At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

At a certain point, reports of an IRA sniper operating in the area were allegedly given to the Army command centre.

At a very early period prior to 3000 BC, Nippur had become the centre of a political district of considerable extent.

At the start of each half, as well as after goals are scored, play is started with a pass from the centre of the field.

At that time Pergamon was a major cultural and intellectual centre, noted for its library ( Eumenes II ), second only to that in Alexandria,

At its prime, the site attracted around 80, 000 visitors a year, but in March 2010 BT announced that the visitor centre would be " Closed for Easter and beyond, until further notice.

At the centre are the huge Marktkirche ( Market Church, preaching venue of the bishop of the Lutheran Landeskirche Hannovers ) and the Old Town Hall.

At one point during his career, in an effort to get fit after an injury, in March 1980 he joined the football club Scunthorpe United, where he played as a centre half and made 11 appearances in the Football League.

During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.

In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.

At the age of ten, he was apprenticed to the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery, whose workshop was the premier centre for Florentine art at the time.

At that time, the city was a very important commercial centre and controlled a significant Mediterranean merchant fleet and navy.

At the same time, the Goetheanum developed as a wide-ranging cultural centre.

At the centre of the sling, a cradle or pouch is constructed.

At the same time, the university became a centre for the organised women's liberation movement, which emerged in the 1970s.

At first, the city was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR, as the city was a centre for Belarusian culture and politics for over a century.

At its centre was the Crystal Palace, a modular glass and iron structure – the first of its kind.

At centre is Major General Heinz Guderian and at right is Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein.

At the centre of the facade is a neoclassical projecting bow of three bays.

** At least 50 people are killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.

At the centre of the society was the married couple, tusurthir.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

At the end of the 19th century new urban developments grew on Cappuccini Hill and to the south of the city, architecturally dominated by Eclecticism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, which created a movement towards the hybrid experimentation of new local architectural styles, known as the Sassarese Liberty.

At its beginning, neither Art Nouveau nor Jugendstil was the common name of the style but was known as this in some locations, and the style had different names as it was spread.

At the turn of the 20th century, Nancy was a major centre of the Art Nouveau with the École de Nancy.

At Aulnay he wrote his Questiones Aletuanae ( Caen, 1690 ), his Censura philosophiae Cartesianae ( Paris, 1689 ), his Nouveau mémoire pour servir à l ' histoire du Cartésianisme ( New Memoirs to Serve The History of Cartesianism, 1692 ), and his discussion with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux on the Sublime.

At the time of its creation in the early-1990s, it was housed on the grounds of the former base and subsequently moved ca 1993 to the Place Nouveau office tower at Yonge Street north of Finch Avenue ; this was controversial as the offices of the Area Commander, Major-General Brian Vernon, were lavishly renovated, attracting political criticism and attention from the Auditor General of Canada.

At Verlaine's request, Nouveau returned the manuscript two years later at a meeting in London in 1877.

At the Royal Bavarian Academie of Pictorial Arts, where Franz von Stuck was professor at this time, he was fellow of: de: Martin von Feuerstein and Adolf Hengeler, two Art Nouveau artists and well known professors.

At the same time he designed and built a sanatorium and a pavilion in the Art Nouveau style in Mšené-lázně.

At the same time, other examples such as the Esprit Nouveau pavilion and the Soviet pavilion were distinctly not decorative, they contained furnishings and paintings but these works, including the pavilions, were spare and modern.

At 13: 45 on December 1, 1783 Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launched a new manned balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.

At about the age of seventeen Chevreul went to Paris and entered L. N. Vauquelin's chemical laboratory, afterwards becoming his assistant at the Muséum national d ' histoire naturelle ( National Museum of Natural History ) in the Jardin des Plantes.

At the end of the sixties he started to create his large sculpture-habitations, such as ' Tour aux figures ', ' Jardin d ' Hiver ' and ' Villa Falbala ' in which people can wander, stay, contemplate etc.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

At the same time, he is plainly sympathetic, clearly friendly.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

At that point we reach the `` closed '' historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

At his press conference Mr. Kennedy said, `` All we want in Laos is peace not war a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn ''.

At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.

At the left is a pair of dressy straw pumps in a light, but crisp texture.

At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.

At a rate of $3.22 an hour he is now earning approximately $580 a month.

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

) At this late date, it is impossible for St. Michael's College to find a suitable replacement for me.

At the same time, his voice betrayed uncertainty about their being here, and conveyed an appeal to whatever is reasonable, peace-loving, and dependable in everybody.

`` At least there is room here '', she said.

At the entrance side of the shelter, each roof beam is rested on the inside 4 inches of the block wall.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

At intervals an alumni directory is issued.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

At the present time the research team which pioneered this new technique is primarily interested in advancing and perfecting it.