catholic belief in the power of the rosary.
For centuries Egyptians attempted to predict and take advantage of these flows and thereby moderate the severity of floods.
For centuries sweetwater artesian wells in the Fayyum Oasis have permitted extensive cultivation in an irrigated area that extends over.
For centuries, many philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of knowing how common they were or how similar they might be to the planets of the Solar System.
For centuries it was stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen but in 1971 it was returned to Iceland.
For centuries some Western Latin Bibles used to contain a small Epistle from Paul to the Laodiceans.
For many centuries the Enchiridion was regarded as a suitable manual of practical philosophy, maintaining its authority both with Christians and Pagans.
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For the first eight years of his life, Jarre spent six months of each year at his grandparents ' flat along the Cours de Verdun, in the Perrache district of Lyon.
For instance, Elsa, the German widow, shows photos to Maréchal and Rosenthal of her husband and her brothers who were killed, respectively, at the battles of Verdun, Liège, Charleroi, and Tannenberg.
For Forester, to understand Herbert Curzon's simple courage and determination to do his duty is to understand how men like Curzon, who were not by nature evil, were led to order the cream of their country's manhood to sacrifice themselves in the pointless bloody slaughter of the Somme or Verdun or Gallipoli.
" Flying For France: With The American Escadrille At Verdun ".
For the 1994 – 95 QMJHL season the team was renamed Laval Titan Collège Français, when the Collège Français came aboard as a sponsor, bring some of its management when the Verdun Collège Français folded in the off-season.
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For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.
For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.
For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.
For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.
For three days, their stolid oxen had plodded up a blazing valley as flat and featureless as a dead sea.
For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.
For the President had dealt with the matter humbly, in what he conceived as the democratic way.
For the tone of the editorials which greeted Mr. Eisenhower's original announcement of his running had been strangely disquieting.
When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??
For some time, despondency in some Northern quarters had been displayed in two ways -- an eagerness for peace and a dissatisfaction with Lincoln.
For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.
For years Papa and Mama had been large taxpayers.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.
For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.
`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.
For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.
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