A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

`` As a writer, by what have I been obsessed these last ten years, if not by mankind??

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

To use these new ways in daily life is the last step.

The markets are far too subtle, and the last word in these endeavors will doubtless never be written, for the enchanting index is about as nebulous as the fountain of youth.

The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.

we cover each of these with our blanket of peas and then at last we have octillion peas corresponding in number to the atoms in the body.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

St Paul spoke of the ' last times ': " Brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none " ( 1 Corinthians 7: 29 ); " God ... Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son " ( Hebrews 1: 2 ).

Similarly in St Peter: " Christ .. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you " ( 1 Peter 1: 20 ), and " But the end of all things is at hand " ( 1 Peter 4: 7 ).

However, details of these beliefs can be found in almost everything he wrote, from his early Summa de bono to his last work, the Summa theologiae.

As the system evolved these last two functions were shifted to the law courts.

Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, a village of the Republic of Venice situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso.

Some of these vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-Royal Navy armored cars that had been serving in the Middle East since 1915.

In the last two of these functions he has an important ecumenical and interfaith role, speaking on behalf of Anglicans in England and worldwide.

In addition to these geometrical constructions, Dürer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.

Aegina had always been exposed to the raids of the corsairs and was cursed with oppressive governors during these last 30 years of Venetian rule.

Both stable and unstable isotopes of beryllium are created in stars, but these do not last long.

On the other hand, other studies indicate the number of consumers concerned about the safety of irradiated food has decreased in the last 10 years and continues to be less than the number of those concerned about pesticide residues, microbiological contamination, and other food related concerns.

The last and only proposed Constitution adopted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention in 2009 was rejected by the U. S. Congress in 2010, which urged the convention to reconvene to address the concerns Congress and the Obama administration have had with the proposed document.

This article concerns the period 9 BC – 1 BC, the last nine years before the Anno Domini era, not the last ten years.

Her testament of June 6, 1939 states, " I beg the Lord to take my life and my death … for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and the holy church, especially for the preservation of our holy order, in particular the Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world, at last for my loved ones, living or dead, and for all God gave to me: that none of them shall go astray.

The increasing costs, both of organization and of competing, as well as safety concerns, have, over the last twenty years, brought progressively shorter rallies, shorter stages and the elimination of nighttime running, scornfully referred to as " office hours rallying " by older hands.

A sub-plot concerns Claudio's friend Lucio, who frequently slanders the duke to the friar, and in the last act slanders the friar to the duke, providing opportunities for comic consternation on Vincentio's part and landing Lucio in trouble when it is revealed that the duke and the friar are one and the same.

The last published book of Gordon R. Dickson's semi-historical Dragon Knight series is titled The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent, and concerns Joan's attempts to reconcile the Black Prince with his father Edward III during the first years of the Black Death in England.

Responding to concerns about the dangerous overcrowding of the common on holidays the vestry bought the adjacent Homestall Farm ( the last farm in the area ) in 1894 and opened this as Peckham Rye Park.

The last section ( books XVII to the end ) concerns the historical events from the successors of Alexander down to either 60 BC or the beginning of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.

The plot concerns Lord Peter's investigation into the death, three years earlier, of an elderly lady in the last stages of cancer.

The penultimate verse concerns his own reign, and Claudius assumes that he can tell the identity of the last emperor described.

These last talks included the fundamental questions he had been asking through the years, as well as newer concerns related to then recent advances in science and technology, and their effect on humankind.

These separatist tensions did not completely die down until the 1870s when Prime Minister John Molteno restructured the Cape administration to meet the major eastern concerns and, in the Constitutional Amendment Bill of 1873, abolished the last formal distinctions.

In the last decade of the 19th century increasing diplomatic and trade activity by France in Kwangtung ( now Guangdong ) Province and the granting of a concession to Belgian interests to construct a railway from Peking ( now Beijing ) to Hankow ( later extended to Canton ( now Guangzhou )), led to British diplomatic and commercial concerns about protecting Hong Kong as the major trading port for South China.

The story concerns a group of guys who have made a deal to each invest in a fund, which would be paid to the last remaining bachelor of the group.

For the last century we have been ashamed of everything that concerns the fatherland.

However, there were concerns that this meeting might not even happen until after the German elections on 22 September which would push a decision to the last quarter of the year.

A local legend in Shropshire, England, concerns the grave of Richard Munslow, who died in 1906, said to be the last sin-eater of the area:

Despite some possible local declines, the species is not the subject of significant conservation concerns owing to its large European population and an expansion of its range over the last century.

* 2007 Mathew Street festival-large free outdoor festival, controversially cancelled at last minute due to health and safety concerns

The plot is difficult to follow unless the story is previously known and concerns a complicated situation after the defeat of the last Visigoth King of Spain.

Gaelscoileanna have undergone a striking expansion over the last few decades, though there are now concerns that recent rules limiting the founding of new schools may affect Irish-medium education, especially when the demand is greater than the supply.

1972 was the last year in which large parades went through the narrow streets of the city's French Quarter section ; larger floats, crowds, and fire safety concerns led the city government to prohibit parades in the Quarter.