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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.
In the next few days they had cause to rejoice.
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.

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All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.
Among my school and neighborhood friends, during the next months, I bragged and swaggered and pompously described my impending date.
Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.
It suggests that during the next several months, through the spring of 1961, the demand for long-term capital funds may be moderately lower and that interest rates may tend to move a little lower, especially the rates on Federal, state, and local bonds, as well as those on publicly offered corporate bonds.
However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.
Developments over the next two months, however, caused the President to reconsider the question of the timing.
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas also voted for secession over the next two months.
For the next twelve months Alexei was kept constantly on the move.
Selkirk lived the next four years and four months without any human company.
He made only four more films for Mutual over the next ten months of 1917 — Easy Street, The Cure, The Immigrant and The Adventurer.
Chaplin spent five months on his next film, the two-reeler The Idle Class.
At least a thousand people were executed during the first six months of Pinochet in office, and at least two thousand more were killed during the next sixteen years, as reported by the Rettig Report.
Smith spent the next two months nursing his father through his last illness.
Over the next few months, 800 were arrested and shot without trial.
Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985.
The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the course of the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a " cult of Bowie " that was " unique — its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom.
The therapy Munch received for the next eight months included diet and " electrification " ( a treatment then fashionable for nervous conditions, not to be confused with electroconvulsive therapy ).
The next 15 months were occupied with various journeys and administrative measures in India.
Stephan Wrage, managing director of SkySails GmbH announced: " During the next few months we will finally be able to prove that our technology works in practice and significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions.
He spent the next several months as the head of the Mexican Revolution.
Over the next six months, the deaths in camp numbered in the thousands ( the majority being from disease ), with historians ' death toll estimates ranging from 2000 to 2500, to over 3000 men.
The original screenplay that Yukiko Takayama created after winning Toho's story contest for the next establishment in the Godzilla series, which was picked by assistant producer Kenji Tokoro and was submitted for approval on July 1st, 1974, less than four months after Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla ( 1974 ) was released.

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