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The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.
Miss Xydis was best when she did not need to be too probing.
One did one's best and if fortune smiled, there was a reward.
One did one's best and if fortune frowned, an eighteen-year-old boy with murder in his heart sailed aboard one's ship.
It wasn't Johnnie's fault that he was hopelessly tied down to that frightful woman who did her best to make his life unbearable.
This clump was the best on the island, planted near a water seep, but the dry climate and sea birds, eager for anything upon which to perch, did not give the trees or shrubs much of a chance to survive.
Although the " self-important rhetoric and whines of persecution " on the part of cyberpunk fans were irritating at worst and humorous at best, Brin declares that the " rebels did shake things up.
Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.
Earnhardt still made the trip to the annual Awards Banquet with Rusty Wallace but did not have the best seat in the house.
But in spite of the best efforts of Atchison and the Ruffians, Kansas did reject slavery and finally became a free state in 1861.
Knowing what he did was best for his country, but the tense posture of his feet and toes reveals his inner turmoil.
Disappointed at not being able to stay at Berkeley, Sapir devoted his best efforts to other work, and did not get around to write up any of the Yana material for publication until 1910, to Kroeber's deep disappointment.
Plato did not believe most people were clever enough to look after their own and society's best interest, so the few " clever " people of the world needed to lead the rest of the flock.
Once all the best evidence is assessed, treatment is categorized as " likely to be beneficial ", " likely to be harmful ", or " evidence did not support either benefit or harm ".
Although D. W. Griffith did not invent any new film techniques, he was the best film director working up to 1913, and this was because he made better dramatic and artistic use of the medium than other directors.
However, while in power it did not institute a fascist or Falangist-modeled regime and despite maintaining armed militias is today perhaps best described as Christian democrat in ideology.
The relationship made it much easier for the newcomer to make her first film, and Bogart did his best to put her at ease by joking with her and quietly coaching her.
Howard Hawks, for his part, also did his best to boost her performance and her role, and found Bogart easy to direct.
The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle.
The monozygotic twins twins also chose spouses and best friends who were more similar to their co-twins ' friends and spouses than did dizygotic twins.
But for the most part, even those diplomats who did not entirely agree with the Nazis were still inclined to serve the regime as the best way of serving Germany.
Ribbentrop's habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process, did immense damage to his reputation in British high society.
On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.
For the most part, veterans did not participate in national politics, believing that their aspirations could best be achieved within the confines of colonial society.
The Royals finished the 1989 season with a 92 – 70 record ( third best in the major leagues ) but did not qualify for the playoffs.

did and rally
Davis did not use his presidential pulpit to rally the people with stirring rhetoric ; he called instead for people to be fatalistic and to die for their new country.
She did agree to return to the 1935 rally and make a film exclusively about the Wehrmacht, which became Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht.
Nothing did more to escalate the tensions than the speech he delivered to a rally in Des Moines, Iowa on September 11, 1941.
She did not, but instead gave a nomination speech that was effectively a concession, urging her followers to rally around Martin as party leader after the vote.
Livingstone witnessed the devastation and suffering caused by the slave trade in the area to the north and east of Mweru, and his accounts did help rally opposition to it.
The letter, while unable to bring aid to the garrison at the Alamo, did much to motivate the Texan army and helped to rally support in America for the cause of Texan independence.
Although the rally did not get out of hand, New York City police and National Guardsmen eventually charged the crowd with billy clubs, later claiming that the rally was not being held in a peaceful manner.
The above improvements were aimed at, and did change, the cars ' handling potential, with the new car being able to travel 5 – 6 % faster over rally sections both tarmac and gravel.
The 2nd Conference of the BSP of May 1913 did not resolve the fundamental question facing the party — the decision as to whether it should pursue a policy of anti-militarist internationalism, come what may, or whether it should rally around the flag in the event of military conflict with foreign enemies.
did the same thing again for an emergency rally in November 2004 called by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Even after the introduction of the electronic calculator for other purposes, they were used in time-speed-distance ( TSD ) rallies to aid in computation of times to checkpoints, distances off-course and so on, since the early electronic calculators did not fare well with the bounces and jolts of rally racing.
In fact, the left communist currents had no connection with the rebellion-although they did rally to its support when they learned of it.
For example, the 2006 rally included a 1983 BMW 732i which appeared to be incapable of making it out of England but in fact did complete the course ; a Fiat Uno which performed fantastically and even pushed the previously mentioned BMW up a mountain ; some Renault 19s and a VW Beetle.
She said that she didn't have to report the money, and that she had been cleared, explaining the rally was to protest the reorganization of her district lines, and she did not use it for herself.
Subaru and Kankkunen did not reach a deal for 2001, and Kankkunen ended up competing in only one world rally during the season, the Rally Finland for the Hyundai factory team.
When the nobles were told the extent of the debt, they were shocked ; however, the shock did not motivate them to rally behind the plan – but to reject it.
The initial reaction in the United States was to rally against Britain, threatening war ; but President Abraham Lincoln and his top advisors did not want to risk war.
It dominated all other makes in FIA rally competition, due to the performance of the full-time AWD, which did not require the driver to get out of the vehicle to lock hubs or manually select between 2WD and 4WD modes in the car like other American four-wheel-drive vehicles of the period.
However, a late rally did see them finish third on 51 points from their 36 games.
At a second rally, which took place at Laurel Shopping Center, 16 miles away in Laurel, Maryland, there was minor heckling early on but it did not last.
The Panthers did however rally after that loss and once again qualified for the NRL semi-final series by finishing fourth and defeating St George Illawarra in the first week of the semi-finals before being knocked out by the Bulldogs in the Grand Final qualifier two weeks later.
While only 13 of the 29 competing cars finished the rally, all seven 500s did, establishing the car's credentials as a capable all-round car. Fiat 500 World Expedition from Australia
His earlier writings did occasionally embrace popular ideas about racial superiority ; he clung to his prominent national positions during the Nazi period, and he took part in war propaganda, including the Berlin rally near the war's end.

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