During the 8th century, the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to a form of Judaism .< ref > Abraham Firkovich, a leader of the Karaims in the 19th century, argued that the Khazars converted to Karaimism ( not to be confused with Karaite Judaism ).

During World War II, American and British publications confused over the use of the plural " commandos " for that type of British military units gave rise to the modern common habit of using " a commando " to mean one member of such a unit, or one man engaged on a raiding-type operation.

During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, confused, and shy.

During recent years local historians have confused this review with another, smaller review held on nearby Upton's Hill, where events spurred the composition and publication of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

During the confused fighting, French and Russian units moved forward into impenetrable smoke and were smashed by artillery and musketry fire that was horrendous even by Napoleonic standards.

During an interview in 1997 with film author Edward Vilga, Gray was asked whether the movie industry was " confused " by his writings and roles and this was his answer:

During defragmentation system performance will be degraded, and it is best to leave the computer alone during the process so that the defragmenter does not get confused by unexpected changes to the file system.

During the raid, one of the Confederate artillery pieces exploded, and Custer became confused believing that the explosion was actually the reopening of enemy artillery fire.

During the 10th century, the remains of the martyr and tribune Saint Quirinus, not to be confused with the Roman god Quirinus, had been relocated to Neuss.

During an April 23, 2010, debate for the Republican gubernatorial primary, Gibbons further confused his actual stance on Yucca Mountain by taking positions both favoring and opposing the federal waste dump over a two-minute period of time.

During the Boer War, Nelspruit served briefly as the seat of government for the South African Republic ( not to be confused with the Republic of South Africa ), an independent Boer republic.

During the early Empire, Vienna ( as the Romans called it — not to be confused with today's Vienna ) regained all its former privileges as a Roman colony.

During the confused fighting at the shore, Yoshitsune loses his bow and gets it back risking his life.

During colonial times and into the early Republic, many Cubans suffered from intense ethnocentrism and confused Afro-Cuban religion with black magic and witchcraft.

During the earliest phases of its construction, the High Evolutionary's Counter-Earth was aggressively targeted for ' collection ' by the Beyonders ( not to be confused with The Beyonder ).

During the return of the bodies to France, Neveu's coffin was confused with that of another victim, Amélie Ringler.

During the advance on Granicus, a squadron commanded by Socrates of Macedon ( not to be confused with the philosopher ) hailed from Apollonia on Lake Bolbe.

During this time, he formed a successful tag team with Frankie Kazarian known as Evolution ( not to be confused with the World Wrestling Entertainment stable of the same name ).

During the bicentennial year 1976, commissioned Navy ships flew this Jack in place of the Naval Jack ( Officially known as the Union Jack, not to be confused with the United Kingdom's Flag ) at the bow.

During a confused retreat, Crawford and dozens of his men were captured.

During the following days, the fighting became more and more confused.

During rationing, most milk in Britain was used to make just one kind of cheese, nicknamed " Government Cheddar " ( not to be confused with the " government cheese " issued by the welfare state ).

During the trial, Jimmy uses information from his past as a DA to discredit his former co-workers ; for example, Detective Biggio sent an innocent man to prison where he was killed before his release, and he uses a forensic examiner's attention deficit disorder ( ADD ) to try to convince the jury that he may have been confused at the crime scene

During the last 10 years before the announcement, Schopp converted the serialised material to novel form, corrected the many errors, including confused names and places ; did other editing, and wrote a final two and a half chapters based on Dumas ' notes.

During much of the early medieval period, the town was contested between the Byzantines and the Bulgarian Empire, whose capital it was between 972 and 992.

During much of the early medieval period, the town was contested by both the Byzantines and the Bulgarian Empire.

During the following Polish elections the Communists won 65 percent of the seats in the Sejm, though the seats won were guaranteed and the Communists were unable to gain a majority, while 99 out of the 100 seats in the Senate freely contested were won by Solidarity-backed candidates.

During the games, other scandals erupted over contested judging scores and illegal drug use.

During the banking crash of the 1890s which devastated Australia, Lang became interested in politics, frequenting radical bookshops and helping newspapers and publications of the infant Labor Party, which contested its first election in New South Wales in 1891.

During the general elections of September 1780, Pitt contested the University of Cambridge seat, but lost.

During his short period in the cabinet, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and sent Zachary Taylor into the contested land between Texas and Mexico.

During the nearly one-year siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, the fortifications on the Malakhov were hotly contested as they overlooked the whole city and the inner harbour.

During the negotiations leading to the initiation of the party a number of issues were hotly contested.

During this time, suzerainty over Faucigny was contested between the House of Savoy and the Dauphin de Viennois.

During the 1070s and 1080 there appears to have been a pagan renaissance with the magnificent Temple at Uppsala described in a contested account through an eye-witness by Adam of Bremen.

During much of its existence, the realm was contested between French and Aragonese ( Spanish ) dynasties.

During the Assembly the post was contested by Francisco Frutos Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain and Angeles Maestro who was supported by the most radical factions of IU along with Llamazares, who was supported by the then General Coordinator Julio Anguita.

During the Russian Civil War, the Whites and the Reds contested Rostov-on-Don, then the most heavily industrialized city of South Russia.

During the course of the evening, it first called the closely contested state of Florida for Al Gore, then George W. Bush, and then as ' too close to call '.

During the Sengoku period, the area was frequently contested between the Late Hōjō clan and Uesugi clan.

During the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire it was also contested by Bulgarian and Byzantine forces and enjoyed particular prosperity under Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander ( 1331 – 1371 ) until it was conquered by Crusaders led by Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy in 1366.

During the 1970 parliamentary elections, the Peoples Party contested with full force, initially brutalizing the far-right wings, and defeating the centre-right forces in West-Pakistan, although the Peoples Party faced a definite defeat in East-Pakistan where the tendency of communism was greater.

During the Illinois U. S. Senate election campaign in 2010, Kirk and Giannoulias were in a hotly contested debate.

During the American Revolution, the region became was contested between Britain and rebellious American colonies.

During the first election to the newly-reestablished senate in 1989 the future-president Lech Wałęsa's Solidarity Movement won 99 of the 100 seats being contested, with the final seat being taken by an independent.

During the War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ), the Bay region was heavily contested between Southwestern Somalian and Transitional Federal Government forces, who controlled the Baidoa, and Qansax Dheere districts, and the Islamic Courts Union ( ICU ), who controlled Diinsoor and Buur Hakaba ( despite being captured twice by government forces for brief periods ).

During the Iran – Iraq War in the 1980s, al-Faw was bitterly contested due to its strategic location at the head of the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, and was the site of many large-scale battles.

During the 2005 election he contested the Epsom electorate in Auckland and at a public meeting he promised to run through the streets of Epsom naked if the electorate was won by ACT New Zealand's leader Rodney Hide.