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

Although the revolt was suppressed it led to significant changes including the emergence of an organized labour movement and a competitive party system.

" The British killed over 4000, and the Mau Mau many more, as the assassinations and killings on all sides reflecting the ferocity of the movement and the ruthlessness with which the British suppressed it.

In the cultural sphere, Scott's Waverley novels played a significant part in the movement ( begun with James Macpherson's Ossian cycle ) in rehabilitating the public perception of the culture of the Scottish Highlands and its culture, which had been formally suppressed as barbaric – and viewed in the southern mind as a breeding ground of hill bandits, religious fanaticsim, and Jacobite rebellions.

After its defeat, the movement was suppressed and many Turners left Germany, some emigrating to the United States.

By the beginning of the 1950s, the occupying regime had suppressed the resistance movement.

All of these rights were removed from the constitution after Deng's government suppressed the Democracy Wall movement in 1979.

In the background was the stabilizing influence of the Hittites, who monitored maritime movement and suppressed piracy.

The Anabaptist movement also had one of its earliest homes in Wittenberg, when the Zwickau prophets moved there in late 1521, only to be suppressed by Luther when he returned from the Wartburg in spring 1522.

This military action suppressed much of the fledging revolutionary movement, and resulted in the arrest of many radical leaders, including Menotti.

One phenomenon that has resulted from the Taiwanization movement is the advent of Taike subculture, in which young people consciously adopt the wardrobe, language and cuisine to emphasize the uniqueness of popular, groundroots Taiwanese culture, which in previous times had often been seen as provincial and brutally suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek.

For example, if individuals attend to the right hand corner field of view, movement of the eyes in that direction may have to be actively suppressed.

" However, this type of imagery was not officially endorsed by the central authorities in China at that time: in fact the kǎozhèng movement of the Qing scholars ( consisting of " Song Learning " and " Han Learning ") as supported by the government was opposed to this to the point that out of some 2, 320 resultingly suppressed works many were banned for having a perceived critical, " antibarbarian tone ".

The movement also represented a pattern that has emerged from Chinese history wherein free thought is promoted by the government, and then suppressed by it.

Shortly after Buenasca, the then President of the recently-formed anarchist-controlled Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo CNT, persuaded Durruti to go to Barcelona to organise the workers there where the anarchist movement, as well as the syndicalists, was being brutally suppressed and most of its members jailed or executed.

The movement was split between supporting and opposing the radicals, and in the end, the conservative government of William Massey suppressed the strike by force.

Although they spread democratic ideas throughout Germany to some extent, the intellectual exertions of the Young Hegelians failed to connect with or stir any wider social movement, and when the Deutsche Jahrbücher was suppressed in 1843 the movement started to disintegrate.

The work was at least in part inspired by Bartók's unrequited love for the violinist Stefi Geyer-in a letter to her, he called the first movement a " funeral dirge " and its opening notes trace a motif which first appeared in his Violin Concerto No. 1, a work dedicated to Geyer and suppressed by Bartók for many years.

Thus Zelda became an icon of the feminist movement in the 1970s — a woman whose unappreciated potential had been suppressed by patriarchal society.

The last movement also contains a setting of a poem by Charles Baudelaire, suppressed by the composer for publication.

At Prague a demagogue, the priest Jan Želivský, for a time obtained almost unlimited authority over the lower classes of the townsmen ; and at Tábor a religious communistic movement ( that of the so-called Adamites ) was sternly suppressed by Žižka.

As Te Whiti continued to reject the overtures and bribery of land buyers, however, European anger towards Parihaka grew, fuelling calls for his " dangerous " movement to be suppressed.

In the post-Shah era, some revolutionaries who clashed with his theocracy and were suppressed by his movement complained of deception, but in the meantime anti-Shah unity was maintained.