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Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
the two youngest in our family always had to be brought in and put through tricks for his entertainment.
Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, " and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore ; but the goddess saved us ; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils.
1000 and 1500 are regularly encountered as jury sizes and on at least one occasion, the first time a new kind of case was brought to court ( see graphē paranómōn ), all 6, 000 members of the jury pool were put onto the one case.
This was achieved by the insertion of the words ' and oblations ' into the prayer for the Church and the revision of the rubric so as to require the monetary offerings to be brought to the Table ( instead of being put in the poor box ) and the bread and wine placed upon the Table.
Heracles ' servant, Lichas, brought him the shirt and he put it on.
A later tradition called him Beauclerc for his scholarly interests — he could read Latin and put his learning to effective use — and Lion of Justice for refinements which he brought about in the royal administration, which he rendered the most effective in Europe, rationalizing the itinerant court, and his public espousal of the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.
Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait.
The rebellion was soon put down ; Khusraw was brought before his father in chains.
Weyl brought the early period of the development of the theory of Lie groups to fruition, for not only did he classify irreducible representations of semisimple Lie groups and connect the theory of groups with quantum mechanics, but he also put Lie's theory itself on firmer footing by clearly enunciating the distinction between Lie's infinitesimal groups ( i. e., Lie algebras ) and the Lie groups proper, and began investigations of topology of Lie groups ( Borel ( 2001 ), ).
The wigs at The Australian Museum were later confused with some brought out of the Highlands 10 years afterwards by Jim Taylor during his Hagen – Sepik patrol, and wrongly attributed to him when put on display.
In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb was brought in to remove the open roof, put in a flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above.
The Soviets, with no effective bomber force of their own, put considerable effort into their program and quickly brought their basic R-7 Semyorka system into operation in 1959.
It was coined by Tertullian in his work Adversus Praxeas, Chapter I, " By this Praxeas did a twofold service for the devil at Rome: he drove away prophecy, and he brought in heresy ; he put to flight the Paraclete, and he crucified the Father.
In Polish, a word / phrase can be brought to the front or, less commonly, put to the back of a sentence or clause to add emphasis e. g. " Roweru ci nie kupię " ( I won't buy you a bicycle ), " Od piątej czekam " ( I've been waiting since five ).
In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and then one was moved away and brought back, the clock which had undergone the traveling would be found to be lagging behind the clock which had stayed put.
Adlai Stevenson, then the US ambassador to the United Nations, was quoted as saying, " Now that the Soviet scientists have put a man into space and brought him back alive, I hope they will also help to bring the United Nations back alive ," and on a more serious note urged international agreements covering the use of space ( which did not occur until the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ).
My arms are like the twisted thornAnd yet there beauty lay ; The first of all the tribe lay thereAnd did such pleasure take ; She who had brought great Hector downAnd put all Troy to wreck.
However, what really put Warner Bros. on the Hollywood map was a dog, Rin Tin Tin, brought from France after World War I by an American soldier.
He called his leg break a " leg-tweeker " but he put very little break on the ball, just enough to bring it across from the batsman's legs to the wicket and he invariably posted a fielder in a strategic position on the square leg boundary, a trap which brought occasional success.
" He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.
" The phrase due process of law first appeared in a statutory rendition of Magna Carta in A. D. 1354 during the reign of Edward III of England, as follows: " No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law.

brought and down
She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.
He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.
Argiento made him lie down on the bed, brought a pan of hot water, dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter.
`` My nephews will be coming down '', she said that evening as Angelina brought her dinner into the dining room, the whole meal on a vast linen-covered tray.
`` Um '', said the old lady, and brought her eyes down to the tray.
Strangely enough, this always brought the house down.
The knifelike pain in his groin nearly brought him down again.
He came into the bag with his body and Mike Deegan brought the ball down full in his face.
Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, who had worked as a lead engineer on multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineering staff to work for AMD as DEC wound down their semiconductor business, and brought in a near-complete team of engineering experts.
Seeing them, she collapses, and the curtain is brought down.
In Ramillies the Allied infantry, now reinforced by the English troops brought down from the north, at last broke through.
Back in Afghanistan he helped topple the Najibullah government, and he became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of the men who brought down the communist government.
Conquérant was defeated more rapidly, after heavy broadsides from passing British ships and the close attentions of Audacious and Goliath brought down all three masts before 19: 00.
His land forces which had been in Armenia were brought down to the coast of Asia, and embarked under L. Canidius Crassus.
It is usually brought in by the cook, generally while a piper plays bagpipes and leads the way to the host's table, where the haggis is laid down.
The specter of having such laws suddenly brought down upon a business provides incentive to stay in the good graces of political officials.
Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery.
In 1956, the " Essentials of an Adequate Diet " brought recommendations which cut seven down to four groups that school children would learn about for decades.
M * A * S * H would be toned down and brought to television in the following decade as a long-running series.
This appeared to be confirmed by the exploration of the deep sea beds conducted by the Challenger expedition, 1872-6, which showed that contrary to expectation, land debris brought down by rivers to the ocean is deposited comparatively close to the shore in what is now known as the continental shelf.
After he became Emperor, Caligula claimed to have planned to kill Tiberius with a dagger in order to avenge his mother and brother: however, having brought the weapon into Tiberius's bedroom he did not kill the Emperor but instead threw the dagger down on the floor.

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