Washington's loss of Philadelphia prompted some members of Congress to discuss removing Washington from command.

The British expedition commander, prompted by the loss of the gunboat, decided to abandon Jan Mayen until the following spring and radioed for a rescue ship.

At the same time, international concern about environmental degradation and the loss of many wildlife species unique to Laos has also prompted the government to consider the implications of these developments.

Cigarettes are the most frequent source of fires leading to loss of lives in private homes, which has prompted the European Union and the United States to ban cigarettes that are not fire standard compliant by 2011.

Thousands of relatives of conscripts and reserve soldiers suffered loss and pain ; revelations of torture and the indiscriminate brutality the army visited on the Muslim population prompted widespread revulsion, and a significant constituency supported the principle of national liberation.

This activity, combined with the loss of the nizam as an ally, prompted Hyder Ali to withdraw from the Carnatic, and move with speed to Malabar.

Early steps in the evolution of this strand had begun in the latter part of the 19th century, following the American Civil and Crimean wars, and prompted by fear of the loss of life and destruction caused by considerable improvements in weaponry.

The loss of these iconic executives, coupled with Hogan's displacement of Fairchild managers demoralized Fairchild and prompted the entire exodus of employees to found new companies.

The loss of the Finnish War in 1809 prompted a military coup which removed Gustav IV Adolf, replacing the Gustavian era with a new dynasty and a new constitution restoring initiative to the Estates.

The loss of White prompted Gallagher to comment, in a 2005 interview, that he puts Oasis ' trouble with drummers, in part, to the fact that he is himself a talented drummer, saying " I get a lot of stick for it, but I'm the best drummer in the group.

The loss of their former supremacy on Lake Champlain prompted the British to construct the 36-gun frigate at Ile aux Noix.

The light loss of life ( which they set at 2, 041 ) is attributed to a number of fortuitous circumstances, including earthquake education in the previous months ( prompted by elevated seismic activity ), local initiative, timing ( occurring when people were neither working nor asleep ), and local style of construction.

511 between the rival parties in the streets of Antioch and Emperor Anastasius I's sympathy of Non-Chalcedonianism prompted loss of favor in Flavian.

" Berg's husband, Lewis, who became a successful consulting engineer after the loss of his job which prompted her to write the initial radio script, refused to be photographed with his wife for publicity purposes, as he felt this was infringing on her success.

The loss of his electorate seat, however, prompted Tapsell's retirement from politics.

After Spain ’ s bloody and decisive defeat in the Spanish-American War, which resulted in thousands of dead Spaniards and the loss of all of Spain ’ s remaining colonies, these writers were prompted to voice their criticism.

* Anna's son Louis dies as a child in riding accident in the film, and Anna's decision to remain in Siam is prompted both by the King's sincere regret for her loss and her own maternal instincts: Prince Chulalongkorn becomes a sort of foster son for Anna.

The large scale loss of life prompted the Air Corps to look at a number of solutions, including Link's pilot trainer.

It has been suggested that news of the loss of the Irish packet Royal Adelaide with 250 lives, on the sands off Margate on April 6, 1850, prompted old Thomas White to present one of his lifeboats to his home town of Broadstairs that summer.

The loss of their flagship prompted the surviving Dutch ships to disperse and retreat, Duncan recalling the British ships with their prizes for the journey back to Yarmouth.

In accordance with Catholic teaching contrition ought to be prompted by God's grace and aroused by motives which spring from faith, as opposed to merely natural motives, such as loss of honour, fortune, and the like ( Chemnitz, Exam.

The loss of his leg and eye prompted him to volunteer to go into Harsh Realm ( in which Pinocchio has neither injury ).

A perceived lack of general understanding regarding the issue of system loss, inherent in the business of utilities prompted Meralco's former holding company First Philippine Holdings to issue advertisements explaining systems loss.

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

`` It was a terrible loss to me '', said Kate quietly, feeling the pain twist again at the mention, knowing now that Juanita must have written to him at Grafton.

He really crucified him he nailed it for a yard loss ''.

The vast majority of his Khoja Ismaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members, sensing their loss of prestige with the arrival of the Imam, wished to maintain control over communal properties.

Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.

Falling upon Jourdan he beat him in the battles of Amberg and Würzburg, and drove him over the Rhine with great loss.

As the speeches progress, Job's friends increasingly berate him for refusing to confess his sins, although they themselves are at a loss as to which sin he has committed.

Xavier's vast psionic powers enable him to manipulate the minds of others, warp perceptions to make himself seem invisible, project mental illusions, cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia, and induce pain or temporary mental and / or physical paralysis in others.

The army command may have resented Domitian's decision to retreat, but to him the Caledonian territories never represented anything more than a loss to the Roman treasury.

His autocratic style of government accentuated the Senate's loss of power, while his policy of treating patricians and even family members as equals to all Romans earned him their contempt.

There is a probability that John might not be able to get the full $ 150, 000 he is expecting in three years due to a slowing of price appreciation, or that loss of liquidity in the real estate market might make it very hard for him to sell at all.

Anna Murray-Douglass died in 1882, leaving him with a sense of great loss and depression for a time.

During that time his sister's family visited, and Orwell led a disastrous boating expedition which nearly led to loss of life whilst trying to cross the notorious gulf of Corryvreckan and gave him a soaking which was not good for his health.

Richard's younger brother John, who succeeded him, was not so fortunate ; he suffered the loss of Normandy and numerous other French territories following the disastrous Battle of Bouvines.

Emperor Wilhelm I described Abeken in a condolence letter to his widow: One of my most reliable advisors, standing on my side in the most decisive moments ; His loss is irreplaceable to me ; In him his fatherland has lost one of the most noble and most loyal men and officials.

Ironically, the loss of his priesthood had allowed him to pursue a military career, as the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.

His renewed service in the senate was interrupted by an illness that threatened him with the loss of his left eye.

He did relieve the cautious but capable Joseph E. Johnston and replaced him with the reckless John Bell Hood, resulting in the loss of Atlanta and the eventual loss of an army.

It tells the tale of a farmer whose indomitable spirit allows him to survive the destruction and loss of his farm in wartime and being abandoned by his wife and family.

Additionally, he often wore a Kryptonite ring on his right hand in Post-Crisis stories, but abandoned this tactic after prolonged exposure to K-radiation resulted in the loss of his hand and poisoned his entire body ( requiring him to transplant his brain into a cloned body in order to survive ).

When, in the wake of Savonarola's morality campaign, Baccio joined the Dominican order as Fra Bartolomeo in 1500 and gave up painting, Albertinelli, beside himself with the loss, would have joined him ; but, spurred by his success in completing an unfinished Last Judgment of Bartolomeo's, he resolved to carry on alone.

Per the instructions of the new Madame Web, Shang-Chi has begun training Spider-Man in kung fu to help him compensate for the recent loss of his spider-sense.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.