Since the late nineteenth century, the South used a colloquial term, the one-drop rule, to classify as black a person of any known African ancestry.

Since World War II, Ethiopia has played an active role in world and African affairs.

Since 1994 the party system is dominated by the socialist African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde and the Party for Social Renewal.

Since then some southern African countries have had their populations of elephants " downlisted " to Appendix Two allowing sale of some stockpiles.

Since the ivory ban some southern African countries have claimed their elephant populations are stable or increasing and argued that ivory sales would support their conservation efforts.

* Since its 1824 renaming in his honor, the capital city of the West African country of Liberia has been named Monrovia.

Since these sites could not be classified as Mesopotamian, North African, or Arabian, they came to be referred to as " Levantine.

Since 1985, the UMC has been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

Since the fall of the Eastern European communist regimes, the Soviet Union, and a variety of African communist regimes, only a few currently remain, including: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Since its creation the Nigerian military has fought in a civil war – the conflict with Biafra in 1967 – 70 – and sent peacekeeping forces abroad both with the United Nations and as the backbone of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Cease-fire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by a focus on Africa as a Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence ; Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of disputes ; nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations ; and regional economic cooperation and development.

Since the end of apartheid in the 1990s the African National Congress ( ANC ) has dominated South Africa's politics.

Since the mid-20th Century, many cookbooks highlighting soul food and African American foodways, compiled by African Americans, have been published and well received.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, the term has tended to acquire acquired a negative connotation, and in much academic discourse become shorthand for Western feelings of superiority over, and overlooking of the views of, Asian and North African cultures.

Since 2003, when President François Bozizé came to power, thousands of citizens of the Central African Republic have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the escalating conflict between armed rebels and government troops.

Since the 1960s, with the latest developments on commercial aviation, the highest ranked football teams of Mozambique and the other African overseas provinces of Portugal, started to compete in the Taça de Portugal ( the Portuguese Cup ).

Since that time, large North African communities settled in and around the big cities, particularly Marseille and Toulon.

Since then, African famines become more frequent, more widespread and more severe until the turn of the 21st Century.

Since being introduced by Portuguese traders from Brazil in the 16th century, maize and cassava have replaced traditional African crops as the continent ’ s most important staple food crops.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa's new government has been cold towards Israel and critical of Israel's policies towards Palestinians, but ignored calls from pro-Palestinian civil South African groups to sever relations between the two countries.

" Since the mid-1990s African artists have also been very active through the super-group Africando, where African and New York musicians mix with leading African singers such as Bambino Diabate, Ricardo Lemvo, Ismael Lo and Salif Keita.

Since the Bishop of London refused to ordain ministers in the British American colonies, this constituted an emergency, and as a result, on 2 September 1784, Rev.

Since the 16th century, Portugal extensively adopted slavery to man their colonies, coming mainly from West and Central Africa.

Since Hitler was not really interested in obtaining the former colonies, especially if the price was a brake on expansion into Eastern Europe, Ribbentrop was forced to turn down the Anglo-French offer that he had largely brought about.

Since the end of World War II, many former colonies in the Pacific have become independent states.

Since the 1830s the Decembrists lived in settlements and in the colonies near Irkutsk.

Since many Smilax colonies are single clones that have spread by rhizomes, both sexes may not be present at a site, in which case no fruit is formed.

Since there was very much contact between Portugal and its colonies, particularly Brazil ( between 1804 and 1822 the Portuguese court resided in Rio de Janeiro since the king had fled from Portugal after Napoleon's invasion ), it is not strange that Portuguese fado has some roots in Afro-Brazilian slave dances and also Spanish and Portuguese songs ; like Fandango, Semba, Lundu and Modinha and on the other ( notice that these roots are similar to those of the Samba ).

Since in those formative years of Brazilian football clubs were usually identified with colonies of immigrants from certain ethnic groups or nationalities ( like São Paulo Palestra Italia, for Italians, or Vasco da Gama for Portuguese immigrants etc.

Since the 1980s, the number of successful breeding colonies and the total production of chicks of Andean flamingos declined.

Since 1825, it had been the policy of the British government to introduce sterling silver coinage to all of its colonies, and to this end, in 1845, the Spanish and Mexican 8 reales coins were set at a legal tender value of 4 shillings 2 pence sterling.

Since 1891 New Zealand had lost interest in federating with the Australian colonies, and was not represented.

Since they no longer had to solely rely on their own lands to produce goods, some nations began global commerce after establishing colonies in continents like Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean.

Since application of imidacloprid to corn in the United States began in 2005 cases of Colony Collapse Disorder have grown significantly: from losses of 17 % to 20 % throughout the 1990s to somewhere between between 30 % and 90 % of colonies in the United States since 2006.

Since its independence in 1978, Tuvalu had been a special member of the Commonwealth, but without having any voting rights in the organization that brings together 54 countries which were former colonies of Britain.

Since he was known to have powerful connections in other colonies as well as London, he was expected to use them against the Boston colony.

Since C. perfringens forms spores that can withstand cooking temperatures, if let stand for long enough, germination ensues and infective bacterial colonies develop.

Since someone arrested by the Law is never seen again, human colonies are wary about accepting the presence of a Law Machine in their society.

Since the cost of travelling from Europe was much higher than going from there to the United States, the colonies found it difficult attracting migrants.

Since the 1960s however, the greatest waves of immigrants have been from former French colonies: Algeria ( 1 million ), Morocco ( 570, 000 ), Tunisia ( 200, 000 ), Senegal ( 45, 000 ), Mali ( 40, 000 ), Cambodia ( 45, 000 ), Laos ( 30, 000 ), Vietnam ( 35, 000 ).

Since rejoining, FarmHouse has been an active, supportive member of the NIC and its programs, and encourages its local colonies, chapters, and associations to be the same in their campus Interfraternity Councils.

Since only comparatively few of these colonies were afflicted with microsporidians ( evidence showed 14. 5 % of the cases were afflicted with microsporidian spores, with half of the cases by Nosema apis and / or Nosema ceranae ), a correlation between microsporidian affliction and virus infection could not be determined.

Since the punishment of killing an Englishman was death, Michael was left no choice but to flee Ireland to the American colonies, where he became an indentured servant to Thomas Carver.

Since the Land Act of 1872, Canada had eagerly sought to establish planned single-nationality immigrant colonies in the Western Provinces.

Since their founding, those colonies have remained unknown and untouched by the rest of humanity — until an enigmatic transmission arrives from the vicinity of Xi Virginis.