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The next day Sherman issued his orders ending the campaign and pulled his armies back to Atlanta.
Al Smith's 340-blast over left in the fourth -- his fourth homer of the campaign -- tied the score and Carreon's first major league home run in the fifth put the Sox back in front.
The campaign began well for Louis XIV's generals: in Italy Marshal Vendôme had defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Calcinato in April, while in Alsace Marshal Villars had forced the Margrave of Baden back across the Rhine.
From his first campaign, he brought back the Agilolfing princess Swanachild, who apparently became his concubine.
There is now a campaign to bring back the flags again.
* Unmaking law: the Conservative campaign to roll back the common law / Jay M Feinman., 2004
If Diocletian ever did enter Rome shortly after his accession, he did not stay long ; he is attested back in the Balkans by 2 November 285, on campaign against the Sarmatians.
It was a gamble which did not pay off, and whether through military error or betrayal, the Damascus campaign was a failure, and the royal family retreated to Jerusalem and then sailed to Rome and back to Paris.
When Theodosius ascended to the imperial throne in 380, he began on a campaign to bring the Eastern Church back to Nicene Christianity.
In a 2006 interview, he said the U. S. went back on their word regarding compromises he made with them over privatization of enterprises to ensure that part of the profits would go to the Haitian people and then " relied on a disinformation campaign " to discredit him.
The governor however, Suetonius Paulinus, marched back from his campaign in Wales to face Boudicca in battle.
There is a campaign to bring some closed lines back into service, in particular the Limerick-Sligo line ( the Western Railway Corridor ), to facilitate economic regeneration in the west, which has lagged behind the rest of the country.
This, combined with the U. S. air campaign against Germany ’ s synthetic oil production, finally broke the back of the German economy and thus its capacity for further resistance.
In 356 during his first campaign he led an army to the Rhine, engaged the inhabitants there and won back several towns that had fallen into Frankish hands, including Colonia Agrippina ( Cologne ).
If so, he went back to business as usual in Gaul, for, from June to August of that year, Julian led a successful campaign against the Attuarian Franks.
John took back Alexander's possessions in northern England in a rapid campaign and pushed up towards Edinburgh over a ten-day period.
He anticipated that German industry, now heavily involved in shipbuilding, would back a campaign to maintain a higher construction rate.
He was an enthusiastic supporter of Ed Miliband's campaign to lead the Labour Party in 2010, and was reported as telling activists, when Ed Miliband won, " We've got our party back ".
Sounds surface in road safety advertisements: " clunk click, every trip " ( click the seatbelt on after clunking the car door closed ; UK campaign ) or " click, clack, front and back " ( click, clack of connecting the seatbelts ; AU campaign ) or " click it or ticket " ( click of the connecting seatbelt ; US DOT campaign ).
However, Keating succeeded in winning back the electorate with a strong campaign opposing Fightback and a focus on creating jobs to reduce unemployment.
The search began for a fresh site for a new castle to defend the duchy of Normandy and act as a base from which Richard could launch his campaign to take back the Vexin from French control.
This campaign was successful enough to bring back Telia to the negotiation table over the interconnection issue.

back and 123
In the backfield, running back Norm Bulaich was the team's top rusher with 426 yards and 3 touchdowns, while also catching 11 passes for another 123 yards.
A herniated disc in Lemieux's back cut short his 1989 – 90 NHL season, although he still amassed 123 points.
Trent Bridge ( 1 / 123 ), but fought back in the second innings ( 4 / 53 ) with the wickets of Roy Fredericks, Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd and Bernard Julien.
Regardless of location, the team set records in 2010 for attendance ( 3, 647, 249 fans, averaging 45, 028 ) and sellouts ( 81 ), extending a streak dating back to July of 2009 to 123 straight sellouts.
* McCaulay Point 48 ° 25 ′ 05 ″ N 123 ° 24 ′ 33 ″ W three-gun fort dating back to 1895
Hadrian restored a large chunk of the Umbrian Via Flaminia in AD 123 ‑ 124 ; it is thus an appealing, if unproven, theory, that Hadrian would have had the need for restoring the road personally brought home to him as he travelled it back and forth to his daughter's hypothetical villa.
If projected to a modern 162-game schedule, that translates to 125 and 123 wins, respectively, in a very lopsided league ( the third place club finished 30 games back ).
Running back Curtis Martin added 106 rushing yards, while receiver Laveranues Coles caught 8 passes for 123 yards.
During his nine pro seasons, Dudley gained 3, 057 yards on 765 rushing attempts, a 4. 0 average, and scored 20 touchdowns ; caught 123 passes for 1, 383 yards and 18 touchdowns ; returned 124 punts for 1, 515 yards and three touchdowns ; ran back 78 kickoffs for 1, 743 yards and one touchdown ; intercepted 23 passes and returned them for 459 yards and two touchdowns ; and punted 191 times for a 38. 2-yard average.
With the withdrawal of many First Scotland East services in June 2012, the contracts for the 121 Haddington to North Berwick and the 123 Gifford Circle passed back to the Haddington-based firm Prentice Coaches.
In Week 11, Avery started at running back and generated 123 all-purpose yards and 1 touchdown against Saskatchewan.
In Italy, Blood and Black Lace was a box office failure, grossing only 123 million lire ( approximately US $ 77, 000 ), earning back only half of the production cost.
Route 123 is the old alignment of Route 13 all the way to Fair Play, where Route 13 turned east ( now Route 32 ) back to Bolivar.
However, 1935 and 1936 saw him back at his very best, with the latter season seeing him take all ten wickets in an innings at New Road, Worcester and twelve wickets for 123 against Leicestershire.

back and MPs
During this low period, it was often joked that Liberal MPs could hold meetings in the back of one taxi.
In 2004, many believe Syria pressured Lebanese MPs to back a constitutional amendment to revise term limitations and allow Lebanon's two term pro-Syrian president Émile Lahoud to run for a third time.
The pub is equipped with a Division bell that summons MPs back to the chamber when they are required to take part in a vote.
However, the party's MPs, mostly representing seats won from the Scottish Conservatives, were less keen to have the SNP viewed as a centre-left alternative to Labour, for fear of losing their seats back to the Conservatives.
On 11 June 1942 he made his last-ever speech in the House of Commons, and he cast his last vote in the Commons on 18 February 1943 as one of the 121 MPs ( 97 Labour ) condemning the Government for its failure to back the Beveridge Report.
MPs without official party status are treated as independents and must sit in the back row of the opposition benches.
Although the majority of Liberal MPs were in favour of women's suffrage, Asquith remained a longtime opponent of it, his opposition going back to the 1880s.
Chamberlain took over the party's leadership, but this didn't stop a large number of disgruntled Liberal Unionists, including a few MPs, migrating back to the Liberal party.
On 31 October 2006, Jackson was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.
While at Westminster ( and while in transit to and from ) an MP could not effectively tend to personal business back home, yet for their services MPs received only nominal pay.
Of the 200, 86 absented themselves voluntarily, 83 were allowed back in Parliament after formally dissenting from the decision to accept the King's proposals, and 71 were supporters of the army from the outset ( see List of MPs not excluded from the English parliament in 1648 ).
Replying to anti-Boer War MPs including David Lloyd George, Law used his excellent memory to quote sections of Hansard back to the opposition which contained their previous speeches supporting and commending the policies they now denounced.
The following day he was unanimously reselected by his local party as their prospective parliamentary candidate but he failed to persuade 25 of his fellow conservative MPs to call for a vote of confidence in May 2003 and he accepted that no challenge for the party leadership would be immediately forthcoming and retired to the back benches.
Finding the Cabal insufferable, Sir William Coventry resigned as Secretary to the Admiralty and went back to the House of Commons, where he emerged in 1669 as the formidable leader of a group of parliamentarians known as the " Country Party "-a group of MPs held together by their suspicion of corruption in high places, suspicious of the king's dubious foreign policy and, increasingly, suspicious of his loyalty to Protestantism.
In April 2011, attorneys for the victims alleged that as many as 7, 000 people had their phones hacked by the News of the World ; it was further revealed that the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had attempted to pressure Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Labour Party MPs to " back away " from investigating the scandal.
Whips report to the Prime Minister on any possible back bench revolts and the general opinion of MPs within the party, and upon the exercise of the patronage which is used to motivate and reward loyalty.
Eventually he gets back to the officer ’ s apartment where Aarfy has just raped and murdered Michaela, but when the MPs come they do not arrest Aarfy, they arrest Yossarian for going AWOL.
As a result, King could always find enough Progressive MPs who would be willing to back him on every crucial vote, and governed for a standard four-year term as though he had a working majority.
Hide dismissed any talk of a leadership challenge to him but Brash was quoted " I'd like to say to the board that, under my leadership, I believe Act has a much better prospect of not only getting back into Parliament but having a significant number of MPs.
The CPGB also grew on the back of Stalinist successes in Eastern Europe and China, and recorded their best-ever result, with two MPs elected ( one in London and one in Fife ).
It survived the crisis over the 2003 invasion of Iraq despite a massive back bench rebellion where over a hundred AK Party MPs joined those of the opposition Republican People's Party ( CHP ) in parliament to prevent the government from allowing the United States to launch a Northern offensive in Iraq from Turkish territory.
On 31 October 2006, Corbyn was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the war.
Tribune was set up in early 1937 by two left-wing Labour Party Members of Parliament ( MPs ), Stafford Cripps and George Strauss, to back the Unity Campaign, an attempt to secure an anti-fascist and anti-appeasement United Front between the Labour Party and socialist parties to its left which involved Cripps's ( Labour-affiliated ) Socialist League, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CP ).
On 31 October 2006, McDonnell was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.

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