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While the momentum of the invasion was broken, the Galatians were by no means exterminated.
While East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.
While organized to promote common economic, social, and cultural goals, ASEAN acquired a security dimension after Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in 1979 ; this aspect of ASEAN expanded with the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1994, which comprises 22 countries, including the U. S. Indonesia's continued domestic troubles have distracted it from ASEAN matters and consequently lessened its influence within the organization.
While Stalin personally told a Polish general they'd " lost track " of the officers in Manchuria, Polish railroad workers found the mass grave after the 1941 Nazi invasion.
While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.
While Doha also took a tough stand in the reaction to the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
While Hitler conquered Poland, France and other countries acting on single front at the start of World War II, the USSR was able to build up its military and regain some of the former territories of the Russian Empire during the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War.
While the German Blitzkrieg doctrine called for combined-arms action, which required fire support for armoured units, during the invasion of Poland and France this was provided by the Luftwaffe using Stuka dive-bombers effectively acting as artillery.
While Marlborough's attempted invasion of France down the Moselle came to nought, and although he managed to wrong-foot Villeroi and break through the Lines of Brabant, he was unable to bring the French commander to battle.
While each of these conflicts resulted in extreme devastation and large human losses the invasion launched by Hitler had been exceptionally brutal.
While a British invasion of Martinique failed, they captured Guadeloupe shortly afterwards.
While he had been instrumental in advancing the career of the able Dwight D. Eisenhower, he had also recommended the swaggering Lloyd Fredendall to Eisenhower for a major command in the American invasion of North Africa during Operation Torch.
While exploiting Slavic weakness in the wake of the Mongol invasion, Gediminas wisely avoided war with the Golden Horde, a great regional power at the time, while expanding Lithuania's border towards the Black Sea.
While the French hailed the invasion as the first step towards the Rhineland and later Berlin, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III were receiving alarming reports from foreign news sources of Prussian and Bavarian armies massing to the southeast in addition to the forces to the north and northeast.
While the invaders are horrifying enough, the focus of the plot is very much the practical business of, on the one hand, the aliens mounting the invasion, and on the other, the efforts of free humans to defeat it.
While most sports commentators gain some recognition if their career is long enough, Wolstenholme is best remembered for his commentary of the 1966 Football World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, specifically the impromptu words he used with impeccable timing as the match came to a conclusion during injury time, as a small pitch invasion took place just as Geoff Hurst scored to put England 4-2 ahead:
While some military historians point out that leaving enemies in your rear is not generally wise, the Mongols proved that indirect attack, and bypassing weaker foes to eliminate the strongest first, is a devastatingly effective mode of invasion.
While this was formerly interpreted as evidence of an invasion (' Sea Peoples '), this is seen more and more as an indigenous development, triggered by increasing trade relations with Cyprus and Crete.
* While supportive of the American government in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9 / 11, he opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq ( see Rogues and his contribution to Philosophy in a Time of Terror with Giovanna Borradori and Jürgen Habermas ).
While the extent of Prince Asaka's responsibility for the massacre remains a matter of debate, the ultimate sanction for the massacre and the crimes committed during the invasion of China were issued in Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the Japanese army's proposition to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners on August 5, 1937.
While Britain and the United States did not yet possess the resources to mount a full invasion, invasion plans that came to be known as Operation Sledgehammer were drawn up, in case the German position in Western Europe weakened or the USSR's situation became dire.
While the coastal defenses had not turned back the invasion at the beach, they had broken up and weakened the assault formations struggling through them.
While Prince Asaka's responsibility for the Nanking Massacre remains a matter of debate, the ultimate sanction for the massacre and the crimes committed during the invasion of China might be found in the ratification, made on August 5, 1937 by Emperor Hirohito, of the proposition of the Japanese army to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners.

While and deprived
While ostensibly well-intentioned, in effect this move destroyed the traditional system of land management and deprived many Algerians of land.
While they had deprived the traditional administration of major functions by transferring local and regional government to newly established committees in which they largely dominated, they failed to eliminate " bourgeois " influence in the army or to expropriate industrialists and large landowners.
" While the Council had declared that reception of communion under one form alone deprived the communicant of no grace necessary to salvation, theologians admitted that receiving under both forms may confer a greater grace either in itself ( a minority view ) or only accidentally ( the majority view ).
While the corrosion pits only nucleate under fairly extreme circumstances, they can continue to grow even when conditions return to normal, since the interior of a pit is naturally deprived of oxygen and locally the pH decreases to very low values and the corrosion rate increases due to an autocatalytic process.
While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the ' French of Canada ' - Acadians, Québécois, Métis, and others-remained.
While he ultimately supported baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ' decision to ban the implicated White Sox players from further participation in professional baseball, Comiskey must have realized that this ruling deprived his team of its top players.
While filming in the Balkans in 2006, Lusha was made aware of the deprived conditions of local homeless children wandering the streets and begging for food.
While there, the government deprived him of his pension despite the fact that, by law, a mentally sick military officer was entitled to a pension.
While in statu pupillari he was suddenly called on by the vice-chancellor to act as terræ filius in place of one who was deprived of the office on account of his scurrility.
While acknowledging its support base to be the “ traditionally under-represented politically and economically disadvantaged ” Shi ' a community, it aimed, according to Palmer-Harik, to seek social justice for all deprived Lebanese.
While many European food banks are run by civil society with no government assistance, there is a project funded by the EU, the Most deprived person programme ( MDP ), which specialises in supplying food to marginalised people who are not covered by the benefit system and who may be reluctant to approach the more formal food banks.
While media reports also suggested that the ecclesiastical verdict was never to be made known, the document itself spoke of the verdict being " declared " and " put into effect ", and the punishments laid down in canon law were: " He is to be suspended from celebrating Mass and hearing sacramental confessions and, if the gravity of the crime calls for it, he is to be declared unfit for hearing them ; he is to be deprived of all benefices and ranks, of the right to vote or be voted for, and is to be declared unfit for all of them, and in more serious cases he is to be reduced to the lay state.
While the people of Western Europe was experiencing an industrial revolution the Ottoman Empire were deprived of its main economic base, namely The Black Sea, through the peace treaties of Kücük Kaynarca and Jossi in 1774 and 1792, which had opened the sea to Russian trade.
While the faculty member is being deprived of his dignity, the voiceover announces: " Now the more Pepsi you drink, the more great stuff you're gonna get.
While he argued, citing the Bible, that those who did believe in God but were deprived of knowledge of their evil actions ( and thus deprived, for a moment, of the Jesuits ' " actual grace ") were still sinners.
While the AllSpark itself was dispersed by Optimus Prime's actions later on, the geometrically-shaped container vessel that carried it is assumed to still be in the cargo bay, deprived of its powers.

While and Athenians
While this fleet was inferior to the Spartans, the Athenians employed new and unorthodox tactics, which allowed them to secure a dramatic and unexpected victory in the Battle of Arginusae, near Lesbos.
While he was triumphantly campaigning north, the Thebans and Athenians rebelled once more.
While the allied forces were not routed, the outcome was decisive enough to compel the Athenians and her allies to sue for peace on Antipater ’ s terms.
While it is unlikely that the god Crepitus ever existed, the scene from Aristophanes is genuine ; in The Clouds Athenians compare thunder to the sound of celestial flatulence.
While the Athenians celebrated Dionysus in various one-day festivals ( including those during the Eleusinian Mysteries ), a far older tradition was the two-year cycle where the death and absence of Dionysus ( in his aspect of Dionysus Chthonios, Lord of the Underworld ) was mourned for a year.
While still largely accurate factually ( only rarely have ancient texts been emended so severely as to warrant a biographical change ), much is missing, especially more recent discoveries ( like Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, or the decipherment of Linear B ) and epigraphic material ; perhaps more seriously, the context in which ancient evidence is viewed has often changed in the intervening century and a half.

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