By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

By the Middle Ages Boudica was forgotten.

By the late Middle Ages these were a near-universal feature of Western churches, but are now very rare.

By the Middle Ages, some writers adopted more relaxed versions of the meter.

By the English Middle Ages the term had been expanded to include not only the message, but also the New Testament which contained the message, as well as more specifically the four books of the Bible in which the life, death and resurrection of Jesus are portrayed.

By the mid-1990s, Ghana Airways operated international scheduled passenger and cargo service to numerous European, Middle Eastern, and African destinations, including London, Düsseldorf, Rome, Abidjan, Dakar, Lagos, Lomé, and Johannesburg.

By the 9th century AD the city of Shiraz was known to produce some of the finest wines in the Middle East.

By 1963, Holden was exporting cars to Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean.

By the Middle Bronze Age, increasing numbers of smelted iron objects ( distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the product ) appeared in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

By the Middle Ages the texts of the prayers were nearly fixed, and in the form in which they are still used today.

By welcoming educated and worldly Jews from both Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East, Khazars rapidly absorbed many of the arts and technologies of civilization.

By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior.

By the Middle Preclassic Period ( 900-300 BC ), Olmec artistic styles had been adopted as far away as the Valley of Mexico and Costa Rica.

" By the mid-1970s ," according to The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East, " the idea of Arab unity became less and less apparent in Arab politics, though it remained a wishful goal among the masses.

By the end of the 18th century, in addition to the trivium and quadrivium of the Middle Ages, the definition of a classical education embraced study of literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, history, art, and languages.

By 1901 he had begun to write about spiritual topics, initially in the form of discussions of historical figures such as the mystics of the Middle Ages.

By 1981 overseas construction projects, most of them in the Middle East, accounted for 60 percent of the work undertaken by South Korean construction companies.

By the Middle Ages the shepherd's sling was largely militarily extinct outside the Iberian peninsula, where the Spanish and Portuguese infantry favoured it against light and agile Moorish troops ; a sling projectile, while dangerous even against an armoured opponent, would be lethal against a light and unarmoured foe.

By the Middle Ages the texts of the prayers were nearly fixed, and in the form in which they are still used today.

By 313 BC, Hellenic ideas had begun their almost 250-year expansion into the Near East, Middle East, and Central Asian cultures.

By the end of 1969, the SCA's three original kingdoms had been established: West, East, and Middle.

By the early Middle Ages the Warmians, an Old Prussian tribe, inhabited the area.

By the Middle Kingdom period, as the funeral texts began to be used by members of Egyptian society other than the royal family, the role of Isis as protector also grew, to include the protection of nobles and even commoners.

By the last years of Tamar's reign, the Georgian state had reached the zenith of its power and prestige in the Middle Ages.

More recently, although Russia and Eastern Europe remain the most important investment destinations, there have been increasing investment flows from the West through Cyprus into Asia ( particularly China and India ), South America and the Middle East.

Mormon – Muslim relations have been historically cordial, seldom involving Islamophobia or Anti-Mormonism ; recent years have seen increasing dialogue between adherents of the two faiths, and cooperation in charitable endeavors, especially in the Middle and Far East.

During the Middle Ages, Parma became an important stage of the Via Francigena, the main road connecting Rome to Northern Europe ; several castles, hospitals and inns were built in the following centuries to host the increasing number of pilgrims who passed by Parma and Fidenza, following the Apennines via Collecchio, Berceto and the Corchia ranges before descending the Passo della Cisa into Tuscany, heading finally south toward Rome.

One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the third ( in the Middle Ages, thirds had been considered dissonances ).

During the period, secular music had an increasing distribution, with a wide variety of forms, but one must be cautious about assuming an explosion in variety: since printing made music more widely available, much more has survived from this era than from the preceding Medieval era, and probably a rich store of popular music of the late Middle Ages is irretrievably lost.

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

Its sound was seen as a testament to Albarn's increasing interest in African and Middle Eastern music, and to his complete control over the group's creative direction.

Edward's behaviour was typical of an increasing number of English knights and nobles during the late Middle Ages who paid less and less attention to the high ideal of chivalry.

In the Late Middle Ages, the local Silesian Piast dukes invited German settlers into the territory resulting in increasing German settlement.

During the Middle Ages and Enlightenment, English cuisine enjoyed an excellent reputation ; its decline can be traced back to the move away from the land and increasing urbanisation of the populace during the Industrial Revolution.

Its sound was seen as a testament to Albarn's increasing interest in African and Middle Eastern music, and to his complete control over the group's creative direction.

In the run-up to World War I, both empires were alarmed by the unified German Empire's increasing activity in the Middle East, notably the German project of the Baghdad Railway, which would open up Mesopotamia and Persia to German trade and technology.

The president has also overseen a reduction of Kenya's dependence on aid by western donors ( which still remains significant though ), with the country being increasingly funded by internally generated resources, tax revenue collection having grown tremendously during his term, and also by increasing investment, grants and loans by non-western countries, mainly Japan, People's Republic of China and the Middle East, and to a lessor extent investment by South African, Libyan and Nigerian corporations, and even Iran.

In the German Middle Ages, too, singing and dancing crowds, ever increasing in number, whirled themselves from place to place under this same Dionysian impulse.

The second influence was the increasing contact with the Islamic nations of the Middle East especially after the 9th century.

PRA writes that both critics and supporters of MEMRI note its increasing influence in shaping perceptions of the Middle East.

As a result from the increasing sea-level Schokland transformed from an attractive settlement area in the Middle Ages to a place under continuous threat by floods in the 19th century.

* Armenian ( Western Armenian mostly, due to immigration from former French mandates in the Middle East, Lebanon and Syria ; but there is an increasing minority of Eastern Armenian speakers due to recent immigrants arriving from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran ).

The shift in East-West relations and the increasing focus toward Eastern Europe, the southern region and the Middle East led to a changing of the focus of Third Air Force as well.

Chapter seven, " Cauldron of Animosities ", opens with a discussion of U. S. support for the increasing militarization of Israel and its illegal development of nuclear weapons, something Chomsky believes threatens peace in the Middle East by encouraging other nations like Iran and Iraq to do the same.

As Construction Minister ( 1974 – 1976 ), Kim promoted the entry of Korean construction companies into Saudi Arabia, increasing South Korean export to the Middle East twentyfold from $ 45 million in 1973 to $ 900 million in 1976 and thus making South Arabia the fourth most important overseas market, which helped South Korea weather the 1973 oil crisis.

It is most widely recognized in the United States, but is increasing gaining popularity in the Middle East, Western Europe, Australia and Asia.