This has led to some social tension, which came to a head during the 2004 European Football Championship, when something akin to rioting occurred briefly with windows being smashed and shops looted, police cars overturned and set alight.

He was a symbol to European Christians of the Church's universality, transcending culture and geography to encompass all humanity, in a time when ethnic and inter-religious tension made such a vision seem distant.

At the time this created social tension but today Crawford county celebrates its South European heritage with the annual " Little Balkan Days " event.

The extension of European control over Africa and Asia added a further dimension to the rivalry and mutual suspicion which characterized international diplomacy in the decades preceding World War I. France's seizure of Tunisia ( 1881 ) initiated fifteen years of tension with Italy, which had hoped to take the country and which retaliated by allying with Germany and waging a decade-long tariff war with France.

When Spacemen 3 returned to England from their European tour at the end of May 1989, there was tension between Kember and Pierce.

The region inhabited by the Apache had experienced strife and tension between the Apache and European settlers beginning with Spanish occupation around 1600 until the greater part of the area was acquired by the United States in 1850, which ushered in a brief period of relative peace.

A source of tension has historically been the relationship between the constitutions of member states and European Union law.

In 1847 and 1848, broader European developments aggravated this tension.

Unlike many other European epic cycles, the Irish sagas were written in prose, with verse interpolations at moments of heightened tension or emotion.

In 1882 opposition to European control led to growing tension amongst notable natives, the most dangerous opposition coming from the army.

Thereafter, 150 years of bitter military tension and reciprocal attacks ensued, culminating in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the start of the Great Turkish War by European powers to remove the Ottoman presence.

As a result of the expansion and allocation of places, tension grew between the governing body of European football ( UEFA ) and the FIFA leadership.

During the years of European colonialism in Southeast Asia, many Chinese arrived in these countries to find work, often causing ethnic tension between them and the native population ; in particular, between ethnic Malaysian Chinese Buddhists and Malay Malaysian Muslims in the 1960s.

But because of some tension between former SNK and ED members in new party and missing funds SNK European democrats ' campaign in Chamber of Deputies was unsuccessful.

In Algeria, there is some tension between the Berber groups ( such as the Kabyle people ) and the central Arab government which is encouraged by France and some other European countries which feed the Berbers feelings that their culture and language are threatened by Arabization.

The flags of the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Hungary in the Upper Yard. The TMG, as an independent school, has some tension resulting from wealth differences.

The elder Knox had inadvertently angered the king by not observing the expected formalities and had the misfortune to do so during a period of tension between the king and some of the European powers.

Soviet non-compliance with establishing free elections in war torn European countries eventually led to a strained relationship with the United States and severe tension.

Meanwhile, tension increased between Britain and France over the crisis, as most of the losses had been non-French, and the principal European beneficiaries of the revolution would be the French.

Harmolodics seeks to free musical compositions from any tonal center, allowing harmonic progression independent of traditional European notions of tension and release.

Some critics felt that this intra-European process would be a source of tension in the transatlantic arena with NATO and some felt that this was a duplication of existing means with the call for a distinct European headquarters.

Time awarded Cohen the title " European Hero " in 2005, for his inclusive approach towards the Muslim community after the murder, defusing tension in the city.

Another topic was the tension between Jews of European origin, the Ashkenazim, and Jews of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean origin, the Mizrahim and Sephardim.

They are kept at a fairly low tension in comparison to the guitar and other European plucked instruments.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

DDT, through its metabolite DDE, caused eggshell thinning and resulted in severe population declines in multiple North American and European bird of prey species.

Devo launched a European concert tour, but poor ticket sales caused it to be ended early.

But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries.

Their invasion was roughly contemporaneous with Gaulic invasions of Italy and Spain and appear caused by a series of diplomatic, economic, and political conflicts with Celtic and Southern European civilizations.

In July 1996, disagreement on policy caused EFnet to break in two: the slightly larger European half ( including Australia and Japan ) formed IRCnet, while the American servers continued as EFnet.

After the defeat of Napoleon, who caused the dissolution of that first German Empire, Prussia, and the German states continued to stand aloof from imperialism, preferring to manipulate the European system through polices such as those of Metternich.

In conjunction with the arrival of European poetry and music this caused a significant reduction in the number of traditional folk songs and their singers.

The city managed to remain neutral in the Thirty Years ' War, but with the devastation caused by the decades-long war and the new transatlantic orientation of European trade, the Hanseatic League and thus Lübeck lost importance.

Also in the 1870s competition from Brazilian coffee and European sugar beets caused a decline in Liberian exports.

The outbreak of World War I caused a sudden realignment within the RSDLP and other European social democratic parties over the issues of war, revolution, pacifism and internationalism.

Changes in European military tactics and weaponry in the military revolution caused the once-feared Sipahi cavalry to lose military relevance.

It is generally assumed by historians that the war was actually caused by the sharpening rivalries between the European powers and the setting up of rival military alliances and so even had the assassination not occurred, some other incident would have still set off the war.

The Black Death is traditionally believed to have been caused by the micro-organism Yersinia pestis, carried by the tropical rat flea ( Xenopsylla cheopis ) which preyed on black rats living in European cities during the epidemic outbreaks of the Middle Ages ; these rats were used as transport hosts.

The air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption caused the acceleration to integrate the national air traffic control systems into the Single European Sky and the immediate creation of a crisis coordination group to handle future transport disruptions.

The plains have numerous highlands and lowlands caused by the uneven crystallized base of the East European craton.

Despite the pacific movement in the aftermath of the war, the losses still caused irredentist and revanchist nationalism to became important in a number of European states.

The Marshall Plan of 1947 caused lending by the bank to change as many European countries received aid that competed with World Bank loans.

The Weimar Republic, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, because of the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the Treaty of Versailles.

In 2002, torrential rains caused the Elbe to flood above its normal height, i. e. even higher than the old record height from 1845, damaging many landmarks ( See 2002 European flood ).

Studies mostly cite the causes of death due to starvation or as caused ( ultimately by the lack-of-food induced ) weakening of resistance to endemic diseases which repeatedly reached epidemic proportions amongst the general Central European population — the German states were the battle ground and staging areas for the largest mercenary armies theretofore, and the armies foraged amongst the many provinces stealing the food of those people forced onto the roads as refugees, or still on the lands, regardless of their faith and allegiances.

The reasons for this have been hotly debated, and may include social and cultural disruption caused by the Musket Wars and European contact.

As a result of the European war catastrophe caused by Hitler's Germany, according to the post-war Potsdam Conference, the town was transferred from Germany to Poland and renamed to the Polish Prabuty.

In Slovenia and other Central European regions, the leaves were traditionally used topically as a cure for blisters resulting from friction ( such as caused by tight shoes etc.

The handover of Macau ( Macao ) to Portugal in 1557 by the Emperor of China ( as a reward for services rendered against the pirates who infested the South China Sea ) resulted in the first permanent European maritime trade post between Europe and China, with other European powers following suit over the next centuries, which caused the eventual demise of the Silk Road.