Yet Cuba has managed to retain reasonably high levels of healthcare and education.

The blacks killed or enslaved the native males and married the females, and within a generation they constituted a population of zambos that resisted Spanish authority until the end of the century and afterwards managed to retain a great deal of political and cultural independence.

This was the case throughout the majority of Severn's tenure as Consul, as Pope Pius IX managed to retain a fragile hold on power, relying on a garrison of French troops to control Rome.

Jadwiga's death undermined Jogaila's position as King of Poland, but he managed to retain the throne until his death 35 years later.

The Byzantines managed to retain control of the area of Ravenna and Rome, linked by a thin corridor running through Perugia.

David Hartwell's maintains that after the New Wave, science fiction had still managed to retain this " marginality and tenuous self-identity ":

A scorched earth policy and the requisition of buildings meant a complete collapse of the Government's education system, though some mission schools managed to retain a semblance of instruction.

France attached comparatively little value to its North American possessions, especially in respect to the highly profitable sugar-producing Antilles islands, which it managed to retain.

Republicans made O ' Neill the target of their election campaigns in 1980 and 1982 ; nevertheless, Democrats managed to retain their majorities in both years.

Most states in the United States have managed to retain laws forbidding riding a motorcycle without a helmet or driving without seat belts, on the grounds that accidents cost the entire society in the form of publicly-provided health care costs.

Nevertheless, the federalists managed to retain control of the new constitutional commission by a bare majority.

French forces managed to retain control of the village of Samogneux, despite heavy fighting.

Many of the Dutch settlements were lost or abandoned by the end of that century, but the Netherlands managed to retain possession of Suriname until it gained independence in 1975, as well as the former Netherlands Antilles, of which the islands remain within the Kingdom of the Netherlands today.

The Cheyenne also managed to retain their culture, religion and language.

Nevertheless one year later ( 1239 ) Henry was compelled to resign the regency, although he remained on good terms with the Dukes of Opole and Sandomierz and also managed to retain Greater Polish Kalisz and Wieluń.

Thanks to support that came primarily from the Green and Left parties, he managed to retain office but had to rely on support from at least two parties in the parliament.

No club managed to retain the Cup Winners ' Cup ( the so-called " CWC jinx "), although a number of teams followed up their victories with a losing appearance in the following seasons final.

Through the years Lockport has managed to retain its small town quality-a quality that welcomes visitors who travel along Bayou Lafourche, the longest street in the world

Frankfort contested the move and managed to retain the seat of government, at least in name, until 1876.

In the face of strong pressure from Carthage, the city managed to retain its independent Hellenic character.

Ford found that customers were turned off by the car's oval shape, and although it managed to retain its title as the bestselling car in the United States, this was only because of heavy sales to rental fleets ; 51 % of all Taurus sales for 1996 went to rental fleets, in contrast to the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, of which most sales were to private customers through retail outlets.

The NDP managed to retain Outremont, held by Thomas Mulcair, its only seat in the province.

He managed to retain his influence in the Napoleonic period, turning to frankly propagandistic works, but had to leave France for exile in Brussels at the Bourbon Restoration.

Newly-drafted producer / director Glyn Edwards managed to retain this vital, messy element by drawing on his experience as a Punch & Judy puppeteer to create a ' villain ' character called ' The Phantom Flan Flinger ', who would be the black-clad masked nemesis of the presenting team, and the main instigator of pie-throwing chaos.

The HAC Infantry was due to become part of the newly formed London Regiment as the " 26th ( County of London ) Battalion ", but instead managed to retain its own identity as the Honourable Artillery Company Infantry Battalion.

Armenia also has managed to slash inflation, stabilize its currency, and privatize most small-and medium-sized enterprises.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

A sparsely populated, arid country, Botswana has nonetheless managed to incorporate much of its interior into the national economy.

They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

The army uses its artillery systems and tanks, but well-equipped insurgents have probably managed to destroy over 20 of Chad's 60 tanks, and probably shot down a Mi-24 Hind gunship, which has bombed enemy positions near the border with Sudan.

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

The Sui Dynasty, which managed to reunite the country in 589 after nearly four centuries of political fragmentation, played a role more important than its length of existence would suggest.

Caltech managed $ 332 million in sponsored research and $ 1. 77 billion for its endowment in 2011.

The Valley Club ( CAFC Supporters Club ) was situated in Harvey Gardens behind the North Stand, and was managed by licensee Ray Donn from 1970 – 1984 the club had a full club licence supplying food and drink to its members and guests during match days and live entertainment, with cabaret and dancing every night of the week.

The Zoological Gardens of London for example once successfully managed to mate a male European wolf to an Indian female, resulting in a pup bearing an almost exact likeness to its sire.

Roman Legate Hilary, who as pope dedicated an oratory in the Lateran Basilica in thanks for his life, managed to escape from Constantinople and brought news of the Council to Leo who immediately dubbed it a " synod of robbers " — Latrocinium — and refused to accept its pronouncements.

During a session recorded by the BBC, the machine managed to work its way through " Baa Baa Black Sheep ", " God Save the King " and part of " In the Mood ".

Systems like the Compatible Time-Sharing System introduced the concept of a file system, which managed several virtual " files " on one storage device, giving the term its present-day meaning.

One example of the fruitfulness of questioning assumptions comes from questioning the assumption that " China was weak in the 19th century " and pointing out the fact that at the time in which China was supposedly weak, it managed to considerably extend its borders in Central Asia.

Stalin had managed to turn Lenin's hierarchical model on its head ; under Lenin the Party Congress and the Central Committee were the highest decision-making organs, under Stalin the Politburo, Secretariat and the Orgburo became the most important decision-making bodies.

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In the first era ( 1st – 6th editions, 1768 – 1826 ), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others.

Xanthippus defeated the Roman army and captured Regulus at the Battle of Tunis, and then managed to cut off what remained of the Roman army from its base by re-establishing Carthaginian naval supremacy.

Guyana has diplomatic relations with a wide range of nations, and these managed primarily through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the 1920s, James Joyce managed " a more upbeat version " of Hamlet — stripped of obsession and revenge — in Ulysses, though its main parallels are with Homer's Odyssey.

By then the textile industry had started its decline ; only one factory, Veneta, managed to continue into the 1960s, when it also had to close its doors.

Harvey Mudd College shares university resources such as libraries, dining halls, health services, and campus security, with the other institutions in the Claremont Colleges, including Pitzer College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, but each college is independently managed by its own faculty, board of trustees, and college endowment and has its own separate admissions process.

Under the protocol signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.