On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof

The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out and the continual bread shall be on it.

And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal and the continual bread shall be thereon

By 1000 A.D. the Norsemen were pre eminent on the oceans.

Because of the wall, Palestinians were losing control over key strategic resources such as water and energy.

People disappear among the crowds, quarrels take place, innocent souls are punished for something outside their control.

The leaders of the city began a territorial acquisition, in which they gradually brought more nearby land under their control.

The Ottomans won by a small margin, ultimately securing control over Iraq.

In 1831, the Ottomans managed to overthrow the Mamluk regime and imposed their direct control over Iraq.

In 1831, the Ottomans managed to overthrow the Mamluk regime and again imposed their direct control over Iraq.

The Soviet authorities sought to remove all trace of the Polish history of the area now under their control.

By modernizing the seminaries following a single party model, the revolutionaries gained control over them.

Those who want to control, reform, and reduce government spending seem to have the big picture right.

All the while, Portugal increased control over much of southeast Africa with the beginnings of a colonial system.

The French, for example, supported the Christians, while the British supported the Druzes, and the Ottomans fomented strife to increase their control on the divided State.

In AD 43 the Roman conquest of Britain began the Romans maintained control of their province of Britannia until the 5th century.

Similarly, in Nepal, a Maoist insurgency has taken advantage of divisions between the King and parliament to gain control of much of the countryside.

Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.

No doubt they want to dominate the new cabinet, and with their impressive executive and intellectual skills they are dispersed over all parties.

They have created four regional military councils, which have helped to consolidate leadership and solidify their control over significant areas of the country, particularly near the Turkish border.

Over the next few decades, the Ottomans solidified their control of the region, incorporating it into their empire until it was recaptured by the Persians in 1623.

The Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, netting more than 60 seats the most in over 70 years and six Senate seats.

Consequently, while people suffer and endure the involuntary poverty caused by persons or events beyond their control, living in accordance with voluntary poverty requires a free will choice.

So, at least for now, China will focus on another great wave of economic reform, whereas political reform will mostly be limited to reorganization of government agencies to boost efficiency and strengthen efforts to reduce corruption. (There have been some steps toward reform, including a decision to remove judges from local political control.)

Those who can influence government the most through their control of resources, information, access, or sheer threat of violence eventually get their way.

Given economic globalization and global communications, autocratic rulers derive almost as much strength from their international standing as they do from their control of domestic institutions.

Current owners will resist to the end any dilution of their control and no national authority is likely to admit that their national champions lack a plausible path to financial viability.

With Saddam gone, Iraq s Shia majority assumed power after a horrendous civil war, leaving Iraq s defeated Sunnis longing for revenge and waiting for an opportunity to regain their ascendancy.

The Ottomans consolidated their control of what is today Turkey in the 15th century, and gradually came into conflict with the emerging Persian state, led by Ismail I of the Safavid dynasty.

All but the most courageous remain silent with the threat of ruin for their paper or station, the risks that reporters run are no longer primarily their own.

Worse still, such governments whether authoritarian or nominally democratic turn their citizens into recipients instead of participants. They create people who live with their hands held out instead of their heads held high.

To be sure, the rebels have made some progress. They have created four regional military councils, which have helped to consolidate leadership and solidify their control over significant areas of the country, particularly near the Turkish border.

In these situations, liberal paternalists feel no qualms about taking control and forcing choices upon us ( Wear seat belts and enroll in the pension plan, and in the end you ll thank me ).

Since the 1970 s, the Assads have failed to foster Arab nationalism in order to unite the religiously divided population, resorting instead to divisive sectarian politics to control Syria s population.

Muslim women in strict authoritarian societies do not usually have the option of seeking the law s protection. Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.

Amidst all the headlines about the Democrats gaining control of the United States Congress in the November elections, one big election result was largely ignored.

By 1921, they had defeated their internal enemies and brought most of the newly independent states under their control, with the exception of Finland, the Baltic States, the Moldavian Democratic Republic(which joined Romania), and Poland (with whom they had fought the Polish Soviet War).

We asked respondents to indicate how much control they had over their lives and how optimistic they were about the future, using a scale on which ten indicated a highly optimistic sense of control and one a deep level of powerlessness and pessimism.

If we take account of the comments and remarks by the Presidents and Prosecutors, in particular those by President Pocar, we feel that there are sufficient imponderables, factors that are beyond their control that might well delay proceedings.

A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.

The near certainty that the House of Representatives will be in Republican hands, and perhaps the Senate, too, means that America's Congress will pounce on any supposed attempt by Kerry to sell out Bush's war.

In their recent bestselling economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson cite many past and current cases in which powerful individuals attain control over the state and use this power to enrich themselves.