The most notable change was the introduction of the Contour's corporate ' oval ' grille and big, wraparound lighting units.

In 1991, DC Comics published a colored trade paperback reprinting early Warlord stories, which included a new wraparound painted cover by Mike Grell ( who also wrote an introduction for the book ).

For a young or green ( inexperienced ) horse, longeing is used to teach a horse to respond to voice commands and the trainer's body language, to accustom them to the feel of a saddle and bridle, and to begin their introduction to the feel of reins and bit pressure.

Because the ancients could not produce temperatures high enough to melt iron fully, the production of steel in decent quantities did not occur until the introduction of blister steel during the Middle Ages.

The introduction of herbicide-tolerant crops has the potential of reducing the number of herbicide active ingredients used for weed management, reducing the number of herbicide applications made during a season, and increasing yield due to improved weed management and less crop injury.

Last but not least, the introduction of spurs allowed better control of the mount during the " knightly charge " in full gallop.

The Christadelphian position on conscientious objection came to the fore with the introduction of conscription during the First World War.

Yamaha's engineers began adapting Chowning's algorithm for use in a commercial digital synthesizer, adding improvements such as the " key scaling " method to avoid the introduction of distortion that normally occurred in analog systems during frequency modulation, though it would take several years before Yamaha release their FM digital synthesizers.

The introduction of the printing press in Europe during the fifteenth century and the diffusion of printed matter contributed to higher literacy rates and wider access to the once-rarefied knowledge of academia.

The introduction of commercial and domestic refrigerators drastically improved the diets of many in the Western world by allowing foods such as fresh fruit, salads and dairy products to be stored safely for longer periods, particularly during warm weather.

" ( emphasis in original ) Rodden goes on to explain how, during the McCarthy era, the introduction to the Signet edition of Animal Farm, which sold more than 20 million copies, makes use of " the politics of ellipsis ":

The reaction to Napoleon's conquests of German countries during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), produced important institutional reforms, including the abolition of feudal restrictions on the sale of large landed estates, the reduction of the power of the guilds in the cities, and the introduction of a new, more efficient commercial law.

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

There have been two introductions of English to Ireland, a medieval introduction that led to the development of the now-extinct Yola dialect and a modern introduction in which Hibernian English largely replaced Irish as the most widely spoken language during the 19th century, following the Act of Union of 1800.

The introduction of bamboo practice swords ( shinai ) and armour ( bōgu ) to sword training is attributed to Naganuma Shirōzaemon Kunisato during the Shotoku Era ( 1711 – 1715 ).

Hardwood conventional kilns also require the introduction of humidity via either steam spray or cold water misting systems to keep the relative humidity inside the kiln from dropping too low during the drying cycle.

However, during the revolution, the NTC has made the introduction of multiparty democracy a cornerstone of its agenda.

The Lomwe of Malawi are a recent introduction having arrived as late as 1914, during the first World War.

Driving on the left has been compulsory since the introduction of motorcars in Federated Malay States in 1903 during British colonial era.

The US military de-emphasized hand-to-hand combat training during the Cold War period, but revived it with the introduction of LINE in 1989.

There was a short period during the introduction of printing where parchment and paper were used interchangeably: although most copies of the Gutenberg Bible are on paper, some were printed on parchment.

Books I through V of The Histories are the introduction for the years during his lifetime, describing the politics in each powerful nation, including ancient Greece and Egypt.

Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose:

Alterations during this period included minor changes, such as extending the legal deposit system to cover Sion College and the Faculty of Advocates, but also major ones, including the introduction of a limit on the length of time for which copyright would be granted.

) Army soldiers commonly refer to SPAM as Special Army Meat due to its introduction during the war.

' The story he chose to tell turned out to be Strangers in Paradise, or ' this story about 2 girls and a guy who gets to know them ' ( from Moore's introduction to The Collected Strangers in Paradise, Volume One ), which used characters he'd developed during his time on the gag-a-day circuit.

With the introduction of the blast furnace to Europe in the Middle Ages, pig iron was able to be produced in much higher volumes than wrought iron.

The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, begins with the introduction of farming, ultimately from the Middle East, around 4000 BCE.

This had marked the introduction of a third Abrahamic Middle Eastern religion, following Judaism and Christianity, often in puritanical form.

Due to their diminutive size and the introduction of new predators, some colonies have been reduced in size by as much as 98 % in just a few years, such as the small colony on Middle Island, near Warrnambool, Victoria, which was reduced from 5000 penguins to 100.

The introduction in the later Middle Ages of siege cannons, which harnessed the explosive power of gunpowder to propel weighty stone or iron balls against fortified obstacles, spelled the end of battering rams and other traditional siege weapons.

In 1901 Robert Ridgway wrote in the introduction to The Birds of North and Middle America that:

Middle Eastern belly dance, also known as oriental dancing, was popularized in the United States after its introduction on the Midway at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago by a dancer known as Little Egypt.

The Middle English period ended at about 1470, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press to England by William Caxton in the late 1470s.

Due to the changing nature of combat with the introduction of artillery in the European Middle Ages, and infantry firearms in the Renaissance, attempts were made to define and identify those strategies, grand tactics and tactics that would produce a victory more often than that achieved by the Romans in praying to the gods before the battle.

The early 20th century historian and archaeologist Ella Armitage published a ground-breaking book in 1912, arguing convincingly that British castles were in fact a Norman introduction, while historian Alexander Thompson also published in the same year, charting the course of the military development of English castles through the Middle Ages.

This was BEA's competitive answer to the impending introduction of the Sud-Est Caravelle, Air France's new short -/ medium-range jet, on the French flag carrier's European, North African and Middle Eastern network, including the prime Heathrow – Le Bourget route from July 1959.

* John Nawas, A Reexamination of three current explanations for Al-Ma ’ mun ’ s introduction of the Mihna, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 26, ( 1994 ) pp. 615 – 629

Lerna V is continuous with the preceding phase, distinguished largely by new styles in pottery with the sudden, peaceful introduction of matte-painted ware, the thick-slipped Argive version of gray Minyan ware, and a vigorous increase in the kinds of imported wares, coming from the Cyclades and Crete ( Middle Minoan IA ).

Many religions are present in northern England, with Christianity remaining the largest since the Early Middle Ages, though its existence on the island dates back to the Roman introduction in antiquity and continued through Early Insular Christianity.

Milnrow did not expand until the introduction of a woollen weaving trade which began in the Late Middle Ages and continued until the 19th century.

Throughout the High Middle Ages, a large influx of German settlers and the introduction of German law, custom, and Low German language turned the area west of the Oder into a German one ( Ostsiedlung ).

His Isagoge, or Introduction, is an introduction to logic and philosophy, and in Latin translation it was the standard textbook on logic throughout the Middle Ages.

In the introduction to the Middle Dutch poem Van den vos Reynaerde ( About Reynard the Fox ), the author Willem mentions that he had previously written a work called Madoc.

As a result of this decline, and the relative paucity of historical records from Europe in particular, the period between the fall of the Empire and the Middle Ages became known as the Dark Ages, a term displaced in most current periodisations by the introduction of " Late Antiquity ".

* Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times.

During the following three years, FAST expanded its geographical reach by opening new offices in Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa, extended its partnership relations through the introduction of the FAST X10 partner program, and introduced new solutions aimed specifically at certain business areas, like FAST ImPulse for eCommerce and FAST AdVisor for Internet yellow pages and portals.

This change in Japanese phonology following the introduction of foreign words ( here primarily from English ) can be compared to the earlier posited change in Japanese phonology following the introduction of Chinese loanwords, such as closed syllables ( CVC, not just CV ) and length becoming a phonetic feature with the development of both long vowels and long consonants – see Early Middle Japanese: Phonological developments.