The Omani Arabs posed the most direct challenge to Portuguese influence in East Africa and besieged Portuguese fortresses, openly attacked naval vessels and expelled the remaining Portuguese from the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts by 1730.

Believing that the Paraguayan officers who had beaten the porteños posed a direct threat to his rule, Governor Bernardo de Velasco dispersed and disarmed the forces under his command and sent most of the soldiers home without paying them for their eight months of service.

Because his novels posed a more direct challenge to existing sociopolitical conditions, they were not as popular as his stories, which portrayed antebellum society.

While Napoleon had assessed that the Coalition forces in and around Brussels on the borders of north east France posed the greatest threat because Tolly's Russian army of 150, 000 were still not in the theatre, Spain was slow to mobilise, Prince Schwarzenberg's Austrian army of 210, 000 were slow to cross the Rhine, and another Austrian force menacing the south eastern frontier of France was still not a direct threat, Napoleon still had to place some badly needed forces in positions where they could defend France against other Coalition forces whatever the outcome of the Waterloo campaign.

* In Almaty, Kazakhstan, Russia and four other Central Asian countries adopted a declaration expressing concern the conflicts in Afghanistan posed a direct threat to the Commonwealth of Independent States.

It concluded unanimously that the UFO sightings posed no direct threat to national security, but did find that a continued emphasis on UFO reporting might threaten government functions by causing the channels of communication to clog with irrelevant reports and by inducing mass hysteria.

After a series of fairly marginal designs in the A series in the past, and bearing in mind the threat posed by the German 88 mm gun, the War Office demanded a major revision of the design requirements, specifically: increased durability and reliability, a maximum weight of 40 tons and the ability to withstand a direct hit from the German 88 mm gun.

As to why Aureolus is credited with suppressing the Macriani as a major challenge to Gallienus's rule rather than the Emperor himself there are two possible explanations: ( 1 ) The determination of the Latin historians to denigrate the achievements of Gallienus ; however, a more likely explanation is that ( 2 ) Gallienus was attempting at this time to crush the Gallic usurper Postumus who he probably saw as an even greater threat to his regime than the Macriani and to clear the Juthungi out of the Alpine province of Raetia where they posed a direct threat to Italy and Rome.

Murena invaded Pontus on his own authority claiming that Mithridates was re-arming and posed a direct threat to Roman Asia Minor.

However, the expanded destructive capabilities of modern warfare posed an increased direct threat to civilian populations.

Grubb posed the direct question, " Does the Student Christian Movement put the atoning blood of Christ central in its teaching?

The station was launched on the premise of a ' clutter-free ' listen, offering 40 minutes of non-stop music every hour without commercial interruptions, deliberately posed as a direct challenge to the ' might ' of the BBC and a tactic aimed at increasing the total number of hours listeners stayed with the station.

From the beginning of Danish history, the direct border to the mighty Frankish Empire posed a strategic threat to Danish independence.

The direct competition such a railway system posed to British imperial domination could have been one of the causes of WW I.

Culture is difficult, due to the need to avoid direct sunlight and the difficulty posed by germination.

Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

By 1987, however, the USSR withdrew its opposition, concluding the SDI posed no threat.

These studies have been challenged by several Brazilian ministries, which assert that recent improvements in environmental laws, enforcement and public attitudes have fundamentally reduced the threat posed to forests by such projects.

The purpose of this group was to charge the archers and eliminate the threat they posed.

The Hawker Typhoon posed a serious threat to German armour and motor vehicles during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

Further, members of Kolingba's Yakoma tribe in the south posed a potential threat to Bozizé's government because of their widespread boycott of the second round of the legislative elections.

She said that her work was determined more by the political importance of CND than by any security threat posed by subversive elements within it.

During the Seven Years ' War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

Otho and Vitellius realised the potential threat posed by the Flavian faction.

Of these, the Sarmatians and the Dacians posed the most formidable threat.

Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from the response of navies to the threat posed by the torpedo boat.

However, those programs were neither egalitarian nor universal, excluding many minority groups and other people whom they felt posed a threat to the future health of the German people.

Meanwhile, the Russians have their own plans to counter the threat posed by Godzilla, and a Russian control ship disguised as a freighter in Tokyo Harbor prepares to launch a nuclear missile from one of their orbiting satellites should Godzilla attack.

The telepath couldn ’ t help her and, concerned of the threat to reality that Wanda posed, Xavier consulted the Avengers and the X-Men what to do with Magneto ’ s daughter.

Pope Innocent III, who feared the threat posed by a union of the Empire and Sicily, now supported Sicily's king Frederick II, who marched to Germany and defeated Otto.

The aim of the operation was to eradicate the threat posed by Hezbollah and to force the civilian population north to Beirut so as to put pressure on the Lebanese Government to restrain Hezbollah.

Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.

" Christianity was tolerated because it posed no real threat.

He found the gas in each of the 50 air samples that he collected but, not realising that the breakdown of CFCs in the stratosphere would release chlorine that posed a threat to the ozone layer, concluded that the level of CFCs constituted " no conceivable hazard ".

However, the submarine fleet was greatly expanded and posed a major threat to the British supply system.

Already situated just inside a state bitterly divided on the issue of slavery, southern sympathizers in the area immediately recognized the threat posed by neighboring Kansas petitioning to enter the Union under the new doctrine of popular sovereignty.

When asked in 1949 whether he would outlaw the Communist Party in Canada, St-Laurent responded that the party posed little threat and that such measures would be drastic.

Observers suggested that Zaki was becoming too popular and hence posed a threat to the Nasir faction.

However, the Cathars were the first mass heretical organization in the second millennium that posed a serious threat to the authority of the Church.

The M ' Naghten Rules of 1843 were not a codification or definition of insanity but rather the responses of a panel of judges to hypothetical questions posed by Parliament in the wake of Daniel M ' Naghten's acquittal for the homicide of Edward Drummond, whom he mistook for British Prime Minister Robert Peel.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

As the United States were no longer British colonies, the act posed a problem for merchants, who depended on trade with the fledgling country.

She posed in their apartment for photographer Terry O ' Neill in casual domestic scenes such as opening baby gifts, and also completed a series of glamour photographs for the British magazine Queen.

Additionally, Thomas Jefferson also created neutrality rights which posed the opportunity, that if British or French ships were to stop impressment of U. S. ships, they would be reopen to trade with the United States.

The additional efforts at taxation, and the continuous presence of British troops posed a threat to American self-government.

He wrote to Governor Reynolds on April 13, describing — and perhaps purposely exaggerating — the threat that the British Band posed.

He also developed a Quebec history curriculum that emphasized the heroism of New France, the challenge British Conquest posed to the survival of the " Canadiens ", and how this challenge was met by lengthy political struggles for democratic rights.

Eleven days later, on 1 March Napoleon escaped from Elba, starting the war in Europe again, and forcing the British to concentrate on the threat he posed.

The British company's military was also in some disarray, as Stringer Lawrence had returned to England in 1750 over a pay dispute, and much of the company was apathetic about the dangers the expanding French influence and declining British influence posed.

Moreover, Raglan committed the British Army to the defence of the right flank of the Allied operation, and would have to ensure the security of both Anglo-French armies against the threat posed by Menshikov's forces to the east.

Ordinary people, not only British but foreign tourists, posed smiling and laughing in front of its famous door.

The decision by the government was primarily motivated to boost British military hardware supplies in Asia to counter the increasing threat posed by Imperial Japan during Second World War.

The involvement of British oil companies in the funding of the coup d ' état, and the changing of British citizens evacuation plans for Equatorial Guinea before the attempt, posed serious challenges for the alleged ignorance of the situation.

During the post invasion phase, and following a number of British casualties blamed on inadequate equipment, a great deal of new equipment was purchased to help deal with the threats posed by insurgents.

The coup d ' état of 1921 and the emergence of Reza Shah were partially assisted by the British government, which wished to halt the Bolsheviks ' penetration of Iran, particularly because of the threat it posed to the British possessions in India.

According to the BBC, the plot, initially unearthed by the Russians, led President Vladimir Putin to request that an FBI agent go to St. Petersburg, where the agent posed as an Islamic extremist and met the British arms dealer supplying the missile.

In 2003, he boiled down the point of all higher education to one simple sentence when he announced: " Universities exist to enable the British economy and society to deal with the challenges posed by the increasingly rapid process of global change ".

The threat to British control of the region posed by the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935 and the deteriorating situation in Europe toward the end of the 1930s probably made British policy makers more willing to make concessions to Arab governments on the Palestine issue following the furore over the recommendations of the Peel Commission.