Despite this the region is still faced with a deficit in rainfall, particularly in the eastern part of the province ( around Słupcy, Kazimierz Biskupi, Kleczew ) where sometimes experience only 450 mm of rainfall per year, this threatens steppization of the region.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, the region was faced with some problems after the decline of the coal, mining and textile industries.

Those in favour of unification also faced opposition from the Holy See, particularly after failed attempts to broker a confederation with the Papal States, which would have left the Papacy with some measure of autonomy over the region.

In 1188 faced with an attempt by Philip II to seize the disputed region of Berry, Henry II summoned the Marshal to his side.

By contrast the four regiments selected for British service faced an uncertain future in ( initially ) Malaya — a region where relatively few Gurkhas had previously served.

He faced great challenges in achieving this because the region was under European, specifically French and British, control and other Arab leaders of the time were hostile to his ideas as they pursued their own political aspirations for power.

After the Soviet westward offensive of 1918 – 1919 | 1918 / 1919 winter Soviet conquest of Byelorussia, Ukraine and Lithuania, Russian Soviet forces faced Poland as a competing power in the region

The context for the meeting was set by the various crises Africa had faced during the 1980s ; it was inspired by the move toward democratisation in the region that followed those crises, as well as the end of the Cold War.

Since independence, the country faced continuous military conflict, leaving the region in political and economic turmoil.

The land in this region has faced developmental setbacks and as a result, many of the younger Krahn generations have migrated to areas such as Monrovia.

Entering the Oran region, they faced resistance from Emir Abd al-Kader, a leader of a Sufi Brotherhood.

But all this was to change soon, when an important event in the environmental history of the Garhwal region occurred in the India-China War of 1962, in which India faced heavy losses.

During the global financial crisis, Malaysia faced a strong recession and reduced levels of trade throughout the South Asian region.

Wawa, the area's largest settlement, has consequently faced grave difficulties in attracting new industry to the community and region.

Early explorers of the region faced long approach marches of around 200 miles from Ranikhet through dense mountain forest ; access is easier today.

* When millions of Jews in Eastern Europe and Palestine faced starvation in the wake of the First World War, JDC fed the hungry, provided medical care to the ailing, and supported programs to help stabilize the region ’ s fragile economy.

Despite his release, the family faced further reprisals, as it had to flee Poznań as initial ethnic cleansing of Poles from the region was initiated by Nazi German authorities.

When Megatron faced off against Optimus Prime in the middle of an Energon reaction that had torn a fissure in space, Shockblast leaped into the middle, only to be hit by a chunk of debris and sent spiraling through the fissure, into a new region of space where Alpha Q had recreated the planets destroyed by Unicron.

Texas faced raids from both the Apache and Comanche tribes, and with little military support the few settlers in the region needed help.

The British still faced competition from numerous Indian tribes, including in the Great Lakes region: the Ottawa, Ojibwa, Pottawatomi, and Huron ; in the eastern Illinois Country: the Miami, Wea, Kickapoo, Mascouten, and Piankashaw ; and in the Ohio Country: the Delaware ( Lenape ), Shawnee, Mingo, and Wyandot.

After the French imperial army of Napolein III was defeated at Sedan on 2 September 1870, and faced with the advance of enemy troops further south in the Vosges region, resistance mobilised rapidly, as disparate companies of Gardes Mobiles and of orregular guerilla fighters sprang to arms.

The region faced enormous costs to replace the buildings destroyed in the war and the factories looted.

The city and the entire region have faced hardships and structural unemployment since then.

The city faced a large exodus during the 1950-60s, due to the extreme poverty of the Molise region, and there is a large community of Larinesi living abroad, as well as their first-and second-generation descendants.

To the surprise of many of the ethnic Germans in Opole however, the local Polish Silesian population and groups of ethnic Poles also rose to oppose the planned reforms ; this came about as a result of an overwhelming feel of attachment to the voivodeships that were planned to be ‘ redrawn ’ as well as a fear of ‘ alienation ’ should one find themselves residing in a new, unfamiliar region.

Cities and towns in Midi-Pyrénées complain of the overwhelming weight of Toulouse inside the region, and they resent the fact that so much is done for Toulouse by the regional council, turning the Midi-Pyrénées region into a " Region of Toulouse ".

Within his local region, Helmer was attacked by academics from the University of Derby and the University of Northampton for being “ out of step with the overwhelming scientific evidence on the subject of human induced climate change ”.

A dominant minority, also known as alien elites if they are recent immigrants, is a group that has overwhelming political, economic or cultural dominance in a country or region despite representing a small fraction of the overall population ( a demographic minority ).

" The report clearly stated that " It is highly desirable and advisable to repeal the Act altogether, without of course, losing sight of the overwhelming desire of an overwhelming majority of the East region that the Army should remain ( though the Act should go ).

Despite the overwhelming scenic beauty of its landscape and colourful local minorities, mass tourism hasn't developed in this region, mainly due to its remote location, lack of a nearby airport, and until fairly recent, relative inaccessibility due to bad road conditions.

In the morning of 16 June, Cornwallis returned to the region hunting for Vence and instead discovered Villaret de Joyeuse with an overwhelming force.

Micah's career corresponds to the period when, after a long period of peace, Israel, Judah, and the other nations of the region came under increasing pressure from the aggressive and rapidly expanding Assyrian empire.

It was the threat of the expanding Russian Empire beginning to push for an advantage in the Afghanistan region that placed pressure on British India, in what became known as the " Great Game ".

Two-dimensional visualization of the Alcubierre drive, showing the opposing regions of expanding and contracting spacetime that displace the central region.

A common cause for the fires in the Midwest can be found in the fact that the area had suffered through a tinder-dry summer, so that winds from the front that moved in that evening were capable of generating rapidly expanding blazes from available ignition sources, which were plentiful in the region.

In the European Union, the frontier is a term used to describe the region beyond the expanding borders of the European Union itself.

European power in the region was weak and Ternate became an expanding, fiercely Islamic and anti-European state under the rule of Sultan Baab Ullah ( r. 1570-1583 ) and his son Sultan Said.

The proposal means expanding the region to cover vineyards in 357 rather than 319 villages.

While some critics have feared the revision of the Champagne region is about expanding production irrespective of quality, British wine writer and Champagne expert Tom Stevenson has pointed out that the proposed additions constitute a consolidation rather than expansion.

Tens of thousands of Tutsis were killed and many others fled to neighboring countries, such as Burundi, Uganda and expanding the Banyamulenge Tutsi ethnic group in the South Kivu region of the Belgian Congo.

The region was distraught by constant warfare and economic distraught as a battlefront upon which the expanding Tang Empire fought with those from the neighbouring Kingdom of Tibet.

Between 35 and 6 BC, the Alpine region was gradually integrated into the expanding Roman Empire.

The Sahel states were limited from expanding south into the forest zone of the Ashanti and Yoruba as mounted warriors were all but useless in the forests and the horses and camels could not survive the heat and diseases of the region.

An expanding health care industry serves the region of 110, 000 people.

The high plateau barrier and the ruggedness of the Castle Valley landscape delayed settlement of the region until the late 1870s, when population growth and expanding livestock herds in Utah's central valleys stimulated a search for new agricultural and grazing lands.

With an expanding population the region by 1722 was split into two parishes ( see Pisiquit ).

But when the town and the castellany officially got together, the town flourished, thanks to the expanding agriculture of the agraric region.

The region has more violent extremists than any other, the country is unstable, and its arsenal of nuclear weapons is expanding.

However, many Emishi remained in the Tōhoku region as subjects of the expanding Japanese Empire, and later established independent Fushu domains.

# Cecil Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the British Cape Colony ( part of modern South Africa ) was expanding his British South Africa Company's charter lands from the south and threatening to occupy Katanga ( southern Congo ) by exploiting the ' Principle of Effectivity ' loophole in the Berlin Treaty, supported by Harry Johnston, British Commissioner for Central Africa who was London's representative in the region.

Its location in the prospering region of Stavanger / Sandnes and excellent traffic links make Bryne an attractive area for commuters, it is,, expanding rapidly and there have been reports of problems with schooling capacity.

Although Beebe's research at Caripito was productive, he felt that the extremity of its wet-dry cycle made it impractical as a research station, and the expanding oil operations in the region were in danger of destroying the local environment.

Although Swedish-speaking culture had been expanding eastwards through the Åland islands and along what are now the coastal regions of Finland for several centuries, the Second Swedish Crusade, undertaken by Birger Jarl in the later 1240s, is generally taken as the moment when the region now called Finland was incorporated into the Swedish state.

The region affording habitat where tigers have achieved their highest densities is also one which has housed one of the most concentrated and rapidly expanding human populations.

The classic medieval center of Vedic learning and local politics, Thirunavaya, home of the traditional Ayurveda medicine, Kottakkal and one of the oldest centre of education of Islam the region, Ponnani are situated in Malappuram district along with rapidly expanding towns like Manjeri, Perinthalmanna, Chemmad and Edappal.

However, due to Hubble's law regions sufficiently distant from us are expanding away from us much faster than the speed of light ( special relativity prevents nearby objects in the same local region from moving faster than the speed of light with respect to each other, but there is no such constraint for distant objects when the space between them is expanding ; see uses of the proper distance for a discussion ), and the expansion rate appears to be accelerating due to dark energy.