Beginning from the 7th and 8th centuries, emperors primarily took women of the Fujiwara clan as their highest wives — the most probable mothers of future monarchs.

Beginning in the 1790s, the ports of Stonington and New Haven, Connecticut were leaders of the American fur seal trade, which primarily entailed clubbing fur seals to death on uninhabited South Pacific islands, skinning them, and selling the hides in China.

Beginning in England and America in the 1830s, and manifesting itself primarily in Transcendentalist Unitarianism, which emerged from the German liberal theology associated primarily with Friedrich Schleiermacher, the psilanthropist view increased in popularity.

Beginning in March 1986, Showtime's sports programming consisted largely of boxing matches produced under the banner Showtime Championship Boxing ; in 2001, the network launched ShoBox: The New Generation, focusing primarily on up-and-coming boxers.

Beginning as primarily a showcase for agrarian enterprise, the fair has slowly changed so that today it has much less of its agrarian roots.

Beginning with the 1996 release of Faith, the group's lyrics have focused primarily on Christian themes, which carried over to its albums In the Name of Jesus, dc Basehead and Rockalyptic Music.

Beginning in 1995, a regular group of students formed who were studying primarily with Reggie and / or Lee Ray, and this group developed a sizable and vibrant community.

Beginning his career as a Methodist circuit rider in the 1820s, Brownlow was both censured and praised by his superiors for his vicious verbal attacks against missionaries from other religions ( primarily Baptist and Presbyterian ) as they competed for converts across Southern Appalachia.

The character has primarily been an antagonist in the films, whether by stalking and killing the characters, or acting as a psychological threat to the lead character, as is the case in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

Beginning in the 1880s, the expansion of the central business district replaced houses on Michigan avenue so that today, Michigan's character is primarily commercial north of 35th Street.

Beginning in 2011, an advertising campaign was launched primarily attacking the soy milk industry.

Beginning reading instructional materials should focus primarily on the lower-case letters, not the capital letters ( even though they are larger ) because reading text requires familiarity ( mostly ) with lower-case letters.

Beginning with the famous section about Longstreet's spy Harrison gathering information about the movements and positions of the Federals, each day is told primarily from the perspectives of commanders of the two armies, including Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet for the Confederacy, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and John Buford for the Union.

Beginning in the late 1980s, Canadian Satellite Communications began distributing BCTV from Vancouver, ITV from Edmonton, and CHCH from Hamilton, primarily for distribution by smaller cable systems throughout Canada.

Beginning in 1975, the ABC soap opera General Hospital began using the facility for its exterior shots, appearing primarily in the show's opening sequence, where it still remains.

Beginning in 1972, he became a long reigning All-City king of New York, known primarily for his quick, simple two letter tag, ' IZ '.

Beginning in the middle of the third season, some episodes are primarily based on land.

Beginning on August 13, 1987, a “ 30-mile garbage slick ” composed primarily of medical and household wastes prompted expansive closures of numerous New Jersey and New York beaches.

Beginning in 2010, several Canadian financial institutions which primarily offer credit cards through the Visa network – namely CIBC, RBC, and TD – began to offer Visa Debit, either through a dual-network co-branded card which also works on Interac ( CIBC and TD ), or as a " virtual " card used alongside the customer's existing Interac debit card ( RBC ).

Beginning in August 2012, WBUW would branch out into local athletics coverage by adding a series of high school football games to its weekend schedule ; the tape-delayed broadcasts, airing on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings, primarily feature schools from the Big Eight Conference, which includes schools from the Madison and Janesville areas.

The game is based primarily on the movie, which in turn is based on the plots of the first three books of the series: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window.

Beginning with street fighting in Beirut between Christian Phalangists and Palestinian militiamen, the war quickly deteriorated into a conflict between two loosely defined factions: the side wishing to preserve the status quo, consisting primarily of Maronite militias, and the side seeking change, which included a variety of militias from leftist organizations and guerrillas from rejectionist Palestinian ( nonmainstream PLO ) organizations.

Beginning in the 1950s, servomechanism were applied to the control of lathes and other machine tools via numerical control, which often was coupled with computers to yield computerized numerical control.

Beginning in the fall semester of 2011, Frontier High School opened its doors to students who applied and were accepted to the school.

Beginning in 1975, Robert E. Lucier applied for patents on a solar chimney electric power generator ; between 1978 and 1981 patents ( since expired ) were granted in Australia, Canada, Israel, and the USA.

Beginning in 1989, the rule was applied only to games played in American League stadiums.

Beginning in 1978, it was further promoted by Deng Xiaoping as a central ideology of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and applied to economic and political reforms thereafter.

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, some post-secondary institutions in the USA and Canada began offering degrees in engineering technology which focused on applied study rather than the more theoretical engineering science degrees.

Beginning in the 1920s, Toeplitz advocated a " genetic method " in teaching of mathematics, which he applied in writing the book Entwicklung der Infinitesimalrechnung (" The Calculus: A Genetic Approach ").

Beginning from the middle of the 19th century, the German economist Karl Marx and Marxist theorists applied the term petite bourgeoisie to identify the socio-economic stratum of the bourgeoisie that comprised small-scale capitalists such as shop-keepers and government employees.

Beginning in 1935, McQuesten applied the concept of a second roadway to several projects along Highway 2:

Beginning in the 1990s, the term " Fair Isle " has been applied very generally and loosely to any stranded colour knitting regardless of its relation to the knitting of Fair Isle or any of the other Shetland Islands.

Beginning with the 1973 tax year, individual taxpayers were able to designate $ 1 to be applied to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.

Beginning in 1935, McQuesten applied the concept of a dual-highway to several projects along Highway 2:

Beginning in July 1941, Wang maintained that any areas to which the plan was applied would convert into " model areas of peace, anti-communism, and rebuilders of the country " ( heping fangong jianguo mofanqu ).

Beginning in the early 1970s, the term " space music " was applied to some of the output of such artists as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, due to the transcendent cosmic feelings of space evoked by the sound of the music and enhanced by the use of the emerging new instrument, the synthesizer, and also in part to the " outer space " themes that are apparent in some of their works.

Beginning in 2005 the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas offered a PhD program with a concentration in environmental ethics / philosophy.

Beginning in the 1970s, Sylvan published several other notable articles and books on environmental ethics and isusues and he co-authored the 1994 book " The Greening of Ethics ," with David Bennett.

Beginning in 1931 and continuing to the present day, the rule was changed to require the umpire to judge based on the point where the ball cleared the fence.

Beginning with John the Faster, the Bishop of Constantinople ( John IV, 582-595 ) adopted as a formal title for himself the by-then-customary honorific, Ecumenical Patriarch (" pre-eminent father for the civilized world ") over the strong objections of Rome: a title based on the political prestige of Constantinople and its economic and cultural centrality in the Empire.

Beginning in the late 1980s, the city shifted its economic base to education, tourism, and services, largely based on healthcare / medicine, finance and high technology such as robotics.

Beginning in the 20th century, epistemological justifications based on induction, logic, pragmatism, and especially probability theory have become more popular among philosophers.

Beginning in the late 1980s there was unprecedented exposure for younger Chinese visual artists in the west to some degree through the agency of curators based outside the country such as Hou Hanru.

Beginning in 1979 the rate of exchange depreciation was pre-fixed with a tablita, an active crawling peg based on a timetable which announced ahead of time a gradually declining rate of depreciation.

" Beginning in the 1940s, Afro-Cubban groups such as Septeto Habanero and Trio Matamoros gained widespread popularity in the Congo region as a result of airplay over Radio Congo Belge, a powerful radio station based in Léopoldville ( now Kinshasa DRC ).

Beginning approximately one hour after Earhart's last recorded message, the USCG Itasca undertook an ultimately unsuccessful search north and west of Howland Island based on initial assumptions about transmissions from the aircraft.

Beginning in the early 1960s, intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ), based at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, were installed in a region of western Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Beginning production in 1965, the PA-32 series provided six-or seven-seat, single-engine designs based on the smaller Cherokee.

Beginning in the reign of Emperor Joseph II, the Austrian, later Austro-Hungarian Navy used a Naval Ensign ( Marineflagge ) based on the red-white-red colours, and augmented with a shield of similar colours.

Beginning in the early 1970s, they moved towards all-new compact car designs based on the Hornet, including the Hornet itself and the Gremlin.

Beginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyo " Toranaga " ( based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu ).

Beginning in 1898, the West Riding County Council was based at the County Hall in Wakefield, which was inherited by the West Yorkshire County Council in 1974.

Beginning in the late 1950s, Culiacán became the birthplace of an incipient underground economy based on illicit drugs exported to the United States.

Beginning in the 1920s, the government enacted a series of welfare programs, based mainly on European models, to provide medical care and financial support.

Yeston also wrote In the Beginning ( originally called 1-2-3-4-5 ), a musical based on the first five books of the Bible, presented at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987 and 1988.

Beginning with the 1994 season, Marvel Comics began publishing a comic book series based on the programs featured on the block, as part of their line of comics based on modern Disney properties ( the classic properties were licensed to Gladstone Publishing ).

Beginning in the 20th century, several western classical composers became interested in gagaku, and composed works based on gagaku.

Beginning in the later 20th century, scientific racism has been criticized as obsolete, and as historically used to support or validate racist world-views, based upon belief in the existence and significance of racial categories and a hierarchy of superior and inferior races.

Beginning in the 1640s, the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colony began claiming territories north of the Merrimack River, based on the fact that the Merrimack's northernmost point was further north than its mouth.

Beginning in 1880, the Paris Hippodrome's 20 Serrin lights powered by 20 generators were replaced by 68 additional Yablochkov candles, based on 2 years of positive experience with 60 candles powered by just 3 generators.

It also appears in the later, and short lived, Crusade television series, the special edition ( not original ) version of the pilot movie, The Gathering, the TV movies In the Beginning, Thirdspace, The River of Souls and A Call to Arms, The Lost Tales ( the first in an anthology series which was to be released on DVD but was aborted due to funding issues ), plus a number of written short stories and novels based in the same fictional universe.