This representation of a disastrous marriage enables Moore to explore mental turmoil and an unhappy ending. ; and the Turks were, in their turn dragged into the same disastrous affair. The disinclination of sovereigns and peoples to a division, of the disastrous consequences of which the West had only lately had plentiful experiences, was so pronounced that 1 May 23, 1423: vide the Chronicle of Martin de Alpartil, edited by Ehrle (1906). It has proved to be disastrous for businesses.

For several years Britain was part of a breakaway, and financially disastrous, ' Gallic empire ' . Reid tried to improve her already lovely figure and suffered disastrous results. The apprehension never died out in his mind; and when he knew that the principles and abstractions, the un-English dialect and destructive dialectic, of his former acquaintances were predominant in the National Assembly, his suspicion that the movement would end in disastrous miscarriage waxed into certainty.

For this Tait was by no means responsible as a whole: some of the provisions which proved most irksome were the result of amendments by Lord Shaftesbury which the bishops were unable to resist; and it must be borne in mind that the most disastrous results of the measure were not contemplated by those who were instrumental in passing it. As the leaders in these meetings were men like Virchow and Bluntschli, who had been lifelong opponents of Catholicism in every form, the result was disastrous to the Liberal party among the Catholics, for a Liberal Catholic would appear as the ally of the bitterest enemies of the Church; whatever possibility of success the Old Catholic movement might have had was destroyed by the fact that it was supported by those who avowedly wished to destroy the influence of Catholicism.

The disastrous retreat of the French from Moscow in 1812 gave Germany the occasion she desired.

Only " the most disastrous prime minister of the post-war era "? 's adhesion to the falling fortunes of Napoleon. In Ireland, however, the rejection of the measure was attended with disastrous results. Among the most fatal and disastrous of these diseases with which the cultivator had long to grapple was " muscardine," a malady due to the development of a fungus, Botrytis bassiana, in the body of the caterpillar.

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That the result was disastrous to the shah is not surprising, but the war seems to hold a comparatively unimportant place in the annals of Turkey. The campaign of 1771, which opened with a gleam of success in the capture of Giurgevo, proved yet more disastrous to the Turks, the Russians passing the Danube and completing the conquest of the Crimea. When at the very height of power, all his schemes of aggrandisement came to sudden ruin through a succession of disastrous defeats at the hands of the Swiss at Grandson (March 2, 1476), at Morat (June 22, 1476) Austria. The first four years of government were completely, 15. Hardly less disastrous than the system by which officials were chosen and paid was the influence exercised by the Church.

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Experience with paper currency has been even more disastrous. The state elections of 1837 and 1838 were disastrous for the Democrats, and the partial recovery in 1839 was offset by a second commercial crisis in that year. 260+10 sentence examples: 1. ulei will surely make its way across the Pacific one day, with consequences as disastrous as they are predictable.

The odds against the French troops in the disastrous campaign of 1799 (see French Revolutionary Wars) were too heavy.

Napoleon's habit of clinging to his own preconceptions never received so strange and disastrous an illustration as it did during the month spent at Moscow. The disastrous reign of the third Lancastrian completed Henry v. The enormous profits of the contraband trade with France enabled Ireland to purchase English goods to an extent greater than her whole lawful traffic. disastrous battle of Tsushima the Russian fleets were almost completely annihilated. This disastrous financial expedient was made good later, the coinage being established on a firm basis during the last sixteen years of Charles's reign in accordance with the principles of Nicolas Oresme. Often, the media speculates on whether or not a particular star is pregnant or not, and sometimes this comes with disastrous and embarrassing consequences, when the celeb in question turns out not to be pregnant at all. The recent cyclone has been disastrous to many crops. Few sovereigns in history have accomplished such a disastrous lifes work as this much-admired prince. disastrous floods of 1999, for example, many of the towns along the Severn River were severely flooded. She tells a lie without thinking of the disastrous consequences.

The effect of the outbreak was in every way disastrous. The year 1878, which saw the end of a most disastrous famine, may be considered as the commencement of a new era as regards irrigation.

In1855-1856a disastrous commercial panic crippled the city; and in 1858, when at the height of the Fraser river gold-mine excitement it seemed as though Victoria, B.C., was to supplant San Francisco as the metropolis of the Pacific, realty values in the latter city dropped for a time fully a half in value. Having through centuries undergone cruel injury, from technical imperfections at the outset, from disastrous atmospheric conditions, from vandalism and neglect, and most of all from unskilled repair, its remains have at last (1904-1908) been treated with a mastery of scientific resource and a tenderness of conscientious skill that have revived for ourselves and for posterity a great part of its power. The course of the dynasty of Jehu - the reforms, the disastrous Aramaean wars, and, at length, Yahweh's " arrow of victory " - constituted an epoch in the Israelite history, and it is regarded as such.3 The problem of the history of Yahwism depends essentially upon the view adopted as to the date and origin of the biblical details and their validity for the various historical and religious conditions they presuppose. between 1797 and 1857, despite the Napoleonic invasion and other disastrous wars.

Through a simple agreement, " conditions which make for peace and prosperity, and the absence of those which so often lead to disastrous war, have for nearly a century reigned over these great inland waters, whose commerce, conducted for the benefit of the states and nations of Europe and America, rivals that which passes through the Suez Canal or over the Mediterranean Sea, and with a result foreshadowed in these words of President Monroe in his communication to the Senate commending the proposed agreement: ` In order to avoid collision and save expense.'.

had shown wonderful tenacity of purpose during this disastrous war, and sometimes a nobler and more national spirit than during the years of his triumphs. The secord period of war, which was to last till the death of the English king, and for some years after, was destined to prove wholly disastrous to England. The result was disastrous to the public peace: nobles armed in their defence; old feuds revived; the country became infested with bandits; not even in Rome could order be maintained. (see Punic Wars).

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Sleep disorder effects health and the most disastrous effect is weight gain. Wilson also formally asked President Clinton for a federal disaster declaration. His sole original creation, the edict of La Paulette ~n 1604, Edict of was disastrous. 2. Hence the disastrous effects supposed to follow a breach of taboo; the offender has thrust his hand into the divine fire, which shrivels up and consumes him on the spot" (Frazer, The Golden Bough, i.