In the early months of 1714, the battle between Swift and Steele over the issue of the Succession entered its major phase.

The study of phase transition and the critical behavior of observables, known as critical phenomena, was a major field of interest in the 1960s.

This marks the second major phase of the Zhou dynasty: the Eastern Zhou.

In ancient Greece, Tjeered van Andel and co-writers summarized three regional studies of historic erosion and alluviation and found that, wherever adequate evidence exists, a major phase of erosion follows, by about 500-1, 000 years the introduction of farming in the various regions of Greece, ranging from the later Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.

On the other hand, the Greens achieved a major success as a governing party through the 2000 decision to phase out the use of nuclear energy.

25 minutes — sub-orbital spaceflight in an elliptic flightpath ; the flightpath is part of an ellipse with a vertical major axis ; the apogee ( halfway through the midcourse phase ) is at an altitude of approximately 1, 200 km ; the semi-major axis is between 3, 186 km and 6, 372 km ; the projection of the flightpath on the Earth's surface is close to a great circle, slightly displaced due to earth rotation during the time of flight ; the missile may release several independent warheads, and penetration aids such as metallic-coated balloons, aluminum chaff, and full-scale warhead decoys.

* 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.

The other major phase came during the Umayyad Caliphate of Islam, Egypt was a link between early center of Islam in the Near East and Iberia which led to the impressive style of pottery.

During the next major phase of activity, 30 enormous Oligocene-Miocene sarsen stones ( shown grey on the plan ) were brought to the site.

Symplectic manifolds arise naturally in abstract formulations of classical mechanics and analytical mechanics as the cotangent bundles of manifolds, e. g., in the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics, which provides one of the major motivations for the field: The set of all possible configurations of a system is modelled as a manifold, and this manifold's cotangent bundle describes the phase space of the system.

The solution more or less takes on the characteristics of the solvent including its phase, and the solvent is commonly the major fraction of the mixture.

A phase II clinical trial of its efficacy against both major depressive disorder and depression due to bipolar disorder when administered via transdermal patches is scheduled to finish in September 2013.

Franks wanted to retire after the major combat phase of the war, tired from having planned for and prosecuted two major wars and led a war on terrorism since September 2001.

In Western Europe, British troops deployed to the Continent, but in a phase nicknamed the Phoney War by the British and " Sitzkrieg " ( sitting war ) by the Germans, neither side launched major operations against the other until April 1940.

The last major hit of XTC's touring phase was " Senses Working Overtime ", the first single from their double album English Settlement ( February 1982 ) and their first top 10 hit in the UK.

The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid May.

Whatever the cause, by the LH IIIC period ( whose latest phase is also termed " Submycenaean "), Mycenae was no longer a major power.

Spain, now without any major internal territorial conflict, embarked on a great phase of exploration and colonization around the globe.

The last major release of the standard was CAMEL phase 4.

Perot's candidacy received increasing media attention when the competitive phase of the primary season ended for the two major parties.

These measures, however, produced few results ; the only major military victory in this phase of the war was the English naval victory at Sluys on 24 June 1340, which secured English control of the Channel.

It was also in 1960 that Patricia DeCoursey invented the phase response curve, one of the major tools used in the field since.

This intermediate phase of the Battle of the Somme had been costly for the Fourth Army, despite there being no major offensive.

These examples underscore the importance of even more searching evaluations of new major development programs and even more penetrating and far-ranging analyses of the potentialities of future technology.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

In 1951, Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. succeeded his father and continued the company's development as a major factor in the metal-working equipment business.

The shooting development program of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute has successfully published these facts in all major outdoor magazines, many national weeklies and the trade papers.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

Most of us remember and think of the Wagner-Peyser Act in its historical sense, as a major milestone in the development of public placement services.

When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

The major postwar development is the certainty that these elements should not be considered singly but in combination and as being mutually supporting.

Costs of the effective energy produced by these sources is a major obstacle in the development of food-preservation processes.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

Traditionally, wheat and barley were the main crops of the region, but the inauguration of major new irrigation projects in the 1980s has led to greater agricultural diversity and development.

In his writings, Karpov credits Furman as a major influence on his development as a world-class player.

Indeed, the problem of determining the area of plane figures was a major motivation for the historical development of calculus.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

To show their appreciation and affection, the Ismā ' īliyya weighed their Imam in gold, diamonds and, symbolically, in platinum, respectively, the proceeds of which were used to further develop major social welfare and development institutions in Asia and Africa.

In East Africa, major social welfare and economic development institutions were established.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.

general: the system is expanding with the growth of mobile-cellular service and participation in regional development ; system is fully digital with fiber-optic cables linking the major population centers in the east ; fixed-line connections declined in recent years and now stand at roughly 8 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular telephone density currently is about 80 per 100 persons

The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability in Africa and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence.