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 of the Nouveau Jardin is Europe's highest garden fountain.

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 time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

At the end of the campaign the archduke gave up all his military offices.

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 least one other TSR product was announced -- Metamorphosis Alpha to Omega, an adaptation of Metamorphosis Alpha's campaign setting to Gamma World's rules ( Anon 1981 ).

At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the " Back to Basics " campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many ( including Conservative cabinet ministers ) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with.

At one event during the 1949 election campaign, he disembarked his train and instead of approaching the assembled crowd of adults and reporters, gravitated to, and began chatting with, a group of children on the platform.

At that time, the emperor returned from another campaign in Brittany to find his empire at war with itself.

At Quiercy the Frankish nobles finally gave their consent to a campaign in Lombardy.

At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee ( See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee ) that acts as the hub for much fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.

* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).

At the Convention, Bush's primary campaign opponent Pat Buchanan gave his famous " culture war " speech, criticizing Clinton and Gore's social progressiveness, and voicing skepticism on his " New Democrat " brand.

At the age of 41, Chirac stood out as the very model of the jeunes loups (" young wolves ") of French politics, but he was faced with the hostility of the " Barons of Gaullism " who considered him a traitor for his role during the previous presidential campaign.

At the age of 69, Chirac faced his fourth presidential campaign in 2002.

At the end of this campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, his troops captured Savannah on December 21, 1864.

At Gen Con 2007, WotC announced that the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons would be released the following spring, and Greyhawk would no longer be the default campaign setting under the new rules system.

At the beginning of the campaign, Grant's Union forces totaled 118, 700 men and 316 guns.

At other times, for example during the 2002 election campaign, he declared himself " socially left-wing, economically right-wing, nationally French " ( socialement à gauche, économiquement à droite, nationalement français ).

At the close of this first act of the campaign the French, under the old Marshal de Broglie, maintained a precarious foothold in central Bohemia, menaced by the main army of the Austrians, and Khevenhüller was ranging unopposed in Bavaria.

" At the same time, military officials had a summer campaign underway to force the Lakota and Cheyenne back to their reservations, using infantry and cavalry in a three-pronged approach.

* At the end of a military campaign, the Plebeian element in the Roman army retires to the Sacred Mountain outside Rome.

At this point in the histories, records of the reign of Hatshepsut end, since the first major foreign campaign of Tuthmosis III was dated to his twenty-second year, which also would have been Hatshepsut's twenty-second year as pharaoh.

At the advice of Meese, Reagan allowed his campaign to secretly establish a transition office to avoid similar difficulties faced by the Nixon administration in their own transition.

At the conclusion of the Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1796 ), the Duchy of Milan was sold to the French Republic and then entered the Cisalpine Republic ( which, in 1802, became the Italian Republic ).

" At the beginning of the 1945 general election campaign Bevan told his audience: " We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we are the builders.