Buoyed by higher oil prices, the Ecuadorian economy experienced a modest recovery in 2000-01, with GDP rising 2. 3 % in 2000 and 5. 4 % in 2001.

Buoyed by continued rapid growth, the economy has maintained a relatively low rate of unemployment.

Buoyed by their recent victory over British troops, the Buenos Aires cabildo deposed the Spanish viceroy on May 25, 1810, vowing to rule in the name of Ferdinand VII.

Buoyed by his defeat to Guillemot, Nurmi's races became a series of experiments which he analyzed meticulously.

Buoyed by the title track and first single, the album entered the charts at No. 1 and number 7 on the pop charts, Run D. M. C.

Buoyed by his military successes, Bruce's forces also invaded Ireland in 1315, purportedly to free the country from English rule ( having received a reply to offers of assistance from Donal O ' Neil, king of Tyrone ), and to open a second front in the continuing wars with England.

Buoyed along by the popularity of synthpop at the time, the song reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart.

Buoyed by a strong oil sector in the 1960s and 1970s, Venezuela's governments were able to maintain social harmony by spending fairly large amounts on public programs including health care, education, transport, and food subsidies.

Buoyed by liberation and prophetic promise, the Florentines embraced Savonarola ’ s campaign to rid the city of " vice ".

Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, to teach him “ the big con .” Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan.

Buoyed by this instruction, the pagan senators, led by Aurelius Symmachus, the Prefect of Rome, petitioned in 384 for the restoration of the Altar of Victory in the Senate House, which had been removed by Gratian in 382.

Buoyed by a changing musical current, in June 1992 Pulp released " O. U. ( Gone, Gone )" on Gift while Fire finally released Separations in the same month.

Buoyed by the success of the Plano Real, Cardoso decided to run for the Presidency and, backed by President Franco, won in the first round of elections, on October 3, 1994.

Buoyed into 12 years in office by his popular defiance of federal court desegregation orders, Faubus turned a blind eye to gambling in Hot Springs.

Buoyed by the Ottoman disasters on land and sea, and their own military successes, the Greeks refused to accept anything less than full independence.

Buoyed by the success of the 1943 election, Curtin held a referendum in which would give the government control of the economy and resources for five years after the war was over.

Buoyed by Bohemond's return, the northern Franks over the summer of 1103 attacked Ridwan of Aleppo in order to gain supplies and compelled him to pay tribute.

Buoyed by the initial legitimacy provided by Paz and Gutierrez's support, the dictator ruled with a measure of civilian support until 1974, when the main parties realized he did not intend to hold elections and was instead using them to perpetuate himself in power.

Buoyed by the strong critical reception and profitability of the film, Fox assigned much of the credit to the central performance by Michael Rennie.

Buoyed by this success, the BBC set out a plan, the " V for Victory " campaign, for which they put in charge the assistant news editor Douglas Ritchie posing as “ Colonel Britton ”.

Buoyed by its minor success, the party organised a Stop the Coloured Invasion rally in Trafalgar Square with banners displayed proclaiming Keep Britain White in May 1959 which drew a crowd of 3, 000 to hear speeches by Bean, Fountaine and White Defence League leader Colin Jordan.

Buoyed by fan support which reached 3, 000 spectators at home games, Fuego were resurgent: impressive early-season wins over the Southern California Seahorses and the San Fernando Valley Quakes kept them in the hunt for the playoffs, and their impressive home form meant that, by the end of the year, they were one of the four teams battling for the two playoff spots.

Buoyed by this added strength, the Red Skins took a 2-0 lead over the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons in the 1945 NBL championship series, only to be swept in the remaining three games.

Buoyed by the success of the Great Northern strike, railway workers on other lines sought similar redress of their grievances through strike action.

Buoyed by, and perhaps made fearful by the mediagenerated myths of ‘ violent S11 protestors ’ and briefed by their commanding officers of much the same, some police officers were able to take full advantage of every opportunity to assault,

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

The Alabama and Tombigbee rivers furnished a highway by which goods could be moved quickly and cheaply.

Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage ditch, too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star.

Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

In February 1994, watchdog group Morality in Media claimed that the death of 8-month-old Natalia Rivera, struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel by 18-year-old Calvin J.

The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U. S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overruns, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials, criminal arrests, and even four deaths.

In the DR Congo the only highway which physically matches the route is National Road No. 2, and most passengers and freight moving between Kinshasa and that road goes by boat along the Congo River.

The long road from Bandar-Abbas in southern Iran to highway 1 in southern Afghanistan is carried out by state-owned Border Roads Organisation ( BRO ), the mission statement of which states that the BRO is India's " most reputed, multifaceted, transnational, modern construction organization committed to meeting the strategic needs of the armed forces.

Compared to other " visions of the future ," Bel Geddes ' was rather achievable — the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which General Motors built a working prototype by 1960.

Between 1966 and 1968, Soesdyke, located on the East Bank Demerara Road, was connected to Mackenzie by a modern two lane highway, called the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

On 13 September 1940, Mussolini's highway was used for the invasion of Egypt by Italian forces stationed in Libya.

It is linked by approximately of highway with Kabul to the west.

Kagoshima was bombarded by the British Royal Navy in 1863 to punish the daimyō of Satsuma for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tōkaidō highway the previous year and its refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation.

Before the days of blinking electrically lighted road barriers, highway construction zones were marked at night by kerosene fired, pot-bellied torches.

The other highway will connect the city center of Luanda to Viana, and was expected to be completed by the end of 2008.

The Northridge earthquake takes place during the story and has a profound effect on Ethan, who eventually constructs a replica highway interchange out of Lego pieces to honor the infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake.

The number of roadblocks on the Bamako-Burkina highway also increased by 12 per cent during the third quarter of 2008, going from 67 to 75.

The title of I Mother Earth's song " Shortcut to Moncton " on the album Scenery and Fish ( track 7 ) was inspired by a highway sign on the Trans-Canada highway that points to the old Fredericton Road that says, " Shortcut to Moncton ".