Since the end of Sakoku in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly – the last half-century or so has seen a very large volume of words borrowed from English, especially words about technology, including pasokon ( a shortening of " personal computer "), intānetto (" Internet "), and kamera (" camera ").

Since 1992, hundreds of planets around other stars (" extrasolar planets " or " exoplanets ") in the Milky Way Galaxy have been discovered.

Since tribunes were technically not magistrates, they had no magisterial powers (" major powers " or maior potestas ), and thus could not rely on such powers to veto.

* Publication of the Ab Urbe condita (" History of Rome Since its Foundation ") in 142 volumes by Livy.

Since Intranets are user-specific ( requiring database / network authentication prior to access ), you know exactly who you are interfacing with and can personalize your Intranet based on role ( job title, department ) or individual (" Congratulations Jane, on your 3rd year with our company!

Since at least the mid-19th century, a group of Catholic flagellants in New Mexico called Hermanos de Luz (" Brothers of Light ") have annually conducted reenactments of Jesus Christ's crucifixion during Holy Week, in which a penitent is tied — but not nailed — to a cross.

Since Otto III had intentions to renew the Empire based on a federal concept he called " Renovatio Imperii Romanorum ", and within that federal framework, Polish and Hungarian duchies were to be upgraded to eastern federati of the empire it was towards this end that the Emperor placed his Imperial crown on Bolesław I's brow and invested him with the titles frater et cooperator Imperii (" Brother and Partner of the Empire ") and populi Romani amicus et socius.

Since then, most of the Hanford reactors have been entombed (" cocooned ") to allow the radioactive materials to decay, and the surrounding structures have been removed and buried.

Since November 2009 the Icelandic bank Nýja Kaupþing (" New Kaupthing ") since being taken over by the Icelandic state has been rebranded as Arion banki.

Since then Edwards has been touring, doing session work, and producing his own music as well as that of other talents, such as Cheryl Wheeler (" Driving Home ," " Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar ").

Since the vaccines only cover some of the cancer-causing (" high-risk ") types of HPV, women should seek regular Pap smear screening, even after vaccination.

Since its formation, the group had been preparing their first multimedia project " Rdeči revirji " (" Red District "), aiming to provoke the current political structures in Trbovje.

Since 1872 the École française d ' Athènes (" French School of Athens ") has been excavating the island, the complex of buildings of which compares with those of Delphi and Olympia.

Since Roman times fatherhood has been determined with this famous sentence: Mater semper certa ; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant (" The of the mother is always certain ; the father is whom the marriage vows indicate ").

Since 2010, the Croatian Constitution recognizes Romanians (" Rumunji ") as one of 22 national minorities.

Since then Sopron has been called Civitas Fidelissima (" The Most Loyal Town ", ), and the anniversary of the plebiscite is a city holiday.

Since the mid-1950s, before extended pub hours replaced 6 o ' clock closing, Push night-life commonly consisted of a meal at an inexpensive restaurant such as the Athenian or Hellenic Club (" the Greeks ") or La Veneziana (" the Italians ") followed by parties held most nights of the week at private residences.

Since the 36 are each exemplars of anavah, (" humility "), having such a virtue would preclude against one ’ s self-proclamation of being among the special righteous.

Since 1908 there is a hospital in Hohenems, when the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Krankenhaus (" Queen Elisabeth hospital ") was built in Art Nouveau.

Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim " Johnny Vegas " Burton and dancer (" Bosstone ") Ben Carr have remained constant members.

Since modchips oftentimes hook into fundamental functions of the host system that cannot be removed or adjusted, these measures may not completely prevent a modchip from functioning but only prompt an adjustment of its installation process or programming, e. g. to include measures to make it undetectable (" stealth ") to its host system.

Since then, Bongos frontman Richard Barone has recorded several other Bolan compositions (" The Visit ," " Ballrooms of Mars "), worked with T. Rex producer Tony Visconti for his current solo album, Glow ( 2010, Bar / None Records ) that includes a remake of Bolan's " Girl " from Electric Warrior, and has himself produced tracks for Bolan's son Rolan.

Since Land is also the German word for a country, the term Bundesländer (" Federal States "; singular Bundesland ) is often used instead to avoid ambiguity.

Since the Coat of arms of Czechoslovakia was a composition of historic geographic areas forming the country, each republic simply kept its own symbol – the Czechs the lion and the Slovaks the double cross.

Since these are harvested from the middle and lower part of the forest, Wied's marmoset often travels and forages in the company of the golden-headed lion tamarin, which forages in the canopy.

Since it appears that only a mountain lion can kill the Antichrist, Stan returns to the mountains to enlist the orphaned cubs.

Since the Assyrian Hall erected in the inner court by Klenze in 1864 was not rebuilt, the Assyrian Orthostat reliefs from the palace of king Ashur-nasir-pal II and a lion from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon were moved into the Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst.

Since 1603 the Royal coat of arms as they have appeared in Scotland have undergone numerous changes, however since 1837 the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom used in Scotland have remained unchanged ; showing the lion of Scotland in the first and fourth quarters of the shield, with those of England in the second and the harp of Ireland in the third.

Since society considers so many rights as natural ( hence the term " right ") rather than man-made, what constitutes a crime also counts as natural, in contrast to laws ( seen as man-made ).

Since the 1990s the term has been used ( interchangeably with " the Copernicus method ") for J. Richard Gott's Bayesian-inference-based prediction of duration of ongoing events, a generalized version of the Doomsday argument.

Since the Cirth is an alphabet, one rune generally stands for one sound ( phoneme ) and sounds that would be written with a digraph in English ( such as " sh " and " th ") are written with one rune.

Since the 1970s there has been a revolution in scholarship: the Elohist source is now widely regarded as no more than a variation on the Yahwist, while the Priestly source is increasingly seen not as a document but as a body of revisions and expansions to the Yahwist ( or " non-Priestly ") material.

Since 1952, more than 50 Stanford faculty, staff, and alumni have won the Nobel Prize, and Stanford has the largest number of Turing award winners ( dubbed the " Nobel Prize of Computer Science ") for a single institution.

Since this person usually sets the ground and setting for the story, he or she is often referred to as the " storyteller " ( often contracted to " ST ") or " narrator ".

Since Unreal came packaged with its own scripting language called UnrealScript, it soon developed a large community on the Internet which was able to add new mods ( short for " modifications ") in order to change or enhance gameplay.

Since the widespread use of PPI's in the 1990s, surgical procedures ( like " highly selective vagotomy ") for uncomplicated peptic ulcers became obsolete.

Since 1801, most of the United States Constitution has not applied to the District, because of Congress's " exclusive " interpretation ( Rights Supporters say " unchecked and unbalanced ", but a neutral reporter might say " without Checks and Balances ") of Article One, Section 8, Clause 17.

* Since " y is not in f ( x )" is predictably true, by the symmetry of the order in which the darts were thrown ( hence the name " axiom of symmetry ") we should also be able to predict with virtual certainty that " x is not in f ( y )".

Since the portion of ISO / IEC 646 shared by all countries ( the " invariant set ") specified only those letters used in the ISO basic Latin alphabet, other countries using additional letters needed to create national variants of ISO 646 to be able to use their native scripts.

Since the Supreme Court's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; ;

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

Since the air is a continuum, the network of communication remains intact regardless of the positions or motions of the points ( the people ) in the net.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.

Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

Since the work is done by hand, the only limitation, it is said, `` is that of human conception ''.

Since the apparatus is new, it requires experimentation and changes in technique.

Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.