In the midst of preparations for sending help to France, and in the atmosphere of the first wave of libelles, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph came to call on his sister and brother-in-law on 18 April 1777, the subsequent six-week visit in Versailles a part of the attempt to figure out why their marriage had not been consummated.

However, when Roger Lancelyn Green asked him how a lamp post came to be standing in the midst of Narnian woodland, Lewis was intrigued enough by the question to attempt to find an answer by writing The Magician's Nephew, which features a younger version of Professor Kirke from the first novel.

In the midst of the ensuing intrigue an assassination attempt is made on Corwin and he finds himself incapacitated on Earth.

" Historian Daniel Richter characterizes the Native attempt to drive out the British, and the effort of the Paxton Boys to eliminate Native Americans from their midst, as parallel examples of ethnic cleansing.

While in Cuba, Michael sends his bodyguard to eliminate Roth on New Year's Eve, but the bodyguard is killed by soldiers in the midst of the attempt.

He was overthrown in the Revolution of ' 43 military coup in the midst of an unpopular attempt to impose Robustiano Patrón Costas as his successor.

After finding Tara in the midst of a suicide attempt, Maya and Tara reconcile.

A positive reversal of fortune would be Nicholas Van Orton's suicide attempt after mistakenly believing himself to have accidentally killed his brother, only to land safely in the midst of his own birthday party, in the film The Game.

Early in February 1651, still in the midst of terrible weather, Cromwell made another resolute but futile attempt to reach Stirling.

In the midst of this conflict the governments attempt to demolish the remains of the Colonial Barracks (" the Barracks Arch ") immediately opposite the parliament building led to a parliamentary revolt within the Liberal Party.

The SPO participated in the attempt to overthrow Milošević through the rest of 1999 through street demonstrations, but Drašković chose in the midst of them to break off his alliance with Zoran Đinđić.

In 1906, Cuba was in the midst of a constitutional crisis as a result of a disputed election and an attempt by elected President Tomás Estrada Palma to stay in power after the conclusion of his term.

Even more for the circle of dancers within the Sama ' who turn and have in their midst, their own Ka ' aba.

If the gospel is read in the midst of the congregation ( for example, in the middle aisle of the church ), members of the congregation turn, as necessary, so that each of them is facing the Gospel Book.

Honky's first major feud came against Jake " the Snake " Roberts, who was in the midst of a fan favorite turn.

By September 1987, " Macho Man " Randy Savage was in the midst of a face turn and began challenging Honky for the Intercontinental title ( after Honky had made comments about himself being " the greatest Intercontinental champion of all time " and disparaging comments about former champions, particularly Savage ).

Her history moves them to tears and they in turn are in the midst of relating to Idalia the involved story of their courtship when the vessel is wrecked in a gale.

That incident helped set up Roberts ' feud with the Undertaker, who was in the midst of a face turn.

Although he was born during the midst of a failing Austrian Imperial government in Hungary and he had inherited a failing Hungarian Constitutional government, he managed to turn Hungary into a modern state.

They continue spending afternoons on the beach where, in the midst of scantily-clad teenage girls, their thoughts invariably turn to sex.

However, in the midst of recording their second full-length album in 1988, Graeme's health took another turn and he went back to Scotland for treatment.

There are many futurists, " geniuses ", and self-styled seers in our midst who, upon careful examination, turn out to be disappointingly commercial and exploitive.

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and when I see not one ray of light on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita, and find a verse to comfort me ; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow.

" The one great certainty to which, in the midst of the darkest doubt, I never ceased to cling — the entire symmetry and loveliness and the unequalled nobleness of the humanity of the Son of Man.

TimeSplitters 2 starts off in the year 2401 in the midst of a war between humanity and the TimeSplitters, an alien race bent on the destruction of mankind.

In it, Qutb argued that humanity was in the midst of a profound crisis caused by the failure to adopt a value system that could allow human beings to live in harmony ; the threat of nuclear war was a symptom of this ailment.

He, like many Canadian farmers of the era, conceived of farmers as a distinct social class in the midst of a class struggle against capitalists who owned the banks, railways, and grain trading companies which profited from the efforts of farmers.

Due to concerns about widespread and well-documented corruption in Chiang's government throughout his rule ( though not always with his knowledge ), the U. S. government limited aid to Chiang for much of the period of 1946 to 1948, in the midst of fighting against the People's Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong.

* 1467 July – In the midst of a nobility revolt against the King, the forces of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, after a 16-month siege, took Gibraltar.

* 1779 June – In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, Spain declared war against Great Britain ( as France had done the year before )

Their final counteroffensives against the Order of Reason were foiled by internal dissent and treachery in their midst.

El Salvador was in the midst of a Civil War in the period in question and the US was heavily supporting El Salvador against the FMLN guerrillas.

This fossil preserves a single Velociraptor in the midst of battle against a lone Protoceratops.

The sources also disagree on how Harald got out of prison, but he may have been helped by someone outside to escape in the midst of the revolt that had begun against the new emperor.

Despite this, Thiệu agreed to join the coup against Diệm in November 1963 in the midst of the Buddhist crisis, leading the siege on Gia Long Palace.

This particular adventurer, however, seems to know how to play one power against another and manages to keep his balance in the midst of chaos.

In addition, a public body, MILDT ( Interministerial Mission for the fight against drugs and addiction ) informs extensively ( website, brochures, etc ..) On the hard drugs, placing cannabis in the midst of them, the compared to drugs such as cocaine or LSD.

They flew bombing missions against targets in North Vietnam and Laos in the midst of the monsoon season.

A letter was let down from the roof of one of the churches, in the midst of a vast congregation of Indians, which was supposed to come from the Virgin Mary, commissioning Carrera to lead a revolt against the government.

Besides Aberhart, it featured actors portraying two characters of whom Aberhart had been making considerable use in presentations around the province: the Man from Mars, who expressed bewilderment that poverty could exist in the midst of plenty and that governments were doing nothing about it, and Kant B. Dunn, who brought up straw man arguments against social credit for Aberhart to dismantle.

In a June 2012 episode entitled “ Dollars and Dentists ,” Frontline came under criticism for using Christina Browne -- a convicted felon who was in the midst of a wrongful termination suit against a target of the documentary, “ Kool Smiles ”-- as their primary source of information on the company.

In the third inning of the second game of a July 30 doubleheader against the Houston Astros, after scoring 11 runs in the ninth inning of the first game, the Astros were in the midst of a ten-run third inning, hitting a number of line drives to left field.

Sander Gilman, in commenting on this passage, writes that, ' the Islam he discovered becomes the model for a new spirit of Judaism at the close of the nineteenth century .’ In Cairo Goldziher even prayed as a Muslim: " In the midst of the thousands of the pious, I rubbed my forehead against the floor of the mosque.

In order to justify his newly-won laurels, Luynes undertook an expedition against the Protestants, but died of a fever in the midst of the campaign, at Longueville in Guienne, on 15 December 1621.

The sole vote against expulsion was Rep. Gary Condit, who at the time was in the midst of a scandal of his own and had been defeated in his reelection primary.

The fact that his assassination came in the midst of a pattern of violence against Shia clerics in Najaf in the weeks leading up to his death ( Al-Hakim was the fourth to be assassinated ) led some to conclude that the attack was most likely motivated by anti-Shia sentiment.

In the midst of disarray in Joseon politics at this time, a series of Seonbi scholars mobilized volunteers to fight against the external foreign influence on the government.

A secondary aspect of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was the uprooting of the aforementioned nomadic Arab tribesmen from their original home regions in the Arabian Peninsula in order to proactively avert these tribal peoples, and particularly their young men, from revolting against the Islamic state established in their midst.

* The Seattle Mariners ' Brian Holman was in the midst of a perfect game bid against Oakland on April 20, 1990, when Pete O ' Brien was moved from DH to 1B in the eighth inning.

" " He wrote against popery and embraced it ; he was a zealous opposer of the court and a sacrifice for it ; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford and was most unconscientiously a persecutor of Lord Clarendon.

In 304, in the midst of the War of the Eight Princes, Sima Rui participated in Sima Yue the Prince of Donghai's campaign against Sima Ying the Prince of Chengdu as a minor general.