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greatest and resistance
The greatest resistance was seen in France and was led by Guido, who still held the office of the papal legate.
The emirate's greatest failing was its inability to eradicate Christian resistance in the Basque country and the Cantabrian mountains.
Among those offering greatest resistance was Samori Ture, who in the 1880s and 1890s was establishing an empire that extended over large parts of present-day Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Côte d ' Ivoire.
Elastic resistance provides the greatest resistance at the end of the motion, when the elastic element is stretched to the greatest extent.
There is no single factor that confers the greatest degree of influence on the spread of drug resistance, but a number of plausible causes associated with an increase have been acknowledged.
Ironically, the attack which saw the greatest resistance was that wholly American landing in Morocco.
It was designed to be analytically tractable and have as few free parameters as possible while retaining those of greatest significance, such as spine neck resistance.
The greatest resistance to the Portuguese was offered by the Ovambo, who were not made fully subject to colonial rule until 1915 and who earned a considerable reputation among the Portuguese and other Africans for their efforts to maintain their independence.
In his words, " The perfection of a warship would doubtless be a combination of the greatest known ocean speed with the greatest known floating battery and power of resistance.
In a 1986 eulogy to the mathematician, Hermann Weyl, he proclaimed: " Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.
La Rochelle was the greatest stronghold among the Huguenot cities of France, and the centre of Huguenot resistance.
* Lacey Chabert as Penny Robinson: The teenage Robinson daughter child, who shows the greatest reluctance for the ten year-mission ( and having to leave behind her entire life ), for which she shows a great amount of rebellion and resistance.
The greatest resistance to aqueous flow is provided by the trabecular meshwork, and this is where most of the aqueous outflow occurs.
As much of the driving force at the early organizing of the MST came from Catholic base communities, much of the MST ideology and actual practice are rooted on the principle, taken from the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, that private property should serve a social function-a principle developed during the 19th century, and made into Catholic official doctrine since Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum encyclical ; on the eve of the 1964 military coup, that was the principle evoked by President João Goulart in his famous " Central rally " ( a mammoth rally held in Rio de Janeiro, near to the city's greatest railroad station, where the president made a speech offering a blueprint for various political and social reforms ) when proposing the expropriation of estates of more than 600 hectares in area situated at the vicinity of federal facilities ( roads, railroads and reservatoirs as well as sanitation works )- a move that triggered the strong conservative resistance leading to Goulart's downfall.
These tires provide an advantage in weight ( lacking the relatively heavy wire bead ), rolling resistance, grip and pinch flat protection, but their greatest advantage lies in the ability to use a very lightweight simple box-section rim, rather than the U-shaped clincher rim.
And, he considered Karl Barth, who was a leader of the resistance against the German state church in World War II, the greatest theologian of the 20th century.
The Armenian camp and resistance also faces its greatest challenge from within when criminal elements among the Ottoman Army deserters — who Bagradian allowed to help in Musa Dagh ’ s offense — go on a rampage.
However, Al-Musta ' sim had to face the greatest menace against the caliphate since its establishment in 632, the invasion of the Mongol forces that, under Hulagu Khan, had already wiped out any resistance in Transoxiana and Khorasan.
Rubber-based adhesives generally provide the greatest adhesion, but the lowest temperature resistance.

greatest and Spanish
In the mid-1580s, war with Spain could no longer be avoided, and when Spain finally decided to attempt to conquer England in 1588, the failure of the Spanish Armada associated her with one of the greatest victories in English history.
In 1933, the right-wing Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right ( CEDA ) won power, An armed rising of workers in October 1934, which reached its greatest intensity in Asturias and Catalonia, was forcefully put down by the CEDA government.
When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.
In the same year, at the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa, a vigorous and dramatic portrait that Juan-Eduardo Cirlot has called " without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole history of Spanish painting.
A hundred years later, King Alfonso VI of Castile, considered among the greatest of the Medieval Spanish kings, designated as his heir his son ( also a Sancho ) by the refugee Muslim princess Zaida of Seville.
One of the greatest contributions of the Visigoths to family law was their protection of the property rights of married women, which was continued by Spanish law and ultimately evolved into the community property system now in force in part of the United States.
Never fully successful in the pre-Columbian era, these totalitarian policies ironically experienced their greatest success when they were adopted as a pan-Andean identity defined against Spanish rule starting in the 16th century.
He declared she was: on which i gave him my hand, and desired him to call on his officers and ship's company and tell them of it: which he did – and on the quarter deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of vanquished Spaniards: which as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm.
The city reached the peak of its splendour in the early 17th century, under Spanish domination: at the time it was one of the ten greatest cities in Europe.
In February 1701, the French King caused the Parlement of Paris ( a court ) to register a decree that should Louis himself have no heir then the Duke of Anjou — Phillip V of Spain — would surrender the Spanish throne for that of the French, ensuring dynastic continuity in Europe's greatest land power.
The ensuing battle was one of the Black Prince ’ s greatest victories, but King Peter ( Spanish: Pedro ) was later killed, and there was no money to pay the troops.
In February 2001, Martin released a Spanish greatest hits album entitled La Historia, which went to number one for five weeks on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and debuted at number eighty-three on the Billboard 200.
The Battle of Ocana or Battle of Ocaña was fought on 19 November 1809 between French forces under Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult and King Joseph Bonaparte and the Spanish army under Juan Carlos de Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest single defeat in the Peninsular War.
Charles presided over the greatest auto-da-fé in the history of the Spanish Inquisition in 1680, in which 120 prisoners were forced to participate, of whom 21 were later burnt at the stake.
In February 1701, the French King caused the Parlement of Paris ( a court ) to register a decree that should Louis himself have no heir that the Duc d ' Anjou ( Phillip V of Spain ) would surrender the Spanish throne for that of the French, ensuring dynastic continuity in Europe's greatest land power.
She has been called " the greatest Spanish gypsy dancer of her generation ".
But it is doubtless the Spanish Aerocar in Niagara Falls in Canada which has gained the greatest fame in this area of activity, although from a scientific point of view it was not the most important.
However, by 1690 the Spanish Netherlands had become the main seat of the war where the French formed two armies: Boufflers ' force on the Moselle, and a larger force to the west under Humières ' successor – and Louis XIV's greatest general of the period – Marshal Luxembourg.
Walpole reports that St Germain: ' spoke Italian and French with the greatest facility, though it was evident that neither was his language ; he understood Polish, and soon learnt to understand English and talk it a little [...] But Spanish or Portuguese seemed his natural language '.
First among them was the Portuguese Empire, followed soon by the Spanish Empire, which was challenged by the Dutch Empire, itself replaced on the high seas by the British Empire, whose landed possessions were immense and held together by the greatest navy of its time.
The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges referred to Reyes as " the greatest prose writer in the Spanish language of any age " At least five avenues in Monterrey's metropolitan area, three in the municipality and one in Mexico City are named after Reyes.
This siege was the greatest undertaking of the entire campaign and lasted from the 10th to the 28 August, when the Spanish garrison capitulated in return for being allowed to freely withdraw.
The successful use of fire ships at the Battle of La Hogue and Cherbourg in 1692 marked both the greatest achievement of a fire ship attack since the Spanish Armada, and also the last significant success for fire ships.
Victoria also facilitated the activities of the Lancasterian Society, which was dedicated to education, and he created the Naval Force that enabled his greatest achievement: the complete independence of Mexico, when on 18 November 1825, general Miguel Barragán took the last Spanish stronghold, the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in Veracruz.

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