Vehicles and crews suffered considerable damage and losses during the Battle of Mogadishu due to the nature of the urban engagement ; however, the chassis survivability allowed the majority of those crews to return to safety, though the HMMWV was never designed to offer protection against intense small arms fire, much less machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

In the 1970s, Bond saw competition as gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas began to fuse themselves with the new " action " style, leading to a string of maverick police officer films, such as those defined by Bullitt ( 1968 ), The French Connection ( 1971 ) and Dirty Harry ( 1971 ); all of which featured an intense car chase inspired by the popular stuntwork of the Bond films.

As Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman states in a 1997 article for Slate, “ as manufacturing grows in poor countries, it creates a ripple effect that benefits ordinary people: ‘ The pressure on the land becomes less intense, so rural wages rise ; the pool of unemployed urban dwellers always anxious for work shrinks, so factories start to compete with each other for workers, and urban wages also begin to rise .’ In time average wages creep up to a level comparable to minimum-wage jobs in the United States .”

* real estate prices: The growth of urban centers around the world, and the resulting urban sprawl have caused the price of centrally located farmland to skyrocket, while reducing the local infrastructure necessary to support farming, putting effectively intense pressure on many farmers to sell out.

The Mahdi Army relied heavily in the use of improvised explosive devices allegedly smuggled from Iran and engaged U. S forces with sniper fire and intense small arms engagements in the heavily congested urban area.

The urban environment refers to environments dominated by high-density residential and commercial buildings, paved surfaces, and other intense human influences, which create a unique landscape dissimilar to many previously studied environments in the field of ecology.

The colonization with Roman or Romanized elements, the use of the Latin language and the assimilation of Roman civilization as well as the intense development of urban centres led to the Romanization of part of the autochthonous population in Dacia.

With a dense urban grid the city of Coimbra is famous for its monuments, churches, libraries, museums, parks, nightlife, healthcare and shopping facilities, but above all for its intense cultural life, centered on the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in Europe.

Whether that was an urban myth based on the intense rivalry between the state-established Church of Ireland and the local predominantly Roman Catholic population in Bohermeen ( who were subject to the discriminatory Penal Laws and forced to pay tithes to the Church of Ireland ) or had some basis in fact, is unclear.

The formerly industrial Port Melbourne has been subject to intense urban renewal over the past decade.

The Pertuis d ' Antioche was already active during Roman times, when intense trade of salt and wine was occurring around the urban center of Saintes.

However, despite the great satisfaction, the award caused polarized reactions indicating that the Regional Government of Loreto would be on duty to plan better urban development in Iquitos for the forecasted intense tourism.

Mary left Provence in July 1955, and sailed for San Francisco on the freighter Vesuvio, After living in the city for a short period, she decided that the intense urban environment did not provide the children enough freedom.

Catanzaro is an urban center, with intense activity, including some coastal towns, such as Marina Sellia Soverato, and the municipalities of Silas, with a total of 156, 196 inhabitants.

Forget the Beaux-Arts and the models and render the intense life which surrounds you and be assured that the Brooklyn Bridge is worth the Colosseum of Rome and that modern America is as fine as the bric-a-brac of antiquity .” However, one Boston critic firmly rejected Hassam's choice of urban subject matter as " very pleasant, but not art.

Though isolated in the loess caves of the arid northwest, Yan ' an was the site of intense introspection by urban intellectuals like Rittenberg, whose first sustained contact with Chinese communism occurred in Yan ' an's uniquely isolated setting.

Nectar in a Sieve, set in India during a period of intense urban development, is a fictional history of a marriage between Rukmani, youngest daughter of a village headman, and Nathan, a tenant farmer.

After intense urban fighting, a political resolution was mandated and the regiment was ordered out of the city.

After twelve days of intense urban combat, 1st Marine Division had defeated the insurgents and successfully fought its way to the southern end of the city capturing the western half of Fallujah.

An urban legend spread that the intense pressure of designing Dark Seed gave lead designer, Mike Dawson, a mental breakdown.

The stories reflected an urban ennui and disillusion felt by those leading lives fueled by intense emotions and hedonistic self-indulgence. Georges Lemaître wrote in 1938: “ Beyond any doubt Morand is the most typical representative and interpreter of French literature today … His defects and merits, are they not the defects and merits of the world today …” Supporters and enthusiasts of Morand, Cocteau and André Breton appreciated his “ spiteful humour and surreal urban poetry, and aphoristic prose .” French critics praised his descriptive facility with words, leading them to categorize him as a “ modernist ,” and “ imagist .”

The development of strong administrative structures, in particular those related to extraction of taxes, is closely associated with the intense warfare between predatory European states in the 17th and 18th centuries, or in Charles Tilly's famous formulation: " War made the state and the state made war ".

One example of this is during periods of warfare, civil war, or intense internal conflict of other kinds: governments need to do whatever is necessary to continue fighting, since the alternative is defeat.

The power of the mai was undermined by droughts and famine that were becoming more intense, internal rebellion in the pastoralist north, growing Hausa power, and the importation of firearms which made warfare more bloody.

Mofaz foresaw the wave of violence coming early as 1999 and prepared the IDF for intense guerrilla warfare in the territories.

The most intense open warfare in the conflict in Western Sahara occurred during the Cold War.

The war was intense and was fought for 18 days over the course of which both parties worked around, bent, and even broke rules of warfare.

The rise of these numerous nomarchs inevitably created conflicts between neighboring provinces, often resulting in intense rivalries and warfare between them.

All members of this elite squad received intense instruction in stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, the use of explosives for demolition, amphibious warfare, rock climbing and mountain fighting, and as ski troops.

It gave rise to four decades of intense warfare aimed at preserving Poland's independence.

Large carracks engaged in the flourishing " Nanban trade ", introducing modern firearms to Japan, arquebuses, a major innovation of the Sengoku period a time of intense internal warfare, and also refined sugar, optics and other inventions.

Most subsims use World War II as the setting ; its submarine warfare was lengthy and intense, the historical material is extensive, and the limited capabilities of the period's submarines place a high premium on game playing skill.

The news was quickly given to the armies during the morning of 11 November, but even after hearing that the armistice was due to start at 11: 00 a. m., intense warfare continued right until the last minute.

The area around Hefei was under constant pressure from Wei, and warfare grew so intense that many of the residents chose to migrate en masse and re-settle south the Yangtze.

Kawari kabuto, or " strange helmet ": During the Momoyama period of intense civil warfare, kabuto were made to a simpler design of three or four plates, lacking many of the ornamental features of earlier helmets.

Warfare became more intense, ruthless and much more decisive during the Warring States Period, in which great social and political change was accompanied by the end of the system of chariot warfare and the adoption of mass infantry armies.

Within Muscovy, the permanent warfare at the borderland and the burgeoning in size of the armies of the nobles ( boyars ) fomented intense exploitation of the peasantry.

" The Garamantes exhibited low sexual dimorphism in the upper limbs, which is consistent to the pattern found in agricultural populations and implies that the engagement of males in warfare and construction works was not particularly intense.

Furthermore, because of intense warfare in eastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York, Congress was unable to provide the manpower for operations against Detroit.

Some French Foreign Legion units had close to 100 % casualties in the intense trench warfare.

On 23 July 1942, after intense British pressure and more than a month after the official appearance of the military wing of EAM, the Greek People's Liberation Army ( ELAS ), Zervas, accompanied by Pyromaglou and a handful of companions, set out for the Valtos Mountains in Aetolia-Acarnania, an area with long traditions of guerrilla warfare stretching back to the Ottoman period.

Over the next ten days, the battalion engaged in some of the most intense urban warfare experienced by a single unit of the US Army since World War II.

Entry is repelled through the threat of price warfare, which is more intense when firms are positioned more closely.