" It is unknown when Alfred launched this programme, but it may have been during the 880s when Wessex was enjoying a respite from Viking attacks.

The British thus gained a respite, and peace lasted at least until the time Gildas was writing: that is, for perhaps forty or fifty years, from around the end of the 5th century until midway through the sixth.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

There was some respite during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, but from 1937 the intensity of his anti-Semitic words and actions began to increase again.

The arrival of the crusade was a brief respite from the Lombard War ; Filangieri remained in Tyre and did not participate.

The tour was broken up into two segments spanning October through December 1996 and May through July 1997 with the band taking a respite between tour legs.

A 48-hour respite that had been previously agreed to with the rebel group was not respected as the government argued that it had already been granted during an earlier crisis in January, when most of the more prominent FARC-EP commanders had apparently left the demilitarized zone.

The Reconquista was a war with long periods of respite between the adversaries, partly for pragmatic reasons, and also due to infighting among the Christian kingdoms of the North spanning over seven centuries.

According to the Qur ' an, Iblis ( the Arabic name used ) disobeyed an order from Allah to bow to Adam and as a result was forced out of heaven and given respite until the day of judgment from further punishment.

This was only a brief respite because shortly afterwards Babylon was besieged which led to its fall in 689 BC.

Given a respite, Belisarius was able to regroup his forces south of Ad Decimum and launch a counterattack, which drove the Vandals back and soon routed them.

Manuel II Palaiologos used this period of respite to bolster the defences of the Despotate of Morea, where the Byzantine Empire was actually expanding at the expense of the remnants of the Latin Empire.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a young Quincy Jones, this album proved a respite from the ' Songbook ' recordings and constant touring that Fitzgerald was engaged in during this period.

Diệm was given a respite in November 1946 when clashes between the French and the Việt Minh escalated into full scale war, forcing the Việt Minh to divert their resources.

The resolution of the video was that the band was planning on getting back together soon, excited to create new music with their diverse experiences over their respite.

Fortunately the plague left Gondor's enemies in no better condition than the realm itself, and Gondor was therefore allowed over a century of respite from attack.

Fursman and Clute's vision was to create a respite where faculty and students could immerse themselves completely in artmaking, surrounded by a supportive community of artists and an inspired landscape of natural dunes, woods and water.

By this time, servitude to the Lord of the Manor was merely token, discharged on purchasing the copyhold by payment of a " fine in respite of fealty ".

Later, in 1547, Charles signed a humiliating treaty with the Ottomans to gain him some respite from the huge expenses of their war, in which he was seen as the equivalent of the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire-Ibrahim Pasha at the time-and was referred to as only the King of Spain since there could only be one Emperor in the world and it was Suleiman.

Hearst took a brief respite to hurry home to New York to become a father.

Don Purcell, a millionaire Dianeticist from Wichita, Kansas, offered a brief respite from bankruptcy, but the Foundation's finances failed again in 1952.

After a brief respite, Moore threw herself into a completely different genre.

The use of eggs would have been a brief respite from the Lenten fast.

After a brief respite, he died at Longchamp, Paris.

In the brief respite, Holley shows his indifference to the plight of civilian victims, angering Jarvess, who was a newspaper columnist before the war.

The Corners was a stopping-place where horses were changed and travelers allowed a brief respite, but since the completion of the Erie Canal, and the still later construction of the New York Central railroad, the town of Sweden ; has gained an ascendency and profited, while Clarkson ; has correspondingly lost in commercial importance.

The subsequent series of mainly short choral movements cover Christ's Passion, Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection, at first in F minor, with a brief F major respite in " All we like sheep ".

This is only a brief respite, as further ahead the branch negotiates a tight curve adjacent to a chemical plant.

After a brief respite, Vedas then consumed 110 mg of propranolol ( Inderal ), two Vicodin tablets, and 120 mg temazepam, which seem to have been taken in between descriptions given on the IRC channel.

The decade witnessed several such episodes of strong friction, and the simmering tensions came to a head in late 1928, only to erupt, after a brief respite, into an explosion of violence a year later.

During a brief respite provided by the civil war between Ashurbanipal and his own brother Shamash-shum-ukin whom their father Esarhaddon had installed as the vassal king of Babylon, the Elamites too indulged in fighting among themselves, so weakening the Elamite kingdom that in 646 BC Ashurbanipal devastated Susiana with ease, and sacked Susa.

One of the carriers, Hiryu gave a brief respite for the Japanese by sending a strike wave which crippled Yorktown, but additional waves from Enterprise struck the carrier, which forced Hiryu to be scuttled afterwards.

However, 1983 – 84 had brought a brief respite, as Aldershot finished fifth, before another setback saw them finish 13th.

There was a brief respite for the club on 5 January 1991, when it held West Ham United to a surprise goalless draw in the FA Cup third round at Upton Park.

When the volcanic Etna erupts violently, Batto prays to the god Pluto for deliverance, but receives only a brief respite before his home and gardens are destroyed.

In 1157 Nur ad-Din besieged the Knights Hospitaller in the crusader fortress of Banias and routed a relief army from Jerusalem, but he fell ill that year and the crusaders were given a brief respite from his attacks.

New France now rejoiced in a brief respite from her enemies, and during the interval Frontenac encouraged the revival of the drama at the Chateau St-Louis and paid some attention to the social life of the colony.

Europe gained a brief respite from Ottoman pressure in 1402 when the Mongol leader, Tamerlane, attacked Anatolia from the east, killed the Turks ' absolute ruler, the Sultan, and sparked a civil war.

A brief respite in 1994 / 95 saw Thursdays finish as high as fourth in the Welsh League Division One before a further damaging exodus of quality players led to a dreadful season in 1997 / 98 when they secured only three points and conceded an astonishing 210 goals in thirty six league fixtures.

The Wehrmacht took advantage of the brief respite on the front by pulling the 1st, 2nd and 12th SS Panzer Divisions, as well as the 9th and 116th Panzer Divisions, off the line.

These divisions had used the brief respite in the fighting during the last two weeks of September to rest and refit, taking in a large number of replacements.