There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.

Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

Ahead there was a stirring of sudden movement at a crossroads.

There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

The doctor, he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement towards the stairs, but before the movement could be completed a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the hollow of the stair-well.

There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.

Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.

When it was all arranged to fit, and not to interrupt the lengthwise flow of movement in the frieze, the cartoons were tried in place.

But the time came when a church that had no part in the missionary movement was looked upon as deficient in its essential life.

As if this was a signal, Poet abruptly began to thrash the water and the quick movement slowly made them sink through the water.

There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.

The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved.

My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

The `` overseas '' democracies have generally encouraged the European unification movement without seriously considering the wisdom of their own full participation in a broader Atlantic community.

The movement has encouraged the examination of the whole bible, leading them to observe the Sabbath.

In its 2011 season, the campaign expanded its multimedia content, pursued mutual visibility arrangements with partner organizations, and sharpened its focus on 14-25 year olds, who were encouraged to understand their potential as a social movement to push for the end of hunger.

These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

The Japanese invasion and subsequent occupation during WWII ended Dutch rule, and encouraged the previously suppressed Indonesian independence movement.

From the early 1980s, a civil disobedience movement encouraged refusal of the fingerprinting that accompanied registration every five years.

But Lippmann turned against what he called the " collectivism " of the Progressive movement he encouraged with its de-emphasis on the foundations of American politics and government and ultimately wrote a work, " The Public Philosophy " ( 1955 ), which came very close to a return to the principles of the American founders.

She felt that the final exuberant movement was " too brilliant ", as she was encouraged by the dark and tempestuous opening movement she had seen in an early draft.

He encouraged them, and the Scouting movement developed momentum.

The temperance movement encouraged people to abstain from consuming alcoholic drinks in order to preserve family order.

But, since the early 1990s, the so called " Primavera di Reggio " ( Reggio Spring ) – a spontaneous movement of people and government institutions – encouraged city recovery and a renewed and stronger identity.

Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by Lord Curzon to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged the Swadeshi movement and the Boycott movement.

This movement significantly encouraged deterministic views in western philosophy, as well as the related theological views of Classical Pantheism.

Demand for unity by the right, encouraged Manning to promote a new movement, the " United Alternative ", to create a small -" c " conservative alternative to the Liberals.

Early on, Jones was interested in devising a fresh format for the Python TV shows, and it was largely he who developed the stream-of-consciousness style which abandoned punchlines and encouraged the fluid movement of one sketch into another, allowing the troupe's conceptual humour the space to “ breathe ”.

The enormous popularity of the book in France spurred the nascent historical preservation movement in that country and strongly encouraged Gothic revival architecture.

In section 17 of his 1961 " addenda " to The Open Society, entitled " Facts, Standards and Truth: A Further Criticism of Relativism ," Popper refused to moderate his criticism of the Hegelian dialectic, arguing that it " played a major role in the downfall of the liberal movement in Germany ,... by contributing to historicism and to an identification of might and right, encouraged totalitarian modes of thought.

It urged extending the franchise to women and persons not owning land and encouraged the emerging trade union movement.

Dissatisfied with the pacifism encouraged by the organized abolitionist movement, he said, " These men are all talk.

Though he had lost all hope of recovering his health and returning to active politics, Chamberlain followed his son Austen's career with interest and encouraged the tariff reform movement.

In 1967, encouraged by the reaction to some drawings he had published in underground newspapers, including Philadelphia's Yarrowstalks, Crumb moved to San Francisco, California, the center of the counterculture movement.