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Though devastated by the loss, at fifty-five years of age, Beaux remained highly productive.
Shortly after her death, Gable ( who was inconsolable and devastated by her loss ) joined the United States Army Air Forces, as Lombard had asked him to do numerous times after the United States had entered World War II.
These murals, the Golden Age and the Iron Age, were begun in 1843 with an ardour which gradually slackened until Ingres, devastated by the loss of his wife on 27 July 1849, abandoned all hope of their completion and the contract with the Duc de Luynes was finally cancelled.
This loss not only devastated the family but also put the continuation of the Bourbon dynasty in jeopardy, as the Duke of Angoulême's marriage had not produced any children.
Culann is devastated by the loss of his hound, so Sétanta promises he will rear him a replacement, and until it is old enough to do the job, he himself will guard Culann's house.
Merman was devastated at this turn of events and called the loss of the role " the greatest professional disappointment of my life.
However, the loss of surrounding marsh lands to erosion and subsidence allowed the energy of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge to overtop the levee system and the area was devastated yet again.
Maud, devastated and heartbroken by the loss of her husband and two eldest children, was still determined to make a life for herself and her family in America, and in February 1913, Maud and her four remaining children sailed to New York aboard the White Star Line's Oceanic and settled in North Wales permanently.
Clift was reportedly devastated over his loss and was sent an honorary small golden bugle award by the movie's producers, which he treasured for the rest of his life.
Vast tracts of Henry Street, North Earl Street, Eden Quay and parts of Abbey Street were also devastated, resulting in a loss of rates for Dublin Corporation and a rise in unemployment in the city.
Christian Renatus, whom Nicholas had hoped to make his successor, died in 1752 and the loss devastated him.
A combination of the loss of the Cairo Gang, which devastated British Intelligence in Ireland, and the public relations disaster that was Bloody Sunday severely damaged the cause of British rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under Éamon de Valera.
Éponine is shot as she returns to the barricades and dies in Marius's arms (" A Little Fall of Rain "), leaving Marius devastated at the loss of his friend (" Night of Anguish ").
These parites ceased when Violante Beatrice died, in 1731 ; Gian Gastone was devastated by the loss of his beloved sister-in-law.
Alexander said " we never thought we would lose " and that they were " devastated by the loss ".
The loss of the pennant devastated Traynor.
Although devastated by the loss of his longtime companion and collaborator, " Sir Bobby " continued to act, direct and produce with his legendary theatrical flair until his death.
Poland was compensated for this territorial loss with the prewar German eastern territories much of which had been devastated during the war, and had been looted and pillaged by the Red Army.
Depressed by his financial situation, loss of eyesight and devastated by the death of his wife in 1887, he became very lonely.
Disappointed over Robbie's loss of ambition, Linda changes her mind on their wedding day and leaves Robbie standing at the altar, emotionally devastated.
Cristina is devastated by the loss and returns to drugs and alcohol.
Charlotte was devastated by this loss, which she experienced as an abandonment by her sister.
Strasser's loss, a national hero, devastated the German public, still mourning the death of Manfred von Richthofen.
It shows him seemingly devastated by the 1966 World Cup Finals loss, walking off the pitch hunched over.

loss and Montgomery
Marion Montgomery, writing in T. S. Eliot: an Essay on the American Magus, equates the loss of these senses with the mindset that controls the narrative of the poem.
The Braves opened their inaugural season in Trustmark Park with a loss against the Montgomery Biscuits.
The loss of the field would have been a serious blow to the local Montgomery, Ala economy.
" And then afterward, as Montgomery would later recall " Our last conversation at the series was talking about the loss of Representative Leland, and I told Larkin that he should be careful in traveling and performing his duties.
It is believed that Wallace's loss resulted from the shift of most of the district's African-American voters, particularly in Montgomery, to 7th district, which had been reconfigured as a black-majority district after the 1990 census in accordance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

loss and insisted
Some of the settlers forgave Boone the loss ; others insisted he repay the stolen money, which took him several years to do.
Notwithstanding considerable loss of blood, after lying on a stretcher for awhile, he insisted on getting up and personally directing the further attack.
He had suffered serious knee ligament damage in a loss to Musōyama on the 14th day but he insisted on fighting on to the end of the tournament.
This was unusual, given that if Walton had indeed been gone for five days with little or no food as he insisted ( and as his weight loss suggested ), his body should have begun breaking down fats in order to survive, and this should have led to very high levels of ketone in his urine.
To illustrate the multiple personifications of psyche Hillman made reference to gods, goddesses, demingods and other imaginal figures which he referred to as sounding boards " for echoing life today or as bass chords giving resonance to the little melodies of daily life " although he insisted that these figures should not be used as a ' master matrix ' against which we should measure today and thereby decry modern loss of richness.
The lord of the manor, having incurred a very great expense in building the church and parsonage and having suffered a loss of income due to his donation of property to the glebe, quite reasonably insisted on the right to select the individual who would act as parish priest, from which office he could not be ejected by the lord until the priest's death.
He considered it a book for reading rather than playing on the stage, and was agreeably surprised when Lawrence Langner in New York and Barry Vincent Jackson in Birmingham insisted on producing it despite expectations of monetary loss, which were promptly justified.
Being again wounded, he was forced by weakness and loss of blood to be evacuated, but insisted upon being taken first to the battalion commander in order to transmit to him valuable information relative to enemy positions and the disposition of our men.

loss and on
Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.
He sympathized with them on the loss of their old pastor.
and translate the whole into profit and loss and balance sheet figures which management can act on with some assurance??
These losses depend on fiber diameter and length, absorption coefficient, the mean value of the loss per internal reflection and last, but not least, on the angular distribution of the incident light.
`` The important thing from now on '', he said, `` is not to mourn the past but to seize the future opportunity to prevent the loss in northern Viet Nam from leading to the extension of Communism throughout Southeast Asia ''.
Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.
Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.
* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt – Regensburg mission.
He is immediately at a loss, and knows not what to answer ... a Pyrrhonian cannot expect, that his philosophy will have any constant influence on the mind: or if it had, that its influence would be beneficial to society.
Stradling and half a dozen of the crew survived the loss of their ship, but were made prisoners by the Spanish, as the War of the Spanish Succession was going on ( England and the Netherlands were in conflict with France and Spain over who was to be King of Spain ).
In his 1972 book American Criminal Justice, Jonathan D. Caplan comments on the Supreme Court decision, noting, " The Alford decision recognizes the plea-bargaining system, acknowledging that a man may maintain his innocence but still plead guilty in order to minimize his potential loss.
He twice ran away from home without permission to hear his elder brother play violin concertos in neighboring churches on festival days ( resulting in the loss of his beloved sugar ), and he also recounted being chastised by his father after failing to greet a local priest with proper respect.
Co-currently with no selling profit on the player, Roma net loss was enlarged to € 30, 589, 137 (€ 30. 778 million as a group ) and the new owner already planned a re-capitalization after the mandatory bid on the shares.
The results of this work was the report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which was published in December 2005 and concluded that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment.
Humanity has progressively evolved an increasing reliance on intellectual faculties and a corresponding loss of intuitive or clairvoyant experiences, which have become atavistic.
The increasing intellectualization of consciousness, initially a progressive direction of evolution, has led to an excessive reliance on abstraction and a loss of contact with both natural and spiritual realities.
The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.
Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.
Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.
Because there is no selection pressure for sight in this environment, any number of genetic abnormalities that give rise to the damage or loss of eyes could proliferate among the population with no effect on the fitness of the population.
It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.
Nevertheless, these financially troubled leagues, by beginning the practice of selling players to the more affluent National and American leagues, embarked on a path that eventually led to the loss of their independent status.

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