Worse, successive wars drained the country both of men and resources.

They were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples.

After repeated unsuccessful attempts, he escaped in 1165.

There are several steps in this night, which are related in successive stanzas.

The electronic auction may take place in a number of successive phases .

The Umayyad family would again grow large and prosperous over successive generations.

Successive works brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community.

This identity will be pursued through a gradual process involving successive phases .

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, regular U.S. troops were withdrawn and sent east.

Nahua migrations into the region from the north continued into the Postclassic period.

Successive glaciations tend to distort and erase the geological evidence, making it difficult to interpret.

The thinner and more numerous the layers in the pearl, the finer the luster.

The average time between the successive oppositions of Mars, its synodic period, is 780 days but the number of days between the dates of successive oppositions can range from 764 to 812.

Others were found during successive excavations by Sieglin (1909 10), Junker, Reisner, and Hassan.

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however , it raises rounding problems which are difficult to solve in the event of several successive payment conversions .

Differences between successive layers indicate changes to the environment over time.

Because of this, the powers of i are useful for expressing sequences of period 4.

Edward had reluctantly agreed, provided the Lords rejected the budget after two successive general elections.

NEW DELHI Despite frequent turmoil and repeated invasions, Afghanistan has remained virtually unchanged for centuries.

Five Points was occupied by successive waves of freed slaves, Irish then Italian then Chinese immigrants.

Starting from an initial guess, iterative methods form successive approximations that converge to the exact solution only in the limit.

After several attempts to leave Cuba, blogger Yoani Sánchez landed in Recife on February 18.

It is attractive to archaeologists because of the successive layers of debris resulting from centuries of human habitation.

Built between the 8th and 10th centuries , the Mosque was later consecrated as a Christian cathedral and underwent a series of transformations .

After a brilliant beginning which included victories over the remnants of López's army, the Count fell into depression.

The colours chosen for successive denominations were taken from opposing segments of the colour wheel and thus strongly contrast with each other .

A morula (Latin, morus mulberry) is an early stage embryo consisting of cells (called blastomeres) in a solid ball contained within the zona pellucida.

A bridge across the Rhone was built between 1171 and 1185, with a length of some 900 m (2950 ft), but was destroyed during the siege of Avignon by Louis VIII of France in 1226.

In three successive battles (Ytororó, Avay and Lomas Valentinas) which became known as Dezembrada (Deed of December), the combined allied forces annihilated the Paraguayan army.

After high school, Walker went to Spelman College in Atlanta on a full scholarship in 1961 and later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, graduating in 1965.

These have been fed by several waves of immigrants since the beginning of the 20th century, each with its own flavor of language.

The government remained in the hands of a succession of conservative coalitions supported by right wing liberals or Catholic clerics and heavily dependent on the Kaiser's favour.

Those Cumans that settled in the Balkans were the founders of three successive Bulgarian dynasties (Asenids, Terterids, and Shishmanids) and the Wallachian dynasty (Basarabids).

The characteristics of the successive instalments released by the Community under the financial assistance facility shall be negotiated between the Member State and the Commission .

Subsequently, other successive flags passed through the region, such as Antonio Macedo (1590), Domingos Rodrigues (1596), Domingos Fernandes (1599) and Nicholas Baker (1602 1604).

Instead, physics has proceeded by a series of successive approximations allowing more and more accurate predictions over a wider and wider range of phenomena.

Historians consider many sovereign states' histories, such as Ancient Egypt, the Carolingian Empire and Imperial China, within a framework of successive dynasties.

The Council shall , if needed after convening two successive meetings , act within four months of the Commission proposal .

The cumulative crises and disruptions of invasion, revolution, and restoration led to the independence of most of Spain's American colonies and the independence of Brazil from Portugal.

Method of successive multiplication by 8 To convert a decimal fraction to octal, multiply by 8 the integer part of the result is the first digit of the octal fraction.

Finally, this was a three page cover, never done before, and I don't think it will ever be done again successive pages in the front of the magazine.

Moving the discussion away from the traditional occupation of the area in litigation is tantamount to perpetuating the flagrant injustices committed against the indigenous in three distinct and successive phases over time.

Natural selection Evolution by means of natural selection is the process by which traits that enhance survival and reproduction become more common in successive generations of a population.

On the one hand were the decimation of the population by the Black Death of 1348 and subsequent years of epidemics and on the other, the series of wars and riots that followed.