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The prospect of aerial bombardment of civilian areas was causing the government anxiety with heavy bombers able to approach from altitudes that anti-aircraft guns of the day were unable to reach.
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prospect and bombardment
In 1961, faced with the prospect of development in the United States of a anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) system to intercept conventional ICBMs, the Soviet Union began development of a fractional orbital bombardment system ( FOBS ) to defeat these interceptors.
prospect and civilian
However, since that time Charles Daly has gone out of business and the prospect of the sale of a semi-automatic version of the Tavor for the American civilian market is currently in question.
prospect and areas
Third party products existed for some areas, but customers then faced the prospect of having to prove which vendor was at fault if, say, a third party printer didn't work correctly with an IBM computer, and IBM's warranties and service agreements often stipulated that they would not support systems with non-IBM components attached.
The prospect of the changeover, however, led to much alarm in the non Hindi-speaking areas of India, especially Dravidian-speaking states whose languages were not related to Hindi at all.
The Businesses and workshops had closed with no prospect of continued employment in the Jewish areas.
With insular areas, land could be held by the federal government without the prospect of its ever becoming a state in the Union.
Phosphate concentrations can be plotted on archaeological plans to show former activity areas, and is also used to prospect for sites in the wider landscape.
: In response to the German invasion of Poland and the prospect of war with Germany, plans for the evacuation of children and nursing and expectant mothers from London and other areas deemed vulnerable to German air attack are put into action.
prospect and was
She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.
Hino was elated at the prospect.
Occasionally new enterprise was discouraged by the almost certain prospect of legal complications.
He contemplates the likelihood of his future son being a delinquent as he was, a prospect Alex views fatalistically.
It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.
Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.
There was much speculation and fear about the prospect of a Labour government, and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers compared to Labour's almost complete lack of experience, as well as offering a middle ground that could get support from both Conservatives and Labour in crucial Commons divisions.
It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.
The off-season was highlighted by the acquisition of top prospect Andy Marté from the Boston Red Sox.
Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.
According to Tacitus, Mucianus was not keen on this prospect but since he considered Domitian a liability in any capacity that was entrusted to him, he preferred to keep him close at hand rather than in Rome.
Also new to the lineup was highly touted Swedish prospect Henrik Zetterberg.
Stefan Liv, a former Red Wings goaltending prospect, was also among the fatalities.
Suizei encouraged Kamuyawimimi to slay Tagishimimi, but since he was overcome by fright at the prospect, Suizei accomplished the deed.
Relations with France deteriorated after the treaty was signed, leaving his successor, John Adams, with the prospect of war.
The prospect of a Catholic dynasty in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland was now likely.
Early in 1539, Frederick was married to Elizabeth of Mansfeld, but he died shortly afterwards, leaving no prospect of an heir.
The prospect for tranquility was further advanced in 1931 when Ferrera and his insurgents were killed, while leading one last unsuccessful effort to overthrow the government, after government troops discovered their hiding place in Chamelecon.
Essentially, water supplied by aqueducts was used to prospect for ore veins by stripping away soil to reveal the bedrock.
Although his crew forced him to turn back, he was pleased with the prospect of soon finding a sea route to India and named the tip as the Cape of Good Hope.
Even so, he was unable to persuade the majority of Germans to welcome the prospect of war.
This was followed by an open letter to the pope ( Admonitio paterna Pauli III ) in 1544, in which Calvin admonished Paul III for depriving the reformers of any prospect of rapprochement.
This was especially the case as decrypts showed the British military attaché to Poland arguing that Britain could not save Poland in the event of a German attack, and only Soviet support offered the prospect of Poland holding out.
prospect and causing
Baird said in a BBC interview “ There ’ s nothing soft about making someone confront what ’ s causing them to commit crime-it ’ s a very much more challenging prospect than sitting in a prison cell.
The prospect of increased demand coupled with reduced supply from the Mono and Owens basins is causing the LADWP look into a number of new water sources, including a new direct connection to the California Aqueduct, increased use of recycled water, use of stormwater capture and reuse, and increased conservation.
The Ilbert Bill only had the effect of causing a White mutiny, and the end of the prospect of perfect equality before the law.
The first trial resulted in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice acquitting him on charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and six criminal nuisance charges were dropped in January 2008 when " there no longer remains a reasonable prospect of conviction in this case ".
My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candour: how to kill him without getting into trouble ... I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from whose nonexistence the college would benefit, but I balked at the prospect of misleading a coroner's jury ... consulting a lawyer to see if would be legally at risk if ignored a suicide call.
With the prospect of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal causing the profitability of the canal to suffer, the company negotiated a clause in the enabling Act for the new enterprise, that would guarantee a 5 per cent dividend on Droitwich shares.
In attempting to apply the Near and Pentagon Papers standards, the court was concerned about the prospect of publication causing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and potentially a global nuclear holocaust, although the government did not advance such a claim.
prospect and government
The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.
National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.
Currently, the Danish government wants a referendum on the opt-outs from the EU-treaty, but the prospect of the opt-outs perhaps being rejected does not look appealing.
In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the US sought rapprochement with the Afghan government — a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable due to weakening Soviet leverage over the regime.
The Muslims had always been a minority within the subcontinent, and the prospect of an exclusively Hindu government made them wary of independence ; they were as inclined to mistrust Hindu rule as they were to resist the foreign Raj, although Gandhi called for unity between the two groups in an astonishing display of leadership.
The prospect of ministerial government and the creation of an executive and opposition, led to the formation of two political parties – the Jersey Democratic Alliance and the Centre Party – in preparation for the 2005 elections.
By the middle of 1903, the Colombian government in Bogotá had balked at the prospect of a U. S. controlled canal under the terms that the Roosevelt administration was offering.
He persuaded the Soviet government to fund an expedition to the Tunguska region, based on the prospect of meteoric iron that could be salvaged to aid Soviet industry.
His conservative economic approach won him support among business, but angered many in the Labor caucus, who wanted to expand the deficit to stimulate the economy, and were horrified at the prospect of cuts in salaries and government spending.
A 2002 article by Michael Rubin stated that in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the United States sought rapprochement with the Afghan government — a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable due to the weakening Soviet leverage over the regime.
This community, known as Huwalas, while not at all sympathetic to the theocratic government in Tehran, tend to have extensive business interests on both sides of the Persian Gulf and have looked forward to the prospect of growing Iran-Bahrain trade.
In Western Europe, most younger sons of the nobility had no prospect of inheriting property, and were obliged to seek careers in the Church, in military service, or in government.
While the truce was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, and some arrangement beyond the Home Rule Act 1920 provisions was in prospect, it was also evident that the IRA military campaign had not secured the 32-county republic claimed by the Dáil, and that a separate government in Northern Ireland was now functioning.
Moreover, the shogunal government, the Tokugawa family in particular, remained a prominent force in the evolving political order and retained many executive powers, a prospect hard-liners from Satsuma and Chōshū found intolerable.
As the prospect of war became increasingly likely, the government wanted to increase the amount of food grown within Britain.
Bowen was chosen as a prospect due to the financing of $ 500, 000 by the Queensland government.
Due to numerous three-cornered contests and swing voters ' alarm at the prospect of Bjelke-Petersen being kingmaker in a hung parliament, the NPA lost several seats, particularly in Queensland, and the Hawke government was elected to a third term.
These calls alarmed government and senior military officials, who worried about the prospect of the population forming private defence forces that the Army would not be able to control, and in mid-May the Home Office issued a press release on the matter ; it was the task of the army to deal with enemy parachutists, as any civilians who carried weapons and fired on German troops were likely to be executed if captured.
He continues to oppose this law and government run health care, saying “ the thought of Americans ' health care decisions being put into the hands of an unimaginably large bureaucracy is a frightening prospect .” He is not supported by American Public Health Association or The Children ’ s Health Fund.
Moreover, the shogunal government, the Tokugawa family in particular, would remain a prominent force in the evolving political order and would retain many executive powers, a prospect hard-liners from Satsuma and Chōshū found intolerable.
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