During Soviet times, Armenia's rail network connected to Russia's via Georgia through Abkhazia along the Black Sea.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

During the Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for the Japanese.

During the times of Babylonia, tar-like glue was used for gluing statues.

During ancient times Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.

During times of low demand, excess power can be stored in batteries for future use.

During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration, Islamization and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for " inciting racial hatred ".

During ancient Roman times the balteus ( plural baltei ) was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword.

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 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 early colonial times there were gold exports to Perú from placer deposits which soon depleted.

During pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, Central Asia was a predominantly Iranian region that included the sedentary Eastern Iranic speaking Bactrians, Sogdians and Chorasmians, and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Alans.

During wartime, a shipping convoy will have a ranking officer — sometimes an active-duty naval officer, at other times a civilian master or retired naval officer — designated as the convoy commodore.

During the 1984 and 1985 seasons, Earnhardt visited victory lane six times, at Talladega, Atlanta, Richmond, Bristol ( twice ), and Martinsville, where he finished fourth and eighth in the season standings, respectively.

During most of these times, deserts have grown and shrunk independent of human activities.

During his two years at Britannia, moored at Dartmouth, Devon, he was given twenty-five times for " minor offences " and beaten three times for more serious infractions.

During colonial times, the Spanish decided that El Salvador would produce and export indigo, but after the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, Salvadoran authorities and the newly created modern state turned to coffee as the main export of the economy.

During the Dutch Revolt, Eindhoven changed hands between the Dutch and the Spanish several times during which it was burned down by renegade Spanish soldiers, until finally in 1583 it was captured once more by Spanish troops and its city walls were demolished.

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

During her career at the Grand Guignol, Maxa's characters were murdered more than 10, 000 times in at least 60 different ways and raped at least 3, 000 times.

" During Washington's last five years at Tuskegee, Carver submitted or threatened his resignation several times: when the administration reorganized the agriculture programs, when he disliked a teaching assignment, to manage an experiment station elsewhere, and when he did not get summer teaching assignments in 1913-1914.

During times of heavy rainfall, much of the savannah area is covered by shallow water, making transportation by means other than a shallow-draft boat almost impossible.

During a time of La Niña, drought plagues the coastal regions of Peru and Chile.

During the Younger Dryas period of cold and drought, permanent habitation of any one location was not possible.

During the years between drought, good rains brought bumper crops to market.

During the Dust Bowl and Great Depression of the 1930s, large numbers of people fled rural areas of the Plains and Midwest because of depressed commodity prices, high debt load, and several years of drought and large dust storms.

During the dry season, drought plagues the island's central interior.

During a period of drought, the repeated plowing contributed to the Dust Bowl in the prairie region of the Central United States and Canada.

During the cold season, drought, or rainy nights, a sugar glider's activity is reduced.

During the summer of 2006, a severe drought caused the Iguazu River to become diminished, reducing the amount of water flowing over the falls to until early December.

During the drought of the 1930s, without natural anchors to keep the soil in place, it dried, turned to dust, and blew away eastward and southward in large dark clouds.

During this playoff drought, instability in the front office mirrored the Islanders ' substandard performance on the ice.

During the time of the Great Frost, a particularly cold spring drought in 1740 made it difficult to raise enough cattle for food or work.

During the warmest months, April through June, drought is a chronic problem with little rainfall until July when the rainy season begins.

During the La Niña season, rainfall averages 4 inches or below, causing drought problems during summer.

During the 1980s Edina survived economic distress, drought and a consequent crisis in water supply, decline in population, and the loss of its railroad.

During the summer of 2011, the City received national attention due to its aging water utility system and complications resulting from the severe Texas drought of 2011.

During his time as Taipei's mayor, Ma had many conflicts with the central government over matters such as health insurance rates and control of the water supply during the drought.

During the 1979-83 drought, for example, the population was reduced by about 5 %.

During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a ' water truce ', during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his stripes.

During the period of drought known as the dirty thirties, farmland within the dry-belt, cultivated with mold-board plow and / or double disc and summer fallowed every other year, was subject to massive soil erosion.

During the 1990s botanists began experimenting with hybrids of Poa pratensis and Texas bluegrass ( P. arachnifera ), with the goal of creating a drought and heat-resistant lawn grass.

During the 19th century, drought and floods alternately struck the rice fields and farms of Korea and caused great famines.

During the devastating famine and drought, the family must flee to a large city in the south to find work.

During the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, the Prairie States Forest Project encouraged farmers to plant shelterbelts ( wind breaks ) made of eastern juniper throughout the Great Plains.

During the drought of 2007-2008 this canal remained navigable while much of surrounding areas were too shallow or even above the water line.