Amidst fears of a Huguenot coup, the Duke of Guise and his supporters acted.

Amidst fears of a Roman Catholic succession, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 deposed James II ( James VII of Scotland ) in favour of the joint rule of Mary II and William III, whose agreement to the English Bill of Rights introduced a constitutional monarchy, though the supremacy of the Crown remained.

Amidst fears that William Hill had overpaid for the Stanley shops, the company was relegated from the FTSE 100 Index in December 2005.

Amidst fears that there might be little of the canal network left unless urgent action was taken, a number of canal enthusiasts in the East Midlands formed the Inland Waterways Protection Society on 21 April 1958.

Amidst speculation and fears of unrest, Zia went on tour to Chittagong on May 29, 1981 to help resolve an intra-party political dispute in the regional BNP.

Amidst rumors of plots and possible assassination attempts against Cerezo many also began to consider him as powerless and ineffective.

Amidst his other activities he had found time to study the agricultural characteristics of the conquered country, and under his régime the number of French colonists had grown from 17, 000 to 100, 000.

Amidst the outbreak of violence in the North-West Province that followed the election, Fru Ndi was placed under house arrest in late October 1992.

Amidst all this devastation is Hector, a Devil Forgemaster who had formerly worked under the employ of Dracula but betrayed him sometime during the events of Castlevania III.

Amidst all of the work generated by these publishing enterprises, Boydell still found time to be alderman of Cheap ward in 1782, master of the Stationers ' Company in 1783, sheriff of London in 1785, and Lord Mayor of London in 1790.

Amidst intrigue in the Afghan court, and political and civil unrest in India, he sought to divert attention from the internal divisions of Afghanistan and unite all faction behind him by attacking the British.

Amidst the devastation of the Stunde Null year of 1945 cinema attendance was unsurprisingly down to a fraction of its wartime heights, but already by the end of the decade it had reached levels that exceeded the pre-war period.

Amidst the rumors of right-wing intrigue and / or coups by the Bonapartists or Bourbons in 1874, the National Assembly set about drawing up a new constitution that would be acceptable to all parties.

Amidst constant innovation in information and communication technologies, hierarchical authority structures are giving way to greater decision-making latitude for individuals and more flexible definitions of job activities and this new style of work presents a challenge to existing organizational forms, with some research studies contrasting traditional organizational forms against groups that operate as online communities that are characterized by personal motivation and the satisfaction of making one's own decisions.

Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by his cousin Alexander Severus on 11 March 222, in a plot formulated by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.

Amidst the vogue enjoyed by existentialism and positivism in early 20th century Europe, Adorno advanced a dialectical conception of natural history that critiqued the twin temptations of ontology and empiricism through studies of Kierkegaard and Husserl.

Amidst heavy rains accompanied by hurricane-force winds in excess of 120 mph ( 190 km / h ) at initial landfall ( with a Category 5 storm surge ), the levees failed and broke.

Amidst the debacle, Lhadatt soon becomes worn out by the overbearing publicity surrounding his space mission, prompting him to stay with Riquinni for a while ; he then comes close to raping her one night while catching her undressing, causing a temporary rift between them that is later mended thanks to Riquinni's kindness.

Recognized by his contemporaries as " The Sun Amidst Small Stars " ( recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso ), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.

Amidst the craziness of the aftermath, Alan and Christy part on highly amicable terms, and Alan later discovers that the Gorgonites survived the EMP blast by hiding underneath the Fimples ' large satellite dish.

Amidst the 4th Party Conference held in April 2012, Kim Jong-un furtherly defined Juche as the comprehensive thought of Kim Il-sung, developed and deepened by Kim Jong-il, therefore terming it as " Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism ".

Amidst the tragic, and sometimes fatal, violence directed at early trade unionists, Jones uttered words still invoked by union supporters more than a century later: " Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

They are primarily influenced by Russian and Korean pop music and songs have titles like " Our Life Is Precisely a Song ", " We Shall Hold Bayonets More Firmly ", " The Joy of Bumper Harvest Overflows Amidst the Song of Mechanisation " and " The Dear General Uses Distance-Shrinking Magic < nowiki >.

" Amidst these thoughts I was forced from Cambridge by the intervening Plague, and it was more than two years before I proceeded further.

Amidst the continuous reappraisals, critical and otherwise, of the legacy and literary formation of the Objectivists, a well known mapping of the territory continues to be one put forth by poet Ron Silliman: " three-phase Objectivism ".

The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos ( 2009 ), argues the Dream was devised by British entrepreneurs who build the American economy

Amidst the invasion by the Yuuzhan Vong, anger and darkness will become the ultimate enemy of one pivotal individual in the war.

Amidst this political turmoil, in November 1897, Emperor Franz Joseph, frightened by the mass agitation of some of the most important segments of society, dismissed Badeni.

Amidst the immense surrounding desert, Yazd retains elements of its old religion, traditions, and architecture, which is recognized by UNESCO for its architectural heritage.

Amidst the Fronde, the village was pillaged by Spanish soldiers during the siege of Chauny in 1652.

In the second episode of season 14 ( entitled " Amidst the Wolves ") Fabbri dies in the explosion of a car during a trap prepared by a Mafia boss.

Amidst the technical changes, WBZ also began engaging in network activities ; by 1925 it often shared programs with WJZ in New York City ( which Westinghouse had also started in 1921, but sold to the Radio Corporation of America two years later ), and a WBZ special commemorating the 150th anniversary of Paul Revere's " Midnight Ride " was also fed to WRC in Washington, D. C. and WGY in Schenectady, New York.

Amidst the flurry of publicity during this period, Cromwell toured the country, even meeting President Herbert Hoover in Washington, D. C.

Amidst these intrigues, the Assembly continued to work on developing a constitution.

Amidst general expectations on the part of the Protestants he met his first Diet of Augsburg in March 1566.

Amidst the tension, Lin Biao issued what appeared to be an executive order to prepare for war to the PLA's eleven Military Regions on October 18 without passing through Mao.

Amidst an internal power struggle which resulted in the queen's exile, the Viceroy of Zhili, Li Hongzhang, sent the 3, 000 strong Qing Brigade into Korea to impose Chinese will on the country.

Amidst a mix of economic, internal and external politics, the Abingdon factory was shut down on 24 October 1980 as part of the drastic programme of cutbacks necessary to turn BL around after the turbulent times of the 1970s.

Amidst an increasingly tense and poisonous atmosphere on the Shankill Adair decided to host a " Loyalist Day of Culture " on the Shankill on Saturday 19 August 2000, which saw around a dozen new murals officially unveiled in his lower Shankill stronghold.

Amidst growing pressure in the United States to investigate the Temple, on February 19, 1978, Harvey Milk wrote a letter of support for the Peoples Temple to President Jimmy Carter.

Amidst the gas crisis of early 2009, discussions started of a new liquified natural gas terminal on, possibly on the northwestern shore of Lake Varna at Ezerovo.

Amidst an increasing number of violent incidents on campuses, Islamists killed one student.

Amidst this growth, Vera King Farris was named third President of the College on May 25, 1983.

Amidst the 2011 – 2012 Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis, the office was disputed between Peter O ’ Neill of the People's National Congress Party and Sir Michael Somare ; the latter supported O ' Neill as Prime Minister on 3 August 2012, thus the constitutional crisis came to an end.

Amidst criticism from a number of student unions and politicians, on December 16, 2010, Toronto ’ s city council voted to request an apology from Maclean ’ s magazine as the third Canadian city to do so after Victoria and Vancouver.

Amidst the internal turmoil, " Don't Look Back into the Sun " was released on 18 August and charted at No. 11, the highest position they had managed at that point.

" Amidst promoting Commencement Deadsy had already begun working on a follow-up album.

Amidst the scandal, Scott stepped down as premier on October 16, 1916.

Amidst the 2011 Egyptian protests, President Hosni Mubarak reportedly went to Sharm el-Sheikh and resigned there on 11 February 2011.

One of the new pontiff's first official acts was the promulgation of the motu proprio, Tra le sollecitudini (" Amidst the Cares "), which appeared, appropriately enough, on St Cecilia's Day, 22 November 1903.

Amidst the antique-style capital letter, the T in Thomas and the second U in Paulus are formed in the style characteristic of the Latin letters used on Byzantine coins, a practice abandoned in the middle of the eleventh century.

Amidst maintaining political stability, Premier Zhu Rongji kept things on track in the difficult years of the late 1990s, maintaining mainland China's averaged growth at 9. 7 % a year over the two decades to 2000.

Amidst these survivors, a boy named Conan is born on October 2010, bringing a new ray of hope to the earth.