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course and series
The aftermath of the plague created a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history.
Though she abandons the ship several times during the course of the series, her attachment to the crew always brings her back.
** Christopher Reeve in the Superman film series, who was praised for making the disguise's effectiveness credible to audiences, portrayed Clark Kent as massively clumsy, paranoid, and, of course, mild mannered.
The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent ( consciously or unconsciously ).
In the course of a series of uprisings, Crown forces pursued scorched-earth tactics, burning the land and slaughtering man, woman and child.
Continuity is a film term that suggests that a series of shots should be physically continuous, as if the camera simply changed angles in the course of a single event.
Significant internal reforms were introduced during the later part of the 18th century, but the reform process was not allowed to run its course, as the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy through a series of invasions and partitions terminated the Commonwealth's independent existence in 1795.
Zeus, as punishment for the slaughter of Medea's own brother, sent a series of storms at the Argo and blew it off course.
Returning his attention to education, Mao enrolled and dropped out of a series of schools in quick succession ; a police academy, a soap-production school, a law school and an economics school, the latter being the only course which his father approved of.
* S. M. Stirling's Lords of Creation series includes In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, in which Mars ( as well as Venus ) have been terraformed by unknown aliens over the course of hundreds of millions of years and seeded with all kinds of terrestrial life.
Dodd also wrote many other songs used in individual segments over the course of the series.
The global climate cooled considerably over the course of the Neogene, culminating in a series of continental glaciations in the Quaternary Period that follows.
* Peach Circuit, a racing course in the Mario Kart video game series
Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").
Science fiction author and scientist / science writer Isaac Asimov popularized the term in his famous Foundation series of novels, though in his works the term is used fictionally for a mathematical discipline that can be used to predict the general course of future flow.
Over the course of his career Heinlein wrote four somewhat overlapping series.
Over the course of the series, Clemente had 12 hits in 29 at-bats for a. 414 average, performed well defensively, and hit a solo home run in the deciding 2 – 1 seventh game victory.
Retcons are done for many reasons, including the accommodation of sequels or further derivative works in a series, wherein newer authors or creators want to revise the in-story history to allow a course of events that would not have been possible in the story's original continuity.
The nod to retroactive continuity is a joke meant to be shared between the writers and the viewers as a way of pointing out that anything done throughout the course of the series can easily be undone with a simple plot device ; it also points to parent show Doctor Whos frequent use of the device in its several-decade run.
This series, produced by Steven Bochco, featured many elements borrowed from soap operas such as an ensemble cast, multi-episode storylines, and extensive character development over the course of the series.
The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".
During the course of the TV series, Voyager has contact with the Q Continuum on three occasions, and repeated contact with the Borg.
At the end of the series, Dawson described B ' Elanna's character arc as that of an unruly young woman who matures over the course of seven years.

course and defeats
After defeats in battle, the desertion of his Armenian allies and his failure to capture Parthian strongholds convinced Antony to retreat, his army was further depleted by the hardships of its retreat through Armenia in the depths of winter, losing more than a quarter of its strength in the course of the campaign.
The Taliban's early victories in 1994 were followed by a series of defeats that resulted in heavy losses which led analysts to believe that the Taliban movement as such might have run its course.
* In the course of the Warring States Period, the army of the state of Qi defeats the army of the state of Wei in the Battle of Maling.
The defeats of Austerlitz, Eylau, and Friedland led to important additional reforms, though continuous fighting in the course of three wars with France, two with Sweden, and two with the Ottoman Empire had not allowed time for these to be fully implemented and absorbed.
During the course of the game, Link locates the eight underground labyrinths, defeats several guardian monsters, and retrieves the fragments.
During the course of the storyline, the character recovers and, courtesy of his abilities, mimics and defeats Klaw in turn and assists the Fantastic Four in stopping the Molecule Man.
Disease and dissension within the command structure defeats d ' Anville's force, which despite its formidable strength has no discernible effect on the course of events in North America.
In the course of the comic, he defeats the nefarious plans of a being called the Umbra Sprite.
The first collaborators were formed from Soviet Cossack POWs and deserters after the consequences of the Red Army's early defeats in the course of Operation Barbarossa.
Drizzt defeats Errtu twice in the course of his adventures.
Aside from being one of the worst defeats suffered by the Americans during the war, it was especially significant given its proximity to the upcoming election between President William McKinley and his anti-imperialist opponent William Jennings Bryan, the outcome of which many believed would determine the ultimate course of the war.
* At The Belfry golf course near Sutton Coldfield, England, the European team defeats the United States team 15. 5-12. 5 to win the Ryder Cup.
Although Ricochet defeats her, during the course of the battle one of the containers is smashed and the former Generation X mutant known as Penance emerges.
Economic troubles, the decay of the Spanish bureaucracy, a series of defeats in wars against France, and the erosion of imperial institutions in the seventeenth century had left Charles the king of a declining empire, and his physical and mental weakness provided him with little ability to reverse the course of his country.
The Taliban's early victories in 1994 were followed by a series of defeats that resulted in heavy losses which led analysts to believe the Taliban movement had run its course.
Peter Wilson states that the defeat of Pakistan Army in the battle of Asal Uttar was one of the greatest defeats suffered by Pakistan forces in the course of Indo-Pak war of 1965.
Plagued with logistical problems, outdated military equipment and incompetent Russian officers, Russian forces suffered numerous defeats in the course of the war, which ended in September 1905, in the aftermath of the destruction of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima.
Suffering a string of defeats from the governmental armies, Huang Chao again managed to flee eastward, but his career had now run its course.

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