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A drought devastated one of the first wheat harvests, and by 1900 all colonists had abandoned San Quintin.
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In addition to the continuing civil strife, the country suffered from widespread poverty, drought, a devastated infrastructure, and ubiquitous use of landmines.
The area was nevertheless settled for farming, but was devastated in the Dust Bowl drought.
She sets off to avenge her brother's death and to restore the land which has been devastated by drought as a direct result of the murder.
* February onwards – The worst drought in 100 years affects most of Australia, with water restrictions being put in place in Sydney, Melbourne and many other areas, and farmers being devastated by crop failures.
Launched in 2003, the program was instrumental in generating employment and initiating the rehabilitation of rural infrastructure devastated by severe drought and two decades of conflict.
Recently devastated by drought, cattle ranches around El Paso are struggling, and may be taken over by the Department of Defense to become military areas.
The financial burden on such a government whose revenues were devastated by depression, drought and then Federation, could no longer afford to send men to South Africa while maintaining a partially paid Militia.
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However, bitheistic and ditheistic principles are not always so easily contrastable, for instance in a system where one god is the representative of summer and drought and the other of winter and rain / fertility ( cf.
During the Younger Dryas period of cold and drought, permanent habitation of any one location was not possible.
According to one local tradition, the Sabahs migrated south to flee drought in Najd in 1710, but found conditions bleaker.
Another drought occurred in 1997, and one in 1999 – 2000.
Darwin emphasizes that he used the phrase " struggle for existence " in " a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another "; he gives examples ranging from plants struggling against drought to plants competing for birds to eat their fruit and disseminate their seeds.
Other historians have emphasized the harshness of the life in the Eastern Cape ( which suffered one of its regular periods of drought in the early 1830s ) compared to the attractions of the fertile country of Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
The Redskins played in the NFL Championship one more time before a quarter-century drought that did not end until the 1972 season.
A drought year may result in a very narrow one.
* A drought causes the harvest to fail and causes one of the rate famines of the 13 < sup > th </ sup > century in Europe.
In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in one hundred years, and there were indications that 2006 could have been a second successive year of drought.
The brown recluse spider is resilient, and can tolerate up to six months of extreme drought and scarcity or absence of food, most notably observed on one occasion to survive in controlled captivity for over five seasons without food.
As one observer said, " I am convinced that a few days ' heavy rainfall to terminate the long-continued drought ... would do more to restore tranquility than any measures which either the Chinese government or foreign governments can take.
However, premiership success did not follow, and the club contested only three Grand Finals for just one premiership during this period, and endured the longest premiership drought ( 23 years ) in the club's history.
The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by Tony Shaw, had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording a 48 point victory and ending a 32 year premiership drought which included eight grand final losses and one draw.
The last year of the territorial period ( 1860 ) was one of the hardest because it was the year of the great drought.
Swithun is regarded as one of the saints to whom one should pray in the event of drought.
In 2007, the Europeans finally broke an eight-year drought in the majors when Pádraig Harrington of the Republic of Ireland defeated Sergio García by one stroke in a four-hole playoff at Carnoustie.
Most tits are multibrooded, a necessary strategy to cope with either the harsh winters in which they reside in the Holarctic or the extremely erratic conditions of tropical Africa, where typically a single pair cannot find enough food to rear even one nestling and in drought years breeding is likely to be futile.
This is one of the reasons that Malappuram district is prone to drought.
That August may have been one of the summers a drought did not occur.
In 2011, Josh became one of a handful of celebrity faces attached to USAID and Ad Council ’ s FWD campaign, an awareness push to combat the famine, war, and drought in the Horn of Africa.
Except for some contraction in the western provinces due to drought, the decade following the war was one of expansion and increasing profitability due to resource development and industrial expansion.
In the city of Kunming, the capital of subtropical Yunnan province, there is no talk of drought, since the city is right next to one of Asia's biggest freshwater lakes.
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The first encounter has to do with Elijah, whom Ahab refers to as " the troubler of Israel " ( 1 Kings 18: 17 ), in which Elijah predicts a drought ( 1 Kings 17: 1 ).
The river was, for the first time in years, overflowing its banks, heralding the end of a long drought.
Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.
Other finds consist of age groupings of young or old animals which are first to die during a drought.
It was the Wings ' first Stanley Cup since 1955, breaking the longest drought ( 42 years long ) in the league at that time.
The drought is beginning to affect urban area populations for the first time.
The playoff drought came to an end as the Flyers won their first division title in eight years and clinched the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference.
However, it may be more important to be preemptive by maintaining wide water level fluctuations ( including periods of drought ) along with infertile conditions to prevent invasion in the first place.
Damage first appears as drought stress, such as wilting and drooping.
The tunneling nature of the grubs causes the turf to feel spongy, and it is easily rolled back, since the deep roots are consumed first, exacerbating the plants ' problems with drought in hot dry weather.
In the first two decades of the 13th century, before the arrival of the Ahom, Deoris used to make a Narbali ( human sacrifice ) in terms to win the war, battle and to prevent the villagers from the evil atmosphere like floods, drought etc.
Corn was the main crop at first but drought and grasshopper plagues severely hurt the crops.
The infant town of Wickenburg went through many trials and tribulations in its first decades, surviving the Indian Wars including repeating Indian raids, outlaws, mine closures, drought, and a disastrous flood in 1890 when the Walnut Creek Dam burst, killing nearly 70 residents.
The years 1885, ' 86, ' 87, ' 88 and the first half of 1889, were boom times and growing years for early day Ulysses ; The second half of 1889 brought drought, and the boom began to fade.
During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a ' water truce ', during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his stripes.
The Boatmen's best chance to end their Grey Cup drought was in 1971, when they faced the Calgary Stampeders in the 59th Grey Cup, the first to be played on artificial turf.
The Roughriders finally ended their 11-year playoff drought in 1988 when they tied for first in the West along with Edmonton finishing with identical records of 11 – 7, and finished in second place after tiebreakers.
Due to its strong outflow, divers have had limited success penetrating this first magnitude spring until 2007, when drought conditions eased the out-flowing water allowing team divers from Karst Underwater Research to penetrate to depths of
White won the tournament, putting an end to his drought of titles by winning his first since 2004.
Nevertheless, plants grown from cuttings are more susceptible to drought during the first years after planting.
This ended a 28-tournament title drought for Capriati, and was her first tour victory since she won the 2002 Australian Open.
In the 21st century, protracted drought caused Lake Powell to drop significantly, reaching a record low of 33 % full in 2005, with 2011 being the first year of relief after eight straight years of low water.
As the leader for the Wild Card position after the season's last game, the Cleveland Indians were poised to break an even longer postseason drought, possibly appearing in the postseason for the first time since the 1954 World Series.
The government of South Korea funded the shipment of 60, 000 bottles of water from Fiji to Tuvalu as a first response to the water shortage caused by the 2011 Tuvaluan drought.
Factors most likely to inhibit the appearance of fruit bodies included prolonged drought, inadequate air and soil humidity, sudden decreases of night air temperatures, and the appearance of the first frost.
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