They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

They became adept at raiding Spanish settlements and, albeit in declining numbers, managed to hold off the Spaniards and their descendants until the late nineteenth century.

They managed two second-place finishes but spent much of the decade in the cellar.

They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into the Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros, broke through Thermopylae and sacked several cities of southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos, Olympia and Sparta.

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

They intended to eliminate the kulaks as a class by the following: death sentence, labor settlements ( not to be confused with labor camps, although the former were also managed by the GULAG ); or deportation " out of regions of total collectivization of the agriculture ".

They rebounded from that slow start, and managed to stay within a few games of. 500 for most of the spring.

They successfully managed to factorize 21.

They only managed two studio albums but struggled on until 2002.

They managed financing and construction of the CPRR.

They were likely the first 32-bit general-purpose microprocessors on the market, but due to a number of factors never managed to become a major player.

They suggest that the troubled U. S. banks be placed in conservatorship, that some of their " good assets " be dropped into newly created " good bank " subsidiaries ( presumably under new management ), and the remaining " bad assets " be left to be managed under the supervision of a conservatorship structure.

They managed to maneuver Struensee into a position as King Christian VII's travelling physician, also with the hope that he could give them access to the royal court again.

They insisted on Mendelssohn telling them his views on Jesus and managed to get from him the statement, that, provided the historical Jesus had kept himself and his theology strictly within limits of orthodox Judaism, Mendelssohn " respected the morality of Jesus ' character ".

They also managed to obtain stuffed specimens.

They never managed to untangle it and could conclude only that millions had gone through his hands.

They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros and sacked several cities of the southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos and Sparta.

They managed additional restoration under architects including Fiske Kimball and Milton L. Grigg.

They planned to use the secret door, whose key Gandalf had managed to obtain ( from Thráin, whom he had found in the pits of Dol Guldur ).

They also have considerable budgets managed by a regional council ( conseil régional ) made up of representatives voted into office in regional elections.

They managed to establish a new search criterion for a placer.

They were burdened with an inordinate amount of administrative duties and increasing demands for money in taxation and levies but managed to complete another massive expansion of the abbey's buildings.

They are managed by multiple agencies.

They were managed by a specially-formed private company financed by loans from the Festival Office and the London County Council.

They even managed to win a franchise-record 54 wins in the 1987 – 88 season.

They are the result of a constant and careful contest with the elements.

They performed the song " Too Hot ta Trot " during the dance contest ; their songs " Brick House " and " Easy " were also played during the movie.

They are elected by the Judiciary Council based on a merits contest held by that office.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

They tried in vain to ease Selinuntine hostility by ceding without further contest the frontier district that was the original subject of dispute.

They are now back alongside their arch-rivals Derry City F. C., with whom they contest Ireland's North-West Derby.

They did not contest the endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst, leaving these open solely to the 5. 0 litre Ford and Holden models.

They traveled to Nashville to perform and won the contest.

They won a hard-fought seven-game series against the Milwaukee Bucks, but they were swept by the Orlando Magic in the second round, with every game a one-sided contest.

They lost the contest 3 – 1 ; defenceman Barry Wilkins scored the Canucks ' lone goal in the game and first in franchise history, a backhander against goaltender Denis DeJordy.

They afterwards entered into a contest with the Muses, and being conquered, they were transformed into birds called Colymbas, lyngx, Cenchris, Cissa, Chloris, Acalanthis, Nessa, Pipo, and Dracontis.

They pause when on Cú Roí's request, Amairgen allows the cattle to go past Tailtiu, but seeing as the passage had become difficult, Cú Roí agrees to withdraw from the contest altogether.

They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write " A Fragment ", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre — a precursor to Dracula.

They are chosen via a contest open to any woman between the ages of 19 and 24 who resides in Alberta.

They held an online contest in which the winners were each awarded a " date " with one of the band members.

They could be expected to contest the succession, and did so.

They considered a 24-hour contest, in the fashion of Le Mans, or a.

They instead chose a contest, and offered a specatular $ US25, 000 ( Fr1. 25 million, about ₤ 5250 ) purse.

They also hold large parades, fireworks, dance competitions, beauty pageant contest, party and buy refreshments in the market places and public squares.

They were briefly replaced by Rene Medvešek and Dubravka Marković, who were much younger, but the misunderstandings were eventually allayed and Brnobić and Mlakar returned to the contest.

They were the winners of the Apple Records sponsored national talent contest early 1969, organised by Apple A & R head Peter Asher prior to his departure for the US.

They appeared again in a talent contest in the 2012 Beano Annual, which Sniffy won.

They were signed to Factory Records, supposedly after Haçienda DJ Mike Pickering saw them at a Battle of the Bands contest in which they came last ( the winners being Manchester band The Brigade ).

They heard from a group of traveling sages about a contest ( Swayamvara ) being held in the Kingdom of Panchaal that offered the princess Draupadi's hand in marriage to the winner.