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One finds, for example, that a terse and stereotyped verbal expression, seeming at first to be a mere hollow convention, reveals itself over the months of therapy as the vehicle for expressing the most varied and intense feelings, and the most unconventional of meanings.
* 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
He was elected as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the first time and appointed as Prime Minister following the March 1994 parliamentary elections, when Forza Italia gained a relative majority a mere three months after having been officially launched.
Porter sold the newspaper to Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn I a mere ten months after founding it.
Hope aged amazingly fast, and, mere months after being drifted down a river by her mother, she appeared to be about 9 years old.
* Undated – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar-almost double the 263 needed eight months ago and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1929 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.
President Garfield had a mere four months to establish his presidency before he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a deranged political office seeker, on July 2, 1881.
But a mere two months later, the setlist shortened, with the songs then much longer.
For example, one episode depicts characters dancing to Will Smith's " Gettin ' Jiggy wit It " mere weeks after the song's release, whereas the sequence itself was designed and animated months earlier.
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, a mere three months after the end of the season saw football halted until the 1939 – 40 season.
Some diplomatic analysts linked what they saw as Hu's brutal use of force to the suppression of activists and students at in Tiananmen Square, which took place a mere three months later.
George was reportedly moved by the request ( it being mere months since his cousin Nicholas II of Russia had been executed by revolutionaries ) and promised " We will immediately do what is necessary.
Six months later, a mere four days after her return to Vienna, she again experienced coughing fits and fever.
While the PAC proved to have little lasting organizational impact ( the group was suppressed a mere 11 months after its founding ), its policy of Africanism and acceptance of Maoism informed the black student uprisings of the mid and late 1970s which were led by the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania ( South Africa ) and Steve Biko.
Unlike the 1998 strike, which lasted a mere three weeks and was resolved largely due to the personal relationship between Dutoit and Lucien Bouchard, then the premier of Quebec, this much more acrimonious work stoppage lasted five months, ending shortly before concerts to be conducted by Nagano.
A mere two months after his return to England, Nasmyth patented the hammer, in June 1842, and began production of them in Edinburgh.
Only mere months after the release of Precious Memories in 2006, Jackson released his next album Like Red on a Rose, which featured a more adult contemporary / folk sound.
Unfortunately, Hyslop " didn't fit in " with the band or their management ( a situation further strained by his apparent suspicion of record companies ) and in February 1982 he left the band after a mere five months.
Both the show and its related merchandise saw unbridled overnight success, becoming a staple of 1990s pop culture in mere months.
" This, too, was at first a mere paper force, but after three months ' hard work it was able to take the field.
With The Knack experiencing rapidly diminishing chart success, and mounting critical backlash against them Fieger left amidst internal squabbles on December 31, 1981, mere months after the release of Round Trip.
The CANOL pipeline was abandoned after a mere 11 months in operation.
At the end of June 2005, Romero left Midway Games mere months before the completion of Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows.
He left his post in January 2009, a mere 6 months after this statement, which may or may not have been enough time to implement them.

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The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
He had come to learn that a reputation for peculiarity allowed mere field officers a certain leeway at Court ; ;
They become philosophic abstractions of a private and problematic relevance, or mere catchwords in religious customs which had in them a diminishing part of active belief.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered.
They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.
In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.
The Liberals were reduced to a mere forty seats in Parliament, only seven of which had been won against candidates from both parties and none of these formed a coherent area of Liberal survival.
The services were at the same time simplified and shortened, and the use of the whole Psalter every week ( which had become a mere theory in the Roman Breviary, owing to its frequent supersession by saints ' day services ) was made a reality.
It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.
Antony had not observed the signal, and believing that it was mere panic and that all was lost, followed the flying squadron.
In 1490 the estates of Croatia declined to recognize Vladislaus II until he had taken oath to respect their liberties, and insisted upon his erasing from the diploma certain phrases which seemed to reduce Croatia to the rank of a mere province.
Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.
The mere fact that she survived and her reign endured suggests she had significant political skills.
The sale proved fantasy sports had grown from a mere hobby to big business.
Sometimes people died for their political opinions or actions, but many for little reason beyond mere suspicion, or because some others had a stake in getting rid of them.
Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.
" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.
In 1801 its population was a mere 3, 175 ; by 1831 it had reached over ten thousand ; by 1891 it was almost sixty thousand, and the 2001 census reported over 85, 000 inhabitants.
To the great consternation of church and state authorities, this mere peasant from Iptingen had become the outspoken leader of several thousand Separatists in the southern German duchy of Württemberg.
Carpenter had observed from close examination of everyday experience that under certain circumstances the mere idea of a muscular movement could be sufficient to produce a reflexive, or automatic, contraction or movement of the muscles involved, albeit in a very small degree.
It was innovative for the time, in being both the first ever treaty for a truly international court ( as opposed to a mere arbitral tribunal ), and in providing individuals with access to the court, going against the prevailing doctrines of international law at the time, according to which only states had rights and duties under international law.
Unfortunately, the amount of speech that could be compressed into a 4K or 8K ROM cartridge was limited, and the system did not sell as well as Mattel had hoped ; while the initial orders were as high as 300, 000 units for the Intellivoice module and its initial game-cartridge offerings, interest in future titles dropped rapidly until the fourth and last Intellivoice title, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold a mere 90, 000 units.
Orton offered the play to Codron in October 1964 and it underwent sweeping rewrites before it was judged fit for the West End ( for example, the character of " Inspector Truscott " had a mere eight lines in the initial first act.

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