* Since 1976, Bulgaria has an embassy in Luanda.

Since the 1990s, SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions have dropped 40 %, and according to the Pacific Research Institute, acid rain levels have dropped 65 % since 1976.

Since 1976, it has remained so.

Since 1885 this has occurred in 1886 – 1887, 1889 – 1890, 1916 – 1917, 1950, 1955, and 1974 – 1976, with the highest flood of in 1974.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

Since their move to New Jersey in 1976, fans from each state have claimed the team as their own.

Since Seychelles ' independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the old near-subsistence level.

( Since 1976, the Residents ' recordings have all listed their producer as " The Cryptic Corporation ," presumably meaning Fox in particular.

Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP ; later on, the winners of pre-1976 events were retroactively given bracelets.

Since 1976 Wolpoff has graduated 14 Ph. D. students, 7 women and 7 men, all but two of whom have academic positions.

Since its inception in 1976, Omaha Children's Museum has been a place where children can challenge themselves, discover how the world works and learn through play.

Since 1976 it has been a museum with attached national archives and a research centre for the Richard Wagner Foundation in Bayreuth

Since 1976, Spassky has lived in France with his third wife ; he became a French citizen in 1978, and has competed for France in the Chess Olympiads.

Since 1976, Algeria has supported the Polisario Front, a group claiming to represent the population of Western Sahara, which is based among the 90, 000 Sahrawi refugees who reside in refugee camps in Algeria.

Since 29 months is more than 2 years, had Ford won a full term in 1976 ( he lost to Jimmy Carter ), he would have been ineligible to run again in 1980, despite having been previously elected just once.

Since 1976 they have also been based on decisions made at closed meetings of the religion's Governing Body.

Since 1976 fashion and perfumes company Puig has a production plant in this commune.

Since 1976, practical " glow " ignition four stroke model engines have been available on the market, ranging in size from 3. 5 cm³ upwards to 35 cm³ in single cylinder designs.

Since 1976 Hodgkins has been served by the Pleasantview Fire Protection District which had its own humble beginnings with one engine in 1946 and has grown into a top-notch organization since then.

Since 1976, Mayors have been chosen for four-year terms, except for the present mayor who has been able to serve since 1988 for some reason.

Since 1957, Acton's Troop 1 of the Boy Scouts of America have organized an annual march along the Isaac Davis line of march, and since 1976 the " Scouters of the Isaac Davis Trail " have organized the annual Isaac Davis Camporee.

Since 1976, the Swiftettes have been to the Final Four of the state tournament 22 times.

Since the release of his first book The 12th Planet in 1976, now in its 45th printing, Zecharia Sitchin has written seven other books as part of his Earth Chronicles series, as well as six other companion books, all of which are still in print.

Since the bell returned to Philadelphia, it has been moved out of doors only five times: three times for patriotic observances during and after World War I, and twice as the bell occupied new homes in 1976 and 2003.

Since they lie between Melanesian Fiji and Polynesian Tonga, the Lau Islands are a meeting point of the two cultural spheres.

Since March 2006 McConnell has been a member of the executive committee for the Computer Society's Technical Council on Software Engineering.

Since 2002, the awards have been based on the Royal Horticultural Society's medal standards of Gold, Silver Gilt, Silver and Bronze ; the winner is the settlement judged to have most successfully met the rigorous judging criteria.

Since 1977, Elizabeth II has been a patron of the Society, and during the Society's centenary year of 1984 she acted as its president.

Since the Society's founding, education has always been at the heart of its mission.

Since then, the Society's charter has expanded to include the dependents of all sailors killed in submarine disasters — except those of Russian submarine K-141 Kursk.

Since September 2008, the songs have also been made available for download at the Watch Tower Society's media site, jw. org.

Since 1861 the question was broadend to include the question where the hondsrug rocks came from, and in 1867 Torell sent in a proposal to declare the rocks were transported by glaciers and was awarded the prize ( a gold medal worth 400 guilders and cash to the amount of 150 guilders ) but he never collected it, to the great frustration of the Haarlem Society's secretary, who sent him letters requesting his manuscript for publication.

Since the 1976 voyage to Tahiti and back, Hōkūle ‘ a has completed more voyages to destinations in Micronesia, Polynesia, Japan, Canada, and the United States, all using ancient wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.

Since 1950, a committee of Aachen citizens annually awards the Karlspreis ( German for ‘ Charlemagne Award ’) to personalities of outstanding service to the unification of Europe.

Since an abbreviation is also employed for the word ‘ equals ’, Diophantus took a fundamental step from verbal algebra towards symbolic algebra .”

Since this operation PLAN has sought the leadership of the ‘ Shared Awareness and Deconfliction ’ body ( SHADE ), which would require an increase in the number of vessels contributing to the anti-piracy fleet.

) Since the Israelites often did not change the names of the towns they found in Canaan, the name of this town may be derived from a Canaanite goddess, ‘ Anat.

In an interview with American Songwriter, Coyne stated that " Since we were releasing music every month, we thought it would be a little bit boring for us each month to say ‘ Well here ’ s four more Flaming Lips songs.

Since there was only one king of Tyre with this hypocoristicon in the 9th century BC, Cross restores the name to pmy ( y ) tn or p ‘ mytn, which is rendered in the Greek tradition as Pygmalion.

Fabergé would then smile guiltily and say, ‘ Since there is nobody to scold me, I have had to do it myself ’.

Since 1985 Hoogstraten has also been entitled to call itself a ‘ stad ’ – a town – once more.

Since only 70 men were reported as missing, this would suggest that 14 of the men officially marked down as ‘ killed ’ had in fact been captured.

Since its conceptual inception in the late 1780s in Europe and formal introduction in 1993 by the US Government, the term ‘ E-Government ’ has now become one of the recognized research domains especially in the context of public policy and now has been rapidly gaining strategic importance in public sector modernization.

Since YDL version 5. 0 ‘ Phoenix ,’ Enlightenment has been the default desktop environment in Yellow Dog Linux, although GNOME and KDE are also included.

Since its inception, the Church of the Nazarene has indicated that its mission is " to respond to the Great Commission of Christ to ‘ go and make disciples of all nations ’ ( Matthew 28: 19 )".

Since 1997 the Exmoor National Park Authority, which is known as a ‘ single purpose ’ authority, has taken over some functions to meet its aims to " conserve and enhance the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of the National Parks " and " promote opportunities for the understanding and enjoyment of the special qualities of the parks by the public ", including responsibility for the conservation of the historic environment.

Since Major ( later Sir ) Claude Maxwell Macdonald, the Consul General of the Oil River Protectorate authorities considered the ‘ Treaty ’ legal and binding, he deemed the King ’ s reaction a violation of the accord and thus a hostile act.

Since 2011, the term ‘ Indo-Pacific ’ is being used increasingly in the global strategic / geo-political discourse.

The Bulletin summarized the opposition opinion in its editorial: ‘ Since the day of the Governor-General ’ s arrival, he has shown a disposition to assert, and Mr Barton to allow, powers utterly at variance with the rights of a self-governing people ’.

Since 2004 the ‘ Great Britons ’ awards program has honoured such figures as author J. K. Rowling and Olympian Sebastian Coe, but relies almost entirely on financial support from the bank Morgan Stanley and the newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

The first Aboriginal winner was boxer Lionel Rose, who quipped: ‘ One hundred and eighty-two years ago one of my mob would have been a dead cert ’ for this .’ Since then a further seven Indigenous people have been named Australian of the Year, for achievements in sport, music, politics, law, public service and academia.

‘ Since the US-led offensive that ousted the Taliban from power ,’ reported Forbes in 2005, " the project has been revived and drawn strong US support " as it would allow the Central Asian republics to export energy to Western markets " without relying on Russian routes ".

Since the 19th century, the contemporary denotation of philistinism, as the behaviour of ‘ ignorant, ill-behaved persons lacking in culture or artistic appreciation, and only concerned with materialistic values ’ derives from Matthew Arnold ’ s adaptation to English of the German word Philister — as applied by university students in their antagonistic relations with the townspeople of Jena, Germany, where, in 1689, a row resulted in several deaths.

Since 2000 the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust has been promoting folk music in the region, organising a ‘ Traditional Music Day ’ every year in August.

Since the Scriptures are ‘ profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work ,’ the curriculum shows students how to apply the Word of God.

Since the Network era ( late ‘ 50 ’ s to mid ‘ 80 ’ s ), the development of low cost genres, such as news and other un-scripted shows, has become a popular movement.