Xiang Lanxin, professor of international history and politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, explains it thus: Historically, how to control local officials who possessed imperial lineage was always a problem.

Historically, all programming was overseen by students, not university officials.

Historically, all American football officials have been males, corresponding with the male-dominated sport.

Historically, several number bases have been used for representing floating-point numbers, with base 2 ( binary ) being the most common, followed by base 10 ( decimal ), and other less common varieties, such as base 16 ( hexadecimal notation ), as well as some exotic ones like 3 ( see Setun ).

Historically, a Patriarch may often be the logical choice to act as Ethnarch, representing the community that is identified with his religious confession within a state or empire of a different creed ( as Christians within the Ottoman Empire ).

Historically, the Speaker, representing the House to the Monarch, potentially faced the Monarch's anger and therefore required some persuasion to accept the post.

Historically the term ' Springbok ' was applied to any team or individual representing South Africa in international competition regardless of sporting discipline.

Historically during the procession of royal funerals ( usually of the Sovereign ) the heralds would carry a piece of armour, representing the various marks of chivalry.

Historically, this was a standard symbol of the virtue temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, representing the dilution of wine with water.

Historically the emphasis within the House of Commons was on representing areas: counties, boroughs and, later on, universities.

Historically in America the appeal of cities has been their color and life, the variety of experience they offered.

Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.

Historically, the Upper Houses each had their own table.

Historically, in Socialist systems collectivist economics were carried to their furthest extreme, with a minimum of private ownership and a maximum of planned economy.

Historically, different nations or regions of the world have gone through their own independent sequence of movements in culture, but as world communications have accelerated this geographical distinction has become less distinct.

Historically, Japanese attempts to normalize their relationship with China were met with Taiwanese accusations of ingratitude.

Historically, Jews have considered it of central importance: traditionally, children began their study of the Torah with Leviticus, and the midrashic literature on Leviticus is among the longest and most detailed of midrashic literature ( see Bamberger 1981: 737 ).

Historically, RT-11 also served as the inspiration for many microcomputer OS's, as these were generally being written by programmers who cut their teeth on one of the many PDP-11 models.

Historically, The Netherlands have their own specific academic degree nomenclature, but for many years now have recognised and implemented the Bologna declaration.

Historically, the concept of entropy evolved in order to explain why some processes ( permitted by conservation laws ) occur spontaneously while their time reversals ( also permitted by conservation laws ) do not ; systems tend to progress in the direction of increasing entropy.

Historically the Arvand Roud / Shatt-al-Arab waterway ( called Arvand Roud in Iran and Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq ) and Khuzestan Province was all that remained of their prior holdings in Mesopotamia, which had been lost to Turkey centuries earlier.

Historically, mainframes acquired their name in part because of their substantial size, and because of requirements for specialized heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ( HVAC ), and electrical power, essentially posing a " main framework " of dedicated infrastructure.

Historically, inter-network connections were not continuously available as they are today and many readers didn't need an access protocol, as they could access their mailbox directly ( as a file ) through a terminal connection.

Historically, they have shown little interest in the central and southern parts of Namibia, where conditions do not suit their traditional way of life.

Historically, most roads in New Zealand were funded by local road authorities ( often road boards ) who derived their income from local rates.

Historically, melanin is another name for the various oxidized polyacetylene, polyaniline, and Polypyrrole " blacks " and their mixed copolymers, all commonly used in present day organic electronic devices.

Historically speaking, all political communities of the modern type owe their existence to successful warfare.

Historically, many security experts asked people to memorize their passwords and " Never write down a password ".

Historically and by the nature of their existence, wealthy individuals and organizations can exert influence over the political arena.

Historically, Samaritans were a large community — up to more than a million in late Roman times, but were then gradually reduced to several tens of thousands a few centuries ago — their unprecedented demographic shrinkage has been a result of various historical events, including, most notably, the bloody suppression of the Third Samaritan Revolt ( 529 CE ) against the Byzantine Christian rulers, and mass conversion to Islam in the Early Muslim period of Palestine.

Historically, in the far North, meats such as reindeer, and other ( semi -) game dishes were eaten, some of which have their roots in the Sami culture, while fresh vegetables have played a larger role in the South.

Historically, Muslim rulers have often remarried the wives of their conquered opponents in order to gain ties of kinship with their new subjects.

Historically, the term terrorism was used to refer to actions taken by governments against their citizens whereas now it is more often perceived as targeting of civilians as part of a strategy directed against governments.

Historically, lawyers in most European countries were addressed with the title of doctor, and countries outside of Europe have generally followed the practice of the European country which had policy influence through modernization or colonialization.

Historically, there have been numerous episodes of hyperinflation in various countries followed by a return to " hard money ".

Historically, mineralogy was heavily concerned with taxonomy of the rock-forming minerals ; to this end, the International Mineralogical Association is an organization whose members represent mineralogists in individual countries.

Historically, Tanzania has played an active role in hosting refugees from neighboring countries including Mozambique, DR Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda.

Historically, France has been Togo's principal trading partner, although other European Union countries are important to Togo's economy.

Historically, in many countries, a contract needed to have a stamp affixed to make it valid.

Historically, in countries where Communist Parties were struggling to attain state power, the formation of wartime alliances with non-communist parties and wartime groups was enacted ( such as the National Liberation Front of Albania ).

Historically, imbalances between price levels in different countries would be partly or wholly offset by an automatic balance-of-payment adjustment mechanism called the " price specie flow mechanism.

Historically, transmission and distribution lines were owned by the same company, but starting in the 1990s, many countries have liberalized the regulation of the electricity market in ways that have led to the separation of the electricity transmission business from the distribution business.

Historically, Hinduism has only recently had a large influence in western countries such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada.

Historically, a woman in England would assume her new husband's family name ( or surname ) after marriage, and this remains common practice in the United Kingdom today as well as in common law countries and countries where English is spoken, including Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, Ireland, India, Philippines, the English-speaking provinces of Canada, and the United States.

Historically, the major flat racing countries were Australia, England, Ireland, France and the United States, but other countries, such as Japan or Dubai, have emerged in recent decades.

Historically, there is a growing consensus that most developed countries, including United Kingdom, United States, Germany and France, have intervened actively in their domestic economy through industrial policies.

Historically, in many countries ( with the notable exception of the US ), public broadcasting was once the only form or the dominant form of broadcasting.

Historically, the number " 10, 000 " was used to represent the concept of " forever " in China and many other Asian countries ( see Ten thousand years ).

Historically shipbreaking was carried on in drydock in developed countries, but high wages and environmental regulations have resulted in movement of the industry to developing regions.

Historically, in most countries, this was part of the government and controllers were civil servants.

Historically, the term Nordic was also applied to Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Historically, despite being part of the Scandinavian unions, the countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway had differing approaches to land tenure.

Historically, there has been no universally accepted definition as to the proper use of the terms Bolivarianism and Bolivarian within all the countries in the region.

Historically, the division of Jews in many Western countries into denominations, which in the United States in particular took the form of three large groups known as Orthodox, Conservative and Reform, can be traced to Jewish reaction to the Haskalah ( Jewish Enlightenment ) and its aftermath, and to a certain extent the philosophies of these movements were shaped in reaction to one another.