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Gin emerged in England in varying forms as of the early 17th century, and at the time of the Restoration, enjoyed a brief resurgence.
Combined with the effects of the American law suits, this meant the activity died out in Bermuda until a brief resurgence during the American War of 1812.
The brief resurgence of a " Babylonian " identity in the 7th to 6th centuries BC was accompanied by a number of important cultural developments.
A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.
SISAL saw a brief resurgence in 2010 when a group of undergraduates at WPI investigated implementing a fine-grain parallelism backend for the SISAL language.
Many of these crafts become extremely popular for brief periods of time ( a few months, or a few years ), spreading rapidly among the crafting population as everyone emulates the first examples, then their popularity wanes until a later resurgence.
After a subpar stretch in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team had a brief resurgence with coach Karl, culminating in a famous 1987 Western Conference Semifinal match against Magic Johnson's Lakers, which is still shown on TV in the NBA's Greatest Games series.
Mining saw a brief resurgence as a military tactic during the First World War, when army engineers attempted to break the stalemate of trench warfare by tunneling under no man's land and laying large quantities of explosives beneath the enemy's trench.
In the mid-1970s, there was a brief resurgence of talent, energized by Cuti, artist Joe Staton and the " CPL Gang " — a group of writer / artist comics fans including John Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, who had all worked on the fanzine CPL ( Contemporary Pictorial Literature ).
The deaths of Pompey ( 48 BCE ), Caesar ( 44 BCE ), and the related Roman civil wars temporarily relaxed Rome's grip on Israel, allowing a very brief Hasmonean resurgence backed by the Parthian Empire.
Tammany Hall was permanently weakened by the election of Fiorello La Guardia on a " fusion " ticket of Republicans, reform-minded Democrats, and independents in 1934, and, despite a brief resurgence in the 1950s, it ceased to exist in the 1960s.
A brief resurgence of separatist sentiment followed.
Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.
After a hit version of Sam Cooke's " Wonderful World " and " Let ’ s Go Dancing " in 1979, for many years he seemed to have dropped out of sight, with the exception of a brief resurgence in the mid-1980s with the album Here Again ( 1986 ), which was preceded by the minor UK hit, " Rock Me Baby "; however, in May 2006 he was singing again at SugarHill Recording Studios and at Tierra Studios in his native Houston.
Best had a brief resurgence in form with Fulham in 1976 – 77, showing that, although he had lost some of his pace, he retained his skills.
There was a brief resurgence during the 1950s but the docks were empty by 1980.
In 1972, Acuff's career received a brief resurgence in the folk revival movement after he appeared on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
Ii Naosuke managed to coerce the Tokugawa Shogunate to its last brief resurgence of its power and position in Japanese society before the starting of the Meiji period.
It soon recovered after the war and enjoyed a brief resurgence of prosperity.
Pirate radio enjoyed another brief resurgence with a literal re-launch of Radio Caroline in 1983, and the arrival of American-owned Laser 558 in 1985.
A brief resurgence in popularity occurred during and after the 1973 energy crisis, when some believed that fossil fuels would become so expensive as to preclude their use.
Derived from the idea that " even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height ", the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.
The format enjoyed a brief revival in 1982 with Black Orchid, and in novel form with 1995's Sanctuary, and in the Big Finish audio series of Doctor Who, has made a resurgence, with a conscious decision being made to have each Doctor have at least one purely historical episode.
Ibrahim Bay led a brief resurgence of the movement when collectivization fueled resistance and succeeded in delaying the policy until 1931 in Turkmenistan, but he was soon caught and executed.

brief and power
The impact with the utility pole caused a brief power failure in the immediate area of the accident.
He seized power for a brief period in 1818-19.
While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).
Titus assured Domitian that full partnership in the government would soon be his, but neither tribunician power nor imperium of any kind was conferred upon him during Titus ' brief reign.
A military junta headed by Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré seized power on April 3, 1984 in a bloodless coup, ending Beavogui's brief rule.
The Visigothic ruling class looked to Constantinople for style and technology while the rivals of Visigothic power and culture were the Catholic bishops – and a brief incursion of Byzantine power in Córdoba.
The brief struggle over, Otho returned in triumph to the camp, and on the same day was duly invested by the senators with the name of Augustus, the tribunician power and the other dignities belonging to the principate.
His brief pontificate came in the political context of the founding of the Holy Roman Empire, during the transition between the reigns of German emperors Otto I and Otto II and the struggle for power of aristocratic families such as the Crescentii and Tusculani in the region of Rome.
After a brief period of disintegration ( second Taifa period ), the rising power in North Africa, the Almohads, took over most of Al-Andalus.
After a brief period under the rule of Epirus, Hiero II seized power in 275 BC.
Power is available almost instantaneously and very high power output can be provided for a brief period of time.
DC had the advantage that large battery banks could maintain continuous power through brief interruptions of the electric supply from generators and the transmission system.
After a brief and tumultuous year in power, a revolt by members of the Praetorian Guard compelled him to adopt the more popular Trajan as his heir and successor.
After crippling the US economy and becoming a nuclear power, Japan invades and takes the Marianas Islands ; the US and Japan fight a brief war, which the Japanese lose ( they are subsequently denuclearized ); an embittered Japanese pilot and proponent of the war crashes a 747 into the US Capitol Building immediately after Ryan's confirmation as Vice President, killing most of the House and Senate, the President, all nine Supreme Court justices, the senior military establishment ( including the JCS ), and most of the Cabinet.
* 1068 – 1073: the reign of Japanese Emperor Go-Sanjō brings about a brief period where central power is taken out of the hands of the Fujiwara clan.
DUPS are sometimes combined or integrated with a diesel generator that is turned on after a brief delay, forming a diesel rotary uninterruptible power supply ( DRUPS ).
Depending on the design, changing the autotransformer tap can cause a very brief output power disruption, which may cause UPSs equipped with a power-loss alarm to " chirp " for a moment.
It is traditionally used in conjunction with standby diesel generators, providing backup power only for the brief period of time the engine needs to start running and stabilize its output.
It primarily uses power line wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts representing digital information.
Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin.
The vacuum of power created by Sidónio Pais ’ murder on 14 December 1918, led the country to a brief civil war.
This induces a brief spike in power consumption and becomes a serious issue at high frequencies.
Nevertheless, the memory of this brief experiment with democracy helped smooth the transition to a more democratic government in 1848 ( the constitutional revision by Thorbecke, limiting the power of the King ).
The 790s BC witnessed the surging power of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, albeit a brief moment of weakness following in subsequent decades, the further decadence of Egypt, and the beginnings of civilization with the rise of the city-states in Ancient Greece.

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