Then, in order to gain control of this strategic region, Luccans fought Pisans, Pisa struggled with Genoese, Milanese struck out against the Modense and Florentines made war on them all.

While the Genoese were able to gain control of La Spezia, Lerici, Sarzana and much of the littoral coast all the way from the Cinque Terre to ancient Luni itself, the Milanese took more northern parts of Lunigiana.

From this point until the end of the century, the Whigs and ( after 1859 ) their successors the Liberal Party, managed to gain a majority of the Westminster Parliamentary seats for Scotland, although these were often outnumbered by the much larger number of English and Welsh Conservatives.

The Carte de Visite was slow to gain widespead use until 1859, when Disdéri published Emperor Napoleon III's photos in this format.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

Would we gain by keeping alive his memory and besmirching today's Roman Catholics by saying he had a Catholic heart??

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

You'll even gain by putting your water heater outside the conditioned space, and using an electric range instead of a gas one.

As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum, their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces, the gaps between rulers and subjects, town and country, will widen ; ;

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

Another theme, sinuously chromatic, appears as he directs her to gain power over Grigori by any means, even at the cost of her honor.

Cascading single stages by coupling lens systems is rather inefficient as the lens systems limit the obtainable gain quite severely.

Cascaded single stages enclosed by a common envelope have been constructed with high gain and high resolution.

The luminous gain of a single stage with Af ( flux gain ) is, to a first approximation, given by the product of the photocathode sensitivity S ( amp / lumen ), the anode potential V ( volts ), and the phosphor conversion efficiency P ( lumen/watt ).

The luminous flux gain of a single stage is given by: Af.

With these factors included, an upper limit is placed on the allowable loop gain by stability considerations.

Formally organized vocational programs supported by federal funds allow high school students to gain experience in a field of work which is likely to lead to a full-time job on graduation.

This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United Nations.

and though this process by no means represents an unambiguous gain and is, in fact, marked by the estrangement from the depths that seems to be the cost of human maturation, it is still a positive step forward ; ;

I have nothing to gain by defending Cromwell ''.

Ethnoarchaeology is a type of archaeology that studies the practices and material remains of living human groups in order to gain a better understanding of the evidence left behind by past human groups, who are presumed to have lived in similar ways.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

Eudoxia's influence was strongly opposed by John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who felt that she had used her family's wealth to gain control over the Emperor.

It is felt that fiber-coupled double- ( and multi- ) stage image intensifiers will gain considerable importance in the future.

It may also be a signal of interactive and cooperative intentions since those not interacting further in the future gain nothing from the costly signaling.

* Lowered metabolism, causing future attempts at weight loss to become more difficult, and making weight gain easier

The entrepreneurs who form the most accurate opinions regarding the future state of markets ( i. e. new trends in consumer demands ) earn the highest profits and gain greater control of industry.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

The socialists feared a further loss of support ( as in the October elections ) among nationalistic commoners and hoped to gain a political majority in the future.

Marauders soon infiltrated the house ; they attempt to gain access to Destiny's Diaries on the order of Mr. Sinister ( who has been gathering information about the future from anybody and anything that could foretell the future ).

The Monroe Doctrine held that the United States considered the Western Hemisphere as no longer a place for European colonization ; that any future effort to gain further political control in the hemisphere or to violate the independence of existing states would be treated as an act of hostility ; and finally that there existed two different and incompatible political systems in the world.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront a mirror image of their future deaths in the metadramatic spectacle staged by the Players, they fail to recognize themselves in it or gain any insight into their identities or purpose.

In response his failure to gain control over Saxony, Henry II promise to hold future peace negotiations and then headed for the Duchy of Bavaria.

After his departure from the cabinet, Chirac wanted to gain the leadership of the political right, in order to gain the French presidency in the future.

An ancient practice that was common during the Qin Dynasty, was cracking bones or turtle shells to gain knowledge of the future.

As the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Kiesinger's grand coalition cabinet, Brandt helped to gain further international approval for Western Germany, and he laid the foundation stones for his future Neue Ostpolitik.

Realizing that our wishes have little power, we have sought technologies for gaining knowledge of the future ... gain power over our own .”

" Stanton defended the concept of woman suffrage, saying women would then be able to affect future legislation and gain further rights.

Chapter 1 contains a concise description of how dinners are cooked in the future, including reference to a " quickthaw ", which would now be called a microwave oven (" I grabbed two Syntho-Steaks out of the freezer and slapped them in quickthaw, added a big Idaho baked potato for Dad ... then stepped up the gain on the quickthaw so that the spuds would be ready when the steaks were.

His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony.

In March 1946, just after the ENIAC was announced, the Moore School decided to change their patent policy, in order to gain commercial rights to any future and past computer development there.

Chamberlain hoped that an accord would enable him to claim the future leadership of the party and that he would gain influence over the Conservatives simply from the negotiations occurring.

To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes.

By learning more about these theories, you can gain a deeper and richer understanding of psychology's past, present and future