The speed limits on the main roads in Sweden were changed on many stretches in October 2008, which saw the introduction of the 120 km / h limit.

The elections in 2009 saw a significant drop in some areas in support for Eurosceptic parties, with all MEPs from Poland, Denmark and Sweden losing their seats.

His plans attracted the enthusiastic backing of the government and the new king, Charles XIII, who saw the canal as a way of kick-starting the modernisation of Sweden.

Outside the United States, makers of musical saws include Sandvik in Sweden, makers of the limited edition Stradivarius, Alexis in France, which produces a toothless saw, " La Lame Sonore ", with a range of three and a half octaves ( Patent: N ° E31975 ), and Thomas Flinn & Company in the United Kingdom, based in Sheffield, who produce three different sized musical saws, as well as accessories.

Historically, Poland often saw itself in partnership with non-Slavic nations most of the time, such as Hungary, Saxony, Sweden or Lithuania under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1795.

During the Cold War, Sweden was suspicious of the superpowers, which it saw as making decisions affecting small countries without always consulting those countries.

The early ' 90s saw groups like After Crying from Hungary release Overground Music ( 1990 ), Quaterna Requiem from Brazil release Velha Gravura ( 1990 ), Änglagård from Sweden release Hybris ( 1992 ) and Isildurs Bane, also from Sweden, release The Voyage-A Trip To Elsewhere ( 1992 ).

In 1902 Krarup both wrote his paper on this subject and saw the installation of the first cable between Helsingør ( Denmark ) and Helsingborg ( Sweden ).

His 37-year rule, the longest of a mature Swedish king so far ( subsequently passed by Gustav V and current Carl XVI Gustav ) saw a complete break with not only the Danish supremacy of the Union but also the Roman Catholic Church, whose assets were nationalised, with the Lutheran Church of Sweden established under his personal control.

Other parts of Sweden, for example the Götaland provinces of Småland and Västergötland, also saw rebellions.

Her Duke Ellington Songbook placed Ellington firmly in the canon known as the Great American Songbook, and the 1960s saw Fitzgerald and the ' Duke ' meet on the Côte d ' Azur for the 1966 album Ella and Duke at the Cote D ' Azur, and in Sweden for The Stockholm Concert, 1966.

1992 saw the Netherlands again among the favourites for silverware in Sweden at Euro 92.

In the semi-finals, Sweden continued their strong run as they defeated West Germany 3 – 1 in a vicious game that saw the German player Erich Juskowiak sent off ( the first ever German player to be sent off in an international game ) and German team captain Fritz Walter injured, which further weakened the German team ( substitutes were first allowed in the 1970 FIFA World Cup ).

The Romanesque period saw the creation of many huge illuminated complete Bibles – one in Sweden requires three librarians to lift it.

The British government saw the danger of this move ( it might embroil Great Britain in war with Russia and the Nordic Powers Sweden and Denmark also ) and therefore declared war on the Republic shortly after its adherence in December, 1780.

Ascending to the throne in 1907, his early reign saw the rise of parliamentary rule in Sweden, although the leadup to World War I pre-empted his overthrow of Liberal Prime Minister Karl Staaff in 1914, replacing him with his own figurehead Hjalmar Hammarskjöld ( father of Dag Hammarskjöld ) for most of the war.

Charles ' death marked the end of autocratic kingship in Sweden, and the subsequent Age of Liberty saw a shift of power from the monarch to the parliament of the estates.

The 1952 municipal reform in Sweden saw the creation of Essunga Municipality out of eight original entities.

The natural resources ( hydroelectricity, timber, and minerals, especially iron ) of Norrbotten have played a key role in the industrialization of Sweden, all through the 20th century the region saw strong mobility in and out of the county, many young people moving south and people from other parts of the country moving in.

1976 also saw the commissioning of Peter Max Paints America by the ASEA of Sweden.

In 1701, during the Great Northern War, Liepāja was captured by Charles XII of Sweden, but the end of the war saw the city in Polish possession.

In 1925, a young Greta Garbo, then twenty, and unable to speak any English, was brought over from Sweden at Mayer's request, as he saw how she looked in still photos.

The team event saw Sweden take another gold medal, with the French team second and the German team, featuring Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, in the bronze medal position.

She saw it then, the distant derrick of the wildcat -- a test well in unexplored country.

Camping is family fun, and it is helping more Americans see more of the country than they ever saw before.

It may well be that, when Rudy Pozzatti and I visited your country last spring, you were living and working close to the places we saw and the streets we walked.

I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; ;

But when she saw the children you have just visited, she wanted to take them away and put them out in the country, in the kibbutzim.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

Of visitors from outside Scotland, 15 % of those who saw Braveheart said it influenced their decision to visit the country.

A new crisis erupted in the Simba Rebellion of 1964-1965 which saw half the country taken by the rebels.

The First and Second Congo Wars saw great destruction of transport infrastructure from which the country has not yet recovered.

Qarase said that as member of the United Nations, Fiji was as entitled as any other country to make its own laws as it saw fit.

Many countries initially welcomed the introduction of the Taliban regime, who they saw as a stabilizing, law-enforcing alternative to the warlords who had ruled the country since the fall of Najibullah's government in 1992.

'" Orwell wrote later that he felt guilty about his role in the work of empire and he " began to look more closely at his own country and saw that England also had its oppressed ..." Orwell made changes to his appearance in Burma that remained for the rest of his life.

No other western hemisphere country saw such rapid growth.

The militia was re-titled the National and Popular Militia in 1974 and its regular section scaled down, as the President announced that the country could not afford the large standing force that he believed was necessary to deter what he saw as the constant threat of invasion.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

Many in Hong Kong saw this as an adverse impact on one country, two systems, as the Central People's Government interpret the Basic Law to serve its need, that is, a two-year probation for Tsang, instead of a five-year term.

During the period of socialist construction of Albania, the country saw rapid economic growth.

However, though the post-war period saw a boom in prosperity for Canada, the country was again at war by 1950, with Alexander, in his role as acting commander-in-chief, deploying to the Korean War soldiers, sailors, and airmen, whom he would visit prior to their departure for north-east Asia.

While most areas of the country saw some violence in 1919 – 1921, the brunt of the war was fought in Dublin and the southern province of Munster.

Apart from two month-long trips across the country where he met a few hundred people, Davis stayed in Richmond where few people saw him ; newspapers had limited circulation and most Confederates had little favorable information about him.

Although Gandhi did not officially designate Nehru his political heir until 1942, the country as early as the mid-1930s saw in Nehru the natural successor to Gandhi.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

From the mid-1940s the country was subject to Soviet economic control and saw considerable Russification of its peoples, but Latvian culture and infrastructures survived such that, during the period of Soviet liberalisation under Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia once again took a path towards independence which eventually succeeded in August 1991 and was recognised by Russia the following month.

The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.