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In the decade of the 180s, Pertinax took a pivotal role in the Roman Senate until the praetorian prefect Sextus Tigidius Perennis forced him out of public life.
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`` The countries are trying to build in a decade the kind of society we took a century to build '', he said.
Decipherment of cuneiform was a formidable task that took more than a decade, but by 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society was convinced that reliable reading of cuneiform texts was possible.
In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade.
Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect.
During the decade of 1780, the Spanish regained control of the Bay Islands and took most of the British and their allies in the Black River area.
Stem cell research took off in the 2000s ( decade ), with stem cell therapy as a promising method.
It took Van Buren and his partisan friends a decade and a half to form the Democratic Party ; many elements, such as the national convention, were borrowed from other parties.
Bismarck took an unpopular step by insisting that the territories legally belonged to the Danish monarch under the London Protocol signed a decade earlier.
China imported its first mobile phone telecommunication facilities in 1987 and it took a decade for the number of subscribers to reach 10 million.
Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Whether they were walking ( March of the Penguins ), dancing ( Happy Feet ), or hanging ten ( Surf's Up ), these oddly adorable birds took flight at the box office all decade long.
Their development as practical weapons took another decade of development in the United States and in the U. S. S. R.
For the rest of the decade Limbaugh took jobs at several radio stations, working in music radio, before settling in Kansas City.
On 27 May 1949, the People's Liberation Army took control of Shanghai, which was one of only three former Republic of China ( ROC ) municipalities not merged into neighboring provinces over the next decade ( the others being Beijing and Tianjin ).
The 1999 team would be the last playoff-bound team for over a decade, as the Rangers took a step backwards at the beginning of the new millennium.
The Second World War took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
The translation took more than a decade to complete ; 13 evangelical scholars worked on the translation: Ronald F. Youngblood, Kenneth L. Barker, John H. Stek, Donald H. Madvig, R. T. France, Gordon Fee, Karen H. Jobes, Walter Liefeld, Douglas J. Moo, Bruce K. Waltke, Larry L. Walker, Herbert M. Wolf and Martin Selman.
More recently, IWW members were involved in the Liverpool dockers ' strike that took place between 1995 and 1998, and numerous other events and struggles throughout the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), including the successful unionising of several workplaces, such as support workers for the Scottish Socialist Party.
The golden era of the University of Kraków took place during the Polish Renaissance, between 1500 and 1535, when it was attended by 3, 215 students in the first decade of the 16th century.
The Territory was granted a Legislative Assembly on 27 January 1774, however, it took a full further decade for a constitutional framework to be settled.
By the 1980s, Alberto Alessi took over the management of Alessi and launched the Alessi company into the design decade through collaborations with designers and architects such as Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Richard Sapper, and Achille Castiglioni.
After his defeat and early death, it took more than a decade to rehabilitate his lost image in South America.
Elections were held across Dutch New Guinea in 1959 and an elected New Guinea Council officially took office on 5 April 1961, to prepare for full independence by the end of that decade.
Japan also took note of how the international community allowed the great powers to treat weaker nation states, and continued its remarkable measures to bootstrap itself into a modern industrial state and military power, with great success as it would demonstrate in the Russo-Japanese War less than a decade later.
In 2005, an additional bid took place in channel 2, in which " Keshet " and " Reshet " were chosen to be the channel's broadcasts to the consequent decade.
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Because of his impact on national politics and central position on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee, he was referred to by the press and public alike as the " General Manager of the Nation ", dominating all tariff and monetary policies in the first decade of the 20th century.
Attorney General Blumenthal played a pivotal role in one of the biggest college athletics stories of the decade ; expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the departures of Boston College, Miami, and Virginia Tech from the Big East.
More than a decade later, it is now recognized by the Chinese Communities around the world as a major literary award, and has been pivotal in fostering Chinese Literature in Malaysia.
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He was, however, able to play a dominant role in mathematics for around a decade, gathering a strong school.
These upgrades have played a key role in supporting Greece's economy, which in the past decade has come to rely heavily on the construction industry.
Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.
Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).
Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a " spiritual awakening " toward the end of the decade.
For the remainder of the decade, Voight would alternate between feature films and television movies, including a starring role in the 1993 miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove, a continuation of Larry McMurtry's western saga, 1989's Lonesome Dove.
Odyssey has served as the primary means of communications for NASA ’ s Mars surface explorers in the past decade and will continue that role for the Curiosity rover.
The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.
" Waits finished the decade with appearances in three movies: as the voice of a radio DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train ; as Kenny the Hitman in Robert Dornhelm's Cold Feet ; and the lead role of Punch & Judy man Silva in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale.
A decade later, John Barton's 1974 production for the RSC ( with assistance from Clifford Williams ) featured Sebastian Shaw in the title role, Tim Pigott-Smith as Posthumus, Ian Richardson as Jachimo, and Susan Fleetwood as Imogen.
His role in the band progressed over the years, post I Should Coco material is credited to " Supergrass and Rob Coombes ", however, he wasn't introduced as a band member until almost a decade later.
No representative of PADI gave evidence at the inquest, but PADI subsequently issued a rejoinder that in the decade since PADI had come to play a dominant role in diver training, the numbers of diving accidents had declined.
In 1996, Binoche appeared in her first comedic role since My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister a decade before ; A Couch in New York was directed by Chantal Akerman and co-starred William Hurt.
Other systems have made inroads in the AIDC market, but the simplicity, universality and low cost of barcodes has limited the role of these other systems until the 2000s ( decade ), over 40 years after the introduction of the commercial barcode, with the introduction of technologies such as radio frequency identification, or RFID.
This played a major role in the popularity and quick development of the quartz watch, which in less than a decade was dominant in the watch market, nearly ending an almost 100 years of mechanical wristwatch heritage.
After a decade in Europe during which he completed only a few films, Welles was eager to direct for Hollywood again, so he agreed to take only an acting fee for the role of Quinlan.
Throughout the last decade of Hu's career, he promoted the role of intellectuals as being fundamental to China's achievement of the Four Modernizations.
It did not, however, significantly improve the economic or political fortune of the population ’ s poverty-stricken peasant majority ; only a few Indonesians were able to gain a larger role in commerce, and hopes for democracy were dashed within a decade.
As the decade turned, a shift in the Canucks ' leadership occurred as Stan Smyl resigned his captaincy prior to the 1990 – 91 season due to a reduced on-ice role with the team.
Broten was replaced by Kevin's younger brother Derian Hatcher as team captain, a role he would serve in for the next decade.
The decade also saw Sedona cast in her most historically significant movie role, as the promised land of milk and honey in Der Kaiser von Kalifornien, a Nazi western designed to validate Adolf Hitler ’ s schemes of territorial expansion to the people of Germany.
As Senate Minority Leader for over a decade, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Open Housing Act of 1968, both landmarks of civil rights legislation.
Upon formation of the Free State in 1922, the castle assumed for a decade the role of the Four Courts on the Liffey quays which had been badly damaged during the Civil War.
Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom E / R ( not to be confused with ER, the better-known hospital drama, on which Clooney also co-starred a decade later ).
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