During the Communist era, the army members enjoyed extensive social privileges.

During an extensive gene-mapping project, archaeologists analyzed the heritage of more than 110 modern grape cultivars, and narrowed their origin to a region in Georgia, where wine residues were also discovered on the inner surfaces of 8, 000-year-old ceramic storage jars.

For example, one key meeting location was in the U. S. at the Dakin Building, then owned by American philanthropist Henry Dakin, who had extensive Russian contacts: During the late 1980s, as glasnost and perestroika led to the liquidation of the Soviet empire, the Dakin building was the location for a series of groups facilitating United States-Russian contacts.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans built an extensive network of roads which continued to be used in later centuries and many are still followed today.

During the next years the prototype went through extensive testing and several new prototypes were built.

During the Warring States period of Chinese history ( 480-221 BC ) extensive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by Sun Tzu in The Art of War ( c. 350 BC ).

During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and fortifications.

During the last few years mobile phone coverage of the population has been far more extensive than fixed line coverage.

During his reign the Roman eastern frontier underwent extensive re-fortification, including the construction of Dara, a stronghold intended to counter the Persian fortress of Nisibis.

During the 18th century, several scholars had noticed parallels between Tibetan and Burmese, both languages with extensive literary traditions.

During Star Trek Generations, the Enterprise was lost in 2371 after an attack by a renegade Klingon Bird-of-Prey ( commanded by the Duras sisters ) caused extensive damage, leading to a warp core breach.

During this time he created an extensive network of fictitious sub-agents living in different parts of Britain.

During the 1950s and 1960s the surrounding area saw extensive growth in housing, when large suburban public and private housing estates were constructed.

During extensive trials, Holland made numerous dives and test-fired the gun using dummy projectiles.

During the 9th century, extensive Scandinavian settlements began on the east side of the Baltic Sea.

During the late Middle Ages, Henry VIII of England built an extensive set of coastal defences at each end of the Solent, part of his Device Forts, effectively controlling access to east and west.

During World War II, after extensive occupation by the German forces, on 15 April 1945, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, disobeying direct orders, charged into the heavily defended city and defeated the Germans, who were driven out by the next day.

During her daughter's extensive tour of the Commonwealth over 1953 – 54, Elizabeth acted as a Counsellor of State and looked after her grandchildren, Charles and Anne.

During the 17th century, further extensive repairs were carried out, in spite of a poor financial situation following the Civil War.

During the first year, the AOASF curriculum includes " classroom investigation of the multinational, joint and interagency environment, and extensive travel to DOD regional commands and headquarters around the world ".

During the Crump era, Memphis developed an extensive network of parks and public works as part of the national City Beautiful movement.

During the Black Saturday Fires ( February 2009 ) throughout Victoria, Wilsons Prom had been struck by lightning, which then led to the loss of up to 50 % of the park through extensive fire damage.

During this time, the Portuguese gradually switched from an initial plan of establishing trading posts to extensive colonization of what is now Brazil.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an extensive streetcar system was constructed throughout the city with the first streetcar running in 1872 and electrification of the system in 1889.

During his college days ( 1969-1973 ) he became disillusioned with the New Left of the 1970s and undertook extensive readings in anarchism, utopian socialism, council communism, and other left tendencies critical of both Marxism-Leninism and social democracy.

During 1598 and 1599 he made `` manye Guiftes of myne owne provision bestowed uppon Cowrtiers & others for the better effectinge of our suites in hande ''.

During the year 1960, this office supplied 954 visitors with information related to foreign and domestic commerce, and made 73 field visits.

During the past year, great progress has been made by the weaving mills in creating new stretch and textured fabrics.

During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.

During the period of the Iberian Union ( 1580 – 1640 ), Portugal lost influence and power and made new enemies.

During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.

During the last three centuries attempts have been made to sift away successively those gems which had no claim to be considered in any sense Gnostic, or specially Basilidian, or connected with Abrasax.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

During the 3rd century, under threat from a Herulian invasion, repairs were made to the Acropolis walls, and the " Beulé Gate " was constructed to restrict entrance in front of the Propylaia, thus returning the Acropolis to use as a fortress.

During development, engineers had made the decision to use the Zilog 8530 serial controller chip ( SCC ) instead of the lower cost and more common UART to provide serial port connections.

During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.

During the 7th century, Arab armies made their way into the region of Afghanistan from Khorasan with the new religion of Islam.

During the early eighties, nearly all BASE jumps were made using standard skydiving equipment, including two parachutes ( main and reserve ), and deployment components.

During the governorship of Montagu Norman, which lasted from 1920 to 1944, the Bank made deliberate efforts to move away from commercial banking and become a central bank.

During the building boom of the 19th century in the eastern seaboard cities of Boston and New York City, for example, locally made bricks were often used in construction in preference to the brownstones of New Jersey and Connecticut for these reasons.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During the Battle of France, the French, who made attempts to re-form defensive lines along rivers, were constantly frustrated when German forces arrived there first and pressed on.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

During this period, rum was cheaply made and not considered a refined drink, one rarely sold in upscale taverns.

During the 1970s, he made guest-appearances on TV series such as Ironside, Insight, Barbary Coast, The Love Boat, Medical Center, four episodes of Love, American Style, Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

During the Roman Empire, Roman concrete ( or opus caementicium ) was made from quicklime, pozzolana and an aggregate of pumice.

During his rule, members of Yakoma were granted all key positions in the administration and made up a majority of the military.

During the 19th century, carbines were often developed separately from the infantry rifles, and in many cases did not even use the same ammunition, which made for supply difficulties.

During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

During the 1930s and 40s, significant improvements were made to the ground, making it one of the largest in the country at that time.