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They inflicted a few resounding defeats to the French army ; the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 was the first major land battle lost by France since its victory at Rocroi in 1643.
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They inflicted heavy losses upon Convoy PQ-17 in June / July 1942 but were ineffective in the Battle of the Barents Sea on New Year's Eve 1942.
They wouldn't, for example, describe violence against babies, such as the Vikings inflicted, and aside from some snogging, the series doesn't venture into the realms of sex.
They were sometimes preceded by torture publicly inflicted by the same elephant used for the execution.
They threw the portrait down to the ground and one of the plunderers drew his sword upon the image and inflicted two deep strikes.
They are forced to walk around the circumference of the circle bearing horrible, disfiguring wounds inflicted on them by a great demon with a sword.
They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in " advanced " countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering ( in the Third World to physical suffering as well ) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.
They encountered submerged obstacles and deadly accurate fire from the batteries of Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff, which inflicted severe damage on Galena.
They experienced little success, except for the dispersing of 20 guerillas, in which no casualties were inflicted on either side.
They inflicted 850 casualties on the attacking 13, 000 Union troops while suffering only 50 casualties.
They were inflicted upon him in 1995 when he was tortured in Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars after his Harrier aircraft was shot down.
They all determined to go after Aed mac Ruaidri king of Connacht and the rest of Ruaidri's descendants ; and they inflicted on them such a routing and scattering that the kingship and sovranty of the province of Connacht was taken from the seed of Ruaidri on that day.
They would fight from a tree-line across from it, near the Mission River, where they also inflicted heavy losses upon the Mexican army.
They inflicted pain to his eyes, bent his fingers until he screamed and when he screamed they cut off his airway and put a mask over him so he could not cry out.
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They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They are still considered to be for use in restricted waters, however, and targets must come within a few yards of them.
They faced a rather small audience, as quite a few subscribers apparently had decided to forego the pleasures of the afternoon.
They danced the paxam wildly at night, the war dance, and dipped their arrowheads in the venom of rattlesnakes and rode their horses in swift maneuvers, firing their few guns in unison at some indeterminate signal.
The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.
They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.
They are the most common heliozoa in fresh water, and are especially frequent in lakes and rivers, but a few are found in marine and soil habitats as well.
They also sold the exotic Olivetti M20, a very early 16 bit personal computer that was one of the very few systems to use a Z8000 CPU.
" They are present in a few historic Protestant versions: the German Luther Bible included such books, as did the English 1611 King James Version.
" They mostly appear during fetal development, though a few short bones begin their primary ossification after birth.
They were engaged a few weeks after their return, and were later married at Christ Church, Hampstead on 10 January 1922.
They also suspect that the Continuity IRA arsenal contains some weapons that were taken from Provisional IRA arms dumps, including a few dozen rifles, machine guns, and pistols ; a small amount of the explosive Semtex ; and a few dozen detonators.
They often cite Christian Science's views on the nature / existence of evil or sin, the divinity and resurrection of Jesus, the Trinity, and a few other matters as demonstrating that it cannot be considered a Christian denomination.
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