By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

In 1087 the Pechenegs raided into Thrace and Alexios crossed into Moesia to retaliate but failed to take Dorostolon ( Silistra ).

After a failed Ottoman counter-attack in the Western-Thracian front, Bulgarian forces with the help of the Serbian Army managed to conquer Adrianople while Greek forces managed to take Ioannina after defeating the Ottomans in the battle of Bizani.

The third, made up of some 600 men, managed to land in Cuba and take the central city of Cárdenas, but failed eventually due to a lack of popular support.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.

His kinsman, perhaps brother, Gofraid, who had remained as his deputy in Dublin, came from Ireland to take power in York, but failed.

Malenkov succeeded Stalin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, but failed to take total control over the party machinery

She argued that Barna had formulated his report with undue irony and skepticism, and that he had failed to take into account the reasons for the data which enkindled his " arrière pensée.

During the Second Anglo-Sikh War ( 1848 – 49 ), Dost Mohammad's last effort to take Peshawar failed.

However, Emsworth failed to take off as a seaside resort.

However, although it was lightly guarded, Volunteer and Citizen Army forces under Seán Connolly failed to take Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland, shooting dead a police sentry and overpowering the soldiers in the guardroom, but failing to press home the attack.

They also failed to take Trinity College, which was located in the heart of the city centre and which was defended by only a handful of armed unionist students.

The rebels had failed to take either of Dublin's two main train stations or either of its ports, at Dublin Port and Kingstown.

But the allies failed to take advantage of French disunity, and by the autumn of 1793 the republican regime had defeated most of the internal rebellions and halted the allied advance into France itself.

Lenin failed ; many minor western and southern territories of the former empire declared their independence, and proved willing to take up arms to defend it.

Both analyses failed to take into account the absorption of light by interstellar dust present in the galactic plane, but after Robert Julius Trumpler quantified this effect in 1930 by studying open clusters, the present picture of our galaxy, the Milky Way, emerged.

However, this failed to take into account the 600 jobs that Holden previously announced would be shed when production of the Family II engine is set to wrap up in late 2009.

Hallpike said Rushton's theory failed to take into account that many other traits, ranging from age, sex, social and political group membership, are observably more important in predicting altruistic behavior between non-kin than genetic similarity, and John Hartung criticized him for failing to conduct an adequate control group study and for ignoring contradictory evidence.

Millet added a steeple and changed the initial title of the work, Prayer for the Potato Crop to The Angelus when the purchaser failed to take possession of it in 1859.

* Although Richard appeared as Maigret for many decades, Maigret creator Georges Simenon disliked him since he failed to take his hat off when entering a room.

These did not enter service until after the Battle of Jutland, so failed to take part in any major naval action of the war.

The newspaper also wrote that the German authorities were told about that Palestinians were planning an " incident " at the Olympics three weeks before the massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.

He found that de Lacaille had failed to take into account the gravitational attraction of the nearby mountains.

The same year the Semigallians made another attempt to conquer Rīga, but again failed to take it.

However, comparison with a rocket vehicle using similar construction techniques failed to show much advantage, and funding for the vehicle ceased.

Mercantilists failed to understand the notions of absolute advantage and comparative advantage ( although this idea was only fully fleshed out in 1817 by David Ricardo ) and the benefits of trade.

The band failed to take advantage of the momentum created by the strong artistic and commercial success of their second album.

Croatia, Norway, Hungary and France won their preliminary groups, but two of the teams failed to utilise their advantage ; Norway drew with Poland and lost to Slovenia, and needed to beat Croatia in the final match of the group stage.

This plan also had the added advantage of removing the Huguenots from France, but it failed to interest the Ottomans.

When the offensive failed Falkenhayn ordered the capture of Ypres to gain a local advantage.

The advantage lay with Bitish when one Spanish warship ran aground and another was captured but the Briish commander failed to capitalise and the Spanish fleet took shelter in Havana.

Tomb of Victor Emanuel II at the Pantheon In 1870, after two failed attempts by Garibaldi, he also took advantage of the Prussian victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War to capture Rome after the French withdrew.

" United States infantry armed with potentially accurate rifles often fought using volley tactics, devised for earlier inaccurate smoothbore muskets, because the United States Army had failed to keep pace with European military training for tactical advantage from rifle technology.

The Master System was technically superior to the NES, which predated its release by nine months in North America, but failed to overturn Nintendo's significant market share advantage in Japan and North America.

They took advantage of a riot known as Domfehde, a failed uprising of the impoverished population.

In June 1665 the English had soundly defeated the Dutch in the Battle of Lowestoft, but failed to take advantage of it.

Individual franchisees took advantage of the AmeriKing failure ; one of BK's regional owners, Miami-based Al Cabrera, purchased 130 stores located primarily in the Chicago and the upper mid-west region, from the failed company for a price of, approximately 88 percent of their original value.

However after being summoned to the south by Rinuccini, he failed to take advantage of the victory, and allowed Monro to remain unmolested at Carrickfergus.

However, imperial soldiers were able to intervene before Constance made it to Rome, and they returned her safely across the Alps, ensuring that in the end, both the papacy and the kingdom failed to score any real advantage in having the Empress in their custody.

" Smith failed to take advantage of opportunities, and in so doing, he came to appear both intransigent and indecisive.

Lacking a unified nationwide organization, the Vietnamese national movement, though still vigorous, failed to take advantage of the difficulties France was experiencing as a result of war to stage any significant uprisings.

With few native applications available to take advantage of the Amiga's significant multimedia capabilities, it failed to find a niche in the quite-competitive Unix workstation market of the early 1990s.

A puncture cost Barrichello a chance of taking the title to the final race, as he failed to secure enough of an advantage over Button to do so.

However, the US failed to take advantage of this split until President Richard Nixon saw the opportunity in 1969.

The purpose of the law, Holmes insisted, was the deterrence of undesirable social consequences: “ I think that the judges themselves have failed adequately to recognize their duty of weighing considerations of social advantage .” Before the Civil War, this conception of adjudication as a form of social engineering had been widely shared by American judges, but in the late nineteenth century it had fallen out of favor.

This tie-up avoided a dangerous division in the European attempts to provide a credible alternative to the U. S. Matra and LFK had already teamed and would have bid independently, had BAe's " shuttle diplomacy " failed, seriously denting European credibility and giving Hughes the advantage.