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During 1990, the Lynx had moderate sales but Nintendo's Game Boy continued to gain market share.
He first came to prominence for his fight in 1986 with noted Wing Chun practitioner William Cheung, and he continued to gain attention in the 1990s with a public challenge of the Gracie family.
In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.
He tried to gain, by his continued correspondence with Luther and other reformers such as Urbanus Rhegius, efficient men for the preaching of the gospel and for the organization of the evangelical church.
Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.
Miyazaki continued to gain recognition with his next three films.
The previous battles had largely been caused by attempts to destroy castles and sea trade routes and gain economic advantage in the region, and the crusade basically continued this pattern of conflict, albeit now inspired and prescribed by the Pope and undertaken by Papal knights and armed monks.
Even after June 1940, official connections between Opel and America were not broken and monetary gain continued throughout the war which was controlled by the J. P Morgan firm, the Rüsselsheim plant was never given a major role in Germany's war preparations.
Sparta continued strategies like this to gain other allies in their league.
The Shah's army continued its strategy of avoiding the Ottomans, leading to a stalemate from which neither army made any significant gain.
Three LGAs in outer metropolitan Sydney have populations exceeding that of towns or municipalities, but retain significant bushlands and / or semi-rural areas, have continued to use the title of ' Shire ', possibly due to community demand or popularity, or for financial and socio-political gain.
Under the leadership of Damar, the Cardassian Union, along with the Dominion, continued to gain ground over the Klingon-Federation alliance, and even after Benjamin Sisko and Elim Garak tricked the Romulans into breaking their nonaggression treaty with the Dominion and joining the alliance (" In the Pale Moonlight ") they still managed to keep the upper hand.
Cromwell continued to gain the king's favour when he designed and pushed through the Laws in Wales Acts, uniting England and Wales.
La bohème continued to gain international popularity throughout the early 20th century and the Opéra-Comique alone had already presented the opera one hundred times by 1903.
In 1403 the university forbade its members to follow the teachings of Wycliffe, but his doctrine continued to gain in popularity.
The quarrels between the brothers and their continued attempts to gain control over the Albertinian territories led to civil war-like conditions.
According to the national newspaper, the Kuensel, the previous King stated to his cabinet that " as long as he himself continued to be King, the Crown Prince would not gain the actual experience of dealing with issues and carrying out the responsibilities of a head of state.
She continued to gain experience with minor television appearances, and after she auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Liesl in the film version of The Sound of Music, Ransohoff gave Tate walk-on roles in two motion pictures in which he was producer: The Americanization of Emily and The Sandpiper.
A number of important public works undertaken between 1667 and 1670, such as the Citadel ( erected by Vauban ), or the creation of the quartiers of Saint-André and la Madeleine, enabled the King to gradually gain the confidence of his Lille subjects, some of whom continued to feel Flemish, though they had always spoken the Romance Picard language.
LVF members who continued violent activity were said to do so " for personal gain " and only associated with the organisation at large when it was helpful to do so.
In the post-war period, coal mining continued to gain importance.
By the end of the year the military was experiencing equipment shortages as a result of decreased American aid, while communist forces continued to gain strength.
Despite hostile reviews from critics, Stone Temple Pilots continued to gain fans.
House of Leaves, Danielewski's innovative first novel, has continued to gain a global cult following and won numerous awards, including the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.
The town continued to gain in power and prestige during the 13th and 14th centuries.

continued and good
With the Ambassador as headquarters, she continued to promote good will abroad.
much of it has continued to be used over the years and the heart of it -- good guys and bad guys in the old West -- pretty well dominated television toward the end of the 1950's.
B continued to see use as late as the 1990s on Honeywell mainframes, and on certain embedded systems for a variety of reasons, including limited hardware in the small systems ; extensive libraries, tools, licensing cost issues ; and simply being good enough for the job on others.
It said: " We firmly believe that this law, which Congress passed to protect good order, discipline and morale in the unique environment of the armed forces, deserves continued support.
He gathered disciples and searched in vain for a ruler who would adopt his ideals for good governance, but his Analects were written down by followers and have continued to influence education in the East into the modern era.
Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.
Haiti's economic stagnation results from earlier inappropriate economic policies, political instability, a shortage of good arable land, environmental deterioration, continued use of traditional technologies, under-capitalization and lack of public investment in human resources, migration of large portions of the skilled population, and a weak national savings rate.
Since the inauguration of the democratically elected Obasanjo government, the bilateral relationship has continued to improve, and cooperation on many important foreign policy goals, such as regional peacekeeping, has been good.
An important distinction is that, while republicanism continued to stress the importance of civic virtue and the common good, liberalism was based on economics and individualism.
The good times continued to fade out as Winfield signed a 10-year contract with the New York Yankees after the 1980 season.
Instead, the ruined city of Frankfurt continued as if nothing had happened, holding on to ideas of the true, the beautiful, and the good despite the atrocities, hanging on to a culture that had itself been lost in rubble or killed off in the concentration camps.
However, The Band continued to tour and record albums until the death of Rick Danko in 1999, when the group broke up for good.
Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.
Padmore, a Trinidadian living in London, believed Wright to be a good friend, as his many letters in the Wright papers at Yale's Beinecke Library attest, and their correspondence continued.
He continued to improve his education by taking further courses, passing an examination giving him the permission to also teach in higher education institutes, receiving the grade " very good " in all disciplines.
As grazing animals, good dentition is essential to survival, and continued grazing creates specific patterns of wear, which can be used along with patterns of eruption to estimate the age of the horse.
After receiving provisions from the Hungarian king, the armies continued the march to the East ( the good relationships between both kingdoms continued flourishing, and decades later Louis's daughter Margaret was taken as wife by Géza's son Béla III of Hungary ).
: During the fighting the King Louis lost his small and famous royal guard, but he remained in good heart and nimbly and courageously scaled the side of the mountain by gripping the tree roots … The enemy climbed after him, hoping to capture him, and the enemy in the distance continued to fire arrows at him.
His victory and that of Broglie disposed Maria Theresa to cede Silesia in order to make good her position elsewhere, and the separate peace between Prussia and Austria, signed at Breslau on 11 June, closed the First Silesian War, but the War of the Austrian Succession continued.
The border between the two portions of the island continued to be modified periodically, before being set for good in 1816.
This process continued under Nikita Khrushchev, who called for construction under the slogan " good, cheaper and built faster ".
Consequentially the paper opposed Macmillan s government s re-election in 1959, complaining: " The continued Conservative pretence that Suez was a good, a noble, a wise venture has been too much to stomach … the Government is taking its stand on a solid principle: ' Never admit a mistake.
Messianic believers cite the cutting off of Paul s hair at Cenchrea because of a vow he had taken ( Acts 18: 18 ), references in passing to him observing the Jewish holidays, and his consistent good standing with his Rabbinic master Gamaliel, to show that he was wholly in continued observance of the laws and traditions of Judaism.
He continued to lecture and to write with freshness and vigour, and on his 90th birthday received from all parts of Germany good wishes and tokens of affection.

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