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midst and crowded
Parramatta Power failed to gather much support, placed as it was in the midst of the already crowded western Sydney soccer market, and it too would not last beyond the end of the NSL.
With this capability, even a sniper operating in the midst of a crowded urban environment is not immune to reprisal — for example, a helicopter gunship firing its cannon on precise coordinates, or a strike aircraft releasing a laser-guided soft and lightweight sticky foam bomb that could burst in a room and kill or disable a sniper without damaging or endangering the surrounding structure or building inhabitants.

midst and region
It has been argued that these later euphemisms are Eurocentric terms attributed to the region in the midst of various 19th century Western encroachments.
In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British plane crashes onto an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean.
In the midst of the growing Moscow and Lithuanian powers, new political entities had appeared in the region such as Moldavia and the Crimean Khanate.
Writing in the midst of the dispute concerning the Alsace-Lorraine region, he declared that the existence of a nation was based on a " daily plebiscite.
The city was relatively calm in the midst of unrest in the region but the Rani conducted a Haldi Kumkum ceremony with pomp in front of all the women of Jhansi to provide assurance to her subjects, and to convince them that the British were cowards and not to be afraid of them.
The region, which was responsible for approximately 75 % of Alberta's wheat production, was in the midst of its fifth consecutive year of drought, and the farmers who had been responsible for putting the UFA into office were now demanding action.
* Albion is the center of the Medina sandstone industry, and lies in the midst of a good farming region, of which it is the principal shipping point, especially for apples, cabbages and beans.
According to the Ramayana, the Vanaras lived primarily in the region of Kishkindha in present-day Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra, in the midst of Dandaka Forest, where Lord Rama met them during his search for Sita.
On Super Tuesday in February 2008, in the midst of heated primary elections in multiple states, a destructive tornado outbreak hit the Mid-South region, spawning dangerous nighttime twisters across the region.
A second major gold rush in the Cariboo region of the colony occurred in 1861-64, in the midst of a smaller ones, notably in the Omenica, Big Bend and on the Stikine.
Amon's reign was in the midst of a transitional time for the Levant and the entire Mesopotamian region.
Rogers Pass is in the heart of Glacier National Park, in the midst of mountains popular for ski mountaineering, camping, hiking and mountain climbing ever since the region became accessible in 1886.
Apart from this, there were repeated Muslim invasions in North-western India which had already threatened the unity of India The most important event of his region was the celebration of the Swayamvara of his daughter Sanyogita, who was however, carried away by force, in the midst of the ceremonies by Prithviraja.
After the end of World War I and dissolution of Habsburg Monarchy, following brief period of administration of independent Hungarian state and creation of a short-lived Republic of Prekmurje that emerged in midst of the chaos of the Hungarian Revolution of 1919, the region was captured by Yugoslav troops and incorporated in the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929 ).
The region is gradually absorbing them in its midst.
The region has gradually absorbed them in its midst.
After intense foraging and ravaging of the Alsace region, Christian and Mansfeld moved north in Lorraine, and upon the news of the Spanish siege of Bergen op Zoom, they marched to the relief of the city, fighting the Battle of Fleurus ( August 29, 1622 ) and in the midst of the battle, Christian displayed his well-known courage and stubbornness on the field by leading four unsuccessful cavalry charges against the Spanish lines under Fernández de Córdoba.

midst and was
And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.
As usual, Mrs. Crombie was standing in the midst of a confusion of cooking utensils.
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 was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.
How far and in what fashion did it modify the new nation which was emerging in the midst of the forces shaping the revolutionary age??
A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.
It was founded as a Corinthian colony in the 7th century BC and was situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos ( or Aratthus ), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.
" Gaining Senate approval of the Alaska treaty was Johnson's singular legislative accomplishment in the midst of a political war with Congress.
He was old enough to be in the midst of his literary studies, to understand the real meaning and worth of the dissolute and licentious lives of his companions, and to have been deeply affected himself by the love of a woman ( Ibid.
In 1877 a green silhouette was used to create a ghostlike image ; ten years later a trick chair was used to allow an actor to appear in the middle of the scene, and then again from the midst of the audience.
However, by this time the market was in the midst of the first video game crash, and Fairchild eventually threw in the towel and left the market.
His primary duty was planning for the next war which proved most difficult in the midst of the great depression.
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 ...
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.
As the record was coming out, Benton considered retiring from music, in the midst of personal matters including a custody battle.
In the midst of this feud Germanicus was stricken with a mysterious illness and died shortly thereafter in Antioch.
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 ).
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.
But in the midst of the dispute, Fox was imprisoned again for refusing to swear oaths after being captured at Armscote, Worcestershire.

midst and Allen
By the end of the episode, Barry Allen returns to Batman's time just as Captain Cold, Heat Wave, and Weather Wizard were in the midst of a robbery.

midst and African
However, Randolph was asked to leave the train when some passengers objected to the presence of an African American in their midst.
Ugandans deeply feared the prospect of an East African federation dominated by the racist settlers of Kenya, which was then in the midst of the bitter Mau Mau uprising.
In 1909 Crowley took Neuburg to Algiers, and they set off into the North African desert, where they performed a series of occult rituals based on the Enochian system of Doctor John Dee, later chronicled in The Vision and the Voice . In the midst of these, Crowley put the ideas of sex and magick together and performed his first " sex magick " ritual.
The idea of the CSSDCA can be traced to 1990, when the Africa Leadership Forum, in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ), held a meeting in Paris, France, to discuss what would happen to the African continent in the midst of the Cold War.

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