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Yet despite his opponents ' setbacks Louis XIV was desirous of peace – but he wanted it on reasonable terms.
Yet while seemingly defeatist in tone, the humanity of the characters shines through in their persistence despite the obstacles.
Yet, one modern scholar, reading between the lines, has described the work of Hecataeus as " a curious false start to history " because, despite its critical spirit, it failed to liberate history from myth.
Yet despite extensive collaboration, the Vichy regime engaged a programme of arresting German intelligence agents in the unoccupied zone, with the purpose of preserving Vichy's sovereignty ; around 2, 000 were arrested and some were subsequently executed.
Yet despite their mutual insistence on the self-evidence that " all men are created equal ", their insistence that the citizens of a republic be educated at public expense, and the evident parallel between the concepts of the " general welfare " and Rousseau's " general will ", some scholars maintain there is little to suggest that Rousseau had that much effect on Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers.
Yet, though generally speaking intentions in poetry are nothing save as ' realized ', we are unable to ignore the poem, despite Mr Eliot's strictures on its ' exaggerated repute '.
Yet, despite these apparent differences, notarial practice is universally considered to be distinct and separate from that of attorney ( solicitor / barrister ).
Yet despite his apparent liberality, Antonio López was a dictator who held Paraguayans on a tight leash.
Yet despite the challenge, Anguissola's paintings of Elisabeth of Valois – and later of Anne of Austria, Philip II s fourth wife – were vibrant and full of life.
Yet, despite these changes, ratification of the amendment was still in some doubt.
Yet, despite improved living conditions, internal dissent was not tolerated.
Yet, in general, despite Greek colonization in such areas as Byzantium, Apollonia and other cities, the Thracians avoided urban life.
Yet many people favor protectionism as an expression of nationalism, despite its economic costs.
Yet despite these events God does not forget his people, but sends Cyrus, king of Persia as his messiah to deliver them from bondage.
According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.
Yet, at the same time, Isabel and Charles struck against Margaret's family: with Henry VI and his son dead, Isabel was one of the most senior members of the House of Lancaster, and had a good claim to the English throne ; this claim she legally transferred to Charles in July, which would allow Charles later that year to officially claim the English throne, in despite of his brother-in-law the Yorkist King of England.
Yet despite his physical appearance, John was known as Kaloïōannēs, " John the Good " or " John the Beautiful ".
Yet, despite these occupations, Side managed to preserve some autonomy, grew prosperous, and became an important cultural centre.
Yet, despite his visits to England just before the war, only about four articles by Tschichold had been translated into English by 1945.
" Yet despite his contempt, the interactions related in his postcards often show his own ignorance.
Yet despite their strong-willed and independent natures, the people of Fairview took full part in the cooperative society of their times.
Yet, despite his later doctorate, Tucholsky never went on to a legal career: his inclination towards literature and journalism was stronger.
Yet, despite this anti-democratic feeling, democracy eventually returned to Athens after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants.
Yet despite the breach of trust, the governor once again released Smith on the same promise to leave the province immediately and not to return, and as before, Smith and his party remained in California hunting in Sacramento Valley for several months, before heading north along the Pacific Coast to use the Columbia River to return to their headquarters.
Yet despite the numerous enemies which his book raised up for him, most of these notices are favourable — notably that of Saint-Simon, an acute judge and one bitterly prejudiced against commoners generally.

Yet and
Yet, as Lemke and O Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.
Yet, contrary to Marx s famous prediction in the Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, this shift did not lead to " an era of social revolution ," but rather to fascism and totalitarianism.
Yet, seven years after the Allies Potsdam Agreement to a unified Germany, the USSR via the Stalin Note ( 10 March 1952 ) proposed German reunification and superpower disengagement from Central Europe, which the three Western Allies ( US, France, UK ) rejected.
Yet, he contemplated his son s words about these dreams.
Yet Adorno s work continued with studies of Beethoven and Richard Wagner ( published in 1939 as " Fragments on Wagner "), drafts of which he read to Benjamin during their final meeting, in December on the Italian Riviera.
Yet during the two years during which he worked on the Project, Adorno was nevertheless prolific, publishing “ The Radio Sympthony ,” “ A Social Critique of Radio Music ” and “ On Popular Music ,” texts which, along with the draft memorandum and other unpublished writings, which are now found in Robert Hullot-Kentor s recent translation, Current of Music.
Yet, Tamar s first moves to reduce the power of the aristocratic élite were unsuccessful.
Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".
Yet all but one of the other members belonged to Old Bloomsbury, and indeed Old Bloomsbury itself became a popular subject for the Club s memoirs.
Yet, in the children of Buddenbrook Jr., the materially comfortable style of life provided by the dedication to solid, middle-class values elicits decadence: The fickle daughter, Toni, lacks and seeks no purpose in life ; son Christian is honestly decadent, and lives the life of a ne er-do-well ; and the businessman son, Thomas, who assumes command of the Buddenbrook family fortune, occasionally falters from middle-class solidity by being interested in art and philosophy, the impractical life of the mind, which, to the bourgeoisie, is the epitome of social, moral, and material decadence.
Yet, Babbitt sublimates his desire for self-respect and does encourage his son to rebel against the conformity that results from bourgeois prosperity, by recommending that he be true to himself: “ Don t be scared of the family.
The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.
Yet while Stanley might have had no other option than to act as Richard s loyal subject, it is conceivable that he may himself have become involved in the uprising.
Yet, when his family moved to Chicago in 1944, his parents met a psychiatrist and family friend whose son was enrolled in the University of Chicago s humanities program for gifted students.
Yet Germany is by no means the only area where the cult of this widespread Celtic deity occurs: this god s name is also recorded on inscriptions in France at Grand in the Vosges, Horbourg-Wihr in the Haut-Rhin, Limoges in Haute-Vienne and at Monthelon in Saône-et-Loire.
Yet, others refer to a ‘ creeping conquest ’, that is, a gradual infiltration of migrating nomads or seminomads who either slowly took over control of the country piecemeal or by a swift coup d etat put themselves at the head of the existing government.
Yet there still remained some who disapproved of Dreiser s immoral, atypical story line.
Yet, Hill s endeavors were not crowned with official success ; his works were rejected when he presented them at the Paris Salon.
Yet the tale is never heavy-handed, thanks to Brutha s sincerity and some deftly comical plot twists, as well as all the levity that comes from picturing an angry God trapped in the body of a tortoise.
Yet another new album, Ride, was recorded at John s Saugerties studio and released through an independent label, Dinosaur Entertainment, out of New Orleans.
Yet Molson s beer was special as it was ‘ universally liked ( a quote from Molson s diary ).
Yet in letters to Friedrich Engels, Marx made disparaging and racist comments about Lassalle, speculating that his dark complexion and coarse hair were evidence that " he is descendant from the negroes who joined in the flight of Moses from Egypt ( unless his mother or grandmother on the father s side was crossed with a nigger )" and declaring that " the importunity of the fellow is also niggerlike.

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