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 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 the 1970s the relative number of communists in Republics of the Soviet Union was as follows:

During this period of relative inactivity he paid a flying visit to Pearl Harbor, where he was not impressed with the poor state of readiness.

During this period, relative humidity is high.

During most of the 18th century Spain had arrested its relative decline of the latter part of the 17th century.

During the gradual process by which Homo erectus made a transition from furry to naked skin, their hair texture putatively changed gradually from Afro-textured hair or ' kinky ' ( i. e. tightly coiled ) to straight hair ( the condition of most mammals, including humanity's closest cousins — chimpanzees ) This argument is based on the principle that curly hair impedes the passage of UV light into the body relative to straight hair ( thus curly or coiled hair would be particularly advantageous for dark-skinned hominids living at the equator ).

During this period, the island also had become the largest exporter of Greek wine, which was noted for being of relative high quality ( see Chian wine ).

During the 1960s, Lebanon enjoyed a period of relative calm, with Beirut-focused tourism and banking sector-driven prosperity.

During the pontificate of Boniface, Mellitus, the first Bishop of London, went to Rome " to consult the pope on important matters relative to the newly established English Church ".

During the Thirty Years ' War, Switzerland was a relative " oasis of peace and prosperity " ( Grimmelshausen ) in war-torn Europe, mostly because all major powers in Europe depended on Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall in the hands of one of their rivals.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the pearling industry thrived in the relative calm at sea, providing both income and employment to the people of the Persian Gulf.

During the Depression and through at least the 1950s, there was limited relative adjustment of farmland away from activities that became less productive in more-eroded counties.

During the late 1940s, however, he suffered a period of relative inactivity.

During periods of relative stability in the industry landscape, companies can make incremental adjustments to their business model over extended periods of time.

During the collision of small objects, kinetic energy is first converted to potential energy associated with a repulsive force between the particles ( when the particles move against this force, i. e. the angle between the force and the relative velocity is obtuse ), then this potential energy is converted back to kinetic energy ( when the particles move with this force, i. e. the angle between the force and the relative velocity is acute ).

During this series, several Hurricanes fan traditions drew hockey-wide media attention for the first time: fans met the team at the airport on the return from every road trip, and echoed football-season habits honed for games across the parking lot by hosting massive tailgate parties before each home game, a relative novelty in the cold-weather-centric NHL.

During the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Segovia experienced a demographic recovery that was the result of relative economic stability.

During this period, the population developed an economy based on self-sufficiency and piracy, and even showed evidence of a relative hierarchy.

During 1442 a local noble named Sir Rowland Standish ( a relative of Myles Standish, Mayflower passenger and military commander of Plymouth Colony ), who had fought at Agincourt, brought back to Chorley the skull and bones of Saint Lawrence and interred them at an altar at the parish church.

During the pursuit, perhaps influenced by the dreadful state of the Polish roads, the savage winter weather and the relative ease with which his forces had dealt with Prussia, Napoléon had allowed the Grande Armée to become more spread out than was his custom.

During his pontificate, Alexander IV ( 1254 – 1261 ), Gregory IX's relative and Anagni's third pope, had to face the heated ecclesiological dispute raised by the University of Paris against the Mendicant Orders.

During observation, a computer-controlled system of sensors and actuators adjusts the position of each segment, relative to its neighbors, to an accuracy of four nanometers.

During his residence at Oxford he wrote his tract, Historic Doubts relative to Napoleon Bonaparte, a clever jeu d ' ésprit directed against excessive scepticism as applied to the Gospel history.

During another interview with Bell, replying to a question regarding his or one of his sons ' candidatures for Sharaf or Emir of Mesopotamia, he said, " I am a relative of the Sharaf.

Although the hard-fought Veneto region formally belonged to the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna since the end of the Gothic War, it remained unsafe on account of frequent Germanic invasions and wars: During the following 200 years the Lombards and the Franks fuelled a permanent influx of sophisticated urban refugees to the island ’ s relative safety, including the Bishop of Altino himself.