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In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.
Ritter died in 1810 and Oersted not only lived to see the event occur but was the author of it.
In any event, the extraordinary result of this injury was that he became `` psychically blind '', while at the same time, apparently, the sense of touch remained essentially intact.
One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.
But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.
The event was so successful that the Interior Secretary plans to serve as impresario for similar ones from time to time, hoping thereby to add to the cultural enrichment of the Administration.
Followin' such an event there was usually a harvest of `` fallen hides '', and the ranchers needed skinnin' knives instead of brandin' irons.
They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.
A vague feeling that Anthony Payne had had it coming was hardly a thought and was, in any event, reprehensible.
to Joan Sheldon the conditional bequest of ten thousand to be paid to her in the event that she was still in Mrs. Meeker's employ at the time of the latter's death.
The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.
She was moving up to the allowance department after winning a $10,000 claiming event.
The board's last money raising event was a performance by Harry Belafonte -- `` quite off-beat for this group '', decided some of the members.
Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.
The work was presented as the final event in the Town Hall Festival of Music.
When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.
He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be " tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.
His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.
The conduct of David after the event was such as to show that he had no complicity in the act, though he could not venture to punish its perpetrators ( 2 Samuel 3: 31-39 ; cf.

event and pivotal
The pivotal event of the book is an appearance of Jesus Christ to the Americas shortly after his resurrection.
The quick and decisive defeat of the Arab troops during the Six-Day War by Israeli troops constituted a pivotal event in the Arab Muslim world.
* The sack of Lindisfarne monastery by a fleet of opportunistic Vikings is a pivotal event in Charles Barnitz ' historical fantasy / adventure, The Deepest Sea ( 1996 )
Scott's orchestration of King George IV's visit to Scotland, in 1822 was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that, in his view, accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-mediaeval blood-letting to be put to rest and the envisioning of a more useful, hopefully peaceful future.
Destinations for such pilgrims can include historic sites of national or cultural importance, and can be defined as places " of cultural significance: an artist's home, the location of a pivotal event or an iconic destination.
A pivotal event in the history of the Naskapis occurred in early 1975, when, after separate visits to Schefferville by Billy Diamond, Grand Chief, Grand Council of the Crees ( of Quebec ) (" GCCQ "), and Charlie Watt, President, Northern Quebec Inuit Association (" NQIA "), the Naskapis decided to become involved in the negotiations leading to the signature of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (" JBNQA ").
This situation came to a head with the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a pivotal event described in Nat Brandt's book The Town That Started the Civil War.
The Tennis Court Oath () was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution.
1997 marked another major pivotal year for the event.
Later, he described this event as a pivotal moment which inspired the course of his teachings.
The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
However, like Manzikert, Myriokephalon was a pivotal event and following it the balance between the two powers in Anatolia gradually began to shift, for Manuel never again launched a strategically offensive campaign against the Turks and remained on the defensive.
The resulting 228 Incident became a pivotal event in the shaping of modern Taiwanese identity.
The following year, the brutal suppression by Soviet forces of a large peaceful demonstration held in Tbilisi on April 4 – 9, 1989 proved to be a pivotal event in discrediting the continuation of Soviet rule over the country.
Focusing on key passages in the books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation, Lindsey originally suggested the possibility that these climactic events might play out in the 1980s, which he interpreted as one generation from the foundation of modern Israel in 1948, a pivotal event in most evangelical ( especially conservative evangelical ) schools of eschatological thought.
This pivotal event remains shrouded in mystery because its outcome has become an object of contention ( and considerable historical rewriting ) between pro-Vietnamese and anti-Vietnamese Khmer communist factions.
The deaths and the reaction to them has been described as a pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution when any " hope for compromise " between the protest movement and the Shah's regime was extinguished.
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was a pivotal event in Czechoslovakia's political development.
This was to be a pivotal event in the British Poetry Revival, bringing together poets who were separated geographically and in terms of poetic influences and encouraging them to support and publish each other's work.
The next year, she witnessed the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a pivotal event in her life.
She also referred to the Sponsorship scandal as " a pivotal event with a lasting impact " and " broke just about every rule in the book ".
A pivotal silk trade historical event was caused by Justinian I the Byzantine Emperor.
The Battle of the Alamo ( February 23 – March 6, 1836 ) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.
But it was his conquest of Kalinga which proved to be the pivotal event of his life.

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