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.

Dame Kristina resisted for four months longer, and when in the beginning of autumn the tide of war started to turn in Kristina's favour.

The independent Fitch Ratings credit-rating agency downgraded the city of Chicago's bond rating in August 2010, citing the Daley administration ’ s habit of drawing on reserve funds for general operating expenses and underpaying its pension funds since well before the recession started, and pointed out the city lacks a plan for developing new revenue and faces a rising tide of fixed operating costs.

In the 17th century the exit out of Ringkøbing Fjord started moving south, caused by wind and tide ; Ringkøbing was then cut off from the sea.

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.

This became a recurring pattern in Chechen history: invasion from the North by highly mobile plains people, met with fierce and determined resistance by the Chechens, who usually started out losing but then reversed the tide.

Initially the factory in Maranello was a base not only for Scuderia Ferrari but also for Auto Avio Costruzioni, the machine tool manufacturing business started by Enzo to tide the company over while Alfa Romeo's ban on Enzo Ferrari making cars bearing the Ferrari name was in force.

The Marines started their attack from the lagoon at 09: 00, thirty minutes later than expected, but found the tide had still not risen enough to allow their shallow draft Higgins boats to clear the reef.

Although Maidana was using combos to hurt " El Terrible " Morales started turnin the tide mid-fight throwing very heavy counter-punches almost knocking Maidana down.

The road was begun from both ends at once and some sources say that they both started on the right hand side of the right-of-way, missing in the middle and having to put in an embarrassing reverse curve to tide them over until they built the other side.

In his first series, the Seventh Doctor started out as a comical character, engaging in dundrearyisms (" Time and tide melt the snowman ," or when partner Mel is kidnapped " A bird in the hand keeps the Doctor away "), playing the spoons, and making pratfalls, but later started to develop a darker nature and raised the profound question of who the Doctor actually is.

The 1983 report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, titled A Nation at Risk, started the drive for education reform with its conclusions, which included the claim that the nation was threatened by " a rising tide of mediocrity.

In January, work started on the construction of an elevated pedestrian walkway through the railway bridge below the staircase, but on 28 January, much of the lower end of the site was flooded by an exceptional high tide, although little damage was caused.

For every man whose foot has touched this hallowed soil, has found a spirit, and has broadened and deepened it until what started out as an ambitionless meandering stream has become a purposeful river upon whose tide, now turbulent, now tranquil, floats the destiny of countless human hopes and dreams .”

Finally, by 1580, he turned the tide and started chasing the Golconda army northwards recovering the territory they had seized.

For the `` tide is well on the turn '', as the London Catholic weekly Universe has written.

It took a rally by an officer Callistus ( Ballista ), a fiscal official named Fulvius Macrianus, the remains of the Eastern Roman legions and one Odenathus and his Palmyrene horsemen to turn the tide against Shapur.

By 1813 the tide had begun to turn from Napoleon.

The Battle of the Ebro in July – November 1938 was the final desperate attempt by the Republicans to turn the tide.

Aboard are four others: the Director of Companies ( the captain ), the Lawyer (" the best of old fellows "), the Accountant ( toying architecturally with dominoes ), and Marlow ( Charlie Marlow )-all share " the bond of the sea " but Marlow is the only one that still " followed the sea "-they are waiting for the tide waters to turn.

The situation pushed the leaders of the neighbouring Arab states to intervene, but their preparation was not finalized, and they could not assemble sufficient forces to turn the tide of the war.

In the mid-12th century, the tide began to turn in the Crusades.

The Luftwaffe produced advanced fighter aircraft in an effort to turn the tide of the air war in 1944 and 1945

In an effort to turn the tide on reported increases in methadone-related adverse events, the DEA announced in a recent advisory that manufacturers of methadone hydrochloride 40-mg tablets have agreed to restrict their distribution of that particular formulation of the drug.

Restructuring and privatization of " sensitive sectors " ( e. g., coal ), has also been slow, but recent foreign investments in energy and steel have begun to turn the tide.

Afterwards, his general Marshal Villars managed to turn the tide in favour of France.

Grace's 1865 debut in the fixture did not turn the tide as the Players won at The Oval by 118 runs.

The battle goes badly at first for the Britons, but four unknown men — Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, and Posthumus in their disguises — turn the tide, rallying Cymbeline's troops into a rout of the Romans.

They've recently found a living severed head buried in the Barrier, which they believe can turn the tide of the war with the Fallen Lords.

By 1943, the tide began to turn.

The Gang of Four grew apprehensive that spontaneous, large-scale popular support for Zhou could turn the political tide against them.

Soon, though, the military tide began to turn in favor of Franz Joseph and the Austrian whitecoats.

He then manages to turn the tide against the Romans in Spain, with the Roman generals Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus killed in separate battles — Publius on the upper Baetis ( Guadalquivir ) and Gnaeus in the hinterland of Carthago Nova ( Cartagena ).

The combined Mexican monarchist and French forces won victories up until 1865, but then the tide began to turn against them, in part because the American Civil War had ended.

Trying to turn the tide, they had Wouter van der Leyden assassinated in Brussels.

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His rationale was that since the sole motivation of mercenaries is their pay, they will not be inclined to take the kind of risks that can turn the tide of a battle, but may cost them their lives.

When the Myrmidons led by Achilles turn the tide of battle and Hector is killed, foreshadowing Troy's imminent fall, Helenus-like most of the greatest heroes-survived the poem.

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.

Once set, the anchor tends to break out and reset when the direction of force changes dramatically, such as with the changing tide, and on some occasions it might not reset but instead drag.

The one ship that escaped managed to do so only because all of Alfred's heavy ships became mired when the tide went out.

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

Though the Type A barges were capable of disembarking several medium tanks onto an open beach, this could be accomplished only at low tide when the barges were firmly grounded.

They would also have been used to carry supplies directly ashore during the six hours of falling tide when the barges were grounded.

* No deaths of humans have been attributed to Florida red tide, but people may experience respiratory irritation ( coughing, sneezing, and tearing ) when the red tide organism ( Karenia brevis ) is present along a coast and winds blow its toxic aerosol onshore.

It sank beneath the waves when a storm tide ( the first " Grote Mandrenke ") in the North Sea tore through the area on January 16, 1362.

The turning of the tide of the conflict occurred in 996 when the Byzantine general Nikephoros Ouranos inflicted a crushing defeat on a raiding Bulgarian army at a battle on the River Spercheios ( Sperchius ) in Thessaly.

It had destroyed what were the two former foremost military powers, the Sassanid Empire, which it absorbed completely, and the greater part of the Byzantine Empire, including Syria, Armenia and North Africa, although Leo the Isaurian stemmed the tide when he defeated the Umayyads at the Battle of Akroinon ( 739 ), their final campaign in Anatolia.

When England was ruled by a French aristocracy, the tradition may have been to exclusively use an, while when Britain was governed by a German-based monarchy the tide may have changed to a.

Only two weeks ago, a period when the weather was normal and calm and at low tide, unusually big waves suddenly crashed ashore and flooded most part of the capital island.

The same red tide mentioned above is more specifically produced when dinoflagellates are able to reproduce rapidly and copiously on account of the abundant nutrients in the water.

High tide brings in salt water, and when the tide recedes, solar evaporation of the seawater in the soil leads to further increases in salinity.

Likewise, they slow down tidal water enough so its sediment is deposited as the tide comes in, leaving all except fine particles when the tide ebbs.

Mangroves store gases directly inside the roots, processing them even when the roots are submerged during high tide.

According to legend, criminals would be tied up to the posts at low tide and left there to drown when the tide came in.

In periods when the river is in flood upstream, if the gates are closed shortly after low tide, a huge empty volume is created behind the barrier which can act as a reservoir to hold the floodwater coming over Teddington weir.

He was in the process of attacking the Chauci when his vessels were trapped by an ebb tide.