Forces of religion and nationalism can be rapidly mobilized by governments, however unsavory, against even well-intended invaders. |
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He located a tire iron amid the stinging rubble and sprang forth to attack the invaders. |
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It's not easy, as we are constantly having to repel invaders, swatting them away like so many mosquitoes. |
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The programme will examine archaeological and genetic evidence to trace the impact the invaders had on Britain. |
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Though the kitchen is willing, the place's spirit is likely to be compromised by invaders from cars, taxis, and rented limos. |
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His cross is the same as the cross of Wotan which Norse invaders of Scotland carried. |
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It was a time of innocence and fun, an era of rock and roll, black and white TV, and invaders from outer space! |
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He prepared special archers and cavalry forces for the battles with the invaders. |
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Indeed, it seems naturally to have been the Danes, the great invaders, molesters, and wasters of this city. |
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Introducted to Spain by Moorish invaders, turron has been a long standing Christmas tradition. |
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Because Arab invaders did not vanquish the Basques, the Spanish Crown considered them hidalgos, or noblemen. |
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The use of honey was taken to India by its Aryan invaders and became associated with religious rites. |
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They will insist in all their books that the Aryans were invaders from outside. |
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The Scandinavian invaders sailed up neighbouring Loch Long and hauled their longships from the landing place at Arrochar over the pass to Tarbet. |
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As the Roman empire disintegrated, Gaul ceased to be a Roman province and was overrun by Germanic invaders. |
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Urdu was created by combining the languages of early invaders and settlers, including Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. |
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The third group of invaders were the Magyars who came from modern-day Hungary. |
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This is in Russia six hundred years ago, in a world of Tatar invaders, monks and holy fools. |
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They ruled for decades, freeing Ukraine from Polish rule and helping to defend the country from Turkish, Tatar, and other invaders. |
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Ming generals, who had been dispatched to the northern frontier to check growing Manchu incursions, defected to the invaders. |
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As a result, most of the indigenous groups were easily defeated by the Spaniards, though the Mapuche Indians successfully resisted the invaders. |
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However, the invaders were horsemen, not sailors, and the seaborne links of the network survived. |
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They did not so much beat the barbarians as the mere appearance of Roman legions caused the invaders to withdraw. |
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The nadir came when his brother, Perdiccas III, died in battle against Illyrian invaders, who occupied the north-western borderlands. |
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These barriers halted the early flood of Anglo-Saxon invaders to fertile meadowlands and ancient woodlands. |
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She sent out battalion after battalion of her finest guard to fight the invaders, yet they were knocked down as easily as tin soldiers. |
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How Britain expelled the invaders and what was then the state of the country can only be the subject of informed speculation. |
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By the age of 16, this son of peasant farmers was in charge of a country under attack from Communist invaders. |
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The rapes of Boudica and her daughters by the Roman invaders are harrowingly shown. |
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The obduracy and obstinacy of human beings is what enables them to fight for their countries, repel invaders and maintain their solidarity. |
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While barbarian invaders overran the Western empire, the Byzantine emperors always hoped to defeat them and reunite the empire. |
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That whole wing of the base was nothing but an elaborate decoy designed to trap invaders. |
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During foreign invasions integrated contingents of civilian militias and elements of fragmented state armies had fought foreign invaders. |
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This went well for a while, but eventually the accents of the invaders just really got on their nerves and they were asked to leave. |
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Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders. |
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His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready. |
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The language spoken by the invaders is known as Old Norse, and was similar to Old English in many ways, being also a Germanic language. |
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Their murderousness is neither greater nor less than that of the invaders with their napalm, machine-guns and high explosives. |
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The predaceous invaders consume the fungus and, researchers suspect, feed the stolen larvae to their own broods. |
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It may also reference a sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders. |
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Plasma cells then make excess gamma globulin antibody immune proteins that latch onto specific invaders. |
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The fusillades of the firing squads roared so often and so ubiquitously that some mistook them for the sound of Brazilian invaders. |
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One of the more notable recent invaders is the large coconut crab, a hermit crab restricted to islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. |
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This period of relative tranquility ended around 1240, when Tartar invaders were cutting a swath through Europe. |
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Your body mistakes undigested food particles for foreign invaders and releases antibodies to fight them. |
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Species of Hololena and several other funnel-web spiders are common house invaders in eastern Washington. |
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The area boasts the site of the 11 th-century Battle of Cruden, which saw King Malcolm defend Scotland from Viking invaders. |
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Our valiant forces were lying in wait for them, inflicting heavy losses on the covetous invaders. |
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The Hittites developed the caves as a nice hideout network, where they built clever doorways and traps to thwart invaders. |
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Forty years on, the poem's appeal was still strong enough to hearten the Achinese in their next struggle, against the invaders. |
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Now is the time, the hour has struck to rise like one man, in the battle against the invaders and hirelings, killers of our peoples. |
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But they were not invaders who came to stay or to conquer, they were raiders in search of booty and ransom. |
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It has also been affected by invaders such as the Mongols, Timurids, Kalmyks, Khorezmian Uzbeks, and Russians. |
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The Himyarites had by this time formed an alliance with the Persians and defeated the Ethiopian invaders. |
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Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars. |
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Players are given a laser gun and charged with protecting the planet from relentless hoards of alien invaders advancing down the screen. |
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As the indigenous people in the video game, you're tasked with repelling the invaders and driving them back into the sea. |
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When they realised what had happened to them, they resisted and fought back against the invaders. |
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The poles were pointing outward at an angle to stop any invaders from coming closer. |
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In the early chapters they are generally victims of invaders such as the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. |
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In the North Pacific, most invaders during the late Eocene to early Oligocene spread from west to east, from East Asia to the west coast of North America. |
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The newspaper in its editorials also criticised the Japanese invaders. |
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On some ships, a few quick-thinking chief petty officers barricaded themselves and their men in vital areas, securing watertight doors against the invaders. |
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It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders. |
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Another group of uniquely South American mammals, the edentates, survived the competition with the invaders and are still abundant in South America. |
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Although it was influenced linguistically by invaders and neighbours, Romanian is a Romance language, with obvious implications for the character of its folk music. |
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Probably best known among the globe-trotting invaders is the zebra mussel. |
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A narrow stretch of water was all that separated the Japanese invaders and the 14,000 British, Indian, and Canadian garrison troops left to defend the Crown Colony. |
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If he ever really existed, he must have lived in the fifth century CE, when the Roman empire abandoned Britain to the predations of the vicious Saxon invaders. |
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But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road. |
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When Viking invaders tore through 9th-century Europe, only one Anglo-Saxon leader was able to withstand their ferocious onslaught. |
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A small, dark, contentious people known as the Picts held sway over the islands until the eighth and ninth centuries, when Viking invaders arrived. |
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The project began with Pong, followed by space invaders, Pole Position, and Tetris. |
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A major cause of the dwindling numbers has been degradation of habitat through overstocking of sheep, bush encroachment, cultivation, erosion and alien invaders. |
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This left communications between air-support parties on the beaches and fighter-bombers on the flight line broken for crucial hours while invaders struggled ashore. |
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In the case of farmers' fields, herbicide-resistant weeds could force the farmer to resort to more extreme chemical use to eradicate the invaders. |
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The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards. |
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When the jewel filled treasuries became goals for northern invaders, the temples added fort-like walls, most notably around the hugely wealthy Ranganatha Temple at Sringangam. |
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Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and ferrets have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders. |
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Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany. |
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Strategically situated in the Mediterranean, the island has attracted an endless succession of invaders, from the Etruscans and the Saracens to the Pisans and the Genoese. |
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A rainbow stud, resplendent in his best dress uniform, stakes out and defends his riffle against all invaders, threatening would-be rivals with vicious fin-to-fin combat. |
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Yet as recent work suggests, invaders have found all sorts of ways into the inner sanctum. |
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A few villagers attempted to battle the invaders with old swords or axes that had hung upon the walls of their homes, homes that were even now being put to the torch. |
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In 1066, the Anglo-Saxons fought three battles against foreign invaders. |
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Later, they played a crucial role to protect large part of India against foreign invaders like the Sakas, Yavanas and Pahlavas. |
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For example, Ancient Rome was built on seven hills, protecting it from invaders. |
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They put up a good defense, but the city ultimately fell to the invaders. |
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The city's defenses were not strong enough to keep out the invaders. |
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The Goths and Vandals were only the first of many waves of invaders that flooded Western Europe. |
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They were targeted not only because they stored books but also precious objects that were looted by invaders. |
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The Athenian hoplites who routed the Persian invaders on the field of Marathon in 490 created one of the great 'myths' of Athens. |
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Their queen, Cartimandua was unable or unwilling to protect him however given her own truce with the Romans and handed him over to the invaders. |
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Caratacus, however, had survived, and continued to lead the resistance to the invaders. |
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The city was surrounded by a wall to protect it from invaders and to mark the city limits. |
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The salients could then be supplied along Watling Street, dividing the invaders into pockets south of the Weald in east Kent and around the Wash. |
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According to the Historia, Hengest and Horsa fought the invaders of Britain under the condition of gaining the island of Thanet. |
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The defeat at Wilton smashed any remaining hope that Alfred could drive the invaders from his kingdom. |
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The invaders brought their wives and children with them, indicating a meaningful attempt at conquest and colonisation. |
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This network posed significant obstacles to Viking invaders, especially those laden with booty. |
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King Burgred of Mercia fought in vain against the Ivar the Boneless and his Danish invaders for three years until 874, when he fled to Europe. |
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They defeated Earl Ralph at Hereford, and Harold had to collect forces from nearly all of England to drive the invaders back into Wales. |
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In exchange for the land, the Norsemen under Rollo were expected to provide protection along the coast against further Viking invaders. |
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The English then marched on the invaders and took them by surprise, defeating them in the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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William continued to fight against the invaders from England and France, allying himself with Spain and Brandenburg. |
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During the ensuing fighting, Belgian forces fought alongside French and British forces against the invaders. |
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Material artefacts left by the Romans and the invaders are often similar, and tribal items were often modelled on Roman objects. |
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Efforts by local kings to fight the invaders led to the formation of new political entities. |
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During the Roman invasion the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the limestone hills of the area. |
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This first abbey was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and rededicated to Etheldreda in 970 by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester. |
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The church and the entire area then passed through the hands of numerous invaders, and its history is obscure until the 10th century. |
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Castles were established by Norman invaders of England for both defensive purposes and to pacify the country's inhabitants. |
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As the invaders integrated, their language and literature mingled with that of the natives. |
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These expeditions forced the Hussite forces, who disagreed on many doctrinal points, to unite to drive out the invaders. |
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As word of the invasion spread, the Emperor took the front line and went to battle against the Germanic invaders. |
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King Arthur's twelve battles and defeat of invaders and raiders are said to have culminated in the Battle of Badon. |
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Casualty figures are hard to come by, but some historians estimate that 2,000 invaders died along with about twice that number of Englishmen. |
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As Wulfstan said, It is oathbreach, faithbreach, lovebreach Bring the invaders into the estuaries. |
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Gimli witnessed the Dead Men rout enemy invaders at Pelargir in south Gondor by the power of fear alone. |
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Island restoration techniques, pioneered by New Zealand, enable the removal of exotic invaders from increasingly large islands. |
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The North African invaders, under the command of Dutch renegade Jan Janszoon, flew an Ottoman flag over the island. |
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The natives of La Gomera, and of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and La Palma, resisted the Castilian invaders for almost a century. |
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During the early Middle Ages it came under Germanic rule but later, much of it was conquered by Moorish invaders from North Africa. |
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The Hyksos invaders took over much of Lower Egypt around 1650 BC and founded a new capital at Avaris. |
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The Ancient Egyptians also built fortresses on the frontiers of the Nile Valley to protect against invaders from neighbouring territories. |
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He is also brave and a skilled fighter, and helps rid Toad Hall of invaders from the wild wood. |
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Other older gods of the agricultural world fused with those of the more powerful invaders or else faded into insignificance. |
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He was never popular with the Northumbrian ruling class, a mix of Danish invaders and Anglo Saxon survivors of the last Norse invasion. |
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Frederick fought defensive actions trying to blunt the invaders, losing thousands of men and precious resources in the process. |
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The other three tribes had been invaders on the upper Rhine, closer to modern Switzerland. |
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Unable to hold back these new, powerful invaders on their own, the Taurisci called on Rome for aid. |
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Catulus withdrew behind the Po River, leaving the countryside open to the invaders. |
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Aquileia was relieved, and by the end of 171, the invaders had been evicted from Roman territory. |
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The tributaries emptying into the Danube offered cheap transport routes, but also made good approach routes for invaders and raiders. |
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Ibn Khaldun noted that the lands ravaged by Banu Hilal invaders had become completely arid desert. |
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This gave rise to the legend that two angels had appeared to chase away the invaders and protect the church. |
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In this way, the Eurocentric argument was turned around and applied to the European invaders. |
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The Ainu have emphasized that they were the natives of the Kuril islands and that the Japanese and Russians were both invaders. |
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In spring of 1241 he returned from exile, gathered an army, and drove out the invaders. |
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He then headed south to Shiraz, a large, flourishing city spared the destruction wrought by Mongol invaders on many more northerly towns. |
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By 1240, all Kievan Rus' had fallen to the Asian invaders except for a few northern cities. |
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By the time the new King returned to Lisbon, many of the buildings and properties were pillaged, sacked or destroyed by the invaders. |
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Beginning in Colombia, smallpox spread rapidly before the Spanish invaders first arrived in the empire. |
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Unlike previous invaders, he looted, ransacked, and destroyed everything in the ancient Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Kingdoms beyond recovery. |
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The Shu'ubiyya movement became a catalyst for Iranians to regain independence in their relations with the Arab invaders. |
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In 1729, Nader Shah, a chieftain and military genius from Khorasan, successfully drove out and conquered the Pashtun invaders. |
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The highlanders were more able to resist the Spanish invaders than the lowlanders. |
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Atahualpa's death meant that there was no hostage left to deter these northern armies from attacking the invaders. |
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The temple was destroyed by its Spanish invaders who, as they plundered, were determined to rid the city of its wealth, idolaters and shrines. |
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The treaty previewed a partitioning of the Spanish Netherlands between the two invaders. |
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The Hudson's Bay Company built forts as fur trade strongholds against the French or other possible invaders. |
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The clan system of the Manchus in Aigun was obliterated by the despoliation of the area at the hands of the Russian invaders. |
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During the Viking invasions of the 9th century, Northumbrian came under the influence of the languages of the Viking invaders. |
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The Kanem empire went into decline, shrank, and in the 14th century was defeated by Bilala invaders from the Lake Fitri region. |
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However the archaeological evidence for these waves of invaders proved elusive. |
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The barbarian invaders formed their own new kingdoms in the remains of the Western Roman Empire. |
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This gave Europe some degree of protection from the peril of Central Asian invaders. |
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It is built on mountain tops, and was meant to defend against invaders from the north, and among others, Mongolians. |
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Now the country's best-supported side have launched Project Eagle which involves the use of falcons, to keep the web-footed invaders at bay. |
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Immune activation occurs whenever immune system cells detect foreign invaders and send out chemical signals to draw other cells into the fight. |
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Meanwhile, the hungry antbirds wait low on the periphery to ambush and kill any insects trying to escape the mandibles of the vicious invaders. |
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In mice and people prone to juvenile diabetes, these cells become rogues, killing off beta cells as if they were invaders. |
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Ignoring the word illegal is an attempt to associate welcomed legal immigrants with lawbreaking illegal alien invaders. |
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Some of the most serious invaders include Purple Loosestrife, Russian Olive, Saltcedar, Buckthorn, English Ivy and Water Hyacinth. |
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Since then, they've been aggressive invaders, driving the Japanese royal bitterling to extinction and threatening other native species. |
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The most successful invaders were Muslims using Mamaluke blades as persuasively to convert as to conquer. |
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Soon the invaders were laying siege to the Congolese diamond mines at Mbuji-Mayi. |
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Against English invaders he was more successful facing Alan Minter and Tony Sibson. |
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Good looking, have-a-go-heros battling invaders from another planet, or timezone, or anything inbetween. |
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The body's defenses are suppressed, exposing patients to opportunistic infection by harmful invaders. |
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But if he was prepared to pay o the invaders with Danegeld, his people were not so feeble, as was shown by the men of Essex. |
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In laboratory experiments, phagocyte blood cells that kill and ingest foreign invaders became more effective after being exposed to statins. |
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Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih, took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders. |
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When an opening is made in a termitarium, soldiers crowd into the breach, and either stop the invaders or fill the breach with their termite dead. |
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In the early 13th century, a new wave of invaders, the Mongol Empire's armies, swept through the region but were eventually eclipsed by the Turks. |
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When Dutch troops surprised the Spanish fortress of Wesel, which acted as the principal Spanish supply base, this forced the invaders to retreat to the IJssel. |
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Atahualpa had received the invaders from a position of immense strength. |
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The rebel units coalesced into one army to fight the invaders. |
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But this did not put an end to the civil uprisings, and was soon followed by Mirza Kuchik Khan's Jungle Movement against both the Qajar monarchy and foreign invaders. |
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Callimachus, the Athenian polemarch or commander-in-chief, agreed and preparations were made to resist the mighty Persian invaders with every available resource. |
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An elderly colonel in Woolton rushed out of his house in his nightgown, firing an old elephant gun in the air as a warning shot to imagined invaders and would-be looters. |
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The indigenous Berber people and a series of foreign invaders as well as religious and cultural influences have shaped Morocco's architectural styles. |
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The vote was a unanimous decision to stand and fight the invaders. |
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Their park warden mother engages her sons' help to build an exclosure to keep invaders away from nesting piping plovers on the beach of Prince Edward Island National Park. |
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Haw argued that the Great Walls were built to keep out northern invaders, whereas the ruling dynasty during Marco Polo's visit were those very northern invaders. |
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Mongol invaders were still causing many problems for the Ming Empire. |
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Before them, Radagaisus led between 200,000 and 400,000 Goths in Italy in 406 perhaps too high as ancient sources routinely inflated the numbers of tribal invaders. |
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It was a system of ramparts, camps, watchtowers and burgi in the Julian Alps that was to protect the mountain passes into Italy, especially the Via Gemina, from invaders. |
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Four tribes of invaders arrived in 409 and caused much trouble. |
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The Vandals were probably not any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but writers who idealized Rome often blamed them for its destruction. |
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The Vandals defeated the invaders at the Battle of Cap Bon, capturing the Western fleet, and destroying the Eastern through the use of fire ships. |
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The consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus had not dared to fortify the passes, but instead he had retreated behind the River Po, and so the land was open to the invaders. |
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These advantages can be clearly seen in the cases of ungulates and their predators, where South American forms were replaced wholesale by the invaders. |
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The eventual triumph of the Nearctic migrants was ultimately based on geography, which played into the hands of the northern invaders in two crucial respects. |
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Due in large part to the success of the xenarthrans, one area of South American ecospace the Nearctic invaders were unable to dominate was the niches for megaherbivores. |
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Usually, the only entrance to the castles would be via a rope ladder that would only be lowered for the villagers and could be kept away when invaders arrived. |
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Gallic invaders settled the Po Valley in the 4th century BC, defeated Roman forces in a battle under Brennus in 390 BC and raided Italy as far as Sicily. |
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Following the Second World War, it was used to dump military equipment, munitions and weaponry left behind by the ousted German invaders of the Channel Islands. |
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Some believe that the increased number of invaders coincided with Scandinavian leaders' desires to control the profitable raids on the western shores of Ireland. |
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Spanish art, architecture, cuisine, and music has been shaped by successive waves of foreign invaders, as well as by the country's Mediterranean climate and geography. |
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Women dressed in Welsh costume are said to have startled the invaders. |
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The English forces began to pursue the fleeing invaders, but William rode through his forces, showing his face and yelling that he was still alive. |
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He killed many thousands before the invaders fled to Ireland. |
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However, this only protected them temporarily from the invaders. |
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The heavily branched river system in Britain enabled the Germanic invaders to quickly penetrate the interior of the island in their small flat boats. |
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After the defeat of the usurper, Allectus Chlorus waged a revenge campaign against the invaders and his troops invaded their settlement areas north of Hadrian's Wall. |
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Later, the Han, the Sui, and the Northern dynasties all repaired, rebuilt, or expanded sections of the Great Wall at great cost to defend themselves against northern invaders. |
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It is mostly uncommon for invaders to accept responsibility for the national debt of the annexed state or that of an organization it considered as rebels. |
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After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. |
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By the end of the year, large new armies had turned back foreign invaders, and the Reign of Terror, a fierce policy of repression, had suppressed internal revolts. |
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Many island countries are also vulnerable to predation by mercenaries and other foreign invaders, although their isolation also makes them a difficult target. |
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Viking invaders arrived at the mouth of the river Seine in 911, at a time when Franks were fighting on horseback and Frankish lords were building castles. |
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The fall of Roman Britain at the beginning of the fifth century, according to Bede, allowed an influx of invaders from northern Germany including the Angles and Saxons. |
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Due to conflict with Scotland, political emphasis was on the North during the time of Edward I and Edward II, as Scottish invaders attacked numerous northern English towns. |
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Civil war between rival emperors became common in the middle of the 4th century, diverting soldiers from the empire's frontier forces and allowing invaders to encroach. |
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King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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This second force defeated the invaders at the Battle of Mortemer. |
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It concluded that Norse invaders settled sporadically throughout the British Isles with a particular concentration in certain areas, such as Orkney and Shetland. |
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Tiny microglia puff up and pounce on invaders that enter the brain, using chemical warfare to kill infiltrators, while devouring dead and dying cells. |
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One historian, Charlotte Behr, asserts that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should be considered as current myth, not history. |
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The azaris were later turkified by invaders of the Seljuk empire. |
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Robert I battled to restore Scottish Independence as King for over 20 years, beginning by winning Scotland back from the Norman English invaders piece by piece. |
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