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After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.
But these new arrivals followed the indigenous Cubans by also dispersing into the wilderness or suffering a similar fate at the hands of disease.
Paul's twin young children, Leto II and Ghanima, sharing his prescience, have concluded that their guardian Alia has succumbed to possession by one of her ancestors and fear that a similar fate awaits them.
A similar fate was met from other publishers ( including T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber ) until Jonathan Cape agreed to take it.
All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers, and the vast majority of the first Muslims west of Iran and Arabia were converts from Christianity ... Their loss was sorely felt and it heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe .</ BLOCKQUOTE >
Proposals to move to Charing Cross or St James's Park had a similar fate ; the allure of tradition and the historical and political associations of Westminster proved too strong for relocation, despite the deficiencies of that site.
Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.
On his death, the bust of Urban that lay beside the Palace of the Conservators on the Capitoline Hill was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of Urban belonging to the Jesuits from a similar fate.
Memnon, who was killed by Achilles, seems to have a received a similar fate.
However, according to rabbinical accounts, Necho did not know how the mechanism worked and so accidentally struck himself with one of the lions causing him to become lame ; Nebuchadnezzar, into whose possession the throne subsequently came, shared a similar fate.
Given the recent lynching of Roy Belton, a white man, they believed that Rowland was greatly at risk of meeting a similar fate.
After the arrest and imprisonment of Sisulu, Mandela and his father — and facing a similar fate — he left South Africa as one of a number of young ANC militants ( Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres ) sent abroad to continue their education and their anti-apartheid activities.
Nastagio then invites his kinfolk and the lady he loves to a banquet at this same place, so the ghost woman is torn to pieces before the eyes of his beloved, who, fearing a similar fate, accepts Nastagio as her husband.
It was not only Britain's position on the world stage that was threatened: Napoleon threatened invasion of Britain itself, and with it, a fate similar to the countries of continental Europe that his armies had overrun.
Zhang's work was similar to Ban's, although the latter fully praised the contemporaneous Eastern Han regime while Zhang provided a warning that it could suffer the same fate as the Western Han if it too declined into a state of decadence and moral depravity.
Russia also had a similar fate, since World War I led to a collapse in morale as well as to economic chaos.
The attempt to secure these thrones for the Hohenzollerns through this marriage failed, and a similar fate befell Albert's efforts to revive in his own favour the disused title of duke of Franconia.
The Dwarven city of Stoneheim entombed itself rather than face a similar fate.
* A similar fate befell jarl Hákon Sigurðarson in 10th century Norway ; according to Snorri Sturluson, after his death, " So great was the enmity of the Throndhjem people against Earl Hakon, that no man could venture to call him by any other name than " the evil earl "; and he was so called long after those days.
Next to the Duomo were the Civic Tower ( existing at least from 1330 and enlarged in 1583 by Pellegrino Tibaldi ): its fall on March 17, 1989, was the final motivating force that started the last decade's efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a similar fate.
After Kamenev's execution, his relatives suffered a similar fate.
Over 300 buildings were destroyed, many other towns and villages around the county suffered a similar fate including Fermoy.
A similar fate met the relation between the ports of Manhattan and New Jersey.
I pardon those who are the cause of my misfortunes ....” He declared himself willing to die and prayed that the people of France would be spared a similar fate.
Other sectors of the economy wanted to avoid a similar fate.

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For years in a manner similar to what befell the Roman provinces under the Germans or the Irish under the Normans, the chieftains and their war bands ravaged the western half of Asia Minor, as allies of one or other of the warring princes, without any serious check, until they sided with the renegade Seleucid prince Antiochus Hierax, who reigned in Asia Minor.
Columbia were very skeptical on the risk the extended set posed, and with a decrease in royalties to counter that fear ( a similar situation befell their 1969 debut The Chicago Transit Authority ), Chicago released Chicago at Carnegie Hall that October to a mixed reaction.
A similar fate befell several other ladies ' teams at around the same time.
If the conclusions suggested under Sabini may be accepted as sound we should expect to find the Volsci speaking a language similar to that of the Ligures, whose fondness for the suffix-sco-has been noticed, and identical with that spoken by the plebeians of Rome, and that this branch of Indo-European was among those that preserved the original Indo-European Velars from the labialization that befell them in the speech of the Samnites, The language of the inscription of Velitrae offers at first sight a difficulty from this point of view, in the conversion it shows of q to p, but the ethnicon of Velitrae is Veliternus, and the people are called on the inscription itself Velestrom ( genitive plural ); so nothing prevents assuming there was a settlement of Sabines among the Volscian hills, with their language, to some extent, ( e. g., in the diphthongs and palatals ) corrupted by the speech around them, just as was the case with the Sabine language of the Iguvini, whose very name became Iguvinates, the suffix-ti-being much more frequent among the-co-tribes than among the Sabines.
When the Winston Cup Series made their first appearance of the season, a similar fate befell 1998 Rookie of the Year Kenny Irwin, Jr. For safety reasons, track owners decided to run restrictor plates on the cars during their return trip to the speedway in September 2000, making it the first track in recent history outside of Daytona and Talladega to use them.
Coin clipping was usually considered by the law to be of a similar magnitude to counterfeiting, and was occasionally punished by death, a fate which befell Thomas Rogers and Anne Rogers.
A similar fate befell Ellinis in 1973, when she was taken off the declining UK-Australia liner service and reassigned for cruising on European waters.
" The One felt the new historical and science-fiction themes an attempt to avoid similar controversy as befell Cannon Fodder.

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The Branco flows nearly south, and finds its way into the Negro through several channels and a chain of lagoons similar to those of the latter river.
They would begin to substantially increase both the numbers and the training standards of the cavalry in their employ, just as nearly a thousand years earlier the first Iranians to reach the Iranian Plateau forced the Assyrians to a similar reform.
This was followed nearly two decades later by a fifth film called Superman Returns with Brandon Routh giving a performance very similar to Reeve's.
When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.
For some scholars, a dictatorship is a form of government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed ( similar to authoritarianism ), while totalitarianism describes a state that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior of the people.
Dictator has also developed nearly similar pejorative connotations, though despot and tyrant tend to stress cruelty and even enjoyment therefrom, while dictator tends to imply more harshness or unfair implementation of law.
The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).
This left the early universe with a very similar ratio of hydrogen / helium as is observed today ( 3 parts hydrogen to 1 part helium-4 by mass ), with nearly all the neutrons in the universe trapped in helium-4.
A hash function that is used to search for similar ( as opposed to equivalent ) data must be as continuous as possible ; two inputs that differ by a little should be mapped to equal or nearly equal hash values.
Very rarely seen is the Tsumi-Goromo which is similar to Budo-Goromo, but the hi pattern is such a dark burgundy that it appears nearly black.
Painters and sculptors strive " through by different skills, at the same goal, namely that as nearly as possible the work they have undertaken shall appear to the observer to be similar to the real objects of nature.
The planet received its name because of its remarkable similarity to Earth ; its day is nearly 24 hours long and its surface gravity is a comfortable 1. 08 g. Oceans, mean global temperature, seasons, and moon ( Home's moon is called Metaluna, but is often referred to as " the Moon " by Homers ) are also similar.
However, there is substantial evidence that the meteorite known as Valera hit and killed a cow upon impact, nearly dividing the animal in two, and similar unsubstantiated reports of a horse being struck and killed by a stone of the New Concord fall also abound.
Sun Microsystems attempted to enjoy similar success by licensing their SPARC core but was not nearly as successful.
For a long time chemists searched for eka-tantalum as an element with similar chemical properties as tantalum, making a discovery of protactinium nearly impossible.
Unlike many foods, potatoes can also be easily cooked in a microwave oven and still retain nearly all of their nutritional value, provided they are covered in ventilated plastic wrap to prevent moisture from escaping ; this method produces a meal very similar to a steamed potato, while retaining the appearance of a conventionally baked potato.
Extremely minor chemical changes such as the addition of a single methyl group to a binding partner can sometimes suffice to nearly eliminate binding ; for example, the aminoacyl tRNA synthetase specific to the amino acid valine discriminates against the very similar side chain of the amino acid isoleucine.
It is now nearly fifty years since I first projected a system of verbal classification similar to that on which the present work is founded.
If a modern ' flügelhorn ' bell has a flare similar to the one shown on the larger saxhorn pictured here, then it may indeed be a soprano saxhorn, but if the conical bell is nearly the diameter of the bell rim until just before a small final flare, then it is a true flügelhorn.
The oxygen consumed by the diver is replaced, nearly always by adding gas from a cylinder, and carbon dioxide exhaled by the diver is chemically removed by passing the gas through a " scrubber " — a canister full of soda lime or similar reagent.
Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama, but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a dead consonant ( a consonant without a vowel ).
Brown's nearly six-year tenure attracted the most controversy, thanks to her high profile ( a marked contrast to that of the retiring Shawn ) and the changes which she made to a magazine that had retained a similar look and feel for the previous half century.
The Sultanate's government has been pursuing economic diversification and privatisation policies for nearly a decade, having signed similar agreement with thirty of its other trading partners.
All members of the group are moving in nearly the same direction with similar space velocities.
The Rede is similar to the Golden Rule, a belief that is found in nearly every religion.

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