Confronted by a grim future, Freddy lost his nerve and plumped for a drastic liquidation.

Confronted by the new experiences, difficulties and suffering created by empire-building, Spanish thinkers formulated some of the first modern thoughts on natural law, sovereignty, international law, war, and economics ; there were even questions about the legitimacy of imperialism – in related schools of thought referred to collectively as the School of Salamanca.

Confronted by police who had taken note of his large expenditures just after the forged check was cashed, Ponzi held out his hands wrist up and said " I'm guilty.

Confronted by a Puritan friend with rumours about his " ungodly life ", Dudley defended himself in 1576: I stand on the top of the hill, where ... the smallest slip seemeth a fall ...

Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itylus by Peter Paul Rubens ( 1637 )

Confronted by Pryor, the couple left Richmond together on July 10, 1811, creating a scandal that shook city society.

Confronted with the rise of Hitler's power on the continent in 1933, and weakened economically by the Great Depression, Great Britain sought initially to avoid or delay war through diplomacy ( Appeasement ), while at the same time re-arming ( Neville Chamberlain's European Policy ).

Confronted by investigators for the Child Welfare Board, Sandra Markowitz ( Barbara Harris ) and her superior and boyfriend Albert Amundson ( William Daniels ), Murray is threatened with removal of the child from his custody unless he can prove he is a capable guardian of Nick.

Confronted by a local elite that had just killed Maximinus's procurator, Gordian's father was forced to participate in a full scale revolt against Maximinus in 238 and became Augustus on March 22.

Confronted by the rising Australian Labor Party in 1909, he merged his Protectionist Party with Joseph Cook's Anti-Socialist Party to create the Commonwealth Liberal Party ( known commonly as the Fusion ), the main ancestor of the modern Liberal Party of Australia.

Confronted by his onetime friend Herbert, Stevenson confesses that he finds modern society to be pleasingly violent.

Confronted by the proposal of the reconstruction amendments, which introduced the word " male " to the United States Constitution, the AERA eventually dissolved over whether suffrage for emancipated slaves and women would be pursued simultaneously.

Confronted by the more numerous French and left without naval support by the arrival of a pro-Valois fleet commanded by Andrea Doria, the Spanish troops surrendered.

Confronted by allegations in a 13 May 1996, Business Week cover story, of widespread sexual harassment and other abuses, Astra USA Inc. suspended three top executives and launched an internal probe.

Confronted by the realities of the depression and unemployment faced by those less privileged than himself he gradually moved towards socialism and pacifism.

Confronted by greater competitive pressures as a result of the 1997 financial crisis, the pace of change quickened for San Miguel upon Cojuangco's return.

Confronted by volunteers and regular army troops, the Indians at first repulsed them ; however, after nearly 200 volunteers launched an all-day assault on the remaining natives, the war ended at Big Bend ( at RM 35 or RK 56 ) on the lower river.

Confronted by Cyclops afterward, Magik admitted to putting the world in danger and manipulating the X-Men for the sake of a personal vendetta against the Elder Gods.

Confronted by Coast Guardsman John C. Cullen, they said they were Southampton fishermen.

Confronted by his roommates, Monty assures them he will get Simon out as soon as possible.

“ Confronted to the enemy invasion, refused to abandon the battlefield which is hers: the Sea.

Confronted with the fact that it could not obtain replacements for equipment lost in what became a war of attrition against Iraq, for the rest of the conflict, the IRIAF remained defence-orientated, conserving its surviving assets as a " force in being ".

Confronted in her offices, she manages to fight through the Crazy Gang's forces and escape the building, but Arcade, hiding in a fake police car, captures her and takes her to a new Murderworld.

Confronted by Mycetes ' soldiers, he persuades first the soldiers and then Cosroe to join him in a fight against Mycetes.

Confronted with this situation, most libraries either endure the severe limitations of their budgets and do what they can with what they have, or else depend on the bounty of patrons and local governments to supplement their annual funds.

* Confronted with important financial difficulty due to the expenses of its Spanish crusade, the Republic of Genoa has to sell the city of Tortosa to the count of Barcelona, which had been conquered in 1148 during that same crusade.

Confronted with heavy losses on the Eastern Front, Antonescu embarked on inconclusive negotiations with the Allies, just before a political coalition, formed around the young monarch Michael I, toppled him during the August 23, 1944 Coup.

Confronted with this new threat, the king of Badajoz, al-Mutawakkil ibn al-Aftas, obtains the support of Castile in exchange for the Muslim positions on the Tagus river — Sintra, Santarém and Lisbon.

Confronted with this sharp increase in deposed suits, Belgium established the condition that the accused person must be Belgian or present in Belgium.

Confronted with other marriage projects, Elizabeth continued to say that she still would very much like to marry him.

Confronted with opposition to the presidential power of decree and threatened with impeachment, Yeltsin " dissolved " the parliament on September 21, in contravention of the existing constitution, and ordered new elections and a referendum on a new constitution.

" Confronted with a statement on any subject, the Talmudic student will proceed to raise a series of questions before he satisfies himself of having understood its full meaning.

Confronted with Freud ’ s decisive opposition, Rank resigned in protest from his positions as Vice-President of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, director of Freud ’ s publishing house, and co-editor of Imago and Zeitschrift.

* Jeannine Hall Gailey wrote several poems based on the myth that appear in her book Becoming the Villainess: " Remembering Philomel ," " Philomel's Rape ," " On Rubens ' Tereus Confronted with the Head of His Son Itylus ", " Case Studies in Revenge: Philomel Gives Some Advice ," and " Procne and Philomel, At the End.

The same year, a married couple, Ralf and Eleanor Panitz, were guests on an episode of the show entitled " Secret Mistresses Confronted " with Mr. Panitz's ex-wife, Nancy Campbell-Panitz, in which they complained about Ms. Campbell-Panitz's behavior and accused her of stalking them.

Confronted with the antique problem of future contingents, Leibniz invented the theory of " compossible worlds ", distinguishing two types of necessity, to cope with the problem of determinism.

Confronted with her evident talent their objections ceased.

Confronted with the possibility of being lied to all her life and dooming many sentient species to destruction, or an alternative of believing all she ever loved and trusted has betrayed her – Demosthenes, her father, her friend, her world – she falls to the ground.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

The huge backlog of demand which was evident in the first decade and a half after the War was fed by liquid assets accumulated by the public during the War, and even more so by the easier and easier credit in the consumer loan and home loan fields.

The ancient Greeks recorded several catastrophic inundations by huge waves.

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

Yet the huge amount of money consumed by the Selden litigation, which many regarded as wasteful, indirectly contributed to constructive changes in legal procedure.

The gardens of the palazzo, shaded by a huge magnolia tree, are most attractive.

Built especially for the tropics, it was delivered by river in a huge dug-out canoe to Lambaréné, packed in a zinc-lined case.

Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.

Put another way, Ford innovated its way to a lower price point and by doing so turned a huge potential market into a reality.

During the exercise of his duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horse — in accord with the dictates of the Dominican order — instead walking back and forth across his huge diocese.

This led to the end of the Carlist revolts and the victory over the New York backed Cuban revolutionaries, and led to a huge backing both by insular and peninsular Spaniards of Alfonso as a wise and able king.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Few of his other paintings resemble this apocalyptic scene of two huge armies dominated by an extravagant landscape seen from a very high viewpoint, which looks south over the whole Mediterranean from modern Turkey to include the island of Cyprus and the mouths of the Nile and the Red Sea ( behind the isthmus to the left ) on the other side.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

Athena's aegis, bearing the Gorgon, here resembles closely the skin of the huge serpent who guards the golden fleece ( regurgitating Jason ); cup by Douris, Classical Greece, early fifth century BC-Vatican Museum

* 1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.

Sakharov then tested a MK-driven " plasma cannon " where a small aluminium ring was vaporized by huge eddy currents into a stable, self-confined toroidal plasmoid and was accelerated to 100 km / s.