The CRT disadvantages became especially significant in light of rapid technological advancements in LCD and plasma flat-panels which allow them to easily surpass as well as being thin and wall-mountable, two key features that were increasingly being demanded by consumers.

In countries such as Kenya-particularly in Nairobi and other cities where there is an expanding middle class-English is increasingly being used in the home as the first language, albeit with significant lexical influence from and secondary use of Swahili in a context of code-switching.

However, Ireland as religious reference point is now increasingly significant in neopagan contexts.

Remittances from the expatriate communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada make increasingly significant contributions to Jamaica's economy.

The line is potentially significant because it links landlocked Mali to the port of Dakar, increasingly of interest for Malian exports in the face of the disruption of access to Abidjan, Côte d ’ Ivoire, as a result of civil conflict in that country beginning in late 2002.

The economy is increasingly diversified, with significant private-sector activity in sugar, tourism, economic processing zones, and financial services, particularly in offshore enterprises.

However, globally human-made pollutants from combustion, construction, mining, agriculture and warfare are increasingly significant in the air pollution equation.

As the blues became an increasingly significant influence, leading to the creation of the blues-rock of groups like The Moody Blues, Small Faces, The Move, Traffic and Cream, and developing into rock music, the influence of early rock and roll began to subside.

Theorists generally agree that a significant reason for the revival of the study of rhetoric was the renewed importance of language and persuasion in the increasingly mediated environment of the 20th century ( see Linguistic turn ) and through the 21st century, with the media focus on the wide variations and analyses of political rhetoric and its consequences.

The state's economy centres on the agricultural, manufacturing and mining industries and has an increasingly significant finance sector as well.

By this point in the war, Stephen was depending increasingly on his immediate royal household, such as William of Ypres and others, and lacked the support of the major barons who might have been able to provide him with significant additional forces ; after the events of 1141, Stephen made little use of his network of earls.

Barnett heard in the drumbeat a wild-eyed martial air charting the pressure on Bickle, who is increasingly oppressed by the corruption around him, and that the harp, drum and saxophone play extremely significant roles in all this music.

Gothic Revival architecture became increasingly significant during the period, leading to the Battle of the Styles between Gothic and Classical ideals.

The removal of trade and investment barriers, the growth of domestic markets, artificially low currencies, the proliferation of education, the rapid development of high tech and information systems industries and the growth of the world economy lead to a significant growth of offshore outsourcing during the decade as many multinational corporations significantly increased subcontracting of manufacturing ( and increasingly, services ) across national boundaries in developing countries and particularly in China and India, due to many benefits and mainly because the two countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries.

These developments are increasingly prominent in northern Bucharest, which is less densely-populated and is home to a significant number of middle-and upper-class Bucharesters due to the process of gentrification.

While students and intellectuals urged greater reforms, some party elders increasingly feared that the instability opened up by any significant reforms would threaten to undermine the authority of the Communist Party, which Li had spent his career attempting to strengthen.

During the wake of the Napoleonic period, nationalism, a relatively new movement, became increasingly significant.

By the turn of the twentieth century, a proportionately small yet socially significant cross-section of China's traditional elite ( i. e. landlords and bureaucrats ), found themselves increasingly skeptical of the efficacy and even the moral validity of Confucianism.

A significant development in this process was the closing down of the Convocation of all University of London alumni in October 2003 ; this recognised that individual college alumni associations were now increasingly the centre of focus for alumni.

* The Crowd-The Long Walk bystanders play an increasingly significant role as the Walk progresses.

By mid-October, Chinese situation in Shanghai had become increasingly dire and the Japanese had made significant gains.

Neither of these two new Tates had a significant effect on the functioning of the original London Tate Gallery, whose size was increasingly proving a constraint as the collection grew.

Collisions with power lines have become an increasingly significant cause of mortality since the early 20th century.

The era was marked by significant shifts in politics as sections of society that had been largely excluded from wielding power in the past, such as common labourers and women, became increasingly politicised.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

The central portion of St. Clair county, sitting atop the Mississippi River bluff, is becoming increasingly suburban with new homes being built every year, particularly in Belleville, and its satellite cities.

Industry grew, especially after World War II, when Sumter became increasingly known for textiles, manufacturing, biotech industries, a thriving retail environment and medical center of its region in addition to agricultural products, which makes it a hub for business in the east central portion of South Carolina.

More and more stars that are at a distance from it begin to disappear below the horizon for some portion of their daily " orbit ", and the circle containing the remaining circumpolar stars becomes increasingly small.

Another problem was that the image was captured in a roughly rectangular area of the disk, covering only a small portion of its face ; making a larger display required increasingly unwieldy disks.

While a significant portion of the student body hails from New England — including nearly 25 % from Massachusetts and 10 % from Maine — recent classes have drawn from an increasingly national and international pool.

The increasingly tense situation in Ireland, however, commanded an increasing portion of Spencer's time.

Today's mainstream social conservatives, in contrast to " small-government " conservatives and " states-rights " advocates, have increasingly appealed to federal legislators and Presidential candidates with the notion that the federal government should bear the responsibility to overrule the states in order to preserve their stated ideal of traditional values ; this is not to take away from the fact that a significant portion of " small-government " and " states-rights " conservatives also share many of the ideals of mainstream social conservatives.

As the use of DVI, HDMI, and other digital interface technology becomes increasingly mainstream, the " DAC " portion of the RAMDAC will likely become obsolete.

It had once been reliably Democratic, but became increasingly friendly to Republicans as Dallas ' suburban growth spilled into the western portion of the district ( for instance, Rockwall County includes a small portion of Dallas itself ) and areas such as Tyler broke away from their Democratic roots.

The urban population became increasingly engaged in the craft and service sectors and less in agrarian employment, until a significant portion of the town ’ s vitality came from the sale or trade of products through middlemen to markets in areas both rural and abroad.

Canada's NHL teams, particularly those in the smaller markets, have become increasingly agitated for not receiving a portion of the profits from NHL betting.

As long-run supply curves tend to flatten over time, consumers tend to pay an increasingly larger portion of the tax.

The terrain around the road becomes increasingly wooded, with long unbroken stretches of pine, in the northern portion of the town.

Many English Catholics, then a significant portion of the population, increasingly supported Mary's claim as a means of relief for their situation of religious persecution.

Some assert that high rates of immigration from some parts of Asia-especially those countries with poor economic bases-will make Asian Americans increasingly representative of some portion of the continent itself.

The president has also overseen a reduction of Kenya's dependence on aid by western donors ( which still remains significant though ), with the country being increasingly funded by internally generated resources, tax revenue collection having grown tremendously during his term, and also by increasing investment, grants and loans by non-western countries, mainly Japan, People's Republic of China and the Middle East, and to a lessor extent investment by South African, Libyan and Nigerian corporations, and even Iran.