Starting in the 1480s, Ava faced constant internal rebellions and external attacks from the Shan States, and began to disintegrate.

Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films.

Starting in the 1960s, literary scholars, reacting against this, began to use analytical tools from critical social theory-initially semiotic, linguistic, and interpretive theory, then structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and deconstruction as well as Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology and hermeneutics, and various other forms of neo-Marxian theory.

Starting in the 1980s, country music began a slow rise in the main pop charts.

The late Jeff Sarli, a blues upright bassist, said that, " Starting in the 1950s, they began to reset the necks on basses for steel strings.

Starting with the 2006 season, the Texans wear all-white for their home opener and the team began to wear an all-blue combination for home games vs. the Indianapolis Colts.

Starting in 1928, but especially during the Great Depression, the government of King Zog, which brought law and order to the country, began to cede Albania's sovereignty to Italy.

Starting in the later part of the 18th century, there began a transition in parts of Great Britain's previously manual labour and draft-animal – based economy towards machine-based manufacturing.

Starting in 2005, the joints attaching the marble panels to the walls began to show signs of strain, creating a risk of panels falling off the building onto the public below.

Starting in 1987, NHK began full-scale experimental broadcasting on two channels using satellite-to-audience signals, thus bringing service to remote and mountainous parts of the country that earlier had experienced poor reception.

Starting in 1968, Palestinian militants of various affiliations began to use southern Lebanon as a launching pad for attacks on Israel.

Starting in 1979 with a 7-percent financial stake, Ford began a partnership with Mazda resulting in various joint projects.

Starting in 1998, experiments began to show that solar and atmospheric neutrinos change flavors ( see Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ).

Starting in the 19th century, local heavy industry began to grow.

Starting in the mid-20th century some countries began assigning the first day of issue to a place associated with the subject of the stamp design, such as a specific town or city.

Starting with the Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD, Rodríguez began creating a series called, " Ten Minute Cooking School " where he revealed his recipe for " Puerco Pibil " ( based on Cochinita pibil, an old dish from Yucatán ), the same food Johnny Depp's character, " Agent Sands " ate in the film.

Starting in the 1960s, as part of the emerging field of law and economics, economists and legal scholars began to study the property rights enjoyed by tenants under the various estates, and the economic benefits and costs of the various estates.

Starting in the 1990s, anime fans began organizing conventions.

Starting in the 2000s ( decade ), genre shows began to offer more prominent female characters.

Starting in 1743, this began a thirty-year campaign known as the " Battle of the Booksellers ".

Starting in the mid-20th century, religious fundamentalists and the religious right began using the term " secular humanism " in hostile fashion.

Starting at the turn of the century, ultrasound technology began to be used by the beef cattle industry to improve animal health and the yield of cattle operations.

Starting in the 1970s, the city began to acquire a belt of shantytowns around its outskirts, but in 1990 these remained small compared with Rio de Janeiro or Guayaquil, for example.

Starting in 2005, the WSOP began a tournament " circuit " at Harrah's-owned properties in the United States where, in addition to the $ 10, 000 buy-in tournament at each site, qualifying players became eligible for a revamped Tournament of Champions.

( 2004 ) Starting in 2002, Forgent Networks began offering licenses for a patent that encumbers JPEG.

Starting with Penang, the British began to expand their Southeast Asian empire.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

Starting the second nine, Palmer was already four strokes behind Player and knew it.

Starting in the early 18th century, the textile industry was established in Aarau.

Starting the following game, the song ( a favorite among many fans, who appreciated its references to Wild Bill Hagy and Earl Weaver ) was only played ( along with a video featuring several Orioles stars performing the song ) after wins.

Starting work on its next Home Rule Act, it had to plan for a growing loss of morale in the RIC with an interim solution until the Act was ready.

Starting in 2002, the development process was reformed to better share technologies and expertise, and all of the individual studios were gradually restructured into bigger departments responsible for different tasks.

Starting in 1959 the chief official overseeing the day to day affairs of the islands ( for the Governor ) was the Administrator.

Starting in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, concurrently with the contributions of Ellis and Beck, Arnold A. Lazarus developed what was arguably the first form of " broad-spectrum " cognitive behavioral therapy.

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

Starting in the 1570s, it was used to measure weights of diamonds.

Starting in the 1880s, and more significantly by the mid-20th century, CGS was gradually superseded internationally for scientific purposes by the MKS ( metre – kilogram – second ) system, which in turn developed into the modern SI standard.

Starting in 2007 with an economy surpassed by the economic crisis, Ecuador was subject to a number of economic policy reforms by Government that have helped steer the Ecuadorian economy to a sustained, substantial, and focused to achieve financial stability and social policy.

Starting 2003, Nile Radio Production a private company was given license to operate two radio stations, Nile FM and Nogoom FM.

Starting in the 18th century, the epistolary form was subject to much ridicule, resulting in a number of savage burlesques.

Starting in the 19th century, interested people-academics and amateur scholars-started to take note of what was being lost, and there grew various efforts aimed at preserving the music of the people.

Starting earlier, in 1976, Punk was published in New York and played a major part in popularizing punk rock ( a term coined a few years earlier in Creem ) as the term for the music and the bands being written about.

Starting when Shearer was four years old, he had a piano teacher whose daughter worked as a child actress.

Starting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports.

Starting from 1956 early warning coverage was extended across Western Europe using eighteen radar stations.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.

Starting his career at sea, at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years, and was himself enslaved for a period.

Starting in the 16th c. parts of Kazakhstan were annexed by the Russian Empire, and what remained was gradually absorbed into Russian Turkestan, starting in 1867.