In the House, the Southern-Republican coalition is expected to make another major stand in opposition to the Administration's housing bill, while more jockeying is expected in an attempt to advance the aid-to-education bill.

The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).

A major advance in the PDP-11 design was Digital's Unibus, which supported all peripherals through memory mapping.

In the early decades of the 19th century, it became clear to the British that the major threat to their interests in India would not come from the fragmented Afghan empire, the Iranians, or the French, but from the Russians, who had already begun a steady advance southward from the Caucasus.

By extending the 16 / 24-bit IBM PC / AT standard into a natively 32-bit computing environment, Compaq became the first third party to implement a major technical hardware advance on the PC platform.

The major advance in integration came in the 17th century with the independent discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus by Newton and Leibniz.

The German refusal either to deliver the artillery pieces or refund the 125 million Reichsmarks the Turks had paid in advance for them was to be a major strain on German-Turkish relations in 1939, and had the effect of causing Turkey ’ s politically powerful army to resist Ribbentrop ’ s entreaties to join the Axis.

So long as everyone was using the same tactics these weaknesses were not immediately apparent, but with the advent of the Roman legion they proved fatal in every major engagement, the most famous being the Battle of Pydna, as the Romans were able to advance through gaps in the line and easily defeat the phalangites once in close.

It did not represent a major advance in the development of artistic strategies, though it did express a rebellion against, " the administered culture of the 1950s, in which a moderate, domesticated modernism served as ideological prop to the Cold War.

It was a major advance over both its predecessor, the Motorola 6800, and the related MOS Technology 6502.

The next major advance occurred in Hadfield's Trial 1800 27 How St. Tr.

The major advance of Neolithic 1 was true farming.

A major advance came with the work of Koelle, who in his 1854 Polyglotta Africana attempted a careful classification, the groupings of which in quite a number of cases correspond to modern groupings.

A major advance was the mouldboard plough ( American spelling: moldboard plow ; or turnplough, frame-plough ), which not only cuts furrows with a share ( cutting blade ) but turns the soil.

The initial German advance into Belgium produced four major sieges, the Battle of Liege, the Battle of Namur, the Siege of Maubeuge and the Siege of Antwerp.

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade ( the Experimental Mechanized Force ) after the end of the War.

A major advance happened in 1961 with the development of the Chorleywood bread process, which used the intense mechanical working of dough to dramatically reduce the fermentation period and the time taken to produce a loaf.

The OSI reference model was a major advance in the teaching of network concepts.

In 1989 a major experimental advance was introduced by Felipe Gaitan and Lawrence Crum, who produced stable single-bubble sonoluminescence ( SBSL ).

A major advance came in 1968 when Fokker developed the first Dutch satellite ( the ANS ) together with Philips and Dutch universities.

In civilian ambulances, a major advance was made ( which in future years would come to shape policy on hospitals and ambulances ) with the introduction of a transport carriage for cholera patients in London during 1832.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981 ordered the integration of the armed forces shortly after World War II, a major advance in civil rights.

Its development was a major advance over previous methods of delivering hydrocyanic acid for pest control because of its improved chemical stability and the presence of a warning odorant.

To avoid the appearance of partiality, the dates of major data releases are scheduled more than a year in advance, in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Following the War of the Thousand Days ( 1899 – 1902 ), Colombia experienced a coffee boom that catapulted the country into the modern period, bringing the attendant benefits of transportation, particularly railroads, communications infrastructure, and the first major attempts at manufacturing.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th century and early 19th century when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transport affected socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain and subsequently spread throughout Europe and North America and eventually the world, a process that continues as industrialisation.

Windows 7 is the current major release after Windows Vista and was released to manufacturing on 22 July 2009, and reached general retail availability on 22 October 2009.

Italy's major exports and companies by sector are motor vehicles ( Fiat, Aprilia, Ducati, Piaggio, Iveco ); tyre manufacturing ( Pirelli ); chemicals and petrochemicals ( Eni ); energy and electrical engineering ( Enel, Edison ); home appliances ( Candy, Indesit ); aerospace and defense technologies ( Finmeccanica, Alenia Aeronautica, AgustaWestland, Oto Melara ); firearms ( Beretta, Benelli ); fashion ( Armani, Valentino, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli, Benetton, Prada, Luxottica ); food processing ( Ferrero, Barilla Group, Martini & Rossi, Campari, Parmalat ); sport and luxury vehicles ( Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Pagani ); yachts ( Ferretti, Azimut ).

Canals began to be built in the late 18th century to link the major manufacturing centres across the country.

These two operations, which attempted to secure major investment in infrastructure and manufacturing sectors, were generally regarded as successful.

Over the next decades, the city would see itself transformed into a major American industrial center for the manufacturing of automobiles and automobile parts among other industries.

The Lansing metropolitan area's major industries are government, education, insurance, healthcare, and automobile manufacturing.

Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy ; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.

In the late 1980s, the major subsectors of manufacturing were food, beverages, and tobacco ; textiles, clothing, leather, and shoes ; wood and related products ; and chemicals, petroleum, and plastics.

Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation.

The semiconductor industry, including IC manufacturing, design, and packing, forms a major part of Taiwan's IT industry.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and a major manufacturing center ; as well as its second largest port after Istanbul.

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library ( LTDL ) contains more than 11 million documents created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.

* UOP LLC, ( formerly Universal Oil Products ), a company developing and delivering oil-related technology to the major manufacturing industries

However, the Venetian empire was a major exporter of agricultural products and, until the mid-18th century, a significant manufacturing center.

These two plans, which provided for major investment in infrastructure and manufacturing, were largely implemented and were generally successful.

Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.

In 1960, he left the Soviet Union and began working at Elliott Brothers, Ltd, a small computer manufacturing firm, where he implemented ALGOL 60 and began developing major algorithms.

The 19th century was marked by the emergence of a liberal opposition press, the abolition of guild monopolies in trade and manufacturing in favor of free enterprise, the introduction of taxation and voting reforms, the installation of a national military service, and the rise in the electorate of three major party groups — Social Democratic Party, Liberal Party, and Conservative Party.

The 1960s through the early 1990s were major years for the manufacturing of contemporary collectibles.

A major improvement in manufacturing yield came when a chemist advised the companies fabricating semiconductors to use distilled rather than tap water: calcium ions present in tap water were the cause of the poor yields.