The first few years of his kingship were relatively peaceful, but soon King Mithridates VI of Pontus ( the maternal grand-uncle of Nicomedes IV ), one of Rome's greatest enemies during the late Republic, began harassing Bithynia's borders.

When the boys grew up, a civil war began in Metapontium and they seized the kingship.

In Sicily, his father's half-brother Manfred continued as regent, but began to develop plans to usurp the kingship.

Beorhtwulf's kingship began inauspiciously.

The native idea of a sacred kingship was integrated with the Christian idea in the ceremony of coronation, the relationship of king to overking became one of tigerna ( lord ) to king and imperium ( sovereignty ) began to merge with dominium ( ownership ).

Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.

Shortly after the `` Vale '' incident, a rift began to develop between William Woodruff and Governor Pope.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

The car began to move and Harry ran after it crying, `` Alfred!!

In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

It all began on an autumn afternoon -- and who, after all these centuries, can describe the fineness of an autumn day??

In the 1890's the Palace Hotel began serving an oyster dish named after its manager, John C. Kirkpatrick.

Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first steps to organize rural communes.

On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.

Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.

His work began just six days after the flood.

In the afternoon, defense attorneys began the presentation of their cases with opening statements, some of which had been deferred until after the government had called witnesses and presented its case.

Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved.

Russian abacus began to lose popularity only after the mass production of microcalculators had started in the Soviet Union in 1974.

Heigo was academically gifted, but soon after failing to secure a place in Tokyo's foremost high school, he began to detach himself from the rest of the family, preferring to concentrate on his interest in foreign literature.

The traditional culture of farming, cheesemaking, and woodworking still exists in Alpine villages, although the tourist industry began to grow early in the 20th century and expanded greatly after World War II to become the dominant industry by the end of the century.

The Achill Mission began to decline slowly after Nangle was moved from Achill and was finally closed in the 1880s.

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

Congressmen began to talk informally of impeaching the president after his veto of the Civil Rights Act.

The author, writing shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, retained considerable fondness for the ex-sovereign.

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

Australian English began its development after the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

And the career of Konrad Adenauer, who upheld Germany's tradition of rock-like leaders which Bismarck began, draws near the end.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

A philosopher may point out that the troubles of the Congo began with the old Adam and consequently will never end.

Near the end of Alexander's life, Alexander began to suspect plots against himself, and threatened Aristotle in letters.

Reconstruction of these three lines began in 2005 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year 2012.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Alpine countries began to see an influx of poets, artists, and musicians, as visitors came to experience the sublime effects of monumental nature.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

This put an end to the Pecheneg threat, but in 1094 the Cumans began to raid the imperial territories in the Balkans.

Manuscript production in England dropped off precipitously around the 860s when the Viking invasions began in earnest, not to be revived until the end of the century.

Just before the end of flight day three at 59 hours, 19 minutes, 45 seconds after liftoff, while from the Earth and from the Moon, the spacecraft's velocity began increasing as it accelerated towards the Moon after entering the lunar sphere of influence.

These extravagant expenditures began shortly after the end of Second Punic War, and increased as the spoils returned from Rome's new eastern conquests.

Toward the end of the 2nd century, however, Christians began condemning the actual instruments themselves.

The first round of mass privatisation finally began in January 1996, and auctions began toward the end of that year.

All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France.

With the establishment of a German state in Prussia, and the eradication or flight of much of the Baltic Prussian population in the 13th century, the remaining Prussians began to be assimilated, and by the end of the 17th century, the Prussian language had become extinct.

A number of previously unreleased Haley country-western recordings from the 1946-1950 period began to emerge near the end of Haley's life, some of which were released by the Arzee label, with titles such as " Yodel Your Blues Away " and " Rose of My Heart.

When prohibition came to an end in 1933, Anheuser-Busch began brewing Budweiser again.

When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year.

In the 19th century, Nietzsche began to write a series of attacks on the " unnatural " teachings of Christianity ( e. g. avoidance of temptations ), and continued anti-Christian attacks to the end of his life.

ould it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end?

Toward the end of the 1st millennium AD, the formation of states began across central Chad in the sahelian zone between the desert and the savanna.