During the First World War, because of his family connections with both sides and the division of popular opinion, Spain remained neutral.

Italy cited a clause in the Triple Alliance treaty which only bound it to enter in case of aggression against one of the treaty members, and so remained neutral – for the time being.

The city had remained neutral through the Swabian War of 1499 despite being plundered by soldiers on both sides.

French troops and an OAU peacekeeping force of 3, 500 Nigerian, Senegalese, and Zairian troops ( partially funded by the United States ) remained neutral during the conflict.

Dominica was officially neutral for the next century, but the attraction of its resources remained ; rival expeditions of English and French foresters were harvesting timber by the start of the 18th century.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Union feared that the seceded Confederate States of America ( CSA ) would plan a northerly attack from Canada, which was still owned by the British Empire and remained neutral in the war.

During World War I, Afghanistan remained neutral despite pressure to support Turkey when its sultan proclaimed his nation's participation in what it considered a holy war.

Though he remained firmly neutral, each side accused him of siding with the other, perhaps because of his neutrality.

After the Dutch revolt against Spain erupted, the Empire remained neutral.

During Franco's rule, Spain was officially neutral in World War II and remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world.

Afghanistan remained neutral during World War I, despite German encouragement of anti-British feelings and Afghan rebellion along the borders of British India.

Thus, when World War II broke out in September 1939, Greece remained neutral.

This time there was no invasion of the Netherlands, and Britain remained neutral.

Only two countries remained neutral in the war: Sweden and Portugal, and Napoleon then looked toward the latter.

Lynch remained neutral during the New Hampshire primary because as Governor he needed to " focus on being a good host to the primary ", according to a statement by spokesman Colin Manning.

Both Napoleon and Al Jazzar, the governor of Acre, requested assistance from the Shihab leader ; Bashir, however, remained neutral, declining to assist either combatant.

Somewhat more aid per capita was also directed towards the Allied nations, with less for those that had been part of the Axis or remained neutral.

Sweden remained a neutral country during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War, and it continues its neutral policies as of 2011.

While Italy declared war on Austria – Hungary on 23 May 1915, San Marino remained neutral.

Switzerland remained independent and neutral through a combination of military deterrence, economic concessions to Germany, and good fortune as larger events during the war delayed an invasion.

Turkey remained neutral until the final stages of World War II.

However, Constantine remained neutral with Galerius, but he still took the title of Augustus ( honorific ) | Augustus in the secessionist regime.

The British government had somewhat mixed reactions to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, and when war broke out on the Continent in 1792, it initially remained neutral.

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The flow rate remained relatively constant during the winter months as shown in Table 1.

Some 30 spectators remained in the court during the day and were on hand to hear the verdict read.

Angola-Zimbabwe relations have remained cordial since the birth of both states, Angola in 1975 and Zimbabwe in 1979, during the Cold War.

While Moses was receiving his education at the Egyptian royal court, and during his exile among the Midianites, Aaron and his sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt ( Goshen ).

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

He remained an MP until his death in 1892 from a stroke that resulted from hitting his head during a fall.

Patrician Marcius Rex-family descended from this king and remained prominent during the republic and empire.

There he remained for about twelve years, during which time he made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to escape.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

The population has remained at a low density for more than 90 years, with additional reductions during the last decade.

Its function is to control the expulsion of feces, unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which, depending on the type of animal, may be one or more of: matter which the animal cannot digest, such as bones ; food material after all the nutrients have been extracted, for example cellulose or lignin ; ingested matter which would be toxic if it remained in the digestive tract ; and dead or excess gut bacteria and other endosymbionts.

It remained in Byzantine hands during the period of crisis in the 7th – 8th centuries, when most of the Balkans and the Greek mainland were overrun by Slavic invasions.

Berlin was devastated by bombing raids during World War II, and many of the buildings that had remained after the war were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s in both West and East Berlin.

According to the scriptures, during his lifetime the Buddha remained silent when asked several metaphysical questions.

Emilio's brothers, Facundo and José, and his brother-in-law Henri ( Don Enrique ) Schueg, remained in Cuba with the difficult task of sustaining the company during a period of war.

Chilean-Argentine relations remained bad, however, and Chile helped Britain during the Falklands War.

However, during the 16th and 17th centuries, Cairo remained an important economic and cultural centre.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

The 1920s saw an interim period during which cavalry remained as a proud and conspicuous element of all major armies, though much less so than prior to 1914.

Throughout his rise to power, Chiang also benefited from membership within the nationalist Tiandihui fraternity, to which Sun Yat-sen also belonged, and which remained a source of support during his leadership of China and, later, Taiwan.

His Tàichū (, " Grand Inception ") calendar of 104 BC had a year with the winter solstice in the 11th month and designated as intercalary any calendar month ( a month of 29 or 30 whole days ) during which the sun does not pass a principal term ( that is, remained within the same sign of the zodiac throughout ).

The Chalcolithic ( khalkos " copper " + lithos " stone ") period or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic / Æneolithic ( from Latin aeneus " of bronze "), is a phase of the Bronze Age in which the addition of tin to copper to form bronze during smelting remained yet unknown by the metallurgists of the times.

Many Egyptian Christians went to the desert during the 3rd century, and remained there to pray and work and dedicate their lives to seclusion and worship of God.