Since April 2003, thousands of internally displaced Kurds have returned to Kirkuk and other Arabized regions to reclaim their homes and lands which have since been occupied by Arabs from central and southern Iraq.

Since a V. 92 hardware modem performs V. 44 compression internally, the speed of a serial port can limit a hardware modem's overall speed ; this is not an issue for softmodems since the host PC performs V. 44 compression and emulates the serial port.

Since 1977, the college has been governed internally by faculty, staff, and students working through a structure of committees and an egalitarian deliberative body called the Assembly.

Since her death, Soubirous's body has apparently remained internally incorrupt, but it is not without blemish ; during her third exhumation in 1925, the firm of Pierre Imans made light wax coverings for her face and her hands due to the discoloration that her skin has undergone.

Since Kabaka Kimera twenty further clans have either immigrated to Buganda, or been created internally ( largely by kings ).

Since stealth payload ( reduced RCS bombs and cruise missiles ) are not yet generally available, and ordnance mount points create a significant radar return, stealth aircraft carry all armament internally.

Since it was one of the major trading nations, France needed to raise most of its tax revenue internally, rather than through customs tariffs.

Since mealybugs ( as well as all other Hemiptera ) are hemimetabolous insects, they do not undergo complete metamorphosis in the true sense of the word, i. e. there are no clear larval, pupal and adult stages, and the wings do not develop internally.

Since these same satellites were also used internally by the TV networks they could also watch programs not intended for public broadcast such as affiliate feeds without commercials and / or intended for another time zone ; raw footage from remote news teams ; advance transmissions of upcoming programs ; and live news and talk shows during breaks when those on camera might not realize that anyone outside the network could hear them.

Since Latin is spoken as a native language by no modern community, the language is thought to be a universal, internally consistent means of communication without regional bias.

Since the material is clamped internally, there is no interference to the operator from the lathe / mandrel assembly during production.

Since the beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s, it has also been refuge of internally displaced Sudanese fleeing conflicts in the Nuba Mountains, and south and west of the country.

Since most clinical trials do not contain an internal " negative " control ( i. e. a placebo group ) to internally validate the trial, the data to evaluate the validity of the trial comes from past trials external to the current trial.

Since then it has focused more on internally financed growth and in 2002 it switched from being a cooperative bank to a publicly listed SpA.

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 1881, pitchers had pitched within a " box " whose front line was from home base, and since 1887 they had been compelled to toe the back line of the box when delivering the ball.

Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

Since the onset of the migration from TDM PBXs to VoIP and VoIP hybrid solutions, manufacturers such as Lantiq, Ascom Wireless Solutions, Aastra Technologies, Philips, snom and Polycom have developed IP-DECT solutions where the backhaul from the base station is VoIP ( H. 323 or SIP ) while the handset loop is still DECT.

Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, for persons alleged to be unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan and later in Iraq.

Since 1939, the base's water had been supplied by pipelines that drew water from the Yateras River about northeast of the base.

Since the base of the case must be hard, it cannot be annealed.

Since annealing brass requires heating it to about 660 F ( 350 C ), the heating must be done in such a way as to heat the neck to that temperature, while preventing the base of the case from being heated and losing its hardness.

Since the base was closed, the atoll is likely to have been visited by sailing vessels crossing the Pacific, as the deserted atoll has a strong lure due to the activities once performed there.

Since 1958 this base has been replaced with a high base made of lapis lazuli, it stood 35 centimetres ( 14 in ) high and weighed 3. 8 kilograms ( 8. 4 lb ).

Since 2001, trim levels are also indicated by including a number after the main index: '- 00 ' means base trim level, '- 01 ' means standard trim and '- 02 ' designates deluxe version ; for example, VAZ-21121-02 means Lada 112 hatchback with an 1. 6L SOHC engine and deluxe trim.

Since a compiler seldom knows where an object will reside, it often assumes a fixed base location ( for example, zero ).

Since they derive from a strong acid but weak base, they are both at about pH = 5 ; as a consequence, the morphine salts are mixed with small amounts of NaOH to make them suitable for injection.

Since 1982, it has become much smaller, with a different customer base and product focus.

Since Maskelyne's observations and calculations were made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Greenwich meridian eventually became a common base for longitude worldwide and was adopted internationally as the Prime Meridian in 1884.

Since the tubes had an open base, creating a single living space rather than a series of separate chambers, Cloudina is more likely to be a stem group polychaete worm, in other words an evolutionary " aunt " or " cousin " of more recent polychaetes.

Since some Web search engines base the importance of sites on the number of different sites linking to them, referrer-log spam may increase the search engine rankings of the spammer's sites.

Since the marching route had to pass the border of the communist base in Shaanxi, Hu Yaobang and Qin Jiwei decided to return to the communists, and secretly organized an escape.

Since 2005, the renminbi exchange rate has been allowed to float in a narrow margin around a fixed base rate determined with reference to a basket of world currencies.

Since taking over the position, McDonough has been an instrumental figure in the Blackhawks current marketing success, including establishing links between the Blackhawks and the very strong Cubs fan base in a number of ways.

Since there are two junctions between the base and emitter of the Darlington transistor, the equivalent base-emitter voltage is the sum of both base-emitter voltages:

Since the missile only requires guidance during the terminal phase, each radar emitter can be used to engage more targets.

Since the electrons from any single emitter are fired toward a single sub-pixel, the scanning electromagnets are not needed.

Since each dot on the screen is lit by a single emitter, there is no need to steer or direct the beam as there is in an CRT.

Since they were hunting for national defense contracts, Adam Herberet, a man of surprising resources, entered the combination as a silent partner because of his political connections.

Since Arthur Drews published his The Christ Myth ( Die Christusmythe ) in 1909, occasional connections have been drawn between the modern idea that Christ was a myth and docetist theories.

Since at least the time of Ramon y Cajal, psychologists have speculated that the brain stores memory by altering the strength of connections between neurons that are simultaneously active.

Since Wednesday,, Eurostar services have relocated to St Pancras, promising shorter journey times to Paris and Brussels and better connections to the rest of the UK.

Since establishing the first sewer facility plan in 1988, Kildeer has approved subdivisions designed with sewer infrastructure to accommodate future connections of upstream developments.

Since economics is traditionally focused on topics said to be " culturally masculine " such as autonomy, abstraction and logic, feminist economists call for the inclusion of more feminine topics such as family behavior, connections, concreteness, and emotion, and show the problems caused by exclusion of those topics.

Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single.

Since they have far fewer electrical connections to fail, they are far more reliable than space-division switches, and are therefore the preferred switches for the outer ( input and output ) layers of modern telephone switches.

Since reopening it has been included in the regular operating schedule of the MOB with timetabled connections to the main line services.

Since the legendary " deluge " ( Younger Dryas ) 10. 000 years ago the connections rapidly established and similar cultures started on all the different continents, leading to parallel cultures on the respective continents, leading to the ethnicities, constitutions and civilizations we know as Stone Age and Classical Antiquity.

Since then, the concept has been generalized, and the connections with quadratic number fields, the modular group, and other areas of mathematics have been further elucidated.

Since most midshipmen were from the gentry or had family connections with sailing ships, many used their connections to have their names placed on a ship's books.

Since its opening, the extension has seen tremendous growth as a result of connecting the Isle of Dogs financial centre with Greenwich, along with two National Rail connections.

Since nodes using directional antennas are nearly invisible to nodes that are not positioned in the direction the antenna is aimed at, directional antennas should be used only for very small networks ( e. g., dedicated point-to-point connections ).

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 his retirement as a player in 1984, Chappell has pursued various business and media interests as well as maintaining connections to professional cricket ; he has been a selector for national and Queensland teams, a member of the Australian Cricket Board, and a coach.

Since the Romantic Era composers have been striving to produce music that could be separated from any social connections, transcending the boundaries of time and space.

Since being established in 1964, the Centre has played a role in the development of a strong arts community in St. Andrews through the execution of a unique mandate-to explore the connections between art and nature.

Since 2007 Jet Airways has had a scissors hub at Brussels Airport in Belgium for onward trans-atlantic connections to Canada and the United States.

Since the end of World War Two, the town has emphasised its connections and proximity to Southampton, due to the prosperity to be found there, but more recently – particularly since the building of West Totton transformed the area beyond all recognition – the Totton and Eling community has attempted to return to its roots as a smaller independent New Forest settlement.

Since the process does not terminate after the script executes, as CGI does, persistent data, such as database connections, can be stored.

Since the engine mounts and gearbox connections are identical between the Ford Cologne V6 engine and the V4, some vintage V4 Saab 96s were modified to take a V6, for rally racing, although this dramatically changed the weight distribution and steering characteristics.

Since the 1970s, improved highways and commuter train connections have led to the actual metropolitan area growing to include Ystad, Skurup, Sjöbo, Eslöv, Höör, Landskrona and Helsingborg.