The vision in the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon ( 7: 1 ) concerning four great beasts ( 7: 3 ) representing four future kings ( 7: 17 ) or kingdoms ( 7: 23 ), the fourth of which devours the whole earth, treading it down and crushing it ( 7: 23 ).

A moment of great disorder in southern Africa was the Mfecane, " the crushing.

It was quite a piece of crap and was received with great anticipation and crushing disappointment at the radio level.

But the contrast, at this crisis, between his self-sacrificing patriotism and the treachery of the Russophil aristocracy was so striking that, when the Riksdag assembled, Gustav found that the three lower estates were ultra-royalist, and with their aid he succeeded, not without running great risks in crushing the opposition of the nobility by a second coup d ' état on February 16, 1789 and passing the famous Act of Union and Security which gave the king an absolutely free hand as regards foreign affairs and the command of the army, and made further treason impossible.

On his restoration Peter enforced the addition to the Trisagion, and behaved with great zeal against the Chalcedonian party, crushing all opposition by an appeal to the Syrian people, whom he had gained control over.

Next year until mid-September Rosewall and Laver were quite equal, the latter winning more tournaments including the US Pro Indoors at New York City and the Masters Pro at Los Angeles but Rosewall struck two great blows during the summer of 1965 by winning very easily the U. S. Pro on the Longwood C. C ( outside Boston ) grass courts crushing Gonzales, 6 – 3 6 – 2 6 – 4, and Laver, 6 – 4 6 – 3 6 – 3, in the last rounds and again Laver, 6 – 3 6 – 2 6 – 4, in the French Pro on the fast wooden courts at Coubertin.

However, Orthodox mohalim have rejected perforating clamps, arguing that by crushing and killing the skin it causes a great amount of unnecessary pain to the newborn, cuts off the blood flow completely, which according to Jewish law is dangerous to the child and strictly forbidden, and also renders the orlah ( foreskin ) as cut prior to the proper ritual cut.

One of the high points of his career was a crushing defeat ( 6 – 0, 6 – 2, 6 – 1 ) of the great Bill Tilden at a match between U. S. and British Empire service teams at Wimbledon in July, 1945, supposedly the worst drubbing of Tilden's career — Tilden, however, was 52 years old at the time while Van Horn was 25.

The pressure must be controlled, especially with grapes, in order to avoid crushing the seeds and releasing a great deal of undesirable tannins into the wine.

He was not a great campaigner nor a natural populist, which probably led to his crushing defeat.

Some of them were great warriors, who carried their arms even into Ceylon, while many of them were weak rulers, especially after 1568, when General Vittal inflicted a crushing defeat on them.

The use of barbless hooks ( which can be created by crushing the barbs flat with a pair of needle-nosed pliers ) is essential as Australian bass hit lures with great ferocity and are consequently almost impossible to unhook on barbed hooks.

Thus the Knights suffered virtually no territorial losses – a great diplomatic achievement after the crushing defeat in the Battle of Grunwald.

In 1843, yet another British Army officer in Kingston, Ontario, in Upper Canada, wrote " Began to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey on the ice.

In this manner he is able to quickly form a great variety of ice structures, including projectiles, shields, ladders, baseball bats, etc.

Iceman has also been able to move rapidly to another distant location while in his organic ice form, being able to deposit his bodily mass into a river and reconstitute his entire mass a great distance away in a matter of minutes ( by temporarily merging his molecules with those of the river ).

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

As the great ice sheets melted, sea level rose over 4, 000 years, and the valley filled with water from the Pacific, becoming a bay.

From Pirates and Robbers which do so infest other voyages ; from ice and great frost, which do so much endanger the passages towards the Poles.

Due to its great age, the geographical distribution of Magnoliaceae has become disjunct or fragmented as a result of major geologic events such as ice ages, continental drift, and mountain formation.

Firmly they stood, one close to another, forming as it were a bulwark of ice ; and with great blows of their swords they hewed down the Arabs.

The history of ice cream in the 20th century is one of great change and increases in availability and popularity.

The Paleolithic period in Provence saw great changes in the climate, with the arrival and departure of two ice ages, and dramatic changes in the sea level.

Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges ( which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age ) and great similarity between the taxa.

At the end of the last ice age the North Sea was a great plain, and anthropological material, as well as the remains of animals such as mammoths are sometimes recovered by trawlers.

Former Philadelphia Flyers star Andre Lacroix, who received very little ice time in his single season in Chicago, joined Hull, and the pair became two of the WHA's great stars.

As Russell's character infiltrates the transnat terraforming project, the newly evolving martian biosphere is described at great length and with more profound changes most aimed at warming up the surface of Mars to the brink of making it habitable, from continent sized orbital mirrors, another space elevator built ( using another anchored asteroid that is dubbed " New Clarke "), to melting the northern polar ice cap, and digging moholes deep enough to form volcanoes.

One example: the discovery of massive ice ages in the Proterozoic, following the great reduction of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > in the atmosphere.

These people moved into North America when the continental glaciers of the last great ice age, the Wisconsin glaciation, began to melt.

The lake was formed in the last great ice age, but since 1900, has experienced cultural eutrophication.

Margaret took a great interest in many forms of sports ; she used the winters for skiing, ice skating and playing hockey, and played tennis and golf during the summers.

The 2007 – 08 season saw the team celebrate their 10th season of OHL hockey and the fans saw a great team on the ice as things went much better for the Battalion, with sophomore centre Cody Hodgson, rookie forward Matt Duchene, and veteran winger John Hughes, the team posted several wins finishing with a 42-22-1-3 record, just shy of the club record of 91 points set in 05 – 06.

During cycles of global cooling, such as the most recent ice age, enough sea water became concentrated in the great ice sheets that covered North America and Europe, so that the subsequent drop in eustatic sea levels exposed shallow sea-floors that have subsequently re-flooded.

Baker is considered one of the greatest ice hockey players of his era, and the first great American hockey player.

Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines are made, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis cinerea or noble rot, at least not to any great degree.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

In any given year, the duration of each season is determined largely by the positions of two great air masses — a maritime mass over the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest and a much drier continental mass.

Before Moseley's discovery, the atomic numbers ( or elemental number ) of an element had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary sequential number, based on the sequence of atomic masses, but modified somewhat where chemists found this to be desirable, such as by the great Russian chemist, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev.

He wrote a great deal of religious music, including large-scale masses, but also dances, divertimenti, serenades, and other forms of light entertainment.

Paisiello also wrote a great deal of church music, including eight masses ; as well as fifty-one instrumental compositions and many stand-alone songs.

Haydn became more interested in choral music near the end of his life following his visits to England in the 1790s, when he heard various Handel oratorios performed by large forces ; he wrote a series of masses beginning in 1797 and his two great oratorios The Creation and The Seasons.

Regional metamorphism, also known as dynamic metamorphism, is the name given to changes in great masses of rock over a wide area.

The Decision took the existing student movement and elevated it to the level of a nationwide mass campaign, calling on not only students but also " the masses of the workers, peasants, soldiers, revolutionary intellectuals, and revolutionary cadres " to carry out the task of " transforming the superstructure " by writing big-character posters and holding " great debates.

Living diatoms are often found clinging in great numbers to filamentous algae, or forming gelatinous masses on various submerged plants.

Examples include great melt sheets and voluminous plutonic masses of granite, diorite, layered intrusions, anorthosites and monzonites known as sanukitoids.

This matched the correct theories being published that when man reaches the moon ( a lighter gravity environment ) he will be able to lift great masses and leap great distances.

Herodian also relates that Elagabalus forced senators to watch while he danced around his deity's altar to the sound of drums and cymbals, and at each summer solstice celebrated a great festival, popular with the masses because of food distributions, during which he placed the holy stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:

In order to create this monumental effect, Vanbrugh chose to design in a severe form of Baroque, using great masses of stone to imitate strength and create shadow as decoration.

This was the first time that the Jewish mystical dimensions could be articulated to the whole Jewish community, and its soulful teachings invigorated the masses, as well as involved the great scholars.

Even those who had been content to permit the monks ’ worship and do great reverence at their matins, masses and services two days previously were no less happy to pilfer, which is strange, that they could one day think it to be the house of God and the next the house of the Devil – or else they would not have been so ready to have spoiled it.

The paper had a big circulation and began to exercise a great influence on the masses of the people.

The harder strata, instead of lapping on the mountain flanks in great slab-like masses, as in the Bighorns, form out-facing scarps, which retreat into the mountain interior where they are cut down by outflowing streams.

To the masses, the Decembrist exiles were “ generals who had refused to take the oath to Nicholas I .” They were great figures that had suffered political persecution for their loyalty to the people.

He enjoyed great popularity among the masses of workers, who saw their own austere existences reflected in his way of life.