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: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.
Together, Plunkett and Casement presented a plan which involved a German expeditionary force landing on the west coast of Ireland, while a rising in Dublin diverted the British forces so that the Germans, with the help of local Volunteers, could secure the line of the River Shannon.
Since the turbine is spinning, the force acts through a distance ( work ) and the diverted water flow is left with diminished energy.
An Athenian force sent to attack Cyprus is diverted to support this revolt.
Razor 02, which had been diverted to Gardez as Razor 01 was landing on Takur Ghar, returned with the rest of the quick-reaction force and Lieutenant Commander Hyder at 06: 25.
Jackson proceeded to destroy the Bank as a financial and political force by removing its federal deposits, and in 1833, federal revenue was diverted into selected private banks by executive order, ending the regulatory role of the Second Bank of the United States.
The almond orchards crippled by disease and the alfalfa growers having to contend with their water rights being diverted ( to a growing Los Angeles ) caused a significant shift in the local work force.
Cradock's force was also to have been reinforced from Mediterranean waters by the newer and more powerful armoured cruiser, but ultimately this ship was diverted, the old pre-dreadnought battleship being ordered to join him instead.
On the night of October 6, French units diverted from the main attack force towards the Old Summer Palace.
However, his force was diverted by local commanders, who assigned it to burning homesteads sheltering Boer commandos and attacking Boer units.
Instead, fearing that the 8th Army might beat him to Rome, Clark diverted a large part of his Anzio force in that direction in an attempt to ensure that he and the 5th Army would have the honour of liberating the Eternal City.
The plan was put into force, and two Chinese junks were captured in the Straits and diverted to Malacca.
However, his attention was diverted when another force sallied from the city to provide cover for the men returning from the ambush.
The Chinese efforts diverted the attention of Burma's Siam army ; General Taksin, himself the son of a Chinese immigrant, took advantage of the situation by organizing his force and attacking them.
They started for Clark but were diverted to Manila Bay as a second line of defense if the 3rd PS failed to intercept its force.
Some German troops were diverted to Hegra, where an improvised force of 251 Norwegians were holding out in an old border fort.
The first relief force assembled under Havelock included 64th Regiment of Foot and 78th Highlanders ( brought back from the Anglo-Persian War ), the first arrivals of the diverted China expedition, 5th Fusiliers, part of the 90th Light Infantry ( seven companies ), the 84th ( York and Lancaster ) from Burma, and EIC Madras European Fusiliers, brought up to Calcutta from Madras.
These disturb the magnetic field in such a way that the magnetic force is diverted to the opposite of the direction of the movement, thus creating a horizontal force component, which works against the movement of the magnet.
According to his book, Azam states that he was on way to Dhaka from West Pakistan on 3 December when midway through the flight, the plane was diverted to Saudi Arabia because of the formation of India-Bangladesh joint force against Pakistan.
Netanyahu was the only member of the Israeli force to be killed in action on 4 July 1976 during Operation Thunderbolt at Entebbe airport in Uganda, Africa, during which 103 ( of 107 ) Israeli hostages were rescued from Palestinian hijackers who had diverted an Air France passenger jet to the airport one week earlier.
No less than an entire German corps was diverted to seeking out and the destruction of the two-company task force.
Coming up against formidable defences, however, an attempt was made to outflank the Japanese positions by landing an amphibious force at Porton Plantation in June, however, this failed and as a result it was decided to suspend the drive into the Bonis Peninsula and instead contain the Japanese along the Ratsua front while resources were diverted to the southern sector for the drive towards Buin.

diverted and find
She also believes that too much money has been diverted away from the juvenile court system and believes that the government should find some way to make the juvenile courts work effectively so as to prevent problems in troubled children and adolescents before these problems are exacerbated by the time these adolescents reach adulthood .< ref >
Graham chose the Curvilinear Glasshouses at Dublin's National Botanic Gardens, constructed at the time of An Gorta Mor, by monies diverted from research to find a cure for the potato blight afflicting Ireland.
I then saw a worker approaching with a fly in its jaws and start to mount the bank, and as the scattered herbage was directly in its way, I feared the ant might be diverted from its nest, but when it reached the obstacle it never hesitated for a moment, but running straight over it in a direct line, entered its nest on the top of the bank, which I was thus enabled to find.
Brunn provides Frontius ’ De aquaeductu Urbis Romae from AD 100 as an example of the “ various illegal uses to which public water in Rome was being diverted .” Christer Bruun suggests that as a recent find by a contemporary author, Caelius actually gave a speech in 50 BC when he was a curule aedile, ultimately proclaiming “ the worst misappropriation of public water in Rome ” which was due “ all the brothels, were enjoying an illegal supply of running water .” Furthermore, Bruun concludes that although these possible arguments can explain why Cicero attempted to connect Clodia to immorality and water, he simply used this argumentation to suggest Clodia ’ s case against Caelius was unfounded.

diverted and rebels
Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.
* 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
* November 25 – Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

diverted and had
There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.
Opposition from local seamen and merchants saw the route diverted to Kingswear on the opposite side of the river, but this occurred after the station had been built at Dartmouth.
By this time, Parsons's own use of drugs had increased to the extent that new songs were rare and much of his time was diverted to partying with the Stones, who briefly relocated to America in the summer of 1969 to finish their forthcoming Let It Bleed album and prepare for an autumn cross-country tour, their first series of regular live engagements since 1967.
The gold trade had been diverted to Europeans on the coast.
With the support of the British fleet, in 1622 ' Abbās took the island of Hormuz from the Portuguese ; much of the trade was diverted to the town of Bandar ' Abbās, which he had taken from the Portuguese in 1615 and had named after himself.
He soon learned, however, that the aid packages on the first three flights had been diverted by corrupt officials of the Somoza government, never reaching victims of the quake.
Success, however, had to wait until after World War II, during which the attempt to improve silicon and germanium crystals for use as radar detectors led to improvements both in fabrication and in the theoretical understanding of the quantum mechanical states of carriers in semiconductors and after which the scientists who had been diverted to radar development returned to solid state device development.
The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport.
This was largely because the river returned to its former route ; it had been diverted so that a railway could run along the river bed.
Originally, the Crusaders intended to relieve the beleaguered Christian stronghold of Acre, but Louis had been diverted to Tunis.
Altogether, the Portuguese never had the resources or manpower to control the local trade in spices, which were frequently diverted to operations in Morocco and failed in attempts to establish their authority over the crucial Banda Islands, the nearby centre of most nutmeg and mace production.
banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, had diverted the people ’ s hatred of money and exploitation away from themselves and on to the Jews.
The reserve regiment, the 915th of the 352nd division, which had earlier been ordered against the American airborne landings to the west of Omaha, was diverted to the Gold Beach zone east of Omaha, the defenses there having crumbled.
The cave had been excavated by the stream that fed the cascade, which had since been diverted by the men of Gondor to fall from doubled height ; the tunnel had been sealed, except for a concealed entrance along the brink of a deep pool beneath the waterfall .</ div >
Kitchener rescued a substantial charitable fund which had been diverted into the pockets of the Khedive of Egypt, and put it to use improving the lives of ordinary Sudanese.
He was one of the noblest men among the Byzantine aristocracy, and might have succeeded to the throne in regular fashion if the Fourth Crusade had not been diverted to Constantinople in 1203.
This was ultimately Basil's fault as he had diverted a relief fleet from Sicily to haul marble for a church instead.

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