Political theoretical understanding, although almost at a standstill during this century, did develop during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and resulted in a flood of inventions which increased the possibility for man to coexist with man.

Why did they engage in a flood of mea culpas, throw a few scapegoats to the dogs and promise to be good boys thereafter, expressing their complete confidence in the laws ''??

By warning that free blacks would flood the North, Democrats made gains in the 1862 elections, but they did not gain control of Congress.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

The great flood of the main Nile usually occurred in Egypt during August, September, and October, but it sometimes began as early as June at Aswan and often did not completely wane until January.

Agassiz believed that the writers of the bible only knew of local events, for example Noah's flood was a local event only known to the regions that were populated by ancient Hebrews, Agassiz claimed the writers of the bible did not know about any events other than what was going on in their own region and their intermediate neighbors.

As a result, both critics and fans felt it did little to distance itself from the recent flood of similar games.

Kissinger said that, at that time, he did not appreciate how the flood of words used to justify the various demands obscured rather than illuminated the fundamental positions.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.

The flood prevented the Japanese army from taking the city of Zhengzhou, but did not stop them from reaching their goal of capturing Wuhan, the temporary capital of China at the time.

It never did flood, but the American had its banner headline.

The sons of Noah have not been mentioned in the Qur ' an, except for the fact that one of the sons was among the people who did not follow his own father, not among the believers and thus was washed away in the flood.

This did not prevent flooding during the 2005 festival, but allowed the flood water to dissipate within hours.

He opened the flood barriers of the river, but the resulting flood did not stop Eumenes.

The Sumerian word KUR in line 140 of the Gilgamesh flood myth was interpreted to mean " mountain " in Akkadian, although in Sumerian, KUR did not mean " mountain " but rather " land ", especially a foreign country.

* 1682 A very violent storm of rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, caused a sudden flood, which did great damage to the town of Brentford.

A comment in Grey's Polynesian Mythology may have given the Māori something they did not have before — as A. W Reed put it, " In Polynesian Mythology Grey said that when Tāwhaki's ancestors released the floods of heaven, the earth was overwhelmed and all human beings perished — thus providing the Māori with his own version of the universal flood " ( Reed 1963: 165, in a footnote ).

Not until February 5 did waters finally fall below flood stage for the first time in three weeks.

The North Sea flood of 1953 did not have as much of a destructive effect on Dirksland as the rest of the island, because Dirksland is somewhat higher.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 did much damage to the entire Delta, but Yazoo City was restored and is now protected by an effective flood prevention system.

While escaping the worst flooding, due to its elevated perch above the Raritan River, South Bound Brook did experience flood waters in the two-to three-foot range near the canal, including in portions of the downtown area along Main Street.

Most towns the size of Cullowhee have a downtown, shopping area / district, and grocery store, but Cullowhee really doesn't have any of that, as what it did have as a downtown area was washed away by the flood of 1940.

The flood fill algorithm takes three parameters: a start node, a target color, and a replacement color.

In the possibly mythical pre-dynastic period, the Sumerian king list portrays the passage of power from Eridu to Shuruppak in the south, until a flood occurred, from where it relocated to the northern city of Kish at the start of the Early Dynastic period.

* The ‘ Duncansby Race ’ forms off Ness of Duncansby at the start of the SE-going tidal stream ( flood ).

Ovid, however, dated the start of the ( mythikón ) period to the reign of Inachus, who he dated 400 or so years after the flood of Ogyges, meaning around 1900 – 1700 BC, but agreed with Varro that the mythikón ended during the first Olympiad ( 776 BC ).

The race is rowed upstream, but is timed to start on the incoming flood tide so that the crews are rowing with the fastest possible current.

It has been landscaped, to incorporate flood defence works, and is now the start and finish point of the Wales Coast Path.

Later, at the start of the 20th century, more dams were constructed to provide for flood control and hydroelectricity.

The worm was programmed to start a SYN flood on August 15, 2003 against port 80 of windowsupdate. com, thereby creating a distributed denial of service attack ( DDoS ) against the site.

Buildings were subsequently erected on these allotments, but their residents endured a gruelling start to their occupancy when a flood struck Canberra in February 1925.

The only resultant delay to litigation permissible for this excuse was enough time for word to be sent to the person and for them to return to England (" forty days and one ebb and one flood " being a conventional formula ), and the excuse could only be invoked once, at the start of litigation.

After the Los Angeles River flood of 1914 the City of Los Angeles decided to start a project to create a series of small dams along the Los Angeles River and it's tributaries.

Every spring, with the start of the flood, heavily loaded barges were sent from the wharf in the upper Chusovaya to Perm.

In 1956, the construction was hindered by an earthquake and a flood, and in October by the start of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Wild rice is thought to be a preferred food at the start of the flood season, while a larger proportion of swamp grasses are consumed when the waters recede.

The trickle became a flood as 1986 approached, and by the start of that year it had become a continental phenomenon, reaching Central America, Mexico, and crossing the Atlantic to Spain, even as far Italy, France, and Germany.

T. J. has recently started New World Flood, a non-profit organization that goes into schools and teaches kids how they can start a flood of community service and kind acts in their school, town, city, and world.

However, the Terrakors have a head start, and stage a flash flood to wash the Protectons away.

God wants to order up another flood and start all over again ( despite his promise in the rainbow that he never would again ), but the angels persuade God to reconsider, reasoning that if a typical Earth man can reform, it would prove that all mankind is capable of it.

Shortly after, another flood struck Kuala Lumpur and the club three days after the start of 1971.

About 5. 33 million years ago, at the start of the Zanclean age ( at the start of the Pliocene epoch ), the barrier at the Strait of Gibraltar broke one last time, re-flooding the Mediterranean basin in the Zanclean flood ; the basin has not desiccated since.

Lozi culture is strongly influenced by the flood cycle of the Zambezi river, with annual migrations taking place from the flood plain to higher ground at the start of the wet season.

The dam was controversial from the start because it would block fish migration and its reservoir would flood a large portion of the winter range of elk in the Clearwater River basin.