Wise argues that Derridean concept of spirit / specter as occult pharmakon is indebted not only to the Hebraic notion of ruah but also the Egyptian heka, Soninke naxamala, Mande nyama, and many other comparable Egypto-African concepts of the word, some that are historically prior to the Hebraic ruah.

Although the project would have granted immediate French citizenship and voting rights to only about 21, 000 Muslims, with provision for adding a few thousand more each year, spokesmen for the colons raised the specter of the European electorate's being submerged by a Muslim majority.

In early March 1692, the Proctors ' servant, Mary Warren, began to have fits, saying she saw the specter ( ghost ) of Giles Corey.

In 1949, Lucy, Edmund, and Peter were having dinner with Eustace, Jill Pole, Polly Plummer and Digory Kirke, reminiscing about their days in Narnia when a Narnian-dressed figure appeared to them as a specter.

In addition, the " Radical " Leftist leaders of the African continent were outraged at the specter of white mercenaries and " Neocolonial " Western powers intervening on behalf of the Leopoldville regime, and openly supported the Stanlyville rebel government.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

Some sort of nemesis was haunting his footsteps, he told us in a quavering voice -- either an ape specter or Abe Spector, a process-server, we couldn't determine which.

But in the prospect of winning the battle loomed the specter of losing a costlier war.

Jim was so indignant it was obvious that no matter what he said, he too had seen the looming specter of a forever-Cathy.

The specter of having such laws suddenly brought down upon a business provides incentive to stay in the good graces of political officials.

Substantial problems remain, such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the specter of nuclear terrorism.

Catherine had Pugachev drawn and quartered in Red Square, but the specter of revolution continued to haunt her and her successors.

Nazarbayev quickly convened a meeting of the leaders of the five Central Asian states, thus effectively raising the specter of a " Turkic " confederation of former republics as a counterweight to the " Slavic " states ( Russia, Ukraine and Belarus ) in whatever federation might succeed the Soviet Union.

Though extreme care is practiced in that industry, the potential for disaster suggested by incidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl pose a lingering specter of public mistrust.

During the 1960 presidential campaign, the issue of whether the nation would for the first time elect a Catholic to the highest office in the land raised the specter of an implicit, but no less effective, religious test.

He sends envoys to Rome, raising the specter of a schism between the Roman and Carthaginian Churches.

The mime " Tombre " of Jean Richepin's novel Nice People ( Braves Gens ) turned him into a pathetic and alcoholic " phantom "; Paul Verlaine imagined him as a gormandizing naïf in " Pantomime " ( 1869 ), then, like Tombre, as a lightning-lit specter in " Pierrot " ( 1868, pub.

They conjure up the specter of the surgical or chemical " rewiring " of gay people, or of abortions of fetal homosexuals who have been hunted down in the womb.

As the specter of collapse of the negotiations grew, there were mutters about resumption of the war.

Nehemiah Abbott Jr. was released because the accusers agreed he was not the person whose specter had afflicted them.

Presumptions whereupon persons may be committed, and, much more, convictions whereupon persons may be condemned as guilty of witchcrafts, ought certainly to be more considerable than barely the accused person's being represented by a specter unto the afflicted ; inasmuch as it is an undoubted and notorious thing, that a demon may, by God's permission, appear, even to ill purposes, in the shape of an innocent, yea, and a virtuous man.

) to Israel for an intensive two week program aimed at educating U. S. law enforcement officials on the possible threats posed by the specter of domestic terrorism in the United States.

Invoking the specter of Hetch Hetchy, conservationists effectively lobbied Congress, which deleted the Echo Park dam from the Colorado River project as approved in 1955.

Since Sessions House became part of college housing in the 20th century, the specter has taken on a decidedly feminine identity, and some former residents of Sessions claim to have seen Lucy's ghost in the stairwell.

Floating objects and instruments respond to Leota's incantations while a wispy green specter roams in a corner of the room.

The cause of death is commonly accepted to be a combination of sorrow for the loss of his only son in 1097, and the increasing impact of the siege on famine and living standards more generally.

The famine was by far the most significant turning point in the demographics of the country, as not only did Ireland's population not grow for the next century, it continued a slow decline, the result of which is that the Republic of Ireland has a significantly smaller population today than would be expected for a European country of its size.

The railway opened up the interior, not only to the European farmers, missionaries, and administrators, but also to systematic government programs to attack slavery, witchcraft, disease, and famine.

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

" I can complain that by the way we could scarce see a dog, crow, kite, raven or any other bird, or anything to anatomize, only some few miserable people, the relics of the war and the plague where famine had made anatomies before I came.

This blanket suppression of news was so effective that very few Chinese citizens were aware of the scale of the famine, and the greatest peacetime demographic disaster of the 20th century only became widely known twenty years later, when the veil of censorship began to lift.

It was only when the famine had wrought its worst that Mao was forced to reverse agricultural collectivisation policies, which were effectively dismantled in 1978.

Bhatia believes that the earlier famines were localised, and it was only after 1860, during the British rule, that famine came to signify general shortage of foodgrains in the country.

Coupled with famine, epidemic and floods, cannibalism was observed in some parts of the country only a few years after Emperor Hui's accession.

The advent of trucks and railways where there had previously only been buffalo and carts, telegraph systems, and more coordinated distribution systems under the colonial government all contributed to famine elimination in Java, and in turn, population growth.

His father had only recently bought land in Ireland under a scheme to encourage the purchase of land after the recent potato famine.

The official DVD is the only authorized video release in which proceeds go directly to famine relief, the cause that the concert was originally intended to help.

This, compounded with only 18 % arable land and an inability to import the goods necessary to sustain industry, led to an immense famine and left North Korea in economic shambles.

On 8 November, in an article titled " The Detectives ", he says, " The people are beginning to fear that the Irish Government is merely a, machinery for their destruction ; that, for all the usual functions of Government, this Castle-nuisance is altogether powerless ; that it is unable, or unwilling, to take a single step for the prevention of famine, for the encouragement of manufactures, or providing fields of industry, and is only active in promoting, by high premiums and bounties, the horrible manufacture of crimes!

Fifty to one hundred years passed before Ireland was healthy again, only to experience the 1840s famine.

Although some believed the myth that Queen Victoria ( known in Ireland in later decades as the " Famine Queen ") had only donated a miserly £ 5 to famine relief, in fact the sum was £ 2, 000, the equivalent of £ 61, 000 today, from her personal resources.

Although some lichens are only eaten in times of famine, others are a staple food or even a delicacy.

When the famine came, it was so severe that people from surrounding nations " from all over the earth " came to Egypt to buy bread as this nation was the only Kingdom prepared for the seven year drought.

However, after covering only 800 km the expedition team was forced to return in June 1847 due to heavy rain, malarial fever and famine.

An astonished Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge of carrying out the preparations needed to endure the impending famine, and Joseph becomes the most powerful man in Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh (" Stone the Crows ").

" " In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill .... All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.

In his Durán Codex, Diego Durán states that the Flower wars were instigated by the Aztec Cihuacoatl, Tlacaelel, because of a great famine that occurred during the reign of Moctezuma I, which could only be assuaged through the means of human sacrifice.

For nations that suffered huge losses such as the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Germany and Yugoslavia, our sources can give us only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown of deaths caused by military activity, crimes against humanity and war related famine.