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The people hardest hit by this suspicion are, of course, Christians on the mainland of China.
B'dikkat had turned to the next knot of people when the super-condamine hit Mercer.
* 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States ; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.
* 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").
In 1992, Cairo was hit by a damaging earthquake, that caused 545 deaths, 6512 injuries and left 50, 000 people homeless.
On 16 May 2003, 33 civilians were killed and more than 100 people were injured when Casablanca was hit by a multiple suicide bomb attack carried out by Moroccans and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda.
* 2006 – A 7. 1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia.
Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.
* 2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines ' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
The blow of World War I hit the Finnish people and the nation, which, at the beginning of the 20th century, stood at the crossroads between the old regime of the estates and the evolution of a modern, democratic society.
On 22 September 1955 Hurricane Janet hit Grenada killing 500 people and destroying 75 % of the nutmeg trees.
Said Gaynor of her biggest hit in a 2012 interview " It feels great to have such a song like that because I get kids five and six years old telling me they like the song, and then people seventy-five and eighty.
Hector goes down, hit by a stone thrown by Ajax, but Apollo arrives from Olympus and infuses strength into " the shepherd of the people ", who orders a chariot attack, with Apollo clearing the way.
In the early 1930s, the worldwide Great Depression hit Germany hard, as unemployment soared and people lost confidence in the government.
Aaron grew up in a poor family, picking cotton on a farm, and to this day people say that strengthened his hands so he could hit more home runs.
* 2011 – A winter storm hit North America for the second time in the same month, causing $ 1. 8 billion in damages across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
* 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake ; in just three minutes, 1, 600 people are killed and 3, 000 are seriously injured.
* 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the.
* 1991 – Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people.
* 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10, 000 people.

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Famine strikes Sub-Saharan African countries the hardest, but with exhaustion of food resources, overdrafting of groundwater, wars, internal struggles, and economic failure, famine continues to be a worldwide problem with hundreds of millions of people suffering.
With the increasingly racially-divisive politics that have followed the election of the PLP government, as well as the decades of increasing costs-of-living, the exclusion of unskilled workers from jobs in the white collar international business sector that has come to dominate Bermuda's economy, and the global economic downturn, all of which many Black Bermudians perceive as hitting them hardest, there is little sentiment today amongst people who have long been obliged to think of themselves as Black, in opposition to being White, to identify even partly with their European ancestry.
The reason the revolt was essentially limited to the Kikuyu people was, in part, that they were the hardest hit by British colonialism and its effects.
There are very few people working in this field, as this is one of the hardest challenges for any gemstone carver.
One of the hardest tasks chief director Kiyoshi Mizuki was assigned to do was to attract people who had no prior experience with the series ; he decided to make the gameplay as simple as possible.
Today, the Peace Corps, religious groups, and charities feed hungry people all over the world, especially in countries hardest hit by famine.
Haynes said in a 2007 interview, " A film that had the hardest time, at least initially, was Velvet Goldmine, and it's the film that seems to mean the most to a lot of teenagers and young people, who are just obsessed with that movie.
Communication with the hardest hit regions was lost following Carmen's passage ; however, early reports stated that at least five people were injured.
On mainland Mexico, the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, and Puebla were hardest hit, with over 75, 000 people affected by the hurricane.
" Playing in front of that many people at that time in my life made me realize this is what I wanted to do with my life ," said Marquis, " and I was going to work my hardest to get it.
Due to it being decided by a 27-game, round-robin league system, some people regard ' the Hubcap ' as the hardest honour to win in British rugby league.
As the Ottomans were Muslim, the period of Ottoman rule was the most difficult in the history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, to the same extent as it was the hardest in the history of the Bulgarian people.
The scope of the epidemics over the years was tremendous, killing millions of people — possibly in excess of 90 % of the population in the hardest hit areas — and creating one of " the greatest human catastrophe in history, far exceeding even the disaster of the Black Death of medieval Europe ", which had killed up to one-third of the people in Europe and Asia between 1347 and 1351.
Once, depressed, he wrote in his diary: " It is one of the hardest things in this prison life: the strain caused by being continually in the power of people who are only half-sane and live in a twilight of reason and humanity.
* An estimated that almost 500, 000 people died from the Spanish flu epidemic in South African, the fifth hardest hit country in the world
Radu suffers from an inferiority complex ; as such, he tries his very hardest to get people to like him.
The capital was hardest hit: everything was leveled ; many people and livestock perished.
People noticed that she was hardest on people who were quarrelsome, mean and wicked, but honest folks and small poor children, she often took into her care.

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The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.
It operated on, by and for the people individually just as did the Federal Constitution.
He fought to the end to preserve it as a `` government of the people, by the people, for the people ''.
But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.
The number of people acting as one body by this scheme gives a surprisingly large army of 55,987 men.
At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.
But their freedom of policy is limited by the pattern of predisposition with which they and the people around them enter the crisis.
We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.
There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.
And even hearing it in a concert hall surrounded by hundreds of people the words and the melody would make me a little colder and I would reach out for my husband's hand.
He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.
And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

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