From the beginning, Colangelo wanted to market the Diamondbacks to a statewide fan base and not limit fan appeal to Phoenix and its suburbs.

From the late 1820s until the mid 1960s, Arapawa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds.

From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina Italiana ) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux.

From a base of 90 % of trains arriving on time in 1998, the measure dipped to 75 % in mid 2001 and, by the end of the 2002 – 3 period, had recovered to only 80 %.

From the earliest settlement of the Cayman Islands, economic activity was hindered by isolation and a limited natural resource base.

From 1827 to 1843, Britain established a base on the island to combat the slave trade.

From 1615 to 1638, Jan Mayen was used as a whaling base by the Dutch Noordsche Compagnie, which had been given a monopoly on whaling in the Arctic regions by the States General in 1614.

From the 16th century onwards there were elaborate knot gardens in the base court.

From 1609 onwards, they had a territorial base in the vicinity, the Duchy of Cleves, the starting-point of the future Prussian Rhineland.

They prospected south along the Baiyer River to its junction with the Maramuni and Tarua Rivers, where they established a palisaded forward camp naming the place ‘ Akmana Junction .’ From this base they prospected along the Maramuni River and its tributaries, again without success.

From his base in Montreal, Trudeau took control of the Liberal Party and became a charismatic leader, inspiring " Trudeaumania ".

From the base to the highest point is 163 feet (.

From this power base, his heir Ordoño II was able to organize attacks against Toledo and even Seville.

From this base, Sulayman Pasha managed to take control of the whole country of Yemen, also taking Sa ' na.

At that point, Symbolics began using their own copy of the software, located on their company servers — while Stallman says that Symbolics did that to prevent its Lisp improvements from flowing to Lisp Machines, Inc. From that base, Symbolics made extensive improvements to every part of the software, and continued to deliver almost all the source code to their customers ( including MIT ).

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

From their base at Ani, the brothers surged ahead into the central Armenian lands, reclaiming one after another fortress and district from local Muslim dynasts: Bjni was taken in 1201 and Dvin fell in 1203.

From this time the pirates increasingly made the Bahamian capitol of Nassau, founded in 1694, their base.

From its base down to Wilhelmshöhe Palace runs a long set of artificial cascades which delight visitors during the summer months.

From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangchuck had defeated his political enemies and united the country following several civil wars and rebellions in 1882-85.

From a near-zero customer base Manco eventually controlled 40 % of the duct tape market in the US.

From its beginning, the main feature of the metric system was the standard set of inter-related base units and a standard set of prefixes in powers of ten.

From this base, they acquired political power initially in Florence and later in wider Italy and Europe.

From this base, the mixed Varangian-Slavic population ( known as the Rus ) launched several expeditions against Constantinople.

From this base, further missions were established at Lichtenfels ( 1748 ), Lichtenau ( 1774 ), Friedrichsthal ( 1824 ), Umanak ( 1861 ), and Idlorpait ( 1864 ), before they were discontinued in 1900 and folded into the Lutheran Church of Denmark.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

From the outside it was an ordinary enough house of the gentry.

From there on, each Junior was going to be judged individually.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.