Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

A second reported that the dilapidated houses in Virginia `` look like the latter end of original sin and hard times ''.

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

By working very hard, one may be able to make this part 5 times faster, but this only reduces the time for the whole computation by a little.

The Christsen family supported settlement farming families through hard times and these good deeds were acknowledged with the naming of Christsen Park at Bargara Beach.

It bears mention because its eventual failure brought the company to hard times that affected its ability to produce material for Call of Cthulhu.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

Led by the strong play of Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly and rookie pitcher Randy Wells, the club started well, but fell on hard times as injuries took their toll.

Dice are hard to differentiate from knucklebones because ancient writers confused the two, but both were used in prehistoric times.

* 1968 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 ( or the fifth Institutional Act ), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

One of the leading German universities for many centuries, it fell upon hard times in the early 19th century, and was forced to close in 1816.

Marked as rebels, they fall on hard times ; Quatre witnesses his father's murder, Heero, Duo and Wufei are captured by OZ, and Trowa enlists as a soldier of OZ ( secretly as a double agent ).

This distinction reflects the rarity of the respective stones in ancient times, as well as their quality: all are translucent with fine color in their purest forms, except for the colorless diamond, and very hard, with hardnesses of 8 – 10 on the Mohs scale.

As a result, some small banana producers suffering from economic hard times chose to sell their land to the giant banana producers.

In modern times, in the United States, the Irish are largely perceived as hard workers.

On his return to England in 1841 Severn fell on hard times, trying desperately to earn enough money to support his growing family by painting portraits.

At those times when John was preparing for campaigns in Normandy, for example, huge quantities of silver had to be withdrawn from the economy and stored for months, which unintentionally resulted in periods during which silver coins were simply hard to come by, commercial credit difficult to acquire and deflationary pressure placed on the economy.

In medieval times, the labyrinth symbolized a hard path to God with a clearly defined center ( God ) and one entrance ( birth ).

Roach signed with MGM, but Sennett found himself and Pathé Exchange in hard times, because the hundreds of exhibitors who had previously rented their shorts had switched to the new MGM or Paramount products.

Van Buren took the blame for hard times, as Whigs ridiculed him as Martin Van Ruin.

For example, corundum ( 9 ) is twice as hard as topaz ( 8 ), but diamond ( 10 ) is four times as hard as corundum.

In the liner notes of De La Soul's 1993 album Buhloone Mindstate, Paul hinted at his future projects with the Gravediggaz: " I would like to thank all my friends and business cohorts who dissed me, played me, and jerked me when times were hard.

The Eagles had a good 1961 season and then fell on hard times in 1962.

An economic depression gripped Canada after Macdonald left office, and Mackenzie was blamed for the ensuing hard times.

On a win, the six is often called " 666 winner 6 " followed by " came hard " or " came easy ".

There are many English words of non-Romance origin where ⟨ g ⟩ is hard though followed by ⟨ e ⟩ or ⟨ i ⟩ ( e. g. get, gift ), and a few in which ⟨ g ⟩ is soft though followed by ⟨ a ⟩ ( margarine ).

On August 17, 1960, Powers was convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union and was sentenced to a total of 10 years, three years in imprisonment followed by seven years of hard labor.

Historically, there have been numerous episodes of hyperinflation in various countries followed by a return to " hard money ".

After the entry of Bill Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal experimentations of Milestones ( 1958 ) and 1958 Miles ( 1958 ) by basing the album entirely on modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz.

Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30 % of the labor force and provides more than 70 % of hard currency earnings, followed by tuna fishing.

The demand for cheap and docile labor to perform the hard work involved in its cultivation and processing drove first, the slave trade from Africa ( in particular West Africa ), followed by the indentured labor trade from South Asia ( in particular India ).

There followed a hard political struggle between John of England and Pope Innocent III.

Legal experts who had followed the trial said that the prosecutors found it hard to present a convincing case due to the 25 years that had elapsed since Calvi's death.

The insurrections at Viterbo in 1836, in various parts of the Legations in 1840, at Ravenna in 1843 and Rimini in 1845, were followed by wholesale executions and draconian sentences of hard labour and exile, but they did not bring the unrest within the Papal States under the control of the authorities.

In the period that followed, Mission Dolores fell on very hard times.

These followed hard on the heels of earlier Ordinances passed in 1539 and 1559, in which the competitive examination system for the appointment of professors had been introduced.

The strict codes of loyalty and silence, and the hard retributions that followed violations, were hallmarks of U. S. gangster rings, Mafia, the Unione Corse, the Chinese Tongs / Triads and the Japanese Yakuza / Black Dragon Society.

Zip drives and scanners were early implementations followed by external modems, sound cards, webcams, gamepads, joysticks, external hard disk drives and CD-ROM drives.

The settlement of Culbertson followed hard on the heels of the 1886-87 watershed years for the early cattle industry.

Similarly, some post-Britpop bands that followed in the wake of Oasis, including Feeder and Stereophonics, adopted a hard rock or " pop-metal " sound.

Fellow Australians Airbourne's début album Runnin ' Wild ( 2007 ) followed in the hard riffing tradition of AC / DC.

The band influenced a wide range of musicians and bands across multiple generations, initially hard rock bands like Kiss and Aerosmith, followed by the American and British punk rock movements, and a huge wave of " hair metal " bands of the mid-1980s.

In 1992, Def Leppard followed up 1987's Hysteria with Adrenalize, which went multi-platinum, spawned four Top 40 singles and held the number one spot on the U. S. album chart for five weeks, the only hard rock album to reach that position that year.

As the fight drew into the eighth round, Foreman's punching and defense became ineffective as the strain of throwing so many wild shots took its toll, and Ali pounced as Foreman tried to pin him on the ropes, landing several right hooks over Foreman's jab followed by a 5-punch combination culminating in a left hook that brought Foreman's head up into position and a hard right straight to the face that caused him to stumble to the canvas.

After the entry of Bill Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal experimentations of Milestones ( 1958 ) and 1958 Miles ( 1958 ) by basing the album entirely on modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz.

The bivalves were hard hit by this event but re-established themselves and thrived during the Triassic period that followed.

Other companies quickly followed, and by the early 2000s the development of hard shell skates and skeletons became primarily limited to the Aggressive inline skating discipline and other specialized designs.