Though their holding-power-to-weight ratio is significantly lower than admiralty pattern anchors, their ease of handling and stowage aboard large ships led to almost universal adoption.

Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

The significance of soft-bodied preservation, and the range of organisms he recognised as new to science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924.

In the courts of Versailles and Madrid, Vienna's fall was confidently anticipated, an event which would almost certainly have led to the collapse of the Grand Alliance.

The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).

As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia ( 1879 – 1883 ), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.

The success of cooperative marketing almost led to its failure.

The insistent road of focusing almost exclusively on economic growth has led to a wide range of serious social problems.

In February 1567, Darnley was murdered by conspirators almost certainly led by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.

: Bopp's researches, carried with wonderful penetration into the most minute and almost microscopical details of linguistic phenomena, have led to the opening up of a wide and distant view into the original seats, the closer or more distant affinity, and the tenets, practices and domestic usages of the ancient Indo-European nations, and the science of comparative grammar may truly be said to date from his earliest publication.

Fyvel wrote about Orwell: " His crucial experience ... was his struggle to turn himself into a writer, one which led through long periods of poverty, failure and humiliation, and about which he has written almost nothing directly.

Up to late 1990s strained relations almost led to an open war in 1974, 1987 and 1996.

In March 1987 a dispute concerning oil drilling rights, almost led to war between the countries with Greece advocating the dispute to be decided by the International Court of Justice.

In an era characterized by almost endless warfare, he led his armies as king from 1611 ( at age 17 ) until his death in battle in 1632 while leading a charge — as Sweden rose from the status of a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill kingdom to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government.

This was not helped by the biography written by her husband after her death, which portrayed a wonderful, almost saintly, woman totally at odds with the scandalous life people knew she had led.

The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller and Sullivan, depicting how the teacher led her from a state of almost feral wildness into education, activism, and intellectual celebrity.

The next day, after pacing himself behind Moss, who soon retired with a broken gearbox, he led almost to the end of the race before running out of fuel on the last lap.

Gustav led the firm through World War I, concentrating almost entirely on artillery manufacturing, particularly following the loss of overseas markets as a result of the Allied blockade.

As discussed by Reinhart and Rogoff ( 2009 ), excessive debt, public and private, internal and external, has repeatedly led to financial crises in almost all countries throughout the last two centuries.

While it was a tactical defeat for the Americans and the small fleet led by Benedict Arnold was almost entirely destroyed, the Americans gained a strategic victory.

* 1434 – Hussite Wars ( Bohemian Wars ): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.

" Hoover's report led to a realization in Washington that a new policy was needed ; " almost any action would be an improvement " on current policy.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

it would, almost inevitably, trouble some water.

The trouble with them was that they almost never worked, and in fact an agreement `` in principle '' historically turned out to be a sure sign that neither party really wanted the quarrel settled.

In their first appearance, for example, Ximénez has trouble with listing their weapons (" Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms — oh damn!

In his autobiography, he discussed the years of problems they had experienced because of Leigh's illness: " Throughout her possession by that uncannily evil monster, manic depression, with its deadly ever-tightening spirals, she retained her own individual canniness – an ability to disguise her true mental condition from almost all except me, for whom she could hardly be expected to take the trouble.

The last of them, Michel, had been in financial trouble almost all his life only to end in bankruptcy in 1554.

" On campus, he helped organize the Cy-Bix Orchestra with drummer Walter " Cy " Welge and almost immediately got into trouble with the Lake Forest headmaster for performing indecorously at a school dance.

He began to have trouble sleeping almost immediately after his 40th birthday in 1991 ; following these first signs of insomnia, his health and state of mind quickly deteriorated as his condition worsened.

... As it turned out, the use of the word dogma caused almost more trouble than it was worth ....

Famous Players made their own public statements deeming him more trouble than he was worth ( the divorce, bigamy trials, debts ) and that he was temperamental, almost diva-like.

In doing so, they almost get into fights with the school bullies and even get in trouble with their school principal, Mr. Feeny.

Lestat's adjustment to his human body takes up a major portion of the book — after almost two centuries of being a vampire, he finds he has trouble with the basic human nuances of eating, defecating, and taking care of his body.

He drives a 1955 Morris Minor Series II Tourer convertible that is constantly breaking down, has trouble bringing dates back to the house because of his mother's deliberate interference, and is almost always thwarted by Maggie whenever he attempts to socialize with his work friends.

However, this almost immediately ran into trouble when damage to the hippocampus, a primary limbic structure, was shown to result in severe cognitive ( memory ) deficits.

The same year he was also appointed conseiller d ' honneur of the Toulouse parlement, but his opposition to the abuses of the royal power, especially in the matter of taxation, brought him so much trouble that he resigned almost immediately.

This promotional tool was not enough to prevent trouble, due in part to the airline losing almost $ 150 million in its two years of operation.

Rockford's scheming former San Quentin cellmate, Evelyn " Angel " Martin ( something of a comic relief character ), almost always gets Rockford in trouble, usually by involving him in hare-brained scams, which as often as not result in either his arrest or being placed on somebody's hit list.

Warren Beatty defended the film, and despite all the severe trouble and misery he went through making it, is quoted as saying, " There was almost no review that didn't in the first paragraph deal with the cost of the movie.

However, the consortium that won the contract, headed by Samuel Cunard, ran into trouble almost immediately and Allan reacted by building more ships on the Clyde using superior technology ( notably the Canadian and the Indian ).

Ukridge's early years ( as recounted in " Ukridge's Dog College ") were not proud times ; expelled from school ( later revealed to be Wrykyn ) for sneaking out at night to attend a local fair ( he had the forethought to wear a false beard, but omitted to remove his school cap ), he travelled the world in various capacities, visiting a wide number of countries and getting himself in trouble in almost all of them.

This got them in trouble at least once, when a visual pun based on " racquet "/" racket " enraged Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Hipgnosis almost lost the band as a client.

The ever controversial Bubba was in trouble with WGRD almost from the start due to the sexual content of his show.

The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas ; they do not trouble Texas, but north of the Arkansas they are almost always at war.

Going from the Old Church to Long Millgate ... one is in an almost undisguised working men's quarter, for even the shops and beerhouses hardly take the trouble to exhibit a trifling degree of cleanliness ... Irk, immediately beside the School, is a narrow, coal black, foul smelling stream full of debris and refuse.