Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Vasco da Gama" ¶ 17
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

remained and for
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.
It remained, however, for Mando to teach me that Doric symbolized strength, Ionic wisdom, and Corinthian beauty, the three pillars of the ancient world.
Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.
In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.
His earlier love for literature and history remained with him for his entire life.
This saved for state adjudication, in the first instance, the two major areas where federal injunctions had been most obnoxious, but other areas remained vulnerable.
This circumstance in the patient's case plus the fact that his tactual capacity remained basically in sound working order constitutes its exceptional value for the problem at hand since the evidence presented by the authors is overwhelming that, when the patient closed his eyes, he had absolutely no spatial ( that is, third-dimensional ) awareness whatsoever.
I am told that a mortar longer slaked might have remained longer in condition for painting.
Interest remained, however, in the possibility that it would serve as a useful supplementary method for counteracting spoilage losses and for preserving some foods at lower over-all costs than freezing, or without employing heat or chemicals with their attendant taste alterations.
The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.
It remained in force for ten years and has been renewed at five-year intervals since 1925.
Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.
There still remained the need for one great film artist to explore the full potential of the new form and to make it an art.
He remained there for four years before moving to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y..
Just how many sub secrets were being handed over when the ring, watched for six months, was broken remained untold.
But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.
Her words remained with him, worrying him for hours.
Aristotle remained at the academy for nearly twenty years before quitting Athens in 348 / 47 BC.
These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

remained and explorer
Hudson knew he had to use these men as long as he remained an explorer.
Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.
The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.
The Gold Coast region remained largely uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when explorer John Oxley landed at Mermaid Beach.
The region remained largely uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when explorer John Oxley landed at Mermaid Beach, which was named after seeing a mermaid at the shor., a cutter named Mermaid.
Sherborne was also home to Captain Christopher Levett, a Yorkshire native who came to the West Country as His Majesty's Woodward of Somersetshire, and who remained in Sherborne as he turned to a career as a naval captain and early explorer of New England.
* The lives of early Alaskans remained basically unchanged for thousands of years, until Russian sailors, led by Danish explorer Vitus Bering, sighted Alaska's mainland in 1741.
During the Wilkes Expedition, American explorer Charles Wilkes renamed the island Rodgers Island ; the Spanish name remained on British nautical charts and over time became the island's official name.
Stefansson remained a well-known explorer for the rest of his life.
Oraibi remained unknown to European explorers until about 1540 when Spanish explorer Don Pedro de Tovar ( who was part of the Coronado expedition ) encountered the Hopi while searching for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold.

remained and prove
Although some 60, 000 to 80, 000 Russian soldiers of the former Tsar's army remained stationed in Finland at the start of the Civil War, the Russian contribution to the Red Guards ' cause was to prove negligible.
It would prove to be only a limited success for Rome ; the Danube river remained as the frontier of the Empire until the final fall of the West.
It remained for Sir J. J. Thomson to discover their subatomic nature, and to prove that cathode rays consist of streams of negative electrons, that is, of negatively electrified particles whose mass is only 1 / 1840 that of a hydrogen atom.
Soon other companies followed but it did not prove popular and remained on the market only until 1942.
Although his religious poems sufficiently prove the sincerity of his Catholicism, he remained to the end of his days opposed to the extreme claims of the popes, whom he attacks with a bitterness which can be justified only by the strength of his patriotic feelings.
Now facing serious competition both within GM and from Ford, Dodge, and Plymouth — particularly the low-cost Plymouth Road Runner — the GTO won Motor Trends Car of the Year award, and sales remained strong at 87, 684 ( which would ultimately prove to be the second-best sales year for the GTO ).
The last of the Big Three would prove to be a harder nut to crack, as Henry Ford remained absolutely opposed to unions.
While Hyndman and the SDF used scare tactics about some impending national catastrophe that would prove the catalyst for socialist revolution in the mid-1880s, his eyes remained on the parliamentary prize.
Ironically, Wa had a good trade relationship with Shou Lung, whom the Waans were once at war with, and anyone from Wa was granted Shou citizenship if they could prove that they had Shou ancestry, since many Shou soldiers remained in Wa and intermarried with the locals after the Omi War.
Moses remained adamant, and it was only an order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, via military channels, which restored the tunnel project, on the grounds that a bridge built seaward of the Brooklyn Navy Yard would prove a hazard to national defense.
But one discovery remained unknown to Chinese researchers until the turn of the millennium: in the Lop Nur desert, Sven Hedin discovered in 1933 and 1934 ruins of signal towers which prove that the Great Wall of China once extended to Xinjiang.
He remained as a backbencher long enough to prove his left-wing credentials by supporting the strategy, subsequently held to be illegal, of refusing to set a GLC rate as a protest at ratecapping.
However, the restrictions on non-EU nationals remained in place, unless those players could prove that they had spent at least three years playing for a youth team in the sport in Germany.
It was initially served by a canon appointed by the prior but this did not prove satisfactory either, in 1414 the church was established as a full parish in its own right, which it has remained ever since.
It may be worth noting that the user in the Zeidenberg case had purchased and opened the packages of multiple copies of the product, and therefore could not easily prove he remained ignorant of the contract / license ; whereas in many cases, the so-called shrink-wrap " license " agreement has not been reviewed at the time of purchase ( having been hidden inside the box ), and therefore is arguably not part of the implicit legal agreement accompanying the sale of the copy, and is thus not enforceable by either party without further " manifestation of assent " to its terms.
Björk remained a close friend to Jóhanna, dedicating a song to her on her 1997 album Homogenic, while Einar would prove to be an important political ally to Jón in the years to come.
That Edward remained single until he wed Marguerite of France in 1299 is often cited to prove he cherished Eleanor's memory.
A March 13 trade which shipped Udoh, Brown and Monta Ellis to the Milwaukee Bucks for Stephen Jackson and the out-for-the-season Andrew Bogut thrust Biedriņš back into the starting lineup, where he remained until Jackson decided to give rookie Jeremy Tyler a chance to prove himself at the beginning of April.
He disagrees with Gibbon's pessimistic view of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, pointing out that ' The mere notion of empire continuing to decline and fall for five centuries is ridiculous ' and remarking that ' this is one of the cases which prove that History is made not so much by heroes or natural forces as by historians ', since ' if all the Roman historians had perished and only the inscriptions remained we should have a very different picture of the Roman Empire, a picture much brighter and, I think, much more faithful to truth.
) By the 4th century, most of the Pyu had become predominantly Buddhist, though archaeological finds prove that their pre-Buddhist practices remained firmly entrenched in the following centuries.
During the lame duck session in early 1903, Smith commented upon the trip, saying " I met the committee — I never could have overtaken it — at Phoenix and it remained one day ... and ' investigated ' a police judge and some census enumerators, and had an interpreter with them scouting the town to see whether some Mexicans could be found who could not speak English and prove valuable witnesses for the purpose of the investigation.
The currency, though reduced, was perfectly sound ; the credit remained unimpaired, and no imputation or suspicion of fraud or public dishonor rested on the fair fame of the Commonwealth ; while every consideration conspired to prove that the people of the State, as far as their condition was affected by the action of the State Government, were still preeminently prosperous and happy .”

0.828 seconds.