Four little Japanese waitresses were murdering the English language at the counter -- Yuki Kobayashi happened to be one of them.

Fox resolved to visit the English settlements in America and the West Indies, remaining there for two years, possibly to counter any remnants of Perrot's teaching there.

* August – Oliver Cromwell launches the ' Western Design ', an English expedition to the Caribbean to counter Spanish commercial interests, effectively beginning the Anglo-Spanish War ( which will last until after the English Restoration in 1660 ).

In 1346, after more Scottish raids, Philip VI appealed for a counter invasion of England in order to relieve the English stranglehold on Calais.

It was a reaction to the failure of an English diplomatic mission to The Hague seeking a joining of the Commonwealth by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, after the States of Holland had made some cautious overtures to Cromwell to counter the monarchal aspirations of stadtholder William II of Orange.

At the time filming took place it was then home to No. 109 Squadron and No. 139 Squadron RAF, who were both operating English Electric Canberras on electronic counter measures and nuclear air sampling missions over hydrogen bomb test sites in the Pacific and Australia.

To raise the necessary funds Charles summoned a new Parliament to Westminster, the first to meet for eleven years, hoping to use English patriotism as a counter to the rebel Scots.

In addition the Scots Covenanters, who had landed an army in the northeast of Ireland at Carrickfergus to counter the Catholic rebellion in that part of the country in early 1642, had subsequently put northeast Ireland on the side of the English Parliamentarians against the king ; and the relatively strong Protestant presence in and around Derry and Cork City was inclined to side with the Parliamentarians as well, and soon did so.

During the siege, the English defenders tunnelled outwards and attacked the French, thus creating the only counter tunnel in the world.

The author, Felix, reports conflicts with the Britons: " in the days of Coenred King of the Mercians, [...] the Britons the implacable enemies of the Saxon race, were troubling the English with their attacks, their pillaging, and their devastations of the people [...]" To counter such attacks, Æthelbald, who came to the throne in 716, was once thought to have built Wat's Dyke, an earthwork barrier in northern Wales ; but this now seems unlikely, since an excavation of the Dyke in 1997 found charcoal from a hearth which was radiocarbon-dated to some time between 411 and 561.

English verbs that counter this tendency are mostly Latinate, such as " exit ", " ascend ", or " enter ".

Grammatically, counter words can appear either before or after the noun they count ; they generally occur after the noun ( following particles ), and if used before the noun, they emphasize the quantity ; this is a common mistake in English learners of Japanese.

Returning to France, he was sent to the Pyrenees to rescue John III of Navarre, but soon he was diverted to Thérouanne, then the last French possession in the Artois, to counter the English troops.

This was counter to the English government's desire to see the end of the Scottish colonising efforts, and in June Benbow and the other West Indies governors received orders " not to assist the Scotch colony in Darien.

Was the group intended to counter the dominance of the British and the English language, or to redeem the Afrikaners after their defeat in the Second Anglo-Boer War?

The English bishops were charged to control and counter this trend, disrupting Lollard preachers and to enforcing the teaching of suitable sermons in local churches.

In 1967 he recorded for EMI a standout performance of Basil Lam's " baroque " version of Handel's " Messiah ", with Elizabeth Harwood ( soprano ), Janet Baker ( mezzo soprano ), Paul Esswood ( counter tenor ), and Raimund Herincx ( bass ), with the English Chamber Orchestra, leader Emanuel Hurwitz, and the Ambrosian Singers and Maurits Sillem, harpsichord continuo, with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting.

He said: " I have made my two or three glib, theatrical observations on English society and the only thing I can now counter with is to state that I am NOT a fascist.

Upon finding from an English spy, that the English warden Percy was aware of the muster, and was planning a counter strike, the Scots command decided to split the army, with Fife leading the main body into Cumberland, while a smaller mounted force under Douglas was to go east and despoil Northumberland.

Developed around 1795 by the French-Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet from an earlier idea by the English chronometer maker John Arnold, a tourbillon aims to counter the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece ( and thus the escapement ) is stuck in a certain position.

This runs counter to the legal meaning of the phrase, ' Note that, to a lawyer familiar with the First Amendment law, the phrase " heckler's veto " means something different than the plain English interpretation of the words suggests.

Clinton's return to Arkansas for the execution was framed in a The New York Times article as a possible political move to counter " soft on crime " accusations.

The unit was deployed for counter insurgency operations in the Mt Elgon area in 2008 amid accusations of torture and illegal detention.

The Raiders and their fans were often known to counter these accusations against Atkinson and Jack Tatum by pointing out the physical way that Pittsburgh cornerback Mel Blount covered Oakland's speedy split end Cliff Branch.

This appearance of democracy certainly helped counter accusations that the " Zionists represented no one but themselves.

Russian exile Leon Trotsky was welcomed into Mexico by Cárdenas, reportedly to counter accusations that Cárdenas was a Stalinist.

Jonas Sjoestedt, a Swedish Left member of the EU assembly, said that " this legislation should help the EU to counter recent accusations by the U. S administration that the EU is to blame for the African rejection of GM food aid last year.

Although the company explained that the decision was made at management level, some viewed the deal as an attempt by Abramovich to counter accusations of being unpatriotic which were made at the time of the Chelsea purchase.

Many of the assertions and accusations made in the book are counter to the government's position and have been criticized and challenged.

The pamphlet was designed to show the " chaotic " nature of events leading up to the war, in order to counter allied accusations of deliberate warmongering by Germany.

The existence of the committee was readily acknowledged by promoters who used its existence to counter any accusations of wrong doings within the business.

Unum attempted to counter the accusations by noting that " only 2 % of the policyholders who filed a claim with the company last year were found not to be disabled, an amount consistent with prior experience ," and that court judgments in the prior year were in the company's favor 75 % of the time.

After the 1984 coin flip, which was won by the Houston Rockets, the NBA introduced the lottery system to counter the accusations that the Rockets and several other teams were deliberately losing their regular season games in order to secure the worst record and subsequently the chance to obtain the first pick.

However, Barros Luco cannot be accused of mere acceptance and reluctance to act, as he possessed a plan to counter the aforementioned political strategy of accusations and delays, and subsequent frequent change of ministers, known as the " rotativa ".

To counter accusations from the ' populist ' faction of the NF that the leadership was too right wing, in June 1974 he was co-opted onto the NF's Directorate ; not being tainted with a fascist past like so many of the NF leaders, he was acceptable as a moderate in the populists ' eyes.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

The card the man I was shadowing had filled out was still on the counter.

Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.

After nearly 20 years of slavish adherence to the Roman Senate's dictats, Philip had been goaded beyond endurance by the incessant and devastating raiding of the Dardani, a warlike Thraco-Illyrian tribe on his northern border, which his treaty-limited army was too small to counter effectively.

The emperor finally succeeded in concentrating his forces at Valenciennes, although John was out of the picture, and in the interval Philip Augustus had counter marched northward and regrouped.

During the Counter-Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church searched for religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, no longer seemed adequate.

The new wave of industrialization based upon information technology had left the Soviet Union desperate for Western technology and credits in order to counter its increasing backwardness.

Rosen and Canion had disagreed about how to counter the cheaper Asian PC imports, as Canion wanted Compaq to build lower cost PCs in-house, while Rosen believed that Compaq needed to buy standard components from suppliers and reach the market faster.

To counter Cleveland's image of superior morality, Republicans discovered reports that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer in Buffalo, and chanted " Ma, Ma, where's my Pa ?".

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.

Halfway through the counter offensive Humayun had to abandon it and concentrate on Gujarat, where a threat from Ahmed Shah had to be squelched.

It also had a 16-bit stack pointer to memory ( replacing the 8008's internal stack ), and a 16-bit program counter.

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

One of his first moves was to launch the League of Diet Members Believing the Objectives of the Holy War to counter opposition from politicians such as deputy Saitō Takao who had spoken against the Second Sino-Japanese War in the Diet on 2 February.

The counter claim was that the King had an Irish army set to reduce the kingdom.

Stalin had begun to encourage Abakumov to form his own network inside the MGB to counter Beria's dominance of the power ministries.

During one such battle, an energy salvo from Luthor's battlesuit accidentally overloads the " Neutrarod "— a spire Luthor had built to counter Lexor's geological instability — resulting in the annihilation of Lexor's inhabitants, including his wife and son.

Until shortly before his death, Lenin worked to counter the disproportionate political influence of Joseph Stalin in the Communist Party and in the bureaucracy of the soviet government, partly because of abuses he had committed against the populace of Georgia, and partly because the autocratic Stalin had accumulated administrative power disproportionate to his office of General Secretary of the Communist Party.

The machine had 3 registers-a program counter p, a base register b, and a top-of-stack register t. There were 8 instructions, with one ( opr ) having multiple forms.

By this stage, Philip had managed to counter the ambitions of the count by breaking his alliances with Henry I, Duke of Brabant, and Philip of Heinsberg, Archbishop of Cologne.

The Bolshevik authorities assigned to every unit of the Red Army a political commissar, or politruk, who had the authority to override unit commanders ' decisions if they ran counter to the principles of the Communist Party.

Wilson and his supporters counter the intellectual link by denying that Wilson had a political agenda, still less a right-wing one.