In early 2008, the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition named 60 companies having " dominant positions " in Armenia.

Since early 2008, Armenia's entire rail network is managed by the Russian state railway.

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

After the victory of the PdL in the 2008 general election, AN was merged into the PdL in early 2009.

Notably, in the recession of late 2008, a record number of retailers were holding early promotions due to a weak economy.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

Addis Ababa Station in the early evening, 2008

Palamar ( 2008 ) notes an overshadowing by mainstream environmentalism of pioneering women in the early 1900s who fought for urban health ecology and brought about changes in environmental legislation.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

The development will include a hotel, some shops and some housing but it was discovered early in 2008 that it is unlikely to be completed before 2020.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.

President Saakashvili rejected all demands that he resign his position, but announced early presidential elections to be held in January 2008, effectively cutting his term in office by a year.

In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.

In 2008, the first bud also appeared very early, on 19 February.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

Despite multiple parliamentary questions from as early as 2005, where it was stated that there was no proof that this was happening, Minister Ahern announced a ban on all handguns in November 2008.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

The government called early elections in September 2007 ( normally, elections would have been held in March 2008 ), and New Democracy again was the majority party in the Parliament.

Since the early 1960s, it has published 12 volumes, the first in 1971 and most recently in 2008 ; three more volumes are planned.

Until 2004 ( in 2005 – 2007 the Jaguars went back to wearing white at home for early season games ) and then 2008, the Jaguars would always wear their white jerseys for afternoon games at home during the first half of the season.

Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.

She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.

In the early 1970s, following the revival of Asatru in Iceland, Stephen McNallen, a former U. S. Army Airborne Ranger, began publishing a newsletter titled The Runestone.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the game spread with the Australian Diaspora to areas such as New Zealand and South Africa ; however this growth went into rapid decline following World War I.

The account which Herodotus gives of the hostilities between the two states in the early years of the 5th century BC is to the following effect.

Bursa became the first major capital city of the early Ottoman Empire following its capture from the Byzantines in 1326.

... an 11th-century MS ; an 11th-century Mercian poet using an archaic poetic dialect ; and 11th-century standard literary dialect that contained early and late, cross-dialectical forms, and admitted spelling variations ; and ( perhaps ) two 11th-century scribes following slightly different spelling practices.

He changed to player-manager the following season, but early in the 1975 – 76 season left them after having decided management was not for him because his understanding of the game was scant.

The first edition of the combined Ezra-Nehemiah may date from the early 4th century ; further editing continued well into the following centuries.

Lactantius, a Christian apologist of the early 4th century ( deeply hating Decius for the persecution of Christians resulted from his edict on sacrifices ) described the emperor's demise as following:

They can be grown from seed and mature in summer, or early the following spring.

Cognitive psychology is one of the more recent additions to psychological research, having only developed as a separate area within the discipline since the late 1950s and early 1960s following the " cognitive revolution " initiated by Noam Chomsky's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally.

The radical feminist group Cell 16 were strongly championing celibacy as a challenge to male dominance, following in a tradition of celibacy dating back to the early feminists.

However, following the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, the new Christian movement and Rabbinic Judaism increasingly parted ways, see also List of events in early Christianity.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.

Furthermore, as early Christians ( following the Great Commission ) had to explain their concepts to a new audience which

Developed in the early 1970s at IBM and based on an earlier design by Horst Feistel, the algorithm was submitted to the National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ) following the agency's invitation to propose a candidate for the protection of sensitive, unclassified electronic government data.

Deng was instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s.

In the following example of Ennius's early Latin hexameter composition, metrical weight (" ictus ") falls on the first and last syllables of certabant ; the ictus is therefore opposed to the natural stress on the second syllable when the word is pronouned.

" In 1982, the Compact Disc reached the public market in Asia, and early the following year in other markets.

In the early 1980s, NYC disco DJ Larry Levan, known for his eclectic mixes, gained a cult following, and the Paradise Garage, the nightclub at which he spun, became the prototype for the modern dance club where the music and the DJ were showcased.