Manuel Cantacuzenus consolidated his territory against the claims of Latins (western Europeans) and the inroads of Turks, but after his death (1380) the Palaeologians seized Byzantine territory in the Morea from Manuel's heirs.
His father had died in 1918, a victim of a flu epidemic and "the inroads of all that booze," and, in addition to helping meet the acute financial needs of his family, Cagney also was trying to earn enough to pay his tuition at Columbia University, where he was studying art.
Professor Keith Willett National clinical director for acute care, NHS England David Owen cites Scotland as an example of the people power he hopes can be harnessed to preserve the NHS and prevent the inroads of marketisation (How to take back the NHS before it's too late, 1 December).
Intimate yet not especially explicit, the scene affirms the desirability of women past their youthful prime: Ms. Baye's charm and spirit upstage the inroads of time.
The movie is a comically earnest yet winkingly pastiche-y version of the events surrounding a real-life unit of the L.A.P.D., whose members, in the late forties, removed their badges and, to combat the inroads of the organized-crime boss Mickey Cohen, themselves went gangster on the Mob's enterprises.
(That the old guard they attacked, and the French cinema as a whole, suffered in the late fifties and early sixties due to the inroads of television is another story).
During the following decades the vitality of the General Baptists was drained by the inroads of skepticism, and their churches generally dwindled and died or became Unitarian.
If anything, this was more pronounced in Hogan's novel, which was published in 2004 but set eight years earlier, allowing the author to map the inroads of gentrification, and the social cracks that they bequeathed.
Johannes Dantiscus, the erudite, scheming, social-climbing poet and diplomat who was elected bishop in 1537, is determined to stanch the inroads of the Protestant movement and to bring his errant canons fully into line.
Lacking the powerful cultural and historical traditions of the Chinese and the Indians, Malays have been vulnerable to the inroads of Saudi-style Islam.
Now, even the giants are suffering from the inroads of low-cost Chinese manufacturers, and for Sony, growth has abruptly stalled.
