Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

Major battles followed in quick order, and when Austria switched sides to oppose Napoleon his situation grew tenuous.

Despite the political situation, the economy of Albania grew at an estimated 5 % in 2007.

As Germany ’ s military and economic situation grew steadily worse during 1944, Goebbels renewed his push, in alliance with Speer, to wrest control of the home front away from Göring.

The U. S. media grew increasingly unfavorable in its reporting on the situation in Nicaragua.

The economic situation of the colony declined following the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1861-1862, and pressure grew for amalgamation of the colony with the mainland colony of British Columbia ( which had been established in 1858 ).

It grew increasingly important in conveying political opinions and the political situation to the Parisian public, and can thus be seen as a crucial link between the rise of the liberals and the increasingly agitated and economically suffering French masses.

On 31 May, the Germans nearly punched through at Nieuport, and the situation grew so desperate that two British battalion commanders had to personally man a Bren gun, with one Colonel firing and the other loading.

As the Cultural Revolution spun out of control, and grew past Mao's original intentions, Mao's ability to control the situation, and in turn, his authority, dwindled.

In the 1960s as situation comedies and dramas on television using child actors became more popular, actors Paul Peterson and Shelley Fabares from The Donna Reed Show, Sally Field of Gidget, Jon Provost of Lassie, Jay North from Dennis the Menace, Sajid Khan of Maya, and Keith and Kevin Schultz known as the " Schultz Twins " on The Monroes all became younger preteen idols and grew into being teen idols.

Several people were accused of the murder including his own wife after she admitted an affair with one of the accused, but after intense trails and no hard evidence the case was dropped, and no one ever admitted as the murderer. In later years the murder was almost forgotten asides memory from a handful of senior citizens, until Joe Towne one of the community leaders, grew interested in the subject and studied it and interviewed those who remembered the tragic situation and wrote it into a true story novel " Tongues on Fire ".

Thanks to its strategic situation the town grew from the beginning of the 17th century to be the homeport for the Dutch war fleet.

The Mitford sisters and their brother grew up in an aristocratic country house with emotionally distant parents, as well as a large household with numerous servants ; this family situation was not unusual for its time.

However the situation grew tense ; Butler recalled, " She'd turn up late for rehearsals and say the worst thing in the world-' I've been on a Blur video shoot.

As the military situation deteriorated following the loss of Minorca, the government grew increasingly weak until it was forced to resign in Autumn 1756.

The situation grew complex after Barmen.

This sentiment grew in strength as the Cold War seemed to present the situation of an unending series of conflicts, which were fought at terrible cost to the younger generations.

Out of resentment from this situation grew radical and socialist political clubs and newspapers.

It is nevertheless likely that his action grew out of genuine concern with the northern situation, and was a desperate attempt to make the best out of a difficult situation.

Another powerful factor in the heat wave was that a temperature inversion grew over the city, and air stagnated in this situation.

In an usual situation, Galatea offered Priss the chance to return to Earth by allowing her to " join " ( exactly how it was never specified ) together ; Priss ' hard-suit grew wings and safely crash-landed back on Earth.

The situation in Tombstone soon grew worse when Virgil Earp was ambushed and permanently injured in December 1881.

In 2002, Alcor drew considerable attention when baseball star Ted Williams was placed in cryonic suspension ; although Alcor maintains privacy of its patients if they wish and did not disclose that Williams was at the Scottsdale facility, the situation came to light in court documents that grew out of an extended family dispute over Williams ' wishes in regard to his remains.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

He was referring not only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory schools.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

But this situation of Kent House was more subtle.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

Action taken today is often far more valuable than action taken several months later in response to a situation then out of control.

Here there is a specific preventive component which applies in a more generalized sense to any casework situation.

A more tenable explanation for the change in reactions is that the added knowledge and increased familiarity with the total situation made it possible for these subjects to be less guarded and to relax, since any reaction seemed acceptable to the examiner as `` normal ''.

Thus, this readiness to relax controls, evidenced in the Kohnstamm situation, appears to be a more general personality factor.

He becomes more callous, the population becomes more hostile, the situation grows more tense, and the police force is increased.

There are two more Sunday afternoons when the situation will arise.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Besides that, I'm acquainted more or less with the defense hardware situation through my contacts in the Air Force.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

The situation may become widespread and result in more serious and permanent consequences.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

It was Capp's finely tuned sense of the absurd, his ability to milk an outrageous situation for every laugh in it and then, impossibly, to squeeze even more laughs from it, that found such favor with the public ," ( from Don Markstein's Toonopedia ).

The water level is generally far more dependent on the regional wind situation than on tidal effects.

In that case, the situation is a little more complicated.

Staff burden was reduced at the top and spread among commands more knowledgeable about their own situation.