Since the 1917 election was held in the throes of the First World War, it was unlikely to be an election as usual — indeed, the Conservatives favoured prolonging the legislature until the end of the war.

Whilst Schwitters was never an official member of Berlin Dada, he was closely linked to many members of the group, in particular Raoul Hausmann and Hans Arp, and the poem is written in a dadaist style, using multiple perspectives, fragments of found text, and absurdist elements to mirror the fragmentation of the narrator's emotional state in the throes of love, or of Germany's political, military and economic collapse after the First World War.

As the Second World War entered its ’ final throes, and civilian life began to look forward beyond the war, the decision was taken to form a new junior football club and in 1944 Whitletts Victoria was formed.

After the Mantuan War, between France and the Habsburgs in Italy, the northern half of the Italian peninsula was in the throes of a bubonic plague epidemic ( see Italian Plague of 1629 – 1631 ).

During the late 16th and 17th centuries the figure of the indigene or " savage ", and later, increasingly, the " good savage ", was held up as a reproach to European civilization, then in the throes of the French Wars of Religion and Thirty Years War.

In the spring of 1861, he returned to a nation in the throes of the Civil War.

On August 18, 2005, Hagel compared the Iraq War to Vietnam and openly mocked Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the Iraqi insurgency was in its " last throes ".

Friedrich IV ’ s son, Friedrich V was elected King of Bohemia – Bohemia was an elective monarchy – but soon ran afoul of the forces arrayed against him, notably the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Emperor himself, and not only was he forced to flee Bohemia in the face of these forces after only a year on the Bohemian throne ( earning himself the derisive nickname “ Winter King ”), but he also saw to it that the Electorate of the Palatinate, too, was gripped in the throes of the Thirty Years ' War.

France was in the throes of the Hundred Years War, with the English, whose King claimed the French throne as a descendant of the Direct Capetian Line.

Mary Boykin Chesnut, born Mary Boykin Miller ( March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886 ), was a South Carolina author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a " vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle.

There was a shortage of surgeons in the United States, which was in the throes of the Civil War, and he volunteered to became brigade surgeon in the Union army.

In 1315, Edward II, who was guardian of the three sisters and heiresses of the estate of Gilbert de Clare replaced de Badlesmere with a new English administrator, Payn de Turberville of Coity, who persecuted the people of Glamorgan, then ( like many in northern Europe at the time ) in the throes of a serious famine.

Caught in the throes of the war between his father, Edward II, and mother Isabella, his growing years were turbulent.

Around her the Nymphs carded Milesian fleeces stained with rich sea-dyes, Drymo and Xantho, Ligea and Phyllodoce, their bright tresses falling loose over their snowy necks ; and Cydippe and golden-haired Lycorias, the one a maiden, the other even then knowing the first throes of travail ; and Clio and Beroë her sister, both daughters of Ocean, both "

Edward was subsequently King of England on the death of Harthacnut, who, like Harold I, met his end in the throes of a fit.

At the end, after a very turbulent fight, Mother is defeated and, in her death throes, begs Tommy to take over her job, lest the entire Sphere die.

At the observation in her honour on the second day of the month Gorpiaeus, one of the young men lay on the ground vicariously experiencing the throes of labour.

The film became notorious for Lamarr ’ s face in the throes of orgasm filmed in close-up and her full nudity in scenes where she is seen swimming and running through the woods.

The young ballerina fails to wear her protective equipment and actually dies by impalement in the course of the performance ; everyone assumes her death throes simply to be an uncharacteristically emotional performance.

During her death throes, Admiral Sturdee continued to engage Gneisenau with his two battlecruisers and the cruiser Carnarvon, rather than detaching one of the battlecruisers to hunt down the escaping Dresden.

While they are in the throes of their high that evening, Piano Man's drug connections arrive, more than a little upset ; apparently, he had neither pawned her ring nor paid for the drugs he procured.

In the horse's death throes, Mann was thrown to the ground and the impact broke her back.

In the revised story, the poem is composed by the eponymous Ligeia, and taught to the narrator in the fits of her death throes.

Like most teens in the throes of self-evaluation, Angela is attempting to discover and assert her identity.

Her mother is portrayed only once in " Gingerbread ", at first as an academic so preoccupied with her career that she is unable to communicate with Willow, and then — with Joyce — under the spell of a demon and in the throes of moral panic, attempting to burn her own daughter at the stake for being involved in witchcraft.

Katie, a teenage girl from Malibu, California, finds herself in the throes of growing up, facing her parents, her boyfriends, her sexuality and a privileged life.

Therefore, she can see and hear, but not speak of or act on, any secrets her wizard clientele may inadvertently reveal in the throes of passion.

The young, immature and carefree Effi, still practically a child, but attracted by notions of social honour, consents to live in the small Baltic town of Kessin, where she ends up in the throes of an emotional crisis.

Even in the throes of orgasm, the social distinctions between master and servant ( including form of address ) were scrupulously observed.

While the war raged in Vietnam and the nation coped with racial problems and assassinations, the anti-war, anti-establishment youth thrived in the throes of a social revolution.

On home sets children were watching the death throes of men who were shot before the paredon, the firing wall.

They would ride with streaming amulets, their colors ripening in the sun, shouting the last bellicosity of a nation in the throes of death.

Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, the agonized figure is reduced to a garbed skull in the throes of an emotional crisis.

In Scotland, the Jacobite cause became entangled in the last throes of the warrior clan system.

He later reluctantly approaches Wynyard, who is still in the throes of withdrawal.

Some nebulae are formed as the result of supernova explosions, the death throes of massive, short-lived stars.

Where MegaTraveller left the Third Imperium in its death throes, The New Era let the Imperium die, effectively " rebooting " the setting.

The internal turbulence that plagued Rome at this time can be seen as the last death throes of the Roman Republic, as it finally gave way to the autocratic ambitions of powerful men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Octavian.

She delivered babies and for his part, Socrates can tell when a young man is in the throes of trying to give birth to a thought.

It is a short film consisting of the King's death throes in Act V, Scene vii and is the earliest surviving film adaptation of a Shakespearean play.

This singular and yet pragmatic identity must have appealed to Hofmannsthal to a certain degree due to the large scale fragmentation of Austria at the time, which was in the throes of radical nationalism and anti-Semitism, a nation in which the progressive artist and the progressive politician were growing more different and hostile to each other by the day.

Meanwhile Paris was in the throes of revolution.

Sisyphus, who was commonly known for being a crafty king that killed guests, seduced his niece and stole his brothers ' throne ( Hyginus 50-99 ) and was banished to the throes of Tartarus by the gods.

He returns to Secundus, where he is captured by the police and subjected to rejuvenation at the behest of his descendant Ira Weatheral, Chairman Pro Tempore of the Howard Families, who believes that the society and culture of Secundus are in death throes, and wishes to lead the Families to a new planet named Tertius, having had Lazarus advise him in doing so.

the statue of Xochipilli represents a figure in the throes of entheogenic ecstasy.

With the intellectual benefits of having established Europe's first public education system since classical antiquity Scottish thinkers began questioning assumptions previously taken for granted ; and with Scotland's traditional connections to France, then in the throes of the Enlightenment, the Scots began developing a uniquely practical branch of humanism to the extent that Voltaire said, " We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization.

Formerly serving as the set for Titanic, Rosarito served as the ideal location to recreate the death throes of the battleships in the Pearl Harbor attack.

The city appeared to be in the throes of inexorable decline as industries sought ( what had been ) greener pastures, port operations shifted to larger facilities on Newark Bay, and the car, truck and plane displaced the railroad and ship as the transportation modes of choice in the United States.

As Geldof mentioned during the concert, the Republic of Ireland gave the most donations per capita, despite being in the throes of a serious economic recession at the time.

In 2004, M & S was in the throes of an attempted takeover by Arcadia Group & BHS boss, Philip Green.