His revolt soon petered out, when the menace of a Gothic invasion faded out, and Septimius was killed by his own troops.

" asked Horace Coker ) and has a style of playing soccer and cricket that is a menace to his own team mates ; yet is completely convinced that he is the best scholar and sportsman at Greyfriars.

In January 1946, U. S. Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson asked Lilienthal to chair a five-member panel of consultants to a committee composed of himself and four others advising President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes about the position of the United States at the United Nations on the new menace of nuclear weapons.

Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.

Octavian complained that Antony had no authority for being in Egypt ; that his execution of Sextus Pompeius was illegal ; that his treachery to the king of Armenia disgraced the Roman name ; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to Rome according to his agreement ; that his connection with Cleopatra and the acknowledgment of Caesarion as a legitimate son of Julius Caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.

According to another view, Lycambes as an oath-breaker had marked himself out as a menace to society and the poet's invective was not just personal revenge but a social obligation consistent with the practice of ' iambos '.

Shaw, using his connections to Senator Robert Kelly to initiate Project: Wideawake, secured a government contract for Shaw Industries to manufacture Sentinels, profiting from the state of fear concerning the " mutant menace " despite secretly being a mutant himself.

The Bolsheviks had seized much of the Russian fleet at Kronstadt, and Agar considered these vessels a menace to British operations and took it upon himself to attack the enemy battleships.

Unhesitatingly, the gallant soldier took it upon himself to destroy this menace single-handedly.

Hopping away to leg to make room for himself, Tyldesley cut and drove the leg-spinner to great effect in a strategy later used by Don Bradman against the bodyline menace.

Spectreman disguises himself as a Japanese man named Jôji Gamô to walk among the humans and scout out Gori's weekly menace for the Nebula 71 Star.

Shunning the desk job that had kept him from combat, Spade equipped himself with guns and gadgets of his own invention and fought the Nazi menace as Black Jack.

He is established by then as having, or working, in the Ace of Clubs, even bringing himself to boldly menace Atom Smasher for " Talking trash about Sooperman ".

In flashback, Martin tells of his stopover in Tokyo on a routine assignment to Cairo for United World News, where he finds himself confronted by the emergence of an inexplicable menace to navigation in the Sea of Japan.

At first tasked from Jack himself to keep an eye over Captain Atom, using her charms if needed to keep him close and devise a plan to bring him back home, or kill him should he become a menace for the Wildstorm Universe.

In The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, author Daniel Yergin notes that the Carter Doctrine " bore striking similarities " to a 1903 British declaration, in which British Foreign Secretary Lord Landsdowne warned Russia and Germany that the British would " regard the establishment of a naval base or of a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.

It can be a social menace ... In final analysis, size in steel is the measure of the power of a handful of men over our economy ... The philosophy of the Sherman Act is that it should not exist ... Industrial power should be decentralized.

: I decided to give atomic secrets to the Russians because it seemed to me that it was important that there should be no monopoly, which could turn one nation into a menace and turn it loose on the world as ... as Nazi Germany developed.

It should be noted that Rabbi Yisroel Hopsztajn of Kozienice, another Hasidic leader, also considered Napoleon a menace to the Jewish people.

In The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, author Daniel Yergin notes that the Carter Doctrine " bore striking similarities " to a 1903 British declaration, in which British Foreign Secretary Lord Landsdowne warned Russia and Germany that the British would " regard the establishment of a naval base or of a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.

It combines menace ( it contains an account of a ' perfect murder ') and dark humour ( c. f.

* Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, a poem evoked the dark menace, and also the grim, stately beauty of the black raven.

Each of the major cultures on Sarpadia is confronted with internal threats caused by the cooling weather: the dwarves are attacked by orcs and goblins ; the Vodalian merfolk face the homarid menace ; the elves of the forest struggle to contain the fungus-like thallids ; the proud soldiers of Icatia confront opposition from religious zealots ; and the dark Order of the Ebon Hand fights a thrull revolt.

The Destroyer is an enchanted suit of armor forged by Odin, and when it first appeared it was hinted that the Destroyer had been created as a weapon to face some dark menace from the stars.

Do you think the — ah — petting-party is a serious menace to the Constitution?

And to what extent and with what justification did the Lincoln administration and other Republican officials violate civil liberties to contain the perceived menace?

The villains almost always managed to menace Sweet Polly Purebred ( voiced by Norma MacMillan ), an anthropomorphic canine TV reporter, as part of their nefarious schemes ; she was a helpless damsel in distress most of the time, and had a habit of singing in a somewhat whining tone of voice, " Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone?

But is the menace with us?

: promise or menace?

And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

There they met new dangers -- first the powerful Manas crabs and then the Shadow Toa -- before confronting Makuta himself.

In 2009, a parliament member suggested its nomination for the " longest epic story in the world " because “ the great heritage of Kyrgyz people should find its place in the world history .” There have likewise been attempts to identify Manas as Mannasseh of the Old Testament.

In September 2012, Atambayev repeated his view that " Manas should be a civil airport " which " should not be a military base for any country ".

Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from interest.

" According to the St. James's Gazette, " gradually the enthusiasm faded away and the interest of the story began to flag, until at last the plot seemed within an ace of collapsing altogether.

It comprised a series of black and white close-up shots of faces of many different people that gradually faded from one to the next.

Its reputation in ruins, the Viet Minh gradually faded away as a revolutionary movement and party.

Two traditions of the sexually segregated past, sororities and the all-male Mitre Club, persisted into the 1950s as unofficial organizations but gradually faded away.

After 1848, as the movement faded, its demands appeared less threatening and were gradually enacted by other reformers.

With the building of this railroad the county seat hopes of south Greenfield gradually faded and finally vanished in thin air.

During the first half of his Formula One career, he consolidated his position as a fast driver and a race win challenger ; Montoya became a title contender during 2003 but the hopes of fighting for the title gradually faded as his cars lacked pace and stronger, more consistent, challengers arrived on the scene.

His readership gradually dropped, and when his home paper, the New York Daily Mirror, where he'd worked for thirty-four years, closed in 1963, he faded from the public eye.

By the end of the 1980s many acts had been dropped by their labels and the solo careers of many New Romantic stars gradually faded.

This, and the opportunity to play Tristan Farnon again in 1985 and 1990, kept Davison busy until the early 1990s, when he gradually faded from the public eye.

However, her very popularity created issues with the Kwantung Army, as her utility as an intelligence asset was long gone, and her value as a propaganda symbol was compromised by her increasingly critical tone against the Japanese military's exploitative policies in Manchukuo as a base of operations against China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and she gradually faded from public sight.

The resort remained vibrant through the 1960s, then gradually faded.

When Bavarian settlers moved into the area during the 9th century, superseding and gradually absorbing the Slavic population that had established itself during the previous half-millennium, all recollection of the Roman city had long since faded.

The group enjoyed some short-term success but gradually faded into the Labour Party, being wound up in 1939.

Interest in CODASYL gradually faded due to growing interest in relational databases beginning in the early 1980s.

Morosi gradually faded from public attention, but her tumultuous years in the spotlight continued to haunt her.

The early socialism of the Labour Party gradually faded, however.

The UFOs were silent, stationary and cigar-shaped, covered in winking bright lights, and gradually faded as the witness watched.

This use has gradually faded out due to field safety concerns.

The boycott of Colt gradually faded out after William M. Keys, a retired U. S. Marine Lt. General, took the helm of the company in 2002.

The sharpness of the controversy gradually faded, and while the term " Traitors ' Gate " is still in occasional colloquial use in Dublin daily life, it has mostly lost its pejorative meaning.

With the ring gone, the magic and beauty of Lórien also faded along with the extraordinary mallorn trees ( save the one that Samwise Gamgee grew in Hobbiton that lived for centuries ) and it was gradually depopulated, until by the time Arwen came there to die in it was deserted and in ruin.

Over time, however, as Britain's high-technology enterprises became less dominant, the mystique of the boffin gradually faded, and by the 1980s boffins were relegated, in UK popular culture, to semi-comic supporting characters such as Q, the fussy armourer-inventor in the James Bond films, and the term itself gradually took on a slightly negative connotation.