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    firewood, and burn their bodies while still alive. Those who look on are overawed and consider it the attainment of enlightenment. This is erroneous. In...
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    intended to overawe her subjects. Matilda also remained Henrici regis filia, 'daughter of King Henry', a status that emphasised her claim to the crown...
    108 KB (13,406 words) - 11:05, 29 May 2024
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    characteristic arms and equipment, and was paraded before the city in order to overawe the defenders. Although John fought hard for the Christian cause during...
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    gladiators, brought to Rome as a private army to impress and overawe. Futrell 2006, p. 24. Gladiator gangs were used by Caesar and others to overawe and "persuade"...
    116 KB (15,152 words) - 06:54, 6 March 2024
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    Retrieved October 18, 2017. Hill, Sarah H. (2011). "'To Overawe the Indians and Give Confidence to the Whites': Preparations for the Removal of the Cherokee...
    125 KB (14,577 words) - 05:18, 29 May 2024
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    able and vigilant officers have contrived to keep afloat for these hundred and fifty years past, and to overawe their neighbours merely by her bulk and...
    109 KB (13,482 words) - 12:13, 27 May 2024
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    strong fiscal system, which heightened the power of the king to raise armies that overawed the local nobility. In Paris especially there emerged strong...
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    purportedly used to overawe New York anti-draft rioters. Two were brought by a Pennsylvania National Guard unit from Philadelphia to use against strikers...
    37 KB (4,090 words) - 20:48, 25 April 2024
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    intimidate or overawe, both Houses or either House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or the Parliament of New South Wales, or to move or stir any...
    73 KB (9,417 words) - 14:13, 25 May 2024
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    of Sauron and the Elves, then by Ar-Pharazôn when Númenórean power so overawed his armies that they deserted him, and at the end of the Second Age with...
    45 KB (5,490 words) - 02:32, 17 May 2024
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    seven-page courtroom speech, delivering it in one go. An overawed Spielberg could not bring himself to call Hopkins "Tony" and insisted on addressing him as...
    83 KB (8,481 words) - 13:41, 25 May 2024
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    Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) (category Brazilian emigrants to Spain)
    It was as if he had come from the moon. Nothing disturbed him, nothing overawed him, nothing threw him off his game." Spotted by former Brazilian player...
    247 KB (19,901 words) - 13:13, 17 May 2024
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    government believed that they could overawe the Americans by sending a large military and naval force, forcing them to be loyal again: Convinced that the...
    203 KB (23,295 words) - 11:08, 25 May 2024
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    Mardan Khan, to Shah Jahan. The emperor's son Shah Shuja, accompanied by Jai Singh, was sent to take possession of the important fort. To overawe the Persian...
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    Glorious Revolution (category Succession to the British crown)
    England, while basing the troops at Hounslow appeared a deliberate attempt to overawe Parliament. In April 1688, he ordered his Declaration of Indulgence read...
    102 KB (12,920 words) - 17:11, 24 May 2024
  • had always felt an emotional attraction to women alongside physical attraction, admitting that she can be overawed with women she found beautiful. A month...
    26 KB (1,911 words) - 12:29, 29 May 2024
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    Tower of London (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    populace. For he [William] realised that it was of the first importance to overawe the Londoners". At the time, London was the largest town in England; the...
    106 KB (13,192 words) - 13:06, 28 May 2024
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    Ukraine indignant at 80% of Jews in power" and "Water Terrorism by India to Overawe Pakistan." A joint article with Press TV, written by Jim Fetzer, was entitled:...
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    José Arévalo to write a fable entitled The Shark and the Sardines (1961) in which a predatory shark (representing the United States) overawes the sardines...
    240 KB (24,175 words) - 01:28, 24 May 2024
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    Limerick (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    October 2023. "Another special night in Thomond Park as Maori All Blacks overawed by Munster". The 42. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2023. Walker...
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