From Arkona, Absalon proceeded by sea to Charenza, in the midst of Rügen, the political capital of the Wends and an all but impregnable stronghold.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

The spiritual teacher Meher Baba described dualism as consisting of the opposites of experience, which must become balanced before one can go beyond them: " Evolution from the standpoint of the Creator is a divine sport, in which the Unconditioned tests the infinitude of His absolute knowledge, power and bliss in the midst of all conditions.

We ought not to forget the transitory character of all external advantages, even in the midst of our enjoyment of them ; but always to bear in mind that they are not our own, and that therefore they do not properly belong to us.

At least once, in the midst of his reign at MGM, he was arrested on vice charges, but studio executives managed to get the charges dropped and all records of it expunged, and the incident never was publicized by the press.

When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.

They must need but little water, if any at all, as their ' towns ' are often, indeed generally, found in the midst of the most arid plains — unless we suppose they dig down to subterranean fountains.

" We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater ; therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure " ( 2 Thess 1: 3-5 ).

Still, in the midst of all the island's chaos, it should be noted that Ralph has a tendency to be polite and logical in the tensest of moments ; for example, when the children are obliged to investigate Castle Rock, Ralph takes the lead despite being afraid of " the beast ".

On 11 December 1891 Gladstone said that: " It is a lamentable fact if, in the midst of our civilisation, and at the close of the nineteenth century, the workhouse is all that can be offered to the industrious labourer at the end of a long and honourable life.

Despite her world famous role, Smith is rarely recognized in public, which she does not mind, saying " it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall ; people never recognise me solely from my voice.

The leader and the congregation then say together three times " May all the people of Israel be forgiven, including all the strangers who live in their midst, for all the people are in fault.

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars ' hill, and said, " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

* The Acts of the Apostles says that Judas used the money to buy a field, but fell headfirst, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

She said, " it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall ; people never recognise me solely from my voice.

In the midst of the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was severely short of replacement troops for existing military units — all of which were totally white in composition.

To keep order in the midst of the flurry, it was decreed that all dwellings be kept off the middle of streets.

The Indians all know we cannot be a Match for them in the midst of an extensive woody Country ... from whence I infer that if we are determined to possess Our Posts, Trade & ca securely, it cannot be done for a Century by any other means than that of purchasing the favour of the numerous Indian inhabitants. With the proclamation, “ the British were trying to convince Native people that there was nothing to fear from the colonists, while at the same time trying to increase political and economic power relative to First Nations and other European powers .” However, the Royal Proclamation along with the subsequent Treaty of Niagara, provide for an argument that “ discredits the claims of the Crown to exercise sovereignty over First Nations ” and affirms Aboriginal “ powers of self-determination in, among other things, allocating lands .” Further so, the Royal Proclamation outlined a policy in which to protect and extinguish Aboriginal rights and in doing so, recognized these rights existed.

" In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.

According to singer Milo Aukerman: " While drinking all this coffee in the midst of catching mackerel they came up with the concept of All — doing the utmost, achieving the utmost.

The leader and the congregation then say together three times, " May all the people of Israel be forgiven, including all the strangers who live in their midst, for all the people are in fault.

The British adopted similar thinking when it came to the Russians, who were in the midst of their revolution.

In the midst of this commotion came the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381.

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.

: Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

Flavio Briatore's future as QPR chairman came under question in September 2009 after he left the Renault F1 team in the midst of race fixing allegations.

For the first few years of the new century, Shawnee was in the midst of a boom that came close to keeping pace with Oklahoma City's.

He began his career in the midst of this period of intellectual ferment, and as a young scholar came into direct contact with some of the leading figures of the various movements that were to shape the style and substance of social sciences into the next century and beyond.

This was stimulated by major improvements in agricultural technology, promoted by the pro-agrarian state which came to power in the midst of a pro-Confucian peasant's rebellion.

The Quran states that, Mary was in the midst of the desert in Bayt Lahm ( Bethlehem ), when the pains of childbirth came upon her, amidst Mary's agony, God made a small river run under Mary from which she could drink.

These problems came in the midst of a transfer of power at AMC from Paul Tippet to a French executive, Pierre Semerena.

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.

It came in the midst of increasing tensions between the U. S. and Spain regarding territorial rights at a time of weakened Spanish power.

The T25 and T26 lines of tanks came into being in the midst of a heated internal debate within the U. S. Army in the mid-1943 to early 1944 over the need for tanks with greater firepower and armor.

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.

By 1877, when the Borough Council came into existence, Palmerston North was an isolated village in the midst of the native forest that covered inland Manawatu.

In the midst of this trilogy came The Stonemason, McCarthy's second dramatic work.

: " the unruly Sherden whom no one had ever known how to combat, they came boldly sailing in their warships from the midst of the sea, none being able to withstand them.

Their steel had all become solid rubies " suddenly in the midst of the contest, an arrow from the bend bow of divener wrath reached Hemu's eye, and piercing the socket, came out at the back of his head.

However, the Phulkian chiefs, who were on good terms with the Rais, had no intention of allowing the Bedi to establish himself in their midst and came to their aid, driving the invaders out of the villages.

A bright spot in the midst of the team's disappointing seasons came from a terrible tragedy.

The official record runs: " On Wednesday, being Bartholomew Day, we marched forth, some of our souldiers ... went to the Cathedrall about 9 or 10 of the clock, in the midst of their superstitious worship, with their singing men and boyes ; they ... went about the work they came for.