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… Jackson's finding that Microsoft commanded a monopoly--and the implication that he will rule shortly that the company broke the law--may well hobble its efforts to meet [new] challenges.
A few years later, a British fleet commanded by George Clifford, the Earl of Cumberland, shrewdly outflanked the fortress.
Maureen Dowd bit first, snorting that the "the futile search for the inner Reagan had driven his biographer barking mad" (the New York Times ); Jonathan Yardley (the Washington Post ) retorted that Dowd "seems incapable of a genuinely serious thought" and commanded her and others to "Shut yo' mouf" until they had read the book.
It overlooks the prow of a patrol boat that D’Annunzio commanded during WWI, the Puglia, hauled up the hillside as the crowning piece of his relics.
The Spanish resisted and, aided by British troops commanded by the Duke of Wellington, drove the French out.