During the siege of Nagashima, Nobunaga suffered tremendous losses, including the death of a couple of his brothers, to the Ikkō-ikki resistance, a coalition of peasant farmers, monks, Shinto priests and local nobles that opposed samurai rule.

The film follows the troubles experienced by a Romanian peasant couple caught up in the Second World War.

Rosegger was born as the first of seven children of a peasant couple in the village of Alpl, now part of Krieglach, Styria.

Aquino, daughter of a peasant couple, Juan and Valentina Aquino, never attended school.

: A poor starving peasant couple are granted three wishes and the woman, just taking the first thing that comes to her mind, wishes for one sausage, which she receives immediately.

The married couple travels to Normandy, the region of Georges ’ s childhood, and meet his peasant parents.

( In the film version, Chichina gives him $ 15 to buy her a swimsuit if they make it to the U. S .. Guevara swears to her that he will starve rather than spend the money on anything else ; however, he later gives it away to a poor peasant couple in need of it.

A tragedy that befell a poor but sincere interfaith peasant couple is heart-rending.

The folk tale explaining the origin of this Vietnamese tradition is a good illustration of the belief that the combination of areca nut and the betel leaf is ideal to the point they are practically inseparable, like an idealized married couple.

Although echinococcosis has been well known for the past two thousand years, it wasn ’ t until the past couple of hundred years that real progress was made in determining and describing its parasitic origin.

The bride-cake had its origin in the Roman confarreatio, an upper-class form of marriage, the essential features of whose ceremony were the eating by the couple of a cake made of salt, water and spelt flour, and the holding by the bride of three wheat-ears, a symbol of plenty.

Roman activity in the area is confirmed by the fact that there was once a Roman Villa built in Beddington, just a couple of miles away, and a number of roads in the vicinity of Roman origin.

Papa and Rangi held each other in a tight embraceIn Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa ( or Ranginui and Papatuanuku ) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world.

Jacques René Mesrine was born in Clichy-la-Garenne near Paris on 28 December 1936 to a couple of blue collar origin who had moved up in social class.

There are a couple of theories regarding the origin of the word Coamo.

A " natural " theory of the origin of the term is that considering the right-shifted position in a couple ( even more pronounced in older times ) and the counterclockwise direction of travel along the line of dance, the right turns are easier to perform, they are more " natural ".

There are a couple of narrations regarding the origin of his mother.

Lazzaroni claim the tale of the young couple blessed by the bishop as the origin of their generations-guarded family recipe, dating it to 1718 ; the amaretto has been in production since 1851.

In the first episode ( the " origin " episode ), Superman's infant life on the planet Krypton, his arrival on Earth, and his nurturing by a farm couple are dramatized.

The tiny crater Vera is only a couple of kilometers to the north of Prinz's rim, and serves as the origin of one of these rilles.

The origin of the mutation has been traced back to a couple who lived in Limone in the 17th century.

There exists a couple of versions for Capela's toponomic origin.

The true origin of the name of Catalan Bay is unknown, but a couple of theories exist.

The present town has a history of just a couple of centuries and is said to owe its origin to Kante Arasu, a member of the Mysore royal family.

The origin of organised opposition was traced by Katia Tieleman in her 2000 UN case study: he start of the opposition against the MAI can be traced back to a couple of individuals, remained the leading figures in its further development.

To be able to plot points, one needs to first decide on a point in plane which will be called the origin, and a couple of perpendicular lines, called the x and y axes, as well as a preferred direction on each of the lines.

Ainyahita, daughter of the divinely created couple ( may be related to Anahita ), lived 9000 years ago and is supposed to be the origin of the white Aryan race, which includes the Jews and therefore Jesus of Nazareth.

The character's similar origins and abilities show the influence of Superman ( albeit parodied so that everything that works for Superman just seems stupid when Ethan does it, such as his utilization of glasses as a disguise failing immediately ), particularly with regards to an alien origin, a sole survivor of a race, and his arrival in the countryside of earth, where he was taken in by an older couple.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

It was established in a couple of buildings in the shopping district, with only a few professors, but all eminent men, and a few hundred eager students housed in nearby dwellings.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.

Then, after emasculation, he was eased up for a couple of weeks.

In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.

There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

Then Roberts was on him, gasping for breath and for a couple of seconds Mickey lost sight of the blade.

He was shaking with tension and it took him a couple of minutes to get his breath and settle down.

Last year's volume was at the top a couple of inches below the ceiling.

There was, furthermore, the crowd of curious onlookers gathered in the street and a couple more cops to hold them at a decent distance.

`` What if I said nobody was here but a couple of patrolmen ''??

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

The couple was married Aug. 2, 1913.

A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.

A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

I won't be in town for a couple of days, though, and there's that case I was supposed to handle this afternoon.

My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.