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Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of £ 1, 350, 000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that ' We have not the slightest intention of making profit ... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants '.
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Any hope for change was squashed with the death of the political leader championing for Ireland, Daniel O ’ Connell in 1847 and the failed rising of the Young Irelanders in 1848.
She gave her third husband a number of children and proved to be a respectable and accomplished Renaissance duchess, effectively rising above her previous reputation and surviving the fall of the Borgias following her father's death.
The poem is written in the first person, and is the soliloquy of a young woman contemplating life and death, engagement and withdrawal, love and estrangement, in a setting dominated by the sea, the sky, stars, rocky cliffs, and the rising sun.
The population hit a historic peak at 148, 689, 000 in 1991, just before the breakup of the Soviet Union, but then began a decade-long decline, falling at a rate of about 0. 5 % per year due to declining birth rates, rising death rates and emigration.
Having in 842 crushed the Stellinga rising in Saxony, in 844 he compelled the Obotrites to own his authority and put their prince, Gozzmovil, to death.
Armand arrives and releases Louis from the coffin, but Madeleine and Claudia are burned to death by the rising sun.
As whiskey, the " water of life ", causes both Finnegan's death and resurrection in the ballad, so the word " wake " also represents both a passing ( into death ) and a rising ( from sleep ).
Emmet personally witnessed a dragoon being pulled from his horse and piked to death, the sight of which prompted him to call off the rising to avoid further bloodshed.
By the time of the death of the 6th Baron in 1978, the resultant death duties, coupled with the rising costs of the upkeep, made Belton too much for the Brownlow family.
In 1849 he took part in the republican rising in the Palatinate and Baden ; on the restoration of order he was condemned to death, but he had escaped with other leading revolutionaries like Germain Metternich, Louis Blenker, and Franz Zitz to Switzerland.
Christmas's death ( at age 33 ) is described in terms of rising and serenity.
Connolly was sentenced to death by firing squad for his part in the rising.
It symbolizes " Man rising above death, reaching upward to God and toward Peace.
Hopps claimed man had started off imperfect “ out of the animals darkness ” but will rise into the “ angel ’ s marvellous light ”, Hopps claimed man was not a fallen but a rising creature and that after death man would evolve on a number of spheres of existence to perfection.
Having the women run away afraid is contrasted in the reader's mind with Jesus ' appearances and statements which help confirm the expectation, built up in 8: 31, 9: 31, 10: 34, and Jesus ' prediction during the Last Supper of his rising after his death.
Margaret Mary Beckett ( née Jackson ; born 15 January 1943 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to 12 May 1994, and briefly serving as Leader of the Party following Smith's death.
Johannesburg developed an extreme metal scene in1992 with rising grindcore / death metal act Retribution Denied, Boksburg based macabre / death metal act Debauchery followed by Pretoria doom metal band Funeral, Christian metal act Abhorrence closely followed by Insurrection, Metalmorphosis, Sacrifist and Agro the latter two acts of whom still perform today.
While Catholic dogma leaves open the question of Mary's death before rising to Heaven, the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Dormition of the Theotokos teaches that Mary died and then rose to Heaven.
He was sentenced to death for his part in the rising.
It imposes a fine of € 30, 000 and two years imprisonment ( rising to € 45, 000 and three years if there was a resulting death ) on offenders.
After the death of Tito in 1980, rising ethnic nationalism in the late 1980s led to dissidence among the multiple ethnicities within the constituent republics, followed by collapse of inter-republic talks on transformation of the country and recognition of their independence by some European states in 1991.
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The recovery will probably be sparked by a rising rate of housing starts next spring in response to more readily available mortgage credit, as well as by an expansion of Government spending, well sustained consumer spending, and some rebuilding of business inventories.
Moreover, it is likely that Federal policies aimed at stimulating a faster rate of economic growth of the country, to keep ahead of the Communist countries and to demonstrate that our free economic system is better than theirs, will lead to rising Federal spending in certain areas such as education, housing, medical aid, and the like.
During the Sixties we have the prospect of a significant stepping up in the rate of household formations, which should contribute to a rising volume of consumer expenditures and home building.
However, the impact of a rising rate of household formation this decade should not be exaggerated.
Hondurans had been accustomed to low inflation ( 3. 4 percent in 1985, rising to 4. 5 percent by the end of 1986 ), partly because pegging the lempira to the dollar linked Honduras's inflation rate to inflation rates in developed countries.
The average IQ scores for many populations have been rising at an average rate of three points per decade since the early 20th century, a phenomenon called the Flynn effect.
However, in the second half of the 1980s, rising stock and real estate prices caused the Japanese economy to overheat in what was later to be known as the Japanese asset price bubble caused by the policy of low interest rate by Bank of Japan.
This rising affluence was accompanied by a 20 % fall in working hours during that same period, together with a fall in the unemployment rate from 8 % in 1950 to 0. 4 % in 1965. in addition, an advanced welfare state was established.
Due to rising prices for energy, fuel, and food on international markets, inflation increased in the first half of 2011, but later decreased to an annualized rate of 3. 4 % at the end of September.
The annual population growth rate in 1960 was 2. 7 percent, rising to a high of 3. 6 percent in 1970, but falling to 1. 9 percent in 1975.
The growth rate recovered in 1999, rising to 6 % before slipping slightly in 2001 to 5. 5 %.
Spain's unemployment rate hit 17. 4 % at the end of March, with two million people lost their jobs ; with the oversized building and housing related industries contributing greatly to the rising unemployment numbers.
The " natural " rate of unemployment is defined as the rate of unemployment that exists when the labour market is in equilibrium and there is pressure for neither rising inflation rates nor falling inflation rates.
The inflation rate, as measured by consumer price index, was 35. 8 % in 1998, falling to a low of 12. 5 % in 2001 and rising to 31. 1 % in 2003.
The country's rate of economic growth cannot support rapid population growth or the strain which HIV / AIDS-related issues ( i. e., rising medical costs, street children, and decline in worker productivity ) places on government resources.
The fever drives small farmers into the crowded city, they bring the malaria with them, and lowers Rome's live-birth rate while rates elsewhere in the empire rising.
A 2010 study found that, as a result of rising temperatures and decreasing solar radiation during the later years of the 20th century, the rice yield growth rate has decreased in many parts of Asia, compared to what would have been observed had the temperature and solar radiation trends not occurred.
The use of commercial inorganic fertilizers has increased steadily in the last 50 years, rising almost 20-fold to the current rate of 100 million tonnes of nitrogen per year.
Between 1929 and 1933, the gross national product of the United States decreased by 33 % while the rate of unemployment increased to 25 % ( with industrial unemployment alone rising to approximately 35 % – U. S. employment was still over 25 % agricultural ).
On September 10, 1991, Daley responded to a question about the city ` s rising homicide rate by declaring " The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.
Used generally to describe a series of economic events from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 17th, the price revolution refers most specifically to the relatively high rate of inflation that characterized the period across Western Europe, with prices on average rising perhaps sixfold over 150 years.
Frail elderly patients ( score of 4 or 5 ) have even worse outcomes, with the risk of being discharged to a nursing home rising to twenty times the rate for non-frail elderly people.
On the other hand, human capital has uniformly rising rate of growth over a long period of time because the foundation of this human capital is laid down by the educational and health inputs.
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