During a prolonged skirmish between the troops of these opposing forces, Sun and his wife Soong Ching-ling narrowly evaded heavy machine gun fire and were rescued by gunboats under Chiang's direction.

During prolonged fasting or very low calorie diets, the reduction of blood glucose, the preferred energy source of the brain, causes the body to deplete its glycogen stores.

During her son's prolonged military campaigns, she remained in charge of Kiev, residing in the castle of Vyshgorod together with her grandsons.

During the Warring States era of ancient China, there is both textual and archaeological evidence of prolonged sieges and siege machinery used against the defenders of city walls.

During the prolonged Peninsular War from 1808 – 1814 some 300, 000 French troops were kept permanently occupied by, in addition to several hundred thousand Spanish, Portuguese and British regulars an enormous and sustained guerrilla insurgency — ultimately French deaths would amount to 300, 000 in the Peninsular War alone.

During the Dutch Golden Age, it was conceived essentially as the anthem of the House of Orange-Nassau and its supporters-which meant, in the politics of the time, the anthem of a specific political faction which was involved in a prolonged struggle with opposing factions ( which sometimes became violent, verging on civil war ).

During the ten months Patton was relieved of duty, his prolonged stay in Sicily was interpreted by the Germans as an indication of an upcoming invasion of southern France.

During the opening credits the waltz theme is heard along with a prolonged shot of couples dancing.

During prolonged fasting or starvation, acetyl-CoA in the liver is used to produce ketone bodies instead, leading to a state of ketosis.

During any period of prolonged or intense rain, Caltrans snowplows will patrol most canyon roads in the area, clearing mud, rocks, and other fallen debris from the roadways.

During the Reformation, the people of Oudenaarde chose Protestantism and allied themselves with Ghent against Charles V. In 1582, after a prolonged siege by Margaret's son, Alexander Farnese, the city finally gave in, causing most merchants, workers, and even nobles to flee.

During heavy or prolonged mild to moderate activity, other enzymes convert two molecules of ADP into one ATP molecule and one AMP molecule, making more ATP available to supply energy.

During the 16th century, Tournai was a bulwark of Calvinism, but eventually it was conquered by the Spanish governor of the Low Countries, the Duke of Parma, following a prolonged siege in 1581.

During the years that followed all political activity was impossible, but he was fully occupied with his great chronicle of the French Revolution, Geschichte der Revolutionszeit 1789 – 1800, for which he had made prolonged studies in the archives of Paris and other countries.

During breeding, the male's call is heard as an odd, striking series of loud croaks and chattering notes followed by prolonged shrieks.

During Alice in Chains ' hiatus, reports of Staley's addiction began to gain widespread circulation in fan and media communities, in part from changes to his physical condition brought on by prolonged heroin abuse.

During this prolonged silence, Clariti expanded its marketing and sales of the accused eyeglass frames.

During his tenure, he had to deal with problems of bed shortages and overcrowding in hospitals, as well as a prolonged nurses ' strike in 1999.

During a prolonged battle with Octavius and Spider-Man, Carlyle was defeated when Doc Ock ripped open his suit, allowing Spider-Man to fill Carlyle's suit with webbing, although Doc Ock informed his enemy that he only did this to hurt Carlyle rather than to help Spider-Man.

During prolonged outbreaks when stands become heavily defoliated, starvation can be an important mortality factor in regulating populations.

During the match he won a potentially crucial leg and after pumping his fist and shouting " Get in there " he proceeded to a prolonged ourburst at the crowd.

* Takeshi Doll — During a prolonged period when Takeshi was forbidden to appear on television ( his " punishment " for an act of violence against reporters and photos from a scandal magazine ), one of the Emerald Guards filled in by wearing his robe and a giant papier-mâché Takeshi head similar to the ones sports team mascots use over their heads.

During his prolonged residences abroad he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages and literatures, which, on his final return to France, enabled him to render valuable assistance to Jean de Thévenot, the keeper of the royal library, and to Barthélemy d ' Herbelot de Molainville.

During the prolonged period of Viking incursions and settlement of Anglo-Saxon England pagan ideas and religious rites made something of a comeback, mainly in the Danelaw during the 9th century and particularly in the Kingdom of Northumbria, whose last king to rule it as an independent state was Eric Bloodaxe, a Viking, probably pagan and ruler until 954 AD.

During the summers, frequent dust storms blow a fine yellow powder across the plateau.

During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes form dense dust clouds that obscure the sun ; however, sunny days are the norm year round.

During the next nine days, as their supplies ran out, with frozen fingers, little light, and storms still raging outside the tent, Scott wrote his final words, although he gave up his diary after 23 March, save for a final entry on 29 March, with its concluding words: " Last entry.

During the Dust Bowl and Great Depression of the 1930s, large numbers of people fled rural areas of the Plains and Midwest because of depressed commodity prices, high debt load, and several years of drought and large dust storms.

During the summers, frequent dust storms blow a fine yellow powder across the plateau.

During the early Middle Ages this began to change as rising sea levels and storms started to eat away at the coastal areas which consisted mainly of peatlands.

During the Years of the Trees, he briefly entered into the service of Melkor and began causing wanton storms which made traveling by sea particularly unsafe.

During the intense storms of the early summer and late monsoon season, southerly winds of more than cause waves to crest as high as in the Bay of Bengal, which brings disastrous flooding to coastal areas.

During November 2004, a number of major dust storms hit the Chad, originating in the Bodélé Depression.

During the summer and fall, Troy is occasionally affected by tropical storms and hurricanes.

During the summer, Keene can get hit by thunderstorms from the west, but the Green Mountains to the west often break up some of the storms, so that Keene doesn't usually experience a thunderstorm at full strength.

During this period the town declined due to the economic depression, dust storms, farm consolidation, and changing travel habits.

During the 1930s the area was swept by huge dust storms that uprooted crops and made farming unprofitable ; in 1933, the town was estimated to have only 50 residents.

During the summer it is not unusual to see storms move in from the southwest.

During forthcoming solar storms, this could result in blackouts and disruptions in artificial satellites.

During geomagnetic storms, this system can be severely hampered by radio clutter.

During solar events and geomagnetic storms, the system gave navigators information that is inaccurate by as much as several miles.

During geomagnetic storms, the number and energy of electrons and ions increase.

During this part of the year, buffalo wintered in wooded areas where they were partially sheltered from storms and snow.

During this time, the climate around Skellig Michael became colder and more prone to storms, and this, along with changes to the structure of the Irish Church, prompted the community to abandon the island and move to the abbey in Ballinskelligs.

During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.

During certain events ( New Year's Eve ) trains run until 2: 00 a. m. ( Trains also run all night during winter storms, though not in passenger service, to prevent ice from forming on non-underground lines.

During the match (" Chess "), Freddie accuses Anatoly of receiving outside help via the flavor of yogurt he is eating, and Freddie storms out, leaving his second, Florence ( now an émigrée in the U. S. who escaped Hungary during the 1956 uprisings ) in an argument with The Arbiter and the Russians.

During the heat wave, the June 2012 North American derecho caused violent storms that downed trees and power lines, leaving 3 million people in the eastern U. S. without power on June 30.

During strong storms high waves and wind can deliver and erode sediment from the backshore.