Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.

Since 1988, the group has also hosted Earth Celebration, which brings artists and enthusiasts from all over the world to Sado Island.

Since Howland Island is uninhabited, no time zone is specified.

Since the 1960s, the mainland population has declined by 60-70 %; though there has been a small increase on Motunau Island.

Since independence, the Republic of the Marshall Islands has established relations with 67 nations, including most other Pacific Island nations.

Since the development of pearl culture technology, the black pearl oyster found in Tahiti and many other Pacific Island areas has been extensively used for producing cultured pearls.

Since the Great Depression, the Rhode Island Democratic Party has dominated local politics.

Since the end of the 17th century, Robben Island has been used for the isolation of mainly political prisoners.

Since many U. S. spacecraft are launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, the terms " Cape Canaveral ," " Canaveral ", or " the Cape " have become metonyms that refer to both as the launch site of spacecraft.

Since 1973, a rail ferry operates across the strait, connecting the port of Vanino, Khabarovsk Krai on the mainland with Kholmsk on Sakhalin Island.

Since the colonial era, Rhode Island would rotate its legislative sessions between Providence, Newport, Bristol, East Greenwich and Kingston and did not have a fixed capital.

Since the Mid-Manhattan Expressway that would have connected the route to New York's Interstate 495 ( Long Island Expressway ) was canceled, Interstate 495 officially became New Jersey Route 495 in 1979 with signs being changed in 1989.

Since his debut, creators have developed Wario into the protagonist and antihero of the Wario Land and WarioWare series, spanning both handheld and console markets, in addition to many appearances in spin-offs in the Mario series, as well as also appearing in Super Mario 64 DS and Yoshi's Island DS.

Since 1959, Deal Island has hosted an annual Labor Day weekend Skipjack Race.

Since 1953 Breezy has been serving the Blackstone Valley as well as the rest of Massachusetts and neighboring states Rhode Island and Connecticut With three three hundred foot waterslides, free parking, game rooms, snack bar, certified lifeguards, and picnic tables, Breezy Picnic Grounds & Waterslides sits off the edge of the Whitin Reservoir.

Since the Ponteri administration came into office, Patchogue has become to be known as the " Music Capital of Long Island ".

Since 1988, Ronkonkoma has been the end of electrification along the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line.

Since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Bald Head Island is no longer a distinct island, but is connected along the shore by shoal with the Fort Fisher State Recreation Area to Pleasure Island.

Since most of Sunset Beach and the adjoining Bird Island coastal reserve encompass a barrier island, the only way to get there from the mainland was by crossing a pontoon bridge ( swing bridge ) straddling the Intracoastal Waterway and adjacent marshland.

Since 1993, the Sodor and Man Diocesan Synod has had power to enact Measures making provision " with respect to any matter concerning the Church of England in the Island ".

Since 5 May 1995, Norwegian law has required all Norwegian activity in Antarctica, including Peter I Island, to follow international environmental law for Antarctica.

Since the early 19th century, Deception Island was a favourite refuge area from the storms and icebergs of Antarctica.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

Since the late 1930s alloy steels have been used for frame and fork tubes in higher quality machines.

Since the late 1980s, evidence has become available that instillation of BCG into the bladder is an effective form of immunotherapy in this disease.

Since its introduction at games by the " Roar from 34 ", led by Wild Bill Hagy and others, in the late 1970s, it has been a tradition at Orioles games for fans to yell out the " Oh " in the line " Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave " in " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

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 the late nineteenth century, only two brief periods of violence have marred its democratic development.

Since there is no evidence that late Maastrichtian nonavian dinosaurs could burrow, swim or dive, they were unable to shelter themselves from the worst parts of any environmental stress that occurred at the K – T boundary.

Since the late 1990s, Orange has also been working in conjunction with singer / songwriter Craig Deanto, and they have released an album titled Who Hears the Cries.

Since 2000Actually the most important are: Cable Onda ( 40 % share ), Cable and Wireless ( started on late 2009 ) and CTV.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

Since the late 1990s, custom dog tags have become fashionable amongst musicians ( particularly rappers ), and as a marketing giveaway item.

Since the late 1980s, prominent individuals and organizations have recognized the seminal importance of Engelbart's contributions.

Since the late 1990s, Dublin has experienced a significant level of net immigration, with the greatest numbers coming from the European Union, especially the United Kingdom, Poland and Lithuania.

Since the late 19th century, differential geometry has grown into a field concerned more generally with the geometric structures on differentiable manifolds.

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

Since the late 1980s, the field has been revived in the wake of progress made in the related fields of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and cognitive science.

Since the late ' 60s, the exploitation of oil increased production and reserves are estimated at 4. 036 million barrels

Since its acquisition of Verant in late 1999, SOE develops, runs, and distributes EverQuest.

Since the late 1990s, almost all release prints have used polyester film stock.

Since the late 1990s, bzip2, a file compression utility based on a block-sorting algorithm, has gained some popularity as a gzip replacement.

Since the late 1970s, towns in the north began industrial production through maquiladoras, especially in San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortés.

Since the late 1980s, Indonesia has made significant changes to its regulatory framework to encourage economic growth.

* interface to personal computers: Since the late 1990s, most pumps can interface with personal computers for managing and documenting pump programming and / or to upload data from the pump.

Since the late 1990s, the Jamaican government has set an agenda to push the development of technology in Jamaica.

Since the late Middle Ages the Kingdoms of England and Scotland had been evolving towards a quasi-oligarchical or collegiate form of government in which the monarch was held to rule with the consensus of the land-owning upper classes.