The Act marked a departure from the education systems in place in Victoria and New South Wales, where schools were generally tied up with respective religious bodies or ( in the case of schools such as Sydney Grammar School ) being provided massive, ineffective endowments, with little effort required from the community.

The Revolution brought about a massive shifting of powers from the Roman Catholic Church to the state.

The empire spent massive sums on Western civilian and military technology to try to modernize and compete with the encroaching European powers, and in the process went deep into debt to these powers.

The blockade failed due to the unexpected massive aerial resupply campaign carried out by the Western powers known as the Berlin Airlift.

* Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual indicates that the impulse engines are nuclear fusion engines where the plasma from the fusion reactor powers a massive magnetic coil to propel the ship.

* Klaw leapt into his massive sonic converter device which was made with vibranium he bought on the open market, hoping to gain superhuman powers to combat his foes.

Trade with European powers and the Japanese brought in massive amounts of silver, which then replaced copper and paper banknotes as the common medium of exchange in China.

DB2 also powers the IBM InfoSphere Warehouse edition, which is basically DB2 LUW with DPF ( Database Partitioning Feature ), a massive parallel share-nothing data warehousing architecture.

The spectre of the multi-continental empire of Spain passing under the effective control of Louis XIV provoked a massive coalition of powers to oppose the Duc d ' Anjou's succession.

The demerger process also resulted in the restructuring of the existing megacities, with both these and the demerged cities handing over massive powers over taxation and local services to the new " agglomeration councils ".

Comic book writer Matt Fraction was criticized for employing Franklin Richards ' massive but ill-defined powers as a deus ex machina device in the 2011 book Fear Itself # 5.

Johnny then starts a massive psychic battle when he discovers that the souls in Heaven are immortal and have mental powers which includes the ability to explode people's heads.

He eventually acquired a massive arsenal of demonic powers and escaped the wasteland.

Due to the massive amount of powers he absorbed, his blood turned acidic.

Using his scientific expertise, massive economic capital and dictatorial powers, he returns prosperity to his country.

In her natural form, Illyria is a massive cephalopod-like monster with inhuman size and numerous tentacles, with all of her powers at full capacity.

2039: A massive nuclear exchange between the powers which dominate the Earth ( identified as the United States of Eurafrica and the Northern Condominium ) destroy most major cities ( the Thirteen Day War ).

Her out of control powers caused destruction on a massive scale and Henry Hellrung was forced to kill Mulholland to save the city.

He was also directly responsible for Garth losing his arm and was defeated when his siblings combined their powers into one massive burst, seemingly shorting him out and removing his powers.

The Terra miniseries revealed that she is a member of an alien race called Stratans who live below the Earth's surface in a massive subterranean cave called Strata which is actually the empty spacesuit of a long dead cosmic extraterrestrial, and possesses a rare mutation granted by a unique ore called " quixium " that grants her the earth powers she wields.

With this equipment, Fiers planned to trigger a massive electromagnetic pulse that would blank out all databanks in Manhattan-the only reason he ever risked working with loose cannons like the Six in the first place was because Electro's powers were the only way he would have the energy to trigger the pulse -, subsequently releasing the catalyst from his private plane to destroy all ink in New York, triggering a complete financial collapse due to all the documents and information lost-to say nothing of the anarchy that would result as gang warfare became the only way to survive -, while the Gentleman's own recently-purchased material wealth would significantly increase in value.

Akira and Tetsuo hold a rally at the Olympic Stadium to demonstrate their powers to the Empire faithful, which culminates with Tetsuo tearing a massive hole in the Moon's surface and encircling it with a ring of the debris.

There, the three X-Men, along with several other mutants, are enslaved by Trask and Gyrich who are harnessing the mutants ' powers to create a massive dam in Genosha whose water power will be used to run Trask's newly-created Master Mold.

He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.

He was freshly shaved, and if there had been any alcohol in him we could never have missed detecting some scent of it on the massive gusts of his laughter.

Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

Bibulus, whom Pompey had appointed to command his 600-ship fleet, set up a massive blockade to prevent Caesar from crossing to Greece and to prevent any aid to Italy.

Pompey by now had a massive international army ; however, his troops were mostly untested raw recruits, while Caesar's troops were hardened veterans.

However, earlier controversies over impact of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, particularly on the heavily populated neighborhood of Brighton, and the large number of additional homes that would have had to be destroyed, led to massive community opposition to both the Inner Belt and the Boston section of I-95.

The burdens the Red Army and the Soviet Union endured had earned it massive respect which, had it been fully exploited by Joseph Stalin, had a good chance of resulting in a communist Europe.

By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.

The Institutes, together with Calvin's polemical and pastoral works, his contributions to confessional documents for use in churches, and his massive outpouring of commentary on the Bible, meant that Calvin had a direct personal influence on Protestantism.

Recognizing that he had acquired a solid team, Veeck soon abandoned the aging, small and lightless League Park to take up full-time residence in massive Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's subordinates refused to take airbase construction seriously until enough capital had been delivered to permit embezzlement on a massive scale.

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.

Absolutely opposed to this, she started a massive fast, something she had learnt from Bonaventura, whose husband had not been considerate in the least.

Such massive violence led to a search for natural religious truthstruths that could be universally accepted, because they had been either " written in the book of Nature " or " engraved on the human mind " by God.

This caused massive unrest as the lower classes struggled to convert their now useless sucres to U. S. dollars and lost wealth, while the upper classes ( whose members already had their wealth invested in U. S. dollars ) gained wealth in turn.

East St. Louis, sitting across the Mississippi River from the more prosperous St. Louis, Missouri, had entire neighborhoods burned out in 1976 during a massive urban fire.

The tendency of communism was far more greater and deeper in East Pakistan than the West, and had massive support in poor, working class, and peasant circles on the issues of Bengali nationalism and Bengali Language Movement.

Previously in 1952, the communists had played an integral and major role in staging the massive protests, mass demonstration, and strikes for the Bengali Language Movement.

There was good reason for this as the western empire was effectively overstretched due to the massive invasion of Alans, Suevi and Vandals who although they had been repulsed from Italy in 406, moved into Gaul on 31 December 406, and arrived in Hispania in 409.

In November 2009 Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett told viewers that a Sarah Palin book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout, showing footage of Palin with a large crowd.

Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.