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Al-Sumayl in turn advanced his cavalry out to meet the Umayyad threat.
Although the Nebel stream lay between Fugger's and Marsin's squadrons, the French were forced to change front to meet this new threat, thus forestalling the chance for Marsin to strike at Marlborough's infantry.
In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short.
Coe was concerned to celebrate the ' values ' of the Western United States in order to meet the " threat of communism.
When Johnson was seen as the larger threat, Vaudreuil sent Dieskau to Fort St. Frédéric to meet that threat.
( see the Book of Judges ) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Reuben joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king.
With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Naphtali joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king.
With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge.
( see the Book of Judges ) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Ephraim joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king.
( see the Book of Judges ) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Manasseh joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king.
To meet the threat of Irish support for France, he engineered the Acts of Union 1800 and tried ( but failed ) to get Catholic Emancipation as part of the Union.
It demands collective efforts to meet this new threat to security in the Persian Gulf and in Southwest Asia.
The Confederate raiders were commanded by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and most of the troops and militia went to meet the threat further east.
The first US anti-aircraft cannon was a 1-pounder concept design by Admiral Twining in 1911 to meet the perceived threat of airships, that eventually was used as the bases for the US Navy's first operational anti-aircraft cannon: the 3 "/ 23 caliber gun.
During this transition the Air Force also had to reshuffle its organizations and resources to meet the shifting, although diminishing, threat.
The Venetians modified Kyrenia Castle to meet the threat that the use of gunpowder and cannons posed.
They discovered that the English mutineers left on the island by Crusoe a decade earlier had been making trouble, but that when the island fell under attack by cannibals the various parties on the island were forced to work together under truce to meet the threat.
After unsuccessfully attempting to persuade Chiang to voluntarily join forces with the CCP to meet the impending threat of Japan, Zhang and Yang finally decided to take matters into their own hands.
The British appeared on the Americans ' right flank at around 2 p. m. With Hazen's brigades outflanked, Sullivan, Stephen, and Stirling tried to reposition their troops to meet the unexpected British threat to their right flank.
He may well have anticipated the Percys ' change of heart but nevertheless instantly switched plans to meet the immediate threat posed by the Percys.

meet and faced
* Massive immigration wave of Jews from the Commonwealth of Independent States to Israel – With the end of the Soviet Union, Israel faced a mass influx of Russian Jews, many of whom had high expectations the country was unable to meet.
However, in 1985, 7-Eleven faced difficulty in finding favourable locations and failed to meet its one-store-a-month target.
The FDA has also lacked the funding to undertake the rigorous tests to meet the standards for a supplement to be considered " hazardous " and, thus, removed from the market ; in the one situation where this standard was reached ( ephedra ), the agency faced significant opposition from the supplement industry and the United States Congress, instead limiting themselves to making announcements about problematic supplement safety records on their website.
The couple faced problems in Wisconsin and Chicago because they did not meet the marital requirements.
Sir Tom Farmer took control of Hibs in 1991, but the club was still faced with the need to develop a stadium that would meet the requirements of the Taylor Report.
In January 2007, faced with the prospect of an outright ban on the sale of their product, Crisco was reformulated to meet the United States Food and Drug Administration definition of " zero grams trans fats per serving " ( that is less than one gram per tablespoon, or up to 7 % by weight ; or less than 0. 5 grams per serving size ) by boosting the saturation and then diluting the resulting solid fat with unsaturated vegetable oils.
During the course of World War II, bolt-action rifles and carbines were modified even further to meet new forms of warfare the armies of certain nations faced e. g. urban warfare and jungle warfare.
Historians concur that he was brave and industrious, and a master of logistics, but was too cautious and too rigid to meet the great challenges he faced in 1862.
Ward-Perkins suggests the Welsh had to abandon those Roman ways which proved insufficient, or indeed superfluous, to meet the challenge of survival they faced, “ Militarized tribal societies, despite their political fragmentation and internecine strife, seem to have offered better protection against Germanic invasion then exclusive dependence on a professional Roman army ( that in the troubled years of the fifth century was all too prone to melt away or mutiny ).” Reverting to a more militaristic tribal society allowed the Welsh of Gwynedd to concentrate on those martial skills necessary for their very survival ; and the Romano-Britons of western Britain did offer stiffer and an ultimately successful resistance.
Soon after his decision to run for presidency in 1998, he faced a legal battle in the Lithuanian courts, as doubts arose whether Adamkus was eligible to run for presidency due to the length of time he had spent abroad and the possibility that he might not meet minimum residency requirements.
But when it became clear that the Israelis faced more formidable military forces than anticipated, and could not meet their own resupply arrangements, the United States took up the burden.
In early 1944 the New Zealand Government faced a manpower crisis caused by the demands of maintaining two divisions overseas while simultaneously maintaining agricultural and industrial production to meet the needs of the Allied countries.
This reviewed again the UK's defence posture and plans to ensure that the country possessed the right capabilities and the right forces to meet the additional challenges faced after 9 / 11.
Almost immediately after opening it faced a greater capacity task than originally intended, and in later years became a contentious issue politically with concerns about its ability to meet growing traffic demands, refusal to build another bridge, and the lowering of its speed limit.
Because students are faced with increasing debt and struggle to make ends meet, the RSU provides a range of services to make your life easier.
This actually happened in the 2006 NBA Playoffs when the two best teams in the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks, both from the Southwest Division, faced one another in the Western Conference Semifinals while the 3rd seed, the Northwest Division-leading Denver Nuggets, had fewer wins than the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th seeds. The NBA proposed and approved of the current format to ensure that the best two teams of a conference can meet no earlier than the Conference Finals.
When the club won the First Division in 2004, they faced a problem in that the Caledonian Stadium did not meet the Scottish Premier League ( SPL ) rules on stadium criteria, which said that a stadium needed to have 10, 000 seats.
The weapons were a stop-gap measure to meet the urgent need for heavy artillery faced by the Allies early in World War II.
Bernardo faced a tough task as he would meet Peter Aerts in the first round of the tournament.
The inventory control problem is the problem faced by a firm that must decide how much to order in each time period to meet demand for its products.
This placed pressure on the legal aid authorities to fund these cases, and fears emerged that they would need to pull funds from other cases to meet the new demands, especially when faced with " complex criminal cases " which may entail high costs over extended periods of time.
It was concluded that physical land constraints faced by the island nation, was not able to accommodate more roads to meet the rise in transportation demands.
However, the 6th Army was faced by a strong counterattack by the Soviet forces and failed to meet up with the 4th Panzer Army for 3 crucial days, allowing the two armies to withdraw into Stalingrad.
* It was updated to host the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations to meet the caf standard stadiums making it all-seated which decreased the capacity from 85, 000 to 75, 000 and making blue zigzag highlights on the seats, later on the Olympic track was changed from blue to orange it was first seen on 14 November when Egypt faced Algeria in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification ( CAF ) which Egypt won 2-0.

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