The prophecy was not fulfilled in Micah's time, but a hundred years later Judah was facing a similar crisis with Babylon, and Micah's prophecies were reworked and expanded to reflect the new situation.

But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

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PNGDF capability is considered modest, with the army facing significant problems including a chronic budget crisis, a lack of experience in conventional operations, limited ability to be deployed independently overseas as well as internal tensions.

The biggest problems facing the government are reintegration of more than 2 million refugees returning from as long ago as 1959 ; the end of the insurgency and counter-insurgency among ex-military and Interahamwe militia and the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which is concentrated in the north and south west ; and the shift away from crisis to medium-and long-term development planning.

At one point, prior to the deployment of RAMSI forces, the country was facing a serious financial crisis.

Nehru turned to the Soviet Union for help but it was facing the missile crisis.

In December 1836, the Michigan territorial government, facing a dire financial crisis and pressure from Congress and President Andrew Jackson, called another convention ( called the " Frost-bitten Convention ") which accepted the compromise which resolved the Toledo War.

Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world.

* 594 BC — The leaders of Athens, facing an economic crisis and popular discontent, appointed the poet – statesman Solon eponymous archon to institute democratic reforms and revive the city's constitution, extending citizenship to males of many classes.

Simultaneously, Egypt was facing a financial crisis leading him to believe that the country could not afford a war that would last even a few days.

The economic crisis facing Guyana in the early 1980s deepened considerably, accompanied by the rapid deterioration of public services, infrastructure, and overall quality of life.

German losses and the manpower crisis they caused, meant that 154 divisions were facing 190 Allied divisions, many being somewhat larger than the German ones.

In the wake of this defeat, Athens found itself facing a crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

The film starred Karloff as retired horror film actor, Byron Orlok, a thinly disguised version of Karloff himself ; Orlok was facing an end of life crisis, which he resolved through a confrontation with the gunman.

The barbarian incursions into the Empire were becoming more and more daring and frequent whereas the Empire was facing a serious economic crisis in Decius ' time.

The fire department is facing calls for disbanding and contracting out with Sacramento County due to the 2009 state budget crisis.

After taking office, Towers and the new Village Board found that Sauk Village was facing its worst economic crisis in history with a $ 2 million budget deficit to plug and no funds in the coffers left over by the previous administration.

By 1924, by which time Griffith had dropped out, the company was facing a crisis: either bring in others to help support a costly distribution system or concede defeat.

Furthermore, he was facing a looming crisis over the controversial role of the U. S .- based Standard Oil Corporation during the conflict.

By 1693 the French army had reached an official size of over 400, 000 men ( on paper ), but Louis XIV was facing an economic crisis.

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Due to the ongoing structural problems facing the conventional television sector in Canada and the global economic crisis, Rogers Media announced cost-cutting measures at the Citytv stations on January 19, 2010, which included massive layoffs and the cancellation of the following newscasts:

Considering the previously noted rising environmental crisis, the United States and much of the world is facing immense vulnerability to famine.

The visions describe the national crisis that occurred under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid king who attempted to introduce Hellenistic religious practices, including the worship of idols, into the temple and the Jewish religion more generally, sparking outrage from Biblical authors.

The next crisis was the Visigoth invasion of Italy in 402 under the formidable command of their king, Alaric.

In 1680, the Exclusion crisis occurred due to widespread objections to a Catholic serving as the King of England, since James was the heir presumptive to Charles, who was the king at that time.

Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel (; ).

Both Matilda's mother and husband died in 1076, leaving her in sole control of her great Italian patrimony as well as lands in Lorraine, while at the same time matters in the conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the German king Henry IV were at a crisis point.

A succession crisis emerged in Kandy, upon king Vira Narendrasinha's death in 1739.

But by 1050, relations between the king and the earl had soured, culminating in a crisis in 1051 that led to Godwin and his family's exile from England.

While the council was engaged in planning a crusade and in considering the reform of the clergy, a new crisis occurred between the pope and the new king of France, Francis I, an enthusiastic young prince, dominated by the ambition of recovering Milan and the Kingdom of Naples.

The relationship between Henry Bolingbroke and the king met with a second crisis.

The crisis past, Lobkowitz then went to Piedmont to assist the king against the Prince of Conti, the King of Naples returned home and the Count de Gages followed the Austrians with a weak force.

The crisis deepened when a fleet from the Lordship was dispatched to bring James the Fat back from Ulster ' to convey him home that he might be king '.

Because of the great popularity of the king, and the unpopularity of the civil government from the middle of 1940, the government crisis persisted.

In 1332, a crisis with the king of France arose over John's hospitality to Robert, count of Flanders, during his journey to eventual asylum at the English court.

A constitutional crisis arose when the king dismissed the Fox-North coalition government and named Pitt to replace it.

With Donald and Edmund removed, however, Edgar was uncontested king of Scots, and his reign incurred no major crisis.

( He is also asked to undertake sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the new king, and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming war with Hitler's Germany.

Louis XV lavished well-deserved gifts on Saxe, including the royal Château de Chambord, for Saxe had been present where needed, in spite of his debilitating illness, to deal with every crisis of the battle from rallying troops, to directing and leading reserves, encouraging the king and counseling with his officers.

On the evening of 23 August, Catherine went to see the king to discuss the crisis.

During the late-2000s economic recession which gripped the nation, the king discretly used his influence to facilitate a bi-partisan response to the crisis.

In the defence policy crisis in 1914, which overturned the parliamentary Liberal government, the party sided with king Gustav V of Sweden, but stopped short of accepting a rightist government by royal appointment, instead opting for an independent-conservative " war cabinet " under Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, eventually overturned in favor of a Liberal-Social democratic majority coalition government and breakthrough of parliamentary rule, albeit reluctantly embraced by the right.

This provision could be understood as allowing the king or his government ministers to exercise emergency authority in times of national crisis, such as when the king used his authority to back the government of the day and call for the military to abandon the 23-F coup attempt in 1981.

However, a letter by the king is preserved, in which Ammurapi stresses the seriousness of the crisis faced by many Near Eastern states from invasion by the advancing Sea Peoples in a dramatic response to a plea for assistance from the king of Alasiya.