At Yalta the West still believed that Eastern Europe could be kept in its orbit, in spite of the onrushing Soviet armies.

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

You could think yourself as grown up as Methuselah, yet the maternal voice still kept its comforting magic.

After World War II, the British greatly reduced the use of the full stop and other punctuation points after abbreviations in at least semi-formal writing, while the Americans more readily kept such use until more recently, and still maintain it more than Britons.

Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.

Later Biro pens had a spring that kept pressure on the piston, and still later the Biro pens used just gravity and capillary action.

Some legal texts that were adopted when the Republican Calendar was official are still in force in France and even Belgium ( which was at the time incorporated into France ), and have kept their original dates for citation purposes.

The hooves of horses that are kept in stalls or small turnouts, even when cleaned adequately, are still exposed to more moisture than would be encountered in the wild, as well as to ammonia from urine.

Diogenes says that he abdicated the kingship ( basileia ) in favor of his brother and Strabo confirms that there was a ruling family in Ephesus descended from the Ionian founder, Androclus, which still kept the title and could sit in the chief seat at the games, as well as a few other privileges.

Brahms ' domicile was hit during World War II, destroying his piano and other possessions that were still kept there for posterity by the Viennese.

Japanese victories continued at Hsuchow, Hankow, Canton, Wuchang, Hanyang – but still the Chinese kept on fighting.

The original international prototype of the metre is still kept at the BIPM under the conditions specified in 1889.

The international market, where Business as Usual was still riding high, kept the album at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

If the material is kept still there is often nothing ( such a physical vibration ) to trigger this change, and supercooling ( or superheating ) may occur.

However, some families still kept their motels, and to this day, one can find a motel that is owned by the same family who built and ran it originally ( i. e. the Maples Motel in Sandusky, Ohio ) with a subsequent generation continuing the family business.

The tank's 2cm gun and coaxial machinegun were kept operational and could be fired while the tank was still churning its way ashore.

If water-saturated zones still exist in sediments under the volcano, they would likely have been kept warm by a high geothermal gradient and residual heat from the volcano's magma chamber.

Although the Sovereign still wears the Crown and her prerogative powers are still legally intact, Parliament has removed her from everyday governance, leaving her in practice with three constitutional rights: to be kept informed, to advise, and to warn.

If a wrestler has secured a rope break from a submission hold, and the offending wrestler does not break the hold on the count of five, causing the offending wrestler to lose automatically, it is still considered a disqualification ( which is kept distinct from countouts in most major promotions ), even though the automatic loss was procured through counting.

In 2012 FARC announced they would no longer participate in kidnappings for ransom and released the last 10 soldiers and police officers they kept as prisoners but it has kept silent about the status of hundreds of civilians still reported as hostages.

The Qing Dynasty started colonizing Manchuria with Han Chinese later on in the dynasty's rule, but the Manchu area was still separated from modern-day Inner Mongolia by the Outer Willow Palisade, which kept the Manchu and the Mongols in the area separate.

Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

He remained in this position, and the Jinn, thinking he was still alive watching them work, kept working.

When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.

Vertov is known for many early writings, mainly while still in school, that focus on the individual versus the perceptive nature of the camera lens, which he was known to call his " second eye ".

Juvenile birds had less prominent grooves in their beaks and had mottled white and black necks, while the eye spot found in adults was not present ; instead, a gray line ran through the eyes ( which still had the white eye ring ) to just below the ears.

Other gemstones are still graded using the naked eye ( assuming 20 / 20 vision ).

However, exactly 100 years after Braid introduced the method, another expert could still state: " It can be safely stated that nine out of ten hypnotic techniques call for reclining posture, muscular relaxation, and optical fixation followed by eye closure.

Although Behe acknowledged that the evolution of the larger anatomical features of the eye have been well-explained, he claimed that the complexity of the minute biochemical reactions required at a molecular level for light sensitivity still defies explanation.

However, as Mughal art was still heavily Persian-influenced, images of living beings were allowed, and widespread, so perhaps the otherworldly images had nothing to do with Christianity at all ; they nonetheless caught Finch's eye.

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

His stories still include decapitations, eye removals, maimings of all kinds, and other violent acts, but the tone is very different from Grimm or Andersen.

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Despite his illness, Jardine was still very active in keeping an eye on business, politics and current affairs.

Simultaneously, a group of ex-employees and product owners collaborated to form The Synclavier Company, primarily as a maintenance organization for existing customers, but with an eye to adapting Synclavier software for stand-alone personal computer use, while in Europe the previously profitable, but now motherless, NED Europe is currently run by ex-head of European operations, Steve Hills and is still trading to this day ( 2005 ) in London, England as Synclavier Europe

This makes Anna very nervous, as she is still performing in her own show and will be unable to keep an eye on her husband.

Turquoise blue, from the French word meaning " Turkish ", is the color of the stone turquoise still used as jewelry and a protection against evil eye.

By the 1930s Lloyd George was on the margins of British politics, although still intermittently in the public eye and publishing his War Memoirs.

However, some nouns are pronounced differently in their plural forms: for example, œil (" eye ") becomes yeux, cheval (" horse ") becomes chevaux, and os (" bone " or " bones ") is pronounced differently when it is plural () from when it is singular (); and even with nouns for which this is not the case, a distinction will still usually be made in speech, as there will usually be a neighboring article or determiner whose pronunciation does change with the noun's number ( due to number agreement ; see below ).

During the Watchful Peace Gondor strengthened its borders, keeping a watchful eye on the east, as Minas Morgul was still a threat on their flank and Mordor was still occupied with Orcs.

Coins are issued in his name in Cyzicus at some time before the end of 284, but it is impossible to know whether he was still in the public eye by that point.

The eye of an eyeglass wearer is typically further from the eye piece which necessitates a longer eye relief in order to still see the entire field of view.

One legend tells that, when Balor was slain by Lugh, Balor's eye was still open when he fell face first into the ground.