Since 1951, the Navy faced the initial threat from the Tupolev Tu-4K ' Bull ' carrying anti-ship missiles.

These systems faced initial skepticism, based on the assumption that applications do not have significant parallelism, because of Amdahl's law, but the success of early systems such as nCUBE and the fast progress in microprocessor performance following Moore's law led to a fast replacement.

Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.

The initial problems Dingane faced was maintaining the loyalty of the Zulu fighting regiments or amabutho.

The initial problem the WHO team faced was inadequate reporting of smallpox cases.

The initial form was the licensing of then-scarce foreign exchange ; European countries also faced a " dollar shortage " and employed similar measures.

Once the initial idea of EUREKA was formulated, we were able to foresee the difficulties to be faced.

During the initial campaign, Russian military and pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat, and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from late 1999 to the following February 2000.

The British government faced initial hiccups in land ceiling and tax collection in Madurai and Dindigul districts under the direct administration of the officers of the government.

Protests over the extreme hardships and broken government promises faced by the initial group of migrants set the stage for the end of state-supported labour emigration in Japan.

The initial success of this allied offensive led Bulgaria to capitulate on October 9th 1918, later in October 1918 Serbia was liberated and lastly Austria-Hungary capitulated in November 1918 when faced with invasion from allied forces from the south.

) However, he starts to grow discouraged as he is faced with a significantly more technologically advanced species than initial reports suggested: The most recent intelligence on Earth ( Tosev-3 as labeled by the Race ) dated back to the Middle Ages.

It faced huge initial unpopularity, being described as an " ugly behemoth ", due to its lack of proportion and huge scale — it dwarfed the New York Central Building to the north and the Grand Central Terminal to the south.

In 1961, Snedden faced Ewert again, and this time trailed in initial counting.

It was the first substantive primary challenge Kolbe had faced since his initial run for the seat in 1982.

Shimkus has only faced one credible opponent since his initial reelection, in 2002.

While Sultan Ibrahim faced widespread criticisms from the Malay grassroots and nationalist leaders due to his initial willingness to sign the Malayan Union scheme treaties with Sir Harold MacMichael, Tunku Ismail maintained a neutral relations between the British government and the Malay nationalist leaders.

During the initial days of her career, she claimed to have come from a very conservative small town family, and that she faced many hurdles from her family in pursuing her career.

During the Battle of Chancellorsville, his corps faced Fredericksburg in an initial holding action while Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's other four corps maneuvered against Robert E. Lee's left flank.

He only faced substantive opposition once, in 2002 — one of only two times since his initial run for the seat that he faced a Democrat.

For the first time since his initial run for Congress, he faced substantive primary opposition.

Despite his release, the family faced further reprisals, as it had to flee Poznań as initial ethnic cleansing of Poles from the region was initiated by Nazi German authorities.

When the initial ownership group began investigating a possible major theme park development in San Antonio, Texas, they faced significant competition in the Texas market.

Thus in total, around 900, 000 Frenchmen in all theatres faced around 1, 800, 000 Coalition soldiers ( including the strategic reserve under formation in Germany ).

The RIAA faced controversy over this amendment, leading to the creation of the Recording Artists ' Coalition.

In the Battle of Fleurus on 26 June 1794, the army of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan faced the Coalition Army ( Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburg Monarchy ) commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg in the most decisive battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French Revolutionary Wars.

While the First Coalition attacked the new Republic, France faced civil war and counterrevolutionary guerrilla war.

The list did badly and he faced a recount for the final place in the Chamber for the Province with Ricardo Cuccovillo of the Civic Coalition.

In April 2004, in recognition of his astute understanding of the risks and challenges faced by Iraq, he was appointed as National Security Advisor ( NSA ) by the Coalition Provisional Authority.

He faced down the allies of the Sixth Coalition marching on Paris in 1814 in the aftermath of the Battle of the Nations with the famous words " I shall surrender Vincennes when I get my leg back " ( Je rendrai Vincennes quand on me rendra ma jambe, with a polysemic pun in French that is lost in translation ).

Because the U. S. attacks were taking a toll on civilians as well as the insurgents, the Coalition faced growing criticism from within the Iraqi Governing Council, where Adnan Pachachi said, " these operations by the Americans are unacceptable and illegal.

Strucker faced rivalries within HYDRA itself, including splinter groups like the Genesis Coalition, and hired the mercenary Next Wave to bring them down ; they were assisted by Silver Sable's Wild Pack.

On May 12, 2007, Vader faced Brutus " The Barber " Beefcake at Spartan Slamfest, a World Wrestling Coalition charity show for Wyoming Valley West School District.

On paper, Holloway faced daunting odds ; Labor needed a 10. 7 percent swing to take the seat off the Coalition.

The Iraqi Police has faced numerous problems since it was reformed by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the fall of Baghdad, It has become the target of fighters from both inside and outside Iraq with many thousands of officers killed by a combination of gunfire and bombings by Iraqi insurgents, foreign terrorists and in some cases, friendly fire by Coalition troops.

In 2007, he called for the admission of defeat and withdrawal of Coalition forces from Iraq describing the war as " hopeless " and comparing the situation to that faced by the British during the American Revolutionary War.

Bauer also faced Dr. Henry Jordan, founder of the South Carolina branch of the Christian Coalition.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

But the Austrian monarchy faced severe peril on several fronts in 1703: by June the Duke of Villars had reinforced the Elector of Bavaria on the Danube thus posing a direct threat to Vienna, while Vendôme remained at the head a large army in northern Italy opposing Guido Starhemberg's weak Imperial force.

The second, which included some who became William's firm supporters, such as Robert, Count of Eu, Walter Giffard, Roger of Mortemer, and William de Warenne, faced the other invading force.

The report also details the difficulties faced by migrant workers in many countries, such as Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, where they are a major portion of the labour force, but have few rights.

Bhutan is faced with the prospect of having to strengthen its token army force to evict the guerrillas.

The captain of the Admiral Graf von Spee, Hans Langsdorff, believing that his damaged ship was faced with a superior British force, chose to scuttle his ship to spare the lives of his men.

Exercising his first command, Gaunt dared not attack such a superior force and the two armies faced each other across a marsh for several weeks until the English were reinforced by the Earl of Warwick, at which the French withdrew without offering battle.

The British force that faced the German paratroopers during the Battle Of Crete in 1941, had artillery elements over the hill of Dexameni in the south of the city.

2510 the Kingdom faced a new serious peril: an Easterling tribe, named the Balchoth, invaded northern parts of the realm in force.

When Napoleon was faced with invasion by a massive Allied force in 1814, he conscripted many teenagers for his armies.

As organic farming becomes a major commercial force in agriculture, it is likely to gain increasing impact on national agricultural policies and confront some of the scaling challenges faced by conventional agriculture.

The riots highlighted the problems Britain faced by not deploying a professional police force, a notion which was opposed as it was considered foreign and absolutist.

Many of the challenges that California faced during his years required a strong force of personality to forge compromise but Davis lacked such skill.

A further reason for the reputation of this battle is that it was the first major battle since the death of Constantine I where a predominantly Christian force faced a predominantly pagan opponent.

In the Iraq War, the International coalition multinational force in Iraq forces have faced many bombs on travel routes.

The French forces besieged in Valletta faced starvation as the British navy intercepted a French relief force of Lampedusa Island.

Ott arrived from Montebello on 12 June, increasing the Austrian force to 30, 000 fit troops, who faced a French force about two thousand weaker under Bonaparte, which arrived at Sale on 13 June.

When North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950, Bradley was faced with re-organizing and deploying an American military force that was a shadow of its World War II counterpart.

British Honduras faced two obstacles to independence: British reluctance until the early 1960s to allow citizens to govern themselves, and Guatemala's complete intransigence over its long-standing claim to the entire territory ( Guatemala had repeatedly threatened to use force to take over British Honduras ).

Herodotus describes how, on the eve of battle and faced with the formidable Persian expeditionary force, the Athenians had despaired of the Spartans, or indeed anyone else, coming to their aid in what seemed to be impossible odds.

A major difficulty faced by an attacking force in a trench battle was unreliable communications.

As soon as 1842, Lord Durham's intended policy of assimilation faced setbacks, as Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's party in the House managed to force de facto re-establishment of French as a language of Parliament.

Beatty — when faced with the choice of leaving one of his ships to finish off disabled enemies — had elected to keep his squadron together and only later return in force to finish off those ships.