Ms. Yawo died later that year, causing Ms. Toe to become timorous.
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Timorous yet determined, his bride, Wanda (a teenage Brunella Bovo), has another obsession.
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"Most people who are good play scared, but Bill was particularly timorous," he said.
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Suddenly, the timorous teach is filled with new life by day and vengeance by night.
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More broadly, Trump asserts that the United States grew timorous and apologetic under Obama's administration.
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Stan, meanwhile, was worried that the K.G.B. was onto his and Dennis's source, the timorous Sofia.
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So perhaps it would have needed to be someone out of politics, because Republican officeholders are so timorous.
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Their timorous seduction lured me into an enlarged visual-aural mindfulness that stayed with me throughout the day.
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If Mr Mueller turns up something seriously incriminating for the president, even the most timorous Republicans may abandon him.
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The central issue was whether Ossoff had run too timorous and centrist a campaign to fire up the base.
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Recent political history shows that the Democratic model of continual retreat into watchful, timorous bunker-mode is a losing proposition.
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They inoculated the mice and then re-introduced the gut bacteria of the timorous mice and the adventurous mice across the sample.
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The underlying causes of NHK's often timorous reporting remain, says Yasuo Onuki, who retired a few years ago after four decades there.
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Timorous, paunchy, and pale, with a sad mustache and a pair of rimless glasses, David (Colin Farrell) checks into a rural hotel.
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Sanders railed against Clinton, sometimes for polices that he regarded as too timorous but also in ways that touched upon her personal ethics.
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As a timorous, sickly child, prone to sinus infections and tears, he was a source of puzzlement and some disappointment to his parents.
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Precisely when the Conservatives need to bare their souls and ignite the fire of their great political movement, they have behaved like timorous technocrats.
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Where the smaller, plainer red-brown hens were predictable in their behavior, usually timorous and boring, Mr. Rooster was unpredictable and anything but boring.
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The shaky effort to scrap Obamacare escaped a potentially deadly setback, as a loss would have further shaken timorous Senate Republicans at a critical juncture.
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"Now we glean the timorous arrival, dare I say, of pleasure," he writes, a sentence I could hear only in the most unctuous cartoon voice.
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In the shootout, Bravo dived to his right to stop weak penalty kicks by Quaresma and Moutinho, then switched sides to save Nani's timorous shot.
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The right and best man for this critical task at this timorous time is Jeff Sessions, and his confirmation to attorney general cannot come soon enough.
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Having to scale back official duties has caused him "stress and frustration", says NHK, the public broadcaster, in the timorous language reserved for the imperial family.
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Yet despite her commitment to the role — and the generally fine supporting performances — this timorous tale sidesteps uncomfortable realities in favor of soothing whimsy and preordained uplift.
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Some on the right are now hitting out at what they see as a timorous performance by a president whose supposed strength had been central to his political appeal.
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"Please, remember that I do not lack valor, that I am not a coward nor timorous but rather act according to principles," AMLO wrote, according to the Associated Press.
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The overwhelming majority of discourse surrounding the world of wine—you know, talk about "perfumed aromas redolent of timorous, mid-summer sous bois "—can sound, well, kind of super douchey.
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They view Trump as a leader who was elected to break with timorous traditions and defend American interests in a forceful way — as encapsulated by his "America First" campaign slogan.
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Tonight, as the lights came up and Marie (Theda Hammel) began unleashing her fire hose of invective against the timorous Bruce (Gordon Landenberger), the house was immediately overcome with laughter.
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Even so, the directors, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (the Austrian pair who made "Goodnight Mommy" in 2015), have coaxed only a disappointingly timorous horrorscape from that marvelously glacial mood.
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But his approach can look too timorous to a swathe of the Democratic primary electorate — especially those who have come to view the GOP as the enemy, not just the opposition.
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Warren was able to leapfrog the traditional résumé demands of statewide candidates via inadvertent boosts from both a timorous Barack Obama and the most inept Democratic Senate candidate in recent memory.
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But their self-indulgence, protected by timorous politicians, can only make it easier for the next killer to obtain a military-style weapon in what amounts to an open market for mass mayhem.
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When the English writer Geoff Dyer read the book shortly after it was published, it made him realize how "timorous and discreet" his own debut novel, "The Colour of Memory" (1989), had been.
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And so, last week, the Washington Post published an op-ed that disarranged the nerve endings of timorous liberals across the land: "Trump Is on Track to Win Reelection," by professional Clintonite Doug Sosnik.
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Those timorous chief executives serve longer than the average Roman emperor did: bosses departing in 2015 had an average of 11 years in office for S&P 500 firms, the highest figure for 13 years.
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In an interview, he said the Tory party must win a "battle of ideas" between the forces of the free market and socialism, and that its message to voters, especially young ones, had been too timorous.
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Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder, was said to have a "reality distortion field" that allowed him to bend the perception of others (although Apple itself was fairly timorous, losing just $2874m in its worst year, in 2874).
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There is nothing timorous about these buildings — they prove that beauty can be created, and people can live, even in challenging circumstances — but nor are they arrogant: They are responses to their context, and they are aesthetically distinguished because of it.
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The world has paid dearly for the tragic results of this timorous policy: violent clashes between the opposition and security forces, army mutiny and pillage, violence against ethnic communities, armed rebellion and foreign intervention, a war that left over three million dead.
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"I'm not going to be a Gabby Giffords," explained the heroic and manly Red Stater, comparing himself to the timorous female Democrat from a purple district in Arizona, who had unwisely allowed herself to be shot in the head without returning fire.
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If you want a beastie that's particularly wee, sleekit, cowering and timorous, for example, you could ask for mutations in the Ghrhr gene, which can govern size; Foxq1, which makes coats shiny; and Lypd1 and Atcay—mutations that provide, respectively, a fearful nature and general skittishness.
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Even the movie's attempts at gross-out humor—such as an extended bit in which Holmes keeps barfing into a bucket, or a sequence where he calculates the trajectory of his arcing urine in slow-mo, à la Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes—are timorous and half-assed.
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It's hard to imagine better casting than Tennant as the cynical but softhearted Crowley, piloting his vintage Bentley at speed through central London, or Sheen as the timorous, dandified Aziraphale, maintaining his cover as an antiquarian book dealer while thrilling to the thought of lunch at the Ritz.
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But he navigated an unprecedented minefield, neither overreaching nor being timorous toward President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and his allies.
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For these Trump-besotted believers, you get the sense that the Bush administration's attempts to devise a substantial socially conservative agenda, from bioethics to marriage promotion to faith-based initiatives and more, are remembered not for being timorous, limited or flawed (all of which they were) but for being simply boring.
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But the character of Falstaff, who is described by Samuel Johnson as "a thief and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster; always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor; to terrify the timorous, and insult the defenceless," has an unexpected relevance in the current election season.
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It's about the movies, and comes from a 2018 compendium of essays called "See What Can Be Done," a title inspired by Robert Silvers, who as editor of the New York Review of Books would offer up items of cultural interest for Ms. Moore's analysis with that timorous-sounding suggestion.
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There, amid exposed wiring and heating ducts, his playful nerd side (Donkey Kong Jr. arcade game) flourished amid works from his artisans (Miller's I Was Here table, plaster trees by David Wiseman) and iconic pieces by trendsetters of international design (a Moooi sofa and a Timorous Beasties carpet adorned with giant iguanas).
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He explained to me that Russia had not invested heavily in high-speed trains out of deference to their neighbours, the Finns: Russia has a lot of Finnish visitors, he explained, but Finns are by nature timorous and he did not want to frighten them by giving them rides on trains that were too fast.
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And they advocated this dangerous fantasy for much the same reason that Pelosi did: Like today's timorous Democratic leaders, moderates in the Johnson-impeaching Congress believed that a favorable-looking presidential election was on the horizon, and knew with utter assurance that opposing the racist president too vigorously would lead to a politically damaging national backlash by his supporters.
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"The 50 basis point average drop in the dot plot for 2016 and 2017 combined with the defensive, almost timorous 'global risks' comment has gold surging almost $25 as two-year yields plummet 9 basis points and the dollar is under heavy pressure," said Tai Wong, director of base and precious metals trading for BMO Capital Markets in New York.
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"Your people have a saying..." he waved a hand so that port swirled around in his glass, but Professor Begum stole his moment of gravitas by remarking that one of the things he found interesting about contemporary tribes was that more of them were hand selected—"Nowadays there are people who choose their people one by one, as they encounter them... I can't decide if that's braver or more timorous than simply going by gender or ethnicity or favorite bands..." If Day had been less shy—if she'd been her sister, for instance—she'd have hugged Professor Begum right there and then.
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Timorous Beastie is a Highland Blended Malt, featuring a mouse on the packaging in homage to Robert Burns' famous Scots poem, To a Mouse. A blend of Highland single malts, Timorous Beastie combines spirit from Glen Garioch, Glengoyne and Blair Athol Distilleries and is bottled at 46.8%. Since its launch in 2014, Douglas Laing has released a series of aged Timorous Beastie bottlings, including Timorous Beastie 40 Years Old.
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They are often timorous and apprehensive, and prone to pedantism.
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The wisest, unexperienced, will be ever Timorous, and loth, with novice modesty Irresolute, unhardy, unadventrous.
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The Secularist, is without presumption of an infallible creed, is without the timorous indefiniteness of a creedless believer.
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
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This was blitzkrieg. I'm going in there. Let me do it. I'm not going to be the timorous guy from Scotland.
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The Bangkok Post has characterised NCAA's actions in the Rolls-Royce case "timorous and ineffective". , the NACC is still investigating the case.
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True religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.
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True religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.
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I had to change the setting from > Borneo to an East African one. Heinemann was right to be timorous. In early > 1958 'The Enemy in the Blanket' appeared and this at once provoked a libel > suit.
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When Williamsburg saw a resurgence in popularity in the 1930s, so did toiles, as they did again in the 1970s in celebration of the United States Bicentennial. Many fabric and wallpaper companies, such as Timorous Beasties, have continued the trend.
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Savage She-Hulk #11–12. Marvel Comics. Eventually, Jennifer decides that she is going to retain her She-Hulk form permanently—preferring the freedom, confidence, and assertiveness that it gave her compared to her more timorous and fragile "normal" form. After her brief solo career, she joined the Avengers.
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Arthur Nason called The Politician "reminiscent of both Hamlet and of Macbeth," though without the "profound psychology of a Shakespearian masterpiece. It impresses one rather for its swift, tense scenes, its gloom, its horror." "Particularly in the closing act...the ferocity of the erstwhile timorous Marpisa approaches to magnificence."Nason, pp. 311–12.
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Pooh's best friend besides Christopher Robin. In the books he is a timorous small animal, who often takes his lead from Pooh unless overcome by fear. But increasingly through the stories he shows himself to be very brave when faced with a crisis and given sufficient encouragement (usually by Pooh). He is fond of "haycorns".
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They were soon arrested by the urban militia.The account of the engagement is derived from Liber Pontificalis. The Lombard troops are called "timorous and hesitant" and are not credited with any part in the victory, though this represents the partisanship of the source. The military success is credited to huius Romanae urbis militiae iudices.
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Scene 1: The Pilgrim meets Evangelist Evangelist directs Pilgrim towards the Wicket Gate. Four neighbours, Pliable, Obstinate, Mistrust and Timorous, appear to warn Pilgrim away from his journey. But Pilgrim dismisses them and continues. Scene 2: The House Beautiful Outside of the House Beautiful, Pilgrim "stumbles up to the Cross" and kneels before it.
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The island was occupied first by Arawaks, then by Caribs. The Arawaks were described as gentle timorous Indians and the Caribs as ferocious cannibal warriors. The Arawaks came from Central America in the 1st century AD and the Caribs came from the Venezuela coast around the 11th century. When Columbus arrived, the Caribs had massacred many of their adversaries, sparing the women, who they kept for their personal or domestic use.
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When Quayle is of English origin the surname can be derived from the Old French/Middle English quaille, meaning "quail". In this way the name would be used as a nickname for a timorous, lecherous, or fat person - words that all describe this particular bird. The name is recorded in the Isle of Man as MacFayle in 1511, and MacQuayle, Quayle in 1540. The name is recorded in England as Quayle in 1327.
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New Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed Gardiner as his special representative on forestry in July 2007. He left this role "by mutual consent" on 13 September 2008 after joining other Labour MPs in declaring an MP should stand against Brown, accusing him of "vacillation, loss of international credibility and timorous political manoeuvres that the public cannot understand". Gardiner's expenses in 2008–2009 were ranked 129 out of 647 MPs whilst his 2007–2008 expenses were ranked 369.
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Timorous Beasties is a design-led manufacturing company based in Glasgow that specialises in fabrics and wallpapers. The company was founded in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who met while studying at the Glasgow School of Art. Winners of the Walpole Award for 'Best Emerging British Luxury Brand' in 2007 and 'British Luxury Design Talent' in 2010, the company now has two branded showrooms in London and Glasgow, and export their luxury products and design talent worldwide.
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In one instance, main character Temmie Oakes says, "...You saw the sinews rippling beneath the cheap stuff of their sweaty shirts. Far, far too heady a draught for the indigestion of this timorous New England remnant of a dying people. For the remaining native men were stringly of withers, lean shanked, of vinegar blood, and hard wrung." Historian John Radzilowski notes that the theme of vivacious young immigrants replacing dying old white ethnic populations was common in America until the 1960s and 70s.
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The new prime minister hastened to show signs of goodwill toward the Turkish ambassador and the Western powers. Wishing to avoid a new Greco-Turkish war, he criticised the "Cretan revolutionaries" and declared his willingness to abide by the Great Powers' decisions. Indignation toward the government's weaknesses and timorous attitude mounted, among the populace as well as in the army, above all among the young officers who had fought in Macedonia. The idea of imitating the Young Turk officers began to spread.
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Variety praised 2929 as a "pioneer" for its simultaneous theatrical and cable television release of Steven Soderbergh's Bubble in 2006. Bubble would be the first of several films with concurrent releases in theaters and through 2929's cable channel HDNet. At the time, this move was controversial as most films are released in different formats on a staggered schedule, giving each channel an exclusive window. Exhibitors were especially timorous, as many feared that they would eventually lose their exclusive release windows for more mainstream films.
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Mr. Crudup's fine features, which flicker between masculine and feminine as the lighting changes and the mood shifts, are well suited for the role, though his sinewy, birdlike frame suggests Hollywood anorexia more than Restoration curviness . . . Stage Beauty is both timorous and ungainly, words that might also describe Ms. Danes's performance. Trapped in an English accent and in a character who must appear conniving and warmhearted in turn, she veers from teariness to brisk indignation like an Emma Thompson doll with a jammed switch. The British actors in smaller roles handle the material better . . .
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It was something in those days to know one was shadowed, spied upon, trailed by snoopers, that one must whisper what one thought in a restaurant and even then be sure one's friend wasn't going to hand one over to the police. . . . The lying propaganda had something foul and degrading in it. The exultation of the timorous stay-at-homes was rotten and debased. “Enemies Within,” shrieked the old New York Tribune and spat snake's venom at Bourne and the rest of us.” The circulation was actually climbing when “the inevitable happened.
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Established in 1948, Douglas Laing & Co is an independent bottler of Scotch whisky. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, the company has a number of brands including its "Remarkable Regional Malts" range, encompassing The Epicurean, Timorous Beastie, Scallywag, Rock Island and Big Peat, as well as Old Particular, Provenance and Xtra Old Particular, which they collectively call their "Exceptional Single Casks". The firm also creates and sells King of Scots Blended Scotch Whisky, Clan Denny Single Casks and Premier Barrel. The company is a member of the Scotch Whisky Association.
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He chose Rotterdam as his place of exile, and spent the remainder of his life there, often preaching in the Scottish church and devoting himself to theological study. He died 9 August 1672, aged 70, and is widely remembered as a preacher of extraordinary popular gifts. His own estimate of his sermons was, however, a very modest one, and he describes himself generally as ‘timorous, averse from debates, rather given to laziness than rashness, too easy to be wrought upon.’ In his later years, he expressed a great abhorrence of sectarianism.
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Performed by Natalia Ensemble, 2014 About his composition Debussy wrote: > The music of this prelude is a very free illustration of Mallarmé's > beautiful poem. By no means does it claim to be a synthesis of it. Rather > there is a succession of scenes through which pass the desires and dreams of > the faun in the heat of the afternoon. Then, tired of pursuing the timorous > flight of nymphs and naiads, he succumbs to intoxicating sleep, in which he > can finally realize his dreams of possession in universal Nature.
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Boswell also observed that Baltimore "... lived luxuriously and inflamed his blood, then he became melancholy and timorous, and was constantly taking medicines... he is living a strange, wild, life, useless to his country, except when raised to a delirium, and must soon destroy his constitution". Calvert spent a good deal of time in Italy, where the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) described him as being "one of those worn-out beings, a hipped Englishman, who had lost all physical and moral taste".Cross, Anthony, p.
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His envy of Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin induced him to participate in Count Lestocq's conspiracy against that statesman. The empress's affection for him (she owed much to his skilful pen and still more to the liberality of his rich kinsfolk) saved him from the fate of his accomplices, but he lived in a state of semi-eclipse during Bestuzhev's ascendancy. Anna Vorontsova When Bestuzhev fell from grace, Vorontsov was made imperial chancellor in his stead. Though well-meaning and perfectly honest, Vorontsov as a politician was singularly timorous and irresolute, always taking his cue from the court.
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"Following the Fred Step" , Balletco, accessed 23 June 2013 this in Benesh notation is transcribed thus: centre It was based on a step used by Anna Pavlova in a gavotte that she frequently performed. Alicia Markova recalled in 1994 that Ashton had first used the step in a short ballet that concluded Nigel Playfair's 1930 production of Marriage à la Mode. It is not seen in Ashton's 1931 Façade, but after that, it became a feature of his choreography. The critic Alastair Macaulay writes: Ashton himself danced the step as the timorous sister in Cinderella,Vaughan, p.
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These people are the remains of those sectaries who, induced by the scruples of a timorous conscience, separated themselves from the Swedish church in 1738." (should be 1728). "When they first withdrew themselves from the established religion, they appeared to despise the public mode of worship, the sacraments, and still more, the priests; by which they necessarily drew upon themselves great persecutions, and were even banished the kingdom; but obtained permission in 1746 to reside in Wermdoeum, where they bought some lands called Skevik, from which they are generally named Skevikare. Many of their doctrines are whimsical, but their conduct is virtuous.
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Cernat, p.293-312, 329 Perpessicius did not however share Emilian's viewpoint, and, in line with his pronouncements against a "Jewish quota", explicitly rejected the belief that avant-garde poetry was subversive, arguing instead that, at its best, the current displayed a modern "virtuosity".Cernat, p.329 In his review of Emilian's polemical study of the avant-garde, Perpessicus spoke of the author's "rigid and timorous" approach to the subject.Cernat, p.298 Perpessicius was especially sympathetic to poet Tudor Arghezi, a former Symbolist who had created a mixture of radical modernism and traditionalism, and who was hailed as a hero by the avant-garde circles.
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Proverbs, 2007, p.266 The other proverb also concerned the hare, traditionally the most timorous of beasts, and spread to the rest of Europe from an epigram in the suspect version of the Greek Anthology edited by Maximus Planudes. In this the defeated Hector recalls that even a hare will leap on a dead lionGeorge Burges’ edition, London 1854, poem 68 in a line that was later imitated by Andrea Alciato in the poem accompanying his emblem on the futility of wrestling with the dead.Emblem 154 The same proverb was later adapted into a fable by Pieter de la Court in his Sinryke Fabulen (Amsterdam, 1685).
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The historian of science Lynn Thorndike explains that St Amand "asserts that experimentum alone is 'timorous and fallacious,' but that 'fortified by reason' it gives 'experimental knowledge.'" In her view, what St Amand meant was that experimentation had to be methodical, and used alongside theory. On simples used in herbal medicine, St Amand stated specific rules for practical testing: he advised that the specimen had to be pure; that the test should be on a simple disease; that the test be repeated; and that the dose should depend on the patient. Thorndike notes that both St Amand and Albertus Magnus preceded Bacon in their use of the phrase "experimental knowledge".
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His interest in physiognomy—the belief that a person's outer appearance, especially the shape and lines of their face, could reveal their inner character—influenced him in creating his warm and individualistic works. For example, his portrait Le Discret (ca. 1790) depicts a man with a timorous facial expression requesting silence by pressing his finger against his mouth, gesturing by which he appears to be demanding discretion or prudence. Through unusual body language and physical appearances, these portraits parallel the vivacious tronies of Dutch Golden Age painting and the "character heads" of contemporary Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), some of whose busts were self-portraits with extreme expressions.
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Modern scholarship assigns the blame elsewhere. Leslie A. Marchand wrote that Hobhouse was chiefly responsible, and Terence de Vere White came to the same conclusion, adding that Murray was the second most guilty man. G. Wilson Knight brought in a verdict against Hobhouse, Colonel Doyle, Wilmot Horton and Murray as being jointly responsible, with the rider that "behind it all...was Lady Byron". Paul Douglass believes that some blame must also go to Byron himself, in that he was too careless of his Memoirs' fate, and certainly Byron did allow them to fall into the hands of John Murray, whom he considered "the most timorous of God's booksellers".
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On a summer evening it is amusing to survey the conduct of the > bathers; some boldly dive, others timorous stand and then descend step by > step, unwilling and slow; choice swimmers attract attention by divings and > somersets, and the whole sheet of water sometimes rings with merriment. > Every fine Thursday and Saturday afternoon in the summer columns of Bluecoat > boys, more than a score in each, headed by their respective beadles, arrive > and some half strip themselves ‘ere they reach their destination. The rapid > plunges they make into the Pool and their hilarity in the bath testify their > enjoyment of the tepid fluid.” The pool was closed in 1850 and built over.
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Confederate Cemetery at Raymond Grant's plan had been to lure Pemberton into splitting his force, allowing the Confederate army to be defeated in detail. News that Pemberton's left wing had retreated to the rail center at Jackson, where it was receiving reinforcements from across the Confederacy, led Grant to change his plan of attack. Whereas initially he had planned to detach McPherson's two divisions to destroy Jackson, Grant now planned a full-scale assault on the Mississippi capital.OR Series 1 – Volume 24 (Part I) Chapter XXXVI page 50 This led to the Battle of Jackson on May 14, 1863, which was essentially a rear-guard action for the suddenly timorous Joseph E. Johnston.
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'Timorous', from Pilgrim's Progress Towards the end of the 1850s, Charles Bennett prepared an illustrated version of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, for which he produced more than 120 drawings, including sparely drawn caricatures of all the characters. He initially had great difficulty getting this work published, until it came to the attention of Charles Kingsley, who provided a preface for the book, whereupon Longmans accepted it for publication. In his letter to Charles Bennett, Kingsley agreed that an appropriately illustrated version of the book was needed and offered his views on the style to be used. He cautioned against imaginative freedom at the cost of beauty of form and pointed to a strong German element in Bunyan, which should be expressed by a tendency to the grotesque.
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"He came in of a lengthy run and delivered the ball with a windmill action that brought added fear to callow and timorous fifth-form batsmen," says one account of his arrival at Somerset. He played two matches in 1910, and two more in 1912, and then disappeared from first-class cricket for a dozen years, during which time he lived and played cricket in Argentina, representing the country with some success in international non-first-class matches: he took five Brazilian wickets for 43 runs in one international innings. He returned to Somerset in 1924, playing nine County Championship matches, eight of them at home, in the second half of the season. "Both the pace and the enthusiasm had waned," wrote Somerset's historian.
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Colvin's opportunity came when in January 1878 he was transferred for employment in Egypt, serving first as head of the cadastral survey, and then from 24 May as British commissioner of the debt, in place of Major Evelyn Baring (afterwards Lord Cromer). Again in June 1880 he succeeded Major Baring as English controller of Egyptian finance, with M. de Blignières as his French colleague. From time to time he acted as British Consul-general in Sir Edward Malet's absence, and he was acting for Malet when the mutiny of 9 September 1881 broke out. By his advice and persuasion the timorous Khedive Tewfik confronted Urabi, the rebel leader, in the square of the Abdin palace, and succeeded in postponing the insurrection.
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She may have destroyed many of her compositions, as she described herself as being very "timorous and self- critical." However, more compositions by her may soon surface as a result of the discovery in 2000 of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin music archives in Kyiv, a library that had been lost since World War II.Patricia Kennedy Grimsted. "Bach is Back in Berlin: The Return of the Sing-Akademie Archive from Ukraine in the Context of Displaced Cultural Treasures and Restitution Politics", Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2003 Anna Amalia was also a collector of music, preserving over 600 volumes of works by notables such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Karl Heinrich Graun and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, among others. Her works of curation alone represent a significant contribution to Western culture.
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The 1965 war, which consisted of three Pakistan offensives, and one Indian counteroffensive, began in Jan 1965, with the occupation of a large swathe of the territory in the North of the Rann of Kutch, by Pakistan Para- Military Units, in an area under the operational jurisdiction of somnolent elements of the Gujarat Reserve Police, under the command and control of Indian Ministry of Home Affairs. The India response to the occupation, first by the Gujarat police, then the CRPF, and later by Indian army units, was late, limited, and timorous. It was contested aggressively, by 8 Infantry division of the Pakistan Army under the command of Maj General Tikka Khan. In April 65, in a succession of operations code-named Desert Hawk Pakistan army consolidated and expanded its gains.
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The insurrection of 1 Prairial Year III was a popular revolt in Paris on 20 May 1795 against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. It was the last and one of the most remarkable and stubborn popular revolts of the French Revolution. After their defeat in Prairial, the sans-culottes ceased to play any effective part until the next round of revolutions in the early nineteenth century. To a lesser extent, these movements are also important in that they mark the final attempt of the remnants of the Mountain and the Jacobins to recapture their political ascendancy in the Convention and the Paris Sections; this time, though they gave some political direction to the popular movement which arose in the first place in protest against worsening economic conditions, their intervention was timorous and halfhearted and doomed the movement to failure.
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Although Bruce's sister Christian Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire was a notable Royalist, Bruce himself took the side of the Parliamentarians, serving on several county committees from 1644 to Pride's Purge. Shortly before the 1648 outbreak of the Second English Civil War, fellow scot, William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart, whipping boy of Charles I and husband of his relative, Catherine Bruce, appointed Bruce as principal trustee of Ham House to act on behalf of his wife, Catherine, and their daughters. The move was successful in helping protect Murray's ownership of the estate by making sequestration by the Parliamentarians both more difficult and, given Elgin's influential position with the Scottish Presbyterians, politically undesirable. Bruce was later described by Sir Philip Warwick as 'a Gentleman of a very good understanding, and of a pious, but timorous and cautious mind'.
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