Elections have figured prominently in nearly every government program and official address since independence.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

American Media's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, figured prominently in news headlines in late 2001, after an anthrax attack was perpetrated on the company.

Capp had often parodied corporate greed — pork tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback had figured prominently in wiping out the Shmoos.

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

In the sixteenth century, Diana's image figured prominently at the châteaus of Fontainebleau, Chenonceau, & at Anet, in deference to Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri of France.

Images of discus throwers figured prominently in advertising for early modern Games, such as fundraising stamps for the 1896 games and the main posters for the 1920 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

Flanders has figured prominently in European history.

In time, this kind of exercise was incorporated into a system that figured prominently in the state regulations for education.

Former leading politicians and members of the judiciary have figured prominently.

In 1979, Pirsig's son Chris, who figured prominently in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, was stabbed to death during a mugging outside the San Francisco Zen Center.

Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi's pioneering use of cannons supplied by the Ottoman Empire | Ottoman s figured prominently in his Ethiopian – Adal War | Conquest of Ethiopia.

Cultural and national homogenization figured prominently in the rise of the modern state system.

French forces finally beat him when he tried to conquer Marrakesh, but his sons and followers figured prominently in several rebellions which followed.

In these, the Imperial cities figured prominently.

The GID controversy figured prominently at the 2009 meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco, both in presentations in the meeting and in protests outside the meeting ; protesters focused on the attitude of the psychiatric community and tried to make the point that GID is not a mental disorder, as well focusing on the role of Kenneth Zucker in leading the DSM-V Task Force on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders.

Ninja figured prominently in folklore and legend, and as a result it is often difficult to separate historical fact from myth.

NFS and ONC figured prominently in the network-computing war between Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer, and later the UNIX wars ( ca 1987-1996 ) between AT & T and Sun on one side, and Digital Equipment, HP, and IBM on the other.

Geographically Washington County figured prominently in the underground railroad, with many crucial stops.

The Chechen War figured prominently in the campaign.

The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra figured prominently in the development of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism.

Figs have figured prominently in some human cultures.

Serpents figured prominently in archaic Greek myths.

The Bastille figured prominently in France's domestic conflicts, including the fighting between the rival factions of the Burgundians and the Armagnacs in the 15th century, and the Wars of Religion in the 16th.

In the late 1980s, Nettuno figured prominently as a transit point for Jewish immigrants on their way to Israel or the United States.

The show, which was in some senses a big city Western, was set in New York City during what was arguably the nadir of the city's existence in the late 20th century, a period following the troubled 1960s and leading up to the fiscal crisis of 1975 ( which figured in " The Day New York Turned Blue ", for example ).

In the late 19th century in Chicago some people figured out that land trusts would be good things for buying property for investors to build skyscrapers on, and city aldermen figured they would be a good way to hide their ownership in land since they were forbidden to vote on city building projects when they owned land nearby.

Then, somewhat late, Simple Simon has figured out what's wrong: " Sheep don't wear boots!

Alexander's search for a means of controlling structure and harmony in music led him in the late seventies to an innovating interpretation of the late baroque practice of figured bass in conjunction with his personal blend of modality and serialism.

Fitch's flagship, Saratoga, figured prominently in the abortive attempt to reinforce Wake Island in December 1941 and was later torpedoed off Oahu in late January 1942, seriously cutting American carrier strength in the Pacific at a critical period.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, James Taylor described the figured or flowered jamdani ; in the late nineteenth century, T. N. Mukharji referred to this fabric as jamdani muslin.

The person she suspected was innocent and simply had been so caught up in protecting the CDC that he refused to listen and figured out the truth almost too late.

The tree frequently figured in the 16th and 17th century herbals.

Many of his madrigals were monodies, borrowing a style which came from Florence and other locations to the north ; his motets and masses, on the other hand, are conservative and use the Palestrina style, though the motets include figured bass, another innovation from the first decade of the 17th century.

The Hittites, the Egyptians and the Proto-Celtic Hallstatt culture ( 8th century BC ) figured among the early users of iron swords.

The unicorn also figured in courtly terms: for some 13th century French authors such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard de Fournival, the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.

Extensive archaeological evidence for the chewing of coca leaves dates back at least to the sixth century A. D. Moche period, and the subsequent Inca period, based on mummies found with a supply of coca leaves, pottery depicting the characteristic cheek bulge of a coca chewer, spatulas for extracting alkali and figured bags for coca leaves and lime made from precious metals, and gold representations of coca in special gardens of the Inca in Cuzco

Look-alikes have also figured prominently at least since the 19th century in literature, and in the 20th and 21st centuries in film.

" Weber's conception of the state as holding a monopoly on force has figured prominently in philosophy of law and political philosophy in the twentieth century.

This metropolis figured in the Notitiæ episcopatuum until the twelfth or thirteenth century.

The manufacture of Swiss cotton yarns and crochet embroideries was introduced at the end of the 18th century ; at the beginning of the 19th figured stuffs, openworks and zephyrs were first produced.

Over a century and a quarter later, Lemaître's performance in L ' Auberge des Adrets ( courtesy of actor Pierre Brasseur ) figured significantly in plot of the classic French film Les Enfants du Paradis ( 1945 ).