Some hymens are so strongly developed that they cannot be torn without considerable pain to the girl and marked loss of blood.

The general local elections of October 2000 marked the loss of control of the Democrats over the local governments and a victory for the Socialists.

The loss marked the end of an era that saw the Jaguars make the playoffs in four of the team's first five years and would be the team's last playoff appearance until the 2005 season.

The Zhongyuan Yinyun shows the typical Mandarin four-tone system resulting from a split of the " even " tone and loss of the entering tone, with its syllables distributed across the other tones ( though their different origin is marked in the dictionary ).

Other marked characteristics of Newfoundland English include the loss of dental fricatives ( voiced and voiceless th sounds ) in many varieties of the dialect ( as in many other nonstandard varieties of English ); they are usually replaced with the closest voiced or voiceless alveolar stop ( t or d ).

The loss of the Thirteen Colonies, at the time Britain's most populous colonies, marked the transition between the " first " and " second " empires, in which Britain shifted its attention to Asia, the Pacific and later Africa.

Retrograde amnesia is most marked for events occurring in the weeks or months before treatment, with one study showing that although some people lose memories from years prior to treatment, recovery of such memories was " virtually complete " by seven months post-treatment, with the only enduring loss being memories in the weeks and months prior to the treatment.

For singulars, the modern possessive or genitive inflection is a survival from certain genitive inflections in Old English, and the apostrophe originally marked the loss of the old e ( for example, lambes became lamb's ).

This southern headland, called Odde, is marked by continuous loss of land.

This loss marked the end of the Mourning-Hardaway era that had started 5 years earlier.

The final game of the season, a 7 – 1 loss to the Calgary Flames, marked Trevor Linden's last NHL game, as the former Canucks'all-time leading scorer retired.

His reign is marked by war with Persia and the loss of the greater part of Italy.

A severe movement disorder may result in marked loss of function with minimal or no volitional muscle activation.

The loss at Fort Necessity marked Washington's only military surrender.

Backus resumed his boxing career in 1966, but probably never in his wildest dreams could he have envisioned what happened next: in his comeback bout, he knocked out Tod Purtell in the first round, and that marked his embarkment on a seven fight winning streak that included avenging an earlier loss to Dick French.

The 19th and 20th centuries were marked by a considerable loss of authority and influence of the ulama in most Islamic states.

His release on 2 May following the so-called Kilmainham Treaty marked a critical turning point in the development of Parnell ’ s leadership when he returned to the parameters of parliamentary and constitutional politics, and resulted in the loss of support of Devoy's American-Irish.

Those most affected by the loss of a loved one often observe a period of grieving, marked by withdrawal from social events and quiet, respectful behavior.

The war was a devastating loss to the peasants and marked the definitive end of the province as semi-independent, unregulated frontier.

The French loss at Dien Bien Phu marked the end of the First Indochina War ; the French were driven to negotiate for peace.

While the original book and film had tremendous cultural impact, the remake was marked by infighting behind-the-scenes, poor reviews by many critics, and a financial loss of approximately $ 40 million at the box office.

" Bonta ( 2004 ) described dissociative anaesthesia as "... a peculiar anaesthetic state in which marked sensory loss and analgesia as well as amnesia is not accompanied by actual loss of consciousness.

In the type II muscle weakness, urinary symptoms and sensory loss are more marked.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

While this loss of precision may be tolerable and viewed as a minor flaw of Algorithm I, it is easy to find data that reveal a major flaw in the naive algorithm: Take the sample to be ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 4, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 7, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 13, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 16 ).

It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.

The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

Unlike the losses that had been suffered by Minucius, a major loss by Varro had the potential to kill so many soldiers that Rome might have had no further resources with which to continue the war.

The major change in nominal morphology was the loss of the dative case ( its functions being largely taken over by the genitive ); in the verb, the major change was the loss of the infinitive, with a concomitant rise in new periphrastic forms.

As it rises it heats the wall rocks, causing them to behave as a power-law fluid and thus flow around the pluton allowing it to pass rapidly and without major heat loss.

A major scientific report on the severity of global warming by the IPCC in 2001 led to large-scale membership loss.

A major scientific report on the severity of global warming by the IPCC in 2001 led to large-scale membership loss.

9 / 11 was a major insurance loss, but there were disputes over the World Trade Center's insurance policy

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

Although his arrogance had slowed the campaign, he was a brilliant general in the field, and his loss was a major blow to the allied campaign.

The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon has two major causes: commercial exploitation of pigeon meat on a massive scale and loss of habitat.

If a wrestler has secured a rope break from a submission hold, and the offending wrestler does not break the hold on the count of five, causing the offending wrestler to lose automatically, it is still considered a disqualification ( which is kept distinct from countouts in most major promotions ), even though the automatic loss was procured through counting.

Then, in their 17 – 13 loss to the Bills, New York suffered a major setback when starting quarterback Phil Simms went down for the season with a broken bone in his foot.

Two years after the loss of more the $ 350 million in major convention business and the 1993 Super Bowl, Arizona became the first and only state to popularly vote for and approve a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, finally opting to create the holiday by ballot in 1992, and on March 23, 1993, the NFL awarded Super Bowl XXX ( 1996 ) to Tempe.

This was a major loss for Ieyasu, but Shingen was unable to exploit his victory because Ieyasu quickly gathered a new army and refused to fight Shingen again on the battlefield.

Oil prices fell starting in July 2008 resulting in a major loss of income.

Piston engines under the same circumstances are prone to seizing or breaking parts that almost certainly results in major internal damage of the engine and an instant total full loss of power.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.