The change in Athenian foreign policy, which was consequent upon the ostracism of Cimon in 461, led to what is sometimes called the First Peloponnesian War, in which the brunt of the fighting fell upon Corinth and Aegina.

The brunt of the attack fell upon Moore's command, and in particular upon the 28th ( North Gloucestershire ) Regiment of Foot.

In addition, endless wars needed vast supplies of materials and people, and the brunt of the wars fell heavily on the Chinese farmers, who had to report to the assembly points fully equipped with arms, provisions, and draft wagons, following the regulations applied to the nomadic forces.

It was upon this army that the brunt of the fighting fell, and its arrival at Königgratz saved the day.

This was approximately 25 % of the British force, compared to only 18 % of the French, although it is clear that the brunt of the allied effort fell on the British.

The Turks and Caicos escaped the brunt of the hurricane, receiving only winds and of rain which fell in a twelve hour period.

The brunt of the Battle of Chancellorsville fell on the XI and XII Corps ; and yet amid all the rout and confusion of that disastrous battle the regiments of the XII Corps moved steadily with unbroken fronts, retiring at the close of the battle without the loss of a color, while the corps artillery, after having been engaged in the close fighting at the Chancellor House, withdrew in good order, taking every gun with them.

On May 1, 1863, the corps broke camp and marched to Chancellorsville, an eventful field in its history ; a battle in which the brunt of the fighting fell on the III and XII Corps.

The brunt of this fight fell to the lot of Brig.

On 1 November 1990, shortly before Thatcher was ousted as Prime Minister, Delors bore the brunt of British Euroscepticism ; tabloid newspaper The Sun's headline declaimed " Up Yours Delors " in response to his supposed attempts to force European federalism upon the UK.

Villages situated on exposed uplands or upon clay vales where the soil became waterlogged bore the brunt of the changes.

In 1920, the five neighbouring municipalities of Woensel ( to the north ), Tongelre ( northeast and east ), Stratum ( southeast ), Gestel en Blaarthem ( southwest ) and Strijp ( west ), which already bore the brunt of the housing needs and related problems, were incorporated into the new Groot-Eindhoven (" Greater Eindhoven ") municipality.

The Arellano Felix Organization ( Tijuana Cartel ), the largest and most sophisticated of the Mexican cartels at the time, received the brunt of the blows.

With little supervision and a long history of often personal experience with the border conflict ( many were local recruits from those villages that bore the brunt of the violence that spilled across the border ), the rangers were not hesitant to take out their frustrations and aggression on the Khmer.

The warrior caste-consisting of Fimm ( warriors ), Fianna Fimm ( elite warriors ), and the various nobles-take the brunt of raiding and fighting.

Zoom falls forward and is caught in the sonic boom that his past self created to kill Linda's babies, causing him to take the brunt of the force.

Civilians have borne the brunt of the beheadings, although U. S. and Iraqi military personnel have also been targeted.

During the early stages of the U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War, several U. S. Special Forces Civilian Irregular Defense Group ( CIDG ) camps were established along the borders of South Vietnam in order to both maintain surveillance of PAVN and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF or Viet Cong ) infiltration and to provide support and training to isolated Montagnard villagers, who bore the brunt of the fighting in the isolated area.

Approximately 3, 000 U. S. aircraft had carpet-bombed a narrow section of the front, with the Panzer-Lehr-Division taking the brunt of the attack.

By now, Iraqi police and security forces trained by the U. S. seemed to be beginning to take a more prominent role in many towns and cities of Iraq, and were beginning to bear the brunt of the violence.

The U. S. VI Corps — which bore the brunt of the German attacks — was fighting on three sides by 15 January.

Stone bore the brunt of much public criticism ; the U. S. Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War was established in the wake of Baker's congressional eulogies and anger over the defeat.

Douglas MacArthur had already expressed a low opinion of Australian troops, who were then fighting along the Kokoda Track ; though Australia was bearing the brunt of the land war in New Guinea by itself, MacArthur would report back to the U. S. on " American victories ", while Australian victories were communicated to the U. S. as " American and Allied victories ".

While the term " downwinders " generally connotes nuclear fallout victims based in the continental U. S. near sites such as Hanford and NTS, the population of the Marshall Islands bore a large brunt of nuclear testing under the United States ' " Pacific Proving Ground " program.

The area has borne the brunt of the tectonic divergence between the African and Arabian plates and the converging Arabian and Eurasian plates, which has made the region a very diverse zone of high snow-covered mountains, fertile broad alluvial basins and desert plateau, which has also increased its biodiversity further and enabled the survival into historic times of species not found elsewhere.

Although the elite colonial infantry airborne units and the Foreign Legion bore the brunt of offensive counterinsurgency combat operations, approximately 170, 000 Muslim Algerians also served in the regular French army, most of them volunteers.

Piraeus would follow the fate of Athens and was to bear the brunt of the Spartans ' rage, as the city's walls and the Long Walls were torn down, the Athenian fleet surrendered to the winners and some of the triremes burnt, while the neosoikoi were also pulled down.

Not only did Hooker have seniority over Howard, but he also blamed Howard in large part for his defeat at Chancellorsville ( Howard had commanded the XI Corps, which had borne the brunt of Jackson's flank attack ).

Silver also bemoans other weapons that do not offer sufficient protection to the user ( such as daggers ; the rapier, however bears the brunt of his attention, as it was seemingly quite common in the day.

This tissue, in addition to supporting the flow of milk, also bears the brunt of physical stress that the suckling involves.

City officials have said that the private sector would need to bear the brunt of the estimated $ 162 million construction cost of the new arena, as the city is also considering giving up ownership of the arena.

Although there were also Chinese and Vietnamese contingents at Son Tay, the Black Flag Army bore the brunt of the fighting, and took very heavy casualties.

While the problems at HRDC mostly date from the time of her predecessor, Pierre Pettigrew, Stewart took the brunt of the attack but was also the Minister widely viewed to have cleaned up the mess left behind by her predecessor.

Whereas the woman previously had “ the brunt of husband ’ s bragging and insults ,” seeing the “ absolute farce ” of his claims in the forest inspires her to become a “ hard, driving force that will not only teach him a lesson but also will annihilate him in position as leader in the household ”.

In 1946, SAC's decision not to endorse efforts to prevent deportation of Japanese Canadians was also the brunt of campus criticism.

Duffy bore the brunt of the bushfires with 219 homes destroyed, while parts of Chapman, Holder, Rivett and Weston also suffered significant damage.

) Finally, Frazier also received the brunt of the blame for then UH football coach, June Jones, leaving the University for Southern Methodist University.

Although there were also Chinese and Vietnamese contingents at Son Tay, the Black Flag Army bore the brunt of the fighting, and took very heavy casualties.

This group also bore the brunt of casualties, with four members dying in the span of three years.

But an intermediary did not merely bear the brunt of refusal ; he also contributed to a transaction's success.

In season four, the show's scripts called for the character Carol Seaver to be the brunt of fat jokes from her television brothers.

They were called on to carry the brunt of air support missions during these difficult early days of the war, since the jet aircraft of the day did not have enough endurance to permit sufficient loiter time over the target.

While the brunt of the responsibility was leveled at Minister of Defense Prvoslav Davinić, Marović was called out for signing and thus legitimizing such an obviously inflated contract that would end up costing the taxpayers of Serbia € 296 million.

The brunt of the human defenses are giant, fusion-powered robots (“ battle suits ”) called “ Dynamo Class Robosoldiers ” and crewed by living individuals.

* The Great Little Army ( 1916 )-commemorating the WWI British soldiers who bore the brunt of everything that was thrown at them, called by the enemy " The Contemptible Little Army ".

Due to its location, Ugaunia always bore the brunt of East Slavs ' attacks against Chudes, as they called Finnic peoples around their North-Eastern boundaries.

Due to its location, Ugandi always bore the brunt of East Slavs ' attacks against Chudes, as they called Finnic peoples around their North-Eastern boundaries.

On Byzantine galleys, the brunt of the fighting was done by heavily armed and armored troops called hoplites or kataphraktoi.