The only lasting difficulty was the food.

Pavia offered stiff resistance however, and was only taken after a siege lasting three years.

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

Salieri's next two operas were not particular or lasting successes, of the two only La secchia rapita ( The Stolen Bucket ), deserves mention.

Its title track, though only reaching number 24 in the UK singles chart, gained lasting popularity, and within months had been released in both German and French.

President Mirza announced that " the martial law would be a temporary measure, lasting only until a new constitution was to be drafted.

Many bands record simple phrases that may be rhythmically sprawled out across an instrumental lasting only a couple of bars in length.

A characteristic of some grindcore songs is the " microsong ", lasting only a few seconds.

According to a very common legend, Count Andrássy had a long lasting romance with Queen Elisabeth ( Sissy ), wife of Emperor and King Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary, and fathered their only son, Archduke Rudolf.

Benton's rural American subject matter shaped Pollock's work only fleetingly, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting influences.

' Richly flavored in melodies, sounds, styles and emotions, ' Forever Changes ' is lasting testament to the creative fury of the ' 60s, when rock wasn't about marketing, image or career paths, and only the music really mattered.

ABC's contribution to the music video program genre in 1984, ABC Rocks, was far less successful, lasting only a year.

All mesons are unstable, with the longest-lived lasting for only a few hundredths of a microsecond.

The Assembly usually holds only two meetings annually, each lasting a few days ; this is the shortest meeting time of any parliament.

* The New World Order, a 1944 book by Maulana Muhammad Ali arguing that only Islam can establish lasting world peace

Pain is usually transitory, lasting only until the noxious stimulus is removed or the underlying damage or pathology has healed, but some painful conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, peripheral neuropathy, cancer and idiopathic pain, may persist for years.

The end result has been sacrifice of a beautiful yet delicate ecology that has been in harmony for hundreds of years, for structures that are erected only a few years, yet will have a lasting detrimental effect.

Courtship and mating are very brief, lasting only 30 to 40 seconds.

This was followed two months later by Out There on CBS only lasting twelve episodes.

Open clusters are often dominated by hot young blue stars, because although such stars are short-lived in stellar terms, only lasting a few tens of millions of years, open clusters tend to have dispersed before these stars die.

* The Air nomads from Avatar: Last Airbender & Legend of Korra, A theocratic senate that was kill by fire nation and let a war lasting century and later revived years later that only 4 Airbenders living in other nation 70 years in legend of korra.

Brain injury may still occur in a TIA lasting only a few minutes.

It may be constant, intermittent or happening only when the vulva is touched, but vulvodynia is usually defined as lasting for years.

But material aggrandisement, though the only tangible, is not the only real or lasting effect of a war policy.

Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

In this letter, Mr. Kennedy made it clear that he limited his comment only to one consideration -- what effect the legislative proposals might have on future anti-trust judgments.

The only effect of lack of a center would then be to release the hydrogen atoms to occupy general, rather than special, positions along the ( 111 ) axis.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.

It means to do it and to know one is doing it, but as only a secondary if certain effect of the good one primarily does and intends.

Presumably, if the reverse is the case and the good effect is more certain than the evil result that may be forthcoming, not only must the good and the evil be prudentially weighed and found proportionate, but also calculation of the probabilities and of the degree of certainty or uncertainty in the good or evil effect must be taken into account.

; Fixed effect: An effect associated with an input variable that has a limited number of levels or in which only a limited number of levels are of interest to the experimenter.

Eta-squared is a biased estimator of the variance explained by the model in the population ( it estimates only the effect size in the sample ).

* Substitutionary effect of atonement – Arminians also affirm with Calvinists the substitutionary effect of Christ's atonement and that this effect is limited only to the elect.

Hera, after requesting Zeus to swear an oath to that effect, descended from Olympus to Argos and made the wife of Sthenelus ( a son of Perseus ) give birth to Eurystheus after only seven months, while at the same time preventing Alcmene from delivering Heracles.

For Hume, every effect only follows its cause arbitrarily — they are entirely distinct from one another.

Eight further provisions of the act would only come into effect upon the death of both William and Anne:

The major stimulus to produce aldosterone is angiotensin II while ACTH from the pituitary only produces a transient effect.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

It was also suggested that individual genes are likely to have only a small effect and to be involved in some aspect related to the disorder ( and a broad range of " normal " human behavior ) rather than the disorder per se.

The only noticeable effect was the smashing of Timoléons rudder by misdirected fire from the neighbouring Généreux.

He came to the view that private charity would never be sufficient to alleviate poverty, and only massive action and income redistribution by the state would have any serious effect.

The inhibitor can produce this effect by e. g. selectively poisoning only certain types of active sites.