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Swiftly, he dispatched the megas domestikos John Axouch ahead of him, with orders to arrest his most dangerous potential rival, his brother Isaac, who was living in the Great Palace with instant access to the imperial treasure and regalia.
Swiftly spun off into their own title in Oct / Nov 1960, the Justice League would become the backbone of the DC Universe, and thanks to the concept of the multiverse, regularly engage in annual " team-up " s with their 1940s counter-parts, the Justice Society in tales written by Fox.
Swiftly defeating the local Ottoman forces and overrunning the province, Ibrahim crushed an Ottoman army in Anatolia and prepared to march on Constantinople.
Swiftly Taksin made a strategic plan and under it recaptured Ayutthaya in one year.
Its motto is Scite, Cite, Certo, Latin for Skilfully, Swiftly, Surely.
* In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, a family, descended from the legendary Madoc, whose decisions determine the course of human history.
The original blue dust jacket by Ellen Raskin was replaced with new art by Leo and Diane Dillon with the publication of A Swiftly Tilting Planet in 1978.
Note that although Many Waters was published approximately eight years after A Swiftly Tilting Planet, it takes place several years earlier, when Sandy and Dennys are in high school and Meg is in college.
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one ; a shifting harmony of subpatterns.
The action of the story follows that of A Wind in the Door but precedes the climactic, apocalyptic events of A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Written after A Swiftly Tilting Planet, it nevertheless takes place about five years before that book, and about five years after A Wrinkle in Time.
Madeleine L ' Engle's 1978 science fiction novel A Swiftly Tilting Planet imagines a descendant of Madoc who threatens the world with nuclear annihilation.
* L ' Engle, Madeleine ( 1978 ): A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
" The Echthroi reappear in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, trying to prevent Charles Wallace from reaching key moments in history in a bid to save the world from nuclear destruction.
In 1996, Kerr, in his book of that year called Swiftly Seasoned, created the concept of a " Moulded Ethnic Vegetable ", a baked combination of starches and vegetables seasoned with flavours characteristic of different ethnic cuisines.
Swiftly breached, the city was then assaulted by the 40th regiment and the elite 95th ( Rifle ) regiment.
Swiftly replacing the existing constitution with one strengthening the powers of the presidency, he became the elected president in December of that year, inaugurating France's Fifth Republic.
Morley and Bowes reunited in 2002 for the soul influenced album Moving Swiftly Along.
Swiftly establishing himself as head propagandist, it is not long before Featherston, aided by Party member Ferdinand Koenig, becomes its leader.
Swiftly falling in with a so called " word anarchist " named Warren, she might come face to face with the slowly degenerating Book, who is distraught and unhinged over his master's death by possibly his own hands.
# Swiftly remove the old keystone and insert the new one, then give it a tap with the mallet.
Through kything, humans can be together inside a subcellular mitochondrion, as seen in A Wind in the Door, or in communication despite being centuries apart, as seen in A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Meg also spends much of A Swiftly Tilting Planet kything with her brother, Charles Wallace, thus experiencing vicariously his travels in time while supporting his efforts with research and prayer.
The Arm of the Starfish is Poly's first appearance, as such, but Meg Murry O ' Keefe was pregnant with her at the time of A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

came and revulsion
For instance, many of the figures who came to be best associated with plural marriage, including Church President Brigham Young and his counselor Heber C. Kimball, expressed revulsion at the system when it was first introduced to them.
His main argument is that " German troops developed a revulsion towards the ' East ', and came to think of it as a timeless region beset by chaos, disease and barbarism ", instead of what it really was, a region suffering from the ravages of warfare.

came and protest
When direct action came to the fore again in the 1980s, it was generally accepted by the peace movement as a normal part of protest.
On the following Bastille Day, Galois was at the head of a protest, wearing the uniform of the disbanded artillery, and came heavily armed with several pistols, a rifle, and a dagger.
The opportunity came from the Khilafat movement, a worldwide protest by Muslims against the collapsing status of the Caliph, the leader of their religion.
The discipline came into its own in the 1960s and early 70s when inexpensive tape recorders were available to document such rising social movements as civil rights, feminism, and anti – Vietnam War protest.
When Admiral Bokhari heard the news, a strong and powerful protest was launched against the Prime minister and the silent cold war with the admiral came to end with Prime minister approving the relieving papers of Admiral Bokhari the next morning.
That action led to a protest from the citizens of Flushing, Queens, which came to be known as the Flushing Remonstrance, considered by some a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.
The divisive issue of flag desecration as a form of protest first came before the Supreme Court in Street v. New York,.
On 1 August 1853, a large body of rural labourers came to Road Town to protest the tax.
Trocchi claimed that this journal came to an end when the US State Department canceled its many subscriptions in protest over an article by Jean-Paul Sartre praising the homoeroticism of Jean Genet.
The turning point came in June when a Buddhist monk, Quảng Đức, set himself on fire in the middle of a busy Saigon intersection in protest of Diệm ’ s policies ; photos of this event were disseminated around the world, and for many people these pictures came to represent the failure of Diệm's government.
However, the new tax was received with violent protest from the privileged classes sitting in the provincial estates ( états provinciaux ) of the few provinces which still kept the right to decide over taxation ( most provinces had long lost their provincial estates, theétats provinciaux, and the right to decide over taxation that came with it ).
" Keitel admonished Canaris to go no further with his protest as the detailed plan of atrocities came directly from Hitler, himself.
The demonstration — the biggest anti-Martelly protest since he came to power in May — showed that Aristide still enjoys a measure of popularity.
When this party came into power Madvig became Kultus Minister in the Cabinet of Moltke II and III, but left the cabinet on 7 December 1851 as a protest against the government's unity state program.
Myrmidon later came to mean " hired ruffian " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ) or " a loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity-unquestioning followers.
Next, testimony came from 27 teenagers and young adults who were former school children who testified to being the only survivors of the 180 children who were arrested and died in April 1979 after they threw rocks at Bokassa's passing Rolls-Royce during the students protest over wearing the costly school uniforms which they were forced to purchase from a factory owned by one of his wives.
) Despite their initial protest, the local citizens eventually came to welcome the government's presence, as it brought life back into their near-dead economy.
In what became known as the July Days, approximately half a million came out onto the streets of Petrograd in protest, including soldiers and sailors ; Lenin proved incapable of directing them into an organised coup.
Hiei came down from their mountain to protest a dispute with Minamoto Yoshitsuna and other government officials which had led to military action and bloodshed.
Its claims to be a populist and Western protest party came under attack in 1997, when Manning accepted an offer to live at Stornoway, the official residence provided to the leader of the Official Opposition.
At all times conspicuous for his eloquence, honesty and recalcitrancy, he twice came with especial prominence before the public — in 1838, when, although at the time without a seat in parliament, he appeared at the bar of the Commons to protest, in the name of the Canadian Assembly, against the suspension of the Canadian constitution ; and in 1855, when, having overthrown Lord Aberdeen's ministry by carrying a resolution for the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the mismanagement in the Crimean War, he presided over its proceedings.
On February 9, the conservative public of Bavaria came out onto the streets in protest.
They finally came to a compromise: she would return home for six months, and if she still wanted to return to New York City at the end of the six months, her mother would not protest further.

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