The Boxers were, at the time, the latest in China's history of peasant movements, which had erupted periodically in hard times to challenge a crumbling dynasty.
But five years after the financial crisis erupted, it's hard to see why investors and regulators wouldn't consider how any part of the financial system held up to the extreme stress of that period.
Athenians have had many worthy – or at least celebrated – interpreters over the last few days, and as the city erupted yesterday, they were hard at work.
In greeting the thousands of bleary-eyed news media workers, who have been following the Vatican closely since Benedict announced his resignation last month, Francis said: "You've worked hard, no? You've worked hard!" The audience erupted into applause.
The script, by Pileggi and Scorsese, isn't really dramatized; instead, Scorsese raises the volume on the music, and the guys work themselves up, get hard, erupt.
The festival erupted as protestors, farmers, Yakuza hard men, Bon Odori performers, organisers and union attempted to avoid the vile noise emanating from the PA by killing those guilty of creating it".
If the scandal had not erupted, it is unclear how hard Mr. Jiang, 85, would have tried to push Mr. Bo for a Standing Committee post, particularly after top leaders learned that Mr. Bo had been engaged in a wiretapping campaign of officials visiting Chongqing.
Vocabulary: Unions, hard-core, haggard, erupted, retorted, rescinded, albeit, negotiating, ambivalent, defuse, borne, resignation, degenerated, commuter, weed out Extension Activities: 1. Write a historical profile of one of the cities mentioned in the article, such as Nantes, Grenoble, or Bordeaux.
The hard-fought contest erupted 15 minutes from time when referee Richard Silverwood yellow-carded Hauraki and Bateman after a melee.
Thick ignimbrites that were very hot when erupted may compact and consolidate into hard, welded tuffs.
The hitting was so hard last week that a fight erupted between the rookie defensive end Shaun Ellis and offensive tackle Ryan Young.
