The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

Parklife continued the fiercely British nature of its predecessor, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year it seemed that British alternative rock had finally turned back the tide of grunge dominance.

Aurelius finally manages to secure the services of a magician-scholar of the arcane arts, who, taking pity on the young man, for the princely sum of a thousand pounds agrees " thurgh his magik " to make all the rocks " aweye " " for a wyke or tweye " ( possibly by association with an exceptionally high tide ).

Critics said he should have admitted his book was a fictional novel ) However, he finally achieved his permanent liberation in 1941, by using a bag of coconuts as a makeshift raft and riding the tide out from the island.

The defenders suffer heavy losses, but hold out until dawn, when Gandalf arrives with 2, 000 riders led by Éomer, who finally turn the tide of the battle and send Saruman's forces into retreat.

Racing continued here until 1911, when the area finally succumbed to the sea, and at low tide one can still see part of the racecourse from the back strand.

The tide of the battle turned at dusk, when Zieten's columns, who had been engaged pointlessly with Lacy, finally launched a major assault.

Jack Priest, in his evocative memoir of the isle during World War II, describes it as " a beachcomber's dream-washed as it is with a westerly Atlantic tide through Bluemull Sound, fed from the east by waters of the Norwegian basin and finally the North Sea pressing up from among the isles through the narrow channel between Yell and Fetlar and feeding Colgrave Sound on the south side of Uyea Isle.

In the 1807 election the rising tide of Republicanism finally swept Strong ( along with other New England Republicans ) out of office.

" ( Versailles ), the Embarkation of Madame d ' Angoulême ( Bordeaux ), the plafond of the Egyptian room in the Louvre, and finally his Hercules and Diomedes, exhibited in 1835, testify only that Gros's efforts – in accordance with the frequent counsels of his old master David – to stem the rising tide of Romanticism only damaged his once brilliant reputation.

Deputy Commissioner Charles Pawsey's bungalow and tennis court were the place where the British Fourteenth Army finally turned the tide of the war against the Japanese during the Burma Campaign of World War II at the Battle of the Tennis Court.

More to the east lies a mainly high island cluster consisting of Maupiti ( Tahitian name: Maurua ), Tupai atoll, Bora Bora ( Tahitian name: Vava ' u ), the most known of the Leeward Islands in the western world due to its World War II USA naval base and subsequent tourism industry, Tahaa ( Tahitian name: Uporu ), lying just north of the largest island of the group, Raiatea ( Tahitian names: Hava ' i, Ioretea ) which possesses the largest city and local capital of the Leeward Islands, namely Uturoa, as well as the highest elevation, the just over 1, 000 m mount Tefatua, and finally the easternmost island of the group, Huahine ( Tahitian name: Mata ' irea ) which at high tide is divided into two: Huahine Nui (" big Huahine ") to the north and Huahine Iti (" small Huahine ") to the south.

Not only was he unable to turn the tide of success but was himself unhorsed though finally brought off by a desperate charge of his followers.

Three years afterwards, under Yusuf's son and successor, Ali ibn Yusuf, Sintra and Santarém were added, and Iberia was again invaded in 1119 and 1121, but the tide had turned, the French having assisted the Aragonese to recover Zaragoza.

When the tide turned the water was trapped and it was only allowed to flow out under a mill turning its ' wheel '.

In part due to their own inability to control unruly corporate behavior, the tide turned against the guilds.

Over the next year the tide was turned and the Germans started to suffer a series of defeats, for example in the siege of Stalingrad and at Kursk.

The tide turned in December 1941, when the invasion of Russia stalled in cold weather and the United States joined the war.

In earlier Homeric combat, the words and deeds of supremely powerful heroes turned the tide of battle.

His victory at the Battle of Luchana ( 1836 ) turned the tide of the war, and in 1839, the Convention of Vergara put an end to the first Carlist insurrection.

As the tide of the war turned toward the former slaves, Napoleon abandoned his dreams of restoring France's New World empire.

After an initial loss of territory by the Jewish state and occupation of Arab Palestine by the Arab armies, from July the tide gradually turned in the Israelis favour and they pushed the Arab armies out and occupying some of the territory which had been allocated to the Palestinian Arabs.

As the tide of the war turned against Germany, Terboven's personal aspiration was to organise a " Fortress Norway " ( Festung Norwegen ) for the Nazi regime's last stand.

As long as Moses held the rod up, Israel dominated the fighting, but if Moses let down his hands, the tide of the battle turned in favor of the Amalekites.

The influx of Chinese arms turned the tide in Burma against the ethnic insurgencies, many of which had relied indirectly on Chinese complicity.

The entry of the Klingon ships turned the tide and allowed the Defiant to break through and retake the station ( DS9: " Favor the Bold ") ( DS9: " Sacrifice of Angels ").

However, what ultimately turned the tide in favor of validity of Gregory's election was the near universal acclaim of the Roman people.

Although Edward III invaded again, he was becoming more anxious over the possible French invasion, and by late 1336, the Scots had regained control over virtually all of Scotland and by 1338 the tide had turned.

An attempt by Philip II of Spain to invade England with the Spanish Armada in 1588 was famously defeated, but the tide of war turned against England with an unsuccessful expedition to Portugal and the Azores, the Drake-Norris Expedition of 1589.

Within 24 hours after the Choctaw language was pressed into service, the tide of the battle had turned.

The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne.

Buck has compared him to Winston Churchill, another advocate of imperial policies who held fast to his beliefs after the tide of history had turned against him, and who rose to his peak of prominence at his country's darkest hour.

By the fall of 1999, The Attitude Era had turned the tide of the Monday Night Wars into WWF's favor for good.

Then Eorl the Young and his fierce Éothéod Riders unexpectedly took the field during the Battle of Celebrant and turned the tide in the favour of Gondor.

An overtime goal by Gary Dornhoefer in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota North Stars in the Flyers ' favor, as the Flyers got their first playoff series win in six games.

The tide of battle now rapidly turned against Manfred.

As the Union Army drew near to Lee's divided army, Stuart's men skirmished at various points on the approach to Frederick and Stuart was not able to keep his brigades concentrated enough to resist the oncoming tide.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

Grant was riding a tide of popularity, and there were discussions in some corners that a Union victory early in the year could open the possibility of his candidacy for the presidency.

* November 19 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

Reinforcements from Gen. Buell and from Grant's own army arrived in the evening and turned the tide the next morning, when the Union commanders launched a counterattack along the entire line.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, ethnic tensions between Ossetians and Georgians in Georgia's former Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia ( abolished in 1990 ) and between Ossetians and the Ingush in North Ossetia evolved into violent clashes that left several hundreds dead and wounded and created a large tide of refugees on both sides of the border.

The tide quickly turned though, and in 1975, the Anglican House of Bishops and National Executive Council declared that the Plan of Union was unacceptable.

He has received substantial criticism for his failure to stem the tide of either crisis, ultimately culminating in his government's formal request for financial rescue from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, widely seen in Ireland as a national humiliation.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, ethnic tensions between Ossetians and Georgians in Georgia's former Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia ( abolished in 1990 ) and between Ossetians and the Ingush in North Ossetia evolved into violent clashes that left several hundreds dead and wounded and created a large tide of refugees on both sides of the border.

Upon seeing the tide of battle turning in favor of the Union forces, Breckinridge stated, " Put the boys in ... and may God forgive me for the order.

In 1966, the Union Nationale returned to power despite losing the popular vote by nearly seven points to the Liberal Party, but could not turn the tide of modernization and secularization that the Quiet Revolution had started.

In the course of World War II, Romania ( in alliance with the Axis Powers ) took back Bessarabia and was awarded further territorial gains at the expense of the Soviet Union ( Transnistria / western Yedisan / western New Russia ); these were lost again as the tide of the war turned.

He is credited with helping shift Washington's intellectual tide away from containment of the Soviet Union ( as advocated by post-war American leaders, such as Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower ) and toward a more aggressive approach dedicated to the " rollback " of global communism.

* To maintain the water level of the fresh water Lake Washington and Lake Union at above sea level ( Puget Sound's mean low tide ).

During the American Civil War, as a leader eventually attaining the rank of major general of the Confederate States Army, Mahone is best known for turning the tide of the Battle of the Crater against the Union advance during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864.

As forces under Grant made gains in the western theater, much of the military equipment and manpower in the city's vicinity was sent upriver in an attempt to stem the victorious Union tide.

As a result of this defeat and McCausland's burning of Chambersburg on July 30, Grant returned the VI and XIX Corps to the Valley and appointed Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan as commander of Union forces there, turning the tide once and for all against the Confederates in the Valley.

After an indecisive air battle, Red Squadron ( with Cheriss's help ) are able to reclaim their X-wings and neutralize Phennir and his TIE interceptors ; the tide thus turned, Cartann is defeated and joins the Adumari Union.

His contribution to the Green Revolution in India and modernising Indian agriculture, during his two tenures as Union Agriculture Minister are still remembered, especial during 1974 drought when he was asked to hold the additional portfolio to tide over the food crisis.

By its peak in the 1990s it is estimated that the THC commanded the loyalty of up to 50, 000 people across Hong Kong and Guangzhou ; known as the boss of the bosses their political weight turned to a more opposed and direct approach after the tide of capital turned on the fall of the Soviet Union.