`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was, a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora.

This arrangement barely survived Constantine I ’ s death, with the sons of Constantine arranging the slaughter of most of the family of Constantine I at the hands of the army.

However, the facilities proved to be able to barely handle the flood of immigrants that arrived in the years just before World War I.

While I was doing it, I sensed, as I mentioned before, the deep profundity of scriptural exposition ; and, raising myself from illness by the strength I received, I brought this work to a close – though just barely – in ten years.

This story is vulgarly told, but by very uncertain and obscure authors, and therefore I have related it barely and in short, lest I should seem obstinate and pertinacious if I had admitted what is so generally talked.

Some parts of the country, though, were barely touched by the conflict — for example, Stephen's lands in the south-east and the Angevin heartlands around Gloucester and Bristol were largely unaffected, and David I ruled his territories in the north of England effectively.

I saw the band through a whole period where they barely survived, literally ".

The then Ambassador of Thailand to the US gave another reason for Thailand's disapproval of The King and I: its ethno-centric attitude and its barely hidden insult on the whole Siamese nation as childish and inferior to the Westerners.

Berlin described his visit to her flat: It was very barely furnished — virtually everything in it had, I gathered, been taken away — looted or sold — during the siege.

Some parts of the country, though, were barely touched by the conflict — for example, Stephen's lands in the south-east and the Angevin heartlands around Gloucester and Bristol were largely unaffected, and David I ruled his territories in the north of England effectively.

I find it barely active and very demanding.

"' Paul hit a clunker on the piano and said a naughty word ,' Lennon gleefully crowed, ' but I insisted we leave it in, buried just low enough so that it can barely be heard.

Elizabeth I of England's ambassador to France at that time, Sir Francis Walsingham, barely escaped with his life.

< blockquote style =" font-size: 90 %">" My dear généralissime, Hartmann is seething as Boris seethed, — sounds and ideas hang in the air, I am gulping and overeating, and can barely manage to scribble them on paper.

The band's second album, You Baby, failed to reach Billboards Top LPs chart, and of several singles released in 1966, " Grim Reaper of Love " and " Can I Get to Know You Better " barely entered the Billboard Hot 100.

I would like to add one more practical reform to those mentioned by Russell Kirk ( Dec. 16 ).

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

While this loss of precision may be tolerable and viewed as a minor flaw of Algorithm I, it is easy to find data that reveal a major flaw in the naive algorithm: Take the sample to be ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 4, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 7, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 13, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 16 ).

But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.

Bayezid ascended to the throne following the death of his father Murad I, who was killed by Serbian knight Miloš Obilić during ( June 15 ), or immediately after ( June 16 ), the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, by which Serbia became a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

On 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 General Savov, under direct orders of tsar Ferdinand I, issued attacking orders against both Greece and Serbia without consulting the Bulgarian government and without any official declaration of war.

On July 16, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars formed the Extraordinary Commission for combating counterrevolution at the Czechoslovak ( Eastern ) Front, led by M. I. Latsis.

The traditional subscription to the epistle, translated in the King James Bible, states that this epistle was written at Philippi, perhaps arising from a misinterpretation of 16: 5, " For I do pass through Macedonia ", as meaning, " I am passing through Macedonia ".

The last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) is King Canute VI of Denmark subduing Pomerania under Duke Bogislaw I, in 1186.

* The Simpsons ( On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister, season 16, episode 11 ) ( 2005 ) ( as himself )

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

* 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews ( numbering about 16, 000 ) from England ; this was Tisha B ' Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional sectarian text to his German Requiem, Brahms responded, " As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human ; also with my best knowledge and will I would dispense with passages like John 3: 16.

* Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh, Plexus Publishing ( 16 September 2003 )

Malcolm responds: “ He ’ s worth more sorrow you have expressed / And that I ’ ll spend for him ” ( 5. 11. 16 – 17 ).

I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, done at Montreal on September 16, 1987.

: 16 Violins I

Kramer enumerates 16 ( arguably subjective ) " characteristics of postmodern music, by which I mean music that is understood in a postmodern manner, or that calls forth postmodern listening strategies, or that provides postmodern listening experiences, or that exhibits postmodern compositional practices.

But general opposition showed itself to the papal interference ; a council at Würzburg ( 16 – 18 March 1287 ) protested energetically, and Rudolf I had to protect the legate from personal violence, so that both his plans and the Pope's failed.

Pope Marinus I ( or Martin II ), was Pope between 16 December 882 and 15 May 884.