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On the Atlantic crossing, I was able to exchange radiotelegrams with my mother, whose ship was steaming toward England at the same time.
In all, the installation did not generate any error messages for me and I was able to reboot my system without any problems.
Iris was brought up to speak Welsh as her first language and was able to switch from one language to the other with great ease.
She had been sick before but when I rang last night they said she had kept her food down and I was able to speak to her and she seems all right.
While the party suffered yet another crushing defeat, he was able to hold a safe Labor seat.
The adrenaline of the initial shock had worn off a bit, and I was able to take in the enormity of the event.
Mr Barry was 82 years old, chronically sick, partially sighted and after fracturing his hip was able to get around only with a walking frame.
The crew arrived several minutes later and I was able to get drugs into him, including adrenaline.
He was able to wander freely in the roof space above the check-in area and other areas barred to the public.
Later wool was packed in small bales of 45 kg and the plane was able to carry four or five per flight.
It isn't that spacious inside but, with a bit of jiggery-pokery I was able to fit a pushbike in the boot with the rear seats folded down.
Water in a junction box knocked out power at tea-time on Tuesday but the station was able to stay open.
In the midst of the jibber-jabber, I somehow was able to sneak a moment away from the family.
To the kangaroos and emus of the outback, I was able to add sightings of wallabies, a wombat, and an echidna.
But state Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was fighting the appeal, was able to convince a federal judge that the recantations weren't credible.
Although my face looked flushed, I was able to reapply my make-up and go out that evening.
She squirmed and wiggled around a little and was able to shake the blanket off.
Her bruise wasn't completely gone, but with the help of make-up, she was able to conceal it.
And he went after the terrorist bombers and he was able to stop them and to imprison them and to put a total halt to any such activity.
She was able to break free and punch one of the men when two passersby came to her aid.
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The morning journey was relaxing and I was able to read a lot that will help me at work.
In 1993 I was able to gain admittance to the Literature Department of the film academy.
After firing just a few digitally generated rounds I was able to rapidly laser range a target and take it out with an airburst.
In an instant the smell of stale jelly babies reached his nose, he turned towards me and I was able to pull him out of the inner coven's reach.
The first crew was able to warn another team of miners working behind them, who waded to safety in water up to their necks.
I was able to waterski and to ski and I'm very glad I've had that opportunity.
During the mid section of the morning I was able to abate my longing for biscuits by eating a slice of homemade fruit cake.
As a retired military officer, Don was able to actually administer the oath of enlistment to his son, which must have been a proud moment.
He wiped the caked red dirt from his eyes, and was able to clarify that he wasn't just seeing what he wanted to see.
I also recall a left that was able to distinguish between conservatives and fascists, between social democrats and outright reactionaries.
And so as any mindful woman might in this accommodating world, I was able to accumulate a fortune.
In two of the carcasses I was able to see puncture marks that pierced the animals' jugulars.
It was only because the army, as a dual sovereign was able to retry him after an acquittal that he was reconvicted.
In the two games where this variation was tested, White was able to develop an early initiative on the queenside.
The gunman took the rifle and together with a possible accomplice was able to get away.
They had rehearsed these very questions so many times Elena was able to hold to the story and they were allowed to reboard the train.
He was able to detect the Sun and about five radio galaxies, some of the most distant objects then known in the universe.
The only description he was able to provide was that they spoke with Afro-Caribbean accents and were around 5ft 7in tall.
The second lifted alarmingly off a length but was down the leg side and Bradman was able to duck and let it past.
We had passed a turn point on our route, so I was able to take a reasonable cut toward the coast.
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I was able to get a lot of reading done last week because television, outside the final episode of The Sopranos, was a washout.
Furthermore, about 15 percent of the families reported their dog was able to give advance warning of a seizure, up to 5 hours before an event.
I was able to work with the jointer plane to approach a final contour, but the final work was with a hand plane and sandpaper.
Even though she was running flat out, Seung was able to keep up with her pace at a brisk jog.
Ron's fist lashed up into Jim's side, causing him to lean forward enough that Ron was able to drive his head into Jim's face.
I came home today instead of tomorrow, I was able to wangle myself a seat on a navy transport from Groton.
In no time at all the fiddler was able to retrieve what was left of his leg and a great cheer went up from the dancers.
Even during the day, when he felt he was able to be more rational, he did not think it unlikely that he would be shot or crucified for his crime.
The church warden was able to carry out a quick repair job and the service went ahead as planned.
To be honest, I once thought about having another woman, but I did not do it because I was able to be rational, I did not want to take any risks.
He was able to use his methods to prove many results in the theory of quadratic forms and number theory.
The room's wobbliness ceased slightly and she was able to discern that she was in a large bed surrounded in something.
After the race, I was able to kick back and enjoy a nice dinner with our family, while Michael was resting up for his race on Sunday.
He imagined himself in a winding sheet, and horror overwhelmed him until he was able to fight free of what was indeed a sheet.
Ed managed to get in an anchor, and was able to arrange a rappel back to the ground.
You know, I was able to just hold my serve and keep that break, and the then break her to win it.
Just before sundown he squatted up in a great walnut tree on the edge of the forest, where he was able to see for miles around.
A plan was put in place whereby she was able to join a special account at her local Credit Union.
Before the end of that week, I was able to stand on my feet and walk again!
She was able to watch the evaluation through a long, rectangular glass window, but the person on the other side would not be able to see her.
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I was able to imitate the moulding's finish by base coating the wood with red acrylic paint, then applying a coat of black semi-gloss paint.
I was able to carry out my shift to the east side of the Adriatic on the following move.
But in my research on this wine, I was able to find out a bit about the wine and the winery.
With a bit of digital jiggery-pokery on the laptop I was able to turn the interviews into a half decent radio package.
But there was one person with whom I was able to hold an amicable and fruitful conversation.
And as she engrained scientific research upon so many students, she was able to continually quench her lifelong curiosity in scientific research through her program.
Fortunately, Mr. Cohen was able to reconstruct what had happened via official U.S. war crimes investigation reports, only recently made available.
Once the reform question was out of the way, however, the Duke was able to regain his political footing and operate effectively against the government.
Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire.
I sat in this strange dazed state until 8 a.m. when I was able to contact my brother, who was fortunately in Bangkok and able to arrange a flight ticket with Thai Airways.
Through scientific analysis he was able to determine a great deal, including that the room was originally wallpapered and the woodwork was painted a warm gray.
When Viking invaders tore through 9th-century Europe, only one Anglo-Saxon leader was able to withstand their ferocious onslaught.
His prose was crisp and waspish, but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.
I could so easily have been the thing responsible for pushing that girl over the edge, I was lucky, she took to me and was able to listen to reason.
I pretty much had an extensive list going already, but I always like to hear what other people are reading and I was able to add some fun books to the suggested reads.
Let us say that I could have rendered a proposition false in the weak sense iff I was able to do something such that, if I did it, the proposition would have been falsified.
The public is generally acquiescent on matters like this and the right, the most vocal voice in the country's politics, was able to drown out any voices of dissent.
He bragged that the company's general store grossed thirty thousand dollars a year and its ginning operation was able to clean and compress three bales of cotton in an hour.
Still no word on whether the gang was able to set the price of postage stamps or agree on the official color of the Iraqi Olympic team's jockey shorts.
It was the first time he was able to hold his new baby son Joshua.
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She was able to jack into the computer's mind and learn what it knew.
The footballing front man was able to portray an image of being a friendly supplier fulfilling a social need, rather than being a dealer in a web of potentially lethal drugs.
My own wife was able to come back into the teaching profession on a part-time basis, job-sharing with another person, so I have first-hand experience of the matter.
America was able to cobble together a collection of states to send forces to Iraq, most notably Britain and Spain.
She was still recovering her verbal faculties, but she was able to answer when he asked about a bracelet he saw on her wrist.
Miller was able to use the Maine birth certificate to secure an Ohio identity card as Julia Wadsworth.
Like I said, in spite of or because of my circumstances, I was able to accomplish my dreams.
The owner of one house was wakened in the early hours of Saturday morning by the flames and thankfully was able to raise the alarm and extinguish the fires.
She spoke no English but because of my Hindi, I was able to go over and hear stories about her life and her crusades.
Using this device he was able to store hundreds of thousands of classified documents in decrypted form.
For many years, the SPD was able to achieve an absolute majority in the Ruhr, the former heartland of steel and coal production, in which five million people still live.
I was able to make some reasonable money from my sport for the first time.
He won, too, and the WFP was able to count on allies in every citywide post but the top job.
Among his many talents, Bradbury was able to see the future with appalling clarity.
What saved Bosnia at this time was its vast heavy industrial complex that was able to switch to military hardware production.
However, he was able to demonstrate that the angle of reflection remained the same for all colors, so he decided to build a reflecting telescope.
Trevithick's home was just a few miles from Falmouth so Uville was able to meet him and tell him about the project.
By 1860 he was able to demonstrate a working device, and obtained a British patent covering a partial vacuum, carbon filament incandescent lamp.
By adding the transfer step, Swan was able to easily make photographs with a full tonal range.
He was able to augment his personal finances by charging household items to the trust or selling his own possessions to it.
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Due to his poor eyesight, Larkin failed his military medical examination and was able to study for the usual three years.
Soon after the completion of the second and larger phase of construction in 1969, he was able to redirect his energies.
Free from the constraints of the church he was able to become more political and active in the campaigns that were important to him.
That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
Future prime ministers may struggle to replicate the sort of muscular countrywide support that Modi was able to earn.
Hitchcock preferred to film in studios as he was able to control the environment.
Various explanations for why the film was able to successfully challenge Titanic were given.
With their vacation lasting almost three weeks, Wittgenstein was able to work vigorously on his studies.
Anaxagoras was able to demonstrate that the profile of the Earth was circular by explaining eclipses.
Finally, in 1986 the CECUT gained its own independence, and was able to plan its own budget.
At various points in its history, the Scottish Parliament was able to exert considerable influence over the Crown.
Despite conspiracies and more attempts at invasion, James was able to regain power.
This tool was able to triple the amount of work done by farmers in one day.
To his great surprise he was defeated in South Lancashire but winning in Greenwich was able to remain in Parliament.
By this time Murdoch's contract had been amended and he was able to patent this device in his own name.
Adolf Hitler was able to gain popularity by using German discontent with the still controversial Treaty of Versailles.
As the 17th Lancers were in South Africa at the time Haig was able to combine that command with that of his own column.
Donalbain's apparent keenness to do this, however, weakened his support among the nobility, and Malcolm's son, Duncan, was able to depose him.
Nonetheless, she was able to arrange for a meeting on 29 June with European Parliament President Martin Schulz and others.
By September 1728, the Bank of Scotland was able to start redeeming its notes again, with interest, and in March 1729, it resumed lending.
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Prior to the opening, Bell was interested in the demand for a school which was able to teach both poor and privileged children on one site.
This was not taken well by the association, but St John Hope, the Assistant Secretary of the Antiquaries gave advice and was able to mediate.
Over the course of the next three years, Gruffudd was able to recover upper Gwynedd to the Conwy, defeating Hugh, Earl of Chester.
This gave Rhodri no standing to claim the kingship of Seisyllwg himself, but he was able to install his son Cadell as a subject king.
He was able to resist several attacks by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in the following years.
When the last male heir of the de Braose family died, Despenser was able to obtain the de Braose lands around Swansea.
Joan was able to persuade her father not to dispossess her husband completely, but Llywelyn lost all his lands west of the River Conwy.
Nonetheless, William was able to reconstitute the royal bench of judges and reopen the royal exchequer.
Edward was able to reward his loyal supporters, especially the Despenser family, with the confiscated estates and new titles.
In schools that had no slates he was able to provide iron troughs to hold sand for the practice of writing and arithmetic.
Despite this, the brigade was able to clear Mametz Wood by the end of the day.
Once a saturation point was reached for the reactions in rock and water, oxygen was able to exist as a gas in its diatomic form.
Herbert was able to novelise his experiences as a soldier into a compelling action drama.
Herbert was able to novelize his experiences as a soldier into a compelling action drama.
In this way he was able to achieve a unique crystalline brilliance of image.
On the night of the fight, June 22, 1937, Braddock was able to knock Louis down in round one, but afterward could accomplish little.
Conn had the better of the fight through 12 rounds, although Louis was able to stun Conn with a left hook in the fifth, cutting his eye and nose.
Despite not having a musical background, Diamandis was able to create lyrics due to her childhood love of writing.
With industry resistance, Greenpeace was able to rescue and engage a former East German manufacturer near closure.
At first Sicily was able to remain as an independent kingdom under personal union, while the Bourbons ruled over both from Naples.
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Following the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Pasquale Paoli was able to return to Corsica from exile in Britain.
An attempt to reclaim the ship surrounded De Ruyter, but after an intense fight the Dutch commodore was able to fight his way out.
At 6 pm, Tourville was able to use the tide to gain a respite, and Shovell used the same tide at 8 pm for a fireship attack.
French losses were quickly made good, and by the following year Tourville was able to inflict a defeat on the Allies at Lagos.
Thanks in part to campaigning on the part of Cornish regionalists, Cornwall was able to obtain Objective One funding from the European Union.
King Alfred the Great of England was able to stay the Viking invasions with a pivotal victory at the Battle of Edington.
Adverse winds frustrated the Spanish fleet however and the English fleet was able to return safely.
The outflanking attempts had resulted in a number of encounter battles but neither side was able to gain a decisive victory.
During the night, he was able to fix it so they could finish their journey together.
Unlike most of these species, the brown bear was able to survive the Quaternary extinction event that concluded the ice age.
Under his command the Ottoman Empire was able to gain and keep control of the eastern Mediterranean for over thirty years.
Cabral forged an alliance with Kochi's ruler, as well with rulers of other Indian cities, and was able to establish a factory.
Mainwaring's relations with the Moors were such that he was able to secure the release of their English prisoners.
Marks was able to achieve 100 per cent accuracy without visiting any of the sites himself but by using cues.
Thanks to its command of the sea, the fleet was able to supply Cromwell's army with provisions as it successfully marched on Scotland.
Mayr was able to demonstrate that geographical isolation and the accumulation of genetic differences led to the splitting of species.
Initial tests showed that the ship was able to make the turn described by eyewitnesses without capsizing.
Furthermore, it was able to flourish as a nation state due to the many benefits and resources the Nile provided.
At its peak, the Getae kingdom reportedly was able to muster 200,000 warriors.
But before he was able to bring reinforcements, Genucla fell to a combined land and fluvial assault by the Romans.
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The falx was able to inflict horrible wounds on opponents, easily disabling or killing the heavily armored Roman legionaries that they faced.
Consequently, Polybius was able to observe first hand the political and military affairs of Megalopolis.
By feigning reluctance to hold power, Trajan was able to start building a consensus around him in the Senate.
He had the support of the Roman Senate and was able to distribute land to his followers without much opposition.
In reality, he was able to avoid imperial supervision, and dealings between the emperor and Theoderic were as equals.
The Franks were able to wrest control of Aquitaine from the Visigoths, but otherwise Theoderic was able to defeat their incursions.
Theodoric was able to temporarily salvage some of his realm with the assistance of the Thuringians.
By 550 Justinian was able to put together an enormous force, an assembly designed to recover his losses and subdue any Gothic resistance.
Charles' father, Pepin of Herstal, was able to unite the Frankish realm by conquering Neustria and Burgundy.
Charlemagne lost interest and never again returned to Southern Italy where Grimoald was able to keep the Duchy free from Frankish suzerainty.
The weregild for a Welshman was 220 shillings if he owned at least one hide of land and was able to pay the king's tribute.
With his brother gone, Attila was able to establish undisputed control over his subjects.
Eventually, technological advances allowed states to learn of others' existence and thus another phase of globalization was able to occur.
More recently, some speculate that Joanna was the legitimate successor, though Isabella was able to portray herself as such.
Alexios was able to recover a number of important cities and islands, and in fact much of western Asia Minor.
With these territories secured, Britain was able to serve as gatekeeper of the sea lane leading to British India.
By 1896, the war had become a total disaster for the Italians and Ethiopia was able to retain its independence.
After much effort, she was able to overcome the pop tart label and be taken seriously as a musician.
Asturian laws promoted this system, for instance granting a peasant all the land he was able to work and defend as his own property.
In this operations, it was able to save thousands of lives of survivors from vessels and aircraft sunk near the Portuguese waters.
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By comparing the positions of the moon and Mars with their anticipated positions, Vespucci was able to crudely deduce his longitude.
He was able to collect books, for which he had an intellectual's passion, wherever he went.
The Toledo rebellion was sufficiently weakened that Amrus was able to enter Toledo and convince its inhabitants to submit.
In this manner, he was able to take advantage of the defeat of the French in order to break the power of the Orsini.
From that time on, Alexander was able to build himself an effective power base in the Papal States.
Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya purchased 10,000 cattle, and was able to convert the natives from farmers to stock raisers.
Megasthenes tries to argue that Dionysus was able to conquer India, because before his invasion, India was a primitive rural society.
But neither Ptolemy, nor Rome, nor Alexander was able to see the fabled regions of the East Pacific.
The traders did not divulge the exact location of their source and no European was able to deduce their location.
He regrouped his forces and was able to briefly capture the towns of Marikina, San Mateo and Montalban.
In 1531, he invented a bronze water pump that was able to pump water out ten times faster than the previous models.
Halley used his voyages on the pink Paramour to study the magnetic variance and was able to provide maps showing the halleyan or isogonic lines.
There, he was able to amass what is estimated to be at least 30,000 soldiers.
Under the pretense of recovering a statue of pure gold in the nearby Yucay valley, Manco was able to escape Cuzco.
In Quito, Gonzalo was able to recruit 220 Spaniards and 4,000 Native Americans.
Gonzalo Pizarro and his followers left Quito on February 1541, a month before Orellana, who was able to bring 23 men and several horses.
However it was partly due to the ongoing civil war that Pizarro was able to triumph.
He was able to finance his military campaigns only by taxing and exploiting the local resources of his empire.
However, once its war with Italy ended in 1631, Spain was able to build its forces in the northern theatre of war up to strength again.
With this knowledge he was able to draw the first somewhat accurate map of the Arctic shores between the Pechora River and the Ob River.
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The bear was able to reach the truck and tore one of the doors off the truck before Hoshino was able to drive off.
By cutting costs and lowering prices, Wedgewood was able to generate higher overall profits.
Yermak, despite having limited supplies, was able to endure the blockade for three months.
At one point he encountered another force of 6,000 Chinese, but was able to slip around them under cover of fog and darkness.
He was able to sell American furs at Canton after some official resistance.
Further south he reached the Golygina River area, from which he was able to see Atlasov Island.
At Lampacao, he was able to obtain a permission to go to Guangzhou, and spent a month preaching there.
By 1566, Aldus Manutius the Younger was able to state that the main object of punctuation was the clarification of syntax.
His library contained over three hundred volumes from which he was able to draw upon classical, patristic, and scholastic works.
Hooker's uncle was able to obtain for Richard the help of another Devon native, John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury.
Due to this, it was able to manipulate the fundamental operations of family life within the areas that it oversaw.
By doing so he was able to bring back the Walloon provinces to an allegiance to the king.
Finally, just before sunset, the frigate was again spotted from the top of Rockall, and the expedition was able to get back on board.
Warren was also the son of a wealthy Boston family and their new firm was able to benefit from his family's connections.
He began to lose faith that the economic system was able to regulate them for the public's welfare.
If the objects were the things that the company was able to do, then the powers were the means by which it could do them.
Despite the protests, Sir Mark Havelock was able to make his way past police to visit the grave of his ancestor, General Henry Havelock.
However, the Manohar Parikkar led Government was able to prove its majority in the Supreme Court mandated floor test.
When these tariffs were repealed, the British soda industry was able to rapidly expand.
From 1825 the steam engine was able to power larger machines constructed from iron using improved machine tools.
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It was able to spin 128 threads at a time, which was an easier and faster method than ever before.
The first example from 1711 was able to replace a team of 500 horses that had been used to pump out the mine.
Another investigator, David Mushet, was able to infer that wootz was made by fusion.
He intended to buy a house in Norwood and build a private observatory there, but died before he was able to accomplish his plan.
When he used the hypocycloidal gear he was able to build engines that were more compact and lightweight than previous ones.
However, he was able to discredit the prosecution's case, and at great embarrassment to the government he was acquitted.
By 1806 he was able to demonstrate a much more powerful form of electric lighting to the Royal Society in London.
In 1718, Thomas Lombe was able to obtain a patent for silk throwing machinery, granted for fourteen years.
After some difficulty, he was able to leave England with descriptions and models of the machines used.
However, neither was able to bring the other to battle when in a position of superiority, leaving the Engagements on Lake Ontario a draw.
Marco Pantani, champion of the 1998 Tour de France, was able to make attack after attack to quickly tire out his opponents.
In addition to purchasing these, he was able to acquire their aid in building still other boats.
The review was abolished in favour of the Royal Commission on Local Government before it was able to issue a final report.
By 1860 the MR was in a much better position and was able to approach new ventures aggressively.
By the early 1620s, the Borders were so peaceful that the Crown was able to scale down its operations.
The insurance company's ombudsman was able to resolve the problem.
After his anger had subsided, he was able to look at things rationally.
The witness was able to provide a very general description of the thief.
He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.
Thanks to autosave, I was able to recover most of my unsaved thesis after a power cut.
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Thankfully, due to the power of BBC iPlayer, I was able to binge-watch the whole series of The Great British Sewing Bee last Sunday.
As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel.
Unlike Sharon, Sherry Adele was able to return to self-cathing after delivery.
Two weeks after the procedure, choledochoscopy indicated that RFA was able to induce some destruction of local tumor tissue.
He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.
The first donger had one of its sliding windows open a crack, so I was able to get in there without leaving a sign.
The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
But with my new job I was able to buy an old fliver down at Able Andy's car lot.
After a very ginger landing, everyone aboard was able to see up close how lucky they had been to reach base.
This was definitely how the wraith was able to haxor accounts, by getting in with a friend status.
It was able to make the journey across the Straits of Dover in around three hours.
The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the means by which the Royal Mail was able to reach the rest of the country.
Another theory is that Britain was able to succeed in the Industrial Revolution due to the availability of key resources it possessed.
Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.
John was able to reverse the deposition after Otto left, but he died in the arms of his mistress soon afterwards.
However, the more sensitive infrared system was able to detect this discontinuity at ambient temperatures without the benefit of a hotgun.
The project was able to successfully date such features as the Lesser Cursus, Coneybury Henge and several other smaller features.
Keiller was heir to the James Keiller and Son business and was able to use his wealth to acquire the site.
Knowing the terrain from his prior military service in Britain, he was able to move quickly to defeat and virtually exterminate them.
By the 3rd century, Pagans Hill Roman Temple in Somerset was able to exist peaceably and it did so into the 5th century.
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Before he was able to leave Africa, Mauri tribesmen invaded southern Spain.
Genseric settled his Vandals as landowners and in 442 was able to negotiate very favourable peace terms with the Western court.
Augustine did establish a school, and soon after his death Canterbury was able to send teachers out to support the East Anglian mission.
In the spring, Alfred was able to gather an army and attacked Guthrum and the Danes at Edington.
Edmund was able to temporarily relieve London, driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford.
As the stock markets tumbled in September 2008, the fund was able to buy more shares at low prices.
However, in ecclesiastical and foreign affairs he was able to follow his own policy.
By the time of his marriage, William was able to arrange the appointments of his supporters as bishops and abbots in the Norman church.
As a powerful ruler, Henry was able to provide either valuable patronage or impose devastating harm on his subjects.
Henry II's forces took Saintes by surprise and captured much of its garrison, although Richard was able to escape with a small group of soldiers.
He urged Edward to start a war to reclaim France and was able to provide extensive intelligence on the French court.
It gave him much of what he wanted, particularly since he was also made Protector of the Realm and was able to govern in Henry's name.
In 1543, Henry married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who was able to bring the family closer together.
William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle, returned and was able to regain the greater part of his estates.
Though faced with a hostile majority in Parliament, Pitt was able to solidify his position in a few months' time.
He was able to mobilize the nation's industrial and financial resources and apply them to defeating France.
Nelson was regarded as a highly effective leader, and someone who was able to sympathise with the needs of his men.
With the fort now in British control Wellesley was able to extend control southwards to the river Godavari.
Von Ohain's first device was strictly experimental and could run only under external power, but he was able to demonstrate the basic concept.
The Conservative majority meant that Cameron was able to fulfil a manifesto commitment to renegotiate British membership of the European Union.
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He was able to write out the speeches of Hamlet, letter perfect. It was impressive to see how exactly he knew the wording.
John Hooke also was in charge of a local school, and so was able to teach Robert, at least partly at home perhaps due to the boy's frail health.
Priestley spent several days hiding with friends until he was able to travel safely to London.
Dirac was able to maintain his normal research productivity only because Manci was in charge of everything else.
Eventually, in the 1980s, Crick was able to devote his full attention to his other interest, consciousness.
From 1648 Charles Louis was able to take up his position as Elector of the Palatinate on the Rhine, as a consequence of the Peace of Westphalia.
In 1774 he was able to convince Watt to move to Birmingham, and they entered into a partnership the following year.
The governor was able to handle smaller variations such as those caused by fluctuating heat load to the boiler.
James had a lucid dream on Saturday, and he was able to control its aspects.
Unlike Wilfrid, his style of life was austere, and when he was able to he lived the life of a hermit, though still receiving many visitors.
She was able to save a good part of the school, although the royal bequest and the number of staff were much reduced.
The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.
In 1626, he was able to persuade Orazio Gentileschi to settle in England, later to be joined by his daughter Artemisia and some of his sons.
Moore was able to reuse the design in 1950 for a similar commission outside a secondary school for the new town of Stevenage.
He was able to shape their speech and satirise their manners in what was to become popular literature among people of the same types.
In 2004, Professor Linne Mooney claimed that she was able to identify the scrivener who worked for Chaucer as an Adam Pinkhurst.
On Elizabeth's accession he was freed and was able to travel to London to become a clergyman.
Newton was able to include those measurements into consequences of his laws of motion.
He met famous theorists and intellectuals of the time, and was able to display his poetic skills.
With the connections from Florence, Milton was able to have easy access to Rome's intellectual society.

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