Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

Since the Weimar Republic lacked the quantity of raw materials available to the United States and Great Britain, it had to rely on the proficiency of a skilled labor force and an ability to export innovative and high quality goods.

Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).

Since 2003, Canada has also been working with Gabon in the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, which Canada co-chairs, in support of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.

Since 1997, all newly-found Mersenne primes have been discovered by the “ Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search ” ( GIMPS ), a distributed computing project on the Internet.

Since the privatisation of British Rail there is no longer a single approach to design on railways in Great Britain.

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

" Since Diodorus's history includes such luminaries as Alexander the Great and Hannibal, this is high praise indeed.

Since New York based Thomas would have known about the wide spread hoax and the contents of the 1876 published book were developed during or right after The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, the hoax event is the most plausible source of the name for the Tom Collins cocktail.

Since the time of the first Norman invaders from England, Ireland has been subject to control and regulation, firstly by England then latterly by Great Britain.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

Since the season of Great Lent is moveable, beginning on different dates from year to year, accommodation must be made for various feast days on the fixed calendar ( Menaion ) which occur during the season.

Since the prevailing winter winds tend to be colder than the water for much of the winter, the southeastern shores of the lakes are almost constantly overcast, leading to the use of the term The Great Gray Funk as a synonym for winter.

Since the Great Lakes region was the core of Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that the Cherokee migrated South from that region.

Since 1996, he has written a Great Movies series of individual reviews of what he deems to be the most important films of all time.

Since the exile of James II, the ' Jacobite Cause ' had striven to return the Stuarts to the thrones of England and Scotland, in 1707 united as Great Britain.

Since 1746 these took place in the Great Hall of the Green Gate building.

Since the 1960s, there have been many sightings of big cats across Great Britain.

Since 1935, both sides of the Great Seal have appeared on the reverse of the one-dollar bill.

Since the Great Depression, Swedish national politics has largely been dominated by the Social Democratic Workers ' Party, which has held a plurality ( and sometimes a majority ) in parliament since 1917.

Traditionally it is the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Great Commission until the death of John the Apostle ( about 100 AD Since it is believed that John lived so long and was the last of the twelve to die, there is some overlap between the apostolic age and the first Apostolic Fathers.

Since the 1950s a fast development of Irkutsk city began after the Great Patriotic War, modern industrious look of a city was being built up.

Since the time of Pietro della Valle, it has been beyond dispute that they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by Alexander the Great.

Since the 2000 Census, the Census Bureau has added Summit and Tooele counties to the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, but removed Davis and Weber counties and designated them as the separate Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area.

Since 1979 Salt Lake City has had a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government.

Since the team's move from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979, the Utah Jazz have worn several uniforms throughout their franchise history.

Since then ramp-meters have been systematically deployed in many urban areas including Los Angeles ; San Diego ; Sacramento ; the San Francisco Bay Area ; Fresno ; Seattle ; Denver ; Phoenix ; Las Vegas ; Salt Lake City ; Portland ; Minneapolis-St. Paul ; Milwaukee ; Columbus ; Cincinnati ; Houston ; Atlanta ; Miami ; Washington, DC ( only along Interstate 395 and Interstate 66 in Arlington County, Virginia ); Kansas City, Missouri ; and along the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Since that time the train has used a hybrid routing west of Salt Lake City between the route of the original California Zephyr and the former City of San Francisco.

Since his retirement, Eaton has worked for KJZZ-TV in Salt Lake City, providing color commentary and analysis for television broadcasts of Utah Jazz and University of Utah basketball games.

Since leaving Veruca Salt in 1998, she pursued a solo career.

Since Wes has no experience in murder investigations and because he wants to keep the murder's influence out of his town, he calls in the FBI from their closest office in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Since that time Salt has rapidly expanded its size and the range of its publishing programme.

Since the desiccation of Lake Bonneville into the Great Salt Lake, which is too salty for any kind of fish life, Bonneville cutthroats have been isolated in smaller populations in the headwaters of mountain streams and in lakes of the Bonneville drainage basin.

Since 2006 he has lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is studying for a Ph. D. in poetry.

" Since 2007, his compositions have been commissioned and performed by the Emerson String Quartet, Lauren Flanigan, Le Train Bleu, the Ravinia Festival, the Daedalus String Quartet, the Lincoln Trio, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, the Cassatt String Quartet, Danielle Belén, the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, Wintergreen Summer Arts Festival, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Quartetto di Sassofoni d ' Accademia, the University of Utah and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra.

Since forming Octappella, they have released three albums and were featured performers at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.

Since 1988 it has been overtaken as the " fastest ice in the world " by the high-altitude indoor rinks in Calgary and Salt Lake City, which have the additional benefit of low air pressure.

Since the creation of U. S. Highways Echo has served as a highway junction, where the main road coming from Wyoming splits with one branch proceeding towards Salt Lake City, continuing towards San Francisco, California, and the other towards Ogden, continuing to Portland, Oregon.

Since then, Michael McLean from Heber, Utah and Kenneth Cope in Salt Lake City have become relatively popular among mostly-older Latter-day Saints for their religiously-charged easy listening music.

Since slavery had been abolished in Canada in 1833, but was still legal in southern states of the U. S., a Lake Erie crossing was sometimes required for fugitive slaves seeking freedom:

Since 1996 the Lake Ladoga Challenge is an annual competition for 4x4 vehicles and ATVs that travels through over 1200 kilometers of the mud, swamp and bog that surround Lake Ladoga.

Since 2009, the Runoffs are held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, for a minimum of three years.

Since then, several have been inundated by lakes created by dams, including the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint point now under Lake Seminole.

Since 2000, a small amateur experimental planting has been underway in the Lake Champlain valley of Vermont at the Vermont Experimental Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden where winter temperatures can reach − 37 ° C with variable snowcover.

Since the flow is a direct function of the Lake Erie water elevation, it typically peaks in late spring or early summer.

Since 2006 Canoe Lake has been used as a venue for the annual Lake of Lights Memorial Service.

Since the 1900s, Lake Victoria ferries have been an important means of transport between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

Since the 1980s, much residential development has occurred around Smith Mountain Lake.

Since the 1960s, numerous vineyards and wineries have been established again in the valley, including Summit Lake Winery in Holts Summit.

Since Alaska has no counties, Lake of the Woods is the northernmost county in the United States.

Since the creation of Clarke ’ s Hill Lake, recreation has contributed to Lincoln County's growth.

Since the 1990s there has been an effort on the part of several publishers ( notably Pushkin Press and the New York Review of Books ) to get Zweig back into print in English .. Plunkett Lake Press Ebooks has begun to publish electronic versions of his non-fiction as well.

Since 1870, the City of Florala, through Florala ’ s Fidelity Masonic Lodge # 685, ( beginning with Chapel Hill and Lake City Lodge # 377 ), and Chapter # 441 of the Order of the Eastern Star, has served as the home of the World ’ s Oldest Consecutive Annual Masonic Day Celebration.

Since 2002, one of the state's regular-issue license plate designs has featured Crater Lake.

Since being incorporated, Lake Forest has expanded its limits to include the communities of Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills.

Since 1970 Big Bear Lake has held its annual Oktoberfest.

Since 2000, four companies have begun large operations in Lake City: Hunter Panels, New Millennium and United States Cold Storage.