Significant opposition from the Food Marketing Institute, representing U. S. grocers, has delayed the introduction of the bill.

Significant opposition to the beret from senior colonels and Major Command ( MAJCOM ) Chiefs was gradually overcome by the popularity of the concept with personnel.

Significant opposition to the Government's privatization plan exists.

Significant operation success in Kosovo led to resumption of production and technical improvements, and the system is at present in operational use in Iraq and other military operations.

Significant communities live in Jordan, Iraq, Syria ( in Beer ajam and many other villages ), Lebanon, Egypt, Israel ( in the villages of Kfar Kama and Rehaniya — for more information see Circassians in Israel ), Libya, and Macedonia.

Significant legislation and judicial decisions on the legality and constitutionality of wiretapping had taken place years before World War II.

Significant events related to the British, French, and Indian War ; the Revolution, and the Civil War took place on the property.

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

Significant reforms and post-World War II industrialization took place during this time.

Significant to the early development of SOF magazine was its unprecedented, successful recruitment of foreign nationals to serve in the Rhodesian Security Forces, during the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 – 79 ).

Significant appearances included starring in the limited series Deadly Foes of Spider-Man # 1-4 ( May-Aug. 1991 ); the Flowers for Rhino storyline in Spider-Man's Tangled Web # 5-6 ( Oct .-Nov. 2001 ) which is told from the character's perspective, and Punisher War Journal vol.

Significant as the first large-scale meeting of American and German forces in World War II, the relatively untested and poorly-led American troops suffered heavy casualties and were pushed back over from their positions west of Faid Pass in the initial days of the battle.

Significant efforts were made after World War II to develop the tourist infrastructure and to accentuate its importance.

Significant successes were had in the United Kingdom with the recruitment of the Cambridge Five, a ring of British spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II, and up until the early 1950s.

Significant examples of unequal treaties on China did outlast World War II: unequal treaties regarding Hong Kong remained in place until Hong Kong's 1997 handover, and in 1969, to improve Sino-Russian relations, China reconfirmed the 1859 Treaty of Aigun.

Significant numbers of the Luhya fought for the British in the Second World War, many as conscripts in the Kenya African Rifles, ( KAR ).

Significant past gifts to the University include the Seven Society Carillon in the UVA Chapel, donated in memory of deceased members of the society, and given with the request that there should be a toll of seven times seven bells on the passing of a member ; a memorial to past Seven Society members who gave their lives in World War I ; $ 17, 777. 77 for a loan fund in honor of University president John Lloyd Newcomb ; the ceremonial mace carried in academic processions ; $ 10, 777. 77 in support of the re-establishment of Homecomings ; a plaque on the Rotunda honoring University students who died in the Korean War ; $ 7, 077. 77 to endow the Ernest Mead Fund for the Music Library ; $ 47, 777. 77 for the making of a film on the honor system ; and $ 1 million in support of the University's South Lawn Project.

Significant residential subdivision of the area took place in the 1880s ( Brunswick East Post Office opening on 13 January 1888 ) and also in the period after World War I.

Significant development occurred in Hadfield after World War II, with the Hadfield Post Office opening on 6 May 1957.

Significant bomb damage to a Hardened Aircraft Shelter | HAS incurred during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Significant suburban residential development began with the opening of the Montrose subdivision in 1913, accelerating significantly after World War II.

Significant stay-behind operations existed during World War II.

Significant damage to the station occurred in the Second World War, and the modern façade of the railway station ( the only modern building in all of Budapest's major rail terminals ) was eventually completed in 1975.

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 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.