The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

From 1980 to the present, ski-lifts have been modernized and snow-making machines installed at many resorts, leading to concerns regarding the loss of traditional Alpine culture and questions regarding sustainable development as the winter ski industry continues to develop quickly and the number of summer tourists decline.

This led to the first of a number of periods in which an outside power controlled Athens ; Often the outside power set up a local agent as political boss in Athens ; but when Athens was independent, it operated under its traditional form of government ; even the bosses, like Demetrius of Phalerum, kept the traditional institutions in formal existence.

While any combination and number of string instruments is possible in a section, a traditional string section sound is achieved with a violin-heavy balance of instruments.

Their numbers have dwindled to about 2, 000 as a consequence of disease and disruption of traditional lifestyles, though people with partial Aleut descent may number around 15, 000.

The character is portrayed as demonstrating a number of traditional Japanese virtues, but ultimately falls prey to his own human flaws.

As well as traditional diocesan bishops, many churches have a well-developed structure of church leadership that involves a number of layers of authority and responsibility.

The French and the British used tanks in their pre-blitzkrieg ' traditional ' role of assisting infantry and dispersed across the whole army so there was not concentration of tanks, while the blitzkrieg method of concentrating tanks, even less in number and less capable in ability, led to victorious success.

In addition, the armies were followed by a similar number of traditional peasant followers who supplied the army, as had been done for centuries.

In August 1914 all combatant armies still retained substantial numbers of cavalry and the mobile nature of the opening battles on both Eastern and Western Fronts provided a number of instances of traditional cavalry actions, though on a smaller and more scattered scale than those of previous wars.

The late 20th century and early 21st century has seen a large number of studies of Chinese history that seek to challenge traditional paradigms.

In traditional European usage, one centillion is 10 < sup > 600 </ sup >, which is equal to ( 10 < sup > 6 </ sup >)< sup > 100 </ sup >; that is, it's the number with a hundred times as many zeroes as a million.

A large number of chiropractors want to separate themselves from the traditional vitalistic concept of innate intelligence.

A traditional die is an often rounded cube, with each of its six faces showing a different number ( pips ) from 1 – 6.

However, when modeling packed columns, it is useful to compute a number of " theoretical stages " to denote the separation efficiency of the packed column with respect to more traditional trays.

A live acoustic album, Heartsongs, featuring stripped down versions of some of Parton's hits, as well as a number of traditional songs, was released in late 1994.

The contrast between traditional and modern transport in Eritrea. This article summarizes characteristics of a number of forms of transport in the coastal African nation of Eritrea.

Activities categorized by media as extreme sports differ from traditional sports due to the higher number of inherently uncontrollable variables.

The northeastern corner of the city, considered a dangerous direction in traditional onmyōdō ( cosmology ), is guarded from evil by a number of temples ( including Sensō-ji and Kan ' ei-ji ).

Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in traditional song collecting, and a number of outstanding composers carried out their own field work on traditional song.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

The groups considered to have a good fossil record, including a number of transitional fossils between traditional groups, are the vertebrates, the echinoderms, the brachiopods and some groups of arthropods.

A number of fascist movements described themselves as a " third position " outside the traditional political spectrum.

A number of internal groups flourished within the new party, the most notable of which was the Tawney Society ( mirroring the function of the Fabian Society within the Labour Party ).

* Harold Wilson's Prime Minister's Resignation Honours ( known satirically as the " Lavender List ") gives honours to a number of wealthy businessmen whose principles were considered antipathetic to those held by the Labour party ( May 1976 )

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

Labour further increased its number of councillors at the 2009 local elections and currently has the largest number of TD's from the city ( 10 out of 22 ).

Every year the International Labour Conference's Committee on the Application of Standards examines a number of alleged breaches of international labour standards.

In addition, ILO publishes a number of compilations of labour statistics, such as the Key Indicators of Labour Markets ( KILM ).

" His peerage meant that the Labour and Conservative parties were equal in numbers in the upper house of Parliament ( since then, the number of Labour members has overtaken the number of Conservative members ).

After the 1966 general election, in which Labour won a comfortable majority, Jenkins pushed through a series of police reforms which reduced the number of separate forces from 117 to 49.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.

Since that time, the Labour and Conservatives parties have been dominant, with the Liberal Democrats also holding a significant number of seats and increasing their share of the vote in parliamentary general elections in the four elections 1992.

Plaid has the third-largest number of seats in the National Assembly for Wales, after Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservative & Unionist Party, and participated with the former in the coalition agreement in the Assembly before the 2011 election.

This restriction was slightly relaxed just before the July 1964 election, when authorities were allowed to provide places “ where this would enable married women to return to teaching .” In 1965, the Labour government provided a further relaxation which allowed authorities to expand “ so long as they provided some extra places for teachers to whom priority was to be given .” Nevertheless, the number of children under five in maintained nursery, primary, and special schools increased only slightly, from 222, 000 in 1965 to 239, 000 in 1969.

Before 1997, the incoming Labour Government promised to reduce the number and power of NDPBs.

After World War II, the Norwegian Labour Party, with Einar Gerhardsen as prime minister, embarked on a number of social democratic reforms aimed at flattening the income distribution, eliminating poverty, ensuring social services such as retirement, medical care, and disability benefits to all, and putting more of the capital into the public trust.

The IEC is one of a number of cultural and scientific institutions created at that time to lend greater prestige to the Catalan language and culture ; others include the Biblioteca de Catalunya ( Library of Catalonia ), the Escola Industrial ( Industrial School ), the Escola Superior de Belles Arts ( Higher School of Fine Arts ) and the Escola del Treball ( School of Labour ), el Centre de Recerca Matemàtica.

After leading Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai ( Labour ) party won the largest number of Knesset seats in the first national election, held on 14 February 1949.

Again, in 2001, she made the following statement: " As I have stated repeatedly, consistently and unequivocally since assuming the leadership of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party, I shall state once again for the record – independence is not an issue that we will address in our first term and probably not in our second term .... We believe that there are a number of areas that need addressing before Bermuda heads down this road.

Fisher's second Prime Ministership resulting from the 1910 federal election represented a number of firsts: it was Australia's first federal majority government ; Australia's first Senate majority, and the world's first Labour Party majority government at a national level.