If competition beats you to it, this exciting new product era can have real headaches in store.

The long and ever-increasing column of sportsmen is now moving into a new era.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.

The answer is a new era.

Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BCE to celebrate the dawn of a new era.

It was an era of constitution writing — most states were busy at the task — and leaders felt the new nation must have a written constitution, even though other nations did not.

The works of Petrarch first displayed the new interest in the intellectual values of the Classical world in the early 14th century and the romance of this era as rediscovered in the Renaissance period can be seen expressed by Boccaccio.

His arrival in Rome, on 28 December 1780, marks a new era in his life.

In the swing era they were usually either arrangements of popular songs or they were entirely new compositions.

A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus, explicitly states " Year one thousand and first ", which is an indication that the citizens of the Empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Saeculum Novum.

He wanted to create a new architectural style to reflect this new era.

" Do not forget that behind this 14 July, where victory of the new era over the ancien régime was bought by fighting, do not forget that after the day of 14 July 1789, there was the day of 14 July 1790.

Seed AI is a significant part of some theories about the technological singularity: proponents believe that the development of seed AI will rapidly yield ever-smarter intelligence ( via bootstrapping ) and thus a new era.

This general cultural movement is today known as the Sramanic tradition and the epoch of new thought as the axial era.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

In the field of Environmental Microbiology, genome-based global studies open a new era providing unprecedented in silico views of metabolic and regulatory networks, as well as clues to the evolution of degradation pathways and to the molecular adaptation strategies to changing environmental conditions.

The idea of signing the worker's name and birth date on the brick and the place where it was made was not new to the Ming era and had little or nothing to do with vanity.

This new era would be termed the Eastern Han Dynasty.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

Practical results were mixed and mingled emerged ( such as the debate surrounding the constitutional prohibition of extradition, which later was reversed ), but together with the reincorporation of some of the guerrilla groups to the legal political framework, the new Constitution inaugurated an era that was both a continuation and a gradual, but significant, departure from what had come before.

With Hugh's coronation, a new era began for France, and his descendants came to be named the Capetians, with the Capetian dynasty ruling France for more than 800 years ( 987 – 1848, with some interruptions ).

They began to emerge from that dismal period into a new era of increased consistency, however, after the hiring of Marvin Lewis as head coach in 2003.

The Cubs posted a winning record ( 83 – 78 ) for the third consecutive season, the first time the club had done so since 1972, and a new era of ownership under the Ricketts ' family was approved by MLB owners in early October.

Tradition holds that, in that era, the year began on the first new moon after the winter solstice.

In 256 BC, as the last Zhou king ceded his territory to Qin, a new calendar ( the Qin calendar ) began to be used.

Once the leader of a violent street gang, Yousaka became a born-again Christian after a personal tragedy and he changed his name to " David Qin " to reflect his new identity and honoring the young man he murdered.

Nobles from Zheng, Lu, Qin, Xu, and Shen declared the Marquess's grandson, Ji Yijiu, as the new king.

The character was reserved for mythological rulers until the first emperor of Qin ( Qin Shi Huang ), who created a new title Huangdi ( 皇帝 in pinyin: huáng dì ) for himself in 221 BCE, which is commonly translated as Emperor in English.

In 221 BCE, after the then King of Qin completed the conquest of the various kingdoms / duchies of the Warring States Period, he adopted a new title to reflect his prestige as a ruler greater than the rulers before him.

To celebrate this achievement and consolidate his power base, King Zheng created a new title calling himself the First Sovereign Emperor of Qin (), often shortened to Qin Shi Huang ().

The new Qin dynasty must be ruled by the next element on the list, which is water, represented by the color black.

Chiang's Northern Expedition of the late 1920s, which directly preceded the new Nationalist government at Nanjing was compared to the unification brought about by Qin Shi Huang.

The new interpretation given of Qin Shi Huang was generally a combination of traditional and modern views, but essentially critical.

To round out this re-evaluation, a new interpretation of the precipitous collapse of the Qin Dynasty was put forward in an article entitled " On the Class Struggle During the Period Between Qin and Han " by Luo Siding, in a 1974 issue of Red Flag, to replace the old explanation.

The new theory claimed that the cause of the fall of Qin lay in the lack of thoroughness of Qin Shi Huang's " dictatorship over the reactionaries, even to the extent of permitting them to worm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts.

It starred Raymond Lam as Zhao Pan, a man of the Zhao state who took on his new identity of Ying Zheng and rose to power as Qin Shi Huang.

They take on the new identities of Meng Yi and Zhao Gao and become rivals in the Qin imperial court.

In the far west, Qin, which had been weakened by a succession struggle in 307, yielded to the new coalition and appointed Lord Mengchang its chief minister.

278: General Bai Qi of Qin attacked from Qin's new ( from 316 ) territory in Sichuan to the west of Chu.

As a result, Qin Shi Huang set up 36 commanderies in his new empire each with their own county divisions.

The red line marks the new border between Former Qin and Jin after Jin's victory at Fei, while the border marked on the map represents the pre-battle border, the furthest line reached by Former Qin forces before their catastrophic defeat.

The scheme, while indeed expensive, backfired spectacularly when it was eventually completed ; the irrigation abilities of the new Zhengguo Canal far outweighed its cost, and gave Qin the agricultural and economic means to dominate the other six states.