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They managed to escape the fate of Napoleon's French soldiers after Yorck negotiated a battlefield truce with Russia when, during a rear-guard action, the French withdrew and left Yorck's troops isolated.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 were managed by a specially-formed private company financed by loans from the Festival Office and the London County Council.
They and escape
They too loved their families, longed for their villages: yet lacked the faith that drove one to dare the fearful chance of escape ''.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
They broke their legs to prevent them from attempting to escape before being eaten, but kept them alive so that they could brood over their impending fate.
They embrace monism in order to escape the enigma of brain-mind interaction with its perplexing problems.
They are more dangerous than their cinematic inspiration, however ; they typically surround the player's character, so escape is impossible, and then mercilessly beat the player with rubber hoses from all directions, while temporarily blinding the player with cream pie.
They were designed and used to test spacecraft recovery systems, and escape tower and rocket motors.
They would have had steep sides lined with planks, making it impossible for the elk to escape once it fell in.
They escape, committing one supreme act of sabotage and revenge before Dendarii Captain Bel Thorne manages to negotiate a ransom.
They escape into Nightopia and find that they both possess the rare Red Ideya of Courage, the only type Wizeman cannot steal.
They are excellent " escape artists " as well, and have been known to climb chain-link fences and find other ways of escaping a confined area.
They first adapted them to submarine escape sets and helmet suits and only adapted it to frogmen during World War II.
They needed to, if they were to anticipate the likely escape routes and hiding-places of the quicker-witted and more determined of the travellers.
They usually killed their victims in darkness while the Thugs made music or noise to escape discovery.
They were able to escape because on June 20, 1940, they were issued visas by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, France.
They shouted things like " let's get them out and beat them up ," and " beat them to death, don't let them escape " at the frightened passengers.
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