Increased Jewish immigration contributed to the large-scale Arab Revolt in Palestine ( 1936 – 1939 ), a largely nationalist uprising directed at ending British rule.

Most scholars today accept that both Christian and Celtic traditions contributed to the legend's development, though many of the early Celtic-based arguments are largely discredited ( Loomis himself came to reject much of Weston and Nutt's work ).

Dutch presence on the island largely contributed to the extinction of this endemic bird.

Mahmood, as an engineer, is an experienced atomic scientist and engineer who is known to have largely contributed in the formative years of Pakistan's Nuclear Industry ( PNI ).

The battle was an important victory for the rebel cause, as it reduced Burgoyne's army in size by almost 1, 000 men, led his Indian support to largely abandon him, and deprived him of needed supplies, all factors that contributed to Burgoyne's eventual surrender at Saratoga.

It is intended as a largely free and open source digital media framework that runs on numerous operating systems and processors ( including mobile phones ) and was started by RealNetworks which has contributed much of the code.

By his exposure of the Wilson scandal, and by his personal plain speaking, Clemenceau contributed largely to Jules Grévy's resignation of the presidency in 1887.

He showed that they fell naturally into linear groups, presumably corresponding with vast subterranean fissures ; and by his demonstration of the igneous origin of rocks previously held to be of aqueous formation, he contributed largely to the elimination of erroneous views, such as Neptunism.

To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.

In this regard, countries that are members of the Francophonie have contributed largely to the adoption by the UNESCO of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions ( October 20, 2005 ).

Champion contributed largely to the local economy, and was the largest employer in Canton.

As part of the Rustbelt, it went through decline and its drug history largely contributed to the county becoming referred to as the methamphetamine capital of Ohio.

Business interests, however, guided largely by Knoxville's trade connections with cotton-growing centers to the south, contributed to the development of a strong pro-secession movement within the city.

Spokane's slowing economy largely contributed to this decline.

He also largely contributed to the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology ( 1901 – 1905 ), of which he was editor in-chief.

Barlow also contributed largely to the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

As Rector, he contributed largely to various reviews on literary subjects, and took a considerable interest in social science, even presiding over a section at a congress in 1876.

He contributed largely to every issue — his principal topics being Education, Freedom of the Press, and Prison Discipline ( under which he expounded Bentham's Panopticon ).

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

Yet some would claim that Pietism contributed largely to the revival of Biblical studies in Germany and to making religion once more an affair of the heart and of life and not merely of the intellect.

He contributed largely to The Gentleman's Magazine, The Monthly Review and The Library ; and he had a good deal to do with the establishment and conduct of The New Annual Register.

UBS contributed US $ 300 million to the bailout effort, which would largely be recovered.

The fact that an animal weighing over 4. 5 metric tons ( 5 short tons ) could have a brain of no more than 80 grams ( 2. 8 oz ) contributed to the popular old idea that dinosaurs were unintelligent, an idea now largely rejected.

A prologue and epilogue contributed to the film by Montgomery characterize the film's content — which largely portrays Graham as innocent of the murder — as factual.

Born in Madrid, Gris studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals.

In the United Kingdom, periodicals like The Strand Magazine, The Sketch, Harper's Magazine and Story-Teller contributed to the popularity of the short story.

He first contributed the Dorset dialect poems for which he is best known to periodicals, including Macmillan's Magazine ; a collection in book form Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, was published in 1844.

He also contributed to classical periodicals such as Mnemosyne.

Waite has also contributed articles to many journals and periodicals, ranging from Reader's Digest to the Kipling Journal, and has also supplied articles and forewords to many books.

He also contributed to the Saturday Review, Fraser, Macmillan, the Fortnightly and other periodicals.

As a young man he contributed to periodicals: the Monthly Review, Aikin's Athenæum, the London Magazine, the Gentleman's Magazine, and the Morning Chronicle.

He contributed to Le Figaro, L ' Illustration, Le Gaulois, Le XIX ' Siècle and other periodicals ; but his main interest was dramatic criticism, of which he had his first experience in L ' Opinion nationale in 1859.

), and contributed many papers to learned periodicals.

She contributed widely to periodicals, notably The Yellow Book, and also edited one herself.

While at Cambridge he contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1835 he came to London to devote himself to a literary career.

This has contributed to the library's large holdings of over seven million books and 1. 5 million periodicals.

He also contributed numerous political, historical, and literary articles to the North American Review and other periodicals.

In the late 1970s and in the 1980s Mernissi contributed articles to periodicals and other publications on women in Morocco and women and Islam from a contemporary as well as from a historical perspective.

She contributed regularly to periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym James Lincoln, including Atlantic Monthly, Congregationalist, Boston Evening Transcript, Christian Century, Contemporary Verse, Lippincott's and Delineator.

), and contributed many articles to periodicals.

He was a frequent contributor to periodicals, and obtained notoriety as a result of an article which, under the nom de plume of Thomas Maitland, he contributed to The Contemporary Review for October 1871.

They started submitting work to periodicals such as Manga Shōnen and opened a joint savings account through Japan Post fto which they both contributed funds and which they used to purchase art supplies.

He has contributed to periodicals including BYTE, InfoWorld, and MacUser.

Stefan contributed articles to various periodicals and prose and verse to school textbooks and wrote at least ten books for children which Franciszka illustrated.

Drake's works include several volumes of literary essays, and some papers contributed to medical periodicals, but his most important production was:

Throughout his life he contributed many articles on a variety of subjects to the periodicals of his day including the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Register, the Outlook, and many more.

He contributed to the periodicals of the day, but his first important essay in literature was a small volume entitled Sacra Poesis.

He contributed to many periodicals, and, in addition to editing many smaller works, he edited some of the most important historical works of the 19th century, among them: Reader ’ s Handbook of American History ( 1879 ), The Memorial History of Boston ( 4 vols., 1880 – 1881 ) and the Narrative and Critical History of America ( 8 vols., 1884 – 1889 ).