This powerful sports lineup, coupled with a resurgent primetime schedule featuring hit shows like The Cosby Show and Cheers, would put NBC back on top of the ratings by the middle of the decade.

Coupled with a resurgent NBC, KPNX surged past KTVK to the top of the ratings, where it has stayed ever since, only wavering as NBC has experienced its own network troubles since the 2004-05 television season.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

On his return to the East, Diocletian managed what was probably another rapid campaign against the resurgent Sarmatians.

The philosophy of Epictetus was an influence on the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( 121 to 180 AD ) whose reign was marked by wars with the resurgent Parthians in southern Asia and against the Germanic tribes in Europe.

However, the empire began to collapse toward the end of the 7th century BC, and was obliterated by an alliance between a resurgent New Kingdom of Babylonia and the Iranian Medes.

Its industrial decline following the Second World War was particularly acute, but in recent decades the country has enjoyed something of a cultural and economic renaissance, fuelled in part by a resurgent financial services sector, the proceeds of North Sea oil and gas, and latterly a devolved parliament.

In the early 20th century there was a new surge of activity in Scottish literature, influenced by modernism and resurgent nationalism, known as the Scottish Renaissance.

Right-wingers felt betrayed, and the left wing was resurgent.

It was the only party to win over protest voters broadly across Germany's political spectrum: nearly one million Social Democratic voters defected to the Left while the Christian Democrats and Greens together lost half a million votes to the resurgent party.

Alarmed by the Georgian successes, Süleymanshah II, the resurgent Seljuqid sultan of Rûm, rallied his vassal emirs and marched against Georgia, but his camp was attacked and destroyed by David Soslan at the battle of Basian in 1203 or 1204.

However, later that year the crusader County of Edessa was engulfed by the tide of a resurgent Islamic jihad under Imad ad-Din Atabeg Zengi.

Near the center of the caldera there is a mound called the " resurgent dome " that was formed by magmatic uplift.

Subsequent eruptions from the Long Valley magma chamber were confined within the caldera with extrusions of relatively hot ( crystal-free ) rhyolite 700, 000 to 600, 000 years ago as the caldera floor was upwarped to form the resurgent dome followed by extrusions of cooler, crystal-rich moat rhyolite at 200, 000-year intervals ( 500, 000, 300, 000, and 100, 000 years ago ) in clockwise succession around the resurgent dome.

The American folk music revival in New York City in the 1950s was rooted in the resurgent interest in square dancing and folk dancing there in the 1940s, which gave musicians such as Pete Seeger popular exposure.

When the video game market recovered by, the leading player was Nintendo's NES, with a resurgent Atari battling Sega's Master System for the number-two spot soon after.

The FNM was re-elected by a landslide in 1997, but lost to a resurgent PLP, under the leadership of his former law partner Perry Christie, in 2002.

He was succeeded by his sons Carinus and Numerian ; creating a dynasty which, though short-lived, granted further stability to a resurgent empire.

The Parliament was intended to be a brief and simple one ; with the Black Death resurgent throughout England and the threat of Spain on the horizon, the only matter was to impose certain taxes to fund the Queen's campaign against the Spanish, with no bills to be introduced.

It was composed by Alfredo Keil and written by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça during the resurgent nationalist movement ignited by the 1890 British ultimatum to Portugal concerning its African colonies.

Right-wingers felt betrayed, and the left wing was resurgent.

Goldsmith's name was linked with that of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of The Rivals and The School for Scandal, as standard-bearers for the resurgent laughing comedy.

During the 1996 – 97 season, Malone put up a resurgent 27. 4 points per game while leading the Jazz to a 64 – 18 record, the most regular season wins in team history.

Despite leading early in the game, a resurgent Richmond stamped out the Raiders and stampeded to a 82-67 victory, in front of 1, 700 travelling Plymouth fans at the Nynex Arena, in Manchester.

Faced with a powerful China and a resurgent Siam in the east, Bodawpaya acquired western kingdoms of Arakan ( 1784 ), Manipur ( 1814 ) and Assam ( 1817 ), leading to a long ill-defined border with British India.

The change to CBS occurred on December 12, 1994, and resulted in the station moving from third to second place in the local news ratings although a later resurgent WTVT and competition from newly started WFTS would make second place a toss-up for the rest of the 1990s.

The peace was maintained until 1222, at which point the resurgent power of Nicaea felt sufficiently strong enough to challenge the Latin Empire, by that time weakened by constant warfare in its European provinces.

Britain faced a resurgent France trying to rebuild its power by enlarging its navy and gaining new colonies while Hawke was forced to reduce the costs of the Royal Navy which had peaked during the Seven Years ' War when over a hundred Ships-of-the-line were in service.

Travelers are drawn to the Pioneer Valley by its lively college towns, such as Northampton and Amherst ; the resurgent city of Springfield ; its unspoiled nature, numerous parks, and recreational facilities, including New England's largest and most popular amusement park, Six Flags New England in Agawam ; its cultural and historical sites, such as the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, the United States Armory at Springfield National Park, and the Basketball Hall of Fame on Springfield's riverfront.

Taken as a whole, its local news is the lowest rated of Boston's " Big 3 " affiliates, having dipped behind a resurgent WHDH-TV as well.

With advance orders exceeding one million copies in the United Kingdom, " I Want to Hold Your Hand " would ordinarily have gone straight to the top of the British record charts on its day of release ( 29 November 1963 ) had it not been blocked by the group's first million seller " She Loves You ", the Beatles ' previous UK single, which was having a resurgent spell in the top position following intense media coverage of the group.

Despite its Confederate background the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for its coverage and editorial opposition to the resurgent Ku Klux Klan.

However, Austria successfully held its part of Carinthia against the demands of a resurgent Communist Yugoslavia, even though the issue of potential reunification with South Tyrol, annexed by Italy from Austria-Hungary in 1919, was not addressed.

Today Shrapnel continues to record guitarists of extraordinary ability and has also returned, in part, to its metal roots in releasing some classic metal and hard rock records due to a resurgent market interest.

Meanwhile, the United States, having entered the war, stations its U. S. Seventh Fleet off Ireland and begins bombing raids on the southwest coast of England, as well as supplying men and equipment to a resurgent partisan movement.

The height of the rivalry was in the 1980s, where a strong Libya side had its World Cup ' 86 dreams crushed by a resurgent Morocco side.

First weekend earnings were only US $ 9. 1 million, and its opening was overshadowed by a resurgent The Passion of the Christ.

It is said that upon the expansion of the Mauryan dynasty into the Terai plains in Nepal, Buddhism was adopted by the ancestors of the Tharu and flourished until the resurgent Licchavi repelled its adherents in AD 200.

As United States-supplied Bazookas began to become obsolete, West Germany added the development of anti-tank rockets to its resurgent defense industry in the Cold War.

It is speculated, but never confirmed, that the managements of TVB drafted its top actors and actresses to perform in the series, and rushed the production into broadcast as a weapon against the resurgent ATV.

The Byzantine naval predominance lasted until the early 9th century, when a succession of disasters at the hands of the resurgent Muslim fleets spelled its end and inaugurated an era that would represent the zenith of Muslim ascendancy.

A plan to study zoology at the University of Paris, a condition of his proposed appointment as Professor of Natural Science in Parma came to nothing as Italy was thrown into political turmoil, the University urging its students to die for the unity of Italy, a resurgent demand of Giuseppe Garibaldi.