Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Meanwhile in the East Midlands, dominance along the Erewash Valley was being challenged by the Great Northern and the Great Central.

Meanwhile in Lincolnshire, the new Spalding to Lincoln direct line opened from Spalding via Sleaford to Ruskington on 6 March 1882 and on the Lincoln on 1 August, on which date the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway came into being comprising in addition to the new Spalding-Lincoln line, the former GNR March to Spalding and Lincoln to Doncaster lines and the former GER Huntingdon to March line plus the Ramsey branch from Somersham.

Meanwhile Ashley has been serving in the Army of Northern Virginia and has been promoted to the rank of major.

Meanwhile, violence in the new territory of Northern Ireland continued.

Meanwhile other former members of the CPNZ in Wellington, where the party branch had been expelled en masse in 1970, founded the Wellington Marxist Leninist Organisation, which in 1980 merged with the Northern Communist Organisation to form the Workers Communist League ( WCL ).

Meanwhile, his England career was flourishing as the World Cup neared ; he scored in a 4 – 0 thrashing of Northern Ireland at Wembley and added a brace in the last warm-up game in Helsinki against Finland.

Meanwhile, the witch Serafina Pekkala, who was separated from Lyra during a battle in Northern Lights, is searching for her.

Meanwhile, the Austrians consolidated their gains in Northern Italy into the Kingdom of Lombardy – Venetia.

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland ( as part of the United Kingdom ) was at war and the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast were among the strategic targets for German attack.

Meanwhile the Great Northern Railroad energetically promoted settlement along its lines in the northern part of the state.

Meanwhile, the Northern Pacific Railway ran a railroad line around Lake Union and down Terry Avenue, where a freight station opened in 1913.

Meanwhile, in 1889, the first line ( 1067 mm gauge ) in the Northern Territory was opened from Darwin to Pine Creek.

Meanwhile, in spring 506, the general Wei Rui ( 韋叡 ) was able to capture Hefei ( 合肥, in modern Hefei, Anhui ), taken by Northern Wei when Pei Zhaoye surrendered Shouyang to Northern Wei.

Meanwhile the main northern industries based on shipbuilding, ropes, shirts and textiles declined from 1960, and then more so due to the 1970s ' Troubles ' in Northern Ireland, despite government investment in projects such as the Belfast DeLorean plant.

Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the Great Northern War, which marked the rise of the Russian Empire ( 1721 ), the growing conflict between Augustus II and the Polish nobility ( szlachta ) was used by the powerful Russian Tsar Peter the Great, victor of the Great Northern War.

Meanwhile, Muslims from Northern Rakhine State massacred around 20, 000 Arakanese including the Deputy Commissioner U Oo Kyaw Khaing, who was killed while trying to settle the dispute.

Meanwhile, in Northern India, Bisesa encounters the army of Alexander the Great.

Meanwhile the IRA in Northern Ireland maintained their links with Michael Collins.

Meanwhile, unlike Northern Ireland, the rest of Ireland was no longer part of the UK.

Meanwhile to the north, in the Duchy of Savoy, the Marquis of La Hoguette took Montmélian ( the region's last remaining stronghold ) on 22 December – a major loss for the Grand Alliance.

Meanwhile, with David Rees's help, Tunku gave a Press Conference at which he explained the popular support for the Alliance.

Meanwhile, Sheridan is rebuffed in his attempts to get the Earth Alliance to help the Narn fight the Centauri.

Meanwhile, the Millennium Falcon goes on a mission with Harrar to convince the World Brain to cease its destruction of Yuuzhan ' tar, which was intended by Shimrra to completely destroy the world so no one could have it, just to spite the Galactic Alliance.

Meanwhile new liberal initiatives have been taken, like e. g. the Liberal Alliance ( Greek: Φιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία Fileleftheri Simmakhia ).

Meanwhile, Terran Federation Survey Flotilla 19, last seen headed into unknown space and cut off from Alliance territory by the Bug counter-offensive, runs a desperate gauntlet to try and find a way back to friendly territory, whilst fending off almost continuous Bug attacks.

Meanwhile, the Liberty Alliance, a large consortium of companies and non-profit and government organizations, proposed an extension to the SAML standard called the Liberty Identity Federation Framework ( ID-FF ).

Meanwhile, Lord Mantle takes control of the Alliance by force, convinced that his forces are superior to the Beast.

Meanwhile, Haven stages a new operation capturing two planets deep in Alliance territory.

Meanwhile, the fuel also has to meet the conditions of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance.

Meanwhile, in the Rebel Alliance, rumors have grown concerning " ghost ships " attacking Rebel patrols.

Meanwhile, as Daala's conflict with the Jedi escalates thanks to the Force psychosis, a conspiracy circle consisting of Imperial Moff Drikl Lecersen and several other Galactic Alliance officials begin plotting against Daala so that she could be replaced.

Meanwhile, Tora has been harshly criticized for his alleged involvement in the plot against President Iloilo by fellow-Senator Ponipate Lesavua ( of the opposition Labour Party ) and by Ratu Epeli Ganilau, founder of the National Alliance Party, former Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, and son of the late President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau.

Meanwhile, Peter Steiner-Davion rallied pro-Lyran independence factions to eliminate the remnants of Katherine's loyalists within Lyran Alliance space, then sought a peacefully negotiated secession.

Meanwhile, many Periphery states as well as the Clans seized upon this turmoil to launch opportunistic attacks against the fringes of the Inner Sphere states, notably the alliance between Clan Blood Raven and the Outworlds Alliance which invaded both the Draconis Combine and Federated Suns.

Meanwhile on Ryloth, the evil Twi ' lek Diversity Alliance leader, Nolaa Tarkona, had paid Boba Fett for the info he had sliced out of Bornan's ship.

Meanwhile, Brian's sex drive seems unusually strong lately, causing him to feel stressed out, especially after sniffing the rear-end of an attractive dog at the park.

Meanwhile, representatives of an advanced, powerful and previously unknown alien race appear and demand the return of their lost child ... or else.

Meanwhile he was much in demand by other governments as a consultant.

Meanwhile, the South Ossetian secessionist authorities demand independence or unification with North Ossetia under the Russian Federation while the international community refuses to recognize South Ossetia as an independent country and considers the area part of Georgia.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of the then North and East Provincial Council, Vartharaja Perumal put forward a 19 point demand to resolve the ethnic crisis.

Meanwhile, the Pan-Blue Coalition dropped its demand for another round of voting by disenfranchised members of the military and the police.

Meanwhile, the military rifle business was growing because the U. S. military had a major demand for more upgraded M16s, the M16A2 model had just been adopted and the Military needed hundreds of thousands of them.

Meanwhile, during the war years, the American Medical Association ( AMA ) ( which opposed managed care organizations from their very beginning ) tried to defuse demand for managed care by promoting the rapid expansion of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield preferred provider organization networks.

Meanwhile, the demand for electric light in the stores and factories of downtown San Francisco continued to grow.

Meanwhile, he sent an ambassador to the Byzantine court with orders to demand proper treatment for Helena and to win over the Domestic of the Schools, Alexius.

Meanwhile, the growing demand of housing, as well as an increasing gentrification of Stockholm's central parts, makes apartments in Södermalm more and more difficult or expensive to come by.

Meanwhile, the expenditure of artillery rounds by the Australians during the fighting had been high and an urgent demand for 1, 000 rounds was submitted by 1st Field Regiment, RAA at 19: 30 as a contingency if the fighting continued.

Meanwhile, the profitable Vistula river trade came to an end, as there was no demand for Polish grains in Western Europy.

Meanwhile, the surviving communal businesses had incorporated and many had grown exponentially to keep pace with the rising demand for health-oriented products and services.

Meanwhile, Reynolds Metals pioneered the development of aluminum siding in 1945, and Richard S. Reynolds began predicting a growing demand for additional aluminum during peacetime.