But ten years in prison had taught him realities.

But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.

A Virginia judge a while back cited a Roman jurist to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable length of time for such a change.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

`` As a writer, by what have I been obsessed these last ten years, if not by mankind??

It has not been extirpated by ten years of Communist depersonalization.

For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

`` He's ten years younger than Ernest.

That house was ten years off his life let himself.

Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp, the packing away of my camp uniforms, the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

that the tremendous volume of General Motors stock hanging over the market for ten years would hamper the efforts of General Motors and other automobile manufacturers to raise equity capital ; ;

And trailers for boats are not what they started out to be ten years ago.

This first test is being leased for ten years but future projects will require at least 15 years.

`` Well, for ten years I've been murdering women.

For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.

`` I seem to remember '', he said, `` that in an interview ten years ago you gave humor and comedy five years to live.

In his reign ( 1598 – 1621 ) a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years ' War.

In 1281 the ten year truce expired and was renewed by Roger.

During the ten days of fighting which occurred between the first and second truce, Nazareth capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel on 16 July, after little more than token resistance.

Things now seemed increasingly desperate, and in May 1272 Hugh III of Cyprus, who was the nominal king of Jerusalem, signed a ten – year truce with Baibars.

It was in the nearby town of Villeneuve-Loubet that the two monarchs in 1538 concluded, through the mediation of Pope Paul III, a truce of ten years.

The treaty, completed on February 18, 1229, safeguarded a truce of ten years.

Over the next ten years, the two imperial colleagues maintained an uneasy truce.

The treaty of Norham ( 24 March 1550 ) established a truce between the nations for ten years ; and in 1552, the Wardens of the Marches consenting, the debatable land ceased to be matter for debate, the parish of Canonbie being annexed to Dumfriesshire, that of Kirkandrews to Cumberland.

All the preparations had been made when Murad's envoys arrived in the royal camp at Szeged and offered a ten years ' truce on advantageous terms.

After ten years of warring, Nobunaga had the emperor mediate a truce to end the war in 1580.

" Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria of 1878 devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but concluded " in truth little is known among the blacks respecting its form, covering or habits ; they appear to have been in such dread of it as to have been unable to take note of its characteristics.

However, after ten years of research, more and more members of IALA concluded that none of the existing interlanguages were up to the task.

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

A total of 16 concordats and treaties with European states had been concluded in the ten year period 1922 – 1932.

In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as " Star Wars " was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.

Tests carried out on the vertical stabilizers from the accident aircraft, and from another similar aircraft, found that the strength of the composite material had not been compromised, and the NTSB concluded that the material had failed because it had been stressed beyond its design limit, despite ten previous recorded incidents where A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation in which none resulted in the separation of the vertical stabilizer in-flight.

The regulations are controversial, and economic analysis has concluded that farmland lying immediately outside of Portland's growth boundary is worth as much as ten times less than similar land located immediately on the other side.

An enquiry concluded that the crush was likely to have happened ten minutes after the final whistle and to have been triggered by someone falling on the stairs.

A study of ten low-status burials from the Late Classic period at Monte Albán concluded that the trepanation had been applied non-therapeutically, and, since multiple techniques had been used and since some people had received more than one trepanation, concluded it had been done experimentally.

The two had met in Turkey ten years previously, and Hasan Lutfi Shushud had visited Bennett's Surrey home in 1968, when Bennett was initiated in Shushud's wordless, universal zikr, which, Bennett concluded, bore results similar to those of the latihan, while omitting many of the risks attendant on ' opening ' unprepared people.

If the legislature has concluded its yearly session, and the governor does not sign the bill within ten days, it dies.

By the time work on the aqueduct concluded and the project was wrapped up, Garfield had paid off all his debts, was supervising ten physicians at three hospitals, and controlled a financial reserve of $ 150, 000.

De Vargas and his forces staged a quick and bloody recapture that concluded with the surrender and execution of the 70 Pueblo warriors and with their families sentenced to ten years ' servitude.

Making an estimate of the time and manpower that it would have taken to transport the boulders to the site and then erect them, Lambrick concluded that each of the King's Men could have been constructed by a team of ten or twenty ( depending on the size of the stone ) in about two-and-a-half hours.

For a short while, after the alliance between France and Spain had been concluded, in 1795, Lángara co-operated with Napoléon Bonaparte during his Italian campaign of 1796, and sailed from Cádiz with nineteen ships of the line and ten frigates, brushing aside Rear-Admiral Man's division which Jervis had posted to watch Cádiz, and passed into the Mediterranean Sea.

As of today, DWU has concluded international exchange agreements with 23 universities in ten different countries, through which students are actively engaged in exchange studies programs.

Through the information gathered during the promulgation of regulations for the MWTA, over a period of ten years the EPA eventually " concluded that the disease-causing potential of medical waste is greatest at the point of generation and naturally tapers off after that point ...

A survey in 1995 concluded that the bridge is still strong enough to carry vehicles ten times the weight of the heaviest vehicles of the time it was built.

The NCPPSP's Shelter Statistics Survey collected data from over 5, 000 shelters, The study concluded that neither excessive vocalization nor general " behavior problems " were among the top ten reasons companion animals are relinquished at shelters.