By World War II, the use of the smaller divisions, platoons and companies, became much more important as precise operations became vital.

Çevik Bir became the Turkish army's deputy chief of general staff shortly after the Somali operation and played a vital role in establishing a Turkish-Israeli entente against the emerging fundamentalism in the Middle East.

This facility became more vital after the closure of the Indian Ocean Station in 1996.

The Coleman factor was just what Essendon needed to enable them to take that vital final step to premiership glory, but even so it was not until the business end of the season that this became clear.

Thus, Jainism became a vital force under the Mauryan Rule.

The Alumni Association became a vital factor in the growth of the NCE and development of the CET.

In 1945, he became a Dramaturg at the Bavarian State Opera and there, as one of the few internationally-recognized figures who had survived untainted by any collaboration with the Nazi regime, he became a vital figure in the rebuilding of ( West ) German musical life.

As television screenings of feature films became more common and more financially important, cinematographers began to work for compositions that would keep the vital information within the " TV safe area " of the frame.

After the Peace of Constance ( 1183 ) confirmed the Italian communes ' rights of self-governance, long-standing quarrels with the neighbouring communes of Reggio Emilia, Piacenza and Cremona became harsher, with the aim of controlling the vital trading line over the Po River.

The point-contact crystal detector became vital for microwave radio systems, since available vacuum tube devices could not serve as detectors above about 4000 MHz ; advanced radar systems relied on the fast response of crystal detectors.

Nicknamed " Swee ' Pea " for his mild manner, Strayhorn soon became a vital member of the Ellington Organization.

It became the west's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War.

Supplies of fresh food were vital on the long journey around Africa and Cape Town became known as " The Tavern of the Seas ".

Due in no small part to the influence of transnational economic bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integrated across the world than ever before and supply chains for vital commodities and products previously maintained within national borders have became distributed across international lines.

Despite that, Frowde became vital to OUP's growth, adding new lines of books to the business, presiding over the massive publication of the Revised Version of the New Testament in 1881 and playing a key role in setting up the Press's first office outside Britain, in New York in 1896.

Nevertheless, Cisco managed to catch the Internet wave, with products ranging from modem access shelves ( AS5200 ) to core GSR routers that quickly became vital to Internet service providers and by 1998 gave Cisco de-facto monopoly in this critical segment.

Buddhist doctrine was rigorously critiqued ( though not ultimately refuted ) in the 2nd century by Nagarjuna, whose uncompromisingly logical approach to the realisation of truth, became the basis for the development of a vital stream of Buddhist thought.

The Great Artesian Basin became an important water supply for cattle stations, irrigation, and livestock and domestic usage, and is a vital life line for rural Australia.

North Africa soon became a vital source of grain for the Romans.

The port became vital to the fledgling country's development.

The early Easter Lily exports to New York — vital financially to Bermuda — became badly diseased from the late 19th century to the mid 1920s.

Baden-Powell went on to found the Scouting movement worldwide, and Seton became vital in the foundation of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ) and was its first Chief Scout.

As good equipment became vital, this expansion also brought with it item insurance.

From the moment of the occupation Lublin became a focal point.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Located in São José dos Campos, the CTA became the focal point for the arms industry.

In that period, Berkeley — especially Telegraph Avenue — became a focal point for the hippie movement, which spilled over the Bay from San Francisco.

Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century Council of Basel ( 1431 – 1449 ), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V.

Especially noteworthy is Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), which " became, very soon after its publication, the focal center of the deist controversy.

In 1961, Jerry Bails ' Alter Ego, devoted to costumed heroes, became a focal point for superhero comics fandom and is thus sometimes mistakenly cited as the first comics fanzine.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

Once Christianity was established, the Catholic Church became the focal point for village activities and Guam became a regular port-of-call for the Spanish galleons that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Philippines.

In England Mary became a focal point for Catholic conspirators and was eventually tried for treason and executed on the orders of her kinswoman Elizabeth I.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

France became the focal point for the study after the eminent neurologist Dr. Étienne Eugène Azam presented Braid's research to the French Academy of Sciences.

The Etruscans soon captured the Roman colony at Fidenae, which thereupon became the focal point of the war.

During the Napoleonic Wars ( 1800 – 1815 ), Malta's economy prospered and became the focal point of a major trading system.

Logged teak was a prized export that was used in European shipbuilding, because of its durability, and became the focal point of the Burmese export trade from the 1700s to the 1800s.

Singer was perhaps the most publicly notable scholarly proponent of " cult " brainwashing theories, and she became the focal point of the relative demise of those same theories within her discipline.

During the last 25 years of the 19th century, the mountains of the Teton Range became a focal point for explorers wanting to claim first ascents of the peaks.

However, her presence in France became a focal point for the many nobles opposed to Edward's reign.

During the war the valley surrounding the western end of the river also became the focal point of a series of dogfights for air superiority over North Korea, earning the nickname " MiG Alley " in reference to the MiG-15 fighters flown by the combined North Korean, Chinese and Soviet forces.

Their needs, their alienation from society and their tragic failure to communicate became the main focal point in the Italian films to follow in the 1960s.

Port Moresby became the capital of the new combined territory and a focal point for the expansion of public services.

As the relationship between the colonists and Britain deteriorated, Charleston became a focal point in the ensuing American Revolution.

During the Ottoman period, Trabzon, because of the importance of its port, became a focal point of trade to Iran and the Caucasus.

Gradually Darul Uloom Deoband became the second largest focal point of Islamic teachings and research after the Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.