With Consular armies destroyed in two major battles, and Hannibal approaching Rome's gates, the Romans feared the imminent destruction of their city.

With his main objectives reached and with winter approaching Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet occasioning some damage by a storm in the North Sea.

With its administrative center at the town of Gilgit, the Northern Areas cover an area of 72, 971 km² ( 28, 174 mi² ) and have an estimated population approaching 1, 000, 000.

With players such as Tittle and Gifford approaching their mid 30s, the team declined rapidly, finishing 2 – 10 – 2 in 1964.

With concave lenses, incoming parallel rays diverge after going through the lens, in such a way that they seem to have originated at an upright virtual image one focal length from the lens, on the same side of the lens that the parallel rays are approaching on.

With winter approaching, the Athenians were then forced to withdraw into their quarters, and they spent the winter gathering allies and preparing to destroy Syracuse.

With US entry to World War 2 approaching, USDA officials ( and the film's editor Helen van Dongen ) attempted to reconcile Flaherty's footage with rapidly changing official messages ( including a reversal of concern from pre-war rural unemployment to wartime labor shortages ).

With the war approaching Moscow, Eisenstein was one of many filmmakers evacuated to Alma-Ata, where he first considered the idea of making a film about Czar Ivan IV.

With his main objectives reached and winter approaching, Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet incurring some damage from a storm in the North Sea.

With another general election approaching in 1970 a Conservative policy document emerged from the Selsdon Park Hotel that, according to some historians, offered monetarist and free-market oriented policies as solutions to the country's unemployment and inflation problems.

With prom fast approaching, Sue sets Carrie up with her handsome boyfriend, Tommy Ross.

With the trade deadline quickly approaching, Popovich had to choose whether or not to keep the team together.

With the city as subject, the film consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose non-narrative structure, beginning with a ferry approaching Manhattan and ending with a sunset view from a skyscraper.

With the defences nearing completion and battle approaching, Chard had several hundred men available to him: Bromhead's B Company, Stevenson's large NNC company, Henderson's NNH troop, and various others ( most of them hospital patients, but ' walking wounded ') drawn from various British and colonial units.

With the approaching opening of the Grand Canal, the Grand Canal Company obtained permission from the Directors General and asked John Brownrigg to do a survey which found that much of Omer's work had deteriorated badly, so they started repairs.

With the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, approaching, De La Hoya turned his mother ’ s dream into a strong focus for his training.

With the late October deadline approaching in 2006, it was regarded as very unlikely that the election would in fact be held by that point, and the opposition and the rebels rejected the possibility of another term extension for Gbagbo.

With no radio communication between the two, news of the approaching ship depended on visual warning.

With night approaching and their retreat towards Étoges now barred by enemy cavalry, the Prussian squares began to lose cohesion.

With Archduke John's reinforcements failing to materialise from the east and no sign of the III and VI Korps approaching from the west to take their intended positions, Charles realised that the unsupported Rosenberg was now too exposed and in an increasingly dangerous position.

With Charlton approaching his 30th birthday, he was called up by Alf Ramsey to play for England against Scotland at Wembley.

With news that Cornwallis was approaching, Washington knew he had to leave Princeton.

With an engine of similar performance but a much lighter train ( six vehicles ) it was managing about 25 mph up the gradient when at a distance of about 500 yards the driver of the ordinary train saw the approaching runaway vehicles: he braked his train, and had reduced speed to 5 mph at the moment of collision.

With the consolidation of the two wings, the newly formed 89th Airlift Wing is one of the largest wings in Air Mobility Command with a work force approaching 9, 000 people.

With over four million American men away at war, Protestants forced their distinctive theological belief upon the general public.

With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

With two or more equally determined players, this can result in a " bidding war " where the attribute is driven up by increments to large sums.

With civil war looming, the magnates of the realm met in council to hammer out a compromise.

With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold war, Bulgaria could no longer support a vast military.

With Prince Eugene's subsequent success at the Battle of Turin in northern Italy, the Allies had imposed the greatest loss of territory and resources that Louis XIV would suffer during the war.

With the Mediterranean undefended, a Russian fleet entered the Ionian Sea, while Austrian armies recaptured much of the Italian territory lost to Bonaparte in the previous war.

With the end of the war in 1945, there was a great expectation that the Soviet people would not only see the end of the devastation of Nazism, but also the end of Stalin's Purges.

With no effective long-range weapon the original Blue Steel served on after a crash programme of minor modifications to permit a low-level launch at, even though its usefulness in a hot war was likely limited.

With the outbreak of the war, the Ottoman Empire activated three Army HQs: the Thracian HQ in Constantinople, the Western HQ in Salonika, and the Vardar HQ in Skopje, against the Bulgarians, the Greeks and the Serbians respectively.

With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia.

With the war in Europe, many European jewelry firms were forced shut down.

With the changes of dynasty historically, many people escaped the war and crossed the Central Plains, the increasing integration of the two communities.

With the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned Parliament in 1624 so that he could request subsidies for a war.

With the world at war Ecuador attempted to settle the matter by means of a third party settlement.

With Saville and others, he set up the New Reasoner, a journal that sought to develop a democratic socialist alternative to what its editors considered the ossified official Marxism of the Communist and Trotskyist parties and the managerialist cold war social democracy of the Labour Party and its international allies.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

With the death of the infirm and childless Charles II of Spain on 1 November 1700, the succession of the Spanish throne and subsequent control over her empire once again embroiled Europe in war – the War of the Spanish Succession.

With very strong national support, he made war on Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, calling it a " date which will live in infamy ".

With the antagonism between anti-interventionist Marxists and pro-interventionist Fascists complete by the end of the war, the two sides became irreconcilable.

With the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power in 1933, liberal democracy was dissolved in Germany, and the Nazis mobilized the country for war, with expansionist territorial aims against several countries.

With a " few appropriate remarks ", he was able to summarize the war in just ten sentences.

With American entry into the war in 1917 on the Allied side, and the failure of Germany's spring offensive, Germany was out of manpower.