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

With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

The Spiders were left with essentially a minor league lineup, and began to lose games at a record pace.

Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

" The re-election of a Conservative government in 1983 and the defeat of left-wing parties in continental Europe " made the deployment of Cruise missiles inevitable and the movement again began to lose steam.

By law, these cable systems were restricted to the relay of the public broadcast channels, which meant that as the transmitter network became more comprehensive, the incentive to subscribe to cable was reduced and they began to lose customers.

Over 1999 and early 2000, the U. S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, and the economy began to lose speed.

Beginning about 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

However, with the release of Windows 95, OS / 2 began to lose market share.

John infamously offended the local Irish rulers by making fun of their unfashionable long beards, failed to make allies amongst the Anglo-Norman settlers, began to lose ground militarily against the Irish and finally returned to England later in the year, blaming the viceroy, Hugh de Lacy, for the fiasco.

However, the terminal illness of Radek's lover, Larissa Reissner, saw Radek lose his inhibitions and he began publicly criticising Stalin, in particular debating Stalin's doctrine of Socialism in One Country at the Communist Academy Radek was sacked from his post at Sun Yat-Sen University in May 1927.

George Monck, realizing the military stood to lose power ; secretly shifted his loyalty to the Crown but as General George Monck, who had been Cromwell's viceroy in Scotland, began to march south, Lambert, who had ridden out to face him, lost support in London.

As the masses ' beliefs shifted, the Consensus changed and wizards began to lose their position as their power and influence waned.

U. S. garage rock began to lose steam within a couple of years, but the raw sound and outsider attitude of " garage psych " bands like The Seeds presaged the style of bands that would become known as the archetypal figures of protopunk.

with the extreme right, and the movement soon began to lose momentum.

" While some words eventually lose their status as slang ( the word " mob ", for example, began as a shortening of Latin mobile vulgus ), others continue to be considered as such by most speakers.

With the development of a more conservative Black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections.

Even as a personal sidearm, the sword began to lose its preeminence in the early 19th century, paralleling the development of reliable handguns.

What was perhaps most significant for the LXX, as distinct from other Greek versions, was that the LXX began to lose Jewish sanction after differences between it and contemporary Hebrew scriptures were discovered ( see above ).

Spears began to lose fashion among the infantry during the 14th century, being replaced by pole weapons that combined the thrusting properties of the spear with the cutting properties of the axe, such as the halberd.

The genre's popularity stagnated as games became more complicated and as arcades began to lose their audience to increasingly powerful home consoles near the end of the 1990s, though new franchises such as Dead or Alive, and the Soul series achieved success.

Venice began to lose its position as a center of international trade during the later part of the Renaissance as Portugal became Europe's principal intermediary in the trade with the East, striking at the very foundation of Venice's great wealth, while France and Spain fought for hegemony over Italy in the Italian Wars, marginalising its political influence.

The drive against Post began to lose energy when Attorney General Palmer ’ s forecast of an attempted radical uprising on May Day 1920 failed to occur.

Political instability continued to grow, and Bulgaria gradually began to lose territory.

Claudius later repented of marrying Agrippina and adopting Nero, began to favor Britannicus, and started preparing him for the throne.

Eventually, the observational evidence, most notably from radio source counts, began to favor Big Bang over Steady State.

The day was already decided in favor of the French when their wings began to close inwards to cut off the retreat of the imperial center.

Once the price of inkjet printers dropped to the point where they were competitive with dot matrix printers, dot matrix printers began to fall out of favor for general use.

As the wearing of armor fell out of favor, dagger fighting techniques began to evolve which emphasized the use of the dagger with a conventional or forward grip, while the reverse or icepick grip was retained when attacking an unsuspecting opponent from behind, such as an assassination.

Munch also began to favor a shallow pictorial space and a minimal backdrop for his frontal figures.

It began as a U. S. Army proposal to place a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year ; however, that proposal was rejected in favor of the U. S. Navy's Project Vanguard.

As American buyers ( as well as those in other nations ) quickly turned to vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models began to fall out of favor.

Following the Sino – Albanian split, a small portion of Marxist – Leninists began to downplay or repudiate the role of Mao Zedong in the International Communist Movement in favor of the Party of Labor of Albania and a stricter adherence to Stalin.

While the first such systems were purchased from DEC, when DEC abandoned the PDP-10 architecture in favor of the VAX, CompuServe and other PDP-10 customers began purchasing plug compatible computers from Systems Concepts.

On March 14, 2011, at the 14th Dalai Lama's suggestion, the parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration began considering a proposal to remove the Dalai Lama's role as head of state in favor of an elected leader.

Though his early reception in the city seems to have been lukewarm, Procopius won favor quickly by using propaganda to his advantage: he sealed off the city to outside reports and began spreading rumors that Valentinian had died ; he began minting coinage flaunting his connections to the Constantinian dynasty ; and he further exploited dynastic claims by using the widow and daughter of Constantius II to act as showpieces for his regime.

On the fourth ballot Willkie surged into first place, with Taft close behind ; other candidates began to drop out in favor of the two frontrunners.

The conflict began when the Sudan Liberation Movement / Army ( SLM / A ) and Justice and Equality Movement ( JEM ) in Darfur took up arms, accusing the government of oppressing black Africans in favor of Arabs.

As the Federal Reserve maintained low interest rates to favor economic growth, a housing bubble began to appear in the United States.

This began the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism.

To overcome this potential difficulty the US Army began to favor high-explosive antitank ( HEAT ), or shaped charge rounds in the 1950s.

Shortly after the promotion began, the average price of gasoline dropped well below $ 2. 99 per gallon ; working in Dodge's favor.

With the Diamond Rio player in 1998, the mass market began to eschew physical media in favor of file-based systems, rendering cassette-and disc-based formats obsolete by the end of the 2000s.

The market would also work in the United States favor as the American companies began to build pressurized airliners.

Soon, though, the military tide began to turn in favor of Franz Joseph and the Austrian whitecoats.

Changes began in the 1970s, when umpires upgraded their chest protection in favor of more compact vests allowing them more movement.

In the 19th century when the islands were known as the New Hebrides, the British possessed economic control of the zone, though by the end of 1880, the economic balance began to favor the French ; this transition can be seen in its nickel mines of New Caledonia and plantations.