Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

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.

Hardly one of the secular German princes held as firmly as he to the Church, he defended its rights and vigorously condemned every innovation except those countenanced by the highest ecclesiastical authorities.

He defended vigorously the newly implemented universal health care and regional development programs as means of making society more just.

One famous example is Nestorius, the Patriarch of Constantinople who so vigorously defended Jesus ' humanity that he undermined Jesus ' divinity ; A brief definition of Nestorian Christology can be given as: " Jesus Christ, who is not identical with the Son but personally united with the Son, who lives in him, is one hypostasis and one nature: human .".

Theramenes remained a controversial figure after his death ; Lysias vigorously denounced him while prosecuting several of his former political allies, but others defended his actions.

He argued against supralapsarianism, popularized by John Calvin's successor and Arminius's teacher at Geneva, Theodore Beza, and vigorously defended at the University of Leiden by Francis Gomarus, a colleague of Arminius.

Steinitz was also a prolific writer on chess, and defended his new ideas vigorously.

In his semi-retirement he vigorously defended his old chief St Germain against his detractors.

English and Scottish forces and the Canadian Winnipeg Grenadiers vigorously defended the crucial point of Wong Nai Chung Gap, and for a while successfully secured the passage between Central and the secluded southern parts of the island.

Jesse B. Aikin was the first to produce a book with a seven-shape note system, and he vigorously defended his " invention " and his patent.

The order was vigorously defended by the Cardinals Vitalis du Four and Bertrand de Turre ( de la Tour ), Archbishop Arnaldo Royardi of Salerno, and various other bishops, all Franciscans ; other cardinals opposed their views, and the pope leaned towards the opposition.

Unable to bring the issue of the partition of Ireland to the UN ( because of Britain's veto on the Security Council ) and because of unwillingness of other Western nations to interfere in what these Western nations saw as British affairs at that time ( the US taking a more ambiguous position ), Aiken ensured that Ireland vigorously defended the rights of small nations such as Tibet and Hungary, nations whose problems he felt Ireland could identify with and had a moral obligation to help.

The Nation has vigorously defended itself against these accusations.

The truth of some details was challenged, and Reade defended himself vigorously.

Barbara Tuchman writes that, " Developed by the British to stop the rush of fanatical tribesman, the bullets were vigorously defended by Sir John Ardagh against the heated attack of all except the American military delegate, Captain Crozier, whose country was about to make use of them in the Philippines.

The Māori established yet another defensive line some 20 kilometres south of the furthest British advance at Maungatautari and announced that it would be defended vigorously.

Walther also vigorously opposed the theologies of non-Lutheran denominations in America, the influence of the major secular philosophies and movements upon Lutheran thought and practice and defended the doctrinal and cultural heritage of the Lutheran Church.

* The Old Blockhouse gun tower protecting Old Grimsby harbour, vigorously defended during the Civil War.

" The director of ONS has vigorously defended ONS implementation of government policy on civil service relocation and the decision to concentrate staff in the three locations outside London.

While he was chair of the department of philosophy at UVA, he vigorously defended to the Virginia State Legislature the University's refusal to award honoris causa degrees.

Shapira defended his collection vigorously until his rivals presented more evidence against them.

Although he was not at the Department for Transport at the time of the collapse of Railtrack, Darling vigorously defended what had been done in a speech to the House of Commons on 24 October 2005.

Eggs, usually three, are laid from mid March to early May and are defended vigorously by this large gull.

As a member of the congressional panel investigating the Iran-Contra affair, Hyde vigorously defended the Ronald Reagan administration, and a number of the participants who had been accused of various crimes, particularly Oliver North.

During World War I, Gildersleeve contributed vigorously to wartime civil defense activities in New York City.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

When next year the question of general warrants was raised in connexion with the case of Wilkes, Pitt vigorously maintained their illegality, thus defending at once the privileges of Parliament and the freedom of the press.

ABC News gave Lloyd a video camera and blank cassettes to tape the flight ; once the journey began, it was vigorously followed by supporters, media outlets, and others who monitored its progress, reporting each time Dubroff landed or took off.

In one trial, he sat apparently vigorously taking notes during both sides ' lengthy closing arguments and, once they concluded, immediately delivered his judgment.

Grant came to appreciate this in peace time, once complaining vigorously when President Andrew Johnson proposed to assign Canby away from the capital where Grant considered him irreplaceable.

On the contrary, it would make it all the more imperative to defend them since, once again, it has been a truism for years, indeed centuries, that it is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended ; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.

The vigorously growing, medium-sized tree can bear heavy crops of fruit once or twice a year.

He was vigorously opposed to slavery though some have mistakenly concluded that he owned slaves because he once purchased a slave.

In the early stages of that campaign Javits vigorously and successfully denied charges that he had once sought support from members of the American Communist party during his 1946 race for Congress.

He repudiated his earlier Fourierist and Owenite ideas, now criticizing socialism and utopianism as vigorously as he had once promoted them.

But once the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) came to the forefront of the U. S. leftist activist political scene in 1965, PLP dissolved M2M and entered SDS, working vigorously to attract supporters and to form party clubs on campuses.

It doesn't take long for the media to descend upon him and his family, and eventually Melvin finds himself in court, admitting he once met Hughes but vigorously denying he forged the will that finally fulfills his dreams.

( Rap the gavel once, but vigorously.

As for the English, Talbot accused Fastolf of deserting his comrades in the face of the enemy, a charge which he pursued vigorously once he negotiated his release from captivity.

Despite vigorously declaring his innocence, Parker Wickham was never granted a trial and was sentenced to death if he returned to New York.

In November 1621 he vigorously defended the proposal to vote a subsidy for the recovery of the palatinate, declaring that " the passing-bell was now tolling for religion.