Amid all the controversy, he steadily pursued his studies.

Amid the disturbances consequent upon the death of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), it took the combined pressures of all the ambassadors to induce Cesare Borgia to withdraw from Rome, so that an unpressured conclave might take place.

Amid all this, Mao's personality cult reached enormous heights.

Amid all this pressure and confusion I could not forego seeing Frederica once more.

Amid violence and dangers, a chronic lack of manpower afforded opportunities for the intrepid, and the Marcher Lords encouraged immigration from all the Norman-Angevin realms, and encouraged trade from their " fair haven " ports like Cardiff.

Amid all these contests the wise and statesmanlike moderation of the Grand Duke Frederick won him universal esteem.

Amid all that horror, death, and destruction, time is taken to punish one man.

Amid strong public rejection of the entire political class, characterized by the pithy slogan que se vayan todos (" away with them all "), Duhalde brought elections forward by six months.

Amid all the squalor which they depict, they are full of individual beauties in the delicate or touching expression of a face, in the graceful turn of a limb.

When, on 10 January 503, the city of Amid ( modern Diyarbakır ) was captured by the Persians after a three months ' siege and all its citizens put to the sword or carried captive, a panic seized the whole district, and the Christian inhabitants of many neighbouring cities planned to leave their homes and flee to the west of the Euphrates.

Amid all the claims and counter-claims, the publicity-shy Murphy soon stopped cooperating with investigators.

Amid heightened tensions, USIP experts focused on improving cultural awareness, citizenship skills, and training Sudanese on electoral violence triggers – all critical steps to ensure that the polls did not turn violent.

Amid all the themes, the one that became the rallying cry for FSP reform was " EPR "— eliminate the purchase requirement — because of the barrier to participation the purchase requirement represented.

Amid all the confusion of the status of parliaments and prime ministerial titles, the ambiguous combination of monarchism and republicanism in Cosgrave's office was accepted by both political theories.

Amid all the other indicators of approaching conflict, it seems that the message was never sent, or at least never recorded at any higher level in the US command structure.

Amid the carnage, Lieutenant Colonel Albert Caro, Major Ben Hearman and Lieutenant Colonel Cooper all protested to Dougherty that his tactics were at fault.

Amid speculation that Tottenham Hotspur would sign the player, Parker handed West Ham co-owner David Gold a hand written transfer request, saying " I have had a fantastic four years at West Ham United and will never forget all the support I have had from the fans and everyone associated with the club.

Amid fears of nuclear proliferation, these were all certified as transferred to Russia by 1996.

Amid all the vicissitudes of his early manhood Botta had never allowed his pen to be long idle, and in the political quiet that followed 1816 he naturally devoted himself more exclusively to literature.

Amid these events, Soviet forces initiate Operation: Surma, planning to flood Infernac to destroy the " primal core " in a massive explosion which will wipe out all Inhumanoids ; however, the Soviets fail to realize that their plan will likely tear the planet itself asunder in the process.

Amid all the turmoil, Kim Chizevsky won her fourth consecutive title.

Amid all this acrimony, the Cross was removed secretly in the night.

Amid considerable infighting in the federal Liberal party in 2004, all incumbent MPs would no longer have their nominations guaranteed.

Amid political crisis of December 2001, Toma was appointed Minister of Justice, Interior, Defense and Human Rights, holding all roles concurrently for just 48 hours.

Amid 70 % public support, the Legislative Yuan voted 217-1 on August 23, 2004 for a package of amendments to:

Amid reports of mixed public response, Ronstadt continued in her praise of Moore and his film throughout her 2004 and 2006 summer concerts across North America.

Amid much public outcry, the old station building ( including the Euston Arch ) was demolished in 1961-2 and replaced by a new building.

Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011.

Amid great public interest, the Test series began at Sydney ; in reply to Australia's first innings of 450, Hobbs and Sutcliffe opened with 157 runs.

Amid huge public interest and excitement, Hobbs and Sutcliffe shared an opening stand of 53 on the first day, but after both sides had batted once, the match was evenly balanced at the end of the second day.

Amid public outrage and nationwide rallies, the Italian president of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro refused to sign the decree, deeming it unconstitutional.

Amid high tension and widespread public demonstrations, foreign governments and international organisations appealed to both sides to exercise restraint and resolve their differences peacefully.

Amid great public interest for the deciding fifth Test, Hutton lost his fifth successive toss but replying to Australia's first innings of 275, England established a narrow first-innings lead.

Amid 70 % public support, the Legislative Yuan voted 217-1 on August 23, 2004 for a package of amendments to:

Amid growing public furor, Scheele took action.

Amid widespread public condemnation, Jang apologized to his fans, then began to serve his two-year term.

Amid public controversy, Greenpeace issued an independent safety appraisal by the nuclear engineering consultancy Large Associates, but the permit to restart operation was given in August 2001.

Amid public outcry, Czarist and Soviet records of wolf attacks on both livestock and people were ignored and wolf hunts decreased in number, allowing wolves to multiply.

Amid a major public outcry, Becker was transferred to the Bronx and assigned to desk duty.

Amid scenes of doubt, passion, and fear, and with letters exchanged and meetings in public places, the female narrator tries to escape her husband's watchful and jealous eye, but at the end of the book the husband locks her up in a country residence ( the château of Cabasus ) and Hélisenne decides to write and circulate her story in the hope it will come into the hands of her lover.

In the UK it was reissued as Christmas Edit: Amarantine with a second disc containing the four new Christmas songs previously issued on Sounds of the Season ( the original album already had " Amid the Falling Snow " while " Oíche Chiúin " is a recording dating back to 1988, which had already been featured on numerous collections ).

Amid such questions about the poll's legitimacy, Balaguer agreed to hold new elections in 1996 — in which he would not be a candidate.

Amid the first talk of the Spanish government investigating the ties of Herri Batasuna with ETA, in 1998 Herri Batasuna was the driving force of the newly formed Euskal Herritarrok ( We Basque Citizens ) coalition, an acronym which got the best results to date for Basque left separatism in the Basque community, with 224, 000 votes out of a total of 1, 250, 000 in the Basque election held that year.

Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposal in 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims.

Amid their clash of views Mary developed a fever, which at last prompted her father, in his love for her, to set aside his stern beliefs.

Amid this tension, the event which touched off the massacre involved a young Piegan Blackfoot, Owl Child, who in 1867 stole some horses from Malcolm Clarke, a white trader, as payment for his own horses, whose loss he blamed on Clarke.

Amid the manuscripts, which were mainly drafts of works that had already been published, an unedited journal was found which encompassed his life after 1972 ( the year in which his Notebooks end ).

Amid squabbles with Chart Thai leader Banharn Silpa-archa, Sanoh then defected to the New Aspiration Party, which won the 1996 elections.

Amid the negative publicity that followed, Barbara Walters dubbed Lorenzo " probably the most hated man in America " in a 1989 interview, which he denied, blaming the unions for the bad press.

:" Amid this desolation, the inhabitants of Jarlshof had contrived, by constant labour and attention, to keep in order a few roods of land, which had been enclosed as a garden, and which, sheltered by the walls of the house itself, from the relentless sea-blast, produced such vegetables as the climate could bring forth, or rather as the sea-gale would permit to grow ; for these islands experience even less of the rigour of cold than is encountered on the mainland of Scotland ; but, unsheltered by a wall of some sort of other, it is scarce possible to raise even the most ordinary culinary vegetables ; and as for shrubs or trees, they are entirely out of the question, such is the force of the sweeping sea-blast.

After the massacres of Tamerlane around 1400 had devastated several bishoprics, the Church of the East, which had previously extended as far as China, was reduced to a handful of Mesopotamian Aramaic Language speaking ethnic Assyrian survivors who lived largely in the triangular area of Northern Mesopotamia between Amid ( Diyarbakır ), Salmas and Mosul.

Amid other indicators that something terrible has happened to the colony, the team also finds the lab in which Dr. Noonien Soong, a formerly prominent robotics designer, built Data.

In later Turkish usage, " Diyar Bakr " referred to the western portion of the former province, around Amid ( which hence became known as Diyarbakır in Turkish ).

Amid the varied and culturally rich atmosphere of Bengal, Halhed was inspired to write several humorous verses and poems one of which, A Lady's Farewell to Calcutta, was an eloquently expressed lament for those who regretted staying in the mofussil.

Amid the growing poverty and peasant resistance, which was brutally crushed, he also wrote commentaries on these aspects of Soviet life.

Amid grounds of comfort that either he or his friends advanced, and a state of despair that grew more and more hopeless, there began a terrible struggle within himself, which so affected him physically that he was taken to Padua to be treated by physicians.

Amid the constitutional reforms of 2007 CANU had resisted the standardization of the Montenegrin language supporting the interpretation according to which Montenegrin is a dialect of the Serbian language.

Amid the controversy generated by publication of The Bell Curve in 1994, Humphreys wrote a target article ( Humphreys, 1994 ), which stimulated a series of comments by a number of prominent scholars in the field.

* " ART REVIEW ; Amid the Ashes, Creativity " A New York Times Article reviewing work that appeared in the EXIT ART show " Reactions " which featured original work by World War 3 Illustrated artists.