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Initiated by the Government in response to an unprovoked rebel attack on British soldiers escorting a soldier to New Plymouth in the Taranaki Region, it ended with the retreat of the Kingitanga Māori into the rugged interior of the North Island and the confiscation of about 12, 000 km² of Māori land.
One soldier in his regiment said that he was " rugged as a wolf.

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In the War in Afghanistan ( 2001 present ), U. S. Special Operations Forces are known to use technicals for patrol of the rugged terrain and the nature of their clandestine operations.
The Sierra has 200 250 sunny days each year, warm summers, fierce winters, and varied terrain, a rare combination of rugged variety and pleasant weather.
The area through which the system meandered was among the most challenging in Southeast Asia: a sparsely-populated region of rugged mountains ( 1, 500 8, 000 feet ), triple-canopy jungle and dense primeval rainforests.
The topography is typically very rugged, with elevation changes typically in the 200 400 foot range.
Although most goat-antelopes are gregarious and have a fairly stocky build, they diverge in many other ways the Muskox ( Ovibos moschatus ) is adapted to the extreme cold of the tundra ; the Rocky Mountain goat ( Oreamnos americanus ) of North America is specialised for very rugged terrain ; the Urial ( Ovis orientalis ) occupies a largely infertile area from Kashmir to Iran, including much desert country.
The Oshkosh All-Stars, who appeared in the championship series five consecutive years ( 1938 42 ) and won two titles, were led by rugged 6 ' 4 " ( 1. 93 m ) center Leroy " Cowboy " Edwards.
We shall do it by building a new nation a nation as rugged as the marijuana leaf.
The greater part of Paphlagonia is a rugged mountainous country, but it contains fertile valleys and produces a great abundance of hazelnuts and fruit particularly plums, cherries and pears.
** rugby shirt a long-sleeved polo shirt, traditionally of rugged construction in thick cotton or wool, but often softer today
For example, the second paragraph ( 33 43 ) about Telemachus, in which Ulysses muses again about domestic life, is a " revised version lines 1 5 for public consumption ": a " savage race " is revised to a " rugged people ".
* " The Lumberjack Song " A rugged, masculine outdoorsman ( Idle, as opposed to Palin in the original BBC series ; Palin had also performed it in Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus ) unsettles the chorus by revealing his fondness for women's clothes.
Wardell Edwin " Ward " Bond ( April 9, 1903 November 5, 1960 ) was an American film actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in over 200 movies and the television series Wagon Train.
Pius X's rugged ultra-conservatism contrasted with the low-key moderatism of Pope Benedict XV ( 1914 1922 ), which again contrasted with the former librarian and mountain climber Pope Pius XI ( 1922 1939 ), who led Roman Catholicism with an authoritarianism more akin to Pius X, who also shared his temper.
Fabricius has multiple central peaks that rise to 0. 8 km, with a rugged rise to the northwest running north south.
The rugged upstanding topography is formed from erosion resistant ancient volcanic conglomerate and lava flows laid down in eruptions 12 25 million years ago.
Barry John Crump MBE ( born 15 May 1935, Auckland, New Zealand died 10: 00 3 July 1996 ) was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man.
One of the most outstanding writers in this vein was C. L. Moore, the author of the Northwest Smith stories ( 1933 1947 ), featuring a rugged spaceman who finds himself continually entangled with quasi-sorcerous alien powers.
* Sorcerer ( 1977 ) produced under rugged conditions in the jungles of the Dominican Republic
Alfredo " Fred " Apostoli ( February 2, 1913 November 29, 1973 ) was a rugged, accomplished body punching middleweight, who was recognized as the world champion when he defeated Marcel Thil on September 23, 1937.
N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan for the rugged and very violent region along the Afghanistan Pakistan border opposite Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In the 1990s, as the line lay unused and in disrepair although the riveted steel elevated structure was basically sound it became known to a few urban explorers and local residents for the tough, drought-tolerant wild grasses, shrubs, and rugged trees such as sumac that had sprung up in the gravel along the abandoned railway.

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At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.
It was a rugged finish for what must have been a very interesting night.
Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.
The route was choked with rugged lava-rocks, creepers and bushes, so thickly overgrown that when Kearton lost sight of Ulyate and called, Ulyate answered from ten feet away.
He was followed in the role by Glenn Causey, who portrayed the rugged frontiersman for 41 years, and whose image is still seen in many of the depictions of Boone featured in the area today.
At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.
Narseh retreated to Armenia to fight Galerius ' force, to Narseh's disadvantage ; the rugged Armenian terrain was favorable to Roman infantry, but unfavorable to Sassanid cavalry.
Established by this point was the purposeful alignment of an " all Canadian route " -- within the rubric of national interest, the federal government refused to consider a less costly route bypassing the rugged Canadian Shield of northern Ontario by passing south through Wisconsin and Minnesota.
For the Canadian government to copy the American model of railway financing whilst insisting on an all Canadian route, it was implied that the railway's backers would be expected to build hundreds of miles of track across rugged shield terrain ( which had little economic value ) at considerable expense before they could expect to access lucrative farmland in Manitoba and newly-created Northwest Territories.
Larsson, paralyzed in half his body, was handed over to detectives in a rugged region of the northern state of Córdoba.
It was a very rugged existence, but I was very creative and I would sit alone in the forest with my dog and a guitar and would just write songs ".
During the Gale era, Steed was transformed from a rugged trenchcoat-wearing agent into the stereotypical English gentleman, complete with Savile Row suit, bowler hat and umbrella with clothes later designed by Pierre Cardin.
Judah undertook to survey and plan a way through what was one of the chief obstacles of a central route to California: a way over the high and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.
Its reliance on the ability and endurance of individual riders and horses over technological innovation was part of the American rugged individualism of the Frontier times.
By 827, Sicily was almost entirely in control of the Aghlabids with the exception of some minor strongholds in the rugged interior until 909 when it was then replaced by Shiite Fatimids.
The southern part of Cattaraugus County is the only area of western New York that was not covered by the last ice age glaciation and is noticeably more rugged than neighboring areas that had peaks rounded and valleys filled by the glacier.
His own country was slow in acknowledging the young artist whose strong, decorative and rugged style stood in opposition to the styles of well-known modern Spanish artists such as Fortuny, Madrazo, and Benlliure.
In Italy, steak was not widely eaten until after World War II because the relatively rugged countryside does not readily accommodate the space and resource demands of large herds of cattle.
In 2012, the duo, designed a rugged tablet PC for health care in rural areas, which was named as " Kalam-Raju Tablet ".
By the time of World War I, the rugged south-west coast of Victoria was accessible only by sea or rough bush track.
The first one was a lunar eclipse, right above the Valley of Ajalon and the rugged western horizon, at the moon was still eclipsed when reaching the horizon, its middle about an hour before sunrise on December 22, 1471 BCE, with a magnitude of 1. 28 or 128 %.

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