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His brave attempt ( the motion was defeated by 196 to 73, Disraeli the old fox abstaining ) was greeted with smiles from the average man, guffaws from Punch ( one joke showed a group of gentlemen besieging a female Cabinet Minister, haw haw haw ), and disappearing frowns from a sad majority of educated women, who maintained that their influence was best exerted from home.
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But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
Only the brave or foolhardy attempted to " shoot the bridge "— steer a boat between the starlings when in flood — and some were drowned in the attempt.
In a brave attempt to rally his troops, Syphax rode alone, straight towards the Roman cavalry, but in this desperate attempt his badly wounded horse threw him off.
Although he then took what seemed to many to be a strange decision, moving back to Oldham in a brave but failed attempt to save them from relegation in 1923, he remains the only Oldham Athletic manager ever to have won the Football League Championship with any club.
But if I can not win, let me be brave in the attempt.
The label, Polygon Records, was a brave attempt of Alan's to gain a footing in the British record market, at a time when it was dominated by Decca and HMV ( EMI ).
All three were o. k., but Jim opted to leave and brave the cold on his own in an attempt to bring help back.
As they open fire however, Ash runs to the center of the arena in a brave but desperate attempt to stop the fight.
Another brave Canadian attempt, the Manic GT ( named after Quebec's Manicouagan River and hydroelectric project ) built in Granby, Quebec in 1970 and 1971.
brave and motion
A thief called " The Mouse " escapes the dungeons of medieval Aquila, setting in motion a chain of events that may save or destroy a beautiful woman and a brave captain.
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In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
This was my second day in Vientiane, the administrative capital of Laos, and my thoughts were none too brave.
There was too little occasion beforehand for resistance, the brave strong delights of emotional clash and meeting.
Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.
In battle, he wore a linen cuirass (), was brave and intrepid, especially skilled in throwing the spear and, next to Achilles, the swiftest of all the Greeks.
Although most agreed that it was a brave and worthy film, many considered the ending inappropriate.
His foreign policy was also marked by " the brave new world of CIA-led coups and assassinations.
Vladimir Dedijer argued that this rejection was " one of the primary personal motives which pushed him to do something exceptionally brave in order to prove to others that he was their equal ".
The battle was won by the Christians, chiefly through the brave attack of 6, 000 French troops led by La Feuillade and Coligny.
He was so brave and powerful that Lord Krishna beheaded him prior to the battle suspecting he might fight for the Kauravas.
He was a brave and powerful king.
It was, as well, an incredibly brave move on the part of Azuero, which lived in fear of Colonel José de Fábrega, and with good reason: the Colonel was a staunch loyalist, and had the entirety of the isthmus ' military supplies in his hands.
However, because the Triforce was not divine </ ref > Each Link is described on the series ' official website as humble, hardworking and brave, and therefore appropriate to bear the Triforce of Courage.
As writer Mark Twain said, " It took a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the Age of Reason ... I read it first when I was a cub pilot, read it with fear and hesitation, but marveling at its fearlessness and wonderful power.
All this time the Normans had not ceased ravaging the country ; a brave man was needed to defend it, and finally towards 861, Charles the Bald entrusted it to Robert the Strong, but Robert met his death in 866 in a battle against the Normans at Brissarthe.
Otto was a man of small stature, by nature brave and impulsive, and by training an accomplished knight.
Additional casualties were incurred in the actual assault, which was marked by a series of brave but disorganized and uncoordinated advances.
Basil was a brave soldier and a superb horseman ; he was to prove himself a strong ruler and an able general.
" Putney Heath was a noted haunt of highwaymen, and few brave souls ventured across it at night.
Hitler went on to accuse naval officers of being cowards not fully committed to victory, and offered a contrast with the Army, which Hitler claimed was run by brave men unafraid of death in their quest for total victory.
In the 1960s, the competitions manager of BMC, Stuart Turner, hired a series of brave and gifted young Finns, skills honed on their country's highly competitive gravel or snow rallies, and the modern professional driver was born.
brave and defeated
Young, brave, and ambitious, Theseus decided to go alone by the land route and defeated a great many bandits along the way.
There were vented gunpowder in the first siege of Saragossa and fought hard in Tudela, probably in the area of Santa Barbara with the rest of the Aragonese and the 5th Division, went the next day in Zaragoza suffering like the rest of whistles that from the walls, dedicated to the brave Zaragoza defeated, as a reproach to his cowardice.
A brave military chief who defeated the Muslim armies in their own territory, Ramiro's expeditions turned the Valley of the Douro into a no-man's land that separated Christian kingdoms in the north of Iberia from the Muslim states in the south.
In 1945, through the brave efforts of the combined forces of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, the local Davaoeño guerrilla units from the Davao peninsula, and the United States military, the Japanese soldiers were defeated.
This opinion agrees with the work of Marin Barleti who writes: " When the people saw all those young and brave men around Skanderbeg, then it was not hard to believe that the armies of Murat were so defeated by the Albanians.
In 1814 the Ashanti, under the leadership of Asantehene Osei Bonsu, defeated the outnumbered yet brave Akim-Akwapim alliance ,.
As most of the political leaders present at te meeting approved of the change in policy, Carp gave a short speech in which he refused to back Ferdinand's decision and wished " for Your Majesty's armies to be defeated ", although commenting that he would " give Your Majesty my four sons, because Romanians are brave in the military ".
) The Saxons are brave footsoldiers but they are defeated by even a smaller number of Celts if they fight as cavalrymen.
Motoyasu's brave conduct in the battle convinced many of the samurai turncoats in the Ikki to switch sides and the Ikki were defeated.
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Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.
Being an intelligent man, John must have guessed what everyone thought about Edythe, but he never let on by so much as a brave smile.
He declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would not be in vain, that slavery would end as a result of the losses, and the future of democracy would be assured, that " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Young, brave and ambitious, Theseus decided to go to Athens by land.
In exchange for it, Odin ordered her to make two kings, each served by twenty kings, fight forever unless some christened men so brave would dare to enter the battle and slay them.
In the second scene of the play, King Duncan describes the brave manner in which Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo bravely led his army against invaders, fighting side by side.
They declared that Son of Golden Turkey Awards " is our last word ... we hereby solemnly pledge that the years ahead will produce no further Golden Turkey publications by the Medved Brothers ... we now pass the torch to whichever brave souls feel ready to take up the challenge.
Let us invite over my son Octa, and his brother Ebissa, who are brave soldiers, and give them the countries that are in the northern parts of Britain, by the wall, between Deira and Albania.
The Winnili were young and brave and refused to pay tribute, saying " It is better to maintain liberty by arms than to stain it by the payment of tribute.
Loki replies that Bragi is brave when seated, calling him a " bench-ornament ," and that Bragi would run away when troubled by an angry, spirited man.
* Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, Antony is portrayed as a deeply flawed character, a brave warrior but sexually promiscuous, often drunk and foolish, and a monster of vanity who loves riding in a chariot drawn by lions.
The theory is complicated by the etymology of the name Svafrþorinn ( þorinn meaning " brave " and svafr means " gossip ") ( or possibly connects to sofa " sleep "), which Rudolf Simek says makes little sense when attempting to connect it to Njörðr.
In the extreme cold of the Antarctic winter, the females are at sea fishing for food leaving the males to brave the weather by themselves.
His brave efforts to present his case, passionate, deeply pondered, for the concession of fundamental liberties-no taxation without consent, independent judges, trial by jury, along with the recognition of the American Continental Congress-foundered on arrogance and complacency of his peers.
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