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Thirty and experience
It is first used in Chapter Thirty, after the narrator has just had his first sexual experience.
Thirty years experience as an actress in Motion Pictures.
Although up to a thousand Irish soldiers who had served in Europe returned during the war, bringing with them experience of siege warfare from the Thirty Years ' War in Europe, it was the arrival of Oliver Cromwell's train of siege guns in 1649 that transformed the conflict, and the fate of local castles.
He gained his experience fighting for various armies during the Thirty Years ' War, then still raging in Germany.
With newly built ships, designed as ships of war and crewed by sailors and trained gunners, fighting experience was gained in the Franco-Spanish War and the Thirty Years ' War with notable victories at the Battle of Cádiz ( 1640 ) won by Frances First, Grand Admiral Armand de Maillé-Brézé son of Marshall Urbain de Maillé-Brézé.
Thirty percent of patients experience significant pain during the procedure.

Thirty and let
The staunch Protestant Duke Charles forced the Catholic King to let go of the throne of Sweden in 1599, a part of the preliminary religious strife before the Thirty Years ' War, and reigned as regent before taking the throne as Charles IX of Sweden in 1604.
During the Thirty Years ' War, Switzerland was a relative " oasis of peace and prosperity " ( Grimmelshausen ) in war-torn Europe, mostly because all major powers in Europe depended on Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall in the hands of one of their rivals.
In the Thirty Years ' War, the thirteen cantons managed to maintain their neutrality, partly because all major powers in Europe depended on Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall into the hands of one of their rivals.

Thirty and him
The Seven Years ' War might well, moreover, have been another Thirty Years ' War if Pitt had not furnished Frederick with an annual subsidy of £ 700, 000, and in addition relieved him of the task of defending western Germany against France: this was the policy that allowed Pitt to boast of having ' won Canada on the banks of the Rhine '.
" When Jennings was eight, his mother taught him to play guitar with the tune " Thirty Pieces of Silver ".
Thirty thousand the Earl of Warren had, but he did then as wisdom did direct, all the first army being sent over before him.
A storm prevented the forces of the Thirty from expelling him immediately, and numerous exiles flocked to join him.
The forces of the Thirty, supported by the Spartan garrison, marched to Piraeus to attack him.
Thrasybulus seems to have advocated a more radically democratic policy than the populace was willing to accept at the time ; he called for reinstating pay for political service, and sought to extend citizenship to all the metics and foreigners who had fought alongside him against the Thirty.
As he had in 411 BC, Theramenes soon came into conflict with the more extreme members of that government ; his protests against the reign of terror the Thirty implemented led the leading oligarchs to plot his demise ; he was denounced before the oligarchic assembly, and then, when that body appeared reluctant to punish him, struck him from the roster of citizens and executed him without trial.
Accordingly, after conferring with the Thirty, Critias ordered men with daggers to line the stage in front of the audience and then struck Theramenes ' name from the roster of the 3, 000, denying him his right to a trial.
The return of the exiles to Athens contributed to the political instability of Athens allowing Lysander to establish shortly the oligarchy that has come to be known as Thirty Tyrants, composed of men beholden to him.
Following the death of Wallenstein ( who had previously denied him the overall military command of the Catholic side ) in 1634, he was made titular head of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years ' War, and later that year joined with his cousin, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, being nominally responsible of the capture of Donauwörth and Regensburg, and of defeat of the Swedes at the Battle of Nördlingen.
In 1946 New Directions published another poetry collection by Merton, A Man in the Divided Sea, which, combined with Thirty Poems, attracted some recognition for him.
His pacifist and pro-French and pro-Polish attitudes often put him at odds with chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who led Sweden's war effort in the Thirty Years ' War after the death of Gustavus Adolphus in 1632.
In Plato's Apology, Socrates recounts an incident in which the Thirty once ordered him ( and four other men ) to bring before them Leon of Salamis, a man known for his justice and upright character, for execution.
His " Thirty truculent tongue-twisters ", which he claims circulated in Havana and which are reprinted in " The Color of Summer ", mock everyone from personal friends who he suggests may have spied on him to figures such as Nicolás Guillén, Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Sarduy and of course Fidel himself.
Aung San briefly returned to Burma to enlist twenty-nine young men who went to Japan with him in order to receive military training on Hainan Island, China, and they came to be known as the " Thirty Comrades ".
In 1623, the hereditary Palatine Library of Heidelberg containing about 3, 500 manuscripts was given to the Vatican by Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria ( who had just acquired it as booty in the Thirty Years ' War ) in thanks for the adroit political maneuvers of Pope Gregory XV that had sustained him in his contests with Protestant candidates for the electoral seat.
A few anecdotes survive about this man, in the brief biographical sketch of him given in the Book on Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta: it is stated for example that he was raised to the throne because of his name ( Regalianus, " of a king " or " kingly "); when his soldiers heard this jest they greeted Regalianus as their emperor.
Unlike many German musicians, for example Heinrich Schütz, he remained in Germany during the Thirty Years ' War, managing to survive by teaching and by taking a succession of smaller jobs until the restoration of stability allowed him to resume his post as Kapellmeister.
Friedrich IV ’ s son, Friedrich V was elected King of Bohemia – Bohemia was an elective monarchy – but soon ran afoul of the forces arrayed against him, notably the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Emperor himself, and not only was he forced to flee Bohemia in the face of these forces after only a year on the Bohemian throne ( earning himself the derisive nickname “ Winter King ”), but he also saw to it that the Electorate of the Palatinate, too, was gripped in the throes of the Thirty Years ' War.
In the Series 2 episode " Dirty Thirty ", her birth certificate reveals that she is 39 – but in the Series 3 episode " Secrets and Flies " she is unexpectedly reunited with her 28-year-old son ; she says she was 15 when she gave birth to him, meaning she must be 43.
Thirty years ' passage seems to have improved him.

Thirty and know
Thirty years later the elderly George Lyttelton reminisced, " Did you never know the agonising choice put before you in the pre-war Simpson's – saddle of mutton or beef ... both perfect of their kind?

Thirty and even
Urban's papacy covered twenty-one years of the Thirty Years ' War and was an eventful one even by the standards of the day.
But there were also new points of conflict: the decline of Spanish power at the end of the Thirty Years ' War in 1648, the colonial possessions of Portugal ( already in the midst of Portuguese Restoration War ), and perhaps even of a beleaguered Spain, were up for grabs.
Thirty years later, Time said " In an age of working mothers, single parents and gay matrimony, George Jetson and his clan already seem quaint even to the baby boomers who grew up with them.
This, in turn, marked the beginning of even greater excesses ; to pay the Spartan garrison's wages, Critias and the leaders ordered each of the Thirty to arrest and execute a metic, or resident alien, and confiscate his property.
Practical considerations were certainly responsible for part of this change: the Thirty Years ' War had devastated the musical infrastructure of Germany, and it was no longer practical or even possible to put on the gigantic works in the Venetian style which marked his earlier period.
His army had earned for itself the reputation of being the most cruel and rapacious force even in the Thirty Years ' War, and his Merode Bruder have survived in the word marauder.
Thirty years ago almost all turrón recipes followed the same specifications, but since the diversification of products there are currently dozens of varieties: chocolate with puffed rice or whole almonds ; all kinds of chocolate pralines, with or without liquor, candied fruits or whole nuts ; fruit pralines ; and even sugarless variations ( sweetened with fructose or artificial sweeteners ).
In spite of the extensive destruction Haguenau suffered during the many wars experienced by Alsace, especially the Thirty Years War, the French conquest in 1677 and World War II, she still keeps monuments from 9 centuries, even if nothing is left of arguably the most prestigious of them, Frederick I Barbarossa's imperial palace ( Kaiserpfalz ).
Tercios continued to win important battles for a time after Rocroi and even after the Thirty Years war, but were already greatly modified from their older forms.
According to the historian Xenophon, this happened even though Athens was at the time in fact under the rule of the oligarchy of " The Thirty ", installed by the Spartans following their victory in the second Peloponnesian war, and despite the fact that there was literally an Archon in place, nominated by the oligarchs, in the person of Pythodorus.
After the conquest by Gustav II Adolf of Sweden in 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War, the fortress was reconstructed as an even more formidable baroque fortification, and a princely park was laid out.
Thirty years later, in 1866, the structure was gutted by fire, and even though the new St. Patrick's was already under construction, the old cathedral was restored under the direction of architect Henry Engelbert and reopened in 1868.
It was not until the years after the Thirty Years ' War that Spanish military power began to fade ; even then, supported by a reinvigorated navy, Spain remained a major military power throughout the 18th century, in competition with Britain and France on the global stage.

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