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It generally took well into the autumn for the firm to recover from the summer's help.
David took a firm hand with it.
She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.
After the war, Australia took firm control of both the Ashes and world cricket.
In 2011, she also took a counsel position with the Civil Rights & Employment Practice group of the plaintiffs ' law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
On October 13, 1986, a meeting took place regarding the establishment of a permanent base for fishing at Clipperton, between the high commissioner of French Polynesia, representing the state, and the survey firm for the development and exploitation of the island ( SEDEIC ).
One firm, Scammell and Nephew Ltd, took a civil action against Attlee and the other Labour members of the committee ( although not against the Conservative members who had also supported this ).
Cleveland later took a clerkship with the firm, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.
On March 1, 1844, 22-year old Schliemann took a position with B. H. Schröder & Co., an import / export firm.
In 1955 Pei's group took a step toward institutional independence from Webb and Knapp by establishing a new firm called I. M. Pei & Associates.
Pei took to the project with vigor, and set to work with two young architects he had recently recruited to the firm, William Pedersen and Yann Weymouth.
His father ’ s health declined starting in 1939, and after a stroke in 1941, Alfried took over full control of the firm, continuing its role as main arms supplier to Germany at war.
" The term, possibly in limited similar use before All-Star Squadron # 18, then took firm root in the consciousness of fans of American superhero comics.
On May 22, 2010, the Banco de España took over another " caja ", CajaSur, as part of a national program to put the country's smaller banks on a firm financial basis.
Together with his close advisor, Waleron de Beaumont, Stephen took firm steps to defend England, including arresting a powerful family of bishops.
He passed his stockbroker's exam and took a position with the Baltimore office of the Wall Street investment firm Merrill Lynch.
Some had even believed that the issue was enough to cast North from office and restore Pitt as Prime Minister-although the ultimate result was to strengthen the position of North who took credit for his firm handling of the crisis and was able to fill the cabinet with his own supporters.
But when he brought his left hand against his right, and with it took a firm and tight hold of his fist :-" Knowledge "-he said, was of that character ; and that was what none but a wise person possessed.
Milazzo A July 20, 1860 the firm of Sicily Garibaldi crowned with decisive victory over the Bourbons, who took refuge in the castle, had to capitulate.
His claim was not accepted by foreign powers and Chile and Argentina took firm control over the regions, treating him as insane.
Upon Medary's death in 1929, the other partners of his Philadelphia firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary took over the project.
In 1798 he took over the firm Longman and Broderip at 26 Cheapside, initially with a James Longman, who left in 1801.
The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.
The firm of Baker, Hort, and Hendricks was passed on to Baker's son who took a new partner, Edward Daniels, and renamed the firm Baker & Daniels, which grew into one of the leading law firms in the United States.

took and stance
Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.
During Mbeki's presidency, the government took a more pro-capitalist stance, often running counter to the demands of the South African Communist Party and COSATU.
Even as Hughes expanded the regulatory power of the states, he took a nationalist stance with respect to the authority of Congress over commerce, including that within the various states.
After initial environmental issues like the highly publicized formaldehyde scandals in the early 1980s and 1992, IKEA took a proactive stance on environmental issues and tried to prevent future incidents through a variety of measures.
The magazine took aim at every kind of phoniness, and had no specific political stance, even though individual staff members had strong political views.
Ludwig von Erlichshausen, Grand Master from 1450 to 1467, took a more aggressive stance towards the confederation.
Stalinism took an aggressive stance on class conflict, utilizing state violence to forcibly purge society of the bourgeosie such as the affluent middle-class peasant Kulaks and other " class enemies ", as well as claiming that class conflict existed within communist parties.
President Habib Bourguiba took a nonaligned stance but emphasized close relations with Europe and the United States.
His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, took a less interventionist stance toward both North Yemen and neighbouring Oman.
The other group were the followers of Lord Chatham, who, as the great political hero of the Seven Years ' War, generally took a stance of opposition to party and faction.
The phrase evil empire was applied to the Soviet Union especially by U. S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, in his words, write the final pages of the history of the Soviet Union.
UN resolution 1160 took a similar stance.
In 1933, his novel titled All Men are Enemies appeared ; it was a romance, as the author chose to call it, and a brighter book than Death of a Hero, even though Aldington took an anti-war stance again.
Tolkien therefore took the stance of a translator and adaptor rather than that of the original author of his works.
Southerner Whigs looked hopefully to slaveholder and war hero General Zachary Taylor as the solution to the widening sectional divide even though he took no public stance on the Wilmot Proviso.
Brzezinski, acting under a lame duck Carter presidency, but encouraged that Solidarity in Poland had vindicated his style of engagement with Eastern Europe, took a hard-line stance against what seemed like an imminent Soviet invasion of Poland.
Louis XVI and Brienne took a hostile stance against the parlement's rejection, and Louis XVI had to implement a Lit de justice ( which automatically registered an edict in the Parlement de Paris ) to ratify the desired reforms.
However, her influence diminished afterwards, as the Néstor Kirchner administration-running on center left policies-succeeded, and she took a more conservative stance, eventually dividing her party and founding a new alliance, the Civic Coalition.
Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against the concept of the war as a pre-emptive strike.
Given Binet's stance that intelligence testing was subject to variability and was not generalizable, it is important to look at the metamorphosis that mental testing took on as it made its way to the U. S.
After Husserl's publication of the Ideen in 1913, many phenomenologists took a critical stance towards his new theories.
The local newspapers, the Winnipeg Free Press and Winnipeg Tribune, had lost the majority of their employees due to the strike and took a decidedly anti-strike stance.
With the club's financial position relatively healthy and with few, if any, replacements available under their Basque signing policy, Athletic took a rigid stance on the matter, whereby no offers would be accepted by them and any players wishing to leave would have to meet their inflated contract buyout clause.
They took the stance of opposition to the ideas of tradition and professionalism in the arts of their time, the Fluxus group shifted the emphasis from what an artist makes to the artist's personality, actions, and opinions.
This proposed scheme was highly controversial and resulted in strong differences in opinion between TfL, who supported the scheme, and local councils throughout the proposed route, who all took a ' no tram ' stance.

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