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haste and finish
O ' Connor was aware of this and urged Wavell to allow him to push on to Tripoli with all due haste to finish off the Italians.

haste and some
How could a worse choice be made for your honour than in such haste to marry such a subject, who besides other and notorious lacks, public fame has charged with the murder of your late husband, besides the touching of yourself also in some part, though we trust in that behalf falsely.
The cardinals being under some haste and great pressure to avoid the return of the Papal seat to Avignon, Prignano was unanimously chosen Pope on 8 April 1378 as acceptable to the disunited majority of French cardinals, taking the name Urban VI.
Darnley was dressed only in his nightshirt, suggesting he had fled in some haste from his bedchamber.
The autograph score's 259 pages show some signs of haste such as blots, scratchings-out, unfilled bars and other uncorrected errors, but according to the music scholar Richard Luckett the number of errors is remarkably small in a document of this length.
He also made some controversial comments, arguing that Quebec separation should not be envisaged with the same haste as Iraq's invasion by the United States.
The fourth and fifth parts of his dramatic works ( 1635 and 1636 ) each contain twelve plays ; the haste with which these five volumes were issued indicates the author's desire to save some part of his work from destruction, and the appearance of his " nephew "' s name on the title-pages of the last four volumes indicates his desire to avoid conflict with the authorities.
There is some evidence that the marriage was performed in haste ; six months later, the household accounts contain evidence of a son, Frederick.
The Swale channel was the point of departure selected by James II, when departing in some haste " from the Protestant deliverance of the nation " by William of Orange in December, 1688.
Mahler then started on an orchestral draft of the symphony, which begins to bear some signs of haste after the halfway point of the first movement.
Indeed, Aubrey's erstwhile friend and fellow-antiquarian Anthony Wood predicted that he would one day break his neck while running downstairs in haste to interview some retreating guest or other.
The haste of these closures, driven by the Conservative governments led by Margaret Thatcher and John Major, led to considerable criticism in the press, as some individuals slipped through the net into homelessness or were discharged to poor quality private sector mini-institutions.
Alfred Einstein in 1945 wrote that it was " customary to speak disparagingly of La clemenza di Tito and to dismiss it as the product of haste and fatigue ," and he continues the disparagement to some extent by condemning the characters as puppets – e. g., " Tito is nothing but a mere puppet representing magnanimity " – and claiming that the opera seria was already a moribund form.
Both Gilbert and Sullivan recalled that Thespis was written in some haste.
This prompted Tipu to abandon Pondicherry and make haste for Bangalore, where he perceived his harem to be at some risk.
The works were carried out in great haste, not all equipment was fitted, and some construction materials were improvised and hence of lower quality.
Since some of the Renaissance changes were done in haste ( especially the wooden roof ), as early as in 1616 a new, gradual Early Baroque reconstruction started based on a design by the main imperial architect Giovanni Battista Carlone.
During this period of intense activity on the new railway network, he inspected many new lines, criticising the haste in which some were opened to poor engineering standards.
Probably in the officials ' haste to make out the lists many names were put there erroneously in order to alleviate immediate suffering, and undoubtedly some people are drawing relief who are not entitled under the law to do so.
His work necessarily has the defects of his qualities and of his life-in his haste he often seems to have sacrificed some of the power which a more deliberate method might have imparted.
In his haste to evacuate the town, a number of soldiers and some of their wounded from the earlier fighting were left behind and killed by the rebels.
The British fleet hurried out to sea, and pursued in two divisions, separated by a distance of some miles owing to the haste with which they left port.

haste and last
The king had only been warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes and gathered an army in haste ; Cyrus advanced into Babylonia, before he met with an enemy.
It has been noted that -- contrary to popular belief -- the fourteenth fugue was finished, but Johann Sebastian Bach's works ' inheritors lost the last page in their haste to publish it.
Walton tells us that Carew in his last illness, being afflicted with the horrors, sent in great haste to " the ever-memorable " John Hales ( 1584 – 1656 ); Hales " told him he should have his prayers, but would by no means give him then either the sacrament or absolution.
He had come to be aware of the many cases of people being buried alive, due to haste, and ordered that the Brothers of his Order wait fifteen minutes past the moment when the patient seemed to have drawn his last breath, in order to avoid this.
By contract she was allowed one last benefit performance in a new production, and in late 1861 she requested from the director Saburov that preparations begin post haste.
In the last two cases, it is worth keeping in mind that bad news traveled faster than good news, and quite explicitly: a laurel was attached to the correspondence with news of victory, but a feather, as indicating haste, was fixed to the spear of a messenger carrying bad news.
As the last of his friends and allies die and suffer in the turmoil, Rumata acts with all haste to expedite the departure of Budah.

haste and abstract
James T. Costa said that because the book was an abstract produced in haste in response to Wallace's essay, it was more approachable than the big book on natural selection Darwin had been working on, which would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail.

haste and paintings
In the 1630s, under the supervision of architects Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Alonso Carbonell, several building were erected in great haste, two of which are still standing: the " Casón del Buen Retiro " which served as a ballroom, and the building that today houses the military museum, the Museo del Ejército, which includes the grand entrance hall, the " Salón de Reinos " ( Hall of Kingdoms ), its wall decorated with paintings by Velázquez and Zurbarán and frescoes by Luca Giordano.

haste and with
The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.
And this is only natural -- witness the haste with which modern man gobbles the latest `` wonder drug ''.
" Major-General Murray ," recalled one eye witness, " … seeing him fall, marched up in all haste with two Swiss battalions to save him and stop the enemy who were hewing all down in their way.
Charles I ’ s haste to make peace with France on the terms most beneficial to him meant that the new North American gains would be bargained away in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( 1632 ).
A King should not pass judgement in haste or anger but the punishment should fit the crime, with warfare and capital punishment acceptable in certain situations.
He returned with haste to the West, reaching Emesa by 10 May 290, and Sirmium on the Danube by 1 July 290.
Hutton hit on a variety of ideas to explain the rock formations he saw around him, but according to Playfair he " was in no haste to publish his theory ; for he was one of those who are much more delighted with the contemplation of truth, than with the praise of having discovered it ”.
The biblical regulations pertaining to the original Passover also include how the meal is to be eaten: " with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand ; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the's passover " ( Exodus 12: 11 ).
The Torah says that it is because the Hebrews left Egypt with such haste that there was no time to allow baked bread to rise ; thus flat, unleavened bread, matzo, is a reminder of the rapid departure of the Exodus.
Masetto da Lamporecchio feigns to be dumb, and obtains a gardener's place at a convent of women, who with one accord make haste to lie with him.
An abbess rises in haste and in the dark, with intent to surprise an accused nun in bed with her lover: thinking to put on her veil, she puts on instead the breeches of a priest that she has with her.
One of the clergy sprang involuntarily to his assistance, but retreated with haste, so withering was the fire which flashed from those failing eyes ".
Having been hurried with unseemly haste through all the intermediate orders, Leo received consecration two days after his election, which was unacceptable to the Roman populace.
The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").
The accident-free record of United States Navy reactor operations stands in stark contrast to those of America's primary competitor during the Cold War, the Soviet Union, which lost several submarines to reactor accidents in both its haste and chosen priorities for competing with superior U. S. technology.
The " Interim Directory " that now came to power ( consisting of a few of the dissenting Agenten ) made haste with organizing elections for the Representative Assembly that convened on July 31.
The haste with which the Danes resumed their attack on Norse Dublin before consolidating their control of Saxon England indicates that the entire Danish invasion was not primarily aimed at the conquest of Saxon England, but to secure a North Sea base of operations to use as a springboard in the conflict with the Norwegians, who controlled an extensive trade network in the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, and Ireland, which exported goods as the Danes did, from the British Isles south-east through Kievan Rus as far as Constantinople and Baghdad, following the Dniepr from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
The language “ all deliberate speed ” was seen by critics as too ambiguous to ensure reasonable haste for compliance with the court's instruction.

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