In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.

Many Brewer fans welcomed facing the Cardinals with the National League pennant at stake, with the Brewers and Cardinals having a growing rivalry, and also a chance for the Brewers to avenge their 1982 World Series defeat, which was at the hands of the Cardinals.

" That day, Hitler told the British ambassador to Berlin that the pact with the Soviets prevented Germany from facing a two front war, changing the strategic situation from that in World War I, and that Britain should accept his demands regarding Poland.

Throughout the 1980s, the Bank donated funds to the World Food Programme, a branch of the United Nations which presently provides food aid to countries facing humanitarian crises.

More service closures came in January 2011 when the closing of five language services was announced as a result of the financial situation the corporation was facing following the eventual financial transfer of responsibility for the World Service from the Foreign Office to the BBC license fee.

The Army Council attempted to remove the flash during the First World War citing the grounds that it would help the Germans identify which unit was facing them.

Polish government-in-exile | World War II Polish Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk fled Poland in 1947 after facing arrest and persecution.

However, there have been many significant challenges facing Istro-Romanians in preserving their language, culture and ethnic identity, including emigration from communism and migration to nearby cities and towns after World War II, when the Paris Peace Treaty with Italy that was signed on February 10, 1947 took Istria away from Italy ( which had previously gained Istria after World War I ) and awarded it to Yugoslavia, the parent country of present-day Croatia and Slovenia, who split Istria in two parts amongst themselves, while Italy retained the small portion near Trieste.

A new municipal justice complex including court, police department, and jail will be located within the former Food World building facing US 31 just north of the city center area.

At the same time, in the Soviet Union, Rundstedt's old command, Army Group South, was facing disaster at Stalingrad, the decisive battle of World War II in Europe.

It has connotations of decadence, which are seen as typical for the last years of a culturally vibrant period ( La Belle Époque at the turn of the 19th to 20th century and until World War I ), and of anticipative excitement about, or despair facing, impending change, or both, that is generally expected when a century or time period draws to a close.

After World War II, Winchell began to denounce Communism as the main threat facing America.

In addition to the rebroadcast of the original documentary, the show also focused on the building of the new One World Trade Center, and on the health problems facing many of the firemen at Ground Zero.

Long the home of a major Indian tribe for which it was named, the French fortified Natchitoches in 1714 as an outpost of their New World Empire facing Spanish Texas to the west.

In 2001, Dmitriy Rogozin proposed moving the headquarters to St. Petersburg due to America's failure to pay its dues to the UN, saying " If the position of the Americans does not change and if as a result the international civil servants working in New York feel ever more uncomfortable, I think we will raise the question of moving the central UN headquarters to the ' Venice of the North ,' St. Petersburg ," During the period where the UN was facing delays in its efforts to refurbish its existing buildings, alternative sites considered as temporary sites also included the World Trade Center site being proposed as a new permanent facility.

In the third round, facing former World No. 1 Maria Sharapova, Henin ended her streak of consecutive sets at 40, losing the 2nd set to Sharapova but going on to win 6 – 2, 3 – 6, 6 – 3.

Mysterio reformed his tag team with Kidman and the two challenged for the World Tag Team Championship in a Triangle match at Halloween Havoc, facing the champions Natural Born Thrillers and the Boogie Knights, where the Thrillers retained.

In the 1966 World Cup, West Germany reached the final after beating the USSR in the semifinal, facing hosts England at Wembley Stadium.

When Derviş became Turkey ’ s minister of economic affairs in March, 2001, after a 22-year career at the World Bank, the country was facing its worst economic crisis in modern history and prospects for success were uncertain.

A World Health Organization statement describes palliative care as " an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

Though lionized during his lifetime as a " soldier-prince ", papers released in 1998 undermined this assessment, as they revealed that he had spent much of the First World War facing a series of Army medical boards to request sick leave.

In 1881, when the historic numbers of regiments were abolished and facing colours standardised for English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish regiments, the duke protested that regimental spirit would be affected ( the majority of facing colours were restored by the First World War, although the numbers were not ).

All three species of manatee are listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction.

Following World War II, lack of interest in the consumer market lead to a sharp decline in plantings with many varieties on the verge of extinction.

Several of his stories have been nominated for the genre's awards ; " The Ugly Chickens " -- about the extinction of the dodo -- won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981 ; this is perhaps his best known work.

In contrast with the vagueness of the Heidelberg Appeal, the " World Scientists ' Warning " is a very explicit environmental manifesto, stating that " human beings and the natural world are on a collision course " and citing ozone depletion, global climate change, air pollution, groundwater depletion, deforestation, overfishing, and species extinction among the trends that threaten to " so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know.

After World War II, changes in the automobile market resulted in the decline and final extinction of the straight-8 as an automobile engine.

The Wake Island Rail was hunted to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison after the island was cut off from supply during World War II.

A number of Bulbophyllum species are threatened with extinction, and are recognised as such by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ):

This World Beneath is an explanation for Dinotopians surviving the saurian extinction ; according to the story, most of the Earth's dinosaurs were destroyed, whilst a few hid in vast underground caverns.

All three thresher shark species have been recently listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ).

Conspiracy theorists fear the outcome will either be the emergence of a Brave New World-like dystopia — a " Brave New World Order " — or the extinction of the human species.

About the latter title, Parreira has said that this was personally the most important trophy of his career, even more so than Brazil's World Cup triumph, as the club he loved was facing near-bankruptcy and became very close to extinction at the time.

Meanwhile, the New World members of the family became restricted to South America following the peopling of the Americas by Paleo-Indians and the accompanying extinction of the megafauna.

After World War II, commercial crocodile hunting in the area nearly reduced numbers to the point of extinction by the 1960s.

While the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) mostly only categorizes whole species or subspecies, assessing the global risk of extinction, in some cases it also assesses the risks to stocks and populations, especially to preserve genetic diversity.

The giant armadillo was classified as vulnerable on the World Conservation Union's Red List in 2002, and is listed under Appendix I ( threatened with extinction ) of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.

) A World government with a eugenic or small population policy could send humanity into ' voluntary ' extinction.

Almost driven to extinction in World War II, the PON was restored mainly through the work of Dr. Danuta Hryniewicz and her dog, Smok (" Dragon "), the ancestor of all PONs in the world today, who sired the first ten litters of PONs in the 1950s.

Rees has long been active in disarmament campaigns, and although he now sees nuclear warfare as a less probable cause of extinction, he advocates arms control as much as control of science and technology ( see also World government ).

* Rees does not object to the probabilistic argument for human extinction offered by the Doomsday argument ( as championed by John Leslie in the 1996 book The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction ( Routledge, hardcover: ISBN 0-415-14043-9, paperback: ISBN 0-415-18447-9 )), but he does not consider it to describe the practical threats and solutions that he discusses.

Once popular, the breed was brought to the brink of extinction by changing agricultural demands and World War II.

( 1965 ) Frankenstein Conquers the World: Baragon was a dinosaur who burrowed underground to escape the extinction of the other dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures died out.

World War I and World War II, as well as the Great Depression, had a detrimental effect on the breed, and lower-quality animals were used at times to save the breed from extinction.