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In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.
Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.
This Congress will see Premier Khrushchev consolidating his power and laying the groundwork for an orderly succession should death or illness remove him from the scene in the next few years.
So successful has been this program, worked out by white and Negro civic leaders, that further extensions are expected in the next few months.
The damage to human germ plasm would be such that in the next few generations 160,000 children around the world would be born with gross physical or mental defects.
These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.
If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.
In connection with our continuing development of new and more efficient mill machinery, a sounder U. S. income tax policy on depreciation of production equipment, enabling the mills to charge off the cost of new machines on a more realistic basis, could, if adopted, have favorable effects on Leesona's business in the next few years.
It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.
One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.
What awful thing had she to face in the next few hours??
If Mahzeer was planning to set up the prime minister for Muller he would have to do it in the next few minutes.
For the next few years, Newton was raised by his emotionally distant stepmother while his father was at sea, and spent some time at a boarding school where he was mistreated.
Over the next few years the kingdom was threatened not only by Saladin and Nur ad-Din, but also by the Hashshashin ; in one episode, the Knights Templar murdered some Hashshashin envoys, leading to further disputes between Amalric and the Templars.
Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.
Paul spends the next few years traveling through western Asia Minor and ( some believe ) founds his first Christian church in Philippi.
A thriving 3rd party market for AppleTalk devices developed over the next few years.
For example, cold weather crops like rye, oats, wheat, and apples are expected to decline by about 15 % in the next fifty years and strawberries will drop as much as 32 % simply because of projected climate changes of a few degrees.
From that time Abdur Rahman was fairly seated on the throne at Kabul, and in the course of the next few years he consolidated his dominion over all Afghanistan, suppressing insurrections by a sharp and relentless use of his despotic authority.
The next few years in ` Akka were relatively free of pressures and pilgrims were able to come and visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.
On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.
Caesar spent the next few years ' mopping up ' remnants of the senatorial faction.

next and days
Then I spent the next two days at the baseball park and at Jack Doyle's pool parlors.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
The next days may show where things stand.
for the next two days, the impact rate was Af ; ;
and for the next nine days, the impact rate was less than Af ( Nazarova, 1960 ).
If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.
Charlie spent the next two days in his pajama bottoms, waiting for the fire in his back to subside, and used generous quantities of the hand lotion.
Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.
Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.
Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
* 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis ; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term " Stockholm syndrome ".
This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.
Adult Culicoides are killed by cold winter temperatures, and BTV infections typically do not last for more than 60 days, which is not long enough for BTV to last until the next spring.
Emergency repairs to the hull and fashioning a replacement rudder from a spare topmast took most of the next two days.
Over the next few days all but 200 of the captured prisoners were landed on shore under strict terms of parole, although Bonaparte later ordered them to be formed into an infantry unit and added to his army.
Obasanjo agreed to withdraw Nigerian troops within 60 days and to leave the territory completely in Cameroonian control within the next two years.
On the next day, the Spartan army arrived at Marathon, having covered the in only three days.
By the next day the Doge and the leading Franks were installed in the Great Palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days.
Over the next 6 days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07: 33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter.
He had a successful operation, but his pancreas failed the next night and he died a few days later.
' In the next two days it temporarily put an end to the secession of Kasai.
If no election is to take place within 120 days of the vacancy then the district chairman is to call together the members of the district and they are to elect a member who will serve until the next town election.

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