Although Ares received occasional sacrifice from armies going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

Over the next few days the armies of Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, and Syria invaded Israel, and officially and militarily threatened to occupy the whole of the former Mandate territory, thereby starting the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, known in Israel as the War of Independence (, Milhamat HaAtzma ' ut ).

War is the parent of armies ; from these proceed debts and taxes ; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Whatever the reason for the failure, the French and German armies returned home, and a few years later Damascus was firmly under Nur ad-Din's control.

The West was hesitant to send large-scale expeditions ; for the next few decades, only small armies came, headed by minor European nobles who desired to make a pilgrimage.

The tax helped pay for larger armies for the next few years.

All battles mentioned in the introduction are ranked among the most costly traditional battles of human history ; in addition there were a few successful ambushes of armies that also ended in their annihilation.

In the first editions, the playing pieces were wooden cubes representing one army each and a few rounded triangular prisms representing ten armies each, but in later versions of the game these pieces were molded of plastic to reduce costs.

Within a few weeks, five new armies totaling more than 500, 000 troops were recruited.

During Europe's major pre-revolutionary war, the Seven Years ' War of 1756 – 1763, few armies ever numbered more than 200, 000.

However during the period until the beginning of the 19th century few formal arms control agreements were recorded, except theoretical proposals and those imposed on defeated armies.

A few months after the French succeeded in liberating Paris from Nazi occupation, with the help of the Allied armies, Chagall published a letter in a Paris weekly, " To the Paris Artists ":

However, when the two armies met at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459, though only a few miles away, Stanley kept his 2, 000 men out of the fight.

We are menaced less by fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies in the hands of the embittered few ," and required " defending the United States, the American people, and our interests at home and abroad by identifying and destroying the threat before it reaches our borders.

Unlike some other armies which have many army choices ( squads / vehicles ) which work many roles with few specialists, the Eldar have many specialists and few which can handle many roles.

Within a few years, he dispatched armies on a campaign to reassert Umayyad control over the Islamic empire.

During the Civil War the countryside was scourged by armies of both sides, and when the war was over, few homes were left standing.

With this concept Tyranid armies can now boast either the many troops and / or a just few powerful units.

The two armies met at Interamna Nahars ( modern Terni ), at the southern end of the eastern branch of the Flaminia, and Aemilian won the battle ; Gallus and Volusianus fled with few followers towards north, probably to gather time before the arrival of the reinforcements, but at Forum Flaminii ( modern San Giovanni Profiamma ), on the western branch of Flaminia, they were killed by some of their own guards, who thought that their betrayal could earn them a reward.

Villars claimed that a few more such French defeats would destroy the allied armies ; and the historian John A. Lynn in his book The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714 terms the battle a Pyrrhic victory but the attempt to save Mons failed, and the fortress fell on 20 October.

After a few initial victories, such as in Galicia in 1915 and with the Brusilov offensive in 1916, the Tsar's armies were confronted with a number of very serious defeats.

A few of these new impositions were different succession laws that allowed the British to take over a state with no successor and gain its land and armies, new taxes and monopolistic control of industry.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

The damage to human germ plasm would be such that in the next few generations 160,000 children around the world would be born with gross physical or mental defects.

`` Put a few such songs together '', they urged him.

Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

Each year a few more institutions are deciding such questions as: Shall we require a liberal education built around a humanities core for all undergraduates??

Bring along the conventional ones -- catsup, pickle relish, mustard, mayonnaise -- plus a few extras, such as tangy barbecue sauce, chive cream cheese, or horse-radish for the brave ones in the crowd.

On the other hand, there are a few antithyroid drugs of this same general type, such as resorcinol, possessing no reducing activity and possibly acting through formation of a complex with molecular iodine.

Frequently a few isolated thick-walled cells or, rarely, groups of such cells in the xylem region, were also specifically stained, but there was no such staining in epidermis, cortex, most xylem cells, ray cells, or pith.

If, for instance, such a change is produced by one or a few insulin comas or electroshocks, previously inhibited conditioned reactions reappear.

The few cases of clear favoritism along social-class lines are as likely as not to involve representatives of the working class on the school board who favor some such practice as higher wages for janitors rather than pay increases for teachers, and such issues are not issues of educational policy.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.

The idea has received much attention in philosophy, in literature, and in a few works of general social criticism, such as The Sane Society.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

but very few seemed aware that such acceptance and identification need to be supplemented with more enduring and stable identification of and with one's self.

The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon -- such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

Altogether, Starostin concluded that the Altaic grouping was substantiated, though " older than most other language families in Eurasia, such as Indo-European or Finno-Ugric, and this is the reason why the modern Altaic languages preserve few common elements ".

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

However, astatine has a few metallic characteristics as well, such as plating out on a cathode, coprecipitating with metal sulfides in hydrochloric acid, and forming a cation in strong acidic solutions.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

There are only a few aspects which are produced simultaneously, such as tone in some languages, or vowel and consonant harmony, and which are therefore not straightforward to write with an alphabet.