The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore 64, and the platform quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts.

As the 20th century dawned, the prevalence and capability of assassins grew quickly, as did measures to protect against them.

" Arkadaşım Eşşek " (" My Friend Donkey "), quickly grew very popular among children ( the song is about rural nostalgia and was not initially intended as a children's song ).

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

This conflict made a great impression upon the English Parliament and public, who quickly grew to see it as a polarised continental struggle between Catholic and Protestant.

The company quickly grew into the largest industrial site in the Middle East, and in 1934 built a second plant on the southwest shore, in the Mount Sodom area, south of the ' Lashon ' region of the Dead Sea.

The race quickly grew in importance.

The universe was very violent in its early epochs, and galaxies grew quickly, evolving by accretion of smaller mass galaxies.

Both the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire quickly grew into the first global political and economic systems with territories spread around the world.

During his chancellorship, the West Germany economy grew quickly, and West Germany established friendly relations with France, participated in the emerging European Union, established the country's armed forces ( the Bundeswehr ), and became a pillar of NATO as well as firm ally of the United States.

From that time the town grew quickly with rich commuters from Amsterdam moving in, building themselves large villas in the wooded surroundings, and gradually starting to live in Hilversum permanently.

Their show grew quickly until it was carried by close to a hundred stations, with average viewers numbering over twelve million, and the Bakkers had established their own network, The PTL Television Network ( also known as PTL-The Inspirational Network ).

" He quickly grew a beard after graduation and a fellow officer remarked that he was " the only man he ever saw that beard improved.

Initially, 37 men were arrested, but the number quickly grew into hundreds.

During the 1970s, CPU speeds grew more quickly than memory speeds and numerous techniques such as memory block transfer, memory pre-fetch and multi-level caches were used to alleviate this.

The detailed MultiMate word processor documentation, which quickly grew to three volumes, gave the product a solid " office production " feel, using high-quality paper with its main reference section presented in a padded binder with fold-out easel.

The attribute was popularized by search engines such as Infoseek and AltaVista in 1995, and its popularity quickly grew until it became one of the most commonly used elements.

Nashville quickly grew because of its strategic location, accessibility as a river port, and its later status as a major railroad center.

The new company, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldwyn and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans.

Initially the Dominion Police provided security for parliament, but its responsibilities quickly grew.

From his initial monastery, demand quickly grew and, by the time of his death in 346, one count estimates there were 3000 monasteries dotting Egypt from north to south.

Through the 1980s both the global and Australian economy grew quickly and by the late 1980s was overheating, with inflation around 8 to 10 percent.

In 1619, Benedetto's brother founded a bank with his three uncles in Genoa which quickly grew into a successful money-lending business.

As Robyn's popularity grew across the globe, especially in the United States, she was diagnosed with exhaustion and quickly returned to Sweden to recover.

Cross Plains ' population quickly grew from 1, 500 to 10, 000, it suffered overcrowding, the traffic ruined its unpaved roads and vice crime exploded but it also used its new wealth on civic improvements, including a new school, an ice manufacturing plant, and new hotels.

One reason for such a threat is that, unlike the typical sword and sorcery adventurer, the hero is seldom bored stiff by ordinary life and therefore will not abandon it quickly and on any excuse.

She collects children, with whom she quickly becomes bored or frustrated, and imprisons them behind a magical mirror, slowly sucking the life from them.

However, he quickly grew bored of that post, and became the district attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania in 1829, a position his father had held from 1801 to 1814, and continued in that role until 1831.

Without their girlfriends around, the boys quickly become bored.

To supplement his income, he briefly tried his hand at domestic service, but although he enjoyed cooking, he quickly became bored and resigned.

But he apparently quickly became bored with his law-abiding middle-class life.

He quickly grew bored of the mundane day-to-day work as a commissioner and missed the cut-and-thrust nature of Irish politics, which was going through a particularly unstable period.

His tenure was a brief one, as he quickly became bored with slaughter simply for its own sake and did not share the original Dark Judge's fanatical zeal for their " sacred mission " of purging all life.

It quickly becomes bored if kept indoors for too long and can become destructive.

Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions.

The next day they go sightseeing in Venice, but Tom quickly gets bored and the couple decide to split up for the day: Tom going to the bar to watch sports and his wife continuing to see Venice.

Though easily the most powerful of Superman's recurring enemies, Mxyzptlk is simply a fun-loving prankster who prefers to use his power for childish antics and light-hearted harassment rather than intentional malicious evil, as he would get bored very quickly by doing so ; thus he is more of an annoyance to the Man of Steel than a true threat.

It quickly transitions into twin bored tunnels, heading southwest beneath Granville Street, then curving southeast to follow Davie Street through Yaletown.

Despite having said “ I always get bored of the company of women really quickly ,” he married Mylène Halsall in a secret ceremony in Florence, Italy on 11 July 2004.

Mark Loomis started to play guitar for a popular young local band known as The Shandels, but quickly became bored with playing for a target audience of pre-teens.

In the commentary, when Joss Whedon is asked about his decision to turn Angel evil, he said that he feels it was necessary to keep the story fresh as viewers would quickly become bored with Angel and Buffy's relationship.

They tend to get bored easily and give up on relationships quickly.

Victoria quickly gets bored of being stuck in the TARDIS and convinces Jamie to explore.

With nothing to do, he quickly gets bored and escapes from the home.

* A tendency to become bored quickly with old things

On the whole, though, Justforkix is quickly bored with the village.

A common cliché is that, if presented with a large and expensive new toy, a child will quickly become bored with the toy and play with the box instead.

Stark was somewhat bored by the party, but his attention was quickly captured by the presence of a stunning red head surrounded by potential suitors.

Diving with buddies who get bored or tired quickly also does not lead to enhanced enjoyment for either party.