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Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".
Seizing the opportunity to win sympathy with the People, Tiberius dressed in mourning clothes and paraded his children in front of the Assembly, pleading for the protection of him and his kin.
Seizing on this weakness, and a discontent with the British South Africa Company, the Ndebele revolted during March 1896 in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence, the First Chimurenga, but it is better known to most of the world as the Second Matabele War.
Seizing the initiative in the early afternoon, Gronau's two divisions attacked with light artillery and infantry into the gathering Sixth Army and pushed it back into a defensive posture before the planned allied assault for the following day, but the threat to the French offensive by Kluck's wheeled First Army in this preliminary Battle of the Ourcq () ignored the allied forces advancing against his right flank, and was later reduced both by the arrival of the taxicab reinforcements from Paris and orders for Kluck to retreat to the Aisne River, delivered by Moltke's staff officer, Oberstleutnant Richard Hentsch.
Seizing the opportunity of Berlin's distraction with the European War ( which would become World War I ) and wanting to expand its sphere of influence in China, Japan declared war on Germany on August 23, 1914, and quickly occupied German-leased territories in China's Shandong Province and the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Seizing on the distinctly postmodern techniques of digression, narrative fragmentation and elaborate symbolism, and strongly influenced by the works of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace began his writing career with The Broom of the System, published to moderate acclaim in 1987.
File: Johann Heinrich Füssli-Lady Macbeth with the Daggers-WGA8338. jpg | Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, 1810-12
Seizing on an incorrect date in the pamphlet, Brownlee dismissed the charges — which were substantially true, in light of his 1941 joint brief with Biggar — as factually incorrect.
Seizing the opportunity to hobnob with someone from a wealthier class, Babbitt invites the McKelveys to a dinner party.
Seizing the opportunity to build a coalition with dissident Conservatives, Mercier revived the " Parti National " name for the 1886 Quebec provincial election, and won a majority of seats.
Seizing this first and tenuous possibility, the President's forecastle bow chasers fired the first shot of the war, by Rodgers himself, with two more almost immediately following.
Grodd returns as the primary adversary of Batman, Detective Chimp, B ' wana Beast, and Vixen in the episode " Gorillas in Our Midst ", forming an alliance with Monsieur Mallah and Gorilla Boss to create an ape army called G. A. S. P ( short for Gorillas and Apes Seizing Power ) to take over the world.
Seizing this opportunity, Puger assumed the throne in the ruins of Plered with the title Susuhanan ing Alaga.
He was coeditor along with Ron Sakolsky of Seizing the Airwaves.
Seizing the advantage presented by the infighting, the Qing dispatched their navy with Shi Lang at the head, destroying the Zheng fleet at the Penghu Islands.
Seizing lands from the local population by conquest and colonizing them with incoming Russian peasants, the Stroganovs developed farming, hunting, saltworks, fishing, and ore mining in these areas.

Seizing and forced
Seizing on this action and the popular unrest it engendered, the army forced the president to resign on May 10, 1950.

Seizing and her
Seizing her moment to shine, Daisy lines up her Hippos and performs a massive jump off of the lift and over the Hippos.
Seizing the advantage, Belvera controls Wakaba and uses her to torment her brother Taiki, reminding Belvera of her hatred towards her sisters.
Seizing her chance for company that night, she welcomes him inside and the two reminisce on old times.

Seizing and .
Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.
Seizing on this opportunity, Shapur II began a series of attacks into Roman North Mesopotamia.
Seizing upon a power vacuum after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan after their invasion, the Taliban assumed the role of government from 1996 – 2001.
Seizing its opportunity, the Spartan fleet sailed at once to the Hellespont, the source of Athens ' grain.
Seizing the opportunity Jefferson acted contrary to the lack of an explicit Constitutional authority, and the Federalists criticized him for acting without that authority, but most thought that this opportunity was exceptional and could not be missed.
Seizing an opportunity to deny Jefferson the presidency, most Federalists voted for Burr, giving Burr six of the eight states controlled by Federalists.
Seizing power on 1 April 1941, the nationalist government of Prime Minister Rashid Ali repudiated the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930 and demanded that the British abandon their military bases and withdraw from the country.
Seizing the opportunity, the Greek fleet formed in line and scored a decisive victory, sinking or capturing at least 300 Persian ships.
Seizing the opportunity, the liberals in Parliament began drafting resolutions, complaints, and censures against the king.
Image: Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru. jpg | Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru ( 1846 ), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Image: Benjamin Seizes Daughter of Shiloh. jpg | The Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh ( 1847 )
Seizing control of the planet, Paul Atreides intensifies this form of hydraulic despotism by asserting control over both the Landsraad and Spacing Guild, as well as other factions in the universe.
Seizing this opportunity, Masinissa led his Numidian cavalry and charged at the Carthaginian left wing, also composed of Numidian cavalry, and was unknowingly lured off the field.
Seizing his chance, the crazed sniper tries to kill Navin, but fails, hitting the oil cans in the station window and a soft-drink machine.
Seizing their chance, the Manchus crossed the Great Wall after Ming border general Wu Sangui opened the gates at Shanhai Pass, and quickly overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty.

bridle and with
An underhalter is a lightweight halter or headcollar which is made with only one small buckle, and can be worn under a bridle for tethering a horse without untacking.
An English bridle with cavesson noseband
* Standing martingale: A design with one strap that runs from the girth or the chest and attaches to the noseband of the bridle.
There are varying tales as to how Bellerophon found Pegasus ; the most common says that the hero was told by Polyeidos to sleep in the temple of Athena, where the goddess visited him in the night and presented him with a golden bridle.
Crassus, despondent at the death of his son Publius in the battle, finally agreed to meet the Parthian general ; however, when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus ' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus.
Upper level and FEI dressage horses are shown in a double bridle, using both a bradoon and a curb bit with a smooth curb chain.
Event horses are turned out similarly to dressage horses, with the legs and face ( muzzle, jaw, sides of ears, bridle path ) neatly clipped.
With a snaffle bridle, the rider is also free to use the drop, flash, or grackle noseband, with the flash and plain cavesson being the most common.
When Jacob confronted the redcoats, they bound him to a tree with a bridle bit in his mouth.
Who would approach him with a bridle?
I was returning from high school one day and a runaway horse with a bridle on sped past a group of us into a farmer's yard looking for a drink of water.
Little occurred on the summit itself until the mid-19th century, when it was developed into one of the first tourist destinations in the nation, with construction of more bridle paths and two hotels.
The Model 1777 also featured a slanted brass flash pan and bridle, and a modified trigger guard with two rear finger ridges.
Socrates also reports that, having also found the nails with which Christ had been fastened to the cross, Helena sent these to Constantinople, where they were incorporated into the emperor's helmet and the bridle of his horse.
Wives who were seen as witches, shrews and scolds, were forced to wear a brank's bridle, which had been locked on the head of the woman and sometimes had a ring and chain attached to it so her husband could parade her around town and the town's people could scold her and treat her with contempt ; at times smearing excrement on her and beating her, sometimes to death.
In Walton on Thames, in England, a scold's bridle is displayed in the vestry of the church, dated 1633, with the inscription " Chester presents Walton with a bridle, To curb women's tongues that talk too idle.
The Groningen is typically shown in a white bridle without a cavesson, traditionally braided with contrasting white and green ribbons.
He was determined to bring order to the land, bridle the unsubmissive secular and ecclesiastic feudal lords, centralize the state administration, form a new type of army that would stand up better to the Seljuk Turkish military organization, and then go over to a methodical offensive with the aim of expelling the Seljuks first from Georgia and then from the whole Caucasus.
However, it quickly became clear that a wagon road would be too expensive ; a bridle path with some bridges was built instead.
The girl hit the brook horse with the bridle and cried: " Disappear you scoundrel, or you'll have to plough so you'll never forget it.
Hybrid kites, together with bow kites and later Delta kites are all subtypes of a SLE-kite ( Supported Leading Edge ), defined by having a bridle which supports the leading edge.

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