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The preliminaries were not yet finished when a noisy mob gathered with the purpose of saving him ; the king's mother, Joan of Kent, also took up his cause.
After various preliminaries, his nephew was forced to abdicate the throne to Charles IX as regent in 1595 by the Riksens ständer, which eventually kicked off nearly seven decades of sporadic warfare as the two lines of the divided House of Vasa both continued to attempt to remake the union between the Polish and Swedish thrones with opposing counter-claims and dynastic wars.
Marlborough had long had doubts about the Whig policy of ' No Peace without Spain ', but he was reluctant to abandon his allies ( including the Elector of Hanover, Anne's heir presumptive ), and sided with the Whigs in opposing the peace preliminaries.
Charlotte's brother Adolf Friedrich IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and widowed mother, who actively sought a prominent marriage for the young princess, received him with every honour that the little court was capable of showing him, and he returned within a month of his departure after completing all the necessary preliminaries, well pleased with his mission.
He was then charged with announcing to the French Directory the signature of the peace preliminaries at Leoben.
") Ironing Pappy's trousers fell under her wifely duties as well, although she didn't bother with preliminaries — like waiting for Pappy to remove them first.
National preliminaries were held between March and September, with the main tournament running between 5 December to 9 December.
The World Cyber Games quoted an attendance of 389, 000 competitors in the preliminaries, with 430 players advancing to the final tournament ; teams from 24 countries in total were involved in the tournament.
Fine won the 1941 U. S. Open at St. Louis, with 4 / 5 in the preliminaries, and 8 / 9 in the finals.
Some preliminaries were worked out earlier, in the course of his doctoral thesis work with John Archibald Wheeler.
* Wednesday November 3-According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River ( without New Orleans ), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests.
While the deluxe contains the same Rocketeer comics reprints as the trade edition, it adds more than 130 pages of previously uncollected Rocketeer material: sketches, preliminaries, character designs, script pages, photographs, and original art pages, with commentaries by Dave Stevens and several peers who occasionally assisted him on The Rocketeer.
When Socrates and Phaedrus proceed to recount the various tools of speechmaking as written down by the great orators of the past, starting with the " Preamble " and the " Statement Facts " and concluding with the " Recapitulation ", Socrates states that the fabric seems a little threadbare. He goes on to compare one with only knowledge of these tools to a doctor who knows how to raise and lower a body's temperature but does not know when it is good or bad to do so, stating that one who has simply read a book or came across some potions knows nothing of the art. One who knows how to compose the longest passages on trivial topics or the briefest passages on topics of great importance is similar, when he claims that to teach this is to impart the knowledge of composing tragedies ; if one were to claim to have mastered harmony after learning the lowest and highest notes on the lyre, a musician would say that this knowledge is what one must learn before one masters harmony, but it is not the knowledge of harmony itself. This, then, is what must be said to those who attempt to teach the art of rhetoric through " Preambles " and " Recapitulations "; they are ignorant of dialectic, and teach only what is necessary to learn as preliminaries.
During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she was ranked 33rd in the women's individual archery preliminaries with a score of 629.
The remainder of the money was divided among the other participants in the tournament, depending on how they performed, with once again half of their winnings going to charity — those eliminated in the preliminaries received $ 15, 000 ( with $ 7, 500 going to charity ), the quarter-final losers pocketed $ 25, 000 ( with $ 12, 500 going to charity ), and the 2 exiting semifinalists collected $ 40, 000 ( with $ 20, 000 going to charity ).
He remained at Brussels until August 1782, when he was despatched to Paris by Lord Shelburne as plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace with the crowns of France and Spain, and with the States General of the United Provinces ; and on 20 January 1783 the preliminaries of peace with the first two powers were duly signed.

preliminaries and publication
The title page ( as distinct from the cover ) is one of the most important parts of the " front matter " or " preliminaries " of a book, as the data on it and its verso ( together known as the " title leaf ") are used to establish the " title proper and usually, though not necessarily, the statement of responsibility and the data relating to publication ".

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The 1965 title secured Feijenoord a spot in the 1965 – 66 European Cup, where they faced multiple cup champions Real Madrid on 8 September 1965 in the preliminaries.
The play within the play has been presented only after all the preliminaries have encouraged us to take it as a farce [...] the main purpose of the Induction was to set the tone for the play within the play – in particular, to present the story of Kate and her sister as none-too-serious comedy put on to divert a drunken tinker.
His last act was to listen while on his death bed to the reading of the preliminaries of the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ).
In 1866 the Austro-Prussian War broke out, and during the critical weeks which followed the attempt of Napoleon to intervene between Prussia and Austria, he accompanied the Prussian headquarters in the advance on Vienna, and during a visit to Vienna he helped to arrange the preliminaries of the armistice signed at Nikolsburg.
Canning opposed the preliminaries of the Peace of Amiens signed on 1 October.
As the result of the short campaign that followed, the preliminaries of a treaty of peace were signed on August 1, the king of Denmark renouncing all his rights in the duchies in favour of the emperor of Austria and the king of Prussia.
However, gymnasts performed compulsory exercises in the preliminaries and their optional routines on the second day.
The preliminaries of a peace treaty were signed on 1 August 1864: the King of Denmark renounced to all his rights in the duchies in favour of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia.
Joscelin died soon after the preliminaries of the peace had been agreed on, worn out by his exertions, or killed by a pestilence which raged in the city.
When the preliminaries of the Treaty were debated in the Commons on 3 November 1801, Windham gave a speech that "... was the sensation of the evening ".
In track, he placed third at the Florida State Meet on the 100 meter dash as a Junior, despite running the fastest time in the preliminaries.
While Ancram's political position was undermined in 1762 when his brother-in-law, Lord Holderness, sold off his interest in the borough of Richmond, Fox and Lord Shelburne were still at pains to persuade him to leave the House of Commons before the vote on the peace preliminaries without the interference of Cumberland.
Ancram voted against the preliminaries on 9 December, having missed a message from Cumberland directing him not to do so ; ultimately, he took the Chiltern Hundreds in 1763, having accepted, according to the Duke of Newcastle, £ 4, 000 to do so.
Zaynab has been involved in arranging support for other Canadians accused of militant actions in the War on Terror, notably attending the bail hearings and preliminaries for the accused men and youths arrested in Toronto in 2006.
The freshmen have a field trip to the Friday preliminaries of the Detroit FIRST Regional, and all students are given cards that they can turn in to certain mentors on Saturday for extra credit.

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Finally, after a controversy concerning dramatic authors, and their rebellion, led by Beaumarchais, these preliminaries resulted in the July 19, 1793 Chénier Act.

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In most tournaments, congressional debaters go through preliminaries, semifinals, and finals, though other tournaments break straight from prelims to finals or have no break rounds.
Unlike the World Championships and Olympic Games, nations can enter as many people as they like in the preliminaries of each event ( in most international meets, only two swimmers from each nation are permitted ).

preliminaries and point
U18s won 6th place in European Nations Cup ( European Nations Shield runners-up ) held in Prague and Beroun after losing to Ireland 12-66 in preliminaries, defeating European Celts 38-32 in Shield semifinals and losing to Scotland 42-38 after golden point in the second extra-time of the Shield final.

preliminaries and fight
Hostak would continue to fight preliminaries matches through the end of 1936, during which he worked as a sparring partner for Freddie Steele of Tacoma, Washington, who had won the middleweight title in July 1936.

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Yana Kay, Lauris Reiniks and Mārtiņš Freimanis have all participated separately in the national finals of the Eurovision Song Contest preliminaries, but their big break – the chance to represent Latvia at the Eurovision international finals – came in year 2003, when they participated as a group.
" The subscribers agree hereby to form, and do now form ourselves into a Committee for the purpose of establishing a Club, or Society for Commemorating the birth of Robert Burns the Ayrshire Poet-and we agree to meet at an early day to get the preliminaries of the Club properly arranged.
Section we had another hot Darwinian debate ... After preliminaries Huxley was called upon by Henslow to state his views at greater length, and this brought up the Bp.
Australia had to beat France at Toulouse to reach the final in the last game of the preliminaries, a task which proved well within their capabilities.
Regional qualifying tournaments, also known as preliminaries, are held worldwide culminating in the BOTY International, the world finals event which was held at the Volkswagenhalle in Braunschweig, Germany until 2009.
The following year, she won the title of Miss Massachusetts Teen USA and competed at Miss Teen USA where she placed in the top 15, receiving an honorary mention, during the preliminary competition ; Menounos placed 13th in preliminaries.
He was also head of the Romanian delegation at the Peace preliminaries of Buftea, in 1918.
He resigned his post in 1855, during the Crimean War, when the peace preliminaries he had agreed to in consultation with the British and Austrians at Vienna were rejected by Napoleon III.
In 2006, the 76th Cavalry became Class AA Champion with a performance of Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony, garnering 85. 85 points at preliminaries and 87. 69 at the finals — the first championships the Cavalry had won since 1981.
He was ambassador at Berlin in 1866 at the time of the rupture between Prussia and Austria, and after the Seven Weeks War was responsible for the negotiation of the preliminaries of peace at Nikolsburg.

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