Shutruk-Nakhkhunte and his three sons, Kutir-Nakhkhunte II, Shilhak-In-Shushinak, and Khutelutush-In-Shushinak were capable of frequent military campaigns into Kassite Babylonia ( which was also being ravaged by Assyria during this period ), and at the same time were exhibiting vigorous construction activity — building and restoring luxurious temples in Susa and across their Empire.

:" The Competition had as its aim not a final design for the building but rather the selection of a vigorous and imaginative architect who would then be commissioned to submit the actual design of the Gallery.

In 1994 a highly controversial road building project was — despite vigorous objection from many quarters — completed and a new stretch of the M3 motorway was created, running through a significant section of the down, which was excavated and removed to create a deep cutting.

Because many of his students at this point in his life were active boys, Krishnamacharya developed a vigorous style of yoga aimed at building strength and stamina that is known today as Ashtanga ( Vinyasa ) Yoga.

Etruscan bronze figures and a terracotta funerary reliefs include examples of a vigorous Central Italian tradition which had waned by the time Rome began building her empire on the peninsula.

It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from New York Magazine (" richly dramatic, hugely entertaining "), Entertainment Weekly (" vigorous, purposeful prose and a killer knack for building suspense "), the Los Angeles Times (" two terrific books in one: a riveting thriller ... and a Shakespearean tragedy "), and The Washington Post (" hard to put down ... reads like a thriller "), among other places, and the book prompted Hunter S. Thompson to say Mnookin was " one of the best and brightest journalists of this ominous, post-American century .".

Pugin ; a board school situated in Hutton ( later Eliot ) Street in 1879 ; the building of almshouses adjacent to St. Clement's church to accommodate " 31 inmates, widows, single women, and married couples-whose age is above 60 " and Bloomsbury Library of 1892 on Nechells Parkway, described as " a typical vigorous example of the red brick and terracotta school for municipal building at the end of the nineteenth century.

During the final decades of the 20th century the town has experienced a vigorous building program, mostly as a dormitory town for Madrid, with a correspondingly strong population growth, which more than doubled between 1991 and 2005 ( from 35, 137 to 76, 246 inhabitants ).

The vigorous activity displayed by the duke in so many directions was not attended with much success.

Through vigorous missionary activity Methodism spread throughout the British Empire and, mostly through Whitefield's preaching during what historians call the First Great Awakening, colonial America.

One of the most vigorous and fruitful branches of mathematics [...] a paradise created by Cantor from which nobody shall ever expel us [...] the most admirable blossom of the mathematical mind and altogether one of the outstanding achievements of man's purely intellectual activity.

Like many irregular galaxies, the LMC is rich in gas and dust, and it is currently undergoing vigorous star formation activity.

Some scientists argue that, because the Earth was much hotter, tectonic activity was more vigorous than it is today, resulting in a much faster rate of recycling of crustal material.

Kagan also used two additional classifications, one for infants who were inactive but cried frequently ( distressed ) and one for those who showed vigorous activity but little crying ( aroused ).

Moderate lacing is not incompatible with vigorous activity.

Thus deprived of the power of vigorous bodily activity, he became a great reader and diligent student.

The only vigorous activity in which Charles is known to have participated was shooting.

However, the current meaning of militant does not usually refer to a registered soldier: it can be anyone who subscribes to the idea of using vigorous, sometimes extreme, activity to achieve an objective, usually political.

Night Scene for example has vigorous activity with the use of lively brushstrokes in bright colors against a dark background.

However, a potential exists for renewed vigorous volcanic activity that could threaten life and property in the area.

This aerobic exercise can achieve a " burn rate " of up to 700 calories per hour of vigorous activity, with about 0. 1 calories consumed per jump.

The German Shorthaired Pointer needs plenty of vigorous activity.

Regular hunting, running, carting, bikejoring, skijoring, mushing, dog scootering or other vigorous activity can alleviate this desire to escape.

Dr. Michael Macpherson, a " vigorous advocate of e-democracy ... acknowledges widespread apathy about politics, particularly among the young, and believes that this would be reduced if it could be seen that individual political activity was effective in a fairly short-term.

For example, the expression of immediate early genes is thought to be caused by vigorous neural activity.

Eleazar developed a vigorous activity in many directions.

A jockstrap ( also known as a jock, jock strap, strap, supporter, or athletic supporter ) is an undergarment originally designed for supporting the male genitalia during sports or other vigorous physical activity.

Through its vigorous economic activity, the ethnically German area to the south expanded its geographic domain.

When a subject is awake, the cerebral cortex is very active, and the EEG reflects vigorous activity.

Moreover, these interactions have allowed interstellar gas to fall into the centers of M82 and NGC 3077, leading to vigorous star formation or starburst activity there.

Map of the Kermadec Islands with Raoul IslandAnvil-shaped Raoul Island ( Sunday Island ), the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, ( located at, SSW of ' Ata Island of Tonga and NNE of New Zealand's North Island ), has been the source of vigorous volcanic activity during the past several thousand years that was dominated by dacitic explosive eruptions.

Only two Sultans in this period personally exercised strong political and military control of the Empire: the vigorous Murad IV ( 1612 – 1640 ) recaptured Yerevan ( 1635 ) and Baghdad ( 1639 ) from the Safavids and reasserted central authority, albeit during a brief majority reign.

His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.

He called for " a young and vigorous man who belongs neither to the Directoire nor to the Empire, but who is 1830 incarnate ….

The Eastern Orthodox Church, under the Orthodox Church of Constantinople was vigorous in its missionary outreach under the Roman Empire and continuing Byzantine Empire, and its missionary outreach had lasting effect, either founding, influencing or establishing formal relations with some 16 Orthodox national churches including the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( both said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Andrew ), the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Paul ).

During the British Empire, there were vigorous demands for home rule by activists in India.

The commandos refused to retire within the limits of the Transvaal as defined by the new convention, and Robinson, aware of the necessity of preserving this country – the main road to the north – for the British Empire, determined on vigorous action.

To the Nazi leaders, it was a young, vigorous nation, much like the Third Reich itself, quite unlike the decadent British Empire of the present day.

He was a loud-voiced man, once vigorous but for many years now declining in strength and ability.

This was paralleled in sculpture by the absolute representation of vigorous life, through unnaturally simplified forms.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

A vigorous and effective frontier warrior, he was also well known as a patron of the arts.

At around the same time in the medieval Islamic world, a vigorous monetary economy was created during the 7th – 12th centuries on the basis of the expanding levels of circulation of a stable high-value currency ( the dinar ).

Major John Hall-Edwards, a keen photographer and pioneer of medical X-ray treatments in Britain, was a particularly vigorous critic:

Parallel with the exposition of the Creed as it was then received in the Church of Jerusalem are vigorous polemics against pagan, Jewish, and heretical errors.

He was widely seen as having been an inactive, uninspiring president compared to his vigorous young successor.

The Chronicle of Melrose says of Domnall, " in war he was a vigorous soldier ... he is said to have been assassinated at Scone.

Many men influenced the shape and character of the Dominican Order, but it was Dominic himself who combined the available components into a vital and vigorous, whole existence.

Guayaquil, despite being destroyed on several occasions by fire and incessantly plagued by either yellow fever or malaria, was a center of vigorous trade among the colonies, a trade that was technically illegal under the mercantilist philosophy of the contemporary Spanish rulers.

Physically, he was short, stocky, and vigorous, and enjoyed outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, and mountain climbing.

Once again, however, a critical situation for the Axis forces was retrieved by vigorous counter-attacks from hastily assembled German and Italian forces, which forced the Australians to withdraw back to their start line with 300 casualties.

Such a dispersed system could not so easily be controlled where there was a vigorous local market for the raw materials: wool was easily available in sheep-rearing regions, whereas silk was not.

His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.

The galliard was a favourite dance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and although it is a relatively vigorous dance, in 1589 when the Queen was aged in her mid fifties, John Stanhope of the Privy Chamber reported, " the Queen is so well as I assure you, six or seven galliards in a morning, besides music and singing, is her ordinary exercise.