During a 1935 – 1942 colonization attempt, the island was most likely on Hawaii time, which was then 10. 5 hours behind UTC .< ref > Since it is uninhabited the island's time zone is unspecified, but it lies within a nautical time zone 12 hours behind UTC.

Since 30 June 2007, the island's governor has been Eustaquio Juan Santana Gil.

Since the success of the 1993 Buksefjord dam, whose distribution path to Nuuk includes the Ameralik Span the long-term policy of the Greenland government is to produce the island's electricity from renewable domestic sources.

Since 1972, the U. N. Decolonization Committee has called for Puerto Rico's decolonization and for the U. S. to recognize the island's right to self-determination and independence.

Since then the island's economy has been principally agricultural, with a southern rock lobster fishery and with tourism growing in importance.

Since then, every year at the end of July, Ciudad del Carmen turns into the very center of the regional social, cultural and religious festivities, on the fair that celebrates the island's protector virgin.

Since the late 20th century, the Kythirean economy has largely focused and, in the process, has become dependent on tourism, which provides the majority of the island's income, despite the fact that Kythira is not one of the most popular tourist destinations in Greece.

Since Kinetika's input the carnival has been expanding, with its effects felt throughout the island's other carnivals.

Since 1927 the service has run in summer only and it remains in place as one of the most distinctive features of the island's tourist market.

Since around 2004, the Saint Thomas and Hassel Island Preservation Trust, the Virgin Islands National Park, and other organizations have been working to restore and preserve the island's historic sites.

Since the main objective of attacking Tarakan was to use the island's airstrip, the invasion force also included a large number of Royal Australian Air Force ground units, including No. 61 Airfield Construction Wing comprising No. 1 and No. 8 Airfield Construction Squadrons.

Since the founding of modern Singapore in 1819, the Singapore River was the artery for much of the island's trade and economic activities.

Since the change of lessee, a program to progressively renovate the island's facilities and make them more ecologically friendly has been implemented.

( 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 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 then, Alumni has played at the highest level of Argentinian rugby and its rivalry with Belgrano Athletic Club is one of the fiercest local derbies in Buenos Aires.

Since independence, Botswana has had the highest average economic growth rate in the world, averaging about 9 % per year from 1966 to 1999.

Since the elements can be uniquely sequenced by atomic number, conventionally from lowest to highest ( as in a periodic table ), sets of elements are sometimes specified by such notation as " through ", " beyond ", or " from ... through ", as in " through iron ", " beyond uranium ", or " from lanthanum through lutetium ".

Since diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any bulk material, layering diamond onto high heat producing electronics ( such as optics and transistors ) allows the diamond to be used as a heat sink.

Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.

Since the cultivation of coffee required the highest lands in the country, many of these lands were expropriated from indigenous reserves and given or sold cheaply to those that could cultivate coffee.

Since there was no " title " of Empress (- consort ) whatsoever, women of the reigning dynasty sought to be granted this honorific, as the highest attainable goal.

* Since the 1950s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission has named its highest honor, the Fermi Award, after him.

Since the Emperor was seen as a divine figure and linked to the deities, pollution of such extreme degree committed by the highest source was seen as extremely ruinous.

Since Galileo was designed to provide the highest possible precision ( possibly even greater than GPS ) to anyone, the US was concerned that an enemy could use Galileo signals in military strikes against the US and its allies ( some weapons like missiles use GNSS systems for guidance ).

Since its post-WW2 economic boom in the 1970s, Finland's GDP per capita has been among the world's highest.

Since 2001, GDP growth has been among the highest in the world.

Since 1885 this has occurred in 1886 – 1887, 1889 – 1890, 1916 – 1917, 1950, 1955, and 1974 – 1976, with the highest flood of in 1974.

Since redevelopment, the highest attendance was the 2010 Grand Final of the AFL with 100, 016.

Since metallic radii are always biggest for the highest coordination number, correction for less dense coordinations involves dividing by x, where 0 < x < 1.

Since the team's first season in 1961, the Vikings have had one of the highest winning percentages in the NFL.

Since stratospheric ozone is produced by solar UV radiation, one might expect to find the highest ozone levels over the tropics and the lowest over polar regions.

Since an interrupt handler blocks the highest priority task from running, and since real time operating systems are designed to keep thread latency to a minimum, interrupt handlers are typically kept as short as possible.

Since Jiang Zemin became the national party chief in June 1989, all but one former Shanghai party chief was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto highest decision-making body in China, including Jiang Zemin ( General secretary and President ), Zhu Rongji ( Premier ), Wu Bangguo ( Chairman of the National People's Congress ), Huang Ju ( Vice Premier ), and Xi Jinping ( Vice President ).

Since 1995, U. S. television ratings for the Daytona 500 have been the highest for any auto race of the year, surpassing the traditional leader, the Indianapolis 500 which in turn greatly surpasses the Daytona 500 in in-track attendance and international viewing.

Since the water tower is sometimes the highest point in the town, antennae, public address systems, cameras and tornado warning sirens are sometimes placed on them as well.

Since the 1960s, with the latest developments on commercial aviation, the highest ranked football teams of Mozambique and the other African overseas provinces of Portugal, started to compete in the Taça de Portugal ( the Portuguese Cup ).

Since September 2002, the highest Palermo rating maintained has been that of asteroid ( 29075 ) 1950 DA, with a value of 0. 17 for a possible collision in the year 2880.

Since a ruled surface of order N with N concurrent generators is necessarily a cone, it follows finally that every line through a point, P, of **zg meets its image at P, as asserted.

Since all anchors that embed themselves in the bottom require the strain to be along the seabed, anchors can be broken out of the bottom by shortening the rode until the vessel is directly above the anchor ( at this point the anchor chain is " up and down " in naval parlance ).

Since one DSL termination point can support multiple ISPs, the economic feasibility of DSL is substantially improved.

Since the maximum aperture of the pencils issuing from O is the angle u subtended by the entrance pupil at this point, the magnitude of the aberration will be determined by the position and diameter of the entrance pupil.

Since lead has a lower melting point than the other constituents of the brass, it tends to migrate towards the grain boundaries in the form of globules as it cools from casting.

Since 1980, each voter names three rookies: a first-place choice is given five points, a second-place choice three points, and a third-place choice one point.

Since the conclusion of Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson has taken up painting, at one point drawing landscapes of the woods with his father.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have been programmed to play chess with increasing success, to the point where home computers can play chess at a very high level.

Since helium remains a liquid even at absolute zero at atmospheric pressure, it has only a boiling point, and not a melting point, in conventional presentations.

Since this curl is not the same at every point, its plot is a bit more interesting:

( Since there is no citation for this exegesis, readers will need to analyse for themselves whether the " exact parallel " is addressed elsewhere and is generally accepted, or might represent a personal point of view, and readers will also need to discern for themselves what exactly is the " illumination ".

Since we are assuming circular motion, let r ( t ) = R · u < sub > r </ sub >, where R is a constant ( the radius of the circle ) and u < sub > r </ sub > is the unit vector pointing from the origin to the point mass.

Since the direction of an electric field is defined as the direction of the force on a positive charge, electric field lines point away from a positive charge and toward a negative charge.

Since the remainders decrease with every step but can never be negative, a remainder r < sub > N </ sub > must eventually equal zero, at which point the algorithm stops.

Since the fundamental group is a homotopy invariant, the theory of the winding number for the complex plane minus one point is the same as for the circle.

Since these people would have to be descended from Adam, they would have had to travel to the other side of the Earth at some point ; Augustine continues:

Since half of the particles at point move right and half of the particles at point move left, the net movement to the right is:

Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.

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, by the second law of thermodynamics, this is statistically improbable to the point of exclusion, the Carnot efficiency is a theoretical upper bound on the reliable efficiency of any process.

Since honey normally exists below its melting point, it is a supercooled liquid.

Since the 2. 4 GHz band is heavily used to the point of being crowded, using the relatively unused 5 GHz band gives 802. 11a a significant advantage.