During one recent day of driving about Los Angeles there were actually a dozen occasions when oncoming drivers stopped an entire lane of traffic to permit me to pull out of an impossible side street.

During the more recent Modern era and in the Post-Modern period the artillery crew has used wheeled or tracked vehicles as a mode of transportation.

During World War II and for many years afterward, Capp worked tirelessly going to hospitals to entertain patients, especially to cheer recent amputees and explain to them that the loss of a limb did not mean an end to a happy and productive life.

During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight.

During a recent UN inspection, a U. S. Department of Defense evaluation team found Burkina's Laafi battalion fit to deploy to Sudan.

During recent times, mainly during the apartheid reform and post-1994 eras, many more white Afrikaans-speaking people, mainly with " conservative " political views and of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent, have preferred to be called " Boers " or Boere-Afrikaners, rather than " Afrikaners ".

During the 1790s, there emerged of a new generation of composers, born around 1770, who, while they had grown up with the earlier styles, found in the recent works of Haydn and Mozart a vehicle for greater expression.

During recent years, the Fosters UK division of the brand focused on cultivating comedy-centric advertising and sponsorship arrangements and on 9 November 2011 they launched a trailer for their sponsored, online-only version of the hit 90s ' television show The Fast Show.

During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer which have provoked great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.

During recent decades, many people in the West have developed an interest in reincarnation.

During recent years, mobile cellular telephone ownership has grown at a much faster rate than landline ownership.

During the first Peel series, each episode would end with a short, comedic scene of the duo leaving the scene of their most recent adventure in some unusual vehicle.

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 this period he wrote The Treasure House of Images, edited early sections of Crowley's magical autobiography The Temple of Solomon the King and produced highly-regarded paintings dealing with A. A. teachings: these paintings have been used in recent years as the covers of the journal's revival, The Equinox, Volume IV .

* While Ralph Messenger is busy organizing the International Conference on Consciousness Studies (" Con-Con "), to be held at Gloucester University this year, his ( recent ) past catches up with him: During a symposium in Prague some weeks ago, he spent the night with a young scientist called Ludmila Lisk, who now, by way of email, threatens to expose him as an adulterer if she is not allowed to attend the conference.

During recent years, Mr. Temkin has used his influential Sunday column in El Mercurio de Valparaíso to advocate for many major policy issues, such as the creation of a " Ley Valparaíso " ( Valparaíso Law ) in the Chilean Congress, and the possibility that the Chilean government must guarantee funding for the preservation of Valparaíso's beloved funicular elevators.

A recent study done by the observer of Chinese film and television, Ying Zhu, suggests that “ CCTV is full of serious-minded creators who regularly experience bouts of self-doubt, philosophical ambivalence, and in some cases, clinical depression .” During her extensive interviews with key CCTV players, Zhu notes that “ Certain common themes, about ideals distorted or altogether thwarted by commercial and political pressure, emerged .”

During the summer of 1949 the state department, headed by Acheson, produced a study of recent Sino-American relations.

During Boise State's recent streak of conference championships, Bronco Stadium has proven to be a tough place for opponents.

During recent times, because of the destruction to the coastal areas, the government has restricted the amount of sand that can be removed from the beaches, and the beaches from which sand could be removed.

During a recent year, ORF had 3, 703, 664 passengers take off or land at its facility and 68, 778, 934 pounds of cargo were processed through its facilities.

During recent decades, new buildings were added that contravened the master plan of Spence, such as the Synthetic Chemistry Building and Mountbatten Building ( the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 2005 ).

During recent years, Altamonte Springs has been a host city to several local special events in the Orlando area, including Red, Hot, & Boom, a major annual firework festival that takes place every July 3 in celebration of Independence Day.

During its most recent review by NASA, NMSU was one of only 12 space grant programs in the country to receive an excellent rating.

During this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.

During the religion's early days of rapid growth, the teachings were frequently attacked from the pulpit and press.

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

During the summer of 1989, rapid changes known as peaceful revolution or Die Wende took place in East Germany, which quickly led to German reunification.

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 following administrations, since 1928, many of the revolutionary ideals were put into effect, among them the free distribution of land to peasants and farmers, the nationalization of the oil companies, the birth and rapid growth of the Social Security Institute as well as that of Labor Unions, and the protection of national industries.

During the 1950s and 1960s gradually increasing oil revenues brought prosperity, rapid immigration, substantial social progress, and the beginnings of Qatar's modern history.

During this period of rapid economical and social changes, millions of people were sent to penal labor camps, including many political convicts who opposed Stalin's rule, and millions were deported and exiled to remote areas of the Soviet Union.

During the 1956 tour to England, he helped Australia to its only victory in the Lord's Test, when he scored a rapid 97 in the second innings in 143 minutes from only 113 balls.

During his thirteen years as Grand Vizier, his rapid rise to power and vast accumulation of wealth had made Ibrahim many enemies among the Sultan's court.

During the 1950s, Tirana experienced rapid industrial growth and the population increased to about 137, 000.

During its rapid development, the city was open to migrants from the territories of the Grand Duchy and further.

During the 19th century southeast Wales in particular experienced rapid industrialisation and a dramatic rise in population as a result of the explosion of the coal and iron industries.

During such periods of rapid state formation or expansion ( Asante and Dahomey being good examples ), slavery formed an important element of political life which the Europeans exploited: As Queen Sara's plea to the Portuguese courts revealed, the system became " sell to the Europeans or be sold to the Europeans ".

During this period, the town experienced a rapid industrialization and a substantial growth in population.

During this period, there was rapid expansion among small and medium-sized firms and a gradual retrenchment among the large firms which had hitherto characterised the region's industrial base.

During the French Revolution, after seeing the speed with which the carriages of the French flying artillery maneuvered across the battlefields, French military surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey applied the idea of ambulances, or " flying carriages ", for rapid transport of wounded soldiers to a central place where medical care was more accessible and effective.

During this period the now crumbling empire went through a rapid line of ruler succession.

During the occupation the Indonesian nationalist movement went through a rapid development.

During the 16th century, mostly two musical groups-both based in Kraków and belonging to the King and Archbishop of Wawel-led the rapid innovation of Polish music.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, elm cultivars enjoyed much popularity as ornamentals in Europe by virtue of their rapid growth and variety of foliage and forms.

During the events of the Use of Weapons she functioned as a handler and primary contact for Cheradenine Zakalwe after rapid reassignment because she had worked with him before in the same capacity.

During the second half of the twentieth century the Montpellier basin underwent one of the most rapid population increases experienced anywhere in France.

During and after the war, the decline in population became much more rapid both because of the death and disruption that characterised the war years and because of the higher wages available to any workers with marketable skills in the economically more dynamic towns and cities outside Creuse.