When extending credit to East European countries, Western creditors did so assuming that the Soviet Union would offer financial assistance in the event that payment difficulties arose.

There were many notable failures to connect Exeter and the South West to the national canal and rail networks: The Grand Western Canal linking Exeter to Bristol ( 1796 ) was never completed ; The Bristol & Exeter Railway link to the canal basin was postponed in 1832 and 1844 ; The South Devon Railway ran services to the canal from 1867, but by this time the canal was too small to attract the sizeable ocean-going vessels and the canal was taken over by its creditors for sixteen years.

Then, in June 1976, under pressure from Western creditors, the government again introduced price increases: butter by 33 %, meat by 70 %, and sugar by 100 %.

In 893 or 894, Great Moravia probably lost a part of its territory — present-day Western Hungary — to him.

The team struggled with injuries and lost all four tests ( a game against the Western Province had test status ).

Knighthood largely lost its military functions and became more closely tied to social and economic prestige in an increasingly capitalistic Western society.

Though Chiang lost militarily, the battle dispelled Japanese claims that it could conquer China in three months and demonstrated to the Western powers that the Chinese would continue the fight.

The Red Wings lost to the eventual Stanley Cup winning team-the Anaheim Ducks, in the Western Conference Finals four games to two.

Additionally, the Ottoman forces lost 70 artillery pieces, 30 machine guns and 70, 000 rifles ( Thessaloniki was the central arms depot for the Western Armies ).

" Andreas Andreopoulos cites the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia article by Fortescue as an example of how Barlaam's distrustful and hostile attitude regarding hesychasm survived until recently in the West, adding that now " the Western world has started to rediscover what amounts to a lost tradition.

The Wizards lost only 2 games in September and finished the season on a 6 game unbeaten streak to finish 14 – 9 – 9, for the Western Conference regular season championship.

These 1969 Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship, but they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League Championship Series.

The above information, as well as the fact that Bolesław lost Western Pomerania, suggest that the region was not truly incorporated into the Polish state, but only became a fief.

The Visigothic Kingdom was a Western European power in the 5th to 7th centuries, created in Gaul when the Romans lost their control of their empire.

Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.

The team only lost one game – against the Western Bulldogs – in the entire calendar year, making it the most successful year for any team in the history of the Australian Football League.

The caliphate also lost the Western provinces of al-Andalus, Maghreb and Ifriqiya to an Umayyad prince, the Aghlabids and the Fatimid Caliphate, respectively.

As in so many previous offensives on the Western Front, the German assailants had lost effective artillery cover by advancing too fast in the early stages of the attack.

One is the wreck of the VOC ship Zuytdorp lost in 1711 on the coast of Western Australia and where there remains considerable speculation that some of the crew survived and after establishing themselves on shore intermixed with Indigenous tribes from the area.

However, this campaign was ultimately a failure due to a rival military officer of Shen disobeying direct orders, and the territory gained from the Western Xia was eventually lost.

Ukrainian and " Ruthenian " boyars were visually very similar to Western knights, but after the Mongol invasion, their cultural links were mostly lost.

Once granted an honored place in Hindu society because they were thought to possess divine powers, the hijras have lost status as Western notions of gender and sexual identity have crept into Indian culture.

At the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the port of Adria had lost most of its importance.

During a rematch of the previous year Western Conference Finals, the Avalanche lost to the Detroit Red Wings in six games.

Colorado lost in the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Edmonton Oilers in seven games, after having led the series 3 – 1.

After defeating both the San Jose Sharks and the Detroit Red Wings in six games in the first two rounds, Colorado met the Presidents ' Trophy-winning Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Finals, where they lost in seven games.

In the Western Conference Quarterfinals, the Avalanche blew a 3 – 1 series lead over the Minnesota Wild, and lost in overtime in Game 7.

Recent Western scholarship of China has been heavily influenced by postmodernism.

The anime draws heavily on Western sources, such as pulp detective stories, film noir, and American Westerns.

In the Nineteenth century, Fortress Bermuda would become Britain's Gibraltar of the West, heavily fortified by a Regular Army garrison to protect the Royal Navy's headquarters and dockyard in the Western Atlantic.

Mahfouz's stories are almost always set in the heavily populated urban quarters of Cairo, where his characters, mostly ordinary people, try to cope with the modernization of society and the temptations of Western values.

Tarzi, being heavily influenced by the West, brought this influence to Afghanistan-Amanullah enjoyed Western dress and etiquette.

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

During and after the fall of the Western Empire, Lombardy suffered heavily from destruction brought about by a series of invasions by tribal peoples.

In addition to cutting off supplies to Ukraine, Russian gas flowing through Ukraine — which included nearly all supplies to Southeastern Europe and some supplies to Central and Western Europe — was cut off, creating a major crisis in several countries heavily dependent on Russian gas as fuel.

The ' symbolic ' war against the Western Allies, however, turned into a disaster for the citizens of Sofia as the city was heavily bombarded by the US and the British Royal Air Force in 1943 and 1944.

It heavily influenced all subsequent war films, especially All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ).

Santa Cruz History of Consciousness professor Angela Davis and Princeton sociologist Bruce Western have claimed that the high rate ( compared to Europe ) of incarceration in the U. S. – specifically 1 in 37 American adults is in the prison system – heavily promoted by the Clinton administration, is the neoliberal U. S. policy tool for keeping unemployment statistics low, while stimulating economic growth through the maintenance of a contemporary slave population and the promotion of prison construction and " militarized policing.

By this time the political and economic collapse of the Western Roman Empire meant that the Western, Latin, church was unable to compete in the development of such sophisticated iconography, and relied heavily on Byzantine developments.

As Napoleon had already closed all of Western and Southern Europe to British trade, Britain, which relied heavily upon imports ( especially for timber, naval products, and grain ) was seriously threatened by Paul ’ s move and reacted fast.

Ian Casley is involved heavily in the wildflower production, with the product not only being exported to Perth, Western Australia but to many cities internationally.

These beliefs have heavily influenced the Western esoteric tradition and were considered greatly important during both the Renaissance and the Reformation.

The Western esoteric tradition is now heavily steeped in Hermeticism.

Duty in Asia and Latin America is commonly more heavily weighted than in Western culture.

Carracks also tended to be lightly armed and used for transporting cargo in all the fleets of other Western European states, while galleons were purpose-built warships, and were stronger, more heavily armed, and also cheaper to build ( 5 galleons could cost around the same as 3 carracks ) and were therefore a much better investment for use as warships or transports.

Today ′ s Azerbaijani languages evolved from the Eastern Oghuz branch of Western ( Oghuz ) Turkic which spread to Southwestern Asia during medieval Turkic migrations, and has been heavily influenced by Persian.

With its Western allies heavily involved in the war in Europe, Japan sought further to consolidate its position in China by presenting the Twenty-One Demands (; ) to China in January 1915.

Today Polisario controls the part of the Western Sahara on the east of the Moroccan Wall, comprising about a third of the territory, but this area is economically useless, heavily mined, and almost uninhabited.

The Byzantine army maintained units of heavily armored cavalrymen up until its final years, mostly in the form of Western European Latinikon mercenaries, while neighbouring Bulgars, Serbs, Avars, Russian states, Alans, Lithuanians, Khazars and other Eastern European and Eurasian peoples emulated Byzantine military equipment.

Whereas American Hip Hop is the product of black urban youth and heavily influenced by race, Tanzania bongo flava took root in the in slightly better off part of the city with those that more access to the Western world.