Furthermore, in leading his troops across the Rhine, without recourse to Tiberius, he contradicted the advice of Augustus to keep that river as the boundary of the empire, and opened himself to doubts about his motives in such independent action.

Carthage could keep its African territory but would lose its overseas empire, a fait accompli.

Thus Jahangir was able to deliver justice to people in accordance of their beliefs, and also keep his hold on empire by unified criminal law.

In this way, it was easier to keep control of a large empire.

* 612 BC: Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the Assyrian empire alive by establishing himself as king at Harran.

Charles XI had tried to keep the empire out of wars, and concentrated on inner reforms such as reduction and allotment, which had strengthened the monarch's status and the empire's military abilities.

* 612 BC — Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the Assyrian empire alive by establishing himself as king at Harran.

After the tests showed that it was gold, Sutter expressed dismay: he wanted to keep the news quiet because he feared what would happen to his plans for an agricultural empire if there were a mass search for gold.

Additionally, when he opposed German bases in Africa, he did not intend to be neutral or to help the Allied camp, rather he only sought to prevent France from losing prestige with the natives and keep its colonial empire.

Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also useful in battle.

In turn, the Pope was hoping that by securing Constance's safe passage back to Rome, Henry would be better disposed towards the papacy, and he was still hoping to keep the empire and the kingdom from uniting.

According to the terms of the treaty signed between Scipio and Carthage, Carthage could keep its African territory, but would lose its overseas empire, by that time a fait-accompli.

France unsuccessfully fought bitter wars in Vietnam and Algeria to keep its empire intact.

He appointed his adopted brother Shigi-Khuthugh supreme judge ( jarughachi ), ordering him to keep records of the empire.

When Theodosius had left the western half of the empire to Valentinian II, he had put his own men in the highest civil offices, to keep a strong grasp on the whole empire.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Russian empire was weakening, and this was reflected in a reduced capacity of the Russian troops to keep public order.

He then issued edicts to the entire empire, promising to allow Xin local officials who submitted to him to keep their posts.

In Thucydides ' account, the Melians express this view as follows, " If such hazards are taken by you to keep your empire and by your subjects to escape it, we who are still free would show ourselves great cowards and weaklings if we failed to face everything that comes rather than submit to slavery.

At worst, they were proslavery racists who wish to rid the West of Indians, expand the empire of slavery, and keep political power in local hands -- all the better to expand the institution of slavery and protect slaveholders ' rights to own human property.

As such, Marwan's reign as caliph was almost entirely devoted to trying to keep the Umayyad empire together.

Trying to keep the empire intact through internal and external wars was a costly process which compromised the Ottoman Empire's capacity to introduce reform.

Under his command the Ottoman empire was able to gain and keep control of the eastern Mediterranean for over thirty years.

The Ottomans managed to keep the Edirne region, where the whole Thracian Bulgarian population was put to total ethnic cleansing by the Ottoman empire.

* Noah's Ark, according to Abrahamic religions, a large boat built by Noah to keep him safe, together with his family and a core breeding stock of the world ’ s animals

Such songs were also very rhythmic in order to keep the rowers together.

Campbell-Bannerman tried to keep these forces together at the head of a moderate Liberal rump, but in 1901 he delivered a speech on the government's " methods of barbarism " in South Africa that pulled him further to the left and nearly tore the party in two.

During the ordeal, Zhong You ( 仲由 ) had managed to keep the duke and the three viscounts together at the court.

In continuum mechanics a body is considered stress-free if the only forces present are those inter-atomic forces ( ionic, metallic, and van der Waals forces ) required to hold the body together and to keep its shape in the absence of all external influences, including gravitational attraction.

An eminent astrophysicist and her brother, a small-town Buick salesman, discover how they grew so far apart and the bonds of love that still keep them together.

John A. Macdonald's successful leadership of the movement to confederate the provinces and his subsequent tenure as prime minister for most of the late 19th century rested on his ability to bring together the English-speaking Protestant oligarchy and the ultramontane Catholic hierarchy of Quebec and to keep them united in a conservative coalition.

Tree roots bind soil together, and if the soil is sufficiently shallow they act to keep the soil in place by also binding with underlying bedrock.

The big toes were tied together or needles were driven through the soles of the feet in order to keep the dead from being able to walk.

The cast members made efforts to keep the ensemble format and not allow one member to dominate ; they entered themselves in the same acting categories for awards, opted for collective salary negotiations, and asked to appear together on magazine cover photos in the first season.

He records that, in prayer one night after leaving two acquaintances at a drinking session, he heard an inner voice saying, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.

They are weak compared to the intramolecular forces, the forces which keep a molecule together.

Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

Some companies try to please everyone and keep the value of both brands by using them together.

The screws are each mounted on shafts that run parallel to each other ; the shafts also have gears on them that mesh with each other in order to turn the shafts together and keep everything in place.

They often huddle together to keep warm and rotate positions to make sure that each penguin gets a turn in the center of the heat pack.

Always keep two pairs together with an Ace-face for the top ,-Except: always split two pairs of four face cards without an AK top.

All other two pairs keep together with any ace top, else split the pairs.

Three Kings always split 2-and-1 with Jack or lower top, else keep together with an ace or a queen top.

Four Kings: split into two pairs only without an Ace – else keep the four kings together with A-J or AQ, but split into 3 kings and AK top with Ace-10 or lower.

Four Queens: keep together with A-8 or better top, or into 3 Q ’ s and A-Q with an Ace-7 or less top, else split into two pairs of Queens with no ace.

Jacks or 10 ’ s: keep the four Jacks together with any Ace, else split into two pairs.

9 ’ s and 8 ’ s: keep together with any King-face top or better, else split.

7 ’ s and 6 ’ s: keep together with a QJ or better top, else split.

5 ’ s or less: always keep together.