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 1992 cities and towns statewide were able to sell on Sundays from the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving to New Years Day.

Since FIDE did not award the grandmaster title posthumously, world-class players who died prior to 1950, including World Champions Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine, never received the title.

Since FIDE titles are for life, a GM or IM does not count for the purposes of this requirement if he had not had a GM or IM result in the five years prior to the tournament.

Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns, considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to investigating such a connection.

Since routing is dynamic for every packet and the network maintains no state of the path of prior packets, it is possible that some packets are routed on a longer path to their destination, resulting in improper sequencing at the receiver.

Since the death of Vernon Green, in 2000, the group has been " reconstituted " by several musicians and singers who backed up, and / or recorded with Green prior to his death.

Since Herodotus says elsewhere that Phrygians anciently lived in Europe where they were known as Bryges, the existence of the garden implies that Herodotus believed Midas lived prior to a Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

Since Whitehead, process thought is distinguished from Hegel in that it describes entities which arise or coalesce in becoming, rather than being simply dialectically determined from prior posited determinates.

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

Since both serializing and deserializing can be driven from common code, ( for example, the Serialize function in Microsoft Foundation Classes ) it is possible for the common code to do both at the same time, and thus 1 ) detect differences between the objects being serialized and their prior copies, and 2 ) provide the input for the next such detection.

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 1385, prior service as Sheriff has been mandatory for election to the Lord Mayoralty.

Since the essential requirements for cave life were probably already present prior to the settlement of these habitats, this may be described as exaptation.

Since an investor earns a return on the original principal amount of the investment as well as on any prior period Investment income, investment earnings are " compounded " as time advances.

Since most of the participants were diplomats accredited to the French government and not professionals, it was agreed unanimously that a body of technical, legal experts be set up to study the draft convention prior to its submission to the diplomatic conference for approval.

Since the cars were replaced every week, if a champion's reign managed to straddle weeks without having won a car, the lowest valued cars for the new week were eliminated from consideration for the champion depending on how many prior attempts were made and they were then given a choice of keys from the remaining cars.

Since Intel's patents were from 1978, that paper would prove prior art and imply that the patents never should have been granted at all.

Since 2007 they have been a farm team of the Baltimore Orioles ; prior to that, they had a 38-year affiliation with the New York Mets.

Since 1986, reversing prior Congressional law, Congress passed a law restoring all State and Federal voting rights for US Military personnel living on Bases in the US, but Congress did not include Washington, DC, in that 1986 law.

Since then they did not take place every eight years as in the past, but every four years, one year prior to the Olympic Games, presumably end-August.

Since Shinto and Buddhism had molded into a syncretic belief in the prior one-thousand years and Buddhism had been closely connected with the shogunate, this involved the separation of Shinto and Buddhism ( shinbutsu bunri ) and the associated destruction of various Buddhist temples and related violence ( haibutsu kishaku ).

Since the founding of the GSG 9 the group has participated in over 1500 missions, yet reportedly fired shots only on five occasions ( official count, prior to the 2003 Iraq War ).

Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music, it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world.

Since the constitution forbids introduction of a tax bill at a fiscal session, the administration will either have to cut down expenses or inflate its estimates of anticipated revenues.

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 introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor ( the Intel 4004 ) in 1970, and the first widely used microprocessor ( the Intel 8080 ) in 1974, this class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other central processing unit implementation methods.

Since meat has a higher energy density than vegetables, and cooking it allows more nutrients to be liberated to the body, the introduction of cooked meat in the human diet reduced the energy requirements of the digestive system.

Since its introduction by Alan Guth in 1980, the inflationary paradigm has become widely accepted.

Since the popular introduction of effective microorganisms ( EM ), bokashi is commonly made with only molasses, water, EM, and wheat bran.

Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.

Since its original introduction, the cane toad has had a particularly marked effect on Australian biodiversity.

Since the introduction of the term, ethical egoism has been retroactively applied to philosophers before Sidgwick.

Since its introduction, the term has been picked up and used by various researchers engaging in Science and technology studies.

In his introduction, Blevins writes, " Since the time of F. C. Baur, very few scholars have doubted the Pauline authorship of the letter.

Since the introduction of firearms classifications have changed initially to reflect their formations on the battlefield as line infantry, and later to reflect modes of transport and type of tactics used by specific units as Mechanized infantry or airborne infantry.

Since his introduction in 1996, Jaxson de Ville has served as the Jaguars ' mascot.

Since the introduction of the original Lomo LC-A, Lomography has produced and marketed an entire line of their own analog cameras.

Since the introduction of a national minimum wage in the UK in 1999, its effects on employment were subject to extensive research and observation by the Low Pay Commission.

Since these concepts are formally defined in the article on structures, the present article can content itself with an informal introduction which consists in examples of how these terms are used.

Since the 1970s, the introduction of a recovery approach to mental health, which has been driven mainly by people who have experienced psychosis ( or whatever name is used to describe their experiences ), has led to a greater awareness that mental illness is not a lifelong disability, and that there is an expectation that recovery is possible, and probable with effective support.

Since the introduction of nalidixic acid in 1962, more than 10, 000 analogs have been synthesized, but only a handful have found their way into clinical practice.

Since 2000 and with the introduction of private TV, ERT produced further daily soap operas, but these failed to achieve high ratings and were canceled shortly after their premiere.

Since the introduction of MRI this test is rarely necessary to diagnose syringomyelia.

Since its foundation, the key ideology has been Marxism – Leninism, but since the introduction of a mixed economy in the late 1980s and 1990s, it has lost its monopolistic ideological and moral legitimacy.

Since its introduction in the early 90s, new computer video techniques have been introduced which the original AVI specification did not anticipate:

Since the introduction of digital television, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 each introduced a number of digital-only channels.

Since their introduction to the west in the early 1990s, Hall thrusters have been the subject of a large number of research efforts throughout the United States, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia ( with many smaller efforts scattered in various countries across the globe ).