There was speculation at the trade deadline in March 1987 that Smyl would be traded to a playoff contender, as the Canucks were in the midst of another losing season.

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

Pollard was traded to the Sacramento Kings, whose management was in the midst of building a successful playoff team at the time, before the 1997-98 season began.

And just how far can the Legislature go toward setting up a self-insurance system for the state in the midst of a governor's race ''??

In the midst of a tight race, Carnahan died in an airplane crash two weeks prior to the election.

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

Suspecting these women, he expelled them from the midst of his race and compelled them to wander in solitary exile afar from his army.

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.

Beginning in South Williamson, Kentucky, the race ends in the midst of the annual Hatfield-McCoy Reunion Festival in downtown Williamson.

Together with the original " Solitus " race, the genetically engineered Herculean " Atrox ," the intelligent " Nanomages ," and the nimble " Opifexes ," they continued their labor in the midst of an increasingly hostile and totalitarian culture.

Neither good nor evil, the Arceans are the least biased race in the galaxy and don't take other civilizations ' moralities into consideration in the midst of diplomacy.

A Zoot Suit riot at Cooley High School was initially dismissed as an " adolescent imitation " of the Los Angeles riots, however, within weeks Detroit was in the midst of its worst race riot in history.

The Cardinals were in the midst of a pennant race with the Brooklyn Dodgers ; in 12 games, Musial collected 20 hits for a. 426 batting average.

The Blue Jays scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to win the game 10 – 9 in the midst of a pennant race, with Henneman taking the loss.

In the midst of a tight pennant race in July, he committed three costly errors in a loss to the New York Giants, and ended the year with 30 errors.

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 July 1973, the Pirates sold Davalillo to the Oakland Athletics who were in the midst of a pennant race with the Kansas City Royals.

In 2005, in the midst of the tug-of-war for the AFL television rights, PBL announced that National Rugby League games will take precedence on the station over AFL games, a sign that Nine may have be about to give up the race for the rights to a proposed Seven-Ten consortium, which they did, but not without putting in a $ 780 million dollar bid for the rights.

In the midst of the race, the biker loses control as the brakes fail, and he falls of the bike and hits the telephone pole, being paralyzed from his waist down.

In 2011, GMA Network made another Mulawin spin-off-Iglot, a story about an Unggiko, legendary pets of the Mulawin race who have gone extinct in the midst of war between Ravena and Mulawin until the only surviving egg came out of a volcano when it erupted.

The decision to build a major seaport at the Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in the winter of 1920, in the midst of the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 1920 ).

The most out-standing match was the semi-final in which the selection of France was defeated by the German in the midst of a polemic arbitral decision that has remained engraved in the memory of the French.

In June 2006, the decision was overturned by the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench on the grounds that the trial judge failed to properly take into account that the remarks were uttered in the midst of an angry confrontation with a reporter, and therefore may not have constituted a " willful " promotion of hatred.

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.

" decision was so sharp and radical, and so opposed to our traditional attitude towards the leaders of the trade unions and Socialist Party, as to cause a certain confusion in our midst ....

He remembers when he was in the midst of his decision to live with the world of Man or to return to the jungle and be free.

In the early 1820s the area was in the midst of a substantial population increase so a decision was taken to purchase land and construct a new church.

In the midst of that broadcast ( fed to affiliates at 6: 30 p. m. Eastern ), and just before reporting on the decision, news broke that former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson had died.

Andrew Kurtz, 24, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, had criticized the team's decision to give then-manager John Russell and Pirates GM Neal Huntington contract extensions in the midst of a 12-game losing streak.

Nevertheless, according to the traditional theory, a man begins in the midst of action and he analyzes its nature and immediate consequences before or while putting it forth and causing these consequences.

Isaiah the prophet, in Chapter 19, Verse 19 says " In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as " a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path ... was a systematic work of destruction and demoralization ...

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare .</ p >

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

Much later, in the midst of the 1988 – 1994 Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit, in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the " look and feel " of the Apple Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on similar grounds.

Loch Langavat on Lewis is long, and has several large islands in its midst, including Eilean Mòr.

It consists of the Governor and six Deputies elected by the Provincial Council from among its midst.

The company found itself in the midst of a management crisis starting in March 2005 that resulted in a loss of a number of the firm's staff and ultimately saw the firing of its then CEO Philip Purcell three months later.

UNCG is in the midst of expanding beyond its traditional borders onto West Lee Street, a major city thoroughfare, with the construction of an 800 bed residence hall for students, and this is just the beginning of the $ 200 million dollar project on Lee Street.

The U of C is in the midst of its largest capital expansion ever.

Because of its location in the midst of Cumberland Mountains, elevations in the county range from to above sea level.

He is in the midst of putting together a billion dollar merger and has ordered an emergency meeting on Christmas Day to ensure its success.

There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Kronos, its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child.

Today found itself in the midst of controversy again in 2002, when its editor Rod Liddle wrote a column in The Guardian that was extremely critical of the Countryside Alliance and which raised questions about his own impartiality.

Chrysler was in the midst of financial difficulty at the end of the 1980s, and did not have the funds to spread to its new automotive division.

The Macdonald-Cartier Freeway ( 401 ) runs through its midst.

Every year, the John the Baptist's feast day reveals the cosmic dimensions of this church: at the full midday of the summer solstice, when the sun is at its upper culmination over the earth, the light coming through the southern clerestorey windows create luminous spots that exactly locate in the full midst of the nave with a rigorous precision.

The network, however, was in the midst of a major expansion: the first outside group of stations to sign on with Mutual was John Shepard's Colonial Network with its Boston flagship station, WAAB, and thirteen affiliates around New England.

" In the midst of this it was forced to continue its deliberations.

Summers pressured the Korean government to raise its interest rates and balance its budget in the midst of a recession, policies criticized by Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz.

The celebrated stage and film actor Stanley Holloway joined the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920, but left a year later shortly before its disbandment in 1922 in the midst of the Anglo-Irish War.

Standing out in the midst of the Amazon vastness, the building design uses plane curves on its roof to permit light to enter its entire large terminal hall.