`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Even before the century was out the tide of reaction had set in.

Even before the benches had dried, the Civil War veterans were straggling back to their places.

Even some of the queens will die before the winter is over, falling prey to enemies or disease.

Even before his death this influence had begun to ebb.

Even before he saw the necessity of growing better food and planning good nutrition, Mr. Clark felt the school had a good health program.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.

Even before his mind had rounded out the idea, he thrust one hand into his trousers pocket and pulled out the six slugs he had taken from the revolver.

Even before he hit big money, he had begun buying modern paintings.

Even the stable-garage, which housed nothing now but the scent of rot, had a lawn before it.

Even before Johnston arrived in Tennessee, two forts had been started to defend the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River which provided avenues into the State from the north.

Even before the fight began, dissension spread through some of Abd al-Rahman's lines.

Even before the Nazis came to power, political pressure on Bauhaus had increased.

Even earlier I would take my coffee at Martin's, at 54th Street – now, alas, vanished – where I would see creatures of the night life before they disappeared with the

Even before the completion of the new house, the pattern of the royal couple's life in the Highlands was soon established.

Even before the Ionian Revolt, Darius had begun to expand the Empire into Europe, subjugating Thrace, and forcing Macedon to become allied to Persia.

Even before the publication of Client-Centered Therapy in 1951, Rogers believed that the principles he was describing could be applied in a variety of contexts and not just in the therapy situation.

" Even before the absence of the AME and AMEZ churches at the January 2011 plenary, some in CUIC had noticed the lack of commitment to racial reconciliation.

Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah to power.

Even D-Cinema itself had evolved over time before the DCI standards were framed.

Even worse, these delays occurred a couple of days before the election day and some have indicated the governments role in these delays, but couldn't provide substantial proof for their accusations.

Even before the Crusade, Eleanor and Louis were becoming estranged.

Even before the Declaration of Boulogne, the language was remarkably stable ; only one set of lexical changes were made in the first year after publication, namely changing " when ", " then ", " never ", " sometimes ", " always " from kian, tian, nenian, ian, ĉian to kiam, tiam, neniam etc., to avoid confusion with the accusative forms of kia " what sort of ", tia " that sort of ", etc.

Even tensions between Czechs and Slovaks had appeared.

Even so, tensions remained: William remained very suspicious of Louis, thinking the French king desired " Universal Kingship " over Europe ; Louis described William as " my mortal enemy " and saw him as an obnoxious warmonger.

Even before his election as Chancellor, Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic mayor of West Berlin, argued for and pursued policies that would ease tensions between the two German states, generally in the interest of cross-border commerce.

Even so, the basic structures and tensions that marked the cold war were not yet in place in 1945-1946.

Even with the victory of the government troops in the war, tensions did not abate.

Even with rising tensions, in the mid-1930s, the Soviet Union made repeated efforts to reestablish closer contacts with Germany., which were rebuffed by Hitler, who wished to steer clear of such political ties.

Even after the official end of the Second Congo War in 2002, FDLR units continued to attack Tutsi forces both in eastern DRC and across the border into Rwanda, vastly increasing tensions in the region and raising the possibility of another Rwandan offensive into the DRC – what would be their third since 1996.

Even after this, when the shogunate was successfully and firmly established, Kajiwara still caused tensions at court.

Even after his reinstatement, Richards's views continued to create tensions with others in the CCF.

Even worse, dukes often went into feuds against each other that, more often than not, escalated into local wars.

Even so, most ships ' captains prefer to pass through the unobstructed Drogden Strait above the Drogden Tunnel.

Even now the Mediterranean is saltier than the North Atlantic because of its near isolation by the Strait of Gibraltar and its high rate of evaporation.

Even greater injections of foreign assistance between 1985 and 1988 kept the economy afloat, but it soon became clear that the successive governments had been borrowing time as well as money.

Even though being a neighbour to the mighty Soviet Union sometimes resulted in overly cautious concern in foreign policy (" Finlandization "), Finland developed closer co-operation with the other Nordic countries and declared itself neutral in superpower politics.

Even though the Board of Rites and Lifan Yuan performed some duties of a foreign office, they fell short of developing into a professional foreign service.

Even the most conservative elements within the Qing court could no longer ignore China's military weakness in contrast to the foreign " barbarians " literally beating down its gates.

Even today there are still large concentrations of San Marino citizens residing in foreign countries, above all, in the United States, in France and in Argentina.

Even though they shared the same king, Norway was largely independent of Sweden, except Sweden controlled foreign affairs.

Even after this the foreign presence was minimal and the kings continued to rule much as before.

Even outside the spectrum of sovereign powers many multiparty democratic systems give foreign powers the capacity to influence political discourse through shills and pseudo sock-puppets.

Even as a child he gained knowledge of two foreign languages.

Even before independence, maintaining an open trade route to the Indian Ocean was the primary foreign policy objective of all governments.

Even where neither title was ever used domestically, such duplication to describe foreign titles can exist.

Even Cato, however, conceded that the Reagan Doctrine had " fired the enthusiasm of the conservative movement in the United States as no foreign policy issue has done in decades.

Even before the late 18th-19th century, " metropolitan France " was largely a patchwork of local customs and regional differences that the unifying aims of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution had only begun to work against, and today's France remains a nation of numerous indigenous and foreign languages, of multiple ethnicities and religions, and of regional diversity that includes French citizens in Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and elsewhere around the globe.

Even the astronomer Yi Xing's isn't comparable to his value ( who was beginning to utilize foreign knowledge ).

Even though the Statute of Westminster 1931 had made Canada fully independent in governing its foreign affairs, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held that s. 132 did not accordingly evolve to take that into account.

Even as a boy, he was interested in religious matters, history and foreign politics.

Even the adherents of the papal party voted for him, some in honour of his moderate policies, some out of deference to popular feeling, which opposed the election of a foreign ruler.

Even after she died on 7 April 1830, many atrocities continued to be committed in the name of Miguel, some against foreign nationals who intervened in the politics of Portugal.

Even though he funded and promoted an envoy to establish relations with the Pope in Rome, he was likely motivated at least in part by a desire for foreign technology, similar to that of other lords, such as Oda Nobunaga.

Even foreign aid programmes struggled to implement under the weight of bureaucratic obduracy.

Even though contact with foreign countries was restricted, books from China and Europe were eagerly imported and Rangaku (" Dutch studies ") became a popular area of scholarly interest.

Even before foreign intervention and the opening of Korea to the world, the peasants of the Korean Peninsula had become disillusioned with the rule of the upper yangban classes.

Even nearly seventy years after U. S. independence, Rhode Island continued to operate with the 1663 Charter, leaving it after 1818 ( when Connecticut, the other holdout, dropped its colonial charter for a contemporary constitution ) the only state whose official legal document was passed by a foreign monarch.