At the slope's base coils of concertina stretched out of eye range like a wild tangle of children's hoops, stopped simultaneously, weirdly poised as if awaiting the magic of the child's touch to start them all rolling again.

At the start of her program there were evidences of pique.

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.

At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

At the start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

At the start of the game, it has survived over 10 years in complete isolation from the rest of the world and is an example of an arcology in cyberpunk genre.

At the end of each line the beam returns to the start of the next line ; the end of the last line is a link that returns to the top of the screen.

At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter.

At some speeds the airflow over the control surfaces will become turbulent, and the controls will start to flutter.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

At the start of the next session, affairs were handled by a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli, and John Charles Herries – indicative of the tension between Disraeli and the rest of the party, who needed his talents but mistrusted the man.

At the start of the rally, the server and receiver stand in diagonally opposite service courts ( see court dimensions ).

At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is cast and the side towards which the shuttlecock is pointing serves first.

At the start of 2007, the BWF introduced a new tournament structure for the highest level tournaments aside from those in level one: the BWF Super Series.

At the start of each round, the rectangular playing arena contains a prearranged pattern of coloured " bubbles ".

At the start of a game, play is more or less random, the only strategy is to avoid adding the third side to any box.

At the start of each game, the doubling cube is placed on the bar with the number 64 showing ; the cube is then said to be " centered, on 1 ".

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers.

At the start of the war, only the German army was thus prepared with all tanks " radio equipped ".

At the start of 2011, the Beano VIP pages were dropped from the comic, but the online features remain.

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

At this level students could start to move on their own.

At one point late in the day, when Palmer was lining up a 25-foot putt on the 16th, a thunderous cheer from the direction of the 18th green unmistakably announced that Player had birdied the final hole.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

At the end of the 18th century, the first form of solid chocolate was invented in Turin by Doret.

At the 18th Party Congress ( 10 – 21 March 1939 ) the department specializing in industry was abolished and replaced by a division focusing on personnel management, ideology and verification fulfillment.

At the 18th Party Conference ( 15 – 20 February 1941 ) it was concluded that the abolition of the Central Committee Department on Industry had led to the neglect of industry.

At COCU's 18th plenary meeting in St. Louis, Missouri ( January 1999 ), CUIC was proposed as a new relationship among the nine member communions.

At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.

At the start of the 18th century a large house, called Delville-known at first as The Glen-was built on the site of the present Bons Secours hospital.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

At the end of the 18th century, however, when the concept of a chemical compound had not yet been fully developed, the law was novel.

At the same time, by the middle of the 18th century another genre was gaining popularity in France: opéra comique.

At the time of his death at the age of 95, his was the longest papacy in Church history until it was surpassed by the 24-year papacy of Pius VI in the late 18th century.

At the end of the 18th century, the British gained control of the colony, imposing the English language on the colonists, who were now developing a culture of their own.

At least 25 major outbreaks followed in the Americas throughout the 18th and 19th centuries including particularly serious ones in Cartagena, Colombia in 1741, in Cuba in 1762, and in Santo Domingo in 1803.

At the end of the 18th century Baba Mahommed tried in vain to batter down the tomb with artillery.

At the 18th Academy Awards in May 1946, The Lost Weekend received seven nominations and won in 4 categories.

At first, only India ink was used, then some prints were manually colored with a brush, but in the 18th century Suzuki Harunobu developed the technique of polychrome printing to produce nishiki-e.

At the end of 18th century the University was restored.

At the end of the 18th century, Thomas Malthus concluded that, if unchecked, populations would be subject to exponential growth.

At the end of the 18th century, the Bohemian lands underwent a considerable change-the Habsburg emperor Josef II put an end to the feudal system and supported a new religious and ideological tolerance.

At the beginning of the 18th century Provence suffered from the economic malaise of the end of the reign of Louis XIV.

At the end of the 18th century, and even more at the beginning of the nineteenth, the Maghreb suffered from the deadly combination of plague and famine.