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revival and military
Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.
At the time, the Byzantine Empire was experiencing a major military and cultural revival ; despite its later decline, its culture would have a continuous influence on the development of Russia in its formative centuries.
Stephen Paul Miller, for instance, witnessed " a revival of fifties schlock shock ... and the army general's television discussion of military operations in the film echoes the often inevitable calling-in of the army in fifties horror films ".
That Falun Gong, whose belief system represented a revival of traditional Chinese religion, was being practiced by a large number of Communist Party members and members of the military was seen as particularly disturbing to Jiang Zemin.
It was not until later in the Middle Ages military engineering saw a revival focused on siege warfare.
Barris also made several attempts through the years at non-game formats, such as ABC's Operation Entertainment, a variety show staged at military bases akin to USO shows ; a CBS revival of Your Hit Parade ; and The Bobby Vinton Show, a Canadian-based syndicated variety show for singer Bobby Vinton ( produced in conjunction with Chris Bearde and Allan Blye ).
Ancient models were certainly very much involved, but the style could also be regarded as a revival of the Renaissance, and especially in France as a return to the more austere and noble Baroque of the age of Louis XIV, for which a considerable nostalgia had developed as France's dominant military and political position started a serious decline.
Hawaiian music in general, which was promoted under the reign of King David Kalakaua as a matter of national pride and cultural revival, drew rhythms from traditional Hawaiian beats and European military marches, and drew its melodies from Christian hymns and the cosmopolitan peoples of the islands ( although principally American ).
Rising to the rank of Caesar, he was the effective ruler of the Byzantine Empire for ten years, a period which saw military success, renewed diplomatic and missionary activity, and an intellectual revival that heralded the Macedonian Renaissance.
The Soviet military presence south of the Aras River led to a revival of Pan-Azerbaijani nationalism.
A revival of interest in Australian military history and the rediscovery of graves at Fromelles in the 21st Century led to a number of books being written about the battle, which tended to be critical of McCay.
In the centuries that followed, a cultural and military " Gaelic revival " eventually came to cover the larger portion of the island.
When Ziaur Rahman assumed the presidency after legalizing military coups and the revival of the multiparty system through the Fifth Amendment of the Bangladesh Constitution he appointed H M Ershad as the new Chief of Army Staff, promoting him to the rank of Lieutenant General.
The book argued in favor of a large increase in military spending and warned of future threats, including from a potential revival of Iraq's WMD program.
It was nonetheless a milestone in the revival of the military power of the caliphate.
This led, together with the continuing growth in popularity of spa therapy, to a revival of the town after years of stagnation and military disasters.
An important aspect of the revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s was the element of protest, resistance and revolt against the military dictatorship of the junta years.
Beginning in the 1470s, a military revival in Europe led to a revival in the flute.
General J. H. Morgan also called D ' Abernon " the apostle of ‘ appeasement ’ and did not believe in the possibility, much less the probability, of a German military revival ".
The company gave a modern-day revival to the classic " toy soldier " with the release of McFarlane's Military in 2005, which capitalized on the fervor and media coverage surrounding the American military and support for its soldiers serving abroad.
He also analyzes the revival of Confederate military virtue in the US armed forces.
Increased patronage, partly from military traffic, during World War II meant a brief revival of winter services, but receipts were becoming inadequate to support maintenance of the company ’ s ageing assets, and the line did not reopen after the end of the 1949 season on 20 September, and was subsequently dismantled.
Despite restrictions on sword ownership and a lingering social preference against armed martial arts ( dating at least to the Joseon era ), practical sword fighting is enjoying a small revival amongst elite military regiments, and fencing is once again attracting interest in Korean universities.
His military campaigns gave rise to an era of peace and economic prosperity that reduced the power of regional rulers and led to a revival in craftwork, trade and urban development.

revival and thinking
The Gaelic Athletic Association, the Gaelic League and the cultural revival under W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, together with the new political thinking of Arthur Griffith expressed in his newspaper Sinn Féin and the organisations the National Council and the Sinn Féin League led to the identification of Irish people with the concept of a Gaelic nation and culture, completely independent of Britain.
Philip Jenkins in The New Anti-Catholicism suggests that the periodic revival of what he calls this " anti-papal legend " has more to do with feminist and anti-Catholic wishful thinking than historical accuracy.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2. 5 stars out of 4 remarked " I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but I kept thinking I was at a revival.
) Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft sparked a major revival of corporatist thinking including sparking the rise of Neo-medievalism, rise of support for guild socialism, and caused major changes in the field of sociology.
Once the ice had been broken, other scholars concentrated on an earlier, more constrained revival of learning in some circles under the patronage of Charlemagne and began talking and thinking of a " Carolingian Renaissance " of the ninth century.

revival and tactics
They have started to tour again and are on the move with revival and survival tactics in line with punk and politics in sweep with the general guitar band revival being felt today ( 2007 ) internationally.

revival and was
Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.
For him the key to the kingdom's spiritual revival was to appoint pious, learned, and trustworthy bishops and abbots.
His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.
The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.
Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868, and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century.
This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.
The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.
In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).
In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.
" Later, a Lady Gaga video convinced Van Toffler of the tenability of a Beavis and Butt-Head revival: " I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point-of-view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring.
A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.
Under his leadership a Liberal revival began, marked by the Orpington by-election of March 1962 which was won by Eric Lubbock.
However, the purchase of a Scottish estate by Victoria and Albert, and their adoption of Scottish architectural style, was very influential for the ongoing revival of Highland culture.
He was also a panelist on the 1974 revival of Masquerade Party hosted by Richard Dawson.
Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.
There was a revival in the mosaic art, for example: Mosaics became more realistic and vivid, with an increased emphasis on depicting three-dimensional forms.
Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.
It was not until publication of The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning ( 1988 ), by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, that a revival of casuistry occurred.
There was a revival in the 1890s, but from then onwards, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players.
There was a revival of interest in classical liberalism in the 20th century led by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

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