Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England.

The merchants with whom they were travelling, defended themselves vigorously and for a time successfully, but eventually they were conquered and overcome by the pirates, who took from them their ships and all that they possessed, whilst they themselves barely escaped on.

The Cubs successfully defended their National League Central title in 2008, going to the postseason in consecutive years for the first time since 1906 – 08.

Earnhardt successfully defended his championship the following year, visiting victory lane eleven times and winning the championship by 489 points over Bill Elliott.

El Cid entered al-Mutamin's service and successfully defended Zaragoza against the assaults of al-Mundhir, Sancho I of Aragón, and Ramón Berenguer II, whom he held captive briefly in 1082.

Captain Fisher of the Marines with 17 of his men successfully defended the Round Tower against their assault.

In 1866, he defended some participants in the Fenian raid of that year, doing so successfully and free of charge.

For instance, the County Longford IRA under Seán Mac Eoin carried out a number of well planned ambushes and successfully defended the village of Ballinalee against Black and Tan reprisals in a three-hour gun battle.

In 1995, he successfully defended his province against the Taliban, in cooperation with Massoud.

He successfully defended against Muslim invasions, from the Fatimids at the numerous battles at Ramla and elsewhere in the southwest of the kingdom, and from Damascus and Mosul at the Battle of al-Sannabra in the northeast in 1113.

Baldwin II was an able ruler, and he too successfully defended against Fatimid and Seljuk invasions.

For his third straight year, He qualified for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup held in Shanghai and successfully defended his title by defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, 7 – 5, 7 – 5, 2 – 6, 2 – 6, 6 – 4.

He put an end to a period of instability, successfully defended the Empire against the invading Umayyads, and forbade the veneration of icons ( see Iconoclasm ).

As a result, the prominent families instituted a republic, drove the extensive Tarquin family from Rome, and successfully defended the republic against attempted Etruscan and Latin intervention.

Otho's advanced guard successfully defended Placentia against Aulus Caecina Alienus, and compelled that general to fall back on Cremona.

They attempted to board the ship at which time Martok took up arms and defended his General, successfully repelling the invasion.

The night before the game, Joe Frazier successfully defended his heavyweight boxing championship with a fourth-round knockout of Terry Daniels at the Rivergate Convention Center, which was approximately one mile south of the construction site for the Superdome on Poydras Street.

On September 18, 1977, he successfully defended the America's Cup, defeating Australia 4-0.

Orcas regularly attack walrus, although walruses are believed to have successfully defended themselves via counterattack against the larger cetacean.

* July 24 – Sack of Cuenca ( Third Carlist War ): After Carlist forces successfully defended Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, led 14, 000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca 136 km from Madrid, held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano.

* January 12 – March 16 – Caliph Al-Muqtafi successfully defended Baghdad against the coalition forces of Sultan Muhammad of Hamadan, and Atabeg Qutb-adin of Mosul

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

Charles John, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, successfully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz ; but after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at Bornhöved in December.

From the time historical records are clear, Bhutan has continuously and successfully defended its sovereignty.

For several centuries, Mossi peasants were both farmers and soldiers ; as the Mossi Kingdoms successfully defended their territory, indigenous religious beliefs, and social structure against forcible attempts to conquer or convert them to Islam by Muslim peoples from the northwest.

* 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.

Maj. Trevor already had a secretary of his own, Lila Brown, but Diana Prince successfully obtained a job as Col. Phil Darnell's secretary.

It was later revealed that the Irish Republican Army had plotted to plant a bomb at the concert in order to injure Charles and Diana, but the IRA member sent to carry out the plot, Sean O ' Callaghan, was in fact an informer working for the Irish Government and successfully helped to pull the plug on the operation.

This is, in a nutshell, the surviving legend of the rex Nemorensis: the priesthood of Diana at Nemi was held by a person who obtained that honour by slaying the prior incumbent in a trial by combat, and who could remain at the post only so long as he successfully defended his position against all challengers.

In 1714, after the death of the king's first wife, the Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, the Piacenzan Cardinal Giulio Alberoni successfully arranged the marriage between Philip and the ambitious Elisabeth Farnese, niece and stepdaughter of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma.

This divorce was first not recognized for several years by Iran, but eventually an official divorce was obtained in Iran, on 17 November 1948, with Queen Fawzia successfully reclaiming her previous distinction of Princess of Egypt as well.

Helena successfully returns to the real world and banishes the Princess to her realm.

Tea has successfully been cultivated by a few British companies, and in the mid eighties one of the companies was honored by a visit from Princess Margaret from the royal family of Britain.

* Princess Irina: An incredibly sheltered girl, Irina is the princess of Maruyamu, another kingdom which was successfully invaded by the Lusitanians.

During his time as a diplomat, Temple successfully negotiated the marriage of the Prince of Orange and Princess Mary of England, and the Triple Alliance of 1668.

Lamrock successfully lobbied his government and Minister of Transportation Denis Landry for repairs to the Princess Margaret Bridge.

Surrey's badge has featured the Prince of Wales's feathers since 1915, when Lord Rosebery successfully requested permission for their use.

On 28 August 1914 at Moy the 12th Royal Lancers ( Prince of Wales's ) successfully charged against the German Guard Dragoons.

Barnabas and Paul successfully evangelized among the " God-fearing " gentiles who attended synagogues in various Hellenized cities of Anatolia.

He was then dispatched to Corinth, Greece, where he successfully reconciled the Christian community there with Paul, its founder.

About 776 his brother Arichis had been carried as a prisoner to Francia, and when five years later the Frankish king visited Rome, Paul successfully wrote to him on behalf of the captive.

The Frenchman Paul Lemaire d ' Augerville successfully built and used autonomous diving equipment in 1824, as did the British William H. James in 1825.

Although movie audiences had shrunk, Warner's new management believed in the drawing power of stars, signing co-production deals with several of the biggest names of the day, among them Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, and Clint Eastwood, carrying the studio successfully through the 1970s and 1980s.

On 28 July 2006, hypnotist Paul McKenna successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel over articles written by Lewis-Smith from 1997 alleging that Mr McKenna was in the possession of a false PhD, having obtained the qualification from a non-accredited institution in the United States, whose principal had since been imprisoned for making misleading claims about the status of degrees he handed out to candidates.

This was the case in Canada were Ukrainain-Canadians activists such as Jaroslav Rudnyckyj and Paul Yuzyk and other " third force " successfully pressured the Canadian government to adopt multiculturalism as official policy in 1971.

The start of the political downfall of the Directory is usually dated from 18 June 1799, (< span lang =" fr "> 30 Prairial Year VII </ span > by the French Republican calendar ) when < span lang =" fr "> Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès </ span > with the help of < span lang =" fr "> Paul Barras </ span > successfully rid himself of the other then-sitting directors.

Already successfully operating a pair of London movie parlors with Edison Kinetoscopes, they commissioned English inventor and manufacturer Robert W. Paul to make copies of them.

Coleman also successfully fought property tax increases, successfully freezing property tax rates for the eight years he served as St. Paul Mayor.

The fission yeast researcher Paul Nurse successfully merged the independent schools of fission yeast genetics and cell cycle research.

Historically, however, the approach can be traced to John Stuart Mill, who in his letter to George Grote, explained: “ human happiness, even one ’ s own, is in general more successfully pursued by acting on general rules, than by measuring the consequences of each act ; and this is still more the case with the general happiness, since any other plan would not only leave everybody uncertain what to expect, but would involve perpetual quarrelling ….”( in Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley ( eds ) The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIV-The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part I, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Published 1972, Vol.

On 28 August 1997, three days before the crash, Paul successfully passed his annual pilot's physical examination.

The most important of these are: the Capuchins, founded in 1525 by Matteo Bassi and established in 1619 by Paul V as a separate order ; the Discalced Franciscans, founded as a specially strict Observantist congregation at Belalcázar in Spain by Juan de Puebla toward the end of the 15th century, compelled by Leo X to unite with the regular Observantists, but soon afterward reestablished as an independent branch by Juan de Guadelupe ( d. 1580 ), and subsequently obtaining some importance in Spain and Portugal ; the Alcantarines, a very strict congregation founded in 1540 by Peter of Alcántara, and distinguished by remarkable achievements in the mission field ; the Italian Riformati, founded about 1525 near Rieti by two Spanish Observantists, and becoming comparatively widespread from the beginning of the 17th century through the favour of Pope Clement VIII and Pope Urban VIII ; the French Recollects, originating in Cluys in 1570 and, more successfully at Rabastens in 1583, formed into a distinct congregation by Clement VIII in 1602, and important in later missionary history, especially in Canada ; the German-Belgian Recollects, formed in the 17th century, as the Observant provinces in Germany and Belgium accepted stricter statutes and took the name Recollects during and after the Thirty Years ' War.

Baird successfully appealed a direction to repay expenses relating to her constituency home with Sir Paul Kennedy's inquiry finding she only claimed for payments she was entitled to receive.

In the 1970s, Thomson joined with J. Paul Getty in a consortium that successfully explored for oil in the North Sea.

League chairman and Newcastle Managing Director Paul Blake is marketing the game at home and abroad, and after successfully gaining representation in the ULEB Cup with Guildford Heat's appearance in 2007-08 the league is slowly recovering from a low ebb.

They were successfully used in German East Africa where 11, 000 askaris, porters and their European officers, commanded by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, managed to resist numerically superior British, Portuguese and Belgian colonial forces until the end of World War I in 1918.

During the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans swept the South, successfully reelecting every Senate incumbent and electing freshmen Marco Rubio in Florida and Rand Paul in Kentucky.

" They thought I wasn't pretty enough ", she said in an interview, but heeding advice from director Paul Schrader, who had directed her in the film Patty Hearst, she " cut her long tresses into a bob " and re-auditioned with this new haircut, successfully, after the producers lost their first choice.

Paul entered the army in 1892 and from then until 1896 was at the cadet school in Köslin, and from 1896 he attended the cadet academy Berlin-Lichterfelde where he successfully graduated in 1899.

( Paul Revere was the first American to roll copper successfully into sheets in a commercially viable manner.

Following the end of The Lemon Trees, Chambers spent time writing successfully with Cathy Dennis and others until an opportune meeting facilitated by music industry veteran Paul Curran with Robbie Williams in January 1997.