In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

Within only a few years, foamed plastics materials have managed to grow into an integral, and important, phase of the plastics industry -- and the end is still not yet in sight.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

Johnston managed to convince a few volunteers to stay and fight as he himself served as the inspector general of volunteers and fought at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista.

Antigonus's son Demetrius I Poliorcetes survived the battle, and managed to seize control of Macedon itself a few years later, but eventually lost his throne, dying as a prisoner of Seleucus I.

Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band.

Very few others, including Ganteaume, managed to reach the shore on rafts.

Mark Antony transferred to a smaller vessel with his flag and managed to escape, taking a few ships with him as an escort to help break through Octavian's lines.

For a few years he had been living in New York, driving a taxicab and running a small business repairing typewriters, when he managed to sign a deal with a Czechoslovakian company to manufacture their designs in Canada.

" However, even St. Dominic managed only a few converts among the Cathari.

Compaq struggled as a result of the collapse of the Dot-com bubble bust, which hurt sales of their high-end systems in 2001 and 2002, and they managed only a small profit in a few quarters during these years.

A few artists still managed to score disco hits in the early 1980s, but the term " disco " became unfashionable in the new decade and was eventually replaced by " dance music ", " dance pop ", and other identifiers.

Hubble was also a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, surrendered to his father ’ s request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford, though he managed to take a few math and science courses.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

After a few months working as an unpaid assistant to his brother-in-law, who managed a foundry, Eiffel approached the railway engineer Charles Nepveu, who gave Eiffel his first paid job as his private secretary.

Georgios managed to escape and hide in the French Embassy ; after a few days he surrendered to the Greek authorities.

Similar sorties followed on 10 and 11 January, but the results of these " cat and mouse " operations were always the same: " the Greek destroyers always managed to remain outside the Ottoman warships ' range, and each time the cruisers fired a few rounds before breaking off the chase.

However, the few societies in this area that managed to survive for a while through these turbulent centuries left behind a culture and history that are rich and dramatic.

Over the next few years he gradually lost the ability to draw steadily and quickly, although he still managed to produce some drawings with the help of his wife.

They rebounded from that slow start, and managed to stay within a few games of. 500 for most of the spring.

The aircraft landed a few miles apart without radio contact, yet the crews managed to reunite.

Later in the 19th century the Zulus would be one of the few African peoples who managed to defeat the British Army ; at the Battle of Isandlwana.

Within the code size limit of only a few kilobytes, contestants have managed to do impressively complicated things — a 2004 winner turned out an operating system.

Only a few Belgians managed to profit from the economic growth.

At first, this policy seemed successful, and Maximilian managed to secure the votes from Mainz, Cologne, Brandenburg and Bohemia for his grandson Charles V. The death of Maximilian in 1519 seemed to put the succession at risk, but in a few months the election of Charles V was secured.

A few countries do not fully comply with these rules.

Prosecutors are protected from civil liability even when they knowingly and maliciously break the law in order to secure convictions, and the doctrine of harmless error is used by appellate courts to uphold convictions despite such illegal tactics, thus giving prosecutors few incentives to comply with the law.

Only neighbouring Portugal, Ireland and a few Latin American, Arabian and Asian countries, refused to comply with this advice.

This was done primarily as a tactic to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) restrictions on advertising in children's programming: popular imported programming would run a few minutes short due to fewer ads being permitted compared to US stations.

However, many activities require various federal permits to comply with other environmental legislation, such as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and Section 4 ( f ) of the Federal Highway Act to name a few.

However, the initiative has had moderate success, as Democratic Serb Party did not comply with merger, and few smaller Serb parties emerged from Serb List.

This was interpreted by many as a trial balloon on behalf of Ariel Sharon, who followed it up with a speech on 18 December giving the Palestinian Authority " a few months " to comply with the road map before Israel took " unilateral steps ".

Existing developments were exempted, which is why Kalorama is one of the few portions of D. C. that does not comply with the city's grid system for streets.

The dispute was extended for a few years and problems started at the terminal ; in 2005 the International Civil Aviation Organization pointed out that the airport did not comply with safety regulations.

In 1981 Lancia began designing the 037 to comply with the then new FIA Group B regulations that allowed cars to race with relatively few homologation models being built.

A few children's programs are aired, to comply with E / I regulations.

It is one of the few mobile phones to be weather and shock resistant ( tested to comply with the IP54 standard ), while not skimping on other features like a 1. 3MP digital camera, 262k color screen and a digital music player supporting the MP3 and AAC formats.

Gorton and company, however, promptly bought land from Miantonomi a few miles south of Pawtuxet, extending from the present Gaspee Point south to Warwick Neck and twenty miles inland.

After a few skirmishes, the Queen Ranavalona III promptly surrendered.

But only a few scientists were willing to even look at the film, and most of them promptly declared it a fake.

Mr Collins recovers and promptly becomes engaged to Elizabeth's close friend Charlotte, a homely woman with few prospects.

If a few investors do wish to withdraw their money in accordance with the terms allowed, the requests are usually promptly processed, which gives the illusion to all other investors that the fund is solvent.

Veteran backup Dunham, an experienced number-one netminder, stepped in, but also promptly injured himself only a few games later ; this left only prospects Michael Garnett and Adam Berkhoel to tend goal.

The modern version of Peruvian ceviche, which is similar to the method used in making Japanese sashimi, consists of fish marinated for a few minutes and served promptly.

In March, Röhm offered a compromise in which a few thousand SA leaders would be taken into the army, but the army promptly rejected it.

Pereda, in turn, was overthrown in November 1978 by democratically-oriented officers under General David Padilla who, embarrassed by the events of the last few months ( and suspecting that Pereda did not intend to call new elections either ), promptly set a firm date for a new vote.

In Darren Aronofsky's film, Pi, Maximillian Cohen is asked a few times by a young child with a calculator to do large multiplications and divisions in his head, to which he promptly answers.

A massive Ottoman offensive aimed at Russian-occupied Bucharest, the Wallachian capital, was promptly checked at Obilesti by as few as 4, 500 soldiers commanded by Mikhail Miloradovich ( June 2, 1807 ).

Under Paxson and without Diaz the show floundered, and on September 29, 1997 after a successful 11 year run ( the last few months of which featured several replacement hosts, all of whom took the name " Ron " in an attempted replacement of Diaz ). The Ron & Ron Show was promptly canceled when Clear Channel Radio purchased the radio division of rightsholder, Paxson Communications, and opted not to continue the show.

Maxi was placed on the breakfast show at that time but after a few weeks it was apparent to all that her style not suited to the format ; Dempsey was promptly reinstated.

As their comeback act, the band promptly released their second single, " Metal Bucetation ", which rose them to the top again due to its lightning-quick selling-there were even riots because there were relatively too few singles for too much people.

On September 29, 1997 after a successful 11 year run ( the last few months of which featured several replacement hosts, all of whom took the name " Ron " in an attempted replacement of Diaz ) The Ron & Ron Show was promptly canceled when Paxson's radio division was acquired by Clear Channel Radio.