America possesses an enormous defense power.

The winters of 1991-92, 1992 – 93, and 1993-94 brought enormous hardship to a population lacking heat and electric power.

With Portugal's position as a country firmly established, Afonso II endeavoured to weaken the power of the clergy and to apply a portion of the enormous revenues of the Roman Catholic Church to purposes of national utility.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

Psychotherapist and professor Andrew Samuels stated that this constitutes " a coup, a power play by a community that has suddenly found itself on the brink of corralling an enormous amount of money ... Everyone has been seduced by CBT's apparent cheapness.

The idea of Filial piety influenced the Chinese legal system: a criminal would be punished more harshly if the culprit had committed the crime against a parent, while fathers often exercised enormous power over their children.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

The frequent wars had weakened royal power, while the aristocracy had made great gains and procured enormous concessions from the kings in return for their support.

At this time, King Girvana Yuddha Biktram Shah was on the throne of Nepal, and the power of state was in the hands of Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa who wielded enormous power during the rule of King Girvana Yuddha Bikram Shah and his son King Rajendra Bikram Shah.

As guardian of Henry III's infant son Henry and adviser of the Empress Agnes, Henry IV's mother and regent, Victor II now wielded enormous power, which he used to maintain peace throughout the empire and to strengthen the papacy against the aggressions of the barons.

The great nobles were discontented with Philip's advantageous marriage, while his mother and four uncles, all of whom exercised enormous influence over Louis, were extremely unhappy with his association to the throne, causing a diminution in their power.

In part of her Marvel Comics career, the character Jean Grey had undergone an enormous increase in her power, which under the new name Dark Phoenix made her increasingly dark in character until she consumed a whole star and caused the death of billions of beings on a planet orbiting that star.

First, it has enormous stopping power at short range, more than nearly all handguns and many rifles.

" These rifles were designed for very large black-powder cartridges, from military-issue. 45-70 on up to the enormous. 50-140 Sharps and. 500 Express ; early repeating actions were not capable of handling rounds of this power and physical size.

In early designs, dozens ( in some cases over 100 ) low-gain triode stages had to be connected in cascade to make workable equipment, which drew enormous amounts of power in operation and required a team of maintenance engineers.

According to former CIA Near East Division Chief James Chritchfield, after al-Bakr and Saddam seized power in 1968, " America slowly developed, not a hostility, but enormous reservations about the ability of the Ba ' ath to constructively bring Iraq along.

Moreover, Themistocles's doctrine of Athenian naval power, and the establishment of Athens as a major power in the Greek world were of enormous consequence during the 5th century BC.

Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins ; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230, 000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

This drove both marketing and engineering departments of semiconductor manufacturers to focus enormous energy aiming for the specified increase in processing power that it was presumed one or more of their competitors would soon actually attain.

After Xuanzong's reign, military governors ( jiedushi ) were given enormous power, including the ability to maintain their own armies, collect taxes, and pass their titles on hereditarily.

This model was widely imitated, reflecting the enormous cultural power of Florence in this age ; " he Renaissance was hypnotized by one city type which for a century and a half — from Filarete to Scamozzi — was impressed upon utopian schemes: this is the star-shaped city ".

Foucault recognized the enormous power of the new discourse of militant Islam, not just for Iran, but for the world.

He was acclaimed as the inventor of the genre of the modern historical novel and the inspiration for enormous numbers of imitators and genre writers both in Britain and on the European continent.

There are also references to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and his Gravity's Rainbow, an equally enormous experimental novel concerning liberty and paranoia that was published two years prior to Illuminatus !.

" The novel has also been dismissed by a number of literary critics as " merely a sentimental novel ," while critic George Whicher stated in his Literary History of the United States that " Nothing attributable to Mrs. Stowe or her handiwork can account for the novel's enormous vogue ; its author's resources as a purveyor of Sunday-school fiction were not remarkable.

Christopher Hampton received critical acclaim for his screenplay, with Time Out writing that " one of the film's enormous strengths is scriptwriter Christopher Hampton's decision to go back to the novel, and save only the best from his play.

The novel ends with an epilogue summarizing how the Organization continued on to conquer the rest of the world and how people of other races were eliminated ( China and the entire eastern half of Asia were destroyed by prolonged bombardment with various weapons of mass destruction and made into an enormous desert ; Blacks were exterminated in Africa as well as America ; Puerto Ricans, described as " a repulsive mongrel race ", were exterminated and the island re-settled by whites ).

The declassified Project Condign report concludes that buoyant charged plasma formations similar to ball lightning are formed by novel physical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena, and that these charged plasmas are capable of being transported at enormous speeds under the influence and balance of electrical charges in the atmosphere.

* In Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, the village of Titlipur is built around an enormous banyan tree, whose roots cover an area " half a mile in diameter.

However, neither the poem nor the novel ushered in a new or consistent policy of literary freedom in the Soviet Union as Khruschchev did not foresee the enormous reaction from the publication of such literature.

One provision, the Fugitive Slave Law, sparked intense controversy, as revealed in the enormous interest in the plight of the escaped slave in Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel and play.

The novel was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the 13 best supernatural horror novels, and by H. P. Lovecraft as " an enormous stride in the evolution of the horror-tale ".

It's hold over Derry is so absolute that its apparent death causes an enormous storm that destroys half the city at the end of the novel.

The novel follows Norman Johnson as a psychologist who is engaged by the United States Navy to join a team of scientists assembled by the U. S. Government to examine an enormous spacecraft discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

The central animal character, ' Shardik ', is an enormous and savage bear, and quite different from the group of sympathetic characters from the previous novel.

The musical was notable for its elaborate scenic design by Boris Aronson, who conceived the set as an enormous pop art jukebox and used extremely novel forms like collage in his design.

An adaptation appeared in 1820 with Cyprien Bérard ’ s novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, falsely attributed to Charles Nodier, who himself then wrote his own version, Le Vampire, a play which had enormous success and sparked a " vampire craze " across Europe.

The novel initially follows an infant called Milo from his beginnings as an ordinary boy to his transformation into the Silver Child, an enormous entity of child-like proportions with wings and brightly shining skin-fated to act as the first line of defence against the Roar.

The novel was an enormous commercial success at the time of its publication, and would-be readers outside of Paris had to wait months to receive copies.

The case attracted enormous publicity, coinciding as it did with the anti-Communist referendum and served mainly to give the novel and the negative portrayal of Wren greater prominence.

One of the novel ’ s obvious distinctions is its enormous scope and thematic complexity.

Consequently, an enormous variety of eye designs are found in arthropods: nature has repeatedly developed novel solutions to overcome visual problems or limitations ( for a review of arthropod visual systems see Warrant, 2006 ).

The novel was an enormous influence on the Beats, with its free-flowing, highly poetic language mixed with argot / slang, and its celebration of lowlifes and explicit descriptions of homosexuality.

Inspired by historical events such as the sieges of Cawnpore and Lucknow, the novel is set in the fictional town of Krishnapur, where a besieged British garrison succeeds in holding out for four months against an army of native sepoys, in the face of enormous suffering, before being relieved.

Porter herself was never satisfied with the novel, calling it " unwieldy " and " enormous ".