The murder, and the general dissolute behaviour of Andronikos and his coterie, mostly the young scions of the Empire's great aristocratic clans, resulted in a deep rift in the relations between him and his grandfather, Andronikos II Palaiologos.

A great north-south geological rift, forming the depression of Lake Tiberias ( Sea of Galilee ), the Jordan Valley, and the Dead Sea, is the dominant topographical feature.

Fractures of the Earth's surface are evident in the great geological rift that extends southward from the Jordan Valley through the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, gradually disappearing south of the lake country of East Africa.

The issues caused a great rift in the colony, and in 1678 it was confirmed by a General Assembly that the trade was to be made in public so as to better assure the safety of Indians.

The growing rift between the Lords and the Commons finally came to a point of crisis when the fruits of the great victory at the battle of Marston Moor were allowed to slip away at the disappointing second battle of Newbury.

Later reports from Daily Record however said there was an " irreparable rift " in the band, but was later denied by a source close to the band saying: " There's no bad blood in the band, they're still great pals.

This decision, however, reputedly resulted in a great rift in the Politburo, with Zhu holding moderate views, and Jiang Zemin personally alarmed by the seriousness of the situation, and in favour of a complete crackdown.

Her arrival in Spain was taken as a great insult and caused a diplomatic rift between Spain and France.

During the Early Cretaceous the location was a flood plain within a great rift valley that formed as Australia started to separate northward from Antarctica.

Phillips, who had not diversified, suffered great financial losses during this time, and a rift developed between the two men when Hamersley refused to increase Phillips book-keeping allowance.

They're nomadic people who've inhabited Kelewan before the arrival of the Tsurani and Thuril at the time of the great rift.

Despite his great powers, Chthon cannot freely teleport between dimensions because it takes such an enormous inter-dimensional rift to accommodate the massive magical forces within him.

The great schism between Eastern and Western Christianity of 1054 further intensified the rift between the coastal cities and the hinterland, with many of the Slavs in the hinterland preferring the Eastern Orthodoxy.

Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

* The Hoya de Enriquillo or Neiba Valley is a remarkable valley, with a west-east direction, of low altitude ( on average 50 m with some points below sea level ) and with a great salt lake: the Enriquillo Lake.

The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.

The first mention of Nijmegen in history is in the 1st century BC, when the Romans built a military camp on the place where Nijmegen was to appear ; the location had great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave ( and continues to give ) a good view over the Waal and Rhine valley.

The river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous civilizations formed along its valley.

It is navigable for a period of about five months of the year, when the Purus valley is inundated ; and, for the remaining seven months, only canoes can ascend it sufficiently high to communicate overland with the settlements in the great India-rubber districts of the Mayutata and lower Beni ; thus these regions are forced to seek a canoe outlet for their rich products by the very dangerous, costly and laborious route of the falls of the Madeira River.

As the great ice sheets melted, sea level rose over 4, 000 years, and the valley filled with water from the Pacific, becoming a bay.

You have had these plans of your university made by a great architect, native to our own American soil, who himself had the sense to adapt — not to copy in servile fashion — but to adapt the old Californian architecture to the new university uses, and so we have here a great institution of learning absolutely unique, even in its outward aspect, situated in this beautiful valley with the hills in the background, under this sky, with these buildings, and if this university does not turn out the right kind of citizenship and the right kind of scholarship, I shall be more than disappointed.

A more exact and more commonly used description, however, limits it to the great plateau valley in which the city of Mexico is located, between 18 ° 40 ' and 20 ° 30 ' N latitude, about long by wide, with an average elevation of 2300 meters ( 7500 feet ), and a mean temperature of 17 ° C ( 62 ° F ).

This great estuary ran through a wooded valley and is now referred to as the Solent River.

This makes a large difference between the south, where the lateral short valleys descend abruptly into the deep trench forming the valley of the Rhone and the north, where the Bernese Alps extends through a great part of the canton of Berne ( Bernese Oberland ), throwing out branches to the west into the adjoining cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.

A very remarkable meridional range extends for 100 miles northwards from the Hindu Kush ( it is across this range that the route from Zebak to Ishkashim lies ), which determines the great bend of the Oxus river northwards from Ishkashim, and narrows the valley of that river into the formation of a trough as far as the next bend westwards at Kala Wamar.

Edoras is built at the end of the valley of Harrowdale, which lies under the great mountain Starkhorn.

After a march of five months, and suffering great privations, they arrived at the Copiapo valley, where Valdivia officially took possession of the land in the name of the Spanish king.

In the early 2nd millennium BCE, during the days of Lot, the Vale of Siddim was a river valley where a great battle occurred between four Mesopotamian armies and five cities of the Jordan plain.

Sela (,, transliteration Sela ‛, meaning rock ; Arabic: as-Sala ‛; ; ) was the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea ( 2 Kings 14: 7 ).

Friar Marcos de Niza ( 1539 ) writing of the " Chichimecas ": that from time to time " they of this valley cast lots whose luck ( honour ) it shall be to be sacrificed, and they make him great cheer, on whom the lot falls, and with great joy they crown him with flowers upon a bed prepared in the said ditch all full of flowers and sweet herbs, on which they lay him along, and lay great store of dry wood on both sides of him, and set it on fire on either part, and so he dies " and " that the victim took great pleasure " in being sacrificed.

Down as far as Brig, the Rhone is a torrent ; it then becomes a great mountain river running southwest through a glacier valley.

Last but not least the railway network is of great importance, in particular the TGV-connections Paris-Geneva ( with a stop in Bellegarde-sur-Valserine ) and Paris-Lyon ( passing by the Saône valley ).

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

One need not waver in his belief in virile law enforcement to insist that there are other things in American life which are also of great importance, and to which even law enforcement must accommodate itself.

and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

At the same time that religion binds the individual helpfully to the supernatural and gives him cosmic peace and a sense of supreme fulfillment, it also has great therapeutic value for him.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

Several companies also saw possibilities in using the technique for extruding or molding vinyl products with a slight cellular core that would reduce costs yet would not affect physical properties of the end product to any great extent.

The great architect also designed the fine interior staircase and colonnade which connects the two courts.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

The executive paid tribute to research and development and technology for their great contributions in the past, but he also cautioned industry that they tend to be great equalizers because they move at a fairly even pace within an industry and fail to give it the short-term advantage which it often needs.

The Belgians also placed great emphasis on education.

Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes -- among them women's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians.

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

He had also learned a great deal about Persian customs and traditions from his teacher.

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.

It is also known as Alyeska, the " great land ", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.