The weather was terrible, the roads were poor and the army had to help the tens of thousands of civilians who had retreated alongside the soldiers who had almost no supplies or food left.

A formerly fairly healthy population was ascribed to the terrible Black Friday fires that swept through Australia in 1939: The combination of 40-year-old regrowth ( for food ) and large dead trees left still standing after the fires ( for shelter and nesting ) allowed the Leadbeater's possum population to expand to an estimated peak of about 7500 in the early 1980s ( since declining to 2000 prior to the Black Saturday fires, and possibly to 100 since ).

# That climate, soil, food, and the aspects of nature are the primary causes of intellectual progress ,-- the first three indirectly, through determining the accumulation and distribution of wealth, and the last by directly influencing the accumulation and distribution of thought, the imagination being stimulated and the understanding subdued when the phenomena of the external world are sublime and terrible, the understanding being emboldened and the imagination curbed when they are small and feeble

As his reign was peaceful and blessed, Helen visited the Jerusalem Temple to thank God, and since there was a terrible famine at the time, she brought lots of food and aid to the people of Jerusalem.

At its peak, more than 30, 000 Red Guards arrived a day, causing terrible problems of food, housing, sanitation.

On January 1946 34 U. S. senators had petitioned that private relief organizations be allowed to help Germany and Austria, stating that the desperate food situation in occupied Germany " presents a picture of such frightful horror as to stagger the imagination, evidence which increasingly marks the United States as an accomplice in a terrible crime against humanity.

In the period leading up to the Estates General of 1789, France was in the grip of an unmanageable public debt ( nearly 3. 56 billion livres ), terrible inflation and widespread food scarcity ( a huge famine in the winter of 1789 ).

She is a terrible cook, and the rest of the family often have to sneak the food she has prepared into the bin without her noticing.

The end of Louis XIV's reign was marked by a great food shortage throughout the whole of France after a terrible winter in 1709 that resulted in 69 recorded deaths in Créteil.

As his reign was peaceful and blessed, Helen visited the Jerusalem Temple to thank God, and since there was a terrible famine at the time, she brought lots of food and aid to the people of Jerusalem.

During the terrible famine of 1864, Sarada worked ceaselessly as her family served food to hungry people.

During the filming of the movie, Steckler was in terrible need of funds, both for the movie and for rent, food and basic needs.

They droop in the terrible heat, and with the insufficient unsuitable food ; whatever you do, whatever the authorities do, and they are, I believe, doing their best with very limited means, it is all only a miserable patch on a great ill. Thousands, physically unfit, are placed in conditions of life which they have not strength to endure.

Prestige oil spill ( November 13, 2002 ):, nether the shellfish and fish populations, nor any sea food related industries seems to be still affected in any way by its terrible impact and contamination.

Some literally steal food out the mouths of their comrades, while others give away what they have or take terrible risks to help their friends.

Cornelia and Aurelia go out into the city to purchase food for the party, and in the streets witness some typical Roman scenes including a terrible fire in an insula ( apartment building ).

She encountered terrible food: " There was flour and water soup seasoned solely with pepper ; bread and gristle rissoles ; dehydrated onions and carrots ; corned beef toad in the hole.

While many adults are surprised at the changes in each of the girls after they return from camp (" Lottie " has suddenly forgotten how to cook, gets in a fight at school, and becomes a terrible student, while " Lisa " has begun to keep a close eye on the housekeeper's bookkeeping, will no longer eat her favorite food, and becomes a model student ), no one suspects that the girls are not who they claim to be.

The aliens have developed a substance named " Gel ", which was initially intended to be used as food for their species, but also functions as an addictive substance to humans that results in terrible side-effects and is now being sold as an illegal drug within the underworld.

Gina, feeling terrible, confesses she does not have a family when she returns to jail ( also clearing Bart of all charges that would result in him remaining in prison ), but the Simpsons and the warden step in to help Gina by offering a Mexican food feast in her cell at the end.

* just as in Asterix in Britain the notoriously terrible British cuisine is referenced, when the British recruit is the only one to appreciate the horrible food served at mealtime at the Roman garrison.

Ignacio cares deeply for the orphans, but his food is terrible due to a lack of funds with which to obtain quality ingredients.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.

He is pictured as a terrible god, less trusted by the Greeks than other gods.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

However, if this approach is naïvely adopted, then moral agents who, for example, recklessly fail to reflect on their situation, and act in a way that brings about terrible results, could be said to be acting in a morally justifiable way.

We have seen the cause of democracy, which is, in our view, the cause of civilisation and humanity, receive a terrible defeat ... The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained.

The resulting battle of Brunanburh — Dún Brunde — is reported in the Annals of Ulster as follows: a great battle, lamentable and terrible was cruelly fought ... in which fell uncounted thousands of the Northmen.

In the Book of Malachi, Elijah's return is prophesied " before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord ," making him a harbinger of the Messiah and the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible.

" A terrible wind passes, but God is not in the wind.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

In verse, after Loki has flyted with the goddess Frigg, Freyja interjects, telling Loki that he is insane for dredging up his terrible deeds, and that Frigg knows the fate of everyone, though she does not tell it.

Perhaps I am wrong to say that ; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.