Under the Ottomans, Bethlehem's inhabitants faced unemployment, compulsory military service, and heavy taxes, resulting in mass emigration, particularly to South America.

Under heavy pressure from Washington, López Gutiérrez allowed an unusually open campaign and election.

Under heavy pressure from the United States delegation, however, he ultimately complied with the provisions of the peace agreement.

Under heavy guard, Alexander III and Maria made periodic trips from Gatchina to the capital to take part in official events.

The bulk of the band's music has always included synthetic instruments in some form or another, and this is a great source of contention in the Rush camp, especially the band's heavy reliance on synthesizers and keyboards during the 1980s, particularly on albums Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.

Under heavy fire from the public, the Graham government eventually announced that it would set aside the possibility of UNB Saint John losing its status as a university and would refer the report to a working group for further study.

Under Stalin, the city became a center of heavy industry and transshipment by rail and river, and as a result was attacked by Axis forces during World War II.

Under most workloads, the level of contention caused is too low to impact performance, but random-write heavy workloads, such as those seen on busy database servers, can suffer from sub-optimal performance as a result of this I / O contention.

Under the new conditions of the war, heavy equipment was no use to them, and therefore no great loss.

Under threat of heavy torture, Gu gave the KMT secret police detailed accounts of underground CCP organizations in Wuhan, leading to the arrest and executions of over ten senior CCP leaders in the city.

Under the stabilization program, the government let most prices float, raised interest rates to record highs, raised heavy new taxes, sharply cut back on government subsidies to industry and construction, and made massive cuts in state welfare spending.

Under the Köppen climate classification, Freetown has a tropical monsoon climate primarily due to the heavy amount of precipitation it receives during the rainy season.

Under the hail of English arrows, the crossbowmen suffered heavy losses and were unable to approach the English lines to where their crossbows would have been effective.

Under heavy fire, the engineers struggled to clear the beach obstacles ; later landings bunched up around the few channels that were cleared.

The film is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of Seagal's best films ( alongside Under Siege and Above the Law ), due to the fight scenes integrating heavy elements of aikido, as well as use of weapons and arm dislocations.

Under these circumstances, a column may be unable to meet the particular wants of troops engaged in the vicinity ; for instance, a cavalry regiment would send in vain to a heavy artillery ammunition section for pom-pom cartridges.

Under heavy criticism, Thiệu reluctantly sacked General Nguyễn Văn Toàn, a loyalist notorious for corruption.

Under the Prussian and German rule, the Polish population suffered from heavy Germanization by foreign rulers of their territory ; Polish farmers demanded Polish schools, and refused to teach their children German, German official Heinrich Mettenmeyer wrote that German appointed teachers were treated with highest disdain by Polish children and their parents

Under heavy prompting from Washington D. C., General Shafter gave the order to dispatch the troops early before sufficient traveling storage was available.

Under Suvorov, the allies managed to push the French out of Italy, though they suffered heavy losses.

Under heavy Prussian artillery fire Pécheux's 12th Infantry Division succeeded in capturing the church in the village of Ligny.

Under heavy pressure, he introduced multiparty politics in 1990 and was then stripped of executive powers by the 1991 National Conference, remaining in office as a ceremonial head of state.

Under the reign of the restored King Constantine I, Greece went on to lose the Greco-Turkish war with heavy military and civilian casualties ; Winston Churchill later wrote that " it was a monkey bite that caused the death of those 250, 000 people.

Under these conditions, it was evident that the remaining heavy bombers could not operate efficiently in the Philippines.

Under unspecific or impersonal coercion the conditional threats come from well-known and socially accepted general rules and – rather than any individual or sub-group – and are directed against anybody in the stated conditions, according to clearly stated principles of due process.

* Under, the Attorney General may request that the Secretary of Defense provide emergency assistance if civilian law enforcement is inadequate to address certain types of threats involving the release of nuclear materials, such as potential use of a nuclear or radiological weapon.

Under his threats and the dreadful fear of failure, she labours on with it, making herself mentally and physically ill. Nessie secretly writes to Mary asking her to come back, so she will have her company and comfort.

Under threats of a hostile takeover, Southern New England Telephone underwent a restructuring in 1986, creating Southern New England Telecommunications as the holding company of SNET and its related businesses.

Under Convex's influence, Max murders his colleagues at CIVIC-TV, and later attempts to murder Bianca O ' Blivion, as Videodrome considered these victims threats to its mission.

Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, which ruled it illegal for any business combination to restrain trade or commerce, an injunction was issued on July 2 enjoining the ARU leadership from " compelling or inducing by threats, intimidation, persuasion, force or violence, railway employees to refuse or fail to perform their duties.

Under pressure to follow through with the Justice Department corruption investigation, along with the threats of resignation, McGrath agreed that Morris ' request was asking too much and that the best thing to do at that point was to clean up the department from that point forward and leave the past alone.

Under considerable duress and several threats of being killed and eaten by the Indians, Nobrega and Anchieta stayed for a time in Iperoig ( present-day Ubatuba in the Northern cost of São Paulo ), in conference with the tribal chieftains, until Nóbrega was able to achieve a temporary peace.

Under terrible threats, Cranlowe won't reveal the weapon's formula.

Under the North American Numbering Plan, almost all North American area codes reserve telephone numbers beginning with 958 and 959 for internal local and long distance testing ( respectively ), sometimes called plant testing.

Under Fakhr-al-Dīn II ( Fakhreddin II ), the Druze dominion increased until it included almost all Syria, extending from the edge of the Antioch plain in the north to Safad in the south, with a part of the Syrian desert dominated by Fakhr-al-Din's castle at Tadmur ( Palmyra ), the ancient capital of Zenobia.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

Under the government ’ s post-conflict economic and financial program, implemented with IMF and World Bank input, real GDP recovered in 1999 by almost 8 %.

Under trichromatic light, it is a fiery orange red, almost indistinguishable from the appearance of erbium oxide under the same lighting conditions.

Under a federalist constitution that was later brought up in 1858 ( and another one in 1863 ), Panama and other constituent states gained almost complete autonomy on many levels of their administration, which led to an often anarchic national state of affairs that lasted roughly until Colombia's return to centralism in 1886 with the establishment of a new Republic of Colombia.

Under the reign of Augustus, when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards were created ; the wards were protected by seven squads of 1, 000 men called " vigiles ", who acted as firemen and nightwatchmen.

Under his rule, the empire became a huge military machine and the nobles and their contingents multiplied almost fourfold, as did the demands for more revenue from the peasantry.

Under this completed contract, workgangs made up almost entirely of Mormons built much of the Union Pacific track in the Utah territory including the difficult section requiring extensive blasting and tunneling through the Weber River canyon.

Under a light load ( 0. 5 ampere ), the starting voltage of a freshly charged AA NiMH cell in good condition is about 1. 4 volts ; This voltage falls rapidly to about 1. 25 volts at 10 % depth of discharge ( DOD ) and then remains almost constant until the cell is over 80 % discharged.

Under drought conditions, bdelloid rotifers contract into an inert form and lose almost all body water ; when rehydrated, however, they resume activity within a few hours.

Under the auspices of a regime d ' exception ( the equivalent of a state of emergency ), Mobutu assumed sweeping, almost absolute, powers.

When the successor London Borough of Croydon applied in 1965 the Assistant Under Secretary of State summarised the case against Croydon: "... whatever its past history, it is now just part of the London conurbation and almost indistinguishable from many of the other Greater London boroughs ".

Under Modu's leadership, the Xiongnu threatened the Han Dynasty, almost causing Liu Bang to lose his throne in 200 BCE.

Under the Roman empire it was quite obscured by the restored cities of Corinth and Patrae ; in Pausanias ' age ( 150 AD ) it was almost desolate.

The full length ( almost 12 minutes ) version of " The Tune " was recorded in Hollywood in 1977, but not released until 1983 on the album The Story of the Tune, which is called " the continuation of Something New Under The Son on the back cover ".

Under Zgrass a programmer loading up two modules would almost certainly find that both used i as a loop counter, and thus could cause problems.

Under present climatic conditions, it is almost impossible to produce runoff from anywhere outside the extreme west of the basin because the amount of rain required to fall before runoff would begin is as high or higher than the mean annual rainfall.

Under this definition, the demonstration of Charles's law is almost trivial.

Under these almost all civil actions, other than those connected with insolvency, are now begun by the completion of a ' Claim Form ' as opposed to a ' Writ ', ' Originating Application ', or ' Summons ': see Rules 7 and 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules.

Under the pseudonym Moebius he created a wide range of science fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative and surreal almost abstract style, the most famous of which are Arzach, the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius, and The Incal.

Under the Köppen climate classification, much of the province lies within the subtropical highland ( Köppen Cwb ) or humid subtropical zone ( Cwa ), with mild to warm winters, and tempered summers, except in the almost tropical south, where temperatures regularly exceed in the warmer half of the year.

Under the sponsorship of the British writer Iris Origo, his parents sent him to Britain in 1939 under the Kindertransport scheme, which brought almost 10, 000 mainly Jewish children to Britain to escape from Nazi persecution.

Under pressure from Johnson, the Loyal Five rejected Frazee's overtures almost out of hand.