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 centuries after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in 331 BCE, Imperial Aramaic — or near enough for it to be recognisable — would remain an influence on the various native Iranian languages.

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 weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

For Rachel, conceded to be the prettiest of the Szold girls -- and she did make a pretty picture sitting in the grape-arbor strumming her guitar and singing in her silvery tones -- there was no particular March counterpart ; ;

For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.

For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.

For a few minutes there was nothing to hear.

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.

For every person on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

For the moment there was no woman in his life, and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

For, granting that there are great present-day problems to be solved, these problems make great demands ; ;

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

For large letters, e.g. thermoformed of acrylic or butyrate, there are other techniques.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.

For a number of years, there have been sporadic attempts in California to organize farm workers.

For instance, there have been two Presidential Commissions on higher education since World War 2.