New converts memorized scripture, took Bible classes, and were expected to emulate the lives of early Christians while rejecting mainstream denominational Christianity.

In the mid-1970s, the soul-funk blend of dance pop known as disco took off in the mainstream pop charts in the United States and Europe, causing discothèques to experience a rebirth.

In 1969, Coppola took it upon himself to subvert the studio system which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors their chance to direct.

As abdicated Emperors took over power by exercising insei (, cloistered rule ) at the end of 11th century, then followed by the rise of warrior class, the Fujiwara gradually lost its control over mainstream politics.

For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream.

He took this as an indication that her sound had reached the mainstream.

In 1964, when Wilson took office, the mainstream of informed opinion ( in all the main political parties, in academia and the media, etc.

However, it took another thirty years for the mainstream scientific community to concede that this analysis was correct.

Wired survived the dot-com bubble and found a new direction under editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, who took on the job in June 2001 and has made the magazine's coverage " more mainstream.

In the 20th century, Lionel Robbins ’ rational choice theory came to dominate mainstream economics and the term Economic Man took on a more specific meaning of a person who acted rationally on complete knowledge out of self-interest and the desire for wealth.

Brubaker subsequently took his Vertigo / crime sensibility to work from WildStorm, Icon and the mainstream DC and Marvel universes.

American audiences were largely indifferent to Japanese role-playing video games, and would remain this way until titles like Final Fantasy VII took the genre into the mainstream.

Mindful that garnering the attention of the American mainstream music press was difficult for all but the largest indie label, Pavitt and Ponemen took inspiration from alternative bands like Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, and Dinosaur Jr. and sought to publicize the label via the British music press.

The second passage has one mainstream interpretation amongst the Qur ' an commentators, that Abraham took four birds and cut them up, placing pieces of each on nearby hills ; when he called out to them, each piece joined and four birds flew back to Abraham.

The first organised militant movements were in Bengal, but they later took to the political stage in the form of a mainstream movement in the then newly formed Indian National Congress ( INC ), with prominent moderate leaders seeking only their basic right to appear for Indian Civil Service examinations, as well as more rights, economic in nature, for the people of the soil.

Brown took his completed film to several Hollywood studio distributors but was rejected because they did not think it would have mainstream appeal.

New artists were cultivated and the music took a more innovative direction for increased mainstream popularity.

Dubuffet argued that ' culture ', that is mainstream culture, managed to assimilate every new development in art, and by doing so took away whatever power it might have had.

The album took many hip hop fans by surprise, as it single-handedly placed West Coast hip hop on the map and quickly moved gangsta rap into the mainstream.

String pop took over mainstream listeners in Thailand in the 90s, and bubblegum pop stars like Christina Aguilar, Bird Thongchai McIntyre and Asanee-Wasan became best-sellers.

The KPÖ also took an independent stance from the mainstream in its views about nationhood and an Austrian identity separate from Germany:

The same period saw one of the most surprising hybrids in music history Scrumpy and Western with bands like the Wurzels and The Yetties, who took most of the elements of West Country folk music for comical folk-style songs with affectionate parodies of more mainstream musical genres, delivered in local West Country dialects.

In the later half of the decade, from about 1986, rap took off into the mainstream with Run-D. M. C.

It took five years for a follow-up to Stylin ' Up to be released ; 2000's Come My Way made her a mainstream star.

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

In response, Cameroon took the matter to the International Court of Justice on 29 March 1994.

Although the Colombian Government ratified the 1988 UN Convention on Narcotics in 1994 — the last of the Andean governments to do so — it took important reservations, notably to the anti-money-laundering measures, asset forfeiture and confiscation provisions, maritime interdiction, and extradition clauses.

Three of the EFTA countries are part of the European Union Internal Market through the Agreement on a European Economic Area ( EEA ), which took effect in 1994 ; the fourth, Switzerland, opted to conclude bilateral agreements with the EU.

Although the Internet became popular worldwide around 1994 with the adoption of Mosaic web browser, it took about five years to introduce security protocols ( i. e. SSL encryption enabled on Netscape 1. 0 Browser in late 1994 ) and DSL allowing continual connection to the Internet.

Although the Singapore government received many calls for clemency, Fay's caning took place in Singapore on 5 May 1994.

In May 1994, following the Palestinian-Israeli agreements known as the Oslo Accords, a phased transfer of governmental authority to the Palestinians took place.

A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and Jericho took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 4 May 1994 Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area.

Connick took his funk music on a tour of the United Kingdom in 1994, an effort that did not please some of his fans, who were expecting a jazz crooner.

In 1994 the Taliban took power in several provinces in southern and central Afghanistan.

Free and fair national elections were held on May 17, 1994 under a provisional constitution, which took full effect the following year.

As market reforms and private enterprise took hold, economic growth began again in 1994 – 95.

His mother took her three children: Jocelyn ( 1919 – 2005 ), Frances ( 1922 – 1994 ) and Marlon, to live with her mother in Santa Ana, California.

Albert left the Rangers after the 1994 – 95 season at the same time Rose took the job as play-by-play announcer of the New York Islanders.

In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS ' Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award.

One of the most infamous games in Jets history took place in 1994 when the Dolphins ran the Fake Spike play, giving them an improbable victory and halting the Jets ' momentum that season, serving as a precursor to the Jets ' next two infamous years under Rich Kotite.

In February 1994, Smith took on the role of honorary chairman and official spokesman for the Missouri Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health.

Raven has a history of working with id Software: After using id's engines for many of their games ( from Heretic in 1994 ), they took over development of id's Quake franchise for Quake 4 and the new iteration of id's Wolfenstein series.

Founded under Conservative legislation that privatised the railways, Railtrack took control of the railway infrastructure on 1 April 1994 and was floated on the Stock Exchange in May 1996.

* January 1, 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) took effect

When they took control of Kandahar in 1994, they forced the surrender of dozens of local Pashtun leaders who had presided over a situation of complete lawlessness and atrocities.

In the course of 1994, the Taliban took control of 12 of 34 provinces not under central government control.

Although the constitution prescribed a new form of legislature, the PDPU-dominated Supreme Soviet remained in office for nearly two years until the first election to the new parliament, the Supreme Assembly of Uzbekistan ( Oliy Majlis ), which took place in December 1994 and January 1995.