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He warded off the evil hour that seemed approaching, he infused vigour into our arms, he taught the nation to speak again as England used to speak to foreign powers ... Pitt, on entering upon administration, had found the nation at the lowest ebb in point of power and reputation ... France, who meant to be feared, was feared heartily ... They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches.
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Undeterred, the fans supported their team and a string of late season wins eventually warded off the danger.
The appearance of his band ( along with the chants to Elbereth ) warded off the Black Rider searching for the Hobbits.
Heracles himself warded off the stone with his club and slew Alcyoneus.
Fionn killed Aillen, having kept himself awake by pressing the head of his spear to his forehead, and warded off Aillen's flame with his magical cloak, and Conn made him head of the fianna in place of Goll.
In two battles, the Paulista army suffered a defeat that warded off invasions for ten years.
His strategic victories over larger Anglo-French fleets at the Battles of Solebay ( 1672 ), the double Schooneveld ( 1673 ) and Texel ( 1673 ) warded off invasion.
In this episode, the jiangshis hop, suck out the soul through breath and can be warded off with sticky rice, and be completely killed by drawing a Chinese symbol on a yellow piece of paper and throw it into the cooking pot in which the recipe was made, also in this there is only one good jiangshi that can show you the symbol to write and if the spell is not reversed by midnight, the jiangshi will stay on Earth forever.
* Chinese Monkey: warded off evil spirits ; highly respected and loved
Cambyses ' successors Darius I the Great and Xerxes pursued a similar policy, visited the country, and warded off an Athenian attack.
However, Armenia did not launch any further attacks on Nakhchivan and the presence of Russia's military warded off any possibility that Turkey might play a military role in the conflict.
Although the pirate threat subsequently dwindled, the Genovese built a newer generation of circular towers ( the Genoese towers ), that warded off later foreign invasions.
Added to this is the ability to generate powerful energy projections, and the Green Ranger is able to contend with all of the other Power Rangers at once, to be warded off only by the Megazord.
The Jurchen turned their attention to the Mongols who, in 1139 and in 1147, warded them off.
Another time of year when witches were specifically to be warded off was the Eve of the Feast of Saint John the Baptist, a night associated with the gathering of herbs: supposedly, herbs gathered on that night were particularly powerful.
The city of Vukovar that warded off JNA attacks for months eventually fell, ending the Battle of Vukovar.
He not only warded off the blow but struck and laid dead the soldier at his feet.
Davis whipped out his Bowie knife, and quickly warded off the thrusts from the two of the bandits.
Ancient Egyptian art depicting Apep being warded off by a deity.
The officer was superintending his gun at the time and had no weapon in his hand, but Gunner Smith, wielding the hand spike of his gun, warded off the thrust of the spear, giving the lieutenant time to draw his sword and bring the assailant to his knees.
The latter, however, made a wild thrust at the officer with a long knife, which Gunner Smith again warded off, but not before the lieutenant was wounded.
This gave them privileges to sleep in churches and ask for free meals, but also warded off thieves who dared not attack devoted pilgrims.
More broadly, he considered that ' in part the paths of displacement depend on the nature of the drives that are warded off '.
Legends have it kushtaka can be warded off through copper, urine, and in some stories fire.
He unsuccessfully tried to rebut the government's contention that the pajama top was stationary on Colette's chest, rather than wrapped around MacDonald's wrists as he warded off blows, by conducting an experiment wherein a similar pajama top was placed over a ham, moved back and forth on a sled, and stabbed at with an ice pick.
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Muslim jurists allow abortion in this context based on the principle that " the greater evil woman's death should be warded off by the lesser evil.
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Buccleuch was eventually ' warded ' in England although no action was taken against him.
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The warded pick, also known as a skeleton key, is used for opening warded locks.
Ancient Romans used a more sophisticated locking system, called warded locks.
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Wolves were warded away by tying a special knot with a sheep's tether and repeating magical words, and by refraining from chopping wood on this day.
I. e if you have a chest of drawers with a warded lock you can make a skeleton key for that type of warded lock by filing away all but the last one or two teeth or bittings on both sides of the blade.
There are also many other types of lock, such as warded locks, tubular locks, electronic locks ( itself a huge area ) and also many variations of the various types, such as dimple locks, which are a variation on Yale's original cylinder lock in which the pins interact with the side of the key rather than the edge, " laser track " car locks, which are a variation on wafer locks, and some higher security lever locks also include the types of warding found on warded locks.
The attending physician at Botkina Hospital, surgeon and traumatologist Vladimir Golyakhovsky, recalled in 1984 that while attempting to start an intravenous drip, the only blood vessels he could find for inserting a needle were on the soles of Bondarenko's feet, where his flight boots had warded off the flames.
Ovid tells the story of striges attacking the legendary king Procas in his cradle, and how they were warded off with arbutus and placated with the meat of pigs, as an explanation for the custom of eating beans and bacon on the Kalends of June.
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Appropriately the first degree he conferred at this event warded to was to Professor Robert Campbell Garry, who had been responsible for his original appointment at University College Dundee.
The food was catered from outside, as the camp's canteen had been closed after the May 23 incident when four of the trainees were warded for food poisoning.
The authority of Beel and his controlling influence in political circles became manifest when new cabinets had to be formed or cabinet crises had to be warded off.
The group had already been dealing with Ruffin's ego clashes and his desire for special treatment for at least two years, and warded off his desire to have the name of the group changed to " David Ruffin & the Temptations " ( in response to The Supremes being renamed " Diana Ross & the Supremes ").
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He was taken to St Clair Medical Centre where he was warded at the Intensive Care Unit.
Nine trainees fell ill due to food poisoning, with four trainees being warded at Setiu Hospital.
At least 10 trainees were warded at the Taiping Hospital, while 80 others were being treated at the camp, and all trainees were given blood tests, for an outbreak of an unidentified fever.
The man, who is in his early 50s, suffered head injuries and was warded at the National University Hospital.
Additionally, the song was a warded the " Pop Award " honor at the 1996 annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ).
Following the collapse of the Douglas rebellion, Hamilton was warded at Roslin Castle, in Midlothian for a short while.
Dick-a-Dick would also hold a narrow parrying shield and invite people throw cricket balls at him, which he warded off with the shield.
Prussian forces were warded off and around 8 o ' clock they got General Eduard von Fransecky's message: a cease fire was in effect and would take effect at 12 o ' clock, only than five hours later.
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