The French offensive was quite successful but soon Napoleon received alarming news that the main bridge had broken and that consequently, no further reinforcements and ammunition could be brought from the southern bank, which made a protracted battle impossible.

His alarming reliability study of the adaptations that the company was making to the F-104 Starfighter that it was building under licence soon turned out to be tragically correct.

Hardship burdened the common people, which already had resulted in alarming polarization, and soon would ignite the Civil War.

Although the game begins as a quest to try to salvage the term paper, alarming events soon unfold, revealing a powerful evil within the school's depths.

Given that individuals ' personal data also seems to be growing at an alarming rate, these archiving issues affecting professional repositories will soon be manifest in small organisations and even the home.

" He soon hears an alarming noise, and goes downstairs to get his father's gun, and hears laughter, following it, he then falls victim to demonic possession.

With the influx of refugees soon after the war, the population of Hong Kong was growing at an alarming rate, one out of four were considered homeless.

At this point, Louisville was in first place, but soon after Nichols ' arrival, the team began to lose games at an alarming rate.

Other alarming developments followed: Carlo de Benedetti of Olivetti bought into the bank and became deputy chairman, only to leave two months later after receiving Mafia threats and lack of co-operation from Calvi.

In February 1298, the situation became alarming for Adolf because Wenceslaus II and Albert of Habsburg put aside their years of disputes over Austria and Styria, and arrived at agreements in the event that Adolf would be deposed and Albert elected in his place.

Legacy preference for university admissions was devised in 1925 at Yale University, where the proportional number of Jews in the student body was growing at a rate that became alarming to the school's administrators.

As the situation became more alarming the 1st and 3rd Replacement Divisions were reformed into the 21st and 23rd Divisions and sent to the front on December 19.

Indeed, Anslinger did not himself consider marijuana a serious threat to American society until in the fourth year of his tenure ( 1934 ), at which point an anti-marijuana campaign, aimed at alarming the public, became his primary focus as part of the government's broader push to outlaw all drugs.

Although Impressive was not known to have exhibited any symptoms of the disease himself, gradually it became evident that many horses tracing to Impressive were afflicted with the painful, alarming, and often fatal disease Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis ( HYPP ).

When chrome molybdenum steel pitons replaced softer iron in the early 1960s, pitons became more easily removable, resulting in their more intensive use and alarming damage to increasingly popular climbing routes.

:" following Iraq's expulsion from Kuwait, it became clear that the Saddam Hussein government had created a range and quality of weapons of mass destruction that was truly alarming.

Roy Race became player manager of Melchester Rovers in 1978 leading Rovers to League Championship success in his first season, however an alarming drop in form and injuries resulted in Rovers getting relegated following the 1980-81 season.

This threat to France became alarming in 1516 when Charles V became the king of Spain, and grew worse when Charles was also elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519.

The subject, indeed, frequently became one of national interest, on account of the alarming amount of specie which was thus drained away, and hence numerous enactments exist in regard to it by the various national governments.

In December 1884 he became ambassador at St. Petersburg, and almost immediately had to face the alarming situation created by the Russian advance to Penjdeh.

At Camp Verde, he became aware of the alarming incidence of diabetes among Indian children.

Despite attempts to protect the town through quarantine, eight known cases of smallpox appeared in Boston by May 27, and by mid-June, the disease was spreading at an alarming rate.

It is estimated that 80 % of the world ’ s known biodiversity lives in the rainforests, and the destruction of these rainforests is accelerating extinction at an alarming rate.

As traditionally known by hunters, on the other hand, cocks are particularly refractory to otherwise alarming signs during their courting display.

Statistics as to the number of locations using the LonWorks technology are scarce, but it is known that products and applications built on top of the platform include such diverse functions as embedded machine control, municipal and highway / tunnel / street lighting, heating and air conditioning systems, intelligent electricity metering, subway train control, stadium lighting and speaker control, security systems, fire detection and suppression, and newborn location monitoring and alarming.

: The summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phaenomena ; for besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smokey fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.

Nearly 1, 850 of these female figures, popularly known as Apsaras, adorn the surface of Angkor Wat and some of them are in an extremely alarming state of decay.

The unfavorable situation was compounded by bad weather and an alarming increase in sickness among the troops.

A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.

Saxon raids on the southern and eastern shores of England had been sufficiently alarming by the late 3rd century for the Romans to build the Saxon Shore forts, and subsequently to establish the role of the Count of the Saxon Shore to command the defence against these incursions.

" His sanity — by his own later admission — had become twisted from cocaine ; he overdosed several times during the year, and was withering physically to an alarming degree.

The individuals failed to respond to the audible alarms produced by the continuous glucose monitor which may have been " alarming " for many hours prior to the fatal event.

Upon hearing this alarming news, Humayun quickly marched his troops back to Agra allowing Bahadur to easily regain control of the territories Humayun had recently taken.

* 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union.

Zimmerman then took it upon herself to look after Cagney, preparing his meals to reduce his blood triglyceride level, which had reached alarming proportions.

These still alarming images show soldiers pillaging and burning their way through town, country and convent, before being variously arrested and executed by their superiors, lynched by peasants, or surviving to live as crippled beggars.

Recent statistics and observations show that dolphins are at danger of entrapment in purse seine fishing nets and exposure to chemical pollutants ; perhaps the most alarming sign is the " mass suicides " committed by dolphins off Iran's Hormozgan province, which are not well understood, but are suspected to be linked with a deteriorating marine environment from water pollution from oil, sewage, and industrial run offs.

Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Nonetheless, Imad al-Din writes the raid was alarming to the Muslims because they were not accustomed to attacks on that sea and Ibn al-Athir adds that the inhabitants had no experience with the Crusaders either as fighters or traders.

" Jefferson took the oath of office on March 4, 1801, at a time when partisan strife between the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties was growing to alarming proportions.

It may occur without alarming symptoms until septicaemia or diffuse peritonitis sets in.

He is scheduled to teach a hematology class at the University of Kansas hospital in nearby Lawrence, Kansas, and is en route when he hears an alarming Emergency Broadcast System alert on his car radio.

I responded to the challenge by becoming that alarming, hazardous, sexually disruptive woman.

The alarming decline of Spartan citizens was commented on by Aristotle.

These episodes were alarming to her family, who were unable to wake her when she fell asleep suddenly and without warning.

Then on 11 April, was a riot in Brixton and when on 13 April Thatcher was quoted Powell's remark that " We have seen nothing yet " by an interviewer she replied: " I heard him say that and I thought it was a very very alarming remark.

As he moved south, he drove off or captured British traders, alarming both the British and the Iroquois.

These movements were assisted by a ruse employed by Stark's men that enabled them to safely get closer without alarming the opposing forces.

Both the quartz and film badge type are being superseded by the TLD and electronic semiconductor type, which can have a number of sophisticated functions such as alarming at preset levels and live readout of dose accumulated.

While the French hailed the invasion as the first step towards the Rhineland and later Berlin, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III were receiving alarming reports from foreign news sources of Prussian and Bavarian armies massing to the southeast in addition to the forces to the north and northeast.

As a show of force, Caesar constructs a sturdy wooden bridge across the Rhine and crosses into German territory, alarming the Germans.