But the system was rationalized and improved by Alfred's successors, and under Eadgar it emerges clearly in its developed form. |
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However, the Fenian movement and particularly their successors the Irish Republican Brothers were of more consequence. |
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The Orthodox believe that all bishops confess the true faith and are the successors of Peter and the other apostles. |
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The American Founding Fathers can be regarded as setting up a system of rules within which their successors have operated. |
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But why has no one tackled the works of his equally interesting successors? |
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Soon, his successors had a big hassle over who got which piece of the known world. |
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On Wednesday their successors can lie down in a petulant sulk and lick their wounds or they can stand up and fight. |
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An astonishing number of religious groups today claim to be the successors of the early church. |
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It will take more than exhortation to persuade him or his successors to do otherwise. |
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A list of the names of subscribers and family successors is on display on the church notice board. |
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These men and their immediate English successors were not searching for freedom, but only for profit. |
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To all those who boldly go now and to their successors who take up the challenge I salute them as they explore the final frontier. |
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Their successors began moving their economies away from complete dependence on oil. |
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Senior colleagues, including potential successors if he is overthrown, endorsed that verdict. |
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My three predecessors and my three successors will all agree that I was the best. |
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She is there for life, as are her heirs and successors, without there being any means of removal. |
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The Royal Collection is held in trust by the Queen for her successors and the nation and is not owned by her as a private individual. |
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The 1980s saw a winding down of his energies, however, and much reform was left to his successors to handle. |
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Although the Sumerians as people disappeared, their language and literature continued to influence the religion of their successors. |
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Prior to the building of the Theatre and its successors, professional acting in Britain was a largely peripatetic activity. |
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He attacked or dismissed their metaphysical beliefs, and particularly the philosophies of history of Hegel and his successors. |
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His performances were unexcelled either by his predecessors or his successors. |
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Not that this has persuaded any of Mr Keyes' successors at the Dublin Custom House over the past half century or so to budge an inch. |
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His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week. |
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He brooked no rivals, anointed no successors and developed a cult of personality that was indivisible from his people's hopes. |
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These great birds were the last successors of the mighty theropod dinosaurs of the Mesozoic. |
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So he put the company up for sale, hoping that a buyer would groom his successors better than he could. |
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Her monologue during the show was a mix of morbid poetry, bad puns and ghoulish double entendre, setting the standard for her myriad successors. |
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These Cartesian speculations conveyed to Descartes' successors at least two issues. |
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Carson's hostility to increasing human control over nature is expressed in many different ways by her successors. |
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It is an instinctive recognition of what their successors have done to the spirit and style of the game in the intervening years. |
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Bismarck's successors, for a whole complex of reasons, failed to renew the treaty with Russia, thus leaving her available as an ally for France. |
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It is held in trust by her as sovereign for her successors and the nation and, indeed, she rarely refuses a request to lend items. |
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This Agreement provided that the terms of the agreement would be binding upon the Township and its successors or assigns. |
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Forty years on, our successors have no doubt that they are on history's winning side. |
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Her government's standard of sleaze, corruption and lying were soon to pale into insignificance, when their successors got weaving. |
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For the Victorians, as for many of their successors, morality was a matter of highest importance. |
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The successors to the first apostles were just beginning to organize their ministries and develop the church's worship, creeds, and teachings. |
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It used to be the case that former presidents exercised self-restraint in commenting on the performance of their successors in office. |
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Like its cultivated successors, the wild vine is a climbing plant which needs to grow up some support. |
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This was a memorable moment for them to say thank you for the music to their successors. |
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His successors grew rich by taxing the passing trade, and claiming descent from the moon, filled their palace with furniture of beaten silver. |
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Future Legislative Assemblies, as the successors to the Constituent were to be called, were to contain 745 seats and sit for two years. |
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His students and their successors studied his books, or at least paid lip-service to him, well into the 20th century. |
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Cresques' mappemonde shows the semicircular coastline of China and locates most of the cities immortalized by Polo and his successors. |
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Alfred and his successors had dealt with the problem by instituting the fyrd and military obligation was measured in hides. |
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In 1954, a lovely collection of nursery rhymes made the mould for successors. |
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And as a backbencher you will need to allow your successors to get on with that task without undue interference. |
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The success of I, Claudius, both in terms of critical acclaim and commercial triumph, continues to spawn successors. |
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The most important secular story for the Angevins and Plantagenets and their successors has long been acknowledged to be the eponymous foundation of Britain by Brutus. |
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Over the past few years we have managed to put about half-a-dozen dealers behind bars but there are always successors ready to step into their shoes. |
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Locke and his successors in the empiricist tradition argued that the foundation of contingent knowledge about the world lies in sensory experience. |
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Bishops today are thought to be the successors of the Apostles. |
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To his successors on the right, he did not succeed in bequeathing his modesty or calm. |
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By announcing this meeting with such feel-good publicity, they are placing their successors in quite a bind. |
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They built great pyramids, like their successors the Mayans and Aztecs. |
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They have had no successors, or the succession has not been allowed. |
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Muslims performing the hajj brought back Wahhabite ideas and literature, especially from India where successors of local Wahhabite leader Shah Waliullah were very active. |
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If that seems desirable, consider providing that the lease is binding on the landlord's heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns. |
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Part of the explanation of the fighting around 1690 was that James's supporters, particularly the Vatican and royalist France, would not accept his successors. |
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A forest for them and their successors was an area of unenclosed countryside, consisting of a highly variable mixture of woodland, heathland, scrub and agricultural land. |
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As steam locomotives gave way to Electric and diesel locomotives, these successors were fitted with steam generators to provide heat for the train. |
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Their successors, the pharmaceutical industry, have much the same motive, although the modern method is to turn the full spectrum of panaceas and pills into profit. |
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These princes of Transylvania, as well as their successors in the following century, were all eager to prepare the liberation of Hungary from both Germans and Turks. |
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Unfortunately, many of the jurists whose names are most often cited as possible successors have troubling records on choice, federalism and church-state separation. |
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Illness was also to curtail the careers of both Churchill's successors. |
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These space and Moon-based astronomical observatories will be the successors to the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been used to discover planets in distant solar systems. |
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Blair, the most successful leader in Labour party history, offered an unprecedented public rebuke to one of his successors. |
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Meistersingers were the successors of the German Minnesingers. |
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Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy. |
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I don't go in for this O'Connor revisionism, just because she's not as out there as some of her successors. |
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He has forfeited and amitted all right to the said superiority, and that the petitioner and his heirs and successors are entitled to hold the said lands and others in all time coming. |
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His Merovingian successors extended Frankish powers east of the Rhine. |
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This does not imply that these bishops are more successors of Peter than all others in an ontological sense. |
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The powers which he gave himself were later assumed by his imperial successors. |
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Their successors supported the idea that Moscow was the proper heir to Rome and Constantinople. |
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Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding. |
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The basis of Sikhism lies in the teachings of Guru Nanak and his successors. |
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The policy of commissioning works, and giving UK premieres of new compositions was continued under Glock's successors. |
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Augustus' military policies proved sound and cost effective, and were generally followed by his successors. |
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However, his successors sought to expand Mercia further westwards into what is now Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. |
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The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple. |
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His successors, most notably Aurangzeb, expanded the number of subahs further through their conquests. |
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Elsewhere, Holl's successors Emanuel Hirsch and Erich Vogelsang reaffirmed monergism, God's total and exclusive power. |
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The life interrupted before birth is like a thought interrupted, something disavowable, something whose successors annihilate it entirely. |
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What is important is that Darius and his successors were fervent Mazdeans, that is, worshipers of Ahura Mazda. |
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The first palaces in European style were built during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great and his immediate successors. |
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His successors, however, often fought to regain control of mainland Normandy. |
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It was left to the initiative of de Valera's successors in government to achieve the country's formal transformation into a republic. |
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Justinian's successors Maurice and Heraclius had to confront invasions of the Avar and Slavic tribes. |
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Some of their Frankish successors fought against the Saxons, others were allied with them. |
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His successors are not named in any surviving source, but it seems they were unable or unwilling to further subdue the far north. |
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The process was continued under David's successors, most intensely of all under William the Lion. |
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He appointed himself and his successors as the supreme rulers of the English church. |
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The use of the term Indian subcontinent began in the British Empire, and has been a term particularly common in its successors. |
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The totals of NOCs are not combined with those of their predecessors and successors. |
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Nevertheless, the achievements of Mael Sechlainn and his successors were purely personal, and open to destruction upon their deaths. |
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Several states claimed to be the Roman Empire's successors after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. |
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Although King David and his successors sought to impose their authority on Moray, resistance continued. |
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In Scotland, her supporters fought a civil war against Regent Moray and his successors. |
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The bishops of the Episcopal Church are direct successors of the prelates consecrated to Scottish sees at the Restoration. |
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This was dropped by their successors, the Scottish House of Stuart, who replaced the Tudors' dragon supporter with the Scottish unicorn. |
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Under the auspices of the Office of Works and its successors since 1908, the castle was preserved due to its historic significance. |
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Each group claimed to be successors of a revolution launched by Guillaume Apollinaire. |
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They are the successors to the former Super League club Crusaders Rugby League. |
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It was purchased by Vickers in 1968 and has remained with the company's successors ever since. |
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However, Margaret's successors, whose rule was also centred in Denmark, were unable to control the Swedish nobility. |
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Afonso Henriques and his successors, aided by military monastic orders, pushed southward to drive out the Moors. |
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His successors moved further, founding the early East Slavic state of Kievan Rus' with the capital in Kiev. |
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Alfred and his successors continued to drive back the Viking frontier and take York. |
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During its long existence the Paratethys was at times reconnected with the Tethys or its successors, the Mediterranean Sea or Indian Ocean. |
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In the 16th century, the Dutch rebelled against Philip II of Spain and his successors. |
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He also set the precedent, which his imperial successors followed, of requiring the Senate to bestow various titles and honours upon him. |
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His successors did attempt the conquests of Parthia and Germania, but without lasting results. |
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Navies next played a major role in the complicated wars of the successors of Alexander the Great. |
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The Dreadnought battleships and their successors were the first capital ships that combined technology and firepower with a mobile platform. |
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To gain recognition by the native Egyptian populace, they named themselves as the successors to the Pharaohs. |
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There has been a growing concern about farming as the current farmers are aging with a difficult time finding successors. |
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After 1587, the sole object of their successors became plunder, on land and sea. |
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Ten percent of the value of the prizes was paid to the pasha or his successors, who bore the titles of agha or dey or bey. |
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His successors Nerva and Trajan were less restrictive, but in reality their policies differed little from his. |
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The pope's right to proclaim successors was based on the Donation of Constantine, a forged Roman imperial decree. |
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However, Alfred and his successors eventually drove back the Viking frontier and retook York. |
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Rurik's successors were able to conquer and unite the towns along the banks of the Volga and Dnieper Rivers, and establish the Rus' Khaganate. |
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Brezhnev's next two successors, transitional figures with deep roots in his tradition, did not last long. |
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In time, the successors to muskets and cannon, in the form of rifles and artillery, would become core battlefield technology. |
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Under Constantine's successors, Christianization of Roman society proceeded by fits and starts, as John Curran documented in detail. |
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On the advice of fengshui experts, the Yongle Emperor chose a site north of Beijing, where he and his successors were to be buried. |
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The Yongle Emperor's successors, the Hongxi and Xuande Emperors, felt that the costly expeditions were harmful to the Ming Empire. |
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Among them, the khanate's shadow Great Horde survived until 1502, when one of its successors, the Crimean Khanate, sacked Sarai. |
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However, credit is due not to him but to his successors, the Banu Alfons from the Arab chronicles. |
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In 1426, the Tepanec king Tezozomoc died, and the resulting succession crisis precipitated a civil war between potential successors. |
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His successors were again clerics until the appointment of Robert Thorpe in 1371, probably due to pressure from Parliament. |
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This modern literary Scots was exemplified by Allan Ramsay and his followers, and their successors such as Robert Burns. |
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Gregory's successors were largely dominated by the Exarch of Ravenna, the Byzantine emperor's representative in the Italian Peninsula. |
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Innocent III exercised more power than any of his predecessors, or his successors. |
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They were the most important successors of the Satavahanas in the Deccan and contemporaneous with the Guptas in northern India. |
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The majority of Muslims consider the first four successors to be 'rightly guided' or Rashidun. |
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After Henry II became the Lord of Ireland, he and his successors began to imitate the English system as it was in their time. |
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He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth. |
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This oath to the Queen, her heirs, and successors is now administered in citizen ceremonies to immigrants becoming naturalized British subjects. |
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Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted. |
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It had previously been thought that no Parliament could ever bind its successors in such a way. |
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His method of casting pots in sand provided his successors with a viable business that operated for over two centuries. |
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Its successors such as ExxonMobil or Chevron are still among the companies with the largest income worldwide. |
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The inventors, their successors or their assignees become the proprietors of the patent when and if it is granted. |
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Keswick's old inns and their successors include many listed buildings, mainly Grade II in designation. |
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Parishes were the successors of the manorial system and historically had been grouped into hundreds. |
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The Indian subcontinent has been a term particularly common in the British Empire and its successors. |
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In the Eastern Empire the slow infiltration of the Balkans by the Slavs added a further difficulty for Justinian's successors. |
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His successors continued to struggle against the papacy as well as the German nobility. |
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Although he ruled effectively, the basic problems remained, and his successors continued to struggle into the 13th century. |
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It was from Illtud and his successors that the Irish sought guidance on matters of ritual and discipline. |
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He nominated 100 people and declared them to be its members and laid down the method by which their successors were to be appointed. |
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Although superseded by their stone successors, timber and earthwork castles were by no means useless. |
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But his successors did not use the place, and as the town was short of money, the planned new civic buildings did not appear. |
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Several successors he had, it is true, but no name worthy to be recorded after his own. |
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In this field, his most distinguished successors were Marcus Pacuvius and Lucius Accius. |
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Most of his successors were crowned within weeks, or even days, of their accession. |
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The sound developed by thrash groups was faster and more aggressive than that of the original metal bands and their glam metal successors. |
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The right to march was finally ended as the award did not give the right, for the freedom to march, to be passed on to any heirs or successors. |
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King Henry III of England renounced the title of Duke of Normandy by that treaty, and none of his successors ever revived it. |
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The eldest, Locrinus, married Corineus' daughter and when the two younger sons died, the island was ruled by him and his 98 successors. |
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Edward and his successors expanded Alfred's network of fortified burhs, a key element of their strategy, enabling them to go on the offensive. |
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Another possibility is to have the candidates themselves create an ordered list of successors before leaving their seat. |
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Dicey is that Parliament had the power to make any law except any law that bound its successors. |
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The campaigns under Cromwell's successors Henry Ireton and Edmund Ludlow mostly consisted of long sieges of fortified cities and guerrilla warfare in the countryside. |
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Jacobites contended that James II had not been legally deprived of his throne, and that the Convention Parliament and its successors were not legal. |
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In 1936, Wever was killed in an air crash and the failure to implement his vision for the new Luftwaffe was largely attributable to his successors. |
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Dutch colonial presence elsewhere in Africa, notably Dutch Gold Coast, was too ephemeral not to be wiped out by prevailing colonizing European successors. |
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The practice has been continued by Blair's successors as prime minister. |
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Two of Alexander's successors, the controversial pontiffs Sixtus V and Urban VIII, described him as one of the most outstanding popes since Saint Peter. |
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The arched throne canopy appears in images of the Ottonian and eventually the Capetian successors to the Carolingian rulers as evidence of the motif's staying power. |
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Oaths of allegiance are made to the Queen and her lawful successors. |
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He had subdued the organised military might of the Hebrides, but he and his immediate successors lacked the will or ability to provide an alternative form of governance. |
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However, Alfred's successors subsequently won military victories against the Danes, incorporating much of the Danelaw into the nascent kingdom of England. |
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These leaders who developed in the sixth century, were able to seize the initiative and to establish a position of power for themselves and their successors. |
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Francis merely continued the incessant wars that his predecessors had started and that his successors on the throne of France would drag on after Francis' death. |
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It teaches that it is the one true church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the Pope is the successor to Saint Peter. |
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The successors of Columbus, however, litigated against the Crown until 1536 for the fulfillment of the Capitulations of Santa Fe in the pleitos colombinos. |
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During the Soviet era, most or all of the shamans died without successors. |
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In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East, once part of the Eastern Roman Empire, became part of the Caliphate after conquest by Muhammad's successors. |
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Darby took out a patent on the new casting method in 1707, Darby's successors sold pots over wide areas of England and Wales, and had a virtual monopoly in the trade. |
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A measure of William's success in taking control is that, from 1072 until the Capetian conquest of Normandy in 1204, William and his successors were largely absentee rulers. |
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Steel drums would appear to be the successors of wooden barrels. |
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The reputation of Chaucer's successors in the 15th century has suffered in comparison with him, though Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, and Skelton are widely studied. |
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Donne's immediate successors in poetry therefore tended to regard his works with ambivalence, with the Neoclassical poets regarding his conceits as abuse of the metaphor. |
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Hence, the bishops of Rome and Antioch can be considered successors of Peter in a historical sense on account of Peter's presence in the early community. |
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Her arms have been borne by all of her successors on the throne. |
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As a result, he was forced to recognize Leovigild as friend and protector, for him and for his successors, dying back home just some months later. |
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Among Atenulf's successors the principality was ruled jointly by fathers, sons, brothers, cousins, and uncles for the greater part of the century. |
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Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. |
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The community and its successors have grown in size by the accession of new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to its remit. |
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Among the many architects of this form of architecture and its successors, neoclassical and romantic, were Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, and James Wyatt. |
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The picture of Theodoric's rule is drawn for us in the state papers drawn up, in his name and in the names of his successors, by his Roman minister Cassiodorus. |
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Their activities probably reached a climax later still, and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries we meet their successors Sarakatsani et alii mentioned above. |
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According to the theory that a parliament cannot bind its successors, any form of a Bill of Rights cannot be entrenched, and a subsequent parliament could repeal the act. |
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Boult had been followed as director of music by a series of successors between 1944 and 1959 who either lacked his commitment to modern music or were actively hostile to it. |
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They agreed to cooperate closely in the field of politics and commerce, inspiring their late successors to launch a successful Central European initiative. |
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However, this supremacy conceptually derives from the European Communities Act 1972 and its successors, which could in theory be repealed by a future parliament. |
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After the Conquest, his shrine in St Augustine's Abbey held a central position in one of the axial chapels, flanked by the shrines of his successors Laurence and Mellitus. |
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Other dialects certainly continued to be spoken, as is evidenced by the continued variation between their successors in Middle and Modern English. |
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He left his successors an internally stable state, which was in the midst of its golden age, but before long signs of political weakness would emerge. |
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Richard's death encouraged the furtherance of this later negative image by his Tudor successors due to the fact that it helped to legitimise Henry VII's seizure of the throne. |
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In addition, his father Charles VI had disinherited him in 1420 and recognized Henry V of England and his heirs as the legitimate successors to the French crown instead. |
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Their successors in the mainstream retain most of these characteristics. |
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The usual privacy of the consultations was made impossible because they took place during the party conference, and the potential successors made their bids very publicly. |
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Da Gama and his successors, however, did not take kindly to the notion, especially following a skirmish with the Khoikhoi in 1497, when one of his admirals was wounded. |
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His successors, the joint monarchs William III and Mary II, did not make any further appointments to the Order, which consequently fell into desuetude. |
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None of his immediate successors had any particular military or political talent and the administration of the Empire increasingly fell into the hands of the civil service. |
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Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative. |
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Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage. |
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Craterus started to carry out Alexander's commands, but the successors chose not to further implement them, on the grounds they were impractical and extravagant. |
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Following his death and the subsequent division of his empire and wars among his successors, Cyprus became part of the Hellenistic empire of Ptolemaic Egypt. |
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By the middle of the 10th century, Alfred's successors had conquered Northumbria, and restored English control over most of the southern part of Great Britain. |
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Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors. |
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He and his successors expanded the Mongol empire across Asia. |
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In time, Kublai Khan's successors lost all influence on other Mongol lands across Asia, while the Mongols beyond the Middle Kingdom saw them as too Chinese. |
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Rollo and his successors brought about rapid recoveries from the raids. |
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Wessex under Alfred the Great was left as the only surviving English kingdom, and under his successors it steadily expanded at the expense of the kingdoms of the Danelaw. |
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