Battle began in the spring of 2005 as ESPN sought replacement programming for the National Hockey League, which was in the midst of a lockout that would cost the league its entire season.

The Penguins were simultaneously in the midst of a battle for their survival.

And likewise the dispersed infantry on the Heights were unable to hold once French cavalry got in their midst.

And likewise the dispersed infantry on the Heights were unable to hold once Lasalle and the French cavalry got in their midst.

The Seguro Obrero Massacre took place on September 5, 1938, in the midst of a heated three-way election campaign between the ultraconservative Gustavo Ross Santa María, the radical Popular Front's Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and the newly-formed Popular Alliance candidate, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.

The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

Marcus Aurelius ' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.

Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus established his headquarters at Cissa, in the midst of Hannibal's latest acquisition, the area between Ebro and Pyrenees.

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.

Severed from vital interplanetary trade routes ( Tékumel is a world very poor in heavy metals ) and in the midst of a massive gravitic upheaval due to the lines of gravitational force between the stars being suddenly cut, civilization was thrown into chaos.

Growth then rose to 6 % to 7 % between 2000 and 2002 even in the midst of the global recession, making it the world's second-fastest growing economy.

Joseon Dynasty Korea in the early 1870s was in the midst of a struggle between isolationists under the King Gojong's father ( Heungseon Daewongun ), and progressives, led by the queen ( Empress Myeongseong ), who wanted to open trade.

From there they moved north and attacked Northumbria, which was in the midst of a civil war between the deposed king Osberht and a usurper Ælla.

The Faculty of Engineering is in the midst of a $ 150 million expansion between 2008 and 2012 in the form of three new Engineering buildings.

The Idiran-Culture War is a major fictional conflict between the Idiran Empire and the Culture in the midst of which Iain M. Banks ' science fiction novel Consider Phlebas is set.

He is freed of his imprisonment in the midst of a battle between Hercules and Echidna during Titan Smashing Day, a holiday commemorating his defeat by Zeus.

The U. S. Embassy suspended operations in Bissau on June 14, 1998, in the midst of violent conflict between forces loyal to then-President Vieira and the military-led junta.

In 1892, the union's discovery of a labor spy in their midst, in the person of sometime cowboy and Pinkerton agent Charlie Siringo, resulted in a shooting war between miners and the company.

Kimmel was relieved of his command in mid-December 1941, while he was in the midst of planning and executing retaliatory moves, including an effort to relieve and reinforce Wake Island which might have led to an early clash between American and Japanese carrier forces.

However, the situation is more complex, since comparative embryology shows that the length axis of the neural tube ( the primordium of the brain ) has three internal bending points, namely two ventral bendings at the cervical and cephalic flexures ( cervical flexure roughly between the medulla oblongata and the spinal cord, and cephalic flexure between the diencephalon and the midbrain ), and a dorsal ( pontine or rhombic ) flexure at the midst of the hindbrain, behind the cerebellum.

In the midst of their supporting tour for the album, mounting conflict between Corgan and Chamberlin and the other band members led to the cancellation of the rest of the tour as the band entered an apparent hiatus, formally announcing a breakup in September 2003.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

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.

There are so many natural attractions that it is possible to choose between subterranean routes in caves, or trip to waterfalls, trek along old gold mining trails or follow the steps of the Prestes Column, rappel, climb mountains, or go horseback riding in the Vale do Capão or Vale do Paty, in the midst of esoteric and alternative communities.

A tension existed especially for leftist Jews, between their liberal ideology and Zionist backing in the midst of this conflict.

In the midst of all the speculation, Edwards tried to use what leverage he thought he had with the Jets to get a contract extension and hefty pay raise from the Jets, which only served to further anger the club's owner.

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

A 1998 poll conducted by the American Museum of Natural History found that seventy percent of biologists believe that we are in the midst of an anthropogenic extinction.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

In November 2006, in the midst of charges leveled at Taleyarkhan as regards his research standards, Dr. Edward R. Forringer and undergraduates David Robbins and Jonathan Martin of LeTourneau University presented two papers at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting that reported replication of neutron emission during a visit to the meta-stable fluids research lab at Purdue University.

In the midst of shifts in theology and church polity, American Christians began progressive movements to reform society during this period.

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.

* 1781-In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, the British so feared Moravian missionary David Zeisberger and his influence among the Lenape ( also called Delaware ) and other Native Americans that they arrested him and his assistant, John Heckewelder, charging them with treason,

In the midst of Eastern's turmoil American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall sought a new hub in order to utilize new aircraft which AA had on order at the time.

Farndon was in the midst of forming a new band with former Clash drummer Topper Headon ( who coincidentally, was battling heroin addiction and left the band, unable to cope ), when he was found dead on 14 April 1983 by his American wife, Conover.

In fighters, North American Aviation was in the midst of working on a straight-wing jet-powered naval fighter then known as the FJ-1.

The two fall deeply in love, but their self-destructive, drug-fueled relationship frays Vicious ' relationship with the rest of the band, which eventually breaks up in the midst of a disastrous American tour.

A young American named John Walker Lindh is found in the midst of the rebellion and extradited to the US on terrorism charges.

Astros management faced a public relations nightmare when the energy corporation went bankrupt in the midst of one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history in 2001, and they bought back the remainder of Enron's thirty years of naming rights for $ 2. 1 million, rechristening the ballpark as Astros Field on February 7, 2002.

Oz credits a 1959 translation of American writer Sherwood Anderson ’ s short story collection Winesburg, Ohio with his decision to “ write about what was around me .” In A Tale of Love and Darkness, his memoir of coming of age in the midst of Israel ’ s violent birth pangs, Oz credits Anderson ’ s “ modest book ” with his own realization that " the written world … always revolves around the hand that is writing, wherever it happens to be writing: where you are is the center of the universe.

Coming in the midst of the American Revolution, the storm caused heavy losses to British and French fleets contesting for control of the area.

However, Randolph was asked to leave the train when some passengers objected to the presence of an African American in their midst.

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.

The magazine, established in the midst of the American Red Scare, a self-described " independent socialist magazine.

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 ".

Skreemer was a six issue mini series with art by Brett Ewins that was somewhat lost in the midst of the so-called " British Invasion " of American comics of the time.