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tried and defiance
According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.
He was willing to receive corrections in theology, which was not his subject, but he could not unsay what he had said ; and as his enemies tried to press him into a corner he met them with open defiance in a Defensio contra Calumniatores ( 1513 ).
Some historians hold that Finnish divisions tried to but could not push forward across Lake Ladoga to cut the well-known route and complete the siege ; another argument maintains that Finnish forces intentionally left the supply route open in tacit defiance of Germany's requests.
Belsky's continuing defiance in the outlying region of Russia put the tsar against him ; Belsky tried to win the favor of the service class people and is known to have said once that Boris was the tsar in Moscow, and he was the tsar in Borisov.

tried and openly
GM's headquarters had genuinely tried to adhere to the 1957 ban, but their Chevrolet division had also constantly tried to work around it, because the other manufacturers had openly circumvented the ban.
Zhou did not openly break with these more orthodox notions, and even tried to implement them later, in 1931, in Jiangxi.
However, Constantine tried to avoid breaking with Galerius, and did not openly support Maxentius during the invasion.
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association tried fruitlessly to fend this off, resulting in the formation of the openly leftist Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance ( CHLA ), which successfully challenged this provision of the law, allowing Chinese laundry workers to preserve their livelihoods.
He tried ( and failed ) to have his name removed from the credits, openly telling some interviewers he tried to invoke the Alan Smithee pseudonym which the Directors Guild of America used to reserve for such cases.
When Louis Napoleon was elected President of France, Favre openly opposed him, and on 2 December 1851 he tried with Victor Hugo and others to organize armed resistance in the streets of Paris.
* National Republicans openly criticized her campaign and tried to convince other GOP candidates to challenge Harris in the primary.
With this object, during Charles XII's stay at Altranstädt ( 1706 – 1707 ), he tried to divert the king's attention to the Holstein question, and six years later, when the Swedish commander, Magnus Stenbock, crossed the Elbe, Görtz rendered him as much assistance as was compatible with not openly breaking with Denmark, even going so far as to surrender the fortress of Tönning to the Swedes.
Leopold was openly abrasive to her, and tried to dominate her with his criticisms and frequent infidelity.
When the Númenóreans had finally forsaken their former beliefs and began to speak openly against the Ban of the Valar, it was in the way of eagle-shaped storm clouds, called the " Eagles of the Lords of the West ", that Manwë tried to reason or threaten them.
The bishops found their authority much limited, and a series of assemblies followed in which Zumárraga with his customary prudence tried to arrive at an understanding with the regulars without openly clashing with them.
Even though Kayhan is a state-sponsored paper and it continued its tirade against Bruni along with other state-run Iranian media, Iranian officials tried to distance themselves from that violent stance and openly condemned it, while a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry criticized the comments as being ' unacceptable '.
Serbia received financial assistance ; a large consignment of arms was sent openly from St. Petersburg to the prince of Montenegro ; Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria became ostensibly reconciled with the Russian emperor, and his son Boris was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church ; the Russian embassy at Constantinople tried to bring about a reconciliation between the Bulgarian exarch and the ecumenical patriarch ; Bulgarians and Serbians professed, at the bidding of Russia, to lay aside their mutual hostility.
It follows the lives of several people and also shows some of the divisions within the Paris police, with some openly arguing for more violence while others tried to uphold the rule of law.
It is obvious that, like Lothario, he is a womanizer because it is implied through his memory that he tried to seduce a married Bella Goth before she disappeared, married Bella's daughter Cassandra, and openly cheats on Cassandra with Nina and Dina Caliente as well as Kaylynn Langerak.
In general, members of more orthodox sectors within the UP tended to be more openly supportive of the FARC's activities both morally and potentially materially as well, while more unorthodox sectors, though often also justifying the existence of the guerrillas as a consequence of social inequalities, tried to establish a clearer line of distinction between the FARC and the UP.
He openly displayed the faults they tried to hide: the insecurity, the ambitiousness, the name-dropping " and " the weakness for powerful men.
In this book, Bodkin triedto understand and make some reasonable discrimination and choice among the type-images which are actually working among us and openly available to us in literary, ritualistic, or philosophical forms ” ( Hayward 1952: 225 ).
Although Phillip tried to stop her by demanding that she keep quiet, Lizzie openly defied her father and admitted the truth.
Although he tried to demand she keep quiet, Lizzie openly defied her father and admitted the truth.
Originally devised as tabloid, it never took an openly chauvinist approach of Slobodni tjednik and always tried to give the appearance of objectivity.
Chicherin and Karakhan tried to annul Alexandropol Treaty, they openly stand on Armenian rights.

tried and devotion
Flattered by his devotion, De Warens tried to get him started in a profession, and arranged formal music lessons for him.
King Myeongjong tried to coax him back to political office, but he was steadfast in his devotion to study.
In return, Bennett trained Crowley in the basics of magick and tried to instill a devotion to white magick.
" Because of her devotion to religion, Haver tried to make the marriage work, turning to the church to forget her unhappiness.
# To maintain candour and fidelity in love and devotion to the tried friend: though he strike me I will do him no scathe.
He cares for his adopted sons with fierce devotion, rescuing them in very critical moments in the series, such as when Shredder attempted to execute the four on a building, or when Bishop tried to literally tear them apart for science.
Low, moved by their devotion, tried to persuade them to stay in Singapore and spread the faith.

tried and half
According to the study, more than nine out of 10 consumers are familiar with and have tried these foods, and about half report eating them frequently.
In the second half of the 19th century several European powers tried to get a foothold in Africa.
For half a century or more, many other observers tried to find the hypothetical Vulcan.
In the second half of the century, Bishop Otto tried to resist the aims of the powerful countess Adelaide of Susa, who damaged the city several times.
Overall, one or more antidepressants and anxiolytics were rated harmful by about half of survey respondents who had tried them, and as either harmless or helpful by the remaining respondents.
More than half of people with Crohn's disease have tried complementary or alternative therapy.
According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book.
The breakthrough came with Bob Dylan's " Like a Rolling Stone ", although CBS tried to make the record more " radio friendly " by cutting it in half and spreading it over both sides of the vinyl, both Dylan and fans demanded that the full six-minute take be placed on one side and that radio stations play the song in its entirety.
" Among the investigation's findings is that nearly half of 200 cases " involved clergy who tried to elude law enforcement.
" Speaking of his addiction, which plagued him for two and a half years, Anderson said: " Anyone who has ever tried crack will know exactly why I took it.
Titokowaru and nine others were taken to Wellington and, after being held in jail for two and a half months, were tried and sentenced to jail.
" In that same episode, John Dehner portrayed a dubious New Orleans businessman claiming to be Kitty's father, who tried to talk her into selling her half interest in the Long Branch and returning to New Orleans with him as a partner in his alleged freight business.
The first series episode " The Girl with Two Breasts ", in which half of the episode is in Hebrew, proved so popular that they tried to do something similar every series.
Officially, the games lasted for four and a half months ; in fact, James Edward Sullivan tried to hold an event every day for the duration of the fair.
Just a day later Flack tried for a treble, in the marathon, even though he had never run a race more than 10 miles, less than half the marathon distance.
Most of the rest of the first half of the year was spent writing new material, some of which was tried out during the Corner of the World tour in May.
Emperor Hui tried to save Liu Ruyi by intercepting his half brother before the latter entered Chang ' an, and kept Liu Ruyi by his side most of the time.
" Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, authors of The Sugar Girls, a novelistic story based on interviews with former sugar-factory workers, make a similar point: " Although we have tried to remain faithful to what our interviewees have told us, at a distance of over half a century many memories are understandably incomplete, and where necessary we have used our own research, and our imaginations, to fill in the gaps.
The Croatian flag again remained as local flag, highly respected by the people, but half illegal, as the Belgrade government tried to unite all nations into a single Yugoslav nation.
He finished this work after half a year and tried to start his own business in the field of incandescent light bulbs together with his friend John Kulenkamp.
The Spanish presidency unsuccessfully tried to challenge the European Council President's prominent post during the first rotating presidency of 2010, while the second half of the year saw a Belgian rotating presidency marked by a weakened caretaker government which did not challenge Herman van Rompuy, himself a Belgian politician.
During the first half of the 13th century Przemysł I tried to lead a more peaceful policy, working closely with his brother-in-law Konrad I of Głogów, and given his sister Euphemia in marriage to Duke Władysław of Opole.
For a month and a half, Obregón maintained neutrality between the two sides, and tried to reach a middle ground that would avoid a civil war.
The value fell to half the price, and he tried to extort the original sum as a debt by a threat of exposing the correspondence to her husband.

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