Morton introduced the recurring characters and continuing stories that were a major feature of the column during his 51-year run.

Each major release cycle has introduced a single new major feature generally layering on top of the earlier features to add functionality to the product.

In his native France and throughout the world, Max Linder was a major comic feature and might qualify as the first true film star.

Leontyev had seen human action as a result of biological as well as cultural evolution and, drawing on Marx's materialist conception of culture, stressed that individual cognition always is part of social action which in turn is mediated by man-made tools ( cultural artifacts ), language and other man-made systems of symbols, which he viewed as a major distinguishing feature of human culture and, thus, human cognition.

Clearly separating the three levels was a major feature of the relational database model implementations that dominate 21st century databases.

Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype — soon known as " superheroes " — proved a major sales hit.

The supine acceptance of death resulting from passion and forbidden longings was a major feature of this art, and states of delirium dwelt on at length were important as well.

The Art Department in a major feature film can often number hundreds of people.

Cohn rehired Capra in 1928 to help his studio produce new, full-length feature films, in order to compete against the major studios.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the African slave trade, centuries old in Africa, was not yet the major feature of the coastal economy of Guinea.

This latter feature is new and is considered a major upgrade compared to the existing GPS and GLONASS navigation systems, which do not provide feedback to the user.

Goren also worked to popularize the opening of four-card suits, in contrast to the well-known five card majors approach that has become a major feature of Standard American bidding.

This became a major feature of the Game Boy line, since it allowed each new launch to begin with a significantly larger library than any of its competitors.

This was a major improvement: it featured a new, object-oriented GUI, the Workplace Shell ( WPS ), that included a desktop and was considered by many to be OS / 2's best feature.

When sIBM was originally described, the major feature noted was muscle inflammation.

Another major feature of his work was to classify the Bantu languages, which occupy much of sub-Saharan Africa, as a branch of the newly identified Niger – Congo language family, rather than as an independent family.

The major soap operas on British television each feature a pub, and these pubs have become household names.

A major feature of phylogenetic classification is the removal of the mammal-like reptiles like this Varanodon from reptiles to their own separate group, the Synapsida

Narragansett Bay is a major feature of the state's topography.

The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar-shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle-shaped section.

This type of story was a major feature of the radio program My Word !, with a contest between Denis Norden and Frank Muir to see whose story was the most outrageous ending to each show.

The system is seen as a major design feature in the reduction of pilot workload, and even allows the pilot to assign targets to himself with two simple voice commands or to any of his wingmen with only five commands.

Sentinels have appeared as major antagonists in almost every video game to feature the X-Men.

It has been active as a paramilitary organization representing Lebanon's Catholic Maronites since 1936, played a major role in the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990, perpetrated the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982 and held the presidency of Lebanon from 1982-1988.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

In May 1991, the militias ( with the important exception of Hizballah ) were dissolved, and the Lebanese Armed Forces began to slowly rebuild themselves as Lebanon's only major non-sectarian institution.

During Lebanon's civil war, Syria's troop deployment in Lebanon was legitimized by the Lebanese Parliament in the Taif Agreement, supported by the Arab League, and is given a major share of the credit for finally bringing the civil war to an end in October 1990.

The 1975-90 Lebanese civil war seriously damaged Lebanon's economic infrastructure, cut national output by half, and had major consequences for Lebanon's position as a Middle Eastern entrepot and banking hub.

In addition to the two major conflicting views, prominent Lebanese politicians of the myriad religious denominations in Lebanon have also tended to be feudal warlords commanding their own private militias and feared that a strong army would endanger their personal power.

This was the first major combat operation for the Lebanese Armed Forces under the Independent Lebanese Government.

The major coup for the Qatari government was solving the Lebanese political crisis.

After the destructive Lebanese Civil War, Beirut underwent major reconstruction, and the redesigned historic city centre, marina, pubs and nightlife districts have once again made it a tourist attraction.

* Special ethnic foods and restaurants that are frequently found in Brazil include Arab cuisine ( Lebanese and Syrian ), local variations of Chinese cuisine ( nevertheless closer to the traditional than American Chinese cuisine ), Italian cuisine, and Japanese cuisine ( sushi bars are a constant in major metropolises, and people from Rio de Janeiro are more used to temaki than people from São Paulo, the home of most of the 70 % national Japanese diaspora ).

Under Kamal Jumblatt's leadership, the PSP was a major element in the Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ) which supported Lebanon's Arab identity and sympathised with the Palestinians.

Being a Sunni stronghold, all major currents of Lebanese Sunni Islamism have been centered in the city.

The party played a major role in the Lebanese War ( 1975 – 90 ).

On October 13, 1990, Syria launched its last major operation involving its army, air force and Lebanese allies ( mainly the Lebanese Army, led by General Émile Lahoud ) against Aoun's stronghold around the presidential palace, where hundreds of Aoun supporters were killed.

In May 1991, the militias ( with the important exception of Hezbollah ) were dissolved, and the Lebanese Armed Forces began to slowly rebuild themselves as Lebanon's only major non-sectarian institution.

The list below does not include the " legal " Lebanese Army ; note that the Army split into two major parts:

Nasrallah also played a major role in a complex prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah in 2004, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners being freed and many bodies, including that of his son, being returned to Lebanon.

Following major armed conflict in one camp in 2007, the Lebanese government sought greater input into the rebuilding of the camp, and in the camp's ongoing management.

As Supreme Commander of the NLP's military wing, the Tigers, he also played a major role in the early years of the Lebanese Civil War.

In the first major study of this phenomenon, pro-Palestinian students and pro-Israeli students at Stanford University were shown the same news filmstrips pertaining to the then-recent ( 1982 ) Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian Lebanese militia fighters in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.

Walid's father, Kamal Jumblatt, a major political, cultural, and philosophical figure in the Arab World, and a prominent Arab nationalist, was assassinated in 1977 in the Lebanese mountains.