Guthrum ’ s death created a power vacuum which would stir up other power – hungry warlords eager to take his place in the following years.

Recent advances in passively stable magnetic bearings may someday permit inexpensive storage of power in a flywheel in a vacuum.

Many of the Germanic people that filled the power vacuum left by the Western Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages codified their laws.

Yuan death in 1916 left a power vacuum in China ; the republican government was all but shattered.

Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, 1925, creating a power vacuum in the Kuomintang.

Although details of their physiology were not mentioned on screen, the space slug, ( a giant worm-like creature that lived on asteroids in the vacuum of space ), and the Mynock, ( pesky bat-like vermin that would attach to spaceship hulls and chew through power conduits to feed off the raw energy ), are said to be silicon-based organisms in Star Wars Expanded Universe sources.

The red LED and blue / green vacuum fluorescent displays consumed a lot of power and the calculators either had a short battery life ( often measured in hours, so rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries were common ) or were large so that they could take larger, higher capacity batteries.

Compactrons are a type of thermionic valve, or vacuum tube, which contain arrangements of diodes, triodes, or pentodes in multiple combination arrays, as well as high or low-voltage and power types.

Under negative pressure, power for a vacuum source is needed and the reduced boiling points of the distillates requires that the condenser be run cooler to prevent distillate vapours being lost to the vacuum source.

Telephone hummer / oscillator by A. S. Hibbard in 1890 ( carbon microphone has power gain ); Larsen " used the same principle in the production of alternating current from a direct current source "; accidental development of vacuum tube oscillator ; all at p. 86.

When asked to accede to the throne to fill the power vacuum that subsequently developed, Suiko became the first of what would be several examples in Japanese history where a woman was chosen to accede to the throne to avert a power struggle.

The collapse of the Russian Empire following the February and October Revolutions of 1917 spurred the collapse of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the resultant power vacuum led to bitter conflict between the left-leaning labor movement, led by the Social Democrats, and more conservative non-socialists.

These events led to the formation of a large power vacuum and subsequent power struggle in Eastern Europe.

The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, as a part of the Russian Empire, became a part of the vacuum and the struggle for power.

By autumn 1917, in the power vacuum following the dissolution of parliament and in the absence of a stable government or a Finnish army, such forces began assuming a more military character.

The parliamentary power vacuum, lasting several months, provided opportunities for an increased role by the Red and White paramilitary groups.

By autumn 1917, however, these attempts at peaceful resolution had failed, and the power vacuum began to be filled by the paramilitary troops of the right and left.

In military dictatorships, or governments which have arisen from coups d ' état, the position of commander-in-chief is obvious, as all authority in such a government derives from the application of military force ; occasionally a power vacuum created by war is filled by a head of state stepping beyond his or her normal constitutional role, as King Albert I of Belgium did during World War I.

Behind the scenes, however, Menzies ' retirement had created a power vacuum in the party, and internal divisions soon emerged.

During the decline of the Mughal Empire, several smaller states rose to fill the power vacuum and themselves were contributing factors to the decline.

While suitable for laboratory instruments, the vacuum tube amplifiers available in the first half of the 20th century were too expensive, power consuming, and unreliable for everyday applications.

In each of the hundreds of states that eventually arose, local strongmen held most of the political power and continued their subservience to the Zhou kings in name only.

With Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the reference to the FSB members as " Chekists " arose, particularly by Putin's political opponents, often with negative connotations.

Upon Yōmei's death, another power struggle arose between the Soga clan and the Mononobe clan, with the Sogas supporting Prince Hatsusebe and the Mononobes supporting Prince Anahobe.

As Hazlitt noted, Macready's reading of the character was purely psychological ; the witches lost all supernatural power, and Macbeth's downfall arose purely from the conflicts in Macbeth's character.

In past analyses, it has been noted that mannerism arose in the early 16th century alongside a number of other social, scientific, religious and political movements such as the Copernican model, the Sack of Rome, and the Protestant Reformation's increasing challenge to the power of the Catholic Church.

Battles arose through clashes between besiegers and relieving armies, but the principle was a slow grinding victory by the greater economic power.

Although he was inclined to take the part of the magistrates, he knew how to defend the rights and independence of the spiritual power when occasion arose, without, however, conceding to it such a preponderating influence as did Calvin.

With the advent of widespread electricity generation and power supply lines from the late 19th century on, problems also arose with equipment short-circuit failure affecting the power supply, and with local fire and shock hazard when the power line was struck by lightning.

When opportunities arose, for instance upon the death of an emperor, they would seek to seize power ; and in 983 Hamburg was destroyed by the Obotrites under their king, Mstivoj.

While they had initially been mutually supportive, issues arose following the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev to power in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.

Bentham was an outspoken critic of the revolutionary discourse of natural rights and of the violence that arose after the Jacobins took power ( 1792 ).

Out of the power struggle in Gwynedd eventually arose one of the greatest of Welsh leaders, Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, also known as Llywelyn Fawr ( the Great ), who was sole ruler of Gwynedd by 1200 and by his death in 1240 was effectively ruler of much of Wales.

Many of the creoles known today arose in the last 500 years, as a result of the worldwide expansion in European maritime power and trade in the Age of Discovery, which led to extensive European colonial empires and an intense slave trade.

During the late 1980s, John Stockton and Karl Malone arose as the franchise players for the team, and formed one of the most famed point guard – power forward duos in NBA history.

Those who had failed to exert control over their deputies fell from power and were replaced by a new class, the " sengoku daimyo ", who arose from the ranks of the shugodai ' K and Ji-samurai.

: " Just as cold arose out of Niflheim, and all terrible things, so also all that looked toward Múspellheim became hot and glowing ; but Ginnungagap was as mild as windless air, and when the breath of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dripped, life was quickened from the yeast-drops, by the power of that which sent the heat, and became a man's form.

The fact he arose to power as the direct beneficiary of the turmoils of 4 June has not been forgotten by many in China.

However fuel assembly vibration problems arose during on-load refuelling at full power, so in 1988 full power refuelling was suspended until the mid-1990s, when further trials led to a fuel rod becoming stuck in a reactor core.

Around, an evil power, the Witch-king, arose in the mountains north-east of Arnor, where he founded Angmar.

In Great Britain, the Court of King ’ s Bench was tasked with the duty of supervising all lower courts, and had power to issue all writs necessary for the discharge of that duty ; the justices of that Court appeared to have no discretion as to whether it was heard, as long as an application for a bill of certiorari met established criteria, as it arose from their duty of supervision.

Courts of law had jurisdiction over property and their coercive power arose out of their ability to adjust ownership rights.