Soviet investment in and support of Armenian industry has virtually disappeared, so that few major enterprises are still able to function.

Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.

Analysis of Sporormiella fungal spores ( which derive mainly from the dung of megaherbivores ) in the cores shows that the megafauna of that region virtually disappeared about 41, 000 years ago, at a time when climate changes were minimal ; the change was accompanied by an increase in charcoal, and was followed by a transition from rainforest to fire-tolerant sclerophyll vegetation.

By the turn of the twentieth century it had begun to be displaced by the shorter and purely Arabic term Islam and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam, seems to have virtually disappeared from the English language.

The primary component necessary to encourage lesbians to be public and seek other women was economic independence, which virtually disappeared in the 1930s with the Great Depression.

In modern Masuria the native population has virtually disappeared.

Plates taken at his observatory in Arequipa, Peru, showed no evidence for the predicted planet, and British astronomer P. H. Cowell showed that the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit virtually disappeared once the planet's displacement of longitude was taken into account.

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It was home to Phoenician colonies, but those disappeared with virtually no trace.

With his death in the late 17th century, Protestant literature in the Czech language virtually disappeared.

More than 400 Arab villages disappeared due to population shifts, and Arab life in the coastal cities virtually disintegrated.

They have virtually disappeared at the college or high school levels, being looked down upon by many players.

Just like " quick recall " questions, patterned bonus questions have virtually disappeared at the American collegiate level, and are becoming less common at some high-school competitions.

Physically created strip bonds ( where the coupons are physically clipped and then traded separately ) were created in the early days of stripping in Canada and the U. S., but have virtually disappeared due to the high costs and risks associated with them.

In modern times, even the once ubiquitous practice of animal sacrifice has virtually disappeared from all major religions ( or has been re-cast in terms of ritual slaughter ), and human sacrifice has become extremely rare.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Puranic scriptures has virtually disappeared.

" Darky " iconography frequently adorned the covers of sheet music from the 1870s through the 1940s, but virtually disappeared by the 1950s.

While researching the history of Route 66, Lasseter met Seligman barber Angel Delgadillo, who told him how traffic through the town virtually disappeared on the day that nearby Interstate 40 opened.

The town virtually disappeared in the early 20th century, and its historic buildings fell into disrepair and were eventually torn down.

The shrimp began feeding on the lake's cladocerans ( Daphnia and Bosmina ), and their populations virtually disappeared by 1971.

After this, Norman's name virtually disappeared from golf leaderboards and Norman only showed an occasional flash of his previous brilliance, perhaps due to age, shaken confidence, the new technology, the emergence of Tiger Woods and other young golfers, and / or Norman's increasing involvement in business ventures.

The Mon as an entity virtually disappeared in Chao Phraya Valley.

An analysis of Sporormiella fungal spores ( which derive mainly from the dung of megaherbivores ) in swamp sediment cores spanning the last 130, 000 years from Lynch ’ s Crater in Queensland, Australia showed that the megafauna of that region virtually disappeared about 41, 000 years ago, at a time when climate changes were minimal ; the change was accompanied by an increase in charcoal, and was followed by a transition from rainforest to fire-tolerant sclerophyll vegetation.

Although regarded formally as the ruler of China, the control that Zhou king in Luoyang exerted over the feudal kingdoms had virtually disappeared.

Two entries in The Early Life support the assumption that during this period Hardy had virtually suspended the writing of poetry.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

Through constant pressure by both infantry and cavalry, two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills, were kept off-balance and virtually encircled during the Battles of Sharon and Nablus which have become known as the Battle of Megiddo.

The result is that Clipperton is now virtually a sandy desert, with only 674 remaining palms counted by C. Jost during the " Passion 2001 " French mission, and five islets in the lagoon with grass that these terrestrial crabs cannot reach.

He also acknowledges that cultural imperialism in the past has been guilty of forcefully eliminating the cultures of natives in the Americas and in Africa, or through use of the Inquisition, " and during the expansion of virtually every empire.

Geoff Hurst's " Ghost goal | Wembley Goal " during the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final | 1966 world cup finalThe Germans equalised with virtually the last kick of the game, forcing extra time.

The rivalry would in the following years be virtually negated by very poor play of he Colts ; the Colts would win just 117 games in the twenty-one seasons ( 1978 – 98 ) that bracketed their 1977 playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back Marshall Faulk ; this included a 0 – 8 – 1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 season.

From that year until 1810, the island was in charge of officials appointed by the French Government, except for a brief period during the French Revolution, when the inhabitants set up a government virtually independent of France.

The United Kingdom insisted on special status as a longstanding belligerent during the war, concerned that if it were treated equally with the devastated continental powers it would receive virtually no aid.

There was a wide spectrum of disco-format radio stations during the late 1970s, but virtually all of them died out during the disco backlash ; WXKS in Boston is one of the few notable survivors, now a Clear Channel Communications-owned top-40 station of considerable influence.

Unemployment was virtually eliminated in country during the 1930s.

However, during the height of the crisis, a three-month period in 1994, the UN removed most of its peacekeepers, and virtually all other formal foreign support fled as well.

Between the 1930s and 1970s, fiscal policy was characterized by the Keynesian consensus, a time during which modern American liberalism dominated economic policy virtually unchallenged.

Bennett lost the 1935 election, and King had virtually unchallenged power for much of his later years ; this expanded still further during the War.

It has even been said that the only permanent acquisition that England owed directly to him was her Canadian dominion ; and, strictly speaking, this is true, it being admitted that the campaign by which the Indian empire was virtually won was not planned by him, though brought to a successful issue during his ministry.

Other barbecue competitions are held in virtually every state in the United States during the warmer months, usually beginning in April and going through September.

The German central bank issued unbacked marks virtually without limit to buy foreign currency for further reparations and to support workers during the Occupation of the Ruhr, finally leading to hyperinflation in the 1920s.

The final compromise permitted the network option for three out of four hours during certain dayparts, but the new regulations had virtually no practical effect, since most all stations accepted the network feed, especially the sponsored hours that earned them money.

Stephen the Great ruled between 1457 and 1504, a period of nearly 50 years during which he won 32 battles defending his country against virtually all his neighbours ( mainly the Ottomans and the Tatars, but also the Hungarians and the Poles ), while losing only two.

A profitable trade in ivory, which gave the area its name, was carried out during the seventeenth century, but it brought about such a decline in elephants that the trade itself virtually had died out by the beginning of the eighteenth century.

As a small child Williams struggled with an illness ( either diphtheria or rheumatic fever ) which nearly ended his life and left him weak and virtually confined to his house during a period of recuperation that lasted a year.

Adam Fergusson pointed out that in 1923 during the great Inflation in the Weimar Republic Gresham's Law began to work in reverse, since the official money became so worthless that virtually nobody would take it.

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.