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With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.
The second school, supported by scholars such as Robert B. Ekelund, contends that mercantilism was not a mistake, but rather the best possible system for those who developed it.
A mistake in some electronic versions of the text on the internet is the substitution, or mirroring, of the second letter b in the word bribe, turning it into bride in fit 5, stanza 22:
Slobodin states that it is probable that the second " Rivers " entered his name as a result of a clerical error on the baptismal certificate but since the register is filled in by his father's hand and he was to perform the ceremony, one would think it unlikely that a mistake would have been made in this case.
He realized the mistake of declining on-air work and contacted WRNW a second time where he agreed to work covering shifts over the Christmas holiday period.
In his second memoir, Bradley would later state that not arguing more forcefully in 1948 and 1949 for a sufficient defense department budget " was a mistake ... perhaps the greatest mistake I made in my postwar years in Washington.
Also, the date of the awarding of the honor is only seen on keys from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onward ( some people mistake the date that appears on the fob or key -- December 5, 1776 -- as the date that a particular fob or key was awarded, when in fact it is merely the date of the founding of the society ).
Galland again made a mistake ; he stopped to make sure his second victory was going to crash and he was hit by a USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt piloted by James Finnegan.
After the second of the two concerts at the Leningrad Molecular Physics institute ( that was his actual debut as a solo musical performer ) Vysotsky left a note for his fans in a journal which ended with words: " Now that you've heard all these songs, please, don't you make a mistake of mixing me with my characters, I am not like them at all.
An error is any sort of production mistake that is ( potentially ) replicated on many stamps ; the famous Inverted Jenny is the best known of these, having resulted from a sheet of partial prints being accidentally re-inserted into the printing press upside down for the second color, resulting in an invert error.
Laemmle himself had second thoughts and worried that maybe he had made a huge mistake.
Plotz then gave the Warners their very own series of cartoons ( which was Plotz's " second biggest mistake of his life ").
Tommy's second and last mistake had been getting into the car with Jimmy, Stevie, and Johnny Martorano.
The developers of WordPerfect made a similar mistake, releasing their first Windows version in 1991, shortly after the second Windows version of Microsoft Word.
After the second escape ( in which he and his companions set out for Poland but boarded a train to Berlin by mistake ), Beyrle was turned over to the Gestapo by a German civilian.
And because no adverse event occurred during the short follow-up of the study, the mistake also would not show up in the second study, because only the principal treatment plans were critiqued.
A runner attempting to steal on a pitchout will have an extremely difficult time beating the throw to second base and almost no chance of stealing third barring a mistake by the catcher or the third baseman.
This was only the second contact between humans and intelligent alien life, the Formics being the first, and Starways Congress decided to impose strict limitations on any kind of contact between pequeninos and humans — if any mistake were to occur it would be on the side of too little association, not too much.
For example, if the batter hits a ball which goes over the outfield fence in fair territory ( whether a home run or ground rule double ) but fails to touch first base before touching second base, he may not return to first base to correct his mistake once he has touched second, and he is out at first base if the defensive team appeals.
After the couple had a second child, their daughter, Emily, they decided to quit their jobs because they had missed all the best times of Ross growing up and wasn't going to make the same mistake with Emily.
At the front, Depailler took his first career victory with Lauda second, and Jody Scheckter third after Watson made another mistake in the final laps.
Fisichella made a mistake on lap 50 and Barrichello was through to second.

second and is
In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;
Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.
He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.
The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.
The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.
There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.
Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.
And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.
Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.
Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.
Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.
The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.
The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.
A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.
A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

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