Many kings came to the throne at a young age and died in the prime of life, weakening royal power further.

At first she remained at the court of her son Otto, however in the quarrels between the young king and his rivaling brother Henry a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities.

His death led to a weakening of French royal authority that helped spur decades of religious violence between Protestants and Catholics.

This all put Philip in a difficult position ; he could not openly side with those claiming wrongdoing by the lepers, Jews and Muslims without encouraging further, unnecessary violence – on the other hand, if he did not ally himself to the cause, he encouraged further unsanctioned violence, weakening his royal position.

According to George Coedès, the weakening of Angkor's royal government by ongoing war and the erosion of the cult of the devaraja undermined the government's ability to engage in important public works, such as the construction and maintenance of the waterways essential for irrigation of the rice fields upon which Angkor's large population depended for its sustenance.

Sun Jian finds the Imperial Seal and keeps it secretly for himself, further weakening royal authority.

The area of the Temes river was not the land of the Hungarian royal tribe, and from the middle of the 10th century-the weakening of the royal rule-the local Slavic-Bulgarian tribes began to pursue a more and more independent foreign policy.

When worker bees decide to make a new queen, either because the old one is weakening, or was killed, they choose several small larvae and feed them with copious amounts of royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells.

They are first found together in 1203, as co-commanders of the garrison at the major fortress of Vaudreuil in Normandy ; they were responsible for surrendering the castle without a fight to Philip II of France, fatally weakening the English position in northern France, but although popular opinion seems to have blamed them for the capitulation, a royal writ is extant stating that the castle was surrendered at King John's command, and both Saer and Fitzwalter had to endure personal humiliation and heavy ransoms at the hands of the French.

Norwegian royal power began to assert itself in Viken with King Olav Haraldsson, mostly due to a sharp weakening of the Danish royal power.

Frederick II reacted to the weakening of the royal power originated by his dispute with his son, among other things, with the Imperial Meeting ( German: Reichsversammlung ) in Mainz on 25 August 1235, on which for first time a Country Peace Law ( German: Landfriedensgesetz ) was remitted and the Regalia right was reformed fundamentally.

Rather than there being any convenient date for the " fall of the Roman Empire " there was a progressive " de-Romanization " of the Western Roman Empire in Hispania and a weakening of central authority, throughout the 3rd, 4th and 5th centuries.

* In al-Andalus, benefiting from the weakening of the Muslim central authority, the count of Portugal, Gonçalo Maia, conquers Montemor o Velho.

The upheaval resulted in the further weakening of central authority, and throughout Japan regional lords, or daimyo, rose to fill the vacuum.

According to the Soviet Criminal Code, agitation or propaganda carried on for the purpose of weakening Soviet authority, or circulating materials or literature that defamed the Soviet State and social system were punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2 – 5 years ; for a second offense, punishable for a term of 3 – 10 years.

Chancellor mulled weakening the SMC and undermining al-Husseini's authority by making the office of mufti elective.

The Exarchates were a response to weakening imperial authority in the provinces and were part of the overall process of unification of civil and military offices, initiated in early form by Justinian I, which would lead eventually to the creation of the Theme system by Emperor Heraclius.

Marko's father, King Vukašin, was the co-ruler alongside Serbian Tsar Stefan Uroš V, whose reign was marked by the weakening of the central authority and the gradual disintegration of the Serbian Empire.

The weakening of Ottoman central authority and the timar system brought anarchy to the Albanian-populated lands.

In 1858, a weakening Qing Empire was forced to cede Manchuria north of the Amur to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun ; however, Qing subjects were allowed to continue to reside, under the Qing authority, in a small region on the now-Russian side of the river, known as the Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River.

During the eighteen years that the Spanish military had been present among tribes of the Bay Area, its leaders had tried to avoid direct confrontation that might result in losses and a resultant weakening of its authority.

The long term effects of the book would be the weakening of the authority of the Church over the educated classes of Scandinavia.

The expanding power of the O ’ Brien earls of Thomand from the West and the Fitzgerald earls of Kildare from the east caused a weakening of Butler authority and to Roscrea being controlled by the Gaelic lords of Éile, the O ’ Carroll ’ s, for several decades.

As Alan Swingewood points out in The Myth of Mass Culture, the aristocratic theory of mass society is to be linked to the moral crisis caused by the weakening of traditional centers of authority such as family and religion.

The leaders of Yue and Wu, similar to Chu, proclaimed themselves kings in the 6th century BC, showing the drastic weakening of the Zhou court's authority during the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Sovereign State ( 1973, ISBN 0-340-17195-2 ) is a book by Anthony Sampson that uses the example of ITT ( International Telephone and Telegraph ) to make a broader point about the weakening of the authority of traditional national governments by the multinational corporations.

Successive civil wars in the 14th century further sapped the Empire's strength and destroyed any remaining chance of recovery, while the weakening of central authority and the devolution of power to provincial leaders meant that the Byzantine army was now composed of a collection of militias, personal entourages and mercenary detachments.

The slightest weakening of the central authority provoked acts of defiance from the Katehriya Rajputs.

He again fought against France during the Second and Third Coalition, when after meeting crushing defeat at Austerlitz, he had to agree to the Treaty of Pressburg, weakening the Austrian Empire and reorganizing Germany under a Napoleonic imprint that would be called the Confederation of the Rhine.

This location was auspicious, as the wealthy Byzantine Empire was weakening to his West, while in the east, Muslim forces under the Seljuk Turks were splintered and distracted in the face of relentless Mongol aggression and internal bickering.

Having multiple layers of old shingles under a new layer causes roofing nails to be located further from the sheathing, weakening their hold.

But in 1858, a weakening Qing Empire was forced to cede Manchuria north of the Amur to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun.

Meanwhile the Franks under Marcomer had taken the opportunity and invaded northern Gaul, at the same time further weakening Maximus ' position.

In the autumn of 1588, taking advantage of the civil war weakening France during the reign of his first cousin Henry III, he occupied the Marquisate of Saluzzo, which was under French protection.

Clermont was not spared by the Vikings at the time of the weakening of the Carolingian Empire either, being ravaged by the Normans under Hastein or Hastingen for the first time in 862 and 864 and, while its bishop Sigon carried out reconstruction work, again in 898 ( or 910, according to some sources ).

Some four regiments were called away to help defend the redoubts that were under attack and another 2 Jaeger regiments were deployed in the Utitsa woods, weakening the position.

In response to this threat, Prince Eugene reinforced Landrecies, weakening the Allied right wing ( under the Earl of Albemarle ) holding Denain.

Asphalt and methane appear under surrounding buildings, and require special operations for removal to prevent weakening building foundations.

* 58-14 ( added on June 6, 1937 ) " Counter-revolutionary sabotage ", i. e., conscious non-execution or deliberately careless execution of " defined duties ", aimed at the weakening of the power of the government and of the functioning of the state apparatus is subject to at least one year of freedom deprivation, and under especially aggravating circumstances, up to the highest measure of social protection: execution by shooting with confiscation of property.

In 1984, NU, under its Chairman, Abdurrahman Wahid withdrew from PPP and severely weakening it.

Fearing a possible weakening of influence in the northern vassal states following the successful Chinese invasion of Ava in 1660, King Narai mounted an expedition to bring Chiang Mai under the direct control of Ayutthya.

The assassination of Henry IV in 1610, and the advent of Louis XIII under the regency of Marie de ' Medici, marked a return to pro-Catholic politics and a weakening of the position of the Protestants.

The post of Secretary-General of the Presidency was historically very powerful, but Oyono's stint in the office was associated with a weakening of it under President Biya ; significantly, Oyono was moved from the Secretariat-General to an ordinary ministry — effectively a demotion.

Nur ad-Din went on to capture the remnants of the County of Edessa, and brought Damascus under his rule in 1154, further weakening the Crusader states.

After reaching a peak of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ), Edith passed under a cold upper trough, weakening Edith to a depression on September 30 before passing through the islands.

During his tenure as Urban League president, Jacob fought cutbacks in federal social programs and the weakening of civil rights enforcement under the Reagan Administration.

Cassuto's refutations above all rather devastatingly demonstrated that the supposed terminological, grammatical and stylistic traits indicative of separate documents actually were common in Hebrew language and literature and were shared with other Biblical and post-Biblical Jewish literature whose unity no-one supposed to be multiple, including liturgical, midrashic, medieval and even modern Jewish religious writing, and even more strongly that precisely the supposed divergencies, stylistic, grammatical, theoretical and theological, within the narrative, when analyzed in context and in connection not only with cognate literatures in the ancient Near East but especially with similar passages elsewhere in Biblical literature, all served an easily demonstrated and consistent common purpose whose unity and thrust tended to be qualified or to be denied altogether under the application of the Documentary Hypothesis, thereby weakening our understanding of Biblical literature and worldview generally.

Truman began preparations to draft the steelworkers into the military under the provisions of Section 18 of the Selective Service Act of 1948, furthering weakening Murray's resolve to see the strike through.

As things happened, the constant raids of Royalist guerrillas, the harshness of the terrain, the lack of promised reinforcements from Antioquia, and the delays in bringing up his army's artillery contributed to weakening the morale of many of the troops under Nariño's command, when they had practically reached the gates of Pasto.

Erich Eyck, in A History of the Weimar Republic, uses this example to emphasize the folly of the Entente powers: having defeated Germany in World War I, they humiliated her and thus opened the way to the rise to power of Adolf Hitler but without significantly weakening her, so that Germany under Hitler was a threat.