Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

But he had succeeded well, we agreed.

Presidential coercion had succeeded not only in poisoning the courtiers, `` toadies '' and sycophants of the `` bench '' against me, but it had been so far-reaching as to discourage any lawyer in the nation from representing me!!

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

The expedition that had discovered Ozagen had succeeded in correlating two thousand Siddo words with an equal number of American words.

Angola sent a delegation to DR Congo's capital Kinshasa and succeeded in stopping government-forced expulsions which had become a " tit-for-tat " immigration dispute.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

These negotiations might have succeeded had it not been for the malignant influence of another Goth, Sarus, an Amali, and therefore hereditary enemy of Alaric and his house.

Ealdred was succeeded by Wulfstan, chosen by Ealdred, but John of Worcester relates that Ealdred had a hard time deciding between Wulfstan and Æthelwig.

He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon.

They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

He succeeded to relinquish suzerainty of his cousin Alfonso VII of León, becoming instead a subject of the papacy, as the kingdoms of Sicily and Aragon had done before him.

Aided by the treachery of Ælfmaer, whose life Ælfheah had once saved, the raiders succeeded in sacking the city.

He had succeeded to a remarkable degree in balancing tribal alliances and hostilities, and in directing tribal energies away from rebellion.

Ahmad Shah was succeeded by his son, Timur Shah, who had been deputed to administer his fathers conquests in northern India, but had been driven out by the Marathas.

He had to a great extent succeeded, and was paying a visit to Saxony, when he was recalled by news of a fresh rising.

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).

In the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but she decided against converting to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England because she had felt it was " too restricting ".

The most successful plane had been the British design, and indeed experiments in Britain had been proceeding with the support of Winston Churchill, including converting initially ferries and liners into aircraft tenders and aircraft carriers.

Cordero replaced Turnbow as the Brewers closer and had immediate success, converting his first 13 save opportunities.

Missionaries entered Central Asia and had significant success converting local Tartar tribes.

Ever since October 1821, when the former Governor General, Juan de la Cruz Mourgeón, left the isthmus on a campaign in Quito and left the Veraguan colonel in charge, the separatists had been slowly converting Fábrega to the separatist side.

According to the " vitae ", Boniface had never relinquished his hope of converting the Frisians, and in 754 he set out with a retinue for Frisia.

Before his conversion he had been adamant about not converting from his pagan religion to Christianity.

The systematic raiding of Lithuania by the knights under the pretext of converting it had long since united all the Lithuanian tribes, but Gediminas aimed at establishing a dynasty which should make Lithuania not merely secure but powerful, and for this purpose he entered into direct diplomatic negotiations with the Holy See as well.

He became ruler in 530 after deposing his cousin Hilderic, who had angered the Vandal nobility by converting to Catholic Christianity, most of the Vandals at this time being fiercely devoted to Arian Christianity.

The likelihood of any of them converting to Protestantism for the sake of the succession was remote ; some had already refused.

According to SWIFT's public information database on the subject, RMA software should eventually prove more secure and easier to keep up-to-date ; however, converting to the RMA system meant that thousands of banks around the world had to update their international payments systems to comply with the new standards.

Having spent much of its Eccentric decades converting a large percentage of the mass of the tableaux ' scenery into engines, it easily outruns the very fast ship which other elements of the Culture had asked to keep watch on it.

Various European efforts to establish trading posts in Vietnam failed, but missionaries were allowed to operate for some time until the mandarins began concluding that Christianity ( which had succeeded in converting up to a tenth of the population by 1700 ) was a threat to the Confucian social order since it condemned ancestor worship as idolatry.

These teenagers had hitherto worked as day labourers converting wetlands for human development, as masons, or as hands at the older Jewish settlements.

Cat Stevens wrote a song for the Live Aid concert, which he never got to perform – had he done so, he would have made his first public concert appearance since converting to Islam and changing his name to Yusuf Islam.

The monastery on the island had recently been founded by Aidan, who had been instrumental in converting Northumbria to Christianity.

Part of what was called the " social Christian " movement, the Barnetts had no interest in converting anyone to Christianity, but they did feel that Christians should be more engaged with the world, and, in the words of one of the leaders of the movement in England, W. H.

The lack of good rehearsal facilities to which Bernstein had objected was addressed in the 1970s when, jointly with the LPO, the LSO acquired and restored a disused church in Southwark, converting it into the Henry Wood Hall, a convenient and acoustically excellent rehearsal space and recording studio, opened in 1975.

She had originally been excommunicated ( Regnans in Excelsis ) by Pope Pius V for converting England to Protestantism after the reign of Mary I of England ( Bloody Mary ).

In converting the quantity to kilograms, the same incorrect conversion factor was used, leading him to believe he now had 20, 400 kg of fuel ; in reality, he had less than half the required amount.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

The British government, concerned about the threat of unemployment in the shipbuilding industry, had put through a bill to give Cunard loans and grants totaling $50,400,000 toward the $84,000,000 cost of a new 75,000-ton passenger liner.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

The Selkirk settlers had been anticipated in their move southward by British fur traders.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

They lacked time to prepare the Congo, as the British and French had prepared their colonies.

He had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces `` were outmaneuvered, outfought and outgeneraled ''.

He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.

British social anthropology had an expansive moment in the Interwar period, with key contributions coming from the Polish-British Bronisław Malinowski and Meyer Fortes

The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).

From 8 November 2001-24 March 2002, The British Museum had an exhibit named “ Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia ”, which presented a fascinating look at the secret life of Agatha Christie and the influences of archaeology in her life and works.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

Julius's work with the ICS brought the family to British India, where his grandfather had been a general in the Bengal Army.

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

The battle had begun when a force of between 2, 000 and 3, 000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

Johnson resented what he had perceived as British sympathy toward the Confederacy and he ignored a series of armed incursions by Fenians ( Irish-American civil war veterans ) into Canada.