* An elder brother, Saint Leander of Seville, immediately preceded Saint Isidore as Archbishop of Seville and, while in office, opposed king Liuvigild.

The Kansas City area was rife with animosity during the period popularly known as Bleeding Kansas, which immediately preceded the Civil War.

They were immediately preceded by the unauthorized Robert Williams who quietly set about supporting himself by publishing American editions of Wesley's hymnbooks without obtaining permission to do so.

While it has not proved to be as immensely popular as the Verdi works that immediately preceded it, namely Aida and Otello, Falstaff has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.

The A script appeared to have preceded the B. Evans dated the Linear B Chariot Tablets, so called from their depictions of chariots, at Knossos to immediately prior to the catastrophic Minoan civilization collapse of the 15th century BC.

( The Persian conquest that immediately preceded the Arab conquest makes it uncertain who destroyed the building.

These open-air sermons, mostly by Anabaptist or Mennonite preachers, spread through the country, attracting huge crowds, though not necessarily of those leaning to Protestantism, and in many places immediately preceded the iconoclastic attacks of August 1566.

3000 – 2900 BCE ) was discovered immediately below the Shuruppak flood stratum, and the Jemdet Nasr period immediately preceded the Early Dynastic I period.

A Memory Address Register Storage ( MARS ) core memory read, clear, or write operation took 1. 5 µs and each write operation was automatically ( but not necessarily immediately ) preceded by a read or clear operation of the same " register ( s )" during the 10 µs memory cycle.

The symbolist poets have a more complex relationship with Parnassianism, a French literary style that immediately preceded it.

The films which immediately preceded and followed Marienbad in Resnais's career showed a political engagement with contemporary issues ( the atomic bomb, the aftermath of the Occupation in France, and the then taboo subject of the war in Algeria ); Marienbad however was seen to take a completely different direction and to focus principally on style.

This quarrel with the church, which immediately preceded the landing of the Empress, had a serious effect on Stephen's fortunes.

Players are eliminated from the game by either following instructions that are not immediately preceded by the trigger phrase or by failing to follow an instruction which does include the phrase " Simon says ".

The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show, which immediately preceded Morecambe and Wise on Christmas Day 1977, actually received a slightly larger audience.

Cowley's pamphlet on The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, 1661, immediately preceded the foundation of the Royal Society ; to which Cowley, in March 1667, at the suggestion of John Evelyn, addressed an ode.

Then, after she takes on the Parliament Robe of State and Imperial State Crown in the Robing Chamber, the Queen proceeds through the Royal Gallery to the House of Lords, usually accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and immediately preceded by the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal, and by one peer ( usually the Leader of the House of Lords ) carrying the Cap of Maintenance on a white rod, and another peer ( generally a retired senior military officer ) carrying the Great Sword of State.

** a target area MiGCAP of at least 2 flights that immediately preceded the actual strikers ; and

The defenders of the bridge anticipated an attack, based on the two consecutive days of skirmishes that had immediately preceded.

Teodoro Picado governed Costa Rica immediately after the presidency of Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia and preceded the de facto junta of José Figueres.

During the period which immediately preceded the Restoration he endeavoured to oppose George Monck's schemes, and desired Charles Fleetwood to forestall him and make terms with Charles, but in vain.

It was in the Caksusa manvantara, which immediately preceded the present manvantara, that king Prthu, the great grandson of Caksusa Manu, leveled the earth, built cities and villages and developed agriculture, trade, pasture and cattle-breeding.

In Antonina's mind, Tchaikovsky's collapse, which immediately preceded their separation, was caused by his heart being torn between her and his music.

This immediately preceded World War I.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

Gracias '', I hollered, my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary.

To establish an emotionally meaningful relationship the worker must demonstrate actual or potential helpfulness immediately, preferably within the first interview, by meeting the client's specific needs.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

With the first reports, Russell's horse wheeled to the right and ran towards the buildings while Cook, followed by a hail of bullets, raced towards the arroyo of Salyer's Canyon immediately in front of him, just reaching it as his horse fell.

During the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.

Equipment should be in operation `` almost immediately after the first snowfall '', Mr. Schaefer said.

Would not the children, if they received all their food on the first day of the month, eat it up immediately, and later go hungry??

Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.

Art is the first stage in which the absolute spirit is manifest immediately to sense-perception, and is thus an objective rather than subjective revelation of beauty.

Reloads were carried in many classes, either on first level of the superstructure immediately abaft the launcher, or in a separate deckhouse just forward or abaft the Mk 112.

The dealer's hand receives its first card face up, and in " hole card " games receives its second card face down immediately ( the hole card ), which the dealer peeks at but does not reveal unless it makes the dealer's hand a blackjack.

The first is the covenant between God and Noah immediately after the Deluge in which God agrees never again to destroy the Earth.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

Jones first concentrated on the Italian Baroque, a style then out of favor and relatively inexpensive in the years immediately following the war.

* The pawn may move forward to the unoccupied square immediately in front of it on the same file ; or on its first move it may advance two squares along the same file provided both squares are unoccupied ; or it may move to a square occupied by an opponent's piece which is diagonally in front of it on an adjacent file, capturing that piece.

One might remain in one position for a long period of time, and then go directly to another position immediately after the first position.

The first group of Ottomans who entered the city were killed almost immediately, with the effect that the other Muslims began to retreat.

Love claimed she was misquoted, and asserted that she immediately quit using the drug during her first trimester after she discovered she was pregnant.

At first, this so greatly angered Constantius that he immediately ordered Gallus ' execution.

One of the advantages of the double, with double triggers or SST, is that a second shot can be taken almost immediately after the first.

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

The Ediacaran Period, named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, is the last geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era and of the Proterozoic Eon, immediately preceding the Cambrian Period, the first period of the Paleozoic Era and of the Phanerozoic Eon.

" I asked whether the Japanese would become Christians if I went with him to this country, and he replied that they would not do so immediately, but would first ask me many questions and see what I knew.