Since 1979, there have been concerted efforts by international bodies to end the practice, including sponsorship by the United Nations of an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, held each 6 February since 2003.

Since 2002, most of the attention in the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has turned away from the Pearl River region, although several unconfirmed sightings have been reported there since February 2006, see video clips.

Since Imbolc is immediately followed ( on 2 February ) by Candlemas ( Irish Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal " feast day of Mary of the Candles ", Welsh Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau ), Irish imbolc is sometimes rendered as " Candlemas " in English translation ; e. g. iar n-imbulc, ba garb a ngeilt translated as " after Candlemas, rough was their herding ".

Since then, a very similar agreement was reached on February 13, 2007, that includes normalizing US-North Korean and Japanese-North Korean diplomatic ties on the condition that North Korea freeze its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

Since 6 February 2012, Poland serves as the protecting power of the United States in Syria.

Since becoming independent from Britain in February 1948, the economy of the country has been affected by natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and a number of insurrections, such as the 1971, the 1987-89 and the 1983-2009 civil war.

Since 1934, the message or address has been delivered to Congress in January or February.

Since decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 ( new ) pence.

Since then, February 14 marks Valentine's Day, a day set aside by the Christian church in memory of the Roman priest and physician.

Since his own children were born in morganatic marriage ( Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ), the Habsburgs designated his soon-to-be born great-nephew Robert ( b. 8 February 1915 ), second son of the future emperor Charles, as the next " adopted Austria-Este ".

Since the number of supposedly ethnic Germans who signed up voluntarily was insignificant by 1942, in February of that year Forster made signing of the Volksliste mandatory and empowered local police and other authorities to employ various methods, including physical force and threats, to implement the decree.

Since 2003, the team has been forced on an extended road trip for much of February since the AT & T Center hosts the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.

Since Leo II was seven years old ( too young to rule himself ) Ariadne and her mother Verina prevailed upon him to crown Zeno, his father, as co-emperor, which he did on 9 February 474.

Since leaving inking duties on Spawn with issue # 70 ( February 1998 ), McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio.

Since February 25, 2008, Lee Myung-Bak ( pronounced / ˌliː ˌmjʌŋ ˈbɑːk /, Korean: mjʌŋbak ̚; born 19 December 1941 ) is the incumbent President of South Korea.

* Her Royal Highness Máxima, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Mrs. van Amsberg ( Since 2 February 2002 )

Since 1968, the three day event in February is the largest annual agricultural exposition in the world, with 1, 600 exhibitors on hand showcasing the best in current agricultural technology and products.

Since 1892, the Thaipusam festival in the Tamil month of Thai ( which falls in late January / early February ) has been celebrated there.

Since February 8, 2008, Cleveland has been twinned with Killyleagh, Northern Ireland.

Since the company Half. com was bought by eBay in February 2001, it has not been made clear whether eBay would honor the numerous financial considerations to the city.

Since February 2005, the MC5 has stabilized its new lineup, with Handsome Dick Manitoba, vocalist of the 1970s New York punk band The Dictators, singing lead for the band.

Since February 1991 the district has had a partnership with the German districts of Borken ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and Ludwigslust ( Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ).

Since late 2007, the town centre has been undergoing significant redevelopment, which has already involved the erection of a large parade of shops at the rear of Jail Yard and Commercial Street, opened in February 2008, to replace the majority of those from the old precinct, which has been demolished.

Since 10 February 1941, FEAF had received 203 new pilots ( 140 of which became pursuit pilots ), but all but 28 were fresh from flight schools and required further individual training, which cut into needed unit tactical training.

Since nobody can remember the exact date, for historic purposes the band and fans have often celebrated the anniversary of the 16 February 1981 concert, in Vanbrugh College, York, England – the band's second ever gig in the form.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

Since the provision of skywave service requires adequate freedom from interference, only class 1, stations are capable of rendering skywave service.

Since Parts 1, and 2, were prepared independently, the abbreviation schemes and the chemical symbols used differ in the two parts.

Since we are considering here relatively small diameter ( 1 - 1.5 inches ) fiber plates, their average thickness can be kept below 1/4 inch and their internal losses may be assumed as 15 percent ( per plate ).

Since 1949, the St. Louis club has been below on May 1 just four times.

Since then the corporate headquarters have moved to New York City at 1 Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Since 1 April 1956, Aalen has the status of Große Kreisstadt (“ major district town ”).

This subextension is called a separable closure of K. Since a separable extension of a separable extension is again separable, there are no finite separable extensions of K < sup > sep </ sup >, of degree > 1.

Since the bigger 1 / 4 " tapioca pearls are separately sold as " black pearls " ( 黑珍珠 ) in markets, this name was the logical first choice and is more popular with the consumers of the drink.

Since B < sub > n </ sub >= 0 for all odd n > 1, and many formulas only involve even-index Bernoulli numbers, some authors write B < sub > n </ sub > instead of B < sub > 2n </ sub >.

Since 2003, a 1, 070 km pipeline has been used to export crude oil from the oilfields around Doba to offshore oil-loading facilities on Cameroon's Atlantic coast at Kribi.

Since the U. S .- Chile Free Trade Agreement went into effect on January 1, 2004, U. S .- Chilean trade has increased by 154 %.

Since these stock additions retain the short pistol barrel ( as short as 100 mm ( 4 inches )) they are highly restricted under the NFA unless the shoulder stocks are of original manufacture for the gun and the gun has been " delisted " as outlined in links 1 & 2 in the paragraph above, as is the case with so-equipped " Broomhandle " Mausers and Lugers.

Since then, she has donated over US $ 1 million to the program.

Since a comic book shop in his area traded 2 old comics for 1 new, he only had 2 Duck comics left from his sister's collection by the 70s, one of them being The Golden Helmet.

Since all probabilities p < sub > i </ sub > add up to one: p < sub > 1 </ sub > + p < sub > 2 </ sub > + ... + p < sub > k </ sub > = 1, the expected value can be viewed as the weighted average, with p < sub > i </ sub >’ s being the weights:

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

Since the algorithm ensures that the remainders decrease steadily with every step, r < sub > k − 1 </ sub > is less than its predecessor r < sub > k − 2 </ sub >.

In the first step, the final nonzero remainder r < sub > N − 1 </ sub > is shown to divide both a and b. Since it is a common divisor, it must be less than or equal to the greatest common divisor g. In the second step, it is shown that any common divisor of a and b, including g, must divide r < sub > N − 1 </ sub >; therefore, g must be less than or equal to r < sub > N − 1 </ sub >.

Since r < sub > N − 1 </ sub > is a common divisor of a and b, r < sub > N − 1 </ sub > ≤ g.