With these lessons in mind, Alfred capitalised on the relatively peaceful years immediately following his victory at Ethandrun by focusing on an ambitious restructuring of his kingdom's military defences.

The years from 346 through 356 were a relatively peaceful period for Athanasius, and some of his most important writings were composed during this period.

South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event ; as a result, Brazil hasn't had its territory invaded since year 1865 during the Paraguayan War.

The Utah Mormon War ensued from 1857 to 1858, which resulted in the relatively peaceful

The Utah Mormon War ensued from 1857 to 1858, which resulted in the relatively peaceful invasion of Utah by the United States Army, after which Young agreed to step down from power and be replaced by a non-Mormon territorial governor, Alfred Cumming.

For the remainder of Domitian's reign Dacia remained a relatively peaceful client kingdom, but Decebalus used the Roman money to fortify his defences.

The release of version 2. x in 2005 changed the game significantly, new tweaked rules favoured large cities with full trade routes as well as wars with more advanced technologies, necessitating a distinct phase of rapturing which required relatively peaceful conditions ; so games were almost always played in teams and typically took longer to finish compared to 1. x games.

Despite growing unrest and severe economic strains, the 1932 presidential elections in Honduras were relatively peaceful and fair.

The rest of his Henry VII's reign was relatively peaceful, despite worries concerning succession after the death of his wife Elizabeth of York in 1503.

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858, in which the most notable instance of violence was the Mountain Meadows massacre, when leaders of a local Mormon militia ordered the killing of a civilian emigrant party that was traveling through Utah during the escalating tensions.

This led to relatively peaceful co-existence and prosperity until the breakup of the federation.

Conditions in Prague and the rest of the Czech lands were relatively peaceful under Heydrich, and industrial output increased.

British rule came to an end in 1961 after a relatively peaceful ( compared with neighbouring Kenya, for instance ) transition to independence.

After lengthy wars, the Sumerians recognized the benefits of unification into a stable form of national government and became a relatively peaceful, well-organized, complex technocratic state called the 3rd dynasty of Ur.

Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.

This, in turn, attracted nobles and their servants who sought to settle in the relatively secure and peaceful Moscow lands.

While some of these missions were associated with imperialism and oppression, others ( notably Matteo Ricci's Jesuit mission to China ) were relatively peaceful and focused on integration rather than cultural imperialism.

Nevertheless, his reign was a relatively peaceful one.

The Denian dominion lasted until 1087, a period during which the city, as well as the rest of the islands, was relatively peaceful.

The first few years of his kingship were relatively peaceful, but soon King Mithridates VI of Pontus ( the maternal grand-uncle of Nicomedes IV ), one of Rome's greatest enemies during the late Republic, began harassing Bithynia's borders.

The years that followed were relatively peaceful, though Bithynia came more and more under the control of Rome.

Quintilian had also survived under several emperors ; the reigns of Vespasian and Titus were relatively peaceful, but Domitian was reputed to be difficult even at the best of times.

For centuries they lived in relatively peaceful co-existence with their western neighbors the Scythians.

The castle of Stegeborg was begun around 1220 in timber, then rebuilt in brick by 1245, despite this being a relatively peaceful period.

A rich nation can for a time, without noticeable damage to itself, pursue a course of self-indulgence, making its single goal the material ease and comfort of its own citizens -- thus repudiating its own spiritual and material stake in a peaceful and prosperous society of nations.

Cotton field, Usulután DepartmentThe ultimate goal was to develop a rural middle class with a stake in a peaceful and prosperous future for El Salvador.

U. S. policy objectives toward Nepal center on helping Nepal build a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic society.

Nichiren Buddhists believe that the spread of Nichiren's teachings and their effect on practitioners ' lives will eventually bring about a peaceful, just, and prosperous society.

Seeking to restore the glory of Ancient Rome, he ruled Italy in its most peaceful and prosperous period since Valentinian, until his death in 526.

The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women.

Then the local Hafsid dynasty ( 1227-1574 ) of Tunis followed, ruling for many centuries during times both prosperous and lean, contested and peaceful.

It was the most peaceful and prosperous part of the reign of Louis XV, despite some unrest caused by the Parlements and the Jansenists.

This unification had been achieved by a brutal war that was to last some twenty-eight years with many casualties, but when it ceased, calm returned, and the reign of the next pharaoh, Mentuhotep III, was peaceful, and Egypt once again became prosperous.

The 19th century was more peaceful and prosperous.

May it be peaceful, prosperous, and all in all a perfect year for all of you.

His election proved a turning-point in the history of the country, which, under his beneficent and tactful guidance, became peaceful and prosperous and, in some respects, a model state.

When the Duke of Zhou stepped down as regent, the remainder of Cheng's reign ( 1042 – 1021 BCE ) and that of his son King Kang of Zhou ( 1021 – 996 BCE ) seem to have been peaceful and prosperous.

Ghaffar Khan was born into a generally peaceful and prosperous family from Utmanzai in the Peshawar Valley of British India.

# An obstruction to the consent of the Arabs to the peaceful and prosperous settlement in Palestine of hundreds of thousands of suffering European Jews, the victims of Nazi atrocities ; and provocative of Moslem antagonism within and beyond the Empire, and consequently a danger to its integrity and safety.

Later Toungoo kings instituted several key administrative and economic reforms that gave rise to a smaller, peaceful and prosperous kingdom in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

He is said to have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous reign.

This greatly increased his resources ( not to mention his prestige ), and the remaining years of his rule were far more peaceful and prosperous.

Despite a generally peaceful and prosperous administration, he was blamed for the fall of Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, and was recalled in 1746, returning to France to following year.

These temple renovations included the casting a great bronze bell, with inscriptions that read " May the state be peaceful and prosperous " ( 国家安康 kokka ankō ), and " May noble lord and servants be rich and cheerful " ( 君臣豊楽 kunshin hōraku ).

The party's vision is to establish a peaceful and prosperous social democracy that can unite its disparate races and diverse religions and cultures based on a Malaysian Malaysia concept of forging a Malaysian race grounded on universal moral values, offering equal access and opportunity, upholding democratic governance and the rule of law, creating wealth and distributing it equitably and fighting corruption.

It seeks to promote an agenda of regional cooperation and integration based on shared values and common interest in a free, prosperous and peaceful future.

At the height of their historic culture, the Mandan were prosperous and peaceful farmers and traders, noted for their excellent maize cultivation and crafting of Knife River flint.

Achaea was among the most prosperous and peaceful parts of the Roman world until Late Antiquity, when it first suffered from barbarian invasions.