While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

While Bland's bill was defeated, so was a bill the administration favored that would repeal any silver coinage requirement.

While the Senate passed the petition on January 29, it was defeated in House of Representatives on February 18.

While still forced to wear chains, Luthor was assigned the job of accessing the knowledge stored within the captured Brainiac, who had recently been defeated by Superman ( as seen during the " Brainiac " storyline ).

While there he engaged in very few duels ; one would occur in 1634 at the arrangement of Lord Ogasawara, in which Musashi defeated a lance specialist by the name of Takada Matabei.

While most of the defeated chieftains were allowed to retain their positions, the Mixtec ruler Atonal was ritually strangled and his family was taken as slaves.

While Coragus fought with weapons and full armour, Dioxippus showed up armed only with a club and defeated Coragus without killing him, making use of his pankration skills.

While the Steelers defeated the Buffalo Bills, 32-14, in the first round, the favored Dolphins lost to the Oakland Raiders, 28-26, giving up Raiders running back Clarence Davis ' 8-yard touchdown reception with 26 seconds remaining in the game with a play now known as the Sea of Hands.

While Taft stressed that America needed to prevent the New Deal from using the international crisis to extend socialism and dictatorship at home, the German blitzkrieg that quickly defeated France shook public opinion.

While the battle was nearly a draw, Sextus could not replace his losses, and was thus weaker at the following battle of Naulochus ( 36 BC ), where he was utterly defeated.

While it continues to be lauded to be the major force that defeated " imperialism and feudalism " and created a " New China " by the Communist Party of China, the ideology survives only in name on the Communist Party's Constitution ; Deng Xiaoping abolished most Maoist practices in 1978, advancing a guiding ideology called " Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

While the Green's vote share was down from 2002, it won a fourth seat in Nantes where François de Rugy defeated a conservative UMP incumbent.

While the government likes to keep control in these circumstances, in unwritten practice, the only time the government can fall is if a money bill ( financial or budget ) is defeated.

While colored champ, he defeated ex-colored champs Denver Ed Martin and Frank Childs again and beat future colored heavyweight champs Sam McVey three times and Sam Langford once.

While still captive he was overthrown in a palace coup, and when released he was quickly defeated and detained by members of the Doukas family.

While attempting to dethrone his brother, Philip I Philadelphus, he was defeated by the Arabs and the Parthian Empire, and taken prisoner.

While the Conservatives had been defeated, they would not disappear and the Juárez government had to respond to pressures from these factions.

While he was defeated in the Battle of Tafalla, he still was able to gain territory, including Sanguesa, and established a state of semi-autonomy.

While the footballers were later defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final, Lynch ’ s hurling team went on to win a third All-Ireland title in-a-row.

While this sum was later reduced to 90 million francs ( in 1838 ), it was a crushing economic blow to Haiti, which essentially had to buy its independence after having defeated French forces.

While the Ming army was initially very effective, it lost its capacity for offensive operations after the death of the Yongle Emperor, and was defeated by the Mongols in 1449 during the Tumu Crisis.

While they were looting the material, the Red Sticks returned and defeated them, at what became known as the Battle of Burnt Corn.

While Lippisch maintained the tailless design on principle had an advantage with regard to total drag, Messerschmitt pointed out that the design compromises necessary to make a tailless aircraft safely controllable defeated this purpose by increasing drag to the original level and above.

While the end result was respectable for the government, as it lost only two net seats against its 1986 results, Getty was defeated in Edmonton-Whitemud by Liberal Percy Wickman.

While with the Portuguese Navy, Phillip commanded a frigate, the Nossa Senhora do Pilar.

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

While the Mughals had acquired firearms via the Ottoman Empire, Bahadur's Gujurat had acquired them through a series of contracts drawn up with the Portuguese, allowing the Portuguese to establish a strategic foothold in north western India.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While taking the city, the Portuguese slaughter a large community of Chinese merchants living there.

* While trying to enter by surprise in the harbor of Ceuta to sink Muslim ships, the Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho is spotted and killed.

While prazos were originally developed to be held by Portuguese, through intermarriage they became African Portuguese or African Indian centres defended by large African slave armies known as Chikunda.

While the Portuguese traded enslaved people themselves, the Spanish empire relied on the asiento system, awarding merchants ( mostly from other countries ) the license to trade enslaved people to their colonies.

While millennia of independent development were interrupted by the Portuguese and Spanish colonization drive of the late 15th century and the demographic collapse that followed, the continent's mestizo and indigenous cultures remain quite distinct from those of their colonizers.

While the Portuguese ( and, subsequently, other Europeans ) were entering China from its southern coast, by the sea route, the question arose as to whether it happens to be the same country as Cathay which Marco had reached by the overland route.

While most foreign releases of the film are almost direct translations of the English title ( Canción del Sur in Spanish, Mélodie du Sud in French, Melodie Van Het Zuiden in Dutch, Sången om södern in Swedish, A Canção do Sul in Portuguese, and Etelän laulu in Finnish ), the German title Onkel Remus ' Wunderland translates to " Uncle Remus ' Wonderland ", the Italian title I Racconti Dello Zio Tom translates to " The Stories of Uncle Tom ", and the Norwegian title Onkel Remus forteller translates roughly to " Storyteller Uncle Remus.

While native to Northeast Brazil, the Portuguese took the cashew plant to Goa, India, between the years of 1560 and 1565.

While most European languages have cognate names for the fruit, stemming from Latin granatum, an exception is the Portuguese term romã which is derived from Arabic ruman, and has cognates in other Semitic languages ( eg.

While the Portuguese may have originally reserved the term crioulo for people of strictly European descent, the crioulo population came to be dominated by numerous people of mixed Portuguese and African ancestry.

While some residents believe that " Coto de Caza " means " Preserve of the Hunt " in Portuguese, this is erroneous.

While recognising the need for an act of self-determination, he considered integration with Indonesia to be in Portuguese Timor's best interests.

While Fretilin had sought the return of the Portuguese Governor, pointedly flying the Portuguese flag from government offices, the deteriorating situation meant that it had to make an appeal to the world for international support, independently of Portugal.

While she is often called A Louca ( the Crazy ) in Brazil, Brazilian and Portuguese historic scholars hold her in high esteem.

While still a Jew, de Torres served as an interpreter to the governor of Murcia due to his knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Portuguese.