During this period, Imi trained several elite units of the Haganah and Palmach ( striking force of the Haganah and forerunner of the special units of the Israel Defense Forces ), including the Pal-Yam, as well as groups of police officers.

Britain, the forerunner of Europe's capitalist powers, however, was clearly the chief world investor, though the direction of its investments underwent a striking change, becoming oriented less toward Europe, the United States, and India, and more toward the rest of the Commonwealth and Latin America.

Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier cite Arthur Koestler ´ s 1964 book The Act of Creation as an early forerunner of conceptual blending: Koestler had identified a common pattern in creative achievements in the arts, sciences and humor that he had termed " bisociation of matrices "-a notion he described with many striking examples, but did not formalize in algorithmic terms.

Many democratic critics considered him as a renegade of the Wanderers ' ideals, producing ( like Henryk Siemiradzki ) striking but shallow works, while others see him as a forerunner of Russian Impressionism.

During this period, Imi trained several elite units of the Hagana and Palmach ( striking force of the Hagana and forerunner of the special units of the IDF ), including the Pal-yam, as well as groups of police officers.

Broszat used as an example of his approach, the " Ley Plan " as the wide-ranging reform of the German social insurance system proposed in 1940 by the DAF was known, which Broszat noted borne many striking similarities to the British Beveridge Plan of 1943 ( through the German plan applied only to those classified as " Aryans ") Broszat argued that such a comparative approach would place the Nazi era in a better broader European and German context, especially since Broszat argued that the German plan of 1940 was in many ways the forerunner of the West German social insurance plan of 1957 with such features as pensions guaranteed by the state indexed to the level of GNP ( which was not surprising given that many of the same people worked on both plans ) Broszat called for the " normalization " of the historical understanding of the Nazi era with detailed scholarship employing " mid-range " concepts based upon empirical research and rejecting the moralistic condemnation of the period.

But with a few striking exceptions, such as Xavante and Tahitian-which have no dorsal consonants whatsoever-nearly all other languages have at least one velar consonant: the few languages that do not have a simple usually have a consonant that is very similar.

A striking image of religion by such rules used by Paul is his use of the word ' shadows '.

In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".

Some systems, such as amateur wrestling, submission wrestling, judo, sumo, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu are exclusively grappling arts and do not allow striking.

Particularly striking examples of such unfair judgements were produced by noted Bach biographers Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer, who criticized Telemann's cantatas and then praised works they thought were composed by Bach — but which were, in fact, composed by Telemann, as was shown by later research.

* The Welsh romance Peredur, generally included in the Mabinogion, likely at least indirectly founded on Chrétien's poem but including very striking differences from it, preserving as it does elements of pre-Christian traditions such as the Celtic cult of the head.

Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands.

) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and other sports involving striking.

Although vehicles with higher clearances ( such as trucks ) are typically immune from this effect, the force of striking any 270 + kg ( 600 + pound ) object at high speed should not be underestimated.

His 1915 epic, The Birth of a Nation, used a number of colors, including amber, blue, lavender, and a striking red tint for scenes such as the " burning of Atlanta " and the ride of the Ku Klux Klan at the climax of the picture.

A striking exception is Sanskrit, whose orthography reflects a wide variety of such features: thus tat " that " is written tat, tac, taj, tad, tan depending on what the first sound of the next word is.

the report continues on to detail violations such as the lack of the right to organize unions in the public service in Lesotho ; the police use of stun guns, rubber bullets and tear gas at workers ' strikes and protests in South Africa ; and the death of a Djibouti drivers ' union member during a demonstration by striking minibus and lorry drivers.

The boss of the horns is typically arranged in such a way that two antelope striking at each other's horns cannot crack each other's skulls, making a fight via horn more ritualized than dangerous.

For example, the top predator in Australia, the Tasmanian Tiger, bore a striking resemblance to canids such as the Gray Wolf ; gliding possums and flying squirrels have similar adaptations enabling their arboreal lifestyle ; and the Numbat and anteaters are both digging insectivores.

It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton.

Impact breccias are thought to be diagnostic of an impact event such as an asteroid or comet striking the Earth, and are usually found at impact craters.

In contrast to grappling martial arts this will allow one to use striking techniques such as punching, elbowing, eye gouging, kicks and groin attack on the ground.

The problems with such a penetrator is the tremendous heat applied to the penetrator unit when striking the shielding ( surface ) at hundreds of meters per second.

This announcement or striking feature is an essential characteristic of true clocks and distinguishes such watches from ordinary timepieces.

This system was later combined with kicking and striking techniques of indigenous and contemporary arts such as taekkyeon and tang soo do.

In Season One, however, after the title sequence, the sound of a striking match would be heard, and a fade-up from black would reveal a hand holding a lit match and " Show # x " handwritten on a piece of paper that was placed in such a way so that it could blend with the surrounding objects in-frame.

It is striking that a prominent play in a time of such imperialism contains no political propaganda, no impassioned apostrophe, and, with the exception of the epiklerate ( the right of the daughter to continue her dead father's lineage ), and possibly the strong theme against anarchy, makes no contemporary allusion or passing reference to Athens.

* Mournblade ( as Mourneblade ) is featured in Konami's video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and possesses the ability to heal the player character whenever he strikes something with it ( much like how Mournblade and Stormbringer grant their wielder health and vitality when used to slay a foe, though the game weapon can grant health even when striking non-living objects, such as candles ).

The superstition of our ancestors, to within twenty or thirty years thereabouts, was such that in almost all the towns in the kingdom they had a notion that certain spirits underwent their Purgatory in this world after death, and that they went about the town during the night, striking and outraging many people whom they found in the streets.

Most henges do not contain stone circles ; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury ( and to a lesser extent Stonehenge ) among the greatest of such sites.

These jacks were known to stop even heavy arrows and their design of multiple layers bears a striking resemblance to modern day body armor, which substituted at first silk, ballistic nylon and later Kevlar as fabric.

The constitution of the Galatian state is described by Strabo and bare striking resemblance to later Germanic kingdoms and early feudalism during the Dark Ages.

dumbbell, striking the back of his head, later saying he had committed the crime because " the guy wanted to leave and didn't want him to.

Sceptics point out that several years later, a log was filmed underwater which bore a striking resemblance to the gargoyle head.

According to the Bible, after crossing the Red Sea and leading the Israelites towards the desert, Moses was summoned by God to Mount Sinai, also referred to as Mount Horeb, the same place where Moses had first talked to the Burning Bush, tended the flocks of Jethro his father-in-law, and later produced water by striking the rock with his staff and directed the battle with the Amalekites.

Venice began to lose its position as a center of international trade during the later part of the Renaissance as Portugal became Europe's principal intermediary in the trade with the East, striking at the very foundation of Venice's great wealth, while France and Spain fought for hegemony over Italy in the Italian Wars, marginalising its political influence.

* 1075 – 1077: the Song Dynasty of China and the Lý Dynasty of Vietnam fight a border war, with Vietnamese forces striking first on land and with their navy, and afterwards Song armies advancing as far as modern-day Hanoi, the capital, but withdraw after Lý makes peace overtures ; in 1082, both sides exchange the territories that they had captured during the war, and later a border agreement is reached.

He had a striking resemblance to the Italian princes of the later Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, of the stamp of Filippo Maria Visconti.

He finds one particularly striking ; this valkyrie is detailed later in a prose narrative as Sváva, king Eylimi's daughter, who " often protected him in battles ".

City Council's new proposal was unsatisfactory to the four departments, and the municipal Electrical Workers took action and began striking on May 15, 1919, with the waterwork and fire alarm employees joining a few days later.

The style of his films is most striking in his later films, a style he had not fully developed until his post-war talkies.

His father, Jerry, had been a budding jazz drummer in his youth and practiced with visiting jazz groups at the Lighthouse Café, later opening a bait shop in the 1970s and striking up a friendship with Ozzie Cadena ( both men's sons, Keith and Dez, later became singers in Black Flag ).

His court officials ( many of whom would rise to great influence in later years, often in former Douglas lands ) then joined in the bloodbath, one allegedly striking out the Earl's brain with an axe.

However Wagner did introduce one striking new image, which was to be taken up after him by many later antisemitic authors:

Significant for practical applications, Elster and Geitel two years later demonstrated the same effect using visible light striking alkali metals ( potassium and sodium ).

The shape-forming techniques typical of eclecticism that were applied in the façades of these buildings even many decades later make one appreciate and admire the striking accuracy of detail.

Indeed, in many areas, striking miners made a distinction between those who had returned to work after only a couple of months strike, and those who felt forced to return to work for the sake of their children, many months later.

To evade statutory prohibitions on the striking of silver coin during the Napoleonic Wars, all Maundy pieces issued from 1800 to 1815 bear the date 1800, though most were struck later.

Bacon was later to tell Stephen Spender that he had been very impressed by the work of a photographer who had produced striking effects using mirrors and natural light filtered through screens, but that he could not remember the artist's name.

" Five years later appeared a limited edition of the striking ballad of The Christ upon the Hill, illustrated with etchings by William Strang.

Harris sparred verbally with a hostess, and later, when the hostess proceeded to talk to her manager, Harris attacked her from behind, striking her in the face with a rum bottle.

He died two-and-a-half years after his retreat, of an accident — striking himself on the head while passing through a doorway, he succumbed to a sudden coma several hours later.