In the 1890s Australia was affected by a severe economic depression, ending a hectic era of land booms and tumultuous expansionism.

Machiavelli was born in a tumultuous era — popes waged acquisitive wars against Italian city-states, and people and cities might fall from power at any time.

It could be said that Sánchez Hernández led his country during a tumultuous era.

) The Prices ' story, which parallels their host country's tumultuous emergence into the post-colonial era, is narrated by the five women of the family: Orleanna, the long-suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters — Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May.

As social contraditions in Ottoman Empire grew sharper in the tumultuous Napoleonic era the most important theoretical monument of Greek republicanism, the anonymous Hellenic Nomarchy, was written, its author dedicating the work to Rigas Ferraios, who had been sacrificed for the salvation of Hellas.

He captained Australia briefly during the tumultuous era of World Series Cricket ( WSC ) in the late 1970s.

In the 1890s Australia was affected by a severe economic depression, ending a hectic era of land booms and tumultuous expansion.

The tapes made by Lindsay of Lambert's interviews numbered up to 20 hours in length and became an important historical reference of the era of pop and rock music as well as Lambert's own tumultuous life.

The political events of this tumultuous era are given first-hand treatment in this book, as she experienced them in the most personal level: her father was almost executed for treason by the Royalist Party, whereas Ion Dragoumis was actually assassinated by the Venizelos factions in 1920.

However, the Ditka era would be a tumultuous time for the organization.

Richardson had the nearly unique distinction of serving in three high-level Executive Branch posts in a single year — the tumultuous year of 1973 as the Watergate Scandal came to dominate the attention of official Washington, and the American public at large.

He led his band during the most tumultuous period in their contemporary history when they were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley by the United States federal government and forced to move onto an reservation in Lapwai, Idaho.

Thus he was forced to leave the court of the generous duke Bernhard of Carinthia ( 1202 – 1256 ); after an experience of the tumultuous household of the landgrave of Thuringia, he warns those who have weak ears to give it a wide berth.

A tumultuous 2002 ended with Hornets moving to New Orleans, and the Checkers on the verge of being sold again and potentially moved ( Woolridge and Shinn eventually forced out an ECHL team in New Orleans ), Sabates once again teamed with Carl Scheer to purchase the Charlotte Checkers.

In telling the story of The Cradle Will Rock — a leftist labor musical that was sponsored by the Federal Theater Project ( FTP ) only to be banned after the WPA cut the project and diverted its funds elsewhere – Robbins is able to tie in issues such as labor unrest, repression by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the role and value of art in such a tumultuous time.

While she did not focus on gender politics in her writings, by taking an active role in the tumultuous time of the Revolution, Roland took a stand for women of the time and proved they could take an intelligent active role in politics.

Chase suffered from depression and alcoholism for most of his professional career, and his tumultuous lifestyle began to take a serious toll on his health.

Darkness gathers around, far distant thunder rolls over the trembling hills ; the black clouds with august majesty and power, moves slowly forwards, shading regions of towering hills, and threatening all the destructions of a thunderstorm ; all around is now still as death, not a whisper is heard, but a total inactivity and silence seems to pervade the earth ; the birds afraid to utter a chirrup, and in low tremulous voices take leave of each other, seeking covert and safety ; every insect is silenced, and nothing heard but the roaring of the approaching hurricane ; the mighty cloud now expands its sable wings, extending from North to South, and is driven irresistibly on by the tumultuous winds, spreading his livid wings around the gloomy concave, armed with terrors of thunder and fiery shafts of lightning ; now the lofty forests bend low beneath its fury, their limbs and wavy boughs are tossed about and catch hold of each other ; the mountains tremble and seem to reel about, and the ancient hills to be shaken to their foundations: the furious storm sweeps along, smoaking through the vale and over the resounding hills ; the face of the earth is obscured by the deluge descending from the firmament, and I am deafened by the din of thunder ; the tempestuous scene damps my spirits, and my horse sinks under me at the tremendous peals, as I hasten for the plain.

The film did, however, garner Scorsese the Best Director Award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and allowed the director to take a hiatus from the tumultuous development of The Last Temptation of Christ.

It was one of the first “ peaceful ” negotiations to take place during that tumultuous time.

Even Lennon's seemingly direct engagement with the tumultuous political issues of 1968 in " Revolution 1 " carried a nuanced obliqueness, and ended up sending messages the author may not have intended.

Nevertheless, those who are well-connected in Korean society are sometimes said to have " yangban " connections, and though these claims may have some merit, such references are not usually intended to suggest any real yangban lineage or ancestry ( though given the fact that many descendants of those in the yangban class live today, and that the changing fortunes of those in that class rendered so many individuals of " former " yangban status, it is not a stretch to assume that many, if not most, Koreans today have at least some connection to the yangban class, if not any direct descent ; in addition, the acquisition / outright theft of clan lineage records or jokbo during tumultuous times in Korea's history has thrown some doubt on to the veracity of some claims of yangban descent ).

Hiranyakashipu, unable to control his anger, smashes the pillar with his mace, and following a tumultuous sound, Vishnu in the form of Narasimha appears from it and moves to attack Hiranyakashipu.

Hiranyakashipu, unable to control his anger, smashes the pillar with his mace, and then following a tumultuous sound, Vishnu in the form of Narasimha appears from it and in defence of Prahlada moves to attack his father.

Unlike the UAW, which was born out of tumultuous struggles in which CP activists and other radicals played leading parts, the SWOC conducted a much more top-down organizing campaign subject to close control.

Suppiluliuma then took advantage of the tumultuous reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and seized control of Egyptian territory in Syria, inciting many Egyptian vassals to revolt.

Jenatsch's career is of general historical importance as one aspect of the long conflict between France and Spain for control over the Valtellina, which forms one of the most tumultuous episodes in the Thirty Years ' War.

Following a tumultuous early history, Çorlu was brought under Ottoman control by Sultan Murad I, who immediately ordered the destruction of the Roman walls as part of a policy of opening up the town under Pax Ottomana.

The early years of the National League were tumultuous, with threats from rival leagues and a rebellion by players against the hated " reserve clause ", which restricted the free movement of players between clubs.

MIT ultimately divested itself from the Instrumentation Laboratory and moved all classified research off-campus to the Lincoln Laboratory facility in 1973 in response to the protests, and the student body, faculty, and administration remained comparatively unpolarized during what was a tumultuous time for many other universities.

The book begins with the journey of Jared and his people from the tumultuous wickedness of the Tower of Babel to " the promised land.

At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.

** The Beatles arrive from England at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of " Beatlemania " in the United States.

The early years of the National League were tumultuous, with threats from rival leagues and a rebellion by players against the hated " reserve clause ", which restricted the free movement of players between clubs.

Following Stalin's orders, his supporters accused Zinoviev of using the Comintern apparatus in support of factional activities ( the Lashevich Affair ) and Zinoviev was dismissed from the Politburo after a tumultuous Central Committee meeting in July 1926.

" Much of the pro-war faction's information came from INC, even though " most Iraq hands with long experience in dealing with that country's tumultuous politics consider the INC's intelligence-gathering abilities to be nearly nil.

However, most of these factories closed during a tumultuous period for the city from the late 1980s and late 1990s.

The term " Dark Age " itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th centuries.

The next section of the film is a series of chronological flashbacks showing Puyi's early life: from his royal upbringing, to the tumultuous period of the early Chinese Republic, to his subsequent exile, his Japanese-supported puppet reign of Manchukuo, and then his capture by the Soviet army — all of which are intermixed with flash-forwards portraying his prison life.

After a decade of tumultuous federalism, Ecuador and Venezuela seceded from Gran Colombia in 1830, leaving the similarly tumultuous United States of Colombia, now the Republic of Colombia which also lost Panama in 1903.

Beginning in the winter of 1979, during the tumultuous days of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Rabbi Schneerson directed his emissaries to make arrangements to rescue Jewish teenagers from Iran and place them in foster homes within the Lubavitcher community in Brooklyn.

He received his PhD in 1940 from University College, London ( UCL ) working in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Professor Sir Cyril Burt, with whom he had a tumultuous professional relationship throughout his working life.

Current information from United States Census Bureau shows that 70 % of children in the US live in traditional two-parent families, with 66 % of those living with parents who are married, and 60 % living with their biological parents, and that " the figures suggest that the tumultuous shifts in family structure since the late 1960s have leveled off since 1990.

Eventually, after tumultuous applause from the pit, the curtain reopened and Siddons was discovered sitting in her own clothes and character — whereupon she made an emotional farewell speech to the audience lasting eight minutes.

Falloppio of Padua conceived that petrified shells had been generated by fermentation in the spots where they were found, or that they had in some cases acquired their form from ' the tumultuous movements of terrestrial exhalations.

They have had a tumultuous and fairly barren period in recent times, however this has changed in the past few seasons, buying players from senior teams such as Brian McGinty and Mark Crilly with them doing well in the Scottish Junior Cup, winning promotion from the Stagecoach Ayrshire League in 2005 – 06 and winning promotion from the Stagecoach Super League Division One in 2006 – 07.