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Yet it is perhaps the most violent attack, in the apparent quietness of the action, against the rules of the new economy, the new mentality, the new values, and it embodies both a conservative and a progressive view.
Yet Manuel's attention was to be drawn to Antioch again in 1156, when Raynald of Châtillon, the new Prince of Antioch, claimed that the Byzantine emperor had reneged on his promise to pay him a sum of money, and vowed to attack the Byzantine province of Cyprus.
Yet in 1524 Francis I of France retook the initiative, crossing into Lombardy where Milan, along with a number of other cities, once again fell to his attack.
Yet just as gods are not necessarily spiritual, demons may also be regarded as corporeal ; vampires for example are sometimes described as human heads with appended entrails, which issue from the tomb to attack the living during the night watches.
Yet the point has been made of the elaborate preparations for the attack in the dead of the night, after Kira's staff was tired out by entertaining guests and when snow muffled the footsteps of the attackers.
Yet another account recalls the brutal attack of his men onto him.
Yet if England was left to itself the situation could become desperate for the Dutch Republic: Louis XIV might intervene and so make James II his vassal ; or James, wishing to distract his subjects, might even join with Louis in a repetition of the attack made on the Dutch Republic in 1672.
Yet, it was the element of surprise that gave Sun and Xu Kun the advantage for their attack was not fully expected by Chiang or his military commanders.
Yet in " The Day The Sky Fell In ", he is portrayed as a seven-year-old at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In 1920, he published the satire Literatur oder Man wird doch da sehn ( Literature or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet ) as a reply to Franz Werfel's Spiegelmensch ( Mirror man ), an attack against Kraus.
Yet he initially moved slowly to find a way to attack the source of the violence.
Yet because most of the treasure had been off-loaded before the attack, capturing the bulk of the silver cargo had eluded Rooke.
Yet the Viet Cong had fled prior to the attack, and the assaulting sections swept through the area finding only two grenades.
Yet Townsend believed Nui Dat's defences to be sufficient to deter such an attack, even if they remained incomplete, while the strategic reserve held by US II FFV could also be enacted if required.
Yet even as they did so the Viet Cong continued to attack from the north-east, although this too was soon broken off.
Yet with the Viet Cong now spent no further attack was mounted.
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 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 the reason the government gave for impounding the few remaining and operating Japanese fishing boats was that the government feared these boats would be used by Japan to mount a horrific coastal attack on British Columbia.
On 21 September 1745 at the Battle of Prestonpans a surprise attack planned by Lord George Murray routed the government forces, as celebrated in the Jacobite song Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet ?.
Yet Yoshihiro could not get along with Mitsunari as well, who did not listen to any of Yoshihiro's plan including surprise night attack on the day before the actual battle.
This is made apparent with quotes such as: “ Yet history demonstrates that personal liberty is a rare and precious thing, that all societies tend toward the absolute until attack from without or collapse from within breaks up the social machine and makes freedom and innovation again possible ” ( 163 ).
Yet, Putnik ordered Stepa to pursue the enemy forces frontally and not to conduct any sort of flanking attack, which would, in itself, cause far larger casualties upon the retreating enemy.

Yet and on
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
Yet, in summarizing a series of careful essays on the Yalta Conference, Forrest Pogue could find no basis for Yalta becoming `` a symbol for betrayal and a shibboleth for the opponents of Roosevelt and international cooperation ''.
Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper, and the only lesser immediacy of block capitals that simulate window lettering, manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture plane so that it does not `` jump ''.
Yet they thrived on it.
Yet she did not hesitate and only turned slightly, her neck tall as she looked in his direction, and continued on her way toward the end of the camp.
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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Yet archaeologists have increasingly come to incorporate many of the insights from archaeoastronomy into archaeology textbooks and, as mentioned above, some students wrote archaeology dissertations on archaeoastronomical topics.
Yet despite his opponents ' setbacks Louis XIV was desirous of peace – but he wanted it on reasonable terms.
Yet, with the money still being withheld by Petty and with rent due, Buddy was forced to go back on the road.
Yet some still fought on ; and it was not until long after nightfall, when many a ship was blazing from the firebrands thrown upon them, that the work was done.
Yet he was able to work alongside the other artists on equal terms due to his youthful temperament and creativity.
Yet, most importantly, the observer has no influence on the specific element of the world that becomes reality.
Yet his colleague Heidegger was elected Rektor of the university on April 21 – 22, and joined the Nazi party.
Yet he also became " the most tragic of poets ", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown.
Yet, when a distinction is made, Epipaleolithic is used for those cultures that were not much affected by the ending of the Ice Age ( like the Natufian and Khiamian cultures of Western Asia ) and the term Mesolithic is reserved for Western Europe where the extinction of the Megafauna had a great impact on the Paleolithic populations at the end of the Ice Age ( like European post-glacial cultures: Azilian, Sauveterrian, Tardenoisian, Maglemosian, etc.
Yet it also made clear that the plot was in no way official and that any activity centred on a small group of discontented officers.
Yet in the paperback edition released in 1979, Bradbury wrote a new coda for the book containing multiple comments on censorship and its relation to the novel.
" Yet, he was married according to the rites of the Church of England in both his first marriage at the church at Wallington, and in his second marriage on his deathbed in University College Hospital, and he left instructions that he was to receive an Anglican funeral.
Yet, pest control and the products used may vary based on the specific type of plants and type of insects.

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