Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Battle of Bouvines" ¶ 19
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

central and battle
In fact, Shestov used the story of Job as a central signifier for his core philosophy ( the vast critique of the history of Western philosophy, which he saw broadly as a monumental battle between Reason and Faith, Athens and Jerusalem, secular and religious outlook ):
In the latter, the battle was instrumental in forming the strong central monarchy that would characterize France until the first French Revolution.
In the armies of Europe, mounted and unmounted crossbowmen, often mixed with javeliners and archers, occupied a central position in battle formations.
She claims that it is neither the battle nor the banner that is central to the tale, but rather the cross in the sky.
Osaka Castle was the central place of battle.
Gerwarth argues that the constructed memory of Bismarck played a central role as an anti-democratic myth in the highly ideological battle over the past which raged between 1918 and 1933.
In the latter, the battle was instrumental in forming the strong central monarchy that would characterise France until the first French Revolution.
This concept consisted of ground and space based sensors and weapons, as well as a central battle management system.
Joined by cities in central and northern Greece, the Athenians defeat Antipater in battle.
The battle ends a power struggle between Rudolph and Otakar over the fate of central Europe, and Rudolph's Habsburg family will continue to rule Austria and other captured territories until the end of World War I in 1918.
The battle ends a power struggle between Rudolph and Otakar over the fate of central Europe, and Rudolph's Habsburg family will continue to rule Austria and other captured territories until the end of World War I in 1918.
The sources vary as to the nature of the bridge central to the events of the battle.
This ( then incomplete ) fortress played a central role in the battle to maintain the link with Spain via the Atlantic sea lane s.
The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.
He was intercepted near the Halys River in central Anatolia and an inconclusive battle was fought.
Behind them were the second battle, which consisted of 400 Italians and 1, 000 men of Languedoc and central France.
In 1946, Vietnam had its first National Assembly election ( won by the Viet Minh in central and northern Vietnam ), which drafted the first constitution, but the situation was still precarious: the French tried to regain power by force ; some Cochinchinese politicians formed a seceding government the Republic of Cochinchina ( Cộng hòa Nam Kỳ ) while the non-Communist and Communist forces were engaging each other in sporadic battle.
Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also useful in battle.
Instead, the overarching story of all five seasons of the series pitted Angel as the central player in a battle between the " good " Powers That Be and the " evil " law firm Wolfram & Hart and his possible role in a prophesied apocalypse.
The central French force under Napoleon's direct command had crossed the Niemen with 286, 000 men but by the time of the battle was reduced to 161, 475, mostly through starvation and disease.
Folkungs lost the battle thus crushing resistance to the central government and taxes.
Two were built along the Fontenoy-Barry gap, defended by two regiments of the Brigade of Eu, and each supplied with four cannon – the first breastwork ( nearest Fontenoy ), known as the Redoubt of Eu, played a central part in the battle.
The Rue de Rivoli, a street in central Paris, is named after the battle.
In the course of the battle, the weaker central formations retreated in order, allowing the wings to converge behind the Persian battle line, thus driving the much more numerous, but lightly armed Persians to panicky retreat.

central and was
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.
It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.
In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.
One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.
Microscopically, there was hyperemia of the central veins, and there was some atrophy of adjacent parenchyma.
At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.
Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.
At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.
Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.
In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
By contrast, the National Union Party was united and energized as Lincoln made emancipation the central issue, and state Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads.
Altruism was central to the teachings of Jesus found in the Gospel, especially in the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain.
Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.
In 1911, Ernest Rutherford gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's mass and a positive charge which, in units of the electron's charge, was to be approximately equal to half of the atom's atomic weight, expressed in numbers of hydrogen atoms.
This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).
Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

1.355 seconds.