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The tide turned in December 1941, when the invasion of Russia stalled in cold weather and the United States joined the war.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
tide and December
* December 14 – A huge storm and associated storm tide in the North Sea and English Channel, known as St. Lucia's flood in the Netherlands, kills thousands and reshapes the coastal line of the Netherlands and England.
The INA marched to Burma with the Japanese army in December 1944 but by March 1945, with the tide of war turning against them, the INA leadership decided to beat a retreat before they could enter Imphal.
The announcement on 17 December 1987 of the government ’ s intention to introduce GMFI and a flat rate of income tax marked the high tide of Rogernomics but did nothing to settle growing tension between Douglas and Lange.
The third night 9 / 10 December they paddled and on the fourth night 10 / 11 December because of the strong ebb tide they only managed to cover.
Because of the strength of the ebb tide they still had a short distance to paddle, so Hasler ordered they hide for another day and set off to and reach Bordeaux on the night of 11 / 12 December.
On 17 December 1944 the Allied tide of battle came to a halt.
Faupel, in November – December, urged the creation of a single German unit of 15, 000 – 30, 000, believing it would be enough to turn the tide of the war to the Nationalists.
The tide seemed to be in favor of the prosecution, but the trial ended with a hung jury in December.
tide and 1941
In early 1941, the tide was turned as the German Wehrmacht launched its invasion of Yugoslavia.
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.
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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.
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.
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 tide started to turn when the Charter of the Nuremberg Trials of German Nazi leaders declared forced deportation of civilian populations to be both a war crime and a crime against humanity, and this opinion was progressively adopted and extended through the remainder of the century.
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.
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