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Yet and Townsend
Yet neither Townsend or Smith were warned about the possible presence of the 275th Regiment.
Yet Townsend had not been given access to this intelligence and some officers were later critical of the restrictions placed on the availability of SIGINT.

Yet and believed
Yet he led Britain into war for three main reasons: because he believed the British government had an obligation to British South Africans ; because he thought that the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, and the Cape Boers aspired to a Dutch South Africa, and that the achievement of such a state would damage Britain's imperial prestige around the world ; and because of the Boers ' treatment of black South Africans.
Yet he believed it might have taken a beginner 20 years of study to achieve this kind of movement.
Yet paradoxically Ferguson also believed that such commercial growth could foster a decline in virtue and thus ultimately lead to a collapse similar to Rome's.
Yet Rabbi Jose also believed that Ezekiel 40: 1 marked the beginning of the seventeenth Jubilee, and this was 14 years after the city fell.
Yet whatever Jane Rochford may or may not have said, it seems that the majority of the courtiers believed in his innocence, as can be seen from the wagers they were making in favour of acquittal.
Yet, some US businessmen and military officers believed that the nationalism of President Árbenz was a communist threat to the business interests of American multinational corporations, and advocated and supported the coup d ’ état against his government, despite the Guatemalan majority ’ s support and attachment to the original political principles of the October Revolution of 1944.
Yet his magnum opus, Birds of Arabia ( 1954 ), is believed to have been based on the unpublished manuscript of another naturalist, George Bates, who is not sufficiently credited in that book.
Yet in both cases there were some who believed that they saw seven or eight times more points than some other saw.
Yet despite his rationalism, despite his modernity, Dubnow believed in a mystic force -- the Jewish will to live.
Yet with up to two Viet Cong battalions still believed to be in the area and with the continued vulnerability of Nui Dat to attack from the 274th Regiment, Jackson lacked the resources to mount a pursuit of the withdrawing force.
Yet Jackson had been unable to mount a pursuit due to the continued threat posed by the 274th Regiment, which was still believed to be in the area.
Yet he believed that science was superior to literature as a method of inquiry.
For example birds such as the homing pigeon are believed to use the magnetite in their beaks to detect magnetic signposts and thus, the magnetic sense they gain from this pathway is a possible map. Yet, it has also been suggested that homing pigeons and other birds use the visually mediated cryptochrome receptor as a compass.
Yet gardens can also be perilous at times, specifically manioc which is believed to have traits of vampirism.
Yet Bissell and Eveleth, after realizing how flammable the liquid was, believed there was great money to be made in producing rock oil commercially, marketed as lamp fuel and such.
Yet those who created the ASCM fervently believed that Christian students could be agents of change in the university, the nation and the world.
Yet another possible suspect is Celsten Eklund, a well-known San Francisco radical orator, unemployed laborer, and passionate anarchist who had been previously involved in a series of labor demonstrations and altercations with police, and who was believed to have strong ties to the Italian anarchist community.
Yet while rejecting the moral influence view as a whole, Stott believed that some aspects of it ( and of the Ransom theory of atonement ) could be endorsed by those holding penal substitution.
Yet it was widely believed that the ambush was ordered by Reza Shah himself, as he felt increasingly threatened by Abdollah Khan AmirTahmasebi's rising popularity and military respect.
Yet it is not very likely that they went back to the fourth century BC, as he believed they did ; they may not have been more than a hundred years old.

Yet and Nui
Yet with D Company in danger of being overrun, B Company, which was still on its way back to Nui Dat, was ordered to return on foot.
Yet that afternoon, as 6 RAR commenced a detailed search following its initial sweep, Jackson ordered the battalion to immediately return to Nui Dat in response to South Vietnamese intelligence reports of a large Viet Cong presence close to the base, and it was subsequently airlifted out by early evening.
Yet the ongoing need to secure Nui Dat significantly reduced the combat power available to the task force commander, and it was evident that with only two battalions — rather than the usual three — 1 ATF lacked operational flexibility, as while one battalion carried out operations the other was required to secure the base and provide a ready reaction force.
Yet as he was unable to see their location, for safety reasons the initial rounds were directed a distance from 11 Platoon's known location, before " walking " the fire in to between from their position, aided by D Company's favourable location between the Viet Cong and gun position at Nui Dat, which allowed the rounds to pass over their heads and fall away from them.
Yet shortly after 10 Platoon was also heavily engaged on three sides from a Viet Cong heavy machine-gun firing tracer from the high ground of the Nui Dat 2 feature to their left, wounding the signaller and damaging the radio and putting it out of action.
Yet, with 1 ATF lacking sufficient forces to maintain a dedicated reserve at Nui Dat, no suitable quick reaction force was prepared to deploy at short notice.
Yet in dispatching patrols east of Nui Dat following the mortar attack on 16 / 17 August, Jackson may have reacted to his opponent's first move, allowing himself to be shaped into responding as the Viet Cong had intended.
Yet there were suspicions a battalion from the Viet Cong 274th Regiment had also been approaching Nui Dat from the west at the same time 275th Regiment was approaching from the east and if true such an attack may have been feasible, although it still would not have achieved the nine to one superiority communist doctrine required.
Yet ultimately their goal had been a political one and the capture of Nui Dat was not itself considered important.
Yet while 547 Troop had detected a transmitter belonging to the 275th Regiment moving west towards Nui Dat such intercepts were unable to predict Viet Cong intentions with any certainty, while patrols through the area had also failed to detected any significant force.

Yet and defences
Yet Wei never succeeded in breaking through the line of river defences erected by Wu, including the formidable Ruxu forts.
Yet by around 1500 B. C., the defences failed and Kerma was conquered and occupied by the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Tuthmosis I. Kerma's subsequent fight to protect its independence and its resistance against Egyptian occupation was one of the longest military struggles of the ancient world, lasting some 220 years ( roughly 1550-1330 B. C.

Yet and be
Yet long before the scheduled time for return, Donovan would be watching for every speck in the sky.
Yet, I responded, could not similar things be said about the art of the past??
Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.
Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.
Yet we continue to be afflicted by nagging disorders.
Yet Britain In The Nineteenth Century became the vade mecum of beginning students of history, went through edition after edition, and continues to be reprinted up to the very present.
Yet it is plainly time to make a start, and to be effective the first move should be highly dramatic, without being fanatical.
Yet they were not so bound by past experience and constriction as to deny their immediate perceptions and to be dominated by their knowledge of what the experience should be.
Yet after long and earnest discussion Stalin accepted the Curzon Line and even agreed voluntarily that there should be digressions from that line of five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland in some regions.
Yet, if the argument is turned awry, there may be found a great deal in Bryan's view, after all.
Yet many psychologists and marriage counselors agree that domination of the sex relationship by one partner or the other can be unhealthy and even dangerous.
Yet from the dentist's point of view, bad-fitting teeth should be corrected for physical reasons.
Yet even if he could get the necessary approval, fourteen of his Negroes could not be manumitted without special permission.
Yet though it may seem difficult to envision any definitive resolution of the problem of ownership and control, there are nevertheless certain suggestions which seem to be in order.
Yet it exists and has an objective reality which can be experienced and known.
Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man's own action.
Yet to determine precisely to what extent and exactly in what ways any individual showed the effects of Christianity would be impossible.
Yet this cannot be proved.
Yet here they were obviously thought to be handsome, and felt themselves to be so.
Yet, if he used all of the little means at his disposal, he would be instructing his students wrongly.
Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.
Yet none of this was due to a lack of leadership on Andronikos ' part and his reign could be said to end before the Byzantine Empire's position became untenable due to the ensuing civil war which consumed the empire's remaining resources on Andronikos's death.

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