Embarked Sentence Examples

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  • He embarked without Pereira on July 16th, 1552.

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  • In September 1851 he was liberated and embarked on an American man-of-war.

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  • At the same time Athens embarked on several wars in Greece Proper.

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  • At Hormuz he embarked for India, landing at Thana, near Bombay.

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  • Haraz, and thence southward to Mokha, where they embarked for India.

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  • Eight thousand Spanish soldiers were embarked.

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  • The troops in Montevideo also embarked for Portugal, and the Banda Oriental remained a part of Brazil with the title of the Provincia Cisplatina.

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  • Here he at last met Ibrahim, but though courteously received, the interview had no results, and Sadlier soon after left for Yambu, whence he embarked for Jidda, and after another fruitless attempt to treat with Ibrahim, sailed for India.

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  • Hannibal is said to have embarked here on his exile from Carthage.

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  • I've just embarked upon the journey that is reading this tome.

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  • His grandmother then wished him to enter the army of the landgrave of Hesse, but he declined to serve "a tyrant," and a year later slipped away from Geneva and embarked for the United States.

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  • Nine hundred men, of whom one hundred and thirteen were horsemen, embarked in ten ships under the command of Aires da Cunha.

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  • He found one of his brothers at Pondicherry, and embarked with him for Surat; but, with a view of exploring the country, he landed at Mahe and proceeded on foot.

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  • After a year's service he obtained leave to return to England, and after many adventures and narrow escapes in a journey through hostile territory he embarked for Guernsey, and thence for England.

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  • We embarked on these car projects with grandiose visions, many as unrealistic as they were ingenious.

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  • If, as I was convinced, Grasso had gone to Logan, he too probably embarked from that facility.

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  • At Rome he saved a little money, and embarked on some mercantile enterprise, probably abroad.

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  • Similarly, foreign vessels prevail over Italian vessels in regard to goods embarked.

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  • War of To effect this, he embarked on the Turkish War of 1877-78.

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  • By November the Spaniards had evacuated the greater part of the island; after Captain General Macias embarked for Spain, General Ricardo Ortega was governor from the 6th to the 18th of October, when the island was turned over to the American forces.

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  • But in 1366 Tvrtko overcame all opposition at home, and forthwith embarked on a career of conquest, recapturing Hlum and annexing part of Dalmatia.

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  • Baird was also wounded, and as night was approaching, Hope suspended the advance, and subsequently embarked the army, with scarcely any further loss.

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  • Dom Pedro immediately embarked in an English ship, leaving the new emperor Dom Pedro II.

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  • As his quotations from Scripture appear to be made from the Peshitta, he probably wrote the homilies before he embarked upon the Philoxenian version.2 Philoxenus wrote also many controversial 'works and some liturgical pieces.

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  • Hopeless of the attempt he resigned his commission and embarked for Kingston, Jamaica, in May 1814.

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  • After this bloodless revolution the third division embarked at Callao on the 17th of March 1827, and landed in the southern department of Colombia in the following month.

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  • Yet this second adventure was not embarked upon without much anxious consideration.

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  • Soldiers were embarked, and in May the allied fleet stood over to the Dutch coast.

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  • Born at Palencia, he was educated for the church, but about 1545 he embarked for Peru, where he served in the royal army under Alonzo de Alvarado.

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  • Thus a reforming movement became heresy through disobedience to authority, and after being condemned embarked on a course of polemical investigation how to justify its own position.

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  • Still intent upon the Russian Port Arthur squadron, she had embarked her 2nd Army (General Oku, ist, 3rd, Landing 4th and 5th divisions) during April, and sent it to of the Chinampo whence, as soon as the ice melted and Japanese Kuroki's victory cleared the air, it sailed to the 2nd selected landing-place near Pitszewo.

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  • They sailed from R Southampton for Treport in a yacht, and, as it hap with pened to be raining hard when they embarked, the foreign " i.

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  • The emperor had refused to complete the humiliation of the family of John Frederick; he had embarked upon a course of action which boded danger to the elector's Lutheran subjects, and his increased power was a menace to the position of Maurice.

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  • At Bruinsburg, beyond Pemberton's reach, a landing was made on the eastern bank and, without any base of supplies or line of retreat, Grant embarked upon a campaign which made him in the end master of the prize.

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  • The policy of "attrition" upon which Grant had embarked, and which he was carrying through regardless of his losses, was having its effect.

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  • And the year 1546 is notable in the annals of the Society as that in which it embarked on its great educational career, especially by the annexation of free day-schools to all its colleges.

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  • As is related in the legends, Quetzalcoatl came into the land to teach men to till the soil, to work metals and to rule a well-ordered state; the two gods played their famous match at the ball-game, and Tezcatlipoca persuaded the weary Quetzalcoatl to drink the magic pulque that sent him roaming to the distant ocean, where he embarked in his boat and disappeared from among men.'

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  • It was enlarged and improved, the sale of drink was forbidden, and miscellaneous programmes of music, drama, and lectures were embarked upon.

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  • In 1905 symphony concerts were embarked on, and continued for several seasons.

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  • They embarked in open boats, and for that reason, as well as because they were going to constitute themselves their country's extreme outpost, the enterprise attracted public enthusiasm.

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  • They embarked for Holland in September 1583, and arrived at Laski's residence in February following.

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  • It seemed an easy task for such a coalition to wrest the coveted spoil from the young Charles XII.; yet Peter was the only one of the three conspirators who survived the Twenty-one Years' War in which they so confidently embarked during the summer of 1701.

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  • In 1163 Henry returned to England, and almost immediately embarked on that quarrel with the Church which is the keynote to the middle period of the reign.

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  • At nine in the evening she was removed to Holyrood, and thence to the port of Leith, where she embarked under guard, with her attendants, for the island castle of Lochleven.

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  • He embarked with speed and sailed for France, reaching the little port of Roscoff, near Morlaix, on the 29th of September 1746.

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  • After this act with the principal chiefs were arrested and taken as prisoners to Cape Coast, where they were embarked on board H.M.S.

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  • In these circumstances the war with Turkey, on which Joseph embarked, in alliance with Russia, in 1788, would hardly have been justified by the most brilliant success.

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  • Emigrants to the number of 37,638 left Palermo direct for New York in 1906, and no less than 46,770 in 1905, while others embarked at Messina and Naples.

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  • In the meanwhile al-Alfi the Great embarked at Rosetta, and not apprehending opposition, was on his way to Cairo, when a little south of the town of Manfif he encountered a party of Albanians, and with difficulty made his escape.

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  • Khorshid at first refused to yield; but at length, on condition that his troops should be paid, he evacuated the citadel and embarked for Rosetta.

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  • By the end of June twenty-six warships, representing the navies of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, the United States, Spain, Greece and Turkey, lay off the port of Alexandria, and large numbers of refugees were embarked.

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  • The mounted forces proceeded up the banks, and the first half-battalion embarked at Gemai, 870 m.

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  • The principal shipowners at this period were the clergy, who embarked the wealth of their religious houses in commercial enterprises.

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  • No Scottish king ever embarked on such a coup d'etat as the arrest of " the whole Scottish House of Lords," and Knox, who attributes a much larger design to James V., must have been deceived by rumour.

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  • He succeeded to the crown of Bavaria on the 12th of October 1825, and at once embarked upon a moderate constitutional policy, in which he found himself in general agreement with the parliament.

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  • At Taras (Tarentum) he embarked for his homeward voyage in a Corinthian vessel.

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  • At this time Job Charnock was the chief of the Bengal council, and, owing to an affray with the Mogul troops at Hugli on the 28th of October 1686, he embarked the company's goods and servants on board light vessels and dropped down the on the 31st of December 1600, and the first expedition of four ships under James Lancaster left Torbay towards the end of April 1601, and reached Achin in Sumatra on the 5th of June 16.02, returning with a cargo of spices.

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  • Although these expressions were equivocal, the Republicans were satisfied and embarked on the vessels prepared for them.

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  • The authorities at Palermo, learning of a projected rising, attacked the convent of La Gangia, the headquarters of the rebels, and killed most of the inmates; but in the meanwhile Garibaldi, whose hesitation had been overcome, embarked on the 5th of May 1860, at Quarto, near Genoa, with l000 picked followers on board two steamers, and sailed for Sicily.

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  • The dictator now had time to collect ammunition, and the Neapolitan government having given Lanza full powers to treat with him, 15,000 Bourbon troops embarked for Naples on the 7th of June, leaving the revolutionists masters of the situation.

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  • Germany has embarked on penitentiary reforms with the provision of several new prisons; it is the same with the United States, Austria, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden.

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  • Musa, though angered by the disobedience of Tariq, hastened to the rescue and embarked in April 712 with 18,000 men, among them many noble Arabs, and began, advised by Julian, a methodical campaign, with the purpose of establishing and securing a line of communication between the sea and Toledo.

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  • These and like developments, which are to be divined from references in the Aristotelian writings, jejune, and, for the most part, of probable interpretation only, complete the material which Aristotle could utilize when he seceded from the Platonic school and embarked upon his own course of logical inquiry.

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  • Once embarked upon such an analysis, where valid process from assured principles gave truth, Aristotle could find little difficulty in determining the formula of demonstrative knowledge or science.

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  • Intent upon accomplishing this cherished project, he embarked for Portugal, and after he had been shipwrecked on the coast of Natal, and captured by pirates, arrived at Lisbon.

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  • Their leaders renounced allegiance to the regent; she ended her not unkindly, but as Knox calls it "unhappy," life in the castle of Edinburgh; the English troops, after the usual Elizabethan delays and evasions, joined their Scots allies; and the French embarked from Leith.

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  • A supply of rifles was bought in the United States, and embarked on board the " Itata," a Chilean vessel in the service of the rebels.

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  • In the middle of August 1891 the rebel forces were embarked at Iquique (where a provisional government under Captain Jorje Montt had been set up), numbering in all about 9000 men, and sailed for the south.

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  • One of his most difficult tasks was to adjust the ever-recurring conflicts with Italy, who, while officially supporting the political action of the Triple Alliance, often embarked on courses directly opposed to the interests of Austria-Hungary.

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  • Thus perjured and disgraced the young king embarked for Scotland on the 2nd of June; on the 11th when off Heligoland he signed the treaty, and on the 23rd, on his arrival at Speymouth, before landing, he swore to both the covenants.

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  • Ultimately Vieira returned to Portugal with a papal bull exempting him from the jurisdiction of the grand inquisitor, and in January 1681 he embarked for Brazil.

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  • He occasionally contributed papers to the Albany Institute, in the years 1824 and 1825, on chemical and mechanical subjects; and in the latter year, having been unexpectedly appointed assistant engineer on the survey of a route for a state road from the Hudson river to Lake Erie, a distance somewhat over 300 m., he at once embarked with zeal and success in the new enterprise.

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  • The rapid extension of the railway system was also largely due to his energy and financial ingenuity, and he embarked on a crusade against the evils of drunkenness by organizing a government monopoly for the sale of alcohol.

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  • Sixty thousand men were embarked.

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  • Reduced to despair, he says, by the curse laid upon him by Peter, he embarked on the career that has been described, " Until he came to Rome also and fell foul of the Apostles.

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  • They acted as guides during a difficult journey of nine days, kept the invaders well supplied with food, provided them with canoes, and only left them after the taking of the fort of Santa Maria, when the buccaneers were fairly embarked on a broad and safe river which emptied itself into the South Sea.

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  • On the 28th of December 1737 he embarked for Georgia, which he reached on the 7th of May 1738.

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  • He again embarked for America in August 1739, and remained there two years, preaching in all the principal towns.

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  • After a second visit to Scotland, June - October 1742 (where at Cambuslang in particular he wielded a great spiritual influence), and a tour through England and Wales, 1 74 2 -1744, he embarked in August 1744 for America, where he remained till June 1748.

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  • Finding most of its valuable rates hypothecated to the meeting of old debts, the municipality of Palermo has embarked upon municipal ownership and trading in various directions.

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  • Having raised every penny that he could procure by legal or illegal means, Richard crossed the Channel, and embarked at Marseilles with a great army on the 7th of August 1190.

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  • When parliament met (1625) the Commons at first contented themselves with voting a sum of money far too small to carry on the extensive military and naval operations in which Charles had embarked.

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  • Just below this the mountains close in on either side of the Maranon, forming narrows or pongos for a length of 35 m., where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than thirty-five formidable rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which La Condamine embarked in the t8th century to descend the Amazon.

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  • Schroder of Amsterdam sent him in 1846 to St Petersburg, where he established a business of his own and embarked in the indigo trade.

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  • Of the controversies in which he embarked, one of the most important was that in which he defended his doctrine concerning predestination and election.

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  • Carey embarked for South Africa in the following July, and was murdered on board ship by Patrick O'Donnell, who was brought to England, convicted, and hanged on the 17th of December 1883.

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  • Feeling their incapacity they no longer embarked on great political schemes; and the army, the instrument by which such schemes were carried on, was only held together by the force of habit.

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  • Their disorderly cohorts made an attack upon Italy, which was repulsed by the Lombards, and another on Spain with the same want of success; but beyond the Rhine they embarked upon the conquest of Germany, where Clovis had already reduced to submission the country on the banks of the Maine, later known.

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  • The bourgeoisie, the Assembly, the country and La Fayette, one of the leaders of the army, now embarked upon a royalist reaction, which would perhaps have been efficacious, Manifesto had it not been for the entry into the affair of the ki Prussians as allies of the Austrians, and for the insolent manifesto of the duke of Brunswick.

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  • The Spaniards of that day, excited by the hope of rapidly acquired wealth and the love of adventure, embarked tipon a career of discovery, and agriculture and manufacturing industry fell into contempt.

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  • It was not till the sixties that Tasmania embarked upon a new period of prosperity.

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  • He was ordained in 1651, and embarked on the ambitious and worldly career of a court abbe in the days of Louis XIV.

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  • Xander remembered her older and realized he had always viewed Eden through the eyes of the child who embarked on a journey with the Oracle obsessed with destroying the last Grey God.

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  • He heard of the final victory just as the vessel in which he had embarked was weighing anchor in the Channel.

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  • Harold had an amazing enthusiasm for plants and soon embarked upon the ambitious task of creating an arboretum.

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  • To deny the centrality of the human position is tantamount to denying God, a venture never to be embarked upon without risk.

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  • The whole diocese embarked on a period of reflection early in 2004.

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  • In November 1915 the regiment embarked for France, real war.

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  • His stay in Egypt was to be short and, on 5 April, the battalion embarked for Marseilles, arriving week later.

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  • He has recently embarked on the BBA Degree Program through the College gaining entry at 2nd/3rd Study Year.

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  • Inventing the cover story that Iron Man was his bodyguard, he embarked on a double life as a billionaire industrialist and costumed adventurer.

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  • Thereafter she carried internees and POW's to Jamaica before proceeding to Canada where she embarked Canadian troops for the United Kingdom.

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  • Today China, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, & the USA have all embarked on projects with coal liquefaction.

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  • The British author BS Johnson embarked on a quest for absolute literary naturalism which ended in his suicide.

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  • I was signed off sick with stress and had embarked on the company grievance procedure to buy some time to find another job.

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  • Now he has embarked on an ambitious, some would say reckless, TV project.

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  • Or will she even care, now that she has embarked on a holiday romance?

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  • Jen SUMMER TOUR 11 Th 19 th sept '99 This year we embarked on the great journey from London to Kent.

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  • John then embarked on a six-year stint with the Game Conservancy Trust quantifying the effect of Conservation Headlands on butterflies.

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  • He then embarked on a film trilogy he had written.

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  • Courtney (afterwards Lord Courtney), when Secretary of the Treasury, had stated that " it would be highly inexpedient to encourage upon light grounds competition against a company in the position of the Eastern Telegraph Company which has embarked much capital in existing lines "; and that the permanent officials representing the Post Office before the Pacific Cable committee had stated " that there was no precedent for the Imperial Government alone or in association with the Colonies managing or seeking business for a line of this kind."

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  • After suffering much from famine and disease, Pizarro resolved to leave, and embarked the survivors in small vessels, but outside the harbour they met a ship which proved to be that of Martin Fernandez Enciso, Ojeda's partner, coming with provisions and reinforcements.

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  • If Eleatic thought stands over against Pythagorean thought as what is valid or grounded against what is ungrounded or invalid, we are embarked upon dialectic, or the debate in which thought is countered by thought.

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  • The majority of the members of the chambers sided with this movement, and on the 7th of January Senores Waldo Silva, Barros Luco and a number of senators and deputies embarked on board the Chilean warship " Blanco Encalada," accompanied by the " Esmeralda " and " O'Higgins " and other vessels, sailing out of Valparaiso harbour and proceeding northwards to Tarapaca to organize armed resistance against the president (see Chilean Civil War).

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  • There was no opposition, because the ministers never attempted to do anything which would arouse opposition, and because they were ready to do anything called for by any one who had power enough to make himself dangerous; and in 1743 they embarked on a useless war with France in order to please the king, who saw in every commotion on the continent of Europe some danger to his beloved Hanover.

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  • A century later their pciitical hegemony, extending from the Black Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar, began to disintegrate, and the Gauls then embarked on more distant migrations, from the Columns of Hercules to the plateaux of Asia Minor, taking Rome on their way.

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  • Many recent ' revisionist ' historians have adopted the idea that the BEF embarked on a ' learning curve ' during the war years.

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  • The US has also embarked on a policy of limited deployment to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities.

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  • Jen SUMMER TOUR 11 th 19 th SEPT '99 This year we embarked on the great journey from London to Kent.

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  • So we embarked on long, slippery grass slopes, wetly interspersed with little rocky walls and slabs and found no path.

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  • During the 1960s, government embarked on the disastrous policy of demolishing communities and rehousing them in soulless high rise blocks.

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  • Thoroughgoing reform of the electoral system needs to be embarked upon now, before faith in the system is lost entirely â¦.

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  • I 've just embarked upon the journey that is reading this tome.

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  • What we are embarked upon is a new European unitary state.

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  • So after an egg and bacon breakfast we embarked on a quest for a more suitable toilet.

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  • Born in Arizona in 1989, Joe has also embarked on a career in acting, appearing in Disney Channel's Jonas.

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  • After starring in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Smith embarked on a film career.

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  • By 2002, following their Celebrity Tour, the group disbanded and Justin Timberlake embarked on a solo career.

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  • Following the success of Destiny's Child, Beyonce embarked on a solo singing career and acting career.

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  • After serving her prison sentence, Stewart returned to the media and embarked on a new television show.

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  • Creator Adam DiVello says that the kids have "…found themselves" and have "embarked on different careers."

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  • Jameson quit doing adult films and the couple embarked on a journey of what they describe as a "monogamous" relationship.

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  • After The Runaways split in 1979, Lita Ford embarked on a solo career.

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  • Compare that to the $600 plus you would have to pay if you embarked on a similar three-day trip to a tropical locale on a major cruise line.

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  • After this, I became obsessed with having my clothes custom made and embarked on a three-year odyssey trying to find quality fabrics and good tailors.

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  • In 1988 the Dress Barn embarked on a new venture and set up eight plus-size women's stores known as the Dress Barn Woman.

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  • Torrid embarked on an entrepreneurial quest to bring fashionable options to the young plus size market in 2001.

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  • In 1988, the World Health Organization embarked upon a mission to eradicate polio by the year 2000.

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  • After earning her teaching certificate, she embarked on a lifelong career in education that continues to influence the way many homeschooled children are taught today.

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  • Jill and Phillip embarked on an affair that would lead to his divorcing Katherine and the first of many infamous rows between Jill and Katherine.

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  • In this show, he and Lisa embarked on a new life in London.

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  • When Izzie and Denny embarked on a sexual relationship, fans protested and the spoilers began to turn them away in droves.

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  • During one separation, Phyllis embarked on a tempestuous affair with Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) who was mourning the loss of his daughter Cassie.

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  • Coming from modest roots and a childhood filled with sexual abuse, Oprah embarked on a television career that led to worldwide notoriety today.

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  • If you've never embarked on a diet plan, then you may be in for a shock.

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  • Renaming the band Oasis, the lads embarked on a year of rigorous rehearsing, and began gigging in small pubs and clubs.

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  • Fall Out Boy songwriter/backup singer/bassist Pete Wentz is also a tabloid staple, thanks to his relationship with Ashlee Simpson, and he has also embarked on several non musical ventures, like modeling and designing his own clothing line.

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  • Subsequently, Knowles embarked what is rumored to be a very aggressive campaign to get Jean to relinquish her rights to the song.

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  • Since then, she has embarked mainly on very short tours or one-off shows at major events and music festivals.

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  • The quest for the fountain of youth is something that many men and women have embarked upon during their lifetimes.

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  • Ryan embarked on a LiveNation sponsored tour and also performed abroad at various events in the wake of the show.

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  • He died on shipboard in Deal harbour, England, on the 23rd of September 1789 after having embarked for America on a Boston packet.

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  • Toro, uncle of the marquis of Toro in Caracas, and embarked with her for Venezuela, intending, it is said, to devote himself to the improvement of his large estate.

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  • Espartero, deeming resistance useless, embarked at Cadiz on the 30th of July 1843 for England, and lived quietly apart from politics until 1848, when a royal decree restored to him all his honours and his seat in the senate.

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  • A second time he was excommunicated; but in 1146 he took the cross at the meeting of Vezelay called by Louis VII., and in August 1147 embarked for the East.

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  • Murray's influence, however, being now supreme, he embarked in December for France, but was driven by storms on to Holy Island, where he was detained, and was subsequently, on the 18th of January 1564, seized at Berwick and sent by Elizabeth to the Tower, whence he was soon liberated and proceeded to France.

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  • As Sweden was known to be exhausted by the long wars of Gustavus Adolphus and his successors, and weakened by internal dissensions, the dismemberment seemed an easy matter, and Peter embarked on the scheme with a light heart; but his illusions were quickly dispelled by the eccentric young Swedish king, Charles XII., who arrived suddenly in Esthonia and completely routed the Russian army before Narva.

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  • In the autumn of 397 Rufinus embarked for Rome, where, finding that the theological controversies of the East were exciting much interest and curiosity, he published a Latin translation of the Apology of Pamphilus for Origen, and also (398-99) a somewhat free rendering of the 7rep1 apXwv (or De Principiis) of that author himself.

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  • On the 7th of April he embarked with his wife at Gravesend and reached New York on the 4th of June.

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  • In September 1646 he embarked for Norway.

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  • Passing northward by Nanking and crossing the Yangtsze-kiang, Odoric embarked on the Great Canal and travelled to Cambalec (otherwise Cambaleth, Cambaluc, &c.) or Peking, where he remained for three years, attached, no doubt, to one of the churches founded by Archbishop John of Monte Corvino, at this time in extreme old age.

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  • But provinces are not conquered by manifestoes, and Casimir's acceptance of the homage of the Prussian League at once involved him in a war with the desperate Teutonic Knights, which lasted twelve years, but might easily have been concluded in a twelvemonth had he only been loyally supported by his own subjects, for whose benefit he had embarked upon this great enterprise.

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  • At the beginning of 1668 he defeated the voivode Jakov Bezobrazov, sent against him from Astrakhan, and in the spring embarked on a predatory expedition into Persia which lasted for eighteen months.

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  • After her beginnings as a woman of leisure, Barbie went to college and embarked on numerous careers.

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  • Lily embarked on a series of bad relationships before reuniting with Holden, but not before giving birth to another man's son.

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  • Sting embarked on a highly successful solo career, but band blood remained between the band members.

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  • The earliest Arabian traveller whose observations have come down to us is the merchant Sulaiman, who embarked in the Persian Gulf and made several voyages to India and China, in the middle of the 9th century.

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  • In 1872 Airy conceived the idea of treating the lunar theory in a new way, and at the age of seventy-one he embarked on the prodigious toil which this scheme entailed.

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