Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, these amalgamated or were bought by competitors until only a handful of larger companies remained ( see railway mania ).

The continued inconsistency between the Articles of Religion and the Prayer Book remained a point of contention for Puritans ; and would in the 19th century come close to tearing the Church of England apart, through the course of the Gorham judgement.

However, the instability in the ratio between the two grew over the course of the 19th century, with the increase both in supply of these metals, particularly silver, and of trade.

A theory of electromagnetism, known as classical electromagnetism, was developed by various physicists over the course of the 19th century, culminating in the work of James Clerk Maxwell, who unified the preceding developments into a single theory and discovered the electromagnetic nature of light.

After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.

Health conditions improved over the course of the 19th century because of better sanitation ; the famines that troubled rural areas did not happen in industrial areas.

Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, franchise jurisdictions were largely eliminated.

In the course of his work, Greenberg coined the term " Afroasiatic " to replace the earlier term " Hamito-Semitic ," after showing that Hamitic, widely accepted since the 19th century, is not a valid language family.

Mercantilist regulations were steadily removed over the course of the Eighteenth Century in Britain, and during the 19th century the British government fully embraced free trade and Smith's laissez-faire economics.

Most countries of Europe adopted a national flag in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, often based on older ( medieval ) war flags.

The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, but changed very little in composition during the course of the 20th century.

The 19th century American logician Charles Sanders Peirce, known as the father of pragmatism, developed his own views on the problem of universals in the course of a review of an edition of the writings of George Berkeley.

In the course of the 19th century, many European states either adopted the French model or drafted their own codes.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the middle course of the river became the scene of widespread logging.

Over the course of the 19th century that gradually changed: the British and Creoles in the Freetown area increased their involvement in — and their control over — the surrounding territory by engaging in trade, treaty making, and military expeditions.

The modern American usage of the term came about during the course of the 19th century, as improvements in transportation and sanitation made it possible for wealthy developments to exist on the outskirts of cities, for example in Brooklyn Heights, New York City.

The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over the course of the 19th century to include the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, and in the 20th century would form Indonesia.

After the collapse of the French dominated West Bank in the early 19th century, the German and Dutch ( Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg ) speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia.

The ancestry of most American Jews goes back to Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish communities, which migrated to US on the course of 19th and 20th centuries, as well as more recent influxes of Persian, Israeli and other Middle Eastern Jews.

From the latter part of the 19th century this curriculum has changed and broadened: for example, there are now more than 100 students of Chinese ( non-curriculum course ).

Sakhalin was claimed by both Russia and Japan in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, which led to bitter disputes between the two countries over control of the island.

In the late 19th century, Congress required the academy to teach a formal course in hygiene, the only course required by Congress of any military academy.

The name " Colonel Bogey " began in the later 19th century as the imaginary " standard opponent " of the Colonel Bogey scoring system, and by Edwardian times the Colonel had been adopted by the golfing world as the presiding spirit of the course.

The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

As academic disciplines began to differentiate over the course of the nineteenth century, anthropology grew increasingly distinct from the biological approach of natural history, on the one hand, and from purely historical or literary fields such as Classics, on the other.

In the course of a century, the numbers involved were in the hundreds rather than thousands.

Common restoranes or restaurantes and rotiserias nearly anywhere in Argentina today serve ( into the small hours ) quickly prepared meals that in the course of the 20th century came to be known as minutas, " short-order dishes.

He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.

The story can be compared to that of a 13th century Hittite king who was forced to take the throne after a lifetime of loyalty when his life was in danger: like David, he was assisted by his god, whose divine will decided the course of events.

These rules were altered and flagrantly ignored in the course of the last century of the Republic.

Until the mid-19th century, when the river was tamed by dams, levees, and other controls, the Nile in the vicinity of Cairo was highly susceptible to changes in course and surface level.

In the course of the 14th century, it became a courtly fashion to extend the vocabulary, and by the 15th century, this tendency had reached exaggerated proportions.

The term " Charing Cross " for example ( a place in London ) has been used to mean " horse " since the mid-19th century but does not rhyme unless " cross " is pronounced to rhyme with " course ".

A famous example of his leadership in mathematics is his 1900 presentation of a collection of problems that set the course for much of the mathematical research of the 20th century.

He estimates the death-toll for each country over the course of a century, along with a low-and a high-end estimate to account for uncertainty.

Over the course of the 20th century, Domitian's military, administrative and economic policies were re-evaluated.

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

In the course of the 20th century, however, American jurisdictions eliminated the distinction among the first three categories.

) This is, of course, a similar type of behavior to that indicated by birefringence studies.

Although MND refers to a specific subset of pathologically similar diseases ; there are numerous other afflictions of motor neurons that are pathologically distinct from MND and have a different clinical course.

VI, c. 16 ), and South Africa took a similar course of action.

Norton's course was contemporaneous and essentially similar with Armstrong's course.

Generally, punitive damages, which are also termed exemplary damages in the United Kingdom, are not awarded in order to compensate the plaintiff, but in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the plaintiff.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

These arms can be possessed with an RPAL, which is similar to the PAL course, but covers restricted weapons and the increased storage requirements.

The country it traverses in its extremely sinuous course is very level, similar in character to that of the Jurua.

In general, only topological groups having similar local properties to R < sup > n </ sup > for some positive integer n can be Lie groups ( of course they must also have a differentiable structure )

At Princeton University, Henry Norris Russell was following a similar course of research.

A few critics go as far as to call Walkin the album that created hard bop, but the point is debatable, given the number of musicians who were working along similar lines at the same time ( and of course many of them recorded or played with Davis ).

They both spoke out over the course of the campaign on similar issues, but with different approaches.

Lee graduated second in his class behind Charles Mason, who resigned from the Army a year after graduation, and Lee did not incur any demerits during his four-year course of study — five of his 45 classmates earned a similar distinction.

The early Mysorean rockets and their successor British Congreve rockets reduced this somewhat by attaching a long stick to the end of a rocket ( similar to modern bottle rockets ) to make it harder for the rocket to change course.

The SCCA sanctions RallyCross events, similar to autocross, but on a non-paved course.

Of course filmmakers also tried to emulate the Leone cinematography ( at least the close-ups ) and most important of all, if Ennio Morricone couldn't compose the music for the film himself, composers like Luis Enrique Bacalov, Francesco Di Masi, Bruno Nicolai, Carlo Savina and others wrote something similar.

Helped to escape on the night before his execution by Garth, Devon convinces Rachel and Garth to come with him and after making their way to the bridge they have found that it had been damaged and its control systems made in-operative, the crew killed ( a few skeletal bodies are lying there ) and the ARK is on a collision course with a Class G star similar to the Sun.

It is one of the oldest characters in Commedia dell ' arte but over the course of time became subdivided into a number of similar characters with specific traits.

Additionally, OS-9 processes keep track of two " current directories " rather than just one ; the " current execution directory " is where it will by default look first to load programs to run ( which is of course similar to the use of PATH environment variable under UNIX ).

Over the course of the film, he spends time with his old friends who are all at similar crossroads.

' Most editorials were similar to the Daily Telegraph, which declared: ' of course there can only be one answer to this grotesque challenge.

When in danger they flee in a zig-zag course, utilizing first one wing then the other, similar to a rudder.

The series is composed of road courses and stockcars similar to NASCAR and Villeneuve said " On a personal level, Speedcar will give me more road racing experience with this kind of cars which will be useful in future NASCAR road course events and it's also a great excuse to meet race fans.