Advances in technology now made the indigenous man and his simpler way of life appear, not only inferior, but also, even his defenders agreed, foredoomed by the inexorable advance of progress to inevitable extinction.

After the Battle of Menin Road the German defensive system was changed, beginning an increasingly desperate search for expedients, to counter the inexorable British advance.

He proved signally unable to stanch Parma's inexorable advance, however.

The process is not inexorable, however, since the late sunrises experienced by such places during the winter may be regarded as too undesirable.

In May 1951, in Genetic Psychology Monographs volume 43, page 204, Anne Roe gives a transcript of an interview ( part of a Thematic Apperception Test, asking impressions on a photograph ) with Theoretical Physicist number 3: "... As for himself he realized that this was the inexorable working of the second law of the thermodynamics which stated Murphy's law ‘ If anything can go wrong it will ’.

In the post second world war period there was an inexorable decline of a ' Port Kembla ' society as local town boundaries were slowly but surely absorbed into a more Wollongong-focused or regional identity.

I have never been over half of it .” Depopulation, and the growing mechanization of agriculture caused a gradual reduction in the number of farms and acreage devoted to cultivation and pasturage, which beginning in the latter half of the 19th century led to a gradual but inexorable return of the forest, to the point where today the town is largely under trees.

Early Islamic philosophy emphasized an inexorable link between science and religion, and the process of ijtihad to find truth-in effect all philosophy was " political " as it had real implications for governance.

While Honorius IV was inexorable in the stand he had taken towards Sicily, his relations towards Alfonso III of Aragon became less hostile.

* Atropos (, Greek – " inexorable " or " inevitable ", literally " unturning ", sometimes called Aisa ) was the cutter of the thread of life.

Sisyphus, son of Aiolos was a more than mortal figure: for mortals Thanatos usually presents an inexorable fate, but he was only once successfully overpowered, by the mythical hero Herakles.

Her earlier performance was in one of the first season's most unsettling episodes, " The Hitch-Hiker ", in which she played another tormented character, a lone driver who meets her inexorable fate in the personification of death.

Against those who resisted his power, or refused to flatter his vanity, the prelate of Antioch was arrogant, rigid, and inexorable ; but he relaxed the discipline, and lavished the treasures of the church on his dependent clergy, who were permitted to imitate their master in the gratification of every sensual appetite.

Early Islamic political philosophy emphasized an inexorable link between science and religion, and the process of ijtihad to find truth-in effect all philosophy was " political " as it had real implications for governance.

Similarly, Henri Labrouste proposed a reconstruction of the temples at Paestum to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1829, decked out in startling colour, inverting the accepted chronology of the three Doric temples, thereby implying that the development of the Greek orders did not increase in formal complexity over time, i. e., the evolution from Doric to Corinthian was not inexorable.

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

Napoleon was inexorable in his demands, and Pius VII refused to give way where the discipline and vital interests of the church seemed to be threatened.

" A positive review however came from an anonymous writer in the Boston Evening Transcript, for whom the central figure was, " analyzed with rare insight and unprejudiced if inexorable justice ", and the book itself praised as full of " realities faithfully and unflinchingly realised.

At the time, the city seemed to be on an inexorable downward slide into chaos, a theme that was explored in a more brutal fashion in William Friedkin's film The French Connection which was released the year after the pilot of McCloud.

Unlike the massive stone temples that Ramesses ordered carved from the face of the Nubian mountains at Abu Simbel, the inexorable passage of three millennia was not kind to his " temple of a million years " at Thebes.

Nevertheless, he was an excellent man of business, inexorable in punishing malversation and dishonesty on the part of others, and opposed to ruinous court expenditures that was the bane of almost all European monarchies in his day.

Jonathan Grant questioned an inexorable decline thesis by considering military technology, showing the Ottomans could reproduce the latest military technology ( however it is disputed whether the help of foreign expertise was necessary or not from the 15th century onwards Kenneth Chase ( 2003 )) maintaining this relative position through two technology diffusions until the 19th century.

Abandoned by Gaston, he was doomed to death by the inexorable Richelieu, as an example to the rest of the plotting nobility.

It had been recently accepted that " when the coastal plain is overweighted the back country rises " due to inexorable forces moulding the surface of the Earth and the so-called " Templestowe anticline " was studied as representative of microscopic faulting, which accommodated this elevation of the eastern suburbs.

For example, in a letter in 1936, he wrote: " I know that Hitler and Mussolini have given the youth of their countries something to live for, an inexorable and inevitable demand, beyond all reflection and analysis.

The unconditional, inexorable aspect of the direct tax was a paramount concern of people in the 18th century seeking to escape tyrannical forms of government and to safeguard individual liberty.

Women, who are considered to be already castrated, do not identify with the father, and therefore, for Freud, " their super-ego is never so inexorable, so impersonal, so independent of its emotional origins as we require it to be in men ... they are often more influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility.

As Day ( 1982 ) notes, " acts are causally determinative in accordance with their good or evil nature, and their out-workings are inexorable ; there is no intrusive or arbitrary factor which might overcome their potentiality for causing retributional effects, or otherwise interfering with the strictly mechanical efficiency of Karma.

His life provided the best example for his disciples ; and his relationships with the innkeepers ( a number of whom he raised to a higher level ) furnished a silent but effective protest against the practice of the rabbis, who, in their inexorable sense of strict righteousness, would have no dealings with people fallen morally.

In an opinion segment of New Scientist magazine published in August 2009, reporter Andy Coghlan cited William Rees of the University of British Columbia and epidemiologist Warren Hern of the University of Colorado at Boulder, saying that human beings, despite considering themselves civilized thinkers, are " subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion ... an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.

A recurring theme of this book is that information and by extension progress are inexorable: the conflict between the neo-luddite / monarchist New Republic and the post-singularity transhuman culture that contacts them is utterly devastating for the status quo of the former, and our spy heroes are world-weary enough to realize this, exasperated by their apparent inability to understand that one can no more avoid change than one can avoid breathing.

The accumulation of capital, the general advancement of techniques and scale of production, and the inexorable trend to oligopoly by the victors of capitalist market competition, all involve a general tendency for the degree of capital intensity, i. e., the " organic composition of capital " of production to rise.

A property boom beginning in the 1970s coupled with the advent of oil fueled processing of North Sea oil has led to an inexorable process of Gentrification with offices and studio businesses and flats on the market for more than £ 2. 4 million.

In this work, the mythical origin of the land and sky, recounted in craggy verses from the Kalevala, becomes an intense Sibelian metaphor for the inexorable force — even the terror of all creation — including that of the artist.

The " tragic consciousness " is the capacity to gain an exalted state of consciousness from the realization of the unavoidable suffering destined for all men and that there are oppositions in life that can never be resolved, most notably that of the " forgiving generosity of deity " subsumed to " inexorable fate ".

He refused to portray his aspirations for humanity's future as an inexorable unfolding of history's laws, but saw them rather as a wager akin to Blaise Pascal's in the existence of God.

He was back in time for the next homestand, but it marked the beginning of a slow but inexorable deterioration of his health over the next two seasons.

" The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the conviction and incarceration of one whose trial is offensive to the common and fundamental ideas of fairness and right, and while want of counsel in a particular case may result in a conviction lacking in such fundamental fairness, we cannot say that the amendment embodies an inexorable command that no trial for any offense, or in any court, can be fairly conducted and justice accorded a defendant who is not represented by counsel.

This unity, for him, not the telos of an inexorable ethnic or religious destiny, but a form of solidarity for mutual empowerment by democratic means aimed at serving both individuals ’ and communities ’ dignity and freedom ”.

As Broadway itself becomes increasingly weighted down by trite, heavy-handed, commercially successful musicals and inspirational problem dramas, the American theatre is going through an inexorable renaissance in that nebulous area known as `` off-Broadway ''.

The process of flattening seemed inexorable, and it became necessary to emphasize the surface still further in order to prevent it from fusing with the illusion.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

In his Poverty of Historicism, he identified historicism with the view that there are " inexorable laws of historical destiny ", which view he warned against.

: The uniformity of state hypothesis ( i. e., steady-stateism ) implies that throughout the history of our earth there is no progress in any inexorable direction.

While rather small in comparison to chemical thrusters, the radiation pressure force is inexorable and requires no fuel mass.

Bruce then committed his whole Scots army to an inexorable bloody push into the disorganised English mass, fighting side by side across a single front.

Though he continues to play, and extends his consecutive-game streak to a seemingly insurmountable record, his physical condition continues its inexorable decline.

She becomes addicted to valium and alcohol overwhelmed by an irrational anxiety and fear of her inexorable descent into madness.

The city appeared to be in the throes of inexorable decline as industries sought ( what had been ) greener pastures, port operations shifted to larger facilities on Newark Bay, and the car, truck and plane displaced the railroad and ship as the transportation modes of choice in the United States.

Under the inexorable pressure of the automobile, passenger service ended in 1949, but freight trains still use the line today.

When the crisis broke in 1914, though none of the statesmen of Europe wanted a world war, the need to mobilise faster than potential rivals created an inexorable movement towards war.