Starting in the middle of the 20th century, ideas about harpsichord making underwent a major change, when builders such as Frank Hubbard, William Dowd, and Martin Skowroneck sought to re-establish the building traditions of the Baroque period.

Starting in the second half of the 20th century modern democracies have introduced rules for the flow of funds through party coffers, e. g. the Canada Election Act 1976, the PPRA in the U. K. or the FECA in the U. S ..

Starting from the time when the Prophet Muhammad established the Islamic State in Medina in the 7th century all the way to the early 20th century when the last Caliphate was dissolved in Turkey.

Starting in the latter decades of the 19th century and continuing into the 20th century, Britain signed agreements with local rulers of traditional polities that, together, became known as the Aden Protectorate.

Starting in the 20th century, dam construction blocked off hundreds of miles of salmon-spawning streams, such as the upper Feather and American Rivers, and the entirety of the Pit and upper Sacramento rivers.

Starting in the early 20th century, the City of New York made efforts to condemn all buildings and piers built south of Surf Avenue, with the local amusement community opposing the city.

Starting in the early 20th century, the federal government began granting land to these colonies.

Starting in the 20th century, Uyghur separatists and their supporters used East Turkestan ( or " Uyghurstan ") as an appellation for the whole of Xinjiang, or for a future independent state in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Starting at the turn of the 20th century, small domestic animals, like cats and dogs, became the focus for members of ASPCA.

Starting in the late 19th century and early 20th century, some began to take on the view that genuine Christianity had much in common with a Leftist perspective.

Starting at the end of the 20th century globalization created a global market for skilled professionals and leveled the income of skilled professionals relative to cost of living while the income differences of the unskilled remained large.

Starting in the 20th century, however, more and more pieces were added to the dedicated Crown Collection for Government House, either through gifts or purchases ; for instance, in 1946, Sir James Dunn presented the Crown with two paintings by Johann Zoffany.

Starting in the later 20th century, however, some feminists adopted Morgan as a representation of female power or of a fading form of feminine spirituality supposedly practised by the Celts or earlier peoples.

Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, producers and wearers of fur have been criticized by animal rights activist because of the perceived cruelty involved in animal trapping and because the availability of synthetic fibers ( from petroleum oil ) that competed with natural fibres such as fur and wool.

Starting from the expedition led by Alexander von Keyserling in 1843, the Komi territory was most extensively explored in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries by the Russians, who found ample reservoirs of various minerals, as well as timber, to exploit.

Starting in the second half of the 20th century, vegetables are increasingly becoming a part of the Mongol diet as well.

Starting in 1929, the B-picture unit at Fox Film Corporation ( soon to become 20th Century Fox ) began a series of 28 highly popular Charlie Chan films.

Starting in the early 1960s as a scruffy underground scene in San Francisco alternative spaces and New York lofts, minimalism spread to become the most popular experimental music style of the late 20th century.

Starting with the second half of the 20th century, there has been immigration from mainland Anatolia, especially from the town of Bayramiç.

Starting in the late 20th century efforts began to be made to protect and restore the river and its watershed.

Starting in the late 19th century, barrels were largely superseded by corrugated fiberboard boxes for storage and transport of dry goods, and in the mid 20th century, steel drums began to be used for the storage and transport of fluids such as water, oils and hazardous waste.

Starting in the late 20th and continuing into the early 21st century, there has been renewed interest among the Ahoms in their culture and language leading to increased study and attempts at revival.

Starting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jinotega was driven by the economics of coffee.

Starting in the early 20th century, synthetic jewels were almost universally used.

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

Starting from 1574 he worked as a reproductive engraver, copying works of 16th century masters such as Federico Barocci, Tintoretto, Antonio Campi, Veronese and Correggio.

Starting from the political purges in the Soviet Union during the Thirties, similar “ brainwashing ” techniques were intermittently and less systematically used by most Stalinist regimes of the twentieth century.

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

Starting in the mid-20th century a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music.

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 from their 3rd century BC origins of Roman collegia, spread with the extension of the Empire.

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 around the 15th century, new algorithms based on infinite series revolutionized the computation of, and were used by mathematicians including Madhava of Sangamagrama, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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 in the mid-20th century, psychedelic drugs have been the object of extensive attention in the Western world.

Starting in the 8th century the Caddo inhabited the area, building extensive mounds.

Starting approximately in the 2nd century CE, several factors led most Jews to abandon use of the LXX.

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 15th century a primary school opened in town which was open mainly to boys.