During the war, Congress exercised an unprecedented level of political, diplomatic, military and economic authority.

During 1996, however, the economy collapsed due to the Bulgarian Socialist Party's slow and mismanaged economic reforms and an unstable and decentralised banking system, which led to an inflation rate of 311 % and the collapse of the lev.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

During his tenure he experienced some criticism from within his own party for abandoning its traditional social democratic teachings and promoting a neoliberal economic model.

During that same period, the economy grew by 3 % a year, and by 1951 the United Kingdom had " the best economic performance in Europe, while output per person was increasing faster than in the United States.

When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment .... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans.

During the 19th century, European nations established colonies in Africa to further exploit resources and expand economic influence.

During the first years of the Rivadeneira administration, Febres-Cordero introduced free-market economic policies, took a strong stand against drug trafficking and terrorism, and pursued close relations with the United States.

During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.

During the ancien régime, Paris was the central hub of culture and economic activity, and as such, the most highly skilled culinary craftsmen were to be found there.

During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American need for allies during the Cold War as a way to receive economic assistance from both countries.

During the decade following World War II, the population doubled and an era of economic prosperity occurred.

During these years policies were put in place which led to the rapid transformation of Malaysia ’ s economy and society, such as the controversial New Economic Policy, which was intended to increase proportionally the share of the economic " pie " of the bumiputras (" indigenous people ", which includes the majority Malays, but not always the indigenous population ) as compared to other ethnic groups — was launched by Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak.

During the period of socialist construction of Albania, the country saw rapid economic growth.

During the first years of the new regime, the Fascist pursued a laissez-faire economic policy: they initially reduced taxes, regulations and trade restrictions on the whole.

During the period 1790-1815 Sweden experienced two parallel economic movements: an agricultural revolution with larger agricultural estates, new crops and farming tools and a commercialisation of farming, and a protoindustrialisation, with small industries being established in the countryside and with workers switching between agricultural work in the summer season and industrial production in the winter season.

During the Cold War, Japanese foreign policy was not self-assertive, relatively focused on their economic growth.

During the 1960s, Karachi was seen as an economic role model around the world.

During these 40 years, the primary aim of the labour unions was not to benefit the workers, but to carry out the state's economic policy under their cosy relationship with the ruling party.

During most of the 20th century, however, Germany remained its most important economic partner.

During the 1970s, the economic situation in Maldives suffered a setback when the Sri Lankan market for Maldives ' main export of dried fish collapsed.

During the 1990s, Malta's economic growth has generally continued this brisk pace.

During that period, economic output contracted by one-third.

During 1946, Friedman accepted an offer to teach economic theory at the University of Chicago ( a position opened by departure of his former professor Jacob Viner to Princeton University ).

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

During the filming of The Left Hand of God ( 1955 ), he noticed his co-star Gene Tierney having a hard time remembering her lines and also behaving oddly.

During the course of the illness, the patient's mobility is progressively restricted as it becomes hard for him or her to bend down, reach for things, walk quickly and so on.

During the multi-day session to determine a new location for the state capital, many cities, including Ann Arbor, Marshall, and Jackson, lobbied hard to win this designation.

During the years 1993 – 2010, hard times have come upon the Washington Redskins franchise.

During the ensuing campaign, King's tuberculosis, which he believed he had contracted while in Paris, France, denied him the active behind-the-scenes role that he might otherwise have played, although he worked hard to assure his region's voters that New Hampshire's Pierce was a " northern man with southern principles.

During the booting process, the binary code of an operating system or runtime environment may be loaded from nonvolatile secondary storage ( such as a hard disk drive ) into volatile, or random-access memory ( RAM ) and then executed.

During the course of American War of 1812, the Americans had developed other sources for salt, and Bermudians salt trade fell upon hard times.

During the period of economic decline, smuggling had been one of the few lucrative sources of employment, and recent laws which imposed stringent financial penalties ( with hard labour for non-payment ) were unpopular.

During World War II, Leiden was hit hard by Allied bombardments.

During the Elizabethan era, people looked forward to holidays because opportunities for leisure were limited, with time away from hard work being restricted to periods after church on Sundays.

During the Great Depression, which hit Kansas very hard, the Dole family moved into the basement of their home and rented out the rest of the house.

During his reign, Byzantine Empire was ruled by Nicophorus who was very hard on Muslims.

During the designing of the 6600, CDC had set up Project SPIN to supply the system with a high speed hard disk memory system.

During winter, there can be hard freezes during the night.

During what she termed " The Vegetarian Years ", Akhmatova's work was unofficially banned by a party resolution of 1925 and she found it hard to publish, though she didn't stop writing poetry.

During the Würm glaciation, the Rhine was pushed far to the south to its present course, over a hard Late Jurassic limestone bed.

During this second invasion, the city was so utterly destroyed by Attila and his Huns that it was afterwards hard to recognize its original site.

During the California Gold Rush, great quantities of the prized mineral were found and extracted, first in local stream-beds and later in hard rock mines.

During the bout Camacho was criticized for his retreating tactics as Chávez kept pushing the fight and constantly harassed him with hard punches to the body.

( During the economic hard times in the South after the war, Thomas sent some money to his sisters, who angrily refused to accept it, declaring they had no brother.

During the 17th century, hard economic times in England encouraged workers to risk going to the North American colonies.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), Salyersville fell on hard times.

During the hard times of the Great Depression, the federal government built nearly a hundred " subsistence homestead " projects designed to move people trapped in poverty in the cities, to new homes in rural or suburban locations.

During Hurricane Ivan in 2004, the borough was hit hard with flooding.