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Having and tried
:” Having tried this theory for four years and having then abandoned it.
# Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Having tried script-writing at one stage in his career, he saw movie-making as a completely different discipline from novel writing and decided to stick with what he knew.
Having secured the village of Oldbridge, some Williamite infantry tried to hold off successive cavalry attacks with disciplined volley fire, but were scattered and driven into the river, with the exception of the Blue Guards.
Having played some matches for the Leicestershire Second XI the previous summer, Gower tried his luck at the club as a professional for the remainder of the year, for £ 25 per week.
Having acquired a camera at age 16, he tried his hand at documentary films before making his first notable short, L ' Amour existe, in 1960.
Having tried unsuccessfully the White Rabbit and Pat begin throwing berries at her which turn into cakes that causes her to shrink back to size.
Having been a member of the court which tried Charles I the viscount was deprived of his honours and was sentenced to imprisonment for life in 1661.
Having tried unsuccessfully to regain the fortresses in 1485, he concluded a peace with the sultan and agreed to pay tribute to him.
* Having tried " to recover myth outside the books ," the hidalgo crosses paths with common sense, everyday toils, and the religious dictates of the Counter-Reformation on a journey that tries to rescue chivalric etceteras of old.
Having spent her family's fortune on intelligence activities during the war, she tried in vain to be reimbursed by the federal government.
Having had outstanding successes in North America, Fine tried his first European individual international tournament at Łódź 1935, where he shared 2nd-3rd places with 6 / 9 behind Savielly Tartakower.
Having learned that it was theoretically possible to transfer the Star Brand into an object, Connell flew above his home town of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and tried to transfer the brand into a barbell.
Having tried out various stage names, he settled on Vic Reeves and began a show called Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out at The Goldsmiths Tavern.
Having returned to the Netherlands, his family tried to dissuade him from studying music, and he enrolled at the Delft Polytechnical Institute ( later the Technical University ).
Having unsuccessfully tried to get one of the planets orbiting the pulsar in the constellation Virgo named after Zappa, Scialli was lucky enough in early 1994 to find an enthusiastic supporter in the person of Dr. Brian Marsden at the Minor Planet Center near Boston, Massachusetts, who was involved in the IAU Committee for naming celestial objects.
Having participated in an 1854 military revolt against long-time dictator Manuel Belzu, Melgarejo was tried for treason but pardoned, as he had begged for his life and blamed alcohol for his participation in the ill-fated coup.
Having learned the of the fall of the Singhasari capital of Kutaraja due to Kediri's treachery, Raden Wijaya tried to defend Singhasari but failed.
Having emigrated to the United States, Ellis was tried by another Young Irelanders leader, Terence MacManus, at a lynch court in San Francisco for the betrayal of O ' Brien.
Having been depleted of trained manpower by the exit of the British, Pillai tried to run the bureau on MI5 lines.
Having tried to register a number of more conventional company-names and having them rejected as already taken, the founders decided to deliberately create an unusual name in order to ensure that the name was accepted.
Having been a Liberal deputy during the 1917 conscription crisis, Lapointe knew how much a new crisis like the last one would destroy the national unity that Mackenzie King had tried to build since 1921.
* Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Having largely succeeded in Ulster, O ' Neill, along with Rory O ' Moore, then tried to march on Dublin, defeating a government force at Julianstown, but failed in the Siege of Drogheda 1641.

Having and resist
# Having been drawn and enabled, but prior to regeneration, one is able to believe … able also to resist.
Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.
* Double-coated: Having a thick, warm, short undercoat ( or down ) that is usually dense enough to resist penetration by water and a stronger, rougher weather-resistant outer coat ( topcoat ), also referred to as guard hairs.
Having made this critique of social theory, Unger's key task was to reconstruct social theory in a way that would resist the typologies and the necessitarian nature of conventional deep-structure social theory, and to avoid the failure of the positive social sciences to explain the world.

Having and British
* 1900 Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.
Having taught languages for 13 years, he changed his field of specialisation to linguistics, and developed systemic functional linguistics, including systemic functional grammar, elaborating on the foundations laid by his British teacher J. R. Firth and a group of European linguists of the early 20th century, the Prague school.
Having noted that the island was still uninhabited, he was presumably the less inclined to risk a landing when there was no British settlement there to report on.
Having concern over potential British military involvement in the war, on June 15, 1881, Blaine stressed that the conflict be resolved by consent of the Latin American countries involved and that the Peruvian government pay Chile an indemnity rather than cede the contested land.
Having crossed two miles of mud, the Eingreif divisions found the British already established along a new defence line, with the forward battlezone and its weak garrison gone beyond recapture.
Having captured Louisbourg in 1758, the British sailed up to Quebec the following year thanks to charts drawn up by James Cook.
Having already been made president of the anthropological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911, after the war he became president of the English Folk-Lore Society ( 1920 ), and the Royal Anthropological Institute ( 1921 1922 ).
Having become Sirdar of the Egyptian Army in 1892-with the rank of brigadier-general and then major-general in the British Army — in 1896 he led his British and Egyptian forces up the Nile, building a railway to supply arms and reinforcements, and defeating the Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, near Khartoum.
Having prophesied the end of the British monarchy, he was imprisoned in an asylum for the criminally insane.
Having acquired the centerpiece of the room, Whistler's painting of The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, American industrialist and aesthete Charles Lang Freer purchased the entire room in 1904 from Leyland's heirs, including Leyland's daughter and her husband, the British artist Val Prinsep.
Having survived the encounter with Sherlock Holmes, he went on to become the head of British Intelligence under the code-name " M " ( a nod to the James Bond novels and films ), but still maintained his criminal interests.
Having honoured the last requests of his brother Bendigeidfran, by burying his head facing France so as to ward off invasion, the usurped British king Manawydan accompanies Pryderi to Dyfed where the latter is reunited with his wife Cigfa.
It is also possible that the tradition of an " apple " island among the British was influenced by Irish legends concerning the otherworld island home of Manannán mac Lir and Lugh, Emain Ablach ( also the Old Irish poetic name for the Isle of Man ), where Ablach means " Having Apple Trees " derived from Old Irish aball (" apple ")— and is similar to the Middle Welsh name Afallach, which was used to replace the name Avalon in medieval Welsh translations of French and Latin Arthurian tales ).
Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.
Having been excluded from known sea routes to the orient, which were based in European trade, the early French and British explorers in the area searched for the mythic water route known as the Northwest Passage through North America to the Pacific Ocean.
Having amassed an army of over 7, 000 troops in Quebec, Burgoyne was also led to believe by reports that he could rely on the support of large numbers of Native Americans and American Loyalists who would rally to the flag once the British came south.
Having shared antecedents with the British shooting-brake ( originally a wooden-bodied vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game ), station wagons have been marketed as breaks, using the French term ( which is sometimes given fully as break de chasse, literally " hunting break.
Having filmed Michael Winner's The Wicked Lady ( 1983 ), Elliott was quoted in a BBC Radio interview as saying that he and Marc Sinden " are the only two British actors I am aware of who have ever worked with Winner more than once and it certainly wasn't for love.
Having thus founded the Empire of British India, Clive sought to put in place a strong administration.
Having influenced the development of power pop from the beginning, British rock group The Kinks made several well-received songs in the style in their 1984 album Word of Mouth, such as " Do It Again ".
" Having relinquished his British citizenship during World War II, he could not be called " Sir Alistair ".
Having previously operated its British Empire export assembly plant at Walkerville, Ontario, Studebaker settled on Hamilton as a post-war Canadian manufacturing site because of the city's centrality to the Canadian steel industry.

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