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The force of Powell's blows crippled Frederick Seward and left him sprawled on the floor, in a pool of blood.
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On the morning of August 2, Captain Powell's force was divided.
force and blows
Too short a handle: the hammer is inefficient because it doesn't deliver enough force, requiring more blows to complete a given task.
Cobb writes, " the revolutionaries themselves, living as if in combat … were easily persuaded that only terror and repressive force saved them from the blows of their enemies.
It gushes sea water when the Mistral blows with gale force, from the north-west all the way down from the Massif Central in France.
He rolled with punches, minimizing their force and damage when they landed, but he was also able to absorb many blows.
Partners who frequently practice together can exchange hard blows without injuring each other by adhering to the principle of not meeting force with force.
However, before he can discover this, Drake accidentally sweats on the power converter and the machine blows up, in Nick's words, with " the force of a stick of dynamite ".
The force of the decompressing air stream blows chips away, and the decompression itself has a slight degree of cooling action.
The kundalini flows through the central passage in the body – the Sushumna nadi and hitting the topmost chakra, the Sahasrara at the top of head – with such force that it blows her head out.
The pain was terrible, the force of the blows unremitting.
The stockades served to blunt the force of charging cavalry, provide protection from sword blows and spear thrusts, and provide limited protection from arrows.
Unus sometimes carried a baseball bat, which, when encased in his force field, can deliver blows with superhuman force.
( The head kicks are often quite sharp, but usually not full force, and fighters may not attempt to wear the opponent down with body blows as in western boxing or muay thai ).
Jiraki testified in Budzyn and Nevers ' trial that the damage was done by " fourteen blunt force trauma blows to the head.
Padded weapons used in American-style battle gaming are often used with full force blows.
The force of the Ideon gun blows her right off the ship to her death, reuniting her with her beloved Gije.
Before Nohman can completely destroy Jehuty, the Atlantis blows a hole in the wall and covers Jehuty's escape while Nohman leaves the colony with the remainder of his invasion force.
The condition is caused by repeated concussive and sub-concussive blows ( blows that are below the threshold of force necessary to cause concussion ), or both.
The conical shape of the filler concentrates the force of the explosion into a hot jet that blows its way through the armor.
The material in the suit is resistant to massive concussive forces ( in particular, it was able to take blows from Superman ), fire, lasers, electric shocks, water pressure, wind force, bullets, and even low levels of radiation.
The inertia field primarily serves as a force field that protects her from anything invested with kinetic energy: physical blows, bullets, falls, etc.
The actual distance the bit travels in and out and the force of its blow are both very small, and the hammering action is very rapid — thousands of " BPM " ( blows per minute ) or " IPM " ( impacts per minute ).
force and crippled
The almond orchards crippled by disease and the alfalfa growers having to contend with their water rights being diverted ( to a growing Los Angeles ) caused a significant shift in the local work force.
Moline's economic vitality was sapped as the agricultural crisis crippled the farm implement industry, the force which had shaped the development of Moline since the city's earliest days.
TF 11 — as part of Task Force 61 along with Task Force 16 — was involved in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in late August 1942, but Saratoga was again crippled by a submarine, and the task force shrank to just the carrier and some destroyers.
Cyborg is soon forced to fight simultaneously against the Phantom Limbs, an elite force of soldiers crippled in the Middle East and restored by his tech, and the Cyborg Revenge Squad, a broader formation composed of the Fearsome Five, Magenta, Girder, the Thinker, and Cyborgirl.
The Reds tied it in the eighth when Hatcher tripled over the crippled Canseco ( who was suffering from back spasms throughout the playoffs ) and scored on a force play.
The French Revolution all but crippled the French Navy, and efforts to make it into a powerful force under Napoleon were dashed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, where the British all but annihilated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet.
The eventual bombing death of Greene brought the Federal organized crime task force to Cleveland which, after many trials, is said to have crippled the Mafia in Cleveland and nationwide.
force and Frederick
But the 1848 revolution turned out to be unsuccessful: King Frederick William IV of Prussia refused the imperial crown, the Frankfurt parliament was dissolved, the ruling princes repressed the risings by military force, and the German Confederation was re-established by 1850.
Besides Arne, the other dominating force in English opera at this time was George Frideric Handel, whose opera serias filled the London operatic stages for decades, and influenced most home-grown composers, like John Frederick Lampe, who wrote using Italian models.
Frederick hoped that a token show of force, a threatening march down the coast, would be enough to convince al-Kamil, the sultan of Egypt, to honor a proposed agreement that had been negotiated some years earlier, prior to the death of al-Muazzam, the governor of Damascus.
Since all the local authorities denied him any help and most of the military orders denied him any help, and being the crusading army a meagre force, Frederick negotiated along the lines of a previous agreement he had intended to broker with the Ayyubid sultan, Al-Kamil.
The subsequent concessions made by the French encouraged Chamberlain, who arranged for a military force, commanded by Frederick Lugard, to occupy areas claimed by Britain, thereby undermining French claims in the region.
While laying siege to Barney's force, the British under the command of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane plundered and destroyed the area nearby, including burning the town of Prince Frederick.
A joint Austro-Saxon force under Charles of Lorraine and Count Traun drove Frederick II's Prussian army from Bohemia ; and Piedmont-Sardinia had expelled the Bourbons from northern Italy.
King Frederick and his military commander, Prince Christian of Anhalt, had organized a Protestant army of 30, 000 men ; Ferdinand countered with a force of 25, 000, many of them seasoned soldiers, under the expert leadership of Field Marshal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, a Catholic Spanish-Flemish nobleman.
In Halle ( 1783-1807 ), by the force of his will and the enlightened aid of the ministers of Frederick the Great, he was able to carry out his long-cherished ideas and found the science of philology.
Behind the scenes, Frederick authorised sending a force under Ernst von Mansfeld to support the Bohemian rebels.
If Frederick did not comply by this date, Ferdinand threatened to use force to enforce his right as Holy Roman Emperor and rightful King of Bohemia to overthrow the usurper.
The Netherlands sent only a small force and promised only 50, 000 florins a month for Frederick.
The British went back on the offensive in December 1916 with a larger and better-supplied force under General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude and reconquered Kut on February 23, 1917.
Abdullah set about the task of building Transjordan with the help of a reserve force headed by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Peake, who was seconded from the Palestine police in 1921.
Muir's biographer, Frederick Turner, notes Muir's journal entry upon first visiting the valley and writes that his description " blazes from the page with the authentic force of a conversion experience.
These, which were inspired by the campaigns of Frederick II, are often distinguished by genuine feeling and vigorous force of expression.
In 1713 the regent broke the stipulated neutrality of the duchy in favour of Sweden and Frederick IV of Denmark seized the excuse to expel the duke by force of arms.
While Churchill was preoccupied with implementing post-War defence cuts and the demobilization of the Army, the Chief of the Air Staff, Major-General Frederick Sykes, submitted a paper with what were at the time unrealistic proposals for a large air force of the future.
During World War II, Mindoro Island was where Bill Frederick of the U. S. 17th Army Air Corps piloted a B-25 ; he and his crew fought a Japanese naval force preparing to attack the joint U. S. and Philippine Commonwealth armed forces there.
As in Brandenburg, Frederick William ignored the privilege of the Prussian estates to confirm or veto taxes raised by the elector: while in 1656, an Akzise was raised with the estates ' consent, the elector by force collected taxes not approved by the Prussian estates for the first time in 1674.
The Newberry's first librarian, William Frederick Poole, was a primary force behind the library's noncirculating research and rare book collections, as well as conceptualizing the facility to house them.
In addition to his large force, Curtis was assigned an additional 5, 000 men under Brigadier General Frederick Steele.
In August 1944 1st SSF came under the command of Colonel Edwin A. Walker when Brigadier General Frederick, who had commanded the force since its earliest days, left on promotion to major general to command the 1st Airborne Task Force.
Upon landing, the force was reinforced by 170 locals and about 100 Americans, including the well-known explorer and journalist Charles Wilkins Webber and the English adventurer Charles Frederick Henningsen, a veteran of the First Carlist War, the Hungarian Revolution, and the war in Circassia.
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