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briefly and entertained
Displeased with playing " heavies ", Valentino briefly entertained the idea of returning to New York permanently.
After a fierce but losing battle, Snoopy makes his way across the countryside to briefly crash the Halloween party, where he is entertained by Schroeder's playing of World War I tunes on his piano, and then goes to the pumpkin patch.
Palmer was replaced by Howard Browne in 1949, who briefly entertained plans of taking Amazing upmarket.
Even the Republic of Venice briefly entertained the idea of setting up Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, the brother-in-law of England's King Edward IV ( who was secretly negotiating a marriage to the Scottish princess Cecilia on Anthony's behalf ), as a claimant by purchasing the rights of former Cypriot queens Charlotte and Catarina Cornaro.
He organized the region's chickpea farmers in a producer's league and briefly entertained the idea of going to France to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One.
" Her reply to what she wanted to do after her husband left office was " return to Independence " although she had briefly entertained the thought of living in Washington after 1953.
After secondary school, he briefly attended the seminary and entertained the idea of a possible indoctrination into the priesthood, per ancestral tradition, but reneged on his obligation shortly thereafter.
Goodman briefly entertained challenging presidential son Jack Carter for the Democratic nomination to run against incumbent Republican U. S. Senator John Ensign in 2006.
As his Census obligations diminished in 1872, Walker reconsidered becoming an editorialist and even briefly entertained the idea of becoming a shoe manufacturer with his brother-in-law back in North Brookfield.
A political reading cannot be simply dismissed though since Beckett himself “ briefly entertained making each character wear a tarboosh, fezlike headgear associated with Armenians .” Even today “

briefly and hope
The family moved briefly to Mobberley, with the hope that country air would help his condition.
In 1573 Hisahide briefly allied with the Miyoshi, but when the hope for successes were not achieved he returned to Nobunaga to fight the Miyoshi.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd-this series cannot be considered a success, with Ennis himself saying that there is " not a hope " to return to writing Dredd as he was generally not happy with his run.
This information briefly gives Shayera an ecstatic feeling of hope.
It was the winning 64k intro from Farbrausch, FR-08:. the. product, that briefly drew demoscene attention back to The Party and gave the organizers enough hope to declare the next party's motto " Back To The Roots ".
An overwhelming 7-1 hammering of Kansas in mid-July briefly gave the Rapids hope that a playoff spot may be possible, but three ties in their final three games, including a disappointing 0-0 against BYU Cougars on the last day of the season sent the Rapids home empty-handed.

briefly and British
After the end of the war the islands briefly returned to British control, before becoming part of the newly independent state of India.
Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.
The most-southerly British ship, Majestic, had become briefly entangled with the 80-gun Tonnant, and in the resulting battle, suffered heavy casualties.
Although briefly outmatched, the British ships were soon joined by Goliath and Theseus.
* Captain Boomer, a British whaling ship captain who appears briefly in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century ; it was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire and the fifth largest in Europe.
He briefly took private lessons from the great British phonetician Henry Sweet.
During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.
After briefly opposing Revolutionary France early in the French Revolutionary Wars, Spain was cajoled into an uneasy alliance with its northern neighbor, only to be blockaded by the British.
Genscher briefly became an American and British prisoner of war.
He served briefly as the commander of British forces in Saint-Domingue ( Haiti ).
British Army troops, part of Middle East Command and comprising 25th Armoured Brigade and briefly 10th Armoured Division, were still present after independence and stayed in Libya until at least 1957.
Labour briefly regained their lead of most opinion polls in early 1982, but when the Falklands conflict ended on 14 June 1982 with a British victory over Argentina, opinion polls showed the Tories firmly in the lead.
The Loyalists exodus created new communities across Nova Scotia, including Shelburne, which briefly one of the larger British settlements in North America, and infused the province with additional capital and skills.
The British and French briefly united to massacre the local Kalinago ( preempting a Kalinago plan to massacre the Europeans ), and then partitioned the island, with the English in the middle and the French on either end.
On 8 and 9 September the French fleet at times gained the advantage of the wind, and briefly threatened the British with renewed action.
The Boys also briefly held St. John's in Québec, but retreated on word of arriving British regulars.
Italian East Africa was briefly enlarged in 1940, as Italian forces conquered British Somaliland, thereby bringing all Somali territories under Italian administration.
In August 1779, Point du Sable was arrested at Trail Creek by the British and imprisoned briefly at Fort Michilimackinac on suspicion of being a spy for the United States who had helped George Rogers Clark in his capture of Vincennes.
In 2009, British rock band Feeder briefly changed their name to Renegades so they could play a whole show featuring a setlist in which 95 percent of the songs played were from their forthcoming new album of the same name, with none of their singles included.
It is also mentioned briefly in the British script of We Will Rock You, a stage musical written by the two remaining members of Queen using their selections of their music.
In 1794, during a war with Revolutionary France, British troops under Admiral Nelson and Lieutenant-General David Dundas briefly captured Bastia.
The following year, British runner Paula Radcliffe set the women's world record in 2: 15: 25 ( later briefly downgraded to " world best " by the IAAF as it was achieved in a mixed race, but restored to the title of " world Record " shortly thereafter ).

briefly and war
The war of Clovis with the Alemanni forms the setting for the conversion of Clovis, briefly treated by Gregory of Tours ( Book II. 31 ) Subsequently the Alemanni formed part of the Frankish dominions and were governed by a Frankish duke.
The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.
Two coups briefly interrupted democratic rule during the Peloponnesian war, both named by the numbers in control: the Four Hundred in 411 BC and the Thirty in 404 BC.
The French government relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands ( as in 1870 during war against Prussia and at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war ).
He went to Neodesha, Kansas, and stayed briefly with Richard Thatcher, whom he had met when they were both prisoners of war.
Following the war, Japanese conservatives briefly returned to politics but were largely purged from public office.
Furthermore, Eritrea's diplomatic relations with Djibouti were briefly severed during the border war with Ethiopia in 1998 due to a dispute over Djibouti's intimate relation with Ethiopia during the war but were restored and normalized in 2000.
Some of the internees of European descent were interned only briefly, and others were held for several years beyond the end of the war.
He was a highly decorated soldier and was briefly taken prisoner by the Italians as a prisoner of war in 1918.
Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821 ; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire and then for a period belonged to a federation called The United Provinces of Central America, until the federation broke up in civil war in 1838 – 1840 ( See: History of Central America ).
Magneto and his Acolytes managed to reestablish a modicum of peace and stability only briefly until civil war broke out between him and the remaining human population on the island led by the Magistrates.
During and after the German occupation Hergé was accused of being a collaborator because of the Nazi control of the paper (), and he was briefly taken in for interrogation after the war.
After the war, Cade recuperated very briefly in Heidelberg Hospital, then took up a position at Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital in Melbourne.
In Switzerland, Trotsky briefly worked within the Swiss Socialist Party, prompting it to adopt an internationalist resolution, and wrote a book against the war, The War and the International.
After the war he worked briefly in Sweden, learning enough Swedish to communicate with scholars in it.
In August 1940, the Soviet Union briefly suspended its deliveries under their commercial agreement after their relations were strained following disagreement over policy in Romania, the Soviet war with Finland, Germany falling behind in its deliveries of goods under the pact and with Stalin worried that Hitler's war with the West might end quickly after France signed an armistice.
From its foundation Rome, although losing occasional battles, had been undefeated in war until 386 BC, when it was briefly occupied by the Gauls.
During the alliance with the Federation during the Dominion War, Romulan ale was briefly legalized, even though it was later outlawed again after the war, as stated by Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: Nemesis.
The scheme of amphibious raids was the only one of Pitt's policies during the war that was broadly a failure, although it did help briefly relieve pressure on the German front by trying down French troops on coastal protection service.
The IWW continued illegally operating with the aim of freeing its class war prisoners and briefly fused with two other radical tendencies – from the old Socialist parties and Trades Halls – to form a larval communist party at the suggestion of the militant revolutionist and Council Communist Adela Pankhurst.

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