Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

Even among the fast set in which she was moving, her method for keeping an escort from departing too early was unique.

Even Poirot acknowledges that Rossakoff has told several wildly varying accounts of her early life.

Even as early as the 1920s he held a vision for school students of New Zealand to be involved in planting native trees and plants in their school grounds.

Even in his early years, Linnaeus seemed to have a liking for plants, flowers in particular.

Even though Rome abandoned its Britannic provinces around 400 AD, the Germanic mercenarieswho had largely become instrumental in enforcing Roman rule in Britanniaacquired ownership of land there and continued to use a mixture of Roman and Teutonic Law, with much written down under the early Anglo-Saxon Kings.

Even at this early time, cavalry used swords, shields, and bows.

Even then light cavalry remained an indispensable tool for scouting, screening the army's movements, and harassing the enemy's supply lines until military aircraft supplanted them in this role in the early stages of World War I.

Even today, the procedure is credited with ending the devastation caused by the early epidemics, and vaccination, in many ways an updated and modernized form of the procedure, continues to be recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for at-risk populations, such as potential victims of bioterrorism, and research scientists who work with surviving strains of the virus.

Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.

Even though Julius's early career goal was to become a doctor, the family's need for income forced Julius out of school at the age of twelve.

Even more broadly, " Gulag " has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the " meat-grinder ": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.

Even before the concept of immunity ( from immunis, Latin for " exempt ") was developed, numerous early physicians characterized organs that would later prove to be part of the immune system.

Even a sound card that contains high-quality sampled sounds will have inconsistent quality from one instrument to another, and early budget cards, such as the AdLib and the Sound Blaster and its compatibles, used a stripped-down version of Yamaha's frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) technology played back through low-quality digital-to-analog converters.

Even though the referenda held in the early 1990s resulted in a position in favour of retaining the Netherlands Antilles, the arrangement continued to be an unhappy one.

Even then, the opportunity was almost lost as the League delegates debated into the early hours of the morning on which clubs should be invited to join the intake.

Even in these early stages, penicillin was found to be most effective against Gram-positive bacteria, and ineffective against Gram-negative organisms and fungi.

Even at this early stage, Rodríguez's trademark style began to emerge: quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor that offsets the action.

Even so, republicanism flourished in the " country " party of the early 18th century, which denounced the corruption of the " court " party, producing a political theory that heavily influenced the American colonists.

Even as late as the early 18th century, there were many Sami who were still settling on these farms left abandoned from the 1350s.

Even during this early stage of his career, Peckinpah was developing a combative streak.

Even as a personal sidearm, the sword began to lose its preeminence in the early 19th century, paralleling the development of reliable handguns.

Even though combinatorial chemistry has been an essential part of early drug discovery for more than two decades, so far only one de novo combinatorial chemistry-synthesized chemical has been approved for clinical use by FDA ( sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor indicated for advanced renal cancer ).

Even before Russia's financial crisis of 1998, Russia's GDP was half of what it had been in the early 1990s.

Even before Washington returned, Dinwiddie had sent a company of 40 men under William Trent to that point, where in the early months of 1754 they began construction of a small stockaded fort.

Even in the 1980s, the majority of people lived in small villages and worked at agricultural pursuits.

Even after the Banda Black Rio in the 1980s, British disc jockeys began to play the group's work.

Even without this to consider, he'd been in poor health since suffering a stroke in the 1980s.

Even streets which were down at heel in the 1980s are now top-end retail avenues, including parts of Westbourne Grove and Ledbury Road, while Portobello Road has become one of London's prime tourist attractions.

" Even in the 1980s, when Nelson realized his dream of meeting Carl Perkins, Perkins noted that he and " Ricky " were the last of the " rockabilly breed.

Even after Chapman's death, until the late 1980s, Lotus continued to be a major player in Formula One.

* In the 1980s a series of trade paperbacks ( The Best of Pogo, Pogo Even Better, Outrageously Pogo, Pluperfect Pogo and Phi Beta Pogo ) collected material from the Kelly fanzine The Okefenokee Star and combined examples of Kelly's massive output of non-strip material with new interviews, essays, and in each volume, a complete year of dailies from the strip starting in 1948.

Even in the 1980s, Baganda children were considered psychologically better prepared for adulthood if they had spent several years living away from their parents at a young age.

Even by the late 1980s, the advent of Dive Computers had not met with what might be considered widespread acceptance.

Even though the system was built in the 1970s and 1980s, it is still modern compared to most other metros in the world.

Even waiting lists underestimated how inadequate housing was in the 1980s.

Even though Kerényi was fiercely defended by famous Hungarian writers like Laszlo Németh and Antal Szerb, it took until the 1980s before his complete moral and scholarly rehabilitation took place.

Even though Stronach was part of the labour movement in the 1970s and 1980s, he is well known for his opposition to trade union representation for his employees.

George Darko ( born 1951, Akropong ) is a Ghanaian highlife musician, who introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit " Ako ti brofo " ( Even Parrots speak English ), which was very popular in the early 1980s.

Even though Cornelius would feature rap artists on Soul Train frequently during the 1980s, he publicly would admit ( to the artists ' faces such as Kurtis Blow for example ) that the genre was one that he did not understand ; as rap continued to move further toward hardcore hip hop, Cornelius would admit to be frightened by the antics of groups such as Public Enemy.

Even with NBC's powerhouse primetime lineup in the 1980s and early-1990s, it was the third station in what was basically a two-station market.

( Even a Chipmunk album of punk and new wave songs was released in the 1980s by Ross Jr .)

Even after the era of live television had passed in the early 1960s, the BBC still shot the majority of its fiction programmes on videotape, with film inserts used only for location material and difficult-to-shoot sequences, until the late 1980s.

Even though skydiving equipment has made huge leaps forward in terms of reliability in the past two decades, and safety devices such as AADs have been introduced, the fatality rate has stayed roughly constant since the early 1980s.

Even as late as the early 1980s large parts of the canal line were easily recognisable with local roads passing over the old narrow sandstone hump-back canal bridges, however since then road-improvement schemes have seen the removal of redundant bridges and in some areas the utilisation of the canal bed for new roads.

Even though the group mostly sing their songs in Japanese, they do many covers of American rock and roll records from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Even into the earliest two seasons of the 1980s, the club were performing respectably with a third place finish in 1980 – 81, however by 1983 they had slipped dramatically and were involved in relegation battles.

Even with the new Interstate Highways in the area built beginning in the 1960s, by the 1980s, more than 50, 000 vehicles traveled along Military Highway daily with 67, 000 vehicles expected by the year 2010.

Even though ska appeared in the early 1980s with the band Kontraritam, formed in 1980, which released only one album before disbanding in 1983, it was only with the bands like Plejboj and Familija that it gained a vast number of fans.