Moro-Giafferi shared the fears of the Grynszpan committee at the time of Kristallnacht that a political trial would be a catastrophe for the Jews of Germany and elsewhere.

Looting ( Hindi lūṭ, akin to Sanskrit luṭhati, steals ; also Latin latro, latronis " thief ")— also referred to as sacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging — is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as during war, natural disaster, or rioting.

British political leaders regarded the executions initially as unwise, later as a catastrophe, with the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and later prime minister David Lloyd George stating that they regretted allowing the British military to treat the matter as a matter of military law in wartime, rather than insisting that the leaders were treated under civilian criminal law.

Since the collapse of Nazi Germany, Western populations have been wary of racial political parties and have actively discouraged white ethnocentrism, or indeed any ethnocentrism, fearing the return of a catastrophe similar to the purges carried out by Nazis in Germany.

The famine in Ukraine demonstrated the lack of organized opposition to Stalin, because his position was never truly threatened by the catastrophe ; Stalin's purges surely contributed to this political vacuum.

The warrant alleges that Mbarushimana was part of a plan to create a humanitarian catastrophe to extract concessions of political power for the FDLR.

This radical shift from an inert to an oxidizing atmosphere caused an ecological crisis sometimes called the oxygen catastrophe.

In Meyer's novels, a great crisis often releases latent energies and precipitates a catastrophe.

The season of 2009 was a major catastrophe both in Allsvenskan but also problems in the board and an economic crisis.

The Infrastructure Home Guard ( Virksomhedshjemmeværnet ) VHV ensures that civilian companies and authorities continue operating during times of crisis or catastrophe.

In Hungary the economic catastrophe presented himself as protracted agrarian and credit crisis.

The Bank of England risked a national financial catastrophe in the 1730s when customers demanded their money be changed into gold in a moment of crisis.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

But Mr. Kennedy had become convinced that a personal confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev might be the only way to prevent catastrophe.

In the late 11th century catastrophe struck with the unexpected and calamitous defeat of the imperial armies at the Battle of Manzikert in Armenia in 1071.

Physicists struggled with this problem, which later became known as the ultraviolet catastrophe, unsuccessfully for many years.

After recovery from a genetic bottleneck that might be due to the Toba supervolcano catastrophe, a fairly small group left Africa and briefly interbred with Neanderthals, probably in the middle-east or even North Africa before their departure.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

The king became increasingly nervous about the possibility of his daughter Mary inheriting the throne, as England's one experience with a female sovereign, Matilda in the 12th century, had been a catastrophe.

In 1968, Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which argued that mankind was facing a demographic catastrophe with the rate of population growth quickly outstripping growth in the supply of food and resources.

Some of his other work dealt with chronology, especially the dating of events in the life of Jesus, and with astrology, especially criticism of dramatic predictions of catastrophe such as those of Helisaeus Roeslin.

As with shipwrecks, archaeological research can follow multiple themes, including evidence of the final catastrophe, the structures and landscape before the catastrophe and the culture and economy of which it formed a part.

In the 1890s, Planck was able to derive the blackbody spectrum which was later used to avoid the classical ultraviolet catastrophe by making the unorthodox assumption that, in the interaction of radiation with matter, energy could only be exchanged in discrete units which he called quanta.

As remedies, he recommends treatments addressing both the medical and philosophical sources of the melancholy, including rational thought, morale, discipline, fasting and coming to terms with the catastrophe.

Among his most famous paintings are the triptych Metropolis ( 1928 ), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and financial catastrophe, and the startling Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ( 1926 ).

Driven mad with grief, mostly because of the death of his pregnant wife, Nero and his men seek revenge against the Federation, whom they view as having caused the catastrophe indirectly, including the older version of Spock using the superior technology of their ship and equipment.

The thing which appeared to save Eisenstein's career at this point was that Stalin ended up taking the position that the Bezhin Meadow catastrophe, along with several other problems facing the industry at that point, had less to do with Eisenstein's approach to filmmaking as with the executives who were supposed to have been supervising him.

He spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with possibilities of disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe spent the three days with music and peace on their minds.

The judgment of the Lord will descend on Judah and Jerusalem as a punishment for the awful degeneracy in religious life ( 1: 4-7a ); it will extend to all classes of the people ( 1: 7b-13 ), and will be attended with all the horrors of a frightful catastrophe ( 1: 14-18 ); therefore, repent and seek the Lord ( 2: 1-3 ).

It is assumed that the various bunkers and airplanes have been equipped with special communication equipment to survive a catastrophe.

* Communications satellites-Basically immune to any ground catastrophe, it is expected that military communication satellites would provide the government with the ability to communicate in any situation other than one that includes a direct attack upon the satellites.

After the early reverses he was made head of the XIII army corps, which, fortunately for France, did not arrive at the front in time to be involved in the catastrophe of Sedan.

Dismayed by his losses, Benedek had ordered a withdrawal and urgently requested that Emperor Franz Josef make peace as the only way to save the army from a " catastrophe ".

Following this cultural catastrophe, the Imperial Court relocated to the Forbidden City, where it stayed until 1922, when the Last Emperor, Puyi, was expelled by a republican army.

Fisher also believed that the risk of catastrophe in a sea battle was far greater than on land: a war could be lost or won in a day at sea, with no hope of replacing lost ships, but an army could be rebuilt quickly.

The decisive battle took place near Châlons-sur-Marne, in late February 274 where Tetricus ’ army was cut to pieces in an event remembered as the Catalaunian catastrophe.

Charles, almost stunned by the suddenness of the catastrophe, dismissed his nephew from all his offices and ordered him to leave England, and for almost the last time called upon Goring to rejoin the main army, if a tiny force of raw infantry and disheartened cavalry can be so called, in the neighbourhood of Raglan.

According to Dr. Dan Ritschel of the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland, The great Malthusian dread was that " indiscriminate charity " would lead to exponential growth in the population in poverty, increased charges to the public purse to support this growing army of the dependent, and, eventually, the catastrophe of national bankruptcy.

His son, Count Charles Paul Victor Pajol ( 1821-1891 ), entered the army and had reached the rank of général de division when, during the Franco-Prussian War, he was involved in the catastrophe of Metz ( 1870 ).

A rising sea flood, recently disclosed and much-discussed refilling of the freshwater glacial Black Sea with water from the Aegean, was described as " a violent rush of salt water into a depressed fresh-water lake in a single catastrophe that has been the inspiration for the flood mythology " ( Ryan and Pitman, 1998 ).

Under Freytag's pyramid, the plot of a story consists of five parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and revelation / catastrophe.

Act 1 included 10 exceptions including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increasing rising health care costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases.

Act 1 included 10 exceptions including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increasing rising health care costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases.