Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.

Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

Since the start of the " Special Period " in 1991 ( energy shortages caused by the loss of the Soviet Union as a trading partner ), hitchhiking and carpooling have become important parts of Cuba's transportation system and society in general.

Since the end of the Cold War, the focus of civil defense has largely shifted from military attack to emergencies and disasters in general.

Since Cauchy sequences can also be defined in general topological groups, an alternative to relying on a metric structure for defining completeness and constructing the completion of a space is to use a group structure.

Since the 3rd edition, the Britannica has enjoyed a popular and critical reputation for general excellence.

Since Ōtomo had weak political support from his maternal relatives, the general wisdom of the time held that it was not a good idea for him to ascend to the throne, yet Tenji was obsessed with the idea.

Since classical general relativity and quantum mechanics seem to be incompatible at such energies, from a theoretical point of view this situation is not tenable.

Since the proteins remain in the native state they may be visualised not only by general protein staining reagents but also by specific enzyme-linked staining.

Since the 2005 general election the government has floated the idea of voluntary mergers of local councils, avoiding a costly reorganisation but achieving desired reform.

Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic ( and more specifically Gaelic ) heritage even more broadly.

Since the institution of a democratic form of government in 2002, Mali's relations with the West in general and the United States in particular have improved significantly.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

Since Major's election as leader, Kinnock spent the end of 1990 and most of 1991 putting pressure on Major to hold the election that year, but Major had held out and insisted that there would be no general election in 1991.

Since the general animation renaissance headlined by the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, there have been an increasing number of traditional stop motion feature films, despite advancements with computer animation.

Since a general solution is quite difficult, various simplifying assumptions are used to represent the actual system.

Since there is no real consensus about where to draw the exact line between Spaghetti Westerns and other Eurowesterns ( or other Westerns in general ) one cannot say which one of the films mentioned so far really was the first Spaghetti Western.

Since man had access to fire, Zeus devised woman as a general punishment, in trade.

Since thin clients are cheap, they offer a low risk of theft in general, and are easy to replace if stolen or broken.

Since tangent vectors to a general manifold can be defined as derivations it is natural to think of them as directional derivatives.

Since that time, the Labour and Conservatives parties have been dominant, with the Liberal Democrats also holding a significant number of seats and increasing their share of the vote in parliamentary general elections in the four elections 1992.

Since 1910, the governor general was also always made the Chief Scout for Canada, which was renamed Chief Scout of Canada after 1946 and again in 2011 as Patron Scout.

Since 1968, Powell had been an increasingly frequent visitor to Northern Ireland, and in keeping with his general British nationalist viewpoint, he sided strongly with the Ulster Unionists in their desire to remain a constituent part of the United Kingdom.

Since 1993, he has been the general director of the National Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan.

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

Since his parents are now renting his room to a lodger, Alex wanders the streets and enters a public library where he hopes to learn a painless way to commit suicide.

Since 1988, Brazilian administrative law has been strongly influenced by the judicial interpretations of the constitutional principles of public administration ( art.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work.

Since leaving office, Clinton has been rated highly in public opinion polls of U. S. presidents.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Since the new Emperor was not any more generous than the old, Claudius gave up hope of public office and retired to a scholarly, private life.

Since 1997 public authorities have been obliged to observe the official spelling by way of the Orthography Law.

Since packets are typically delivered only to the port they are intended for, traffic on a switched Ethernet is less public than on shared-medium Ethernet.

Since it was a work created by the US federal government, a copyright cannot be placed on the source code, making the source code in the public domain.

Since in the mid-1990s the number of supporters started to decrease, Greenpeace pioneered the use of face-to-face fundraising where fundraisers actively seek new supporters at public places, subscribing them for a monthly direct debit donation.

Since then, and even in recent years, public spokesmen in Haiti as well as international academics and statesmen have denounced this event as the payment of an illegitimate debt, in several cases calling on the French government to repay it ( the French government has never been willing to repay it, though there was a hoax following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake involving a fake website purporting to offer reparation payment on behalf of the French Government ).

Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy / music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW.

Since hedge funds are private entities and have few public disclosure requirements, this is sometimes perceived as a lack of transparency.

Since that time all IETF meetings have been open to the public.

Since the 1960s, he has worked with public interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local, state and national level.

Since its inception in 1857, the City Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers ' markets in the midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the Kansas City community.

Since 1999, the education laws have forbidden the public universities to instruct students in languages other than Latvian ( there are exclusions made for linguistics, some international projects and non-budget groups ).

Since then, Labour Day has been not only a public holiday but also a day of mass community involvement around the country.

Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.

Since most public broadcasting operations don't have to make a profit, no commercials are necessary.

Since 1990, the NTSB has maintained a Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, in which it highlights those recommendations that would provide the most significant — and sometimes immediate — benefit to the traveling public.