Their return was blocked, and they resolved to march on Athens, where the Long Walls were not yet completed, winning a victory at the Battle of Tanagra.

Their withdrawal from Afghanistan was seen as an ideological victory in America, which had backed some Mujahideen factions through three U. S. presidential administrations to counter Soviet influence in the vicinity of the oil-rich Persian Gulf.

Their greatest victory was in the Union Pacific Railroad strike in 1884.

Their Anglo-Norman descendants also made use of military archery, as exemplified by their victory at the Battle of the Standard in 1138.

Their point is to say that though the implications of an Axis victory, in particular a German victory, would be horrible, that this did not justify Allied atrocities.

Their victory over the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ) was a startling blow to the image of Ottoman invincibility.

Their combined forces won a decisive victory over the Normans at the Battle of Crug Mawr.

Their major victory at the Battle of Isandlwana is well known, but they also forced back a British column at the Battle of Hlobane mountain, deploying fast-moving regiments over a wide area in the rugged ravines and gullies while the British were quickly on the move.

Their lone victory made them the first Texas MLB team to win a World Series game, the Houston Astros having been swept in their 2005 World Series appearance.

Their 27-run margin of victory is also a modern day MLB record.

Their internal problems proved to be the deciding factor in the election, giving Marshall a narrow victory: he received 48. 1 % of the vote to Watson's 48 %.

Their victory over the U. S. Army would not last, however.

Their first win, a 3 – 2 victory, came in New Jersey at the expense of their new trans-Hudson rivals, the New York Rangers.

Their first playoff win in NBA franchise history was earned in Game 3 of their first-round, best-of-five series against the Atlanta Hawks, but it was their only victory in that series, as the Hawks defeated them in four games.

Their first victory came in their 6th game as the Bucks beat the Detroit Pistons 134 – 118 ; they would win only 26 more games in their first year.

Their victory was the first and only NBA title to be won by a former ABA team.

Their decisive victory in the Battle of Mookerheyde in the south east, on the Meuse embankment, on 14 April cost the lives of two of William's brothers, Louis and Henry.

Their analysis of military history convinced them that decisive and aggressive strategic offensive was the only doctrine of victory, and feared that overemphasis of firepower, and the resultant dependence on entrenchment would make this all but impossible, and leading to the battlefield stagnant in advantages of the defensive position, destroying troop morale and willingness to fight.

Their first major victory, with Byzantine soldiers at their side, was at the city of Nicaea, close to Constantinople, which the Seljuk Turks had taken in 1085.

Their victory can therefore be considered as mostly a French victory.

Their hopes were further raised by the naval victory against the French at the Battle of the Saintes and the successful defence of Gibraltar.

Their morale boosted by this omen, they set forth to win their own victory.

Their promotion had been sealed after the penultimate game of the season, a 3 – 0 victory at rivals Preston North End, courtesy of a Fred Pickering hat-trick.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

Their dedication to the status quo has been affirmed at the expense of the fascinating but dangerous individualism of a Sherlock Holmes.

Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

Their friends and ours are welcome to share the pool, but on our terms and at our times.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

Their characteristic experience is that of the individual at an altar or a shrine rather than that of a continuing social group with a distinctive kind of fellowship.

Their Majesties, The Queen of Carnival and The Queen of Comus, have jointly issued invitations for Shrove Tuesday evening at midnight at which time they will entertain in the grand ballroom of a downtown hotel following the balls of Rex and Comus.

Their fecundity is high and increases with their size ( from 10, 000 to 11 million eggs at a time ).

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Their children were born at various places throughout the Roman Empire and Agrippina acquired a well-deserved reputation for successful childbearing.

Their portraits showed them of larger size than mere mortals and at some distance from their retainers.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

Their headquarters and practice facilities are located at a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Their duties at first were simply ministerial.

Their offices were compatible with other offices, i. e. they can hold two benefices or offices at one and the same time, some conferred by the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, others by the Holy Father.

Their family estate was at Doma, also known as Höjen or Högen ( locally as Högen 2 ).

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

In 2010 at The Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction in Geneva

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

Their research is often called fieldwork because it involves the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location.