The team began to fade after this success, and was dealt a severe blow under the ownership of the Robison brothers.

Initial Zulu success rested on fast-moving surprise attacks and ambushes, but the Voortrekkers recovered and dealt the Zulu a severe defeat from their fortified wagon laager at the Battle of Blood River.

" His post-war plays dealt with similar concerns and included Roméo et Jeannette, Médée ( Medea ), and Anouilh's Joan of Arc story L ' Alouette ( The Lark ), which, in its distinct optimism, rivalled the commercial success of Antigone.

Some commentators have maintained that Macleod's death and replacement by the less substantial figure of Barber dealt a fatal blow to the economic success of the Heath government.

Starting during the First World War she wrote plays on themes that became more didactic until her major success in 1923, a play called Our Ostriches, which dealt with society's shortsighted approach to working class women forced to produce babies all their lives.

This was made hot off the heels from their previous success, Batman: The Long Halloween, and as that Batman-story dealt with holidays as the theme, this story's theme dealt with seasons.

After a brush with fame and success in the 1970s, Pena's fortunes faded as he dealt with career and health problems.

Their eleventh album, The Wake of Magellan, was released in 1998 after a break to deal with the huge success of TSO, and dealt with such concepts as the worth of a life, suicide and drug abuse, drawing on real-life events such as the Maersk Dubai and the murder of Veronica Guerin.

Despite his success in Tampa Bay, he was dealt at the trade deadline to the Detroit Red Wings, where he finished the 1998 – 99 season.

In 2000 he was given his own weekly radio show on Cape Talk radio that dealt with South African innovation, technology and success stories.

This dealt with the Scottish Free Church movement, with which Mr. and Mrs. Wilson both sympathised, and met with some success.

Major stresses and transitions such as marriage, parenthood, retirement, death or loss of a partner, and financial success and failure are all important, as is how the patient has dealt with them.

These newspapers, though not completely uninfluenced by political parties and their views, were self-funded and not party-funded, which allowed them to quite easily shift allegiance on political issues that the paper dealt with, which also aided in its success and acceptance by the general public.

When all possible moves are done without success, a card is dealt onto each pile, even with those that have sequences.

After the runaway success of that novel, he wrote 666, which also dealt with a haunted house.

He read hundreds of books that dealt with success, a pastime that helped him alleviate his alcoholism.

Against this background “ environmental history can give an essential perspective, offering knowledge of the historical process that led to the present situation, give examples of past problems and solutions, and an analysis of the historical forces that must be dealt with ” or, as expressed by William Cronon, " The viability and success of new human modes of existing within the constraints of the environment and its resources requires both an understanding of the past and an articulation of a new ethic for the future.

General Farman defined the operational premises and conditions for success, while General Khadim Raja dealt with the distribution of forces and tasks assigned to the individual brigades and other units.

Rene's overall story arc dealt mainly with her law practice ; although she enjoyed great success as a lawyer, eventually focusing her practice on civil rights law, she sometimes regretted that she had never married nor had a family.

In spite of Demolition's moderate success, Dungeon was dealt a blow when TDK-Core decided to stop releasing rock music.

Only Lloyd had any success after being dealt to the Yankees, while both Wickman and Williams became solid major league players.

The value of his work consists not only in the stores of material which he collected, but also in the success with which he dealt with many of the problems raised by the inscriptions.

The game was dealt by experienced Star City croupiers ; however the show was not a success.

The success of the British advance varied but the losses inflicted on the Germans were devastating.

Steward achieved his most notable early success with welterweight Thomas Hearns, whom he changed from a light hitting boxer into a devastating puncher.

Thom Bell stopped working with the Stylistics in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U. S. Just as with the Delfonics, the Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity.

The final Gorkhali Army success of this period was in a way the most devastating to the opposition's morale.

The rapid success of the Anheuser Brewer made its owner independent and permitted him to perform philanthropic activities, such as assisting in the repair of the devastating 1882 flooding of Kastel-Mainz by the Rhine River.

Even though the battle itself was a devastating defeat for the Swiss, and a major blow to Berne, the canton which contributed the force, it was nevertheless a Swiss success in strategic terms.

Metelko's main opponent, the philologist Matija Čop, convinced the Czech scholar František Čelakovský to publish a devastating critique of Metelko's alphabet, which undermined the chances of its success.

This movement, combined with his devastating slider, helped his success rate against right-handed batters.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".

The 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike was a blow to the Phillies ' attendance and on-field success, as was the arrival of the Braves in the division due to league realignment.

Despite the success Superman gave the studio, a major blow to the studio would occur when the married Dave started having an adulterous affair with the Miami secretary.

This success received a blow in March 1789, when an opera, Holger Danske, which he had written, was received with heated controversy and a nationalist reaction against him ( as an associate of Germans ) set in.

In the 2011 parliamentary election ( see below ) the Centre Party suffered the largest blow from the True Finns ' success.

With little prospect of further success, Rommel judged that it would be wiser to break off to concentrate in South Tunisia and strike a blow at 8th Army, catching them off balance while still assembling its forces.

In 1940 ( and arguably the whole war ) Bomber Command was in no way capable of delivering a knock out blow to Germany so the pro bomber advocates were severely embarrassed by Fighter Command's success.

The Confederation soon develops a plan to disrupt that ceremony to deliver a blow to enemy morale and it is up to the pilots of Tiger's Claw to ensure the success of the mission.

By the 1930s, though his public success remained considerable, critical opinion saw Walpole as outdated, and his reputation took a blow from a malicious caricature in Somerset Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale in which the character Alroy Kear, a superficial novelist of more ruthless ambition than literary talent, was widely taken to be based on Walpole.

His armies, following the decisive success of Diebitsch at the Battle of Ostrołęka in May, advanced slowly but Paskevich redeemed his reputation at the Battle of Warsaw, giving a death blow to the Polish hopes of restoring independence.

In 2003, São Tomé lost to Libya 1 – 0 and 8 – 0, which was a major blow to their previous success.

* In L. Neil Smith's The Venus Belt ( 1980 ), part of an alternative history series, an unrestrained capitalist free enterprise culture makes a huge success of colonizing the asteroid belt and decides to blow up and smash to pieces the " utterly useless planet " Venus so as to create a new Asteroid Belt ( hence the book's name ).

He fails, but does blow open the Dome's door, allowing everyone to exit, considering the fiasco a success.

The song's humour is based on use of the term " blow into the bag " to refer to both the supply of a sample to test the success of the vasectomy and the use of the breathalyser.

As a result of the speed and success of the Japanese advance up through Burma during the Burma Campaign and the Battle of Yenangyaung, the retreating Allied forces were forced to blow up the oil fields and refinery to prevent them falling into the hands of the Japanese.