During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

Rav became closely related, through the marriage of one of his daughters, to the family of the exilarch.

Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.

Knighthood largely lost its military functions and became more closely tied to social and economic prestige in an increasingly capitalistic Western society.

The agricultural export interests, centered in the coastal region near Guayaquil, became closely associated with the Liberals, whose political power also grew steadily during the interval.

The New Reasoner was the most important organ of what became known as the " New Left ", an informal movement of dissident leftists closely associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The ephemeris time of the 1952 standard leaves a continuing legacy, through its ephemeris second which became closely duplicated in the length of the current standard SI second ( see below: Redefinition of the second ).

From 1350, Boccaccio, although less of a scholar, became closely involved with Italian humanism and also with the Florentine government.

At all points West Germany was much larger and richer that East Germany, which became a dictatorship under the control of the Communist Party and was closely monitored by Moscow.

After Honduras achieved independence from Spain in the early 19th century, its economic growth became closely related to its ability to develop attractive export products.

Once regarded as the world's " most optimistic ," Kibaki's regime quickly lost much of its power because it became too closely linked with the discredited Moi forces.

Additionally, knights adopted certain forms of regalia which became closely associated with the status of knighthood.

Kabuki theater and ningyō jōruri, the elaborate form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, became closely associated with each other, and each has since influenced the other's development.

The first of these was Josiah Wedgwood, who became a close friend of Darwin in 1765 while campaigning for the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal and subsequently closely modelled his large new pottery factory at Etruria on Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

Peru became the first of several countries to sever diplomatic relations with Tripoli on 22 February 2011, followed closely by African Union member state Botswana the following day.

He later became closely involved in the ongoing Schonberg and Asko ensembles and inspired the formation of the British ensemble Icebreaker.

As syntax began to be studied more closely in the early 20th century, in relation to language learning, it became apparent to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts, but that a critical aspect of language involves knowledge of how to put words together — sentences are usually needed in order to communicate successfully, not just isolated words.

The word Maka later became Makran as it is common in closely related ancient Avestan and Old Persian languages to use " an " and " ran " at the end of plurals.

During this time, he became closely associated with N. Osinskii and Vladimir Smirnov, and also met his future first wife, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Lukina, his cousin and the sister of Nikolai Lukin, who was also a member of the party.

On the other side, hardcore punk, Oi !, and anarcho-punk bands became closely linked with underground cultures and spun off an array of subgenres.

With Portuguese the dominant language in the areas of heavy Brazilian migration and Brazilian currency circulating as legal tender, the area became closely integrated with Brazil.

During the economic boom of the 1980s, the Western Australian government became closely involved with a number of large businesses.

As Lee became more well known and his work and comments were followed more closely, he became embroiled in some controversies.

These roles, and their associations with scientific knowledge, spread with the Roman Empire and, with the spread of Christianity, became closely linked to religious institutions in most of Europe.

Then he became involved in a ruckus remarkably similar to the one in Plymouth.

Primarily, we became involved in these disputes because of our referral obligations under our farm placement program.

Instead, we became involved in a series of friendly, but overly formal, welcoming addresses to which we had no choice but to reply in kind.

A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.

Agrippina became involved in a group of Roman Senators who opposed the growing power and influence of the notorious Praetorian Guard Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

According to Tacitus, in 58, Nero became involved with the noble woman Poppaea Sabina.

Ealdred became involved with the see of Ramsbury after its bishop Herman got into a dispute with King Edward over the movement of the seat of his bishopric to Malmesbury Abbey.

Afonso became involved in a war, taking the side of the Aragonese king, an enemy of Castile.

He studied engineering at Kabul University in the 1970s, where he became involved with Muslim anti-communist movements around Burhanuddin Rabbani.

During that time, while studying at Kabul University, Massoud became involved with the Sazman-i Jawanan-i Musulman (" Organization of Muslim Youth "), the student branch of the Jamiat-i Islami (" Islamic Society "), whose chairman then was professor Burhanuddin Rabbani.

They met with many difficulties and many adventures, and became involved in political intrigues, Antoine especially exercising such influence as he possessed in favour of France and the Roman Catholic missionaries.

Antoine became involved in various controversies relating both to his geographical results and his political intrigues.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

A clarification came in 1955 that awarded a stolen base to a runner, even if he became involved in a rundown, provided he managed to evade the rundown, and advance to the base he was intending to steal.

In this connection, Disraeli became involved with the financier J. D. Powles, one such booster.

It was Henrietta who introduced Disraeli to Lord Lyndhurst, with whom she later became romantically involved.

Probably shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, he moved there from Jamaica, and with most privateers once involved in the war, became involved in piracy.

In 1970 Bombardier acquired the Viennese company Lohner-Rotax, a manufacturer of snowmobile engines and tramways, and became involved with rail business.