Unprecedented intrusions into the existing urban fabric were also being contemplated, such as the elevated Claiborne Expressway and Riverfront Expressway segments of I-10.

Unprecedented views were obtained of cloud structures, storm systems, dust clouds, pollutants, forest burning and surface reflectance.

Unprecedented amounts of explosives and weapons of various types were uncovered after being buried in the desert.

Unprecedented challenges included: all public transportation needed to be restarted, stoplights and street signs were destroyed, the city ’ s world famous street cars were in total disrepair, bankruptcy was a real threat, bonds were downgraded to junk status, half the city ’ s workforce was laid off, millions of tons of storm debris and construction trash had to be removed, construction costs tripled and an historic number of building permits needed to be issued.

Unprecedented in its speed of construction, the castle was mostly complete in just two years, when most construction on such a scale would have taken the best part of a decade.

Unprecedented gatherings of thousands of people attended camp meetings where they came to experience salvation ; preaching was fiery and focused on saving the sinner from temptation and backsliding.

A persistent critic of Charles Haughey, O ' Brien coined the acronym GUBU ( Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented ), based on a statement by Charles Haughey, who was then Taoiseach, commenting on the discovery of a murder suspect, Malcolm MacArthur, in the apartment of the Fianna Fáil Attorney General Patrick Connolly.

: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9 / 11 ," was published.

Unprecedented amounts of capital now flowed in from Britain to build Western Canada, and Montreal was once again at the centre of this latest web of prosperity.

The case was described in the book Ungodly: A True Story of Unprecedented Evil ( 2007 ) by Bill Osinski, a reporter who had covered the Nuwaubians in Georgia during the late 1990s.

Unprecedented construction and population growth in Lethem since the bridge's opening reflects the significantly increased traffic and movement of goods facilitated by the bridge.

Unprecedented levels of repression prevented any collective resistance.

Unprecedented investment in social services took place during the Jagdeo Presidency, enabling significantly improved access to education, rehabilitation of the health system, far-reaching land reform, the biggest expansion of the housing sector in Guyana ’ s history, expansion of the water and sanitation systems, and large-scale development of the road, river and air transport networks.

Unprecedented and not duplicated since, Bell posted publicly every day his third party contacts, including meetings and calls with the White House, members of Congress, or other non-Justice Department individuals, to rebuild confidence in the Department of Justice.

Unprecedented capital investments and service improvements also came to some disadvantaged neighborhoods under Williams ' administration.

* Roach, R. " Powerful pages: Unprecedented Public Impact of W. W. Norton and Co's Norton Anthology of African American Literature ".

As the numbers of settlers from the mainland increased ( at first mostly prisoners and involuntary indentured labourers, later purposely recruited farmers ), these indigenous people lost territory and numbers in the face of punitive expeditions by British troops, land encroachment and the effects of various epidemic diseases.

However, sealed trains began carrying large numbers of prisoners to the Soviet Gulags.

While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment.

Most Gulag inmates were not political prisoners, although significant numbers of political prisoners could be found in the camps at any one time.

( Smaller numbers of Scottish prisoners were also sent to Bermuda following Cromwell's invasion of Scotland.

Slavery was less common than ransom, especially for prisoners of war ; the large numbers of prisoners taken during raids and battles every year ensured that ransom money flowed freely between the Christian and Muslim states.

As regards prisoners of war, both sides captured large numbers and had many die in captivity – one recent British figure says 3. 6 of 6 million Soviet POWs died in German camps, while 300, 000 of 3 million German POWs died in Soviet hands.

The same year Russia said, Pakistan was responsible for the " military expansion " of the Taliban in northern Afghanistan by sending large numbers of Pakistani troops some of whom had subsequently been taken as prisoners by the anti-Taliban United Front.

“ Help for the vulnerable ” was renamed “ help for overcoming particular social difficulties ,” and the numbers of people eligible for assistance was greatly extended to include all those “ whose own capabilities cannot meet the increasing demands of modern industrial society .” The intention of these amendments was to include especially such groups as discharged prisoners, drug and narcotic addicts, alcoholics, and the homeless.

This miracle resulted in the conversion of large numbers of the local pagans and his fellow prisoners to Christianity.

They reestablished freedom of worship, began releasing large numbers of prisoners, and most importantly, initiated elections for a new legislative body.

In the 1487 re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan some estimate that 80, 400 prisoners were sacrificed though numbers are difficult to quantify as all obtainable Aztec texts were destroyed by Christian missionaries during the period 1528 – 1548.

This allowed large numbers of prisoners to escape, many of whom were never recaptured.

Bonaparte claimed in the French press that the British prisoners he had taken amounted to 10, 000, but French documents compiled in Paris a few months later show that the numbers were 1, 181.

Had Hamilcar suffered a decisive defeat, casualties and prisoners would have diminished their numbers and Carthage would have had an excuse not to pay anything.

** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster

Kerensky declared freedom of speech, released thousands of political prisoners and did his best to maintain Russian involvement in World War I, but he faced numerous challenges, most of them related to the war: there were some very heavy military losses still being experienced out on the front ; dissatisfied soldiers were deserting in larger numbers than before ( although, when they got back home, they were generally either imprisoned or sent to the front once more ); other political groups were doing their utmost to undermine him ; there was a strong movement in favour of stopping Russia's involvement in the war, which was seen to be draining the country, and many who had initially supported it now wanted out ; there was a great shortage of food and supplies, which was very difficult to remedy in wartime conditions.

After the start of the war, Japan's spectacular Malayan Campaign had brought under her control considerable numbers of Indian prisoners of war, nearly 55, 000 after the Fall of Singapore alone.

Not only were gaols indescribably dirty but were so overcrowded that great numbers of prisoners died each year from gaol fever.

The commission saw Filipović's statement as a “ crucial ” acknowledgement of his participation in atrocities, but in respect of the numbers he had given it noted: " All witnesses interviewed, who were prisoners themselves, speak with complete consistency and certainty of a far greater number, especially in regards to the number of victims killed by Majstorovic himself.

It was more successful than envisaged and resulted in massive numbers of Italian prisoners and the advance of the Allied forces up to El Agheila.

These were only the men who were badly injured enough to require hospitalization: the numbers of the walking wounded, who were seen by the British surgeons and then kept with the other prisoners, have not been recorded.

They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.

From 1 July 1958 to 30 June 1960, 24 numbers of the Journal and nine of the Bulletin were published.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

Some of the sinusoids contained large numbers of nucleated red cells, and cells of the granulocytic series were found in small numbers.

The cells of the erythroid, myeloid, and megakaryocytic series were normal except for their numbers.

Incidentally, it needs to be noted that because auditors were permitted the section began increasing in numbers each week, until at last it swelled to such proportions that this `` free '' auditing policy had to be retracted.

and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other.

We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center.

Studies of membership trends, even in some areas where population is expanding, show that numbers of churches have had little net increase, though many new members were received.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

Isotopes were then explained as elements with the same number of protons, but different numbers of neutrons within the nucleus.

The expectation of obtaining these sinecures drew young men towards the church in considerable numbers, and the class of abbés so formed — abbés de cour they were sometimes called, and sometimes ( ironically ) abbés de sainte espérance, ( abbés of holy hope ; or the pun, of St. Hope )— came to hold a recognized position.

Three different types of punch cards were used: one for arithmetical operations, one for numerical constants, and one for load and store operations, transferring numbers from the store to the arithmetical unit or back.

Intermediate results were binary, written onto paper sheets by electrostatically modifying the resistance at 1500 locations to represent 30 of the 50 bit numbers ( one equation ).

Reindeer, upon which the local inhabitants subsisted, were once found in considerable numbers, but the domestic reindeer population has collapsed dramatically since the reorganization and privatization of state-run collective farms beginning in 1992.

Alaric's wife was reportedly taken prisoner after this battle ; it is not unreasonable to suppose that he and his troops were hampered by the presence of large numbers of women and children, which gave his invasion of Italy the character of a human migration.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.