We chose not to undertake the project because of the enormous costs involved. |
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They were stubborn nonconformists who chose to be arrested instead of obeying the laws. |
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Montrose feared that Charles would accept a compromise, and so chose to invade mainland Scotland anyway. |
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For example, the defeat of Vitellius in the Year of the Four Emperors was decided when the Danubian legions chose to support Vespasian. |
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Buchan and his generals unwisely chose to face the English army, led by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford in open battle. |
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Had Howe chose to land on Manhattan, Washington could have been encircled and his army destroyed. |
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The High Court of Justice established by the Act consisted of 135 commissioners, but many either refused to serve or chose to stay away. |
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He chose the latter, and subsequently was a prominent figure in British horseracing for 40 years. |
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Cromwell chose his eldest surviving son, the politically inexperienced Richard. |
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Many writers were influenced by the works, including Walter Scott, and painters and composers chose Ossianic subjects. |
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Others with similar theological views waited for imminent union but chose to continue with the Free Church. |
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The Continuing Church then said they would appeal Lady Paton's decision, but ultimately chose not to proceed. |
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We heard about it from Rush, and Fox, not from the alt left fake news purveyors, who chose to ignore and cover-up. |
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Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood chose not to contest a Westminster seat, nor did former Labour MP and shadow chancellor Ed Balls. |
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The eldest chose first, followed by the second and so on until the youngest received the remaining land. |
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The normal practice was that the eldest son both divided and chose first, but had to divide equally. |
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Some Scottish independent schools, including St Aloysius' College, in Glasgow, chose to do likewise. |
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Since their contract with Chrysalis had ended, Runrig chose to release In Search Of Angels on their own label, Ridge Records. |
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The band chose the name Sophia rather than Sophie to give the song a better ring. |
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Each participating nation holds its own national selection event to chose its representatives at the Festival. |
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All soon declared war on Germany, but the Irish Free State chose to remain legally neutral throughout the war. |
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Illtud, where he chose to forsake his royal heritage and embrace monasticism. |
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India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka became members of the Commonwealth, while Burma chose not to join. |
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Fiji, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea chose to become Commonwealth realms. |
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In 1910, Thomas chose to contest Cardiff instead and was succeeded bt Sir Edgar Jones. |
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Unlike residents of many of the colonies, Quakers chose to trade peacefully with the Indians, including for land. |
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Non-voters were deemed fanatics less dangerous than the Birney and Hale men, who chose at first between the two great debauched parties. |
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Australia, New Zealand and Rhodesia also chose ten shillings as the base unit of their new currency. |
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He chose the city of Taiz to become the political capital of the kingdom because of its strategic location and proximity to Aden. |
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Rather than repeating the devolved arrangements of previous treaties, Edward chose to permanently colonise North Wales instead. |
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It is thought that Bennett chose to write about five towns, rather than six, because he refused to acknowledge Fenton as a proper town. |
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In summer 2010, St Paul's chose two new works by the British artist Mark Alexander to be hung either side of the nave. |
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When I invited women to decide for themselves which rite of passage to talk or write about, I found that only a few chose their sexual awakening. |
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In similar circumstances the Northern Union chose another venue where professional sympathies lay, this time Tonypandy in the Rhondda Valley. |
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He first chose Fred Cymry, Cymry meaning Welsh, but on writing to Fanny, she suggested that 'Welsh' would be less confusing. |
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In continuing the series Davies chose to keep Torchwood more focused on the human condition than its science fiction backdrop. |
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He soon chose to record less, instead concentrating on his lucrative club performances. |
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He knew of another Welsh baritone named Bryn Jones, so chose Bryn Terfel as his professional name. |
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Nevertheless, neither the Alliance, nor the left block, chose to form a coalition with the Sweden Democrats. |
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When the four Lutheran church bodies there united in 1977 they chose the name North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. |
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Unlike other European nations, the Dutch chose not to follow a policy of language expansion amongst the indigenous peoples of their colonies. |
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After strong reactions to this book burning, they apologized and chose not to use the video. |
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The Japanese government perceived a Russian threat to its plans for expansion into Asia and chose to go to war. |
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The British, appreciating this situation chose to adopt a strategy of patrolling the North Sea rather than waters close to Germany. |
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Admiral Tirpitz, responsible for the German fleet, favoured ship survivability and chose to sacrifice some gun size for improved armour. |
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During his first seven months as prime minister he chose not to live in the official residence at 10 Downing Street, finding it too small. |
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Faced with the choice between a triumph and the consulship, Caesar chose the consulship. |
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As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch. |
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While Fisher agreed with him as to the need for greater funding and instant readiness for war, he chose to stay out of the public debate. |
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The UK Foreign Affairs Committee called upon Prime Minister David Cameron to boycott the event, however, he chose to attend. |
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May picked a 2005 Renault Master, Hammond chose a 2006 Ford Transit, and Clarkson selected a 2006 Volkswagen T30 TDI 174 Sportline. |
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Although each presenter chose a different route, Clarkson estimated the distance as approximately 750 miles. |
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In the Kingdom of Great Britain, the monarch, in theory, chaired cabinet and chose ministers. |
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The Labour Party chose Selwyn Lloyd, partly because he was perceived as a weak figure. |
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A few months later in March 1470, Warwick and Clarence chose this opportunity to rebel against Edward IV again. |
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Southerners enjoyed lucrative careers as bureaucrats and service providers to the north, but very few ever chose to visit there. |
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Marconi chose Chatham due to its vantage point on the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded on three sides by water. |
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Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year. |
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Augustus Smith chose Tresco as the site of his home because the site was more or less central in relation to the rest of the islands. |
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The government chose the civil parish as the basic unit of local government in rural areas. |
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In 1879 the Royal Agricultural Society chose Willesden as the site of its annual show. |
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It was decided to set up a permanent venue for the show, and the Society chose a place in Twyford. |
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As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Jacob's Ladder as the county flower. |
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The sterling area effectively ended at this time when the majority of its members also chose to float freely against the pound and the dollar. |
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Since his Cossacks provoked the enmity of the locals behind, Poyarkov chose a different way back. |
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Austria, Finland and Ireland chose not to participate, because of lack of interest or concerns about the expense of the project. |
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When Dirac found that he could not express what he wanted to say in French, he chose to remain silent. |
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Jeremy Wright chose to stand for Kenilworth and Southam in the 2010 general election and was successful. |
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Swindon, for example, was little more than a village before the Great Western Railway chose to site its locomotive works there. |
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But if the Goddess chose to help you by giving Miss Hoover the Hershey squirts, such is her divine wisdom. |
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This was the first time that senators chose the emperor since Octavian was honored with the titles of princeps and Augustus. |
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Gillingham has shown how few pitched battles successful Charlemagne and Richard I chose to fight. |
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Many Cornish landed gentry chose mottos in the Cornish language for their coat of arms, highlighting its socially high status. |
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They chose a course that extended the lovefest, bonded Barbaro to his fans and cemented his appeal as a documentary subject. |
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Clerks using this standard were usually familiar with French and Latin, influencing the forms they chose. |
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Critics allege that the Bosnian government chose to define three languages to reinforce ethnic differences and keep the country divided. |
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In 595, Gregory chose Augustine, prior of Gregory's own monastery of St Andrew in Rome, to head the mission to Kent. |
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Some angels chose their own happiness in preference to justice and were punished by God for their injustice with less happiness. |
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Of those most critical of the Church's direction, some chose to stay and try to make constructive changes from within the Anglican Church. |
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Still other congregations chose not to affiliate with any particular association of churches, or only with regional or local ones. |
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Although there were more reasonably priced bottles of wine, they chose an expensive Malbec not for its flavor, but for its bourgie appeal. |
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Wilfrid chose to be consecrated in Gaul because of the lack of what he considered to be validly consecrated bishops in England at that time. |
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The Achaean League chose this moment to fight Rome but was swiftly defeated. |
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Unwilling to try his hardest, Jason instead chose to bring it weak at the gym, and didn't even break a sweat. |
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Pei chose the pyramid as the form that best harmonized with the Renaissance and neoclassical forms of the historic Louvre. |
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They now chose themes from the Old Testament instead of the previous stories from classical history and allegory. |
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Milton no less than Davenant wished to write the English epic, and chose blank verse as his form. |
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The young couple thought of the small town they chose to live in as Mayberry, especially because of its low crime rate and excellent schools. |
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He was subject to seizures, may have been deaf and dumb, and she chose to send him out to be fostered. |
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He chose to stay at St Cyprian's until December 1916, in case a place at Eton became available. |
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Blair's maternal grandmother lived at Moulmein, so he chose a posting in Burma. |
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He chose not to identify the hospital, and indeed was deliberately misleading about its location. |
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After Tincomarus, the emperor Augustus chose to recognize his brother, Eppillus, as the next client king. |
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At Augustus' death, the equites, or knights, chose Claudius to head their delegation. |
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Although both Mason and Gilmour were initially cautious, they chose the former to be their next album. |
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If ever any rocker chose the role of everyman and lived up to it, it was Rod Stewart. |
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He chose to build his own studio, situated on five acres of land off Sunset Boulevard, with production facilities of the highest order. |
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Following its September 1921 release, he chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade. |
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Furthermore, masters who chose to kill slaves rather than take care of them were liable to be charged with murder. |
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Roberts came to own Saltaire, but chose to invest his money heavily in Russia, losing some of his fortune in the Russian Revolution. |
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Senecio requested either reinforcements or an Imperial expedition, and Severus chose the latter, despite being 62 years old. |
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A bristle was a loaded or crooked dice. lt was specially weighted which meant that it fell on whichever number the bristler chose. |
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He chose the Arianizing bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, bishop of the city where he lay dying, as his baptizer. |
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Similarly to the BBC, ESPN chose to opt out of its final year of Open rights, causing NBC's rights to begin in 2016 instead. |
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She chose a penguin as her personal avatar in the chat room. |
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In 595, Gregory chose Augustine, who was the prior of the Abbey of St Andrew's in Rome, to head the mission to Kent. |
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Hamed soon chose to relinquish his WBC title due to his commitment to being WBO champion. |
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Sources make no mention of why Pope Gregory chose a monk to head the mission. |
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Mercedes chose split strategies for their drivers, and Hamilton opened up a gap on the faster option tyres. |
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This followed months of widely publicised contract talks between the driver, who chose to negotiate on his own behalf, and the team. |
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The Londoners chose his son Edmund as their king, while most of the nobles met at Southampton and swore fealty to Cnut. |
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The commission chose to cede Memel to Lithuania and give the area autonomous rights. |
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Instead, the government chose to enact a jus sanguinis system, with the naturalization restrictions listed above. |
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However this figure does not include Australians with an Irish background who chose to nominate themselves as 'Australian' or other ancestries. |
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On 3 August, Edward asked Balliol and Bruce to choose 40 arbiters each, while he chose 24, to decide the case. |
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Following Edward's return to England, the remaining leaders of the Scots resistance chose Sir Andrew Murray as Guardian. |
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The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain. |
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Over the tearful protests of James himself, the French admiral chose not to risk a landing and opted to retreat instead of fight. |
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Now as the trials began, the Congress leadership, although ambivalent towards the INA, chose to defend the accused officers. |
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His two younger brothers were sent there, and it is not clear why Isaac D'Israeli chose to send his eldest son to a much less prestigious school. |
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Instead of isolating the small British garrison there and pressing on with his main force to Dimapur, Sato chose to capture the hill station. |
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Most people joined the game, but a few chose not to participate. |
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When this led to a state of confusion, Dayan ordered full mobilization, and chose to take the risk that he might alert the Egyptians. |
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Thus the French magnates chose Philip of Valois, who became Philip VI of France. |
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Charles II restored the Royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, chose to rely on a small group of advisers. |
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On Desert Island Discs in 2014 she chose a subscription to Vogue as her luxury item. |
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By 1984, after a decade in the Common Market, Britons chose Europe as being most important to them. |
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When the allies chose a land attack on Sebastopol any plan for a landing in the east was abandoned. |
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A relieving force fell back and there was a possibility of taking Erzerum, but Muravyev chose not to. |
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Philip mustered a large army to oppose Edward, who chose to march northward toward the Low Countries, pillaging as he went. |
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Nipkow's work is important because Baird and many others chose to develop it into a broadcast medium. |
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Siemens chose the Hull area on the east coast of England because it is close to other large offshore projects planned in coming years. |
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She chose to take it as implying that her general appearance was, in her uncle's eyes, dowdified. |
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Historians, such as Horrox and Pugh, believe Northumberland chose not to aid his king for personal reasons. |
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The executors chose Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, Jane Seymour's elder brother, to be Lord Protector of the Realm. |
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During this period, the English government persecuted those who chose to worship outside the Church of England. |
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During the same year Hughes won an open exhibition in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but chose to do his National Service first. |
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His parents were horrified when he then chose to study literature at university, expecting him to study for a trade. |
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After graduation Banks chose a succession of jobs that left him free to write in the evenings. |
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Grindal was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1575 and chose to oppose even the Queen in his desire to forward the Puritan agenda. |
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Nonetheless, when the Edison firm merged with the rival Bell Telephone Company, Shaw chose not to seek a place in the new organisation. |
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He chose Henry Hart Milman's 1822 dramatic poem based on the life and death of Saint Margaret the Virgin for its basis. |
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On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate States of America, which chose Richmond as its capital. |
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Moon performed with the Beachcombers a few more times, but dates clashed and he chose to devote himself to the Who. |
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In a move that provoked mixed reaction from both fans and critics, Bowie chose Nine Inch Nails as his tour partner for the Outside Tour. |
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In December 2003, readers of Rolling Stone chose Coldplay as the best artist and the best band of the year. |
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According to Blake, he chose all of the objects in the picture at random, but the sleeves of Sgt. |
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The London Institute originally chose not to apply because its individual colleges were internationally recognised in their own right. |
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Popper and his wife chose not to have children because of the circumstances of war in the early years of their marriage. |
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New Zealand, batting second, scored 180 runs fewer than England, meaning England could have enforced the follow on, though chose not to. |
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France chose to regulate prostitution, introducing a Morals Brigade onto the streets of Paris. |
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The tribes chose annually two teams of the fairest maidens who fought each other ceremonially with sticks and stones. |
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Not all men who qualified for the ordo senatorius chose to take a Senate seat, which required legal domicile at Rome. |
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Since de Redvers also owned land in the Vexin which was retained by Robert, he had two lords, and evidently chose to support the one under whom his main property lay. |
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Wales chose to bring their back-five into the game early on with Andy Powell, Sam Warburton, Dan Lydiate and Bradley Davies making inroads into the England defence. |
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He... chose to bear The Name of Fool confirm'd, and Bishop'd by the Fair. |
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The DJ chose a fantastic track as his closer at the end of the night. |
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Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger, to honour their fellow workers. |
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Around 800 rich Protestants, including John Foxe, chose exile instead. |
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Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal? |
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Following this formula, Harmony Hammond chose an exhibition of her dark, potent, meaning-layered paintings to be complemented by the work of Haleh Niazmand. |
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And after he got caught he, along with his attorney, chose the strategy of putting the victim on trial. He said, she said. It was reasonable doubt. |
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He kept his mistresses openly at Willey, and insisted that they should accompany him in the field. In fact, he chose them for their horsewomanship as much as for their beauty. |
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Caesar chose civil war over laying down his command and facing trial. |
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The elder Severus chose his cousin as one of his two legati pro praetore. |
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St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it. |
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In 1065 Northumbria revolted against Tostig, and the rebels chose Morcar, the younger brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, as earl in place of Tostig. |
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It is uncertain why Richard chose this specific name, although during the Wars of the Roses it emphasised Richard's status as Geoffrey's patrilineal descendant. |
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When he did, he did not choose, as was generally the custom, his father's name, Maredudd, but chose that of his grandfather, Tudur ap Goronwy, instead. |
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After the 1861 Wheeling Convention, 48 counties in the northwest separated to form a new state of West Virginia, which chose to remain loyal to the Union. |
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William was opposed to the imposition of such constraints, but he chose not to engage in a conflict with Parliament and agreed to abide by the statute. |
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Napoleon chose divorce so he could remarry in search of an heir. |
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That never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mockes. |
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Henceforth the leader of the party chose the Shadow Cabinet members. |
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The Soviet Union was invited but they chose not to send any athletes. |
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In light of the result, BAA chose not to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and confirmed on 20 August 2012 that the airport would be sold. |
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In 635 Aidan, an Irish monk from Iona chose the Isle of Lindisfarne to establish a monastery and close to King Oswald's main fortress of Bamburgh. |
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Bloomberg's administration chose not to enforce the ordinance. |
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Allying himself with the pious king, Aidan chose the island of Lindisfarne, which was close to the royal castle at Bamburgh, as the seat of his diocese. |
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For example, when Tattershall Castle was built between 1430 and 1450, there was plenty of stone available nearby, but the owner, Lord Cromwell, chose to use brick. |
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They were Protestants and chose reliably Protestant Saxony over Silesia, a Hapsburg possession as religious tensions mounted in the years before the Thirty Years War. |
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She chose St Peter's Church, Limpsfield, Surrey as the site for the grave. |
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He chose theatre as a secondary subject so that he could design posters. |
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England won the toss and chose to bat, and they got off to a flyer. |
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Also in 2008, the Rugby Football League chose to abandon the traditional English lion on the badge in favour of a much simpler shield and cross design. |
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Their jerseys were far more lightweight than what they had replaced, and they chose to revert to a more conventional fashion of red V in their designs. |
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When he signed for a rematch with Robinson and chose Gwrych Castle near Abergele in North Wales to train, the castle was constantly hounded by fans and tourists. |
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Lewis chose not to turn professional after the Olympics, and instead fought four more years as an amateur, hoping for a second chance to win a gold medal. |
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The Spanish Grand Prix saw Mansell become frustrated over his car's handling characteristics, he chose to retire after just two races with the team. |
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He also chose not to enter the invitational Pot Black tournament. |
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Many members of the Scottish expeditions to France chose to settle there. |
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Since Germany chose to repay the aid debt out of the German Federal budget, leaving the German ERP fund intact, the fund was able to continue its reconstruction work. |
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In recognition of the disaster, in 1998, the people of Montserrat were granted full residency rights in the United Kingdom, allowing them to migrate if they chose. |
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The majority of those who wished to leave were evacuated within the first two days of the operation, but many chose to stay following the arrival of British forces. |
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However, in the ONS's testing in England and Wales prior to the census, no Kurdish, Iranian, Berber, Somali or Egyptian participants chose to identify as Arab. |
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When king Rastislav of Moravia asked Byzantium for teachers who could minister to the Moravians in their own language, Byzantine emperor Michael III chose these two brothers. |
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Students typically entered at ages of 15 or 16, attended for as little as two years, chose which lectures to attend and left without qualifications. |
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His first language had been Welsh but he chose to write in English. |
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Moiseiwitsch gave Sargent piano lessons without charge, judging him talented enough to make a successful career as a concert pianist, but Sargent chose a conducting career. |
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In North Africa, a particularly rich source of mosaics, homeowners often chose scenes of life on their estates, hunting, agriculture, and local wildlife. |
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Despite the defeats, Cornwallis chose to proceed into North Carolina, gambling his success upon a large Loyalist uprising which never materialized. |
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This is one of the reasons that the group often chose to work outdoors. |
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Rather than engaging in a formal pact, the DUP agreed not to contest Fermanagh and South Tyrone, while the UUP chose not to stand in four constituencies. |
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While the NBC deal was originally to take effect in 2017, ESPN chose to opt out of its final year of Open rights, so the NBC contract took effect beginning in 2016 instead. |
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He chose Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire because of its remote location and because the Gilbertines were an order in which nuns were hidden from view behind high walls. |
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Arthur Balfour had served as Prime Minister from 1902 until 5 December 1905, when he chose to resign over growing unpopularity, instead of calling a general election. |
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The club, after a period with Alan Curtis acting as caretaker manager for the third time, chose the Italian former Udinese Calcio coach Francesco Guidolin. |
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Rationing led to violent incidents, when truck drivers chose to strike for two days in December 1973 over the limited supplies Simon had allocated for their industry. |
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Arguing that the inexperience of his officers meant he would not be able to maintain formation in more than one group, he chose not to act on his assessment. |
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Montgomery, who was still nominally in charge of all ground forces, now chose to exercise his authority and ordered Patton back to his side of the international boundary line. |
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Clarkson, following Hammond's original strategy of buying a simple van, bought a 1992 Ford Transit, while May chose a 1999 LDV Convoy box van for its considerable storage. |
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Green states that she chose a partner to suit herself who was also someone so unthreatening as to be beneath the notice of the king or likely to arouse his jealousy. |
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The protests hurt Columbia financially as many potential students chose to attend other universities and some alumni refused to donate money to the school. |
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The company chose to downsize by laying off half of its workers. |
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