Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

* a middle period of disillusionment at the senselessness of war ( Hecuba, Women of Troy )

In the middle of a bloody demolition derby, Montag unplugs the walls and engages the women into meaningful conversation, only to find them concerned only with pleasure in the present moment and indifferent to the upcoming war, death, their families, and politics.

The government knew that such air raids were impossible but the goal was to psychologically mobilize many thousands of middle class volunteers to make them feel part of the war effort.

This war would eventually be called Crimean War, but the entire foreign policy negotiations surrounding the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, which would continue throughout the middle and end of nineteenth century the problem would be referred to as the " Eastern Question.

Moscow's leadership in Russia was now firmly based and by the middle of the 14th century its territory had greatly expanded through purchase, war, and marriage.

In the middle of the 19th century — a time of change, as Emperor Napoleon III rebuilt Paris and waged war — the Académie des Beaux-Arts dominated French art.

When Britain and France went to war in 1793, the U. S. was caught in the middle.

There is a statue in the middle of the park honoring soldiers from the civil war, and there are a few benches and some foliage.

Joris Ivens ( left ) with Ernest Hemingway ( middle ) and Ludwig Renn in the Spanish civil war, 1936 / 37.

Much of the research conducted around the middle of the 20th century occurred in the former Eastern Bloc before the cold war ended and has not held up to the scrutiny of stricter Western scientific standards.

Military expenses increased steadily during the 3rd century, mainly in response to the need to defend against the renewed war with Sassanid Persia, which began in the middle of the 3rd century.

Civil war between rival emperors became common in the middle of the 4th century, diverting men from the empire's frontier forces and allowing the barbarians to encroach.

In the middle years of the war, they created entire mechanized infantry divisions, which they named Panzergrenadier divisions.

Another group advocated a moderated middle course, not allies of the Hohenstaufen, but keen to reach an end to the Italian war.

Not only were men conscripted into the armed forces from the beginning of the war ( something which had not happened until the middle of World War I ), but women were also conscripted as Land Girls to aid farmers and the Bevin Boys were conscripted to work down the coal mines.

In Gaea, she is caught in the middle of a war as the Zaibach Empire attempts to take over Gaea.

By the middle of 1943, however, it became clear audiences were tired of war films.

By the middle of the century large ' jacht ' fleets were found around the Dutch coast and the Dutch states organised large ' reviews ' of private and war yachts for special occasions, thus putting in place the groundwork for the modern sport of yachting.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

* May 19 – May 20 – French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.

( 3 ) After a lengthy debate whether it was less appropriate to refuse a triumph to man, in his presence, in whose name when absent a thanksgiving ( supplicatio ) had been decreed and honour paid to the Immortal Gods by reason of the things successfully accomplished under his leadership, ( 4 ) or for a man to triumph as though a war had been concluded whom they had ordered to hand over his army to a successor ( something that would not be decreed if no war remained in the province ) when his army, the witness of a deserved as of an undeserved triumph, was far away, the middle course seemed best: that he should enter the City in ovation ( ovans ).

The man-o ' war sheepshank is a sheepshank knot with a Handcuff knot in the middle.

Patton's ability to disengage six divisions from frontline combat during the middle of winter, then wheel north to relieve besieged Bastogne was one of his most remarkable achievements during the war.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

In fact, by the middle Cretaceous, equatorial ocean waters ( perhaps as warm as 20 ° C in the deep ocean ) may have been too warm for sea life, and land areas near the equator may have been deserts despite their proximity to water.

" On the other hand Clement Greenberg called Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ) " the first real Modernist ", though he also wrote, " What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle of the last century — and rather locally, in France, with Baudelaire in literature and Manet in painting, and perhaps with Flaubert, too, in prose fiction.

When the curve is given as a continuous function, perhaps as an algebraic formula, then the differential calculus provides rules giving a formula for the slope of the curve at any point in the middle of the curve.

Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox ( perhaps a rhinoceros ) as one-horned beasts, as well as " a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse ; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length.

There was at the time ( middle of the 15th century, perhaps as early as 1388 ) a similar statue made of stone.

The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on Siouan dialect and subculture: Isáŋyathi or Isáŋathi (" Knife ," originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota ), residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Iowa, and are often referred to as the Santee or Eastern Dakota ; Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (" Village-at-the-end " and " little village-at-the-end "), residing in the Minnesota River area, they are considered to be the middle Sioux, and are often referred to as the Yankton and the Yanktonai, or, collectively, as the Wičhíyena ( endonym ) or the Western Dakota ( and have been erroneously classified as “ Nakota ”); Thítȟuŋwaŋ or Teton ( uncertain, perhaps " Dwellers on the Prairie "; this name is archaic among the natives, who prefer to call themselves Lakȟóta ), the westernmost Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, are often referred to as the Lakota.

These methods generally involved the scraping or cutting-away of part of the stamp, or perhaps punching a hole through its middle.

For example, a value in memory could be read with post-increment almost as quickly as it could be read ; the hardware simply incremented the value between the read phase and the write phase of a single memory cycle ( perhaps signalling the memory controller to pause briefly in the middle of the cycle ).

In 1212, perhaps the greatest of the early fires of London broke out on both ends of the bridge simultaneously, trapping many in the middle and reportedly resulting in the death of 3, 000 people.

By the middle of the 20th century, the sphere of direct action had undoubtedly expanded, though the meaning of the term had perhaps contracted.

A boulder or ledge in the middle of a river or near the side can obstruct the flow of the river, and can also create a " cushion "; a " drop " ( over the boulder ); and " hydraulics " or " holes " where the river flows back on itself — perhaps back under the drop — often with fearful results for those caught in its grasp.

If this happens in the middle of a performance, the guitar is not going to be of much use to a guitarist who would like to sound " in-tune ", which is perhaps most users of the Floyd-Rose ( since the main advantage of the system is to achieve pitch-bends without losing intonation when the whammy bar returns to its stationary position ).

Example of LOS D is perhaps the level of service of a busy shopping corridor in the middle of a weekday, or a functional urban highway during commuting hours.

The attainment of post-secondary and graduate degrees is the perhaps most important feature of a middle and upper middle class person with the university being regarded as the most essential institution and gatekeeper of the professional middle class.

There is historical evidence that by the middle of the 4th century the Christian churches of the East celebrated the birth and Baptism of Jesus on the same day, on January 6 while those in the West celebrated a Nativity feast on December 25 ( perhaps influenced by the Winter solstice ); and that by the last quarter of the 4th century, the calendars of both churches included both feasts.

" By the middle of the 2nd century, the town grew perhaps to four times its original size.

The pianos being bought today tend to be of higher quality and more expensive than those of several decades ago, suggesting perhaps that domestic piano playing may have concentrated itself in homes of wealthier or better-educated members of the middle class.

Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum ), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Augustine, probably alluding to the passage already mentioned: " Est et alius cursus quem refert beatus augustinus episcopus quod beatus ambrosius propter hereticorum ordinem dissimilem composuit quem in italia antea de cantabatur " ( There is yet another Cursus which the blessed Bishop Augustine says that the blessed Ambrose composed because of the existence of a different use of the heretics, which previously used to be sung in Italy ).

Before the middle of the 16th century, there were few Jews in the area, concentrated in Lublin, Kazimierz Dolny, and perhaps Chełm ; but the founding of new private towns led to a large movement of Jews into the region to develop trade and services.

Another possible explanation is that as a cod grows it tends to eat more, growing even bigger and eating even more, thus encapsulating how the noblemen perhaps saw the expanding middle classes of the time.

At first sight, this created the impression that perhaps elevator cars were being manufactured in the middle of the building and sent upwards to the roof and downwards to the basement to be dismantled.