Second, the Murgab delta, being a large well-watered zone in the midst of the dry Karakum, serves as a natural stopping-point for the routes from northwest Iran towards Transoxiana – the Silk Roads.

Educated, against his own wishes, at Selwyn House, Broadstairs, and then Eton, Chichester-Clark left school and entered adulthood in the midst of the Second World War.

Written in the midst of the Second World War, at a time when Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany, The Secret of the Unicorn is the first book in the Adventures of Tintin to avoid political themes, instead focusing purely on an adventure story, and for this reason has been described as being the first book in Hergé's middle period.

In the midst of the season, Lens and Papin are fighting to avoid relegation to the Second Division.

In the midst of fierce German efforts to retake the hill, Second Lieutenant Woolley's company were sent up on the afternoon of 20 April to take ammunition supplies to the defenders.

That Parliament, however, had been called by Simon de Montfort in the midst of the Second Barons ' War against Henry III of England ; that the same scheme should be adopted by a king ( Henry's son and heir, who had quelled Montfort's uprising ) was remarkable.

Second, St. Thomas was now in the midst of the Atlantic hurricane season, which would last until autumn.

By the midst of the Second World War, three-dimensional attack ( from above and below the surface ) had become the primary means of sinking both vessels at sea and destroying the combat capability of armies on land.

Schoenberg was in the midst of composing his Second String Quartet, which he dedicated to her.

In the midst of Vancouver's playoff run, Nash was named to the Second All-League team.

" I see in our midst an enemy more dangerous, insidious and ruthless than any faced since the Second World War ... a long term political strategy to destroy the proven structures of the police.

William E May, professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America, writes that the Second Vatican Council took from Escriva the teaching that men and women are called to be saints in the midst of everyday life and cites a passage from Lumen gentium by Pope Paul VI which expresses that idea.

These honorable sentiments, however, seemed a bit antiquated in the midst of Reconstruction, and the ill effects of the Second Reconstruction, still being experienced in acute form in most of the USA, is a warning against social revolution.

Gardner would reveal little about the coven and its members, although claimed that in August 1940, during the midst of the Second World War, they performed a ritual known as Operation Cone of Power which they hoped would influence the High Command of Nazi Germany and prevent them from invading Britain.

In 1803 in the midst of the Napoleonic wars between France and Britain, Thomas Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase, a major land acquisition from France that doubled the size of the United States.

The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity.

In 1861, in the midst of the American Civil War, a group of people in the southern portion of New Mexico Territory passed a resolution condemning the United States for creating a vast territory with only a single, small government in place at Santa Fe.

Transportation planning in the United States is in the midst of a shift similar to that taking place in the United Kingdom, away from the singular goal of moving vehicular traffic and towards an approach that takes into consideration the communities and lands through which streets, roads, and highways pass (" the context ").

However, in the midst of the preparations, former United player Eric Cantona, who had retired from football to pursue a career in film in the summer of 1997, expressed an interest in returning to Manchester United for a farewell match.

The Treaty of Alliance with France, was a defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future.

Jay Treaty, also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, the Treaty of London of 1794, and officially the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war, resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution, and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792.

Bronco, who had already experienced international fame partly by help of their international hit Que no Quede Huella ( May no Traces be Left ) from their 1989 album A Todo Galope, and being scheduled to tours that took them all over Mexico, to the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and many other countries, found themselves in the midst of a second power dose of famousness in 1993, when they acted in the Televisa soap opera, Dos Mujeres, un Camino ( Two Women, one Road ), alongside Erik Estrada, Laura León, Lorena Herrera, Selena Quintanilla and Bibi Gaytán, among others.

The United Left platform was formed in early 2006 in the midst of the internal problems which eventually led to the split in the party, after which the platform formally dissolved.

However, in the midst of their travels, Lafiel and Jinto ( along with the Abh ship Gothlauth, aka Gosroth ) find themselves at the very beginnings of a war between the Abh Empire and the Four Nations Alliance of humankind — an anti-Abh alliance of the democratic nations of the United Mankind, the Federation of Hania, the Republic of Greater Alcont, and the People's Sovereign Union of Planets.

When Highlander was founded in 1932, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression.

In 1862, in the midst of the war, Allison was elected to the United States House of Representatives as the representative of Iowa's newly-created 3rd congressional district.

With Costa Rica still in the midst of a terrible economic recession, Monge opted to exchange sovereignty for economic stability: he gave in to pressure from the United States and accepted American financial assistance in exchange for allowing the CIA to set up small " unofficial " strategic outposts along the northern border.

A final parliamentary conflict was sparked by the suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt E. H. Norman in the midst of allegations made by a United States Senate subcommittee that Norman had communist links.

In his speech " The Conquest of the United States by Spain ," ( considered by some to be " his most enduring work ") he lambasted imperialism as a betrayal of the best traditions, principles, and interests of the American People and contrary to America's own founding as a state of equals, where justice and law " were to reign in the midst of simplicity ".

In 1957, in the midst of a fight for control of the union with Jimmy Hoffa, Beck was called before the United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, commonly called the " McClellan Committee " after its chairman John L. McClellan of Arkansas.

coincided with other Nazi proclamations about " Anglo-American " intentions, which the German population digested in the midst of ongoing economic sanctions against their country, Roosevelt's Lend Lease program and the widely reported failure of the United States to sponsor negotiations after Poland's defeat.

" was especially popular with theatergoers in 1924, as the United States was in the midst of Prohibition.

After high school, in the midst of World War II, Johnson joined the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet ; upon commissioning as a second lieutenant, Johnson was assigned the service number 0 765 497.

The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution.

Lesbian consciousness began in Nicaragua in 1986, when the Sandinista National Liberation Front expelled gay men and lesbians from its midst.

Meanwhile, Mozambique was in the midst of a war for independence launched in 1964 by the Mozambique Liberation Front ( Frelimo ).

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

:" It may suffice for me to say that while they were in the midst of their journey they fell into the hands of pirates.

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

Mather began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: " If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified ..." ( Wonders of the Invisible World ).

The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

He was met on the way by his elder brother, Aaron, and gained a hearing with his oppressed kindred after they returned to Egypt, who believed Moses and Aaron after they saw the signs that were performed in the midst of the Israelite assembly.

The people were struck with a plague that killed 14, 700 persons, and was only ended when Aaron went with his censer into the midst of the people.

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

This generated considerable interest in the commercial market, where a number of companies were in the midst of considering changing hardware platforms.

In the midst of these victories, Saladin received word that the Crusaders were raiding the villages of Damascus.

Lamentable to behold, in the midst of the streets lay the tops of lofty towers, tumbled to the ground, stones of high walls, holy altars, fragments of human bodies, covered with livid clots of coagulated blood, looking as if they had been squeezed together in a press ; and with no chance of being buried, save in the ruins of the houses, or in the ravening bellies of wild beasts and birds ; with reverence be it spoken for their blessed souls, if, indeed, there were many found who were carried, at that time, into the high heaven by the holy angels ...

They were in the midst of a three-team pennant race with the Dodgers and Braves.

At one point, passengers on an incoming train were forced to take cover on the floor of the train cars, as they had arrived in the midst of crossfire, with the train taking hits on both sides.

The arts were in the midst of the Modernist movement, as Pablo Picasso painted two cubist works, Woman in a Garden and Nude in an Armchair, during this year.

His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.

It gave impetus to the creation of the Christian and Sanitary Commissions and numerous Freedmen's Societies that were formed in the midst of the War.

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and great churches throughout Western Europe were fitted with a peculiar architectural feature known as a Holy Ghost hole ; a small circular opening in the roof that symbolized the entrance of Holy Spirit into the midst of the assembled worshippers.

A settlement having now been established, under British protection, and in the midst of those islands which are inhabited by a large Malay and Chinese population, reinforcements were sent out from England.

" The hippie movement appeared concurrently in the midst of a rising Sexual Revolution, in which many views of the status quo on this subject were being challenged.

In Belgium, where the Decadents and Symbolists were as numerous as their French counterparts, Félicien Rops depicted a grinning Pierrot who is witness to an unromantic backstage scene ( Blowing Cupid's Nose ) and James Ensor painted Pierrots ( and other masks ) obsessively, sometimes rendering them prostrate in the ghastly light of dawn ( The Strange Masks ), sometimes isolating Pierrot in their midst, his head drooping in despondency ( Pierrot's Despair ), sometimes augmenting his company with a smiling, stein-hefting skeleton ( Pierrot and Skeleton in Yellow ).

Europe, including the Italian peninsula, were in the midst of considerable political ferment when the bishop of Spoleto, Giovanni Maria Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti, was elected pope.

Prince Yasuhiko Asaka told a war correspondent later that he was in a very perilous position when his headquarters was ambushed by Chinese forces that were in the midst of fleeing from Nanking east of the city.

With the arrival of a plentiful group of new European settlers reaching the eastern border, a place where multitudes of Native Americans tribes were currently situated, the government grew fearful as they believed that they were in the midst of facing an “ Indian problem ” as the racial societies were unable to coexist within the same communities.