For centuries the North Atlantic nations dominated the world and as long as they did they could afford the luxury of fighting each other.

For this period, as for earlier centuries, pottery remains the most secure source ; ;

For centuries it was the location of historic festivals and open-air sports events.

For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods.

For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, many linguists who studied Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic regarded them as members of a common Ural – Altaic family, together with Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, based on such shared features as vowel harmony and agglutination.

For many centuries following his death Alboin's heroism and his success in battle were celebrated in Saxon and Bavarian epic poetry.

For instance, the local charter of the Basque-colonized Ojacastro valley ( now in La Rioja ) allowed the inhabitants to use Basque in legal processes in the 13th and 14th centuries.

For centuries, Psovoi could not be purchased but only given as gifts from the Tsar.

For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".

For the next four centuries, the Kingdom of Croatia was ruled by the Sabor ( parliament ) and a Ban ( viceroy ) appointed by the king.

For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.

For several centuries in some of the greater monasteries the two rules were observed conjointly.

For centuries, through the modern times, the majority regarded Cagots of western France and northern Spain as an inferior caste, the untouchables.

For centuries, the priestly caste had remained an unmixed social group.

For example, a continuous chain of speakers across the centuries links Vulgar Latin to all of its modern descendants.

For the first time in centuries, the lake was a homogeneous body of water.

For the upper class of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, diplomatic immunity was an easy concept to understand.

For centuries, Dominicans have been instrumental in spreading the rosary and emphasizing the Catholic belief in the power of the rosary.

For centuries Egyptians attempted to predict and take advantage of these flows and thereby moderate the severity of floods.

For centuries sweetwater artesian wells in the Fayyum Oasis have permitted extensive cultivation in an irrigated area that extends over.

For centuries, many philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of knowing how common they were or how similar they might be to the planets of the Solar System.

For centuries it was stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen but in 1971 it was returned to Iceland.

For centuries some Western Latin Bibles used to contain a small Epistle from Paul to the Laodiceans.

For many centuries the Enchiridion was regarded as a suitable manual of practical philosophy, maintaining its authority both with Christians and Pagans.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.

For instance, college-educated people consistently show up in study after study as more often than others supporters of the Bill of Rights and other democratic rights and liberties.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s, A Canticle For Leibowitz ( 1959 ) finds men, after the great atomic disaster, stumbling back to their previous level of civilization and another catastrophe ; ;

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

For example, the Friday after Thanksgiving can be substituted for Washington's birthday.

For example: If your bodily injury claims start payment after the first $250, a 25% premium saving is often made.

For it seems that Barco, fancying himself a ladies' man ( and why not, after seven marriages??

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

For those affiliated with it, the A.L.A.M. pool was a haven from the infringement actions involving detail patents that beset the industry with mounting intensity after 1900.

Everybody returned after intermission for the miscellaneous sweepings of the Fantasy For Piano, Chorus, And Orchestra In C Minor, made up by its composer to fill out one of his programs.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

For example, after having established that the set X contains only non-empty sets, a mathematician might have said " let F ( s ) be one of the members of s for all s in X.

In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

For the first of these, he raised a large sum and a substantial force, arriving in Damietta on 24 October 1249, after the town had already been captured.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

For example, Dürer offered his last portrait of Maximilian to his daughter, Margaret of Austria, but eventually traded the picture for some white cloth after Margaret disliked the portrait and declined to accept it.

For a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely active and well known in Germany, in part because he lectured widely proposing social reforms.

For nearly 150 years after, Venice did not own an inch of soil on the mainland of Greece, except the Ionian dependencies of Parga and Butrinto, but of her insular dominions Cyprus, Crete, Tenos and 6 Ionian islands still remained.

For the Ottoman and modern city ( after 1453 ), see Istanbul.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.