Significant fraud and corruption impacting crucial DoD operations throughout Southwest Asia, with particular emphasis upon schemes that potentially affect the health, safety, welfare, or mission ‐ readiness of U. S. troops assigned to theater.

Significant procurement and acquisition fraud, corruption, and other financial crimes which result in multi ‐ million dollars losses, thus depriving DoD of critically ‐ needed funds that would otherwise be utilized to finance vital national defense initiatives.

Significant privatizations of this nature occurred from 1760 to 1820, coincident with the industrial revolution in that country.

Significant rebellions occurred on Tanna and Espiritu Santo and paperwork revealed the direct culpability of France in its desire to see Espiritu Santo become a separate French colony.

Significant amounts of teaching occurred in the museum as well with students claiming they learnt far more in the museum than they ever did in the lecture theatre.

Significant changes occurred in the economy of the Tennessee Valley and the nation, prompted by an international oil embargo in 1973 and accelerating fuel costs later in the decade.

Significant events of the latter variety occurred in Colorado and Kansas in May 2004 with winds to 100 mph ( 161 km / h ), Minnesota and Wisconsin in June 2004 causing significant damage, and the upper Middle West in May 1988, notable for strong electrification and lightning activity and by one estimate reaching 30, 000 ft ( 9, 144 m ) or more.

Significant changes in the number of fixed and mobile services deployed in Bangladesh occurred in the late 1990s and the number of services in operation have subsequently grown exponentially in the past five years.

Significant damaging bushfires occurred in the western and northern sections of the park in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Significant Romanization occurred when the town was selected as the garrison of the Legio XV Apollinaris.

Significant development occurred after the coming of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and George D. Winn's ferry to Portsmouth, Ohio in the 1890s.

Significant growth in recent years has occurred to the northeast, where homes have been built along the ravine of Maple Creek as well as alongside Brooktree Golf Course, to the north, and to the southeast.

Significant beach erosion has occurred at the western end of Emerald Isle.

Significant urban growth occurred in the 1920s, and during the 1930s to 1950s large-scale growth occurred.

Significant growth has occurred in the 1990s in Parowan ; it has been attributed to affordable utility fees and a positive economic climate.

Significant flooding occurred in 1907, 1912, 1917, and 1935.

Significant canyon-shaping events occurred as recently as 15, 000 years ago during a massive outburst flood from Glacial Lake Bonneville in Utah.

Significant opposition to the Iraq War occurred worldwide, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and smaller contingents from other nations, and throughout the subsequent occupation.

Significant organisational changes to the base occurred as a result of the post-Cold War reorganization of the USAF.

Significant changes have occurred since the largest private shareholder, Alcatel, sold its stake in Thales to Dassault.

Significant school construction in recent years has occurred in response to changing demographics.

Significant erosion occurred on the populated shores of the harbour, particularly in the Bedford Basin where residential properties and railway tracks received most of the wave action.

Significant storm damage occurred as far south as Grenada, where high surf isolated towns from the capital city.

Significant periods of expansion of the university, since the 1972 merger, occurred in the mid-1980s, as well as in 1998, when Joan B. Kroc, philanthropist and wife of McDonald's financier Ray Kroc, endowed USD with a gift of $ 25 million for the construction of the Institute for Peace & Justice.

Significant residential development occurred during the 1960s and 1970s, spurred by industrial growth and public housing construction.

Significant changes occurred in 1965, when the line was singled and both legs of the triangle at the eastern end of the line were closed.

* Tasmania ( de facto status provided from 2003, " Registry system / Significant Relationships " provided since 2004 ) Domestic partnership in Tasmania

Significant future Highway 85 projects listed in MTC's Transportation 2030 plan, as of 2006 ( in 2004 dollars ), include:

Significant government funding was also made available for the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway, opened in 2004.

* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( December 3, 2004 ), Significant dates in Ottawa / Hull street and light railway history.

Suffering financial and other difficulties in the early part of the 21st Century, the school's trustees authorized its sale in January 2004 to California-based Significant Education, LLC, making it the first for-profit Christian college in the United States.

Significant changes enacted at the national levels included the imposition of an income tax with the Sixteenth Amendment, direct election of Senators with the Seventeenth Amendment, Prohibition with the Eighteenth Amendment, and women's suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

Significant carbonate deposits have not been found on Mars via remote sensing or in situ missions, even though Martian meteorites contain small amounts.

Significant variety is seen even in those skulls already identified as Triceratops, Horner said, " where the horn orientation is backwards in juveniles and forward in adults ".

Significant liver congestion may result in impaired liver function, and jaundice and even coagulopathy ( problems of decreased blood clotting ) may occur.

Significant numbers reach as far afield as New Guinea, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, where they can remain for some time, even breeding for a season or two.

Significant part of settlement of 100, 000 is built without any permits and plans, and for that part none of the communal problems is even remotely solved.

Owens Lake is still considered to be a Nationally Significant Bird Area by the Audubon California even though Owens is now a mostly dry lake.

Significant actions of the General Assembly include the calling of the constitutional convention which became the first to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787 ( which led to Delaware's state nickname, " the First State "), and its rejection of secession from the Union on January 3, 1861, even though Delaware was a slave state.

Significant variety is seen even in those skulls already identified as Triceratops, Horner observed, " where the horn orientation is backwards in juveniles and forward in adults ".

Significant leakage will come from nearby environmental reflections even if antenna components are perfect.

Significant European occupation in this region started with the Central Otago Gold Rush in the 1860s, but a French immigrant gold miner, Jean Desire Feraud, soon started planting vines and embarking upon small-scale commercial wine production — even winning medals in Australian wine competitions.

Significant changes to even one of those areas require resources, money, and leadership.