The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.

In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.

Rituals which are done on the first three days are vital and important, as they protect the soul from evil powers and give it strength to reach the underworld.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Each of the first three powers is available in an advanced form.

Because Berlin was located within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and the other occupying powers had previously relied on Soviet good will for access to Berlin, the only available methods of supplying the city were three limited air corridors.

Less than a year after Havana was seized, the Peace of Paris was signed by the three warring powers, ending the Seven Years ' War.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

Though Chiang lost militarily, the battle dispelled Japanese claims that it could conquer China in three months and demonstrated to the Western powers that the Chinese would continue the fight.

In three other sets of cases, Hughes also authored opinions that bolstered the regulatory powers of state legislatures and administrative bodies.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

This period saw a gradual decline of these three powers which were eventually replaced by new enlightened absolutist monarchies, Russia, Prussia and Austria.

It stated that republicanism and socialism were common enemies and that the three powers would discuss any matters concerning foreign policy.

The third and final partition of the Commonwealth was undertaken again by all three partitioning powers, and in 1795 the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth effectively ceased to exist.

The newly created Republic of Kraków was a tiny state under a joint supervision of the three partitioning powers.

By the end of World War I Poland had seen the defeat or retreat of all three partitioning powers.

A new civilization has risen, with three dominant powers: the Ixians, whose no-ships are capable of piloting between the stars and are invisible to outside detection ; the Bene Tleilax, who have learned to manufacture spice in their axlotl tanks and have created a new breed of Face Dancers ; and the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order of subtle political manipulators who possess superhuman abilities.

Afterward, more people arrived in Britain from " the three powers of Germany ; the Old Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes ".

Some of the helium-3 found in the terrestrial atmosphere is also a relic of atmospheric and underwater nuclear weapons testing, conducted by the three big nuclear powers before 1963.

As two of the world's top three economic powers, both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acrimonious trade frictions.

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator

The Father of Greatness, in the first of three " creations " ( or " calls "), calls to the Mother of Life, who sends her son Original Man ( in Aramaic ), to battle with the attacking powers of Darkness, which include the Demon of Greed.

Ducking inside, he found that three rifles were stacked in a corner.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

Greg took the formation wide around three A-26 attack bombers that were headed north over the Gulf.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

There were three years of this strange warfare ; ;

The casualties in the Army of the Cumberland were 22,807, while for all three armies they were 37,081.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

there were two or three colored maids employed there.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

There were times now, like this, when she lost control of the time count and moved freely back and forth into three generations.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

Of the major expansions in 1960, three were financed under the R. I. Industrial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage plan: Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American Tube & Controls.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Meanwhile, three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of Af which had been diluted to three times its original volume with powdered, anhydrous alundum ( Af ).

The dosages in the three levels of the vertical profile were: Af

The cells were washed three times with saline, anti-human serum was added, the cells were resuspended, and the mixture was centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min and examined for agglutination.