How, for example, could a Voltaire understand the strange predicament in which a Rousseau would find himself when, soon after the furor of his first Discourse, he acquired still another title to fame??

Partially through the hiring of expensive foreign player, the new club soon acquired large debts.

Recognizing that he had acquired a solid team, Veeck soon abandoned the aging, small and lightless League Park to take up full-time residence in massive Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

With QRP a search reaches only those clients which are likely to have the files, so rare files searches grow vastly more efficient, and with DQ the search stops as soon as the program has acquired enough search results, which vastly reduces the amount of traffic caused by popular searches.

He soon acquired a reputation in jazz because of extended stays at high-profile New York venues.

He soon acquired reputation by a number of publications on the civil and Scottish law, and was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.

The Portuguese soon acquired a monopoly over trade in the Indian Ocean.

Fighter jets of NATO members deployed in Zokniai airport as soon as Lithuania acquired membership in the Alliance to provide cover for the Baltic airspace.

The " Slumberland " of the title soon acquired a double meaning, referring not only to Morpheus's fairy kingdom, but to the state of sleep itself: Nemo would have dream-adventures in other imaginary lands, on the Moon and Mars, and in our own " real " world, made fantastic by the dream-state.

NEC, Toshiba and SiByte ( later acquired by Broadcom ) each obtained licenses for the MIPS64 as soon as it was announced.

Despite the initial distrust of the King and Crown Prince, and the loathing of Queen Augusta, Bismarck soon acquired a powerful hold over the King by force of personality and powers of persuasion.

Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II soon afterwards acquired controlling interest in the live-action films released through September 16, 2005, the latest film in this package was Just Like Heaven.

Accordingly he was buried in the Vatican with every mark of respect, and his tomb soon acquired an extraordinary fame for miraculous cures.

In the capacity of papal legate he was sent to France in 1480, where he remained four years, and acquitted himself with such ability that he soon acquired a paramount influence in the College of Cardinals, an influence which increased rather than diminished during the pontificate of Pope Innocent VIII.

This instrument soon evolved and took on the name of the timbrel during the medieval crusades, at which time it acquired the jingles.

In 1928 the Aviation Department became Vickers ( Aviation ) Ltd and soon after acquired Supermarine, which became the " Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd ".

The Arabs acquired knowledge of saltpetre — which they called " Chinese snow " ( thalj al-Sīn ) — around 1240 and, soon afterward, of gunpowder ; they also learned of fireworks (" Chinese flowers ") and rockets (" Chinese arrows ").

However, they soon lost these newly acquired possessions to the Ostrogoths.

Within a short time he changed his mind and soon acquired two Rodin marbles, Orpheus and Cupid and Psyche, for his Chicago mansion, the first two of Rodin's works known to have been sold to an American collector.

Towards the end of his reign John had belatedly planned to curb the power of the great landowners, and his death, coming soon after his speaking out against them, led to rumours that he had been poisoned by Basil Lekapenos, who had acquired vast estates illegally and feared an investigation and punishment.

Hindenburg's deputy, Chief Quartermaster-General Erich Ludendorff, soon acquired almost dictatorial power in Germany.

Jewel acquired Osco Drug in 1961, and soon started building Jewel-Osco stores.

Unlike Oak Ridge, the ranch school at Los Alamos, along with of surrounding forest and grazing land, was soon acquired.

The 1976 – 77 season would be memorable for the 76ers ; as a result of the terms of the ABA-NBA merger they acquired Julius Erving from the New York Nets, soon after the team was purchased by local philanthropist Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., grandson of George Dunton Widener and heir to the Widener fortune.

American troops and weapons soon bolstered KMT forces, allowing them to reclaim cities.

Gun-control opponents argue against limits on the sale of " assault weapons " because the confiscation of sportsmen's shotguns will soon follow.

The UK soon unilaterally abandoned the chemical weapons and chemical weapons research.

After Tanaka brings him into his circle of friends ( all of them being otaku, too: a female illustrator, an information geek, a martial artist, and a weapons collector ), Kubo soon makes the wish to become the Otaking, the King of all the otaku.

However, new fortifications, designed to withstand gunpowder weapons, were soon constructed throughout Europe.

Similar US and UK weapons soon followed.

The Pentagon and FBI develop a plan to retake the island with a Navy SEAL Team, enlisting the bureau's top chemical weapons specialist, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed ( Nicolas Cage ), who initially thinks he's consulting the team, but soon learns that he has to accompany the SEALs due to his specialisation in chemical warfare.

There soon follow unconfirmed reports that nuclear weapons were used in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt.

Upon arriving at the Prometheus, Prisoner 849 finds the secret weapons log, but soon after, she finds a working radio communicator nearby.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

* Cast iron is first used in the Chinese Kingdom of Wu with the innovation of the blast furnace, and soon becomes widespread for agricultural tools and weapons during the Warring States.

It was easy to apply and remove, and was soon adapted to repair military equipment quickly, including vehicles and weapons.

He credits James Goodby ( of the Brookings Institution ) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( although it is not quite verbatim ): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King ( probably drafted by Vannevar Bush – or so Bush claimed in 1970 ) referred to " weapons adaptable to mass destruction ".

The crew lands on an abandoned Megaliner cruising the Vavatch ocean, hoping to salvage its powerful laser weapons before the Orbital is destroyed, but one of the crew is killed soon after landing because he missed the briefing warning them that their antigravity devices would not work there, and more die when the ship crashes into a massive ice wall, which Kraiklyn had mistaken for a cloud bank, although Horza later discovers that Kraiklyn and several others managed to escape.

" The military leadership, however, soon realized that this term had negative connotations for the use of weapons by the officer corps ( proscribed

Anyone entering town was required to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town.

By invisibly observing the crew of the Romulan vessel, Ro and La Forge soon discover that the accident, as well as the damage to the Romulan ship, is the result of a Romulan weapons test, and that the Romulans are now performing a subtle act of sabotage that will destroy the Enterprise-D the moment that ship accelerates to warp drive.

The Japanese soon started to manufacture their own version of the matchlock called tanegashima and eventually the tanegashima and the yari ( spear ) became the weapons of choice over the yumi.

In turn, when Fulgencio Batista was in power, Trujillo initially supported anti-Batista supporters of Prio in Oriente in 1955, however weapons Trujillo sent were soon inherited by Castro's insurgents when Prio allied with Castro.

In the bushes, Blacky is approached by Partisan messenger who just arrived from the high command informing / threatening him that comrade Leka plans on taking disciplinary action against him if the weapons do not arrive soon.

Blacky is not worried and brings the messenger into the boat to show him it is full of weapons and to assure him he will transport them as soon he is married.

This group of weapons was soon recovered, having been hidden near a tavern in Detroit.

The theft was soon solved, and the weapons were recovered after two days.