At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

At the end of the 2008 / 09 season, Chievo had an average crowd attendance of 13, 352.

At 84 years old, Daihachi Oguchi died on June 27, 2008, after being hit by a car across from his home in Nagano, Japan.

* At the end of 2008: 5, 304, 840

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

At the July 2008 election the NDC won a comfortable 7 seat majority over the government of former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.

At the Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) 2008, Microsoft also announced Windows Server 2008 R2, as the server variant of Windows 7.

At the end, rival Lebanese leaders reached consensus over Doha Agreement on May 21, 2008, to end the 18-month political feud that exploded into fighting and nearly drove the country to a new civil war.

At the end of the conflicts, National unity government was formed by Fouad Siniora on July 11, 2008 and Hezbollah has one minister and controls eleven of thirty seats in the cabinet.

At the 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

At the beginning of July 2008, a network upgrade forced users to stop using ICQ 5. 1-applications that identified themselves as ICQ 5, such as Pidgin, were forced to identify themselves as ICQ 6.

At 8. 00am on 2 January 2008 completion of the takeover of ICI plc by Akzo Nobel NV was announced.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

At an event on June 27, 2008 in Unity, New Hampshire, Lynch formally endorsed Barack Obama for President ,.

" At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle ", The Boston GLobe, Boston, December 28, 2008.

At the April 2008 " Toward a Science of Consciousness " Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Marcel Kuijsten ( Executive Director and Founder of the Julian Jaynes Society ) and Brian J. McVeigh ( University of Arizona ) hosted a workshop devoted to Jaynesian psychology.

At the 2008 Download Festival Kid Rock was meant to appear between Seether and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute.

At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

At the 2008 ASEAN Regional forum summit in Singapore, Bangladesh and Burma have pledged to solve their maritime boundary disputes as quickly as possible especially that a UN deadline in claiming maritime territories will expire in three years time.

Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Sky At Night magazine released a copy of the 1977 archive programme on the cover of their May 2008 edition.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

At some campuses, such as Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Cruz, a point system is used to weight grade point average, SAT Reasoning or ACT scores, and SAT Subject scores, while at Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, and Los Angeles, academic achievement is examined in the context of the school and the surrounding community.

At the same time, the results of an ACT alumni survey conducted in 2008 show a high level of alumni satisfaction.

At ACT's 2008 annual conference in Auckland, Douglas announced his intention to stand for Parliament again, as an ACT candidate.

At that time, the electorate was a large rural one that stretched from the south west of Sydney to the northern part of what is now the ACT.

At the 2004 federal election, the only election contested by the party, the APA stood candidates in NSW ( lead candidate, Reese Malcolm ), Victoria ( Chris Grigsby ), Queensland ( Tony Newman ), Western Australia ( Geoff Gibson ) and the ACT ( Jeannette Jolley ) in addition to Meg Lees ( South Australia ).

At the 2004 ACT general election, Gallagher polled strongly, generating 11. 59 % of the first preference vote and was the first candidate elected to represent Molonglo in the Assembly, ahead of both Labor colleagues, Quinlan and Corbell.

At a federal level, the ACT and the NT both elect two members of the House of Representatives and two Senators.

At the centre of the hill is a flagpole flying the ACT flag since 1989 when the territory became self-governing.

At the start of the 49th Parliament, Chauvel was a member of the ad hoc Emissions Trading Scheme Review Committee ( chaired by Peter Dunne ), established as part of the confidence and supply agreement between the National and ACT parties.

At the adoption, the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, `` The Assemblies of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives ''.

At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

At speaker meetings one or two members tell their stories, while discussion meetings allocate the most time for general discussion.

At the current time, it is more economical to smelt copper ore rather than to use bioleaching, since the concentration of copper in its ore is in general quite high.

At the 1945 general election, Sinclair and many of his colleagues lost their seats to both Conservatives and Labour, and the party returned just 12 MPs to Westminster.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

At the front there said to be approximately 300 elite knights, commanded by general Clermont and accompanied by German mercenary pikemen.

At the beginning stands the usual introductory matter, such as the tables for determining the date of Easter, the calendar, and the general rubrics.

At one time, dot matrix printers were one of the more common types of printers used for general use, such as for home and small office use.

At the 1922 general election, Attlee became the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of Limehouse in Stepney.

At 72 years of age, Attlee contested the 1955 general election against Anthony Eden, which saw the Conservative majority increase.

At this time there were two customary means of selecting a leader: having a hereditary leader for general purposes, and choosing someone with good qualities in times of crisis or opportunities for action.

At that time the Western Hemisphere in general was unknown to Europeans.

At first he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, " an insurmountable aversion to everything but the pursuits of Philosophy and general Learning ; and while family fanceyed I was poring over Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the Authors which I was secretly devouring.

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

At the beginning of the 21st century, destroyers are the heaviest surface combatant ships in general use, with only three nations ( the United States, Russia, and Peru ) operating the heavier class cruisers and none operating battleships or true battlecruisers.

At the 1997 general election he became MP for Glasgow Anniesland, which was largely the same constituency with minor boundary changes.

* Level C: At least fair scientific evidence suggests that there are benefits provided by the clinical service, but the balance between benefits and risks are too close for making general recommendations.

At about this time Eusebius compiled a Collection of Ancient Martyrdoms, presumably for use as a general reference tool.

At such times the Church deemed it necessary to convene a general or " Great " council of all available bishops throughout the world.

At the 2011 general election, Fine Gael gained 25 seats bringing them to a total of 76.

At that point, Madero would declare himself provisional President of Mexico, and called for a general refusal to acknowledge the central government, restitution of land to villages and Indian communities, and freedom for political prisoners.