After the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid Empire became increasingly unstable.

The Duke of York was powerful ; Henry's advisors corrupt ; Henry himself trusting, pliable, and increasingly unstable ; Margaret defiantly unpopular, grimly and gallantly determined to maintain the English crown for her progeny.

Air warmed in this way becomes increasingly unstable.

The New York Times reported, " The magician who emerged from the increasingly unstable ice box seemed a shadow of the confident, robust, shirtless fellow who entered two days before.

It has been debated that, “ when declared support for the U. S .- led war on Iraq in March 2003, and when he sent Japanese forces to aid the occupation in January 2004, it was not Iraq that was in the Japanese sights so much as North Korea .” Japan ’ s unstable relations with North Korea, as well as other neighboring Asian countries has forced Japan to batter and bend Article 9 to “ permit an increasingly expansive interpretation ” of the constitution in the hopes of guaranteeing U. S. support in these relations.

By his adult years, the mysterious " Green Plague " was killing Kryptonians by the hundreds, and upon researching the matter, Jor-El discovered that the cause was growing radiation produced by Krypton's increasingly unstable core.

Blanche, whose only other contact with the outside world is cleaning woman Elvira Stitt and her telephone conversations with her doctor and attorney, realizes that Jane is becoming increasingly unstable.

Philip had clear intentions to try to control the Spanish currency, which had become increasingly unstable during the reign of his father and grandfather, but in practice, inflation soared.

But an unstable member line-up, and the increasingly erratic behavior of the psychedelicized Tommy Hall and mentally fragile Roky Erickson, led to little of value coming out of these sessions.

During this time, Finch's closeness to the Olivier family led to an affair with Olivier's beautiful but increasingly unstable wife, Vivien Leigh, which began in 1948, and continued on and off for several years, ultimately falling apart due to her deteriorating mental condition.

During the game, players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses.

While Mytho's true personality does try to fight back against the corruption, as it progresses he becomes increasingly unstable and verbally abusive to Rue.

He grows increasingly unstable as Batman finds more of his riddles.

Finally, some even revel in the unaccountable warping effects of the Wyld and, forgoing the characteristic silvered tattoos, become increasingly unstable until ending up as inhuman beings known as " chimera " with no unifying form, akin to both Fair Folk and Creation-born.

This is attributed to a number of factors, including the increasing number of humanitarian workers deployed, the increasingly unstable environments in which they work, and the erosion of the perception of neutrality and independence.

Despite continued economic growth, the Shipley government became increasingly unstable.

In the cities, the administration of Ngo Dinh Diem and the military regimes that succeeded it had become increasingly ineffectual and unstable, while in the countryside the government forces were steadily losing ground to the Hanoi-backed insurgents.

As Savitch's career skyrocketed however, her unstable personal life became increasingly messy.

A guilt-racked and increasingly unstable Scott returned home to find his house empty, and all records of his family's existence erased.

The political coalitions which ruled Turkey from the centre-right ANAP and DYP were making the country increasingly unstable.

This was achieved by chromatically raising the seventh degree ( or subtonic ) to match that of the unstable seventh degree ( or leading tone ) of the major mode ( an increasingly widespread practice that led to the creation of a modified version of the minor scale known as the harmonic minor scale ).

The Wasp's slip of the tongue, combined with the Scarlet Witch's increasingly unstable and growing powers, caused Wanda to suffer a mental breakdown which led to the events of Avengers Disassembled.

He explains that, after having failed to capture Dukhat, he became increasingly frustrated and unstable, and turned to killing individuals before their natural death in order to capture their souls.

Waterhouse confronts Newton over his increasingly unstable behavior and his fruitless attempts to derive a " theory of everything " under the enabling influence of Newton's close friend Fatio.

Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.

Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.

( 2 ) Realtors realize, of course, that they are involved in an increasingly complex legal and political system that is opening up opportunities for leverage on their relation to clients as well as opportunities for evasion of their responsibility for racial discrimination in housing.

Administrative law expanded greatly during the twentieth century, as legislative bodies worldwide created more government agencies to regulate the increasingly complex social, economic and political spheres of human interaction.

The school in Weimar experienced political pressure from conservative circles in Thuringian politics, increasingly so after 1923 as political tension rose.

In the increasingly dangerous political atmosphere, this became a threat to the existence of the Dessau school.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

In 1940, as the European political situation worsened after the outbreak of World War II, Bartók was increasingly tempted to flee Hungary.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

In Constantinople, the hippodrome became over time increasingly a place of political significance.

With Mahoré continuing to gravitate politically and economically toward France, and Comoros increasingly dependent on the French for help with its own considerable social, political, and economic problems, the issue of Mahoré diminished somewhat in urgency.

Rather than largely simple domestic residences in prehistory, Medieval crannogs were increasingly seen as strongholds of the upper class or regional ' political players ' such as Gaelic chieftains like the O ' Boylans and McMahons in County Monaghan and the Kingdom of Airgíalla up until the 17th century.

By the time Gorbachev ushered in the process that would lead to the dismantling of the Soviet administrative command economy through his programs of glasnost ( political openness ), uskoreniye ( speed-up of economic development ) and perestroika ( political and economic restructuring ) announced in 1986, the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy.

Political mass murder grows increasingly common as political power becomes unconstrained.

On 2 April 1903, Bernardo Reyes, governor of Nuevo León, violently crushed a political demonstration, an example of the increasingly authoritarian policies of president Porfirio Díaz.

In Colombia writing and drawing on banknotes has become increasingly popular, either to make political comments, for fun or as an artistic medium.

In the 1870s, the government of Buffalo had grown increasingly corrupt, with Democratic and Republican political machines cooperating to share the spoils.

Initially, the President was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant ; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.

His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of " Journalist.

From about age 35, Melville ceased to be popular with a broad audience because of his increasingly philosophical, political and experimental tendencies.

Under Mahathir bin Mohamad ’ s long Prime Ministership ( 1981 – 2003 ), Malaysia ’ s political culture became increasingly centralized and authoritarian, due to Mahathir's belief that the multiethnic Malaysia could only remain stable through controlled democracy.

During the Mughal era, the dominant political forces consisted of the Mughal Empire and its tributaries and, later on, the rising successor states-including the Maratha Empire-which fought an increasingly weak Mughal dynasty.

Alexander increasingly left much of the tactical conduct of the campaign to his corps commander, Bill Slim, while he himself handled the more political aspects of relations with Joe Stillwell, the nominal commander of the Chinese forces.