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 the times of drought there wasn't enough water to make gazpacho.

" 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 the monsoon there are frequent heavy rains and thunderstorms but flooding is not a common occurrence.

During a prolonged skirmish between the troops of these opposing forces, Sun and his wife Soong Ching-ling narrowly evaded heavy machine gun fire and were rescued by gunboats under Chiang's direction.

During the first few days of the spill, heavy sheens of oil covered large areas of the surface of Prince William Sound.

During development, it was found that the comparatively heavy rear-mounted engine moved the center of mass of the vehicle rearwards.

During the Ancient and Middle Ages Infantry were categorized by the types of weapons and armor they used, such as heavy, medium, and light infantry.

During World War I, the Imperial Army Air Service utilised a wide variety of aircraft, ranging from fighters ( such as those manufactured by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and Fokker ) to reconnaissance aircraft ( Aviatik and DFW ) and heavy bombers ( Gothaer Waggonfabrik, better known simply as Gotha, and the Zeppelin-Staaken R. VI " giant " heavy bomber ).

During heavy fighting he was captured by the Austrians in April 1915, when his division became isolated from the rest of the Russian forces.

During the Anglo-Norman invasions of Wales, Welsh bowmen took a heavy toll of the invaders and Welsh archers would feature in English armies from this point on.

During the Vietnam War, Carlos Hathcock set the record for a long-distance shot at 7382 ft ( 2250 m ) with a. 50 caliber heavy machine gun he had equipped with a telescopic sight.

During September 1944, the city saw heavy fighting during Operation Market Garden.

During the First Military School, members of the Central Committee came under heavy criticism.

During 1980s, he was the project manager of the Khushab-I ; he designed the plutonium based nuclear power plant, the Khushab Reactor, near Lahore, a heavy water reactor that produces plutonium and Tritium.

During the mid-19th century, the ships of the line were superseded by large steam powered ships with heavy gun armament and heavy armour, named ironclads.

During the third day of the 13-day Cold Harbor battle, Grant led a costly fatal assault on Lee's trenches, and as news spread in the North, heavy criticism fell on Grant, who was called " the Butcher ", having lost 52, 788 casualties in 30 days since crossing the Rapidan.

During the southwesterly summer monsoon, occurring from May to October, the heated air of the Gobi Desert rises, far to the north, inducing moist air to flow inland from the sea and deposit heavy rainfall.

During the January Uprising in 1863, heavy fighting occurred within the city, but was brutally pacified by Mikhail Muravyov, nicknamed The Hangman by the population because of the number of executions he organized.

During the fire-bombing, she was sheltered with other members of her family in a special bunker in the Azabu district of Tokyo, far from the heavy bombing.

During the decisive battle before the walls he suffers a severe defeat, and only the heavy loss of Visigoths makes king Theodoric I decide to agree to a provisional restoration of the status quo.

During this era, development of the financial district stagnated, and Wall Street " paid a heavy price " and " became something of a backwater in American life.

During this early period of the French rule, the Belgian economy was completely paralyzed: it was forbidden to export from the port of Antwerp, heavy taxes had to be paid in gold and silver coin, while goods bought by the French were paid for with worthless assignats.

During the hurried attack on El Caney and San Juan Heights, American forces, who had packed the available roads and were unable maneuvre, suffered heavy losses from Spanish troops equipped with modern repeating smokeless powder rifles and breech-loading artillery, while the short-ranged blackpowder guns of U. S. artillery units were unable to respond effectively.

During the year approximately 300 days are sunny and the few others are rainy, with a major concentration of rainfall in the winter and autumn, some heavy showers in the spring, and snowfalls on the highest massifs and highlands.