Hypothesizing a series of developmental stages that begin in the individual's infancy and end in his old age, Erikson has indicated that the adolescent is faced with a series of identity crises.

England eventually faced a massive 707 run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the series 2 – 1.

Famously, Anthony is said to have faced a series of supernatural temptations during his pilgrimage to the desert.

A 2002 adaptation of its Resident Evil series faced similar criticism but was also successful in theaters.

The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent ( consciously or unconsciously ).

For the next five years he faced a series of English rebellions in various parts of the country and a half-hearted Danish invasion, but he was able to subdue all resistance and establish an enduring regime.

She has faced death numerous times in the history of the series, the first being when, in her guise as Marvel Girl, she died and was " reborn " as Phoenix, which in time led to her second-though not last-death in the classic " Dark Phoenix Saga ".

In 2006, Bakiyev faced a political crisis as thousands of people demonstrated in a series of protests in Bishkek.

Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists ' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances, a common area ; or a series of small cabins with common parking.

However, it was faced with the growing threat of the expansionist Roman Republic, which fought a series of wars against Macedon.

In the mid 1970s, emerging long distance competitors like MCI and Sprint faced the same tactic of denying interconnection, which regulators quashed, followed by a series of efforts by the Bell System phone companies to escalate the costs of interconnection as an indirect means of excluding competition.

Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a fallout shelter, which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with the Acropolis and ending with an image of Marilyn Monroe ( but, again, including a mushroom cloud ).

In 1979 / 80, New Zealand faced the West Indies in a home test series at a time when the West Indies were a formidable world cricket power.

Three leagues competed for the Cup: two league champions faced each other for the right to challenge the third champion in the final series .< ref >< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, pp. 20 – 21 </ ref > This lasted three seasons as the PCHA and the WCHL later merged to form the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) in 1925 .< ref name =" DiamondPrize-21 ">< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, p. 21 </ ref > After winning in the 1924 – 25 season, the Victoria Cougars became the last team outside the NHL to win the Stanley Cup.

His critics charge that he was not significantly troubled when faced with the prospect of war and death for thousands, turned his search for undisputed rule into a series of conflicts throughout Europe and ignored treaties and conventions alike.

Though the purpose of Eden's visit was anti-German rather than anti-Soviet, Molotov assumed otherwise and in a series of conversations with the Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso, Molotov claimed that the Soviet Union would soon be faced with an Anglo-Turkish invasion of the Crimea.

The Heat finished the regular season with a 44 – 38 record and faced the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs, to whom they lost 4 – 0 in the best of seven series.

The following season, the 76ers again faced the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals, and again jumped to a 3 – 1 series lead only to see Boston forge a 3 – 3 series tie.

In the 1985 playoffs, Detroit won its first-round series and faced the defending champion Boston Celtics in the conference semifinals.

In the NBA Finals, they faced the Cinderella New York Knicks, who had made history by becoming the first ( and to this date, the only ) 8th seed to ever make the NBA Finals, and, on June 25, 1999, the Spurs won the series and the franchise's first NBA Championship in Game 5 ( final score: 78 – 77 ) on the Knicks ' home court, Madison Square Garden.

The Spurs faced Phoenix in the first round in a rematch of the previous year's controversial semifinal series.

They faced the Philadelphia Flyers, and won the series in six games, with the overtime goal scored by Patrick Kane.

From 1916 to 1918, the two dominant nationalist movements, Sinn Féin and the Irish Parliamentary Party, fought a tough series of battles in by-elections.

After an interlude of failed aristocratic Roman emperors since Maximinus's death, Claudius was the first in a series of tough soldier-emperors who would eventually restore the Empire from the Crisis of the third century.

This victory was significant as the turning point of the crisis, when a series of tough, energetic soldier-emperors took power.

After a tough, five-game preliminary round series win against the Quebec Nordiques, the team's 1980 – 81 season came to an end as they lost in the quarterfinals to the Calgary Flames in seven games.

Their record was good enough to secure a No. 7 seed in the 2009 NBA Playoffs, playing a tough series against the Boston Celtics.

In 1984, the Pistons lost a tough five-game series to the underdog New York Knicks, three games to two.

While the Pistons would win Game 6 in Detroit, they would lose the series in a tough Game 7 back in Boston.

After winning 59 games and a third straight division title, the Pistons cruised through the first two rounds of the playoffs before playing a tough Eastern Conference Finals series against Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.

Howard repeatedly clashed with judges and prison reformers as he sought to clamp down on crime through a series of ' tough ' measures, such as reducing the right to silence of defendants in their police interviews and at their trials as part of 1994's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.

The rough road to the finals and the tough play of the Shock wore down the Sparks, which lost the series, two games to one, and failed to three-peat.

However the Brecks played a series of tough opponents on the road.

The major players of the 1984 run, however, were antagonistic Reb Kean ( Janet Andrewartha ), a dynamic but troubled young woman who had been the brains behind an armed robbery, having turned to crime after rebelling against her wealthy family and the series ' new central top dog – Myra Desmond ( Anne Phelan ), a thoughtful but tough ex-prisoner of Wentworth who had previously made sporadic appearances in the show as a representative of the Prison Reform Group, now back inside for a long stretch after killing her husband ( despite stating in episode 223, that she was not married !).

The final year of Prisoner is mostly based around the conflict between the Freak and a new challenger, brash biker Rita " The Beater " Connors ( Glenda Linscott ) who takes over as the series ' new top dog, when previous incumbent, the vicious Lou Kelly clashed with tough temporary governor Bob Moran ( Peter Adams ) and over-reached herself by igniting a bloodthirsty riot that threatened the lives of both staff and inmates.

As it was well known that Neilson's cancer was terminal when the Senators were eliminated in a tough seven game series, several players expressed their sadness at not being able to win the Stanley Cup for Neilson before he died.

The show started out performing badly ; placed in a tough timeslot, it got poor ratings and was put on hiatus after only eight episodes, even though they included some of the most famous of the series, including " Turkeys Away.

The Whalers got off to a good start in this playoff series by winning the first two games at home but, beginning in Game 3, the Nordiques were able to successfully get the Whalers off of their game by playing a very tough, dirty, and chippy style of hockey.

Hardened by regular, tough competition in the Currie Cup, the first few years of Namibian rugby union were relatively successful, their highest point being 2 – 0 home series victories over Ireland and Italy in 1991.

The premise of the series centres on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) constable named Benton Fraser ( Paul Gross ) who travels to Chicago to solve the murder of his father ; this is how he meets his soon-to-be partner, Ray Vecchio ( David Marciano ), a tough, streetwise cop.

After defeating the Portland Winter Hawks in seven games during a tough first-round playoff series, the Silvertips finished their second season in the WHL on a tough note by being swept by the Kootenay Ice 4-0 in the Western Conference Semi-Finals.

In 2006, Fear Factor faced tough competition with the TV ratings champion, Fox's talent series American Idol on Tuesday nights, and the ratings declined further.

He is mostly known for his " tough guy " and " geezer " roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood.

: Angela is the tough, tyrannical matriarch of Falcon Crest and a powerful woman in the Tuscany Valley, who is the principal character of the series.

Gordon's return as Meg was devised by the new Producer, Phillip Bowman, who himself ended the involvement with the series of regulars Ronald Allen and Sue Lloyd in order for the motel to be sold-and thus Meg's daughter Jill was to face a tough choice of whether to agree to the sale, or hold on to the shares her mother left her in 1981.