The Italian poet Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (1581; "Jerusalem Liberated"), brilliantly translated by Piotr Kochanowski, inspired attempts at epics on national themes, notably the vigorous Wojna chocimska (c. 1673; "The War of Chocim") by Wacław Potocki.
The Church of England had the highest nominal allegiance, but in the eastern mainland colonies Roman Catholicism was notably strong; Methodism had vigorous advocates throughout; Congregationalism and other forms of dissent dominated in South Australia; and Presbyterianism had its chief strength in Victoria.
When St Pancras was threatened with destruction in 1966, eminent architectural historians - including Nikolaus Pevsner and tireless conservationists, notably John Betjeman - fought a vigorous campaign to shame British Railways and Harold Wilson's government.
Though the program has slipped from view in some pockets of the city, it is vigorous in others, notably on Staten Island.
Less than two hundred years later, the self-obsessed nobility of the Heian court, distracted by the rituals and refinements of palace politics, oblivious of the world outside the capital, and mostly bored out of their minds, were overwhelmed by more vigorous provincial clans, notably the samurai, with their warrior codes and martial ideals.
Malignant gliomas, notably GBMs, are characterised by vigorous angiogenesis and the production of copious amounts of VEGF.
Looking back at previous episodes of dramatic climate warming provides us with plenty of robust evidence for a vigorous volcanic response, most notably as our world heated up rapidly at the end of the last Ice Age.
(Former colleagues recalled her vigorous physical confidence, expressed in notably short skirts, and a knack for office politics).
Over the past eight years, Washington also emerged as a much more vigorous partner in African health, notably in fighting AIDS.
