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gleisners and Coalition
The citizens of the Coalition view the gleisners and their colonial aspirations as puerile and ultimately futile, believing that only " bacteria with spaceships.

gleisners and .
The gleisners live in space, mostly in the asteroid belt, and in various other places in the Solar System ; Egan implies that they long ago agreed to leave Earth to the fleshers to avoid conflict.
These represent the majority by far of " humanity " in the novel, followed in a distant second place by the gleisners.
Over the next few years, Yatima and other citizens and gleisners attempt to rescue any surviving fleshers from slow suffocation, starvation, or poisoning by offering to upload them into the polises.

Coalition and Polises
Together with vast networks of sensors, probes, drones and satellites throughout the Solar system, they collectively make up the Coalition of Polises, the backbone and bulk of human civilisation.
The novel's title itself refers to a quest undertaken by most of the inhabitants of Carter-Zimmerman (" C-Z "), a polis devoted to physics and understanding the cosmos, along with volunteers from throughout the Coalition of Polises.
One of the first three people that Yatima meets and a physicist and scape-architect, Blanca has a reputation as an acknowledged expert on Kozuch Theory throughout the Coalition of Polises.

Coalition and survive
The Iraqis kill one passenger and detain the other 384 passengers and crew for use as " human shields " around important targets in Iraq ; all survive and the Iraqis eventually release them before the onset of Coalition attacks against Iraq in January 1991.
Beattie seized on this, arguing that this proved a Coalition government would only survive with the support of One Nation and former One Nation MPs.

Coalition and thanks
" Paul Bremer in his memoirs indicated that George W. Bush himself urged the appointment of Ghazi al-Yawar for President of the Iraqi Interim Government, as Bush " had been favorably impressed by Ghazi's open thanks to the Coalition for overthrowing Saddam and by his determination to continue the process to sovereignty and eventual democracy.
L. Paul Bremer in his memoirs indicated that George W. Bush himself urged the appointment of al-Yawar, as Bush " had been favorably impressed by Ghazi's open thanks to the Coalition for overthrowing Saddam and by his determination to continue the process to sovereignty and eventual democracy.
The original proposal excluded buildings such as the Pyramid Club, but thanks to efforts made by local community groups such as the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, East Village Community Coalition, Historic Districts Council, and Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the proposed district now includes 101 Avenue A as well as other similar buildings.

Coalition and .
The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.
* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
* In the Rifts RPG, the capital of the Coalition States is the city of Chi-Town.
Along with some of the other major Coalition cities, Chi-Town is considered a " Mega-City " in that its entire population is housed inside one giant structure consisting of more than thirty levels, each of which are several stories high and contain a number of sub-levels.
* 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.
Several public interest groups, including the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin ( COICA ) and the Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment ( Amazon Coalition ) objected.
* 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
* 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when Austria invades Bavaria.
Early in the wars of the First Coalition, he saw victory at Neerwinden in 1793, before tasting defeat at Wattignies 1793 and Fleurus 1794.
He reformed Austria's armies to adopt the nation at arms principle ; in 1809, he went into the War of the Fifth Coalition with confidence and inflicted Napoleon's first major setback at Aspern-Essling, before suffering a defeat at the bloody Battle of Wagram.
When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition, Charles was not given a command and the post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg.
Following France's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition, Napoleon Bonaparte marched into Berlin in 1806, but granted self-government to the city.
However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.
Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.
Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.
It also encouraged other European countries to turn against France, and was a factor in the outbreak of the War of the Second Coalition.
Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.
Also encouraged by the British victory were the Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire, both of whom were mustering armies as part of a Second Coalition, which declared war on France in 1799.
A Coalition of Anglo-Dutch and Prussian Armies under the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The Peace of Basel in 1795 between the French Republic and Prussia and Spain ended the First Coalition against France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
" Similar charges were made by the Global Climate Coalition ( GCC ), a consortium of industry interests.

survive and burst
A banshee's ghostly howl can burst eardrums and render a man mad ; only those with an iron will can survive this ethereal creature's wail.
Enron's successes continue as it became one of the few Internet-related companies to survive the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, and is named as the " most admired " corporation by Fortune magazine for the sixth year running.
Brent Hoberman, together with Martha Lane Fox, founded Lastminute. com in 1998, an online travel and gift business that floated at the peak of the dot-com bubble and managed to survive the subsequent burst of the bubble.

survive and thanks
Monumental buildings were erected under their supervision, administrative and economic activities were documented by them, and tales from the mouths of Egypt's lower classes or from foreign lands survive thanks to scribes putting them in writing.
The later Regimental History thanks Dorman-Smith for his modernising efforts in helping the battalion to survive the desert campaign, although it appears that they were glad to see the back of him.
More and more patients survive longer and longer, thanks to stem cell transplant ( with their own or a donor's ) and treatments combining Bortezomib ( Velcade ), Dexamethasone ( corticoid ) and melphalan or cyclophosphamide ( Endoxan ). This seems to maintain the monoclonal peak at a reasonable level.
These fields are strong enough to withstand the detonation of multiple thermonuclear weapons, hence Magneto is invulnerable to most harm when surrounded by his shield and can survive in deep space thanks to it.
Though some of his Marauders did not survive the battle, many of them returned thanks to Sinister's genetics mastery and the fact that he had multiple clones of all of them.
Back aboard the Queen of Empire, thanks to Droma's tail, he and Han survive the fall down the turbolift shaft.
Joshua and his companions survive thanks to the intervention of a man with strange abilities named Dick Keaton, and are able to extract Mzu safely, although they also have to pick up Monica and Samual.
* Only the original Superman and Batman survive thanks to Kryptonian genes and immortality granted by the Lazarus Pit, respectively.
The foundation of Fethard proved to be a successful venture, thanks in part perhaps to William de Braose's energetic promotion of it, but other settlements in the area with borough status-Kiltinan and Lisronagh, for example-struggled to survive and are now places of comparatively little significance.
In this version, he and his family survive thanks to the Doctor and Donna Noble transporting them to safety in the TARDIS, and start a new life in Rome.
However, the genre has not only been highly influential on both rock and folk music, thanks to the remarkable longevity of the key groups and productivity of the members, together with renewed interest in subsequent generations, electric folk continues to survive and artistically thrive.
All survive remarkably complete, even down to the original furniture and drapery ( designed by Uren himself and made by Heals ) and the cork-tiled floors, thanks to the care taken by the property department and successive facilities managers.
He manages to survive the fall thanks to the fellow creatures.
Letters of thanks to him from Berne and Soleure still survive.
In recent times the club has struggled with the rising financial burdens placed upon Junior football teams and have done extremely well to survive, thanks to a sound management system and utilisation of both young and older, more experienced players.
The two survive unharmed, thanks to the fighting talents of Vimes and the family butler, Willikins, as well as a dwarf being foolish enough to provoke Sybil's dragons.
Australia had the better of the short day's play, adding 50 runs without loss to pass the follow-on target, although Warne was lucky to survive on two occasions thanks to errors by Geraint Jones: when Warne had 55 he missed a relatively straightforward stumping opportunity, and on 68 he was dropped after edging a ball from Flintoff.
Alvan managed to survive thanks to the magic crimsom stone and challenges Felden to save the life of the few living beings that still left in his planet.
Australia had the better of the short day's play, adding 50 runs without loss to pass the follow-on target, although Warne was lucky to survive on two occasions thanks to errors by Geraint Jones: when Warne had 55 he missed a relatively straightforward stumping opportunity, and on 68 he was dropped after edging a ball from Flintoff.
Majke were the only band to survive, mostly thanks to its frontman Goran Bare who was the only constant member of the band.
The communities lived a hunter-gatherer way of life, and were able to survive thanks to rich fishing grounds, plentiful supply of animals and mild temperatures.
The name has nothing to do with the Hostato Saga regarding the Knight Hostato, who after being the only one to survive a battle was given the site by Charlemagne in thanks for his bravery.

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