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 from an initial state and initial input ( perhaps empty ), the instructions describe a computation that, when executed, will proceed through a finite number of well-defined successive states, eventually producing " output " and terminating at a final ending state.

Starting with épée in 1936, side-judges were replaced by an electrical scoring apparatus, with an audible tone and a red or green light indicating when a touch landed.

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 2003, the Libyan government restored normal diplomatic ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, " The Libya Model ", an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation rather than force when there is goodwill on both sides .< ref > Hirsh, Michael, ( 11 May 2006 ), < u >" The Real Libya Model "< u >, Newsweek.

Starting in 2004, object databases have seen a second growth period when open source object databases emerged that were widely affordable and easy to use, because they are entirely written in OOP languages like Smalltalk, Java or C #, such as Versant's db4o ( db4objects ), DTS / S1 from Obsidian Dynamics and Perst ( McObject ), available under dual open source and commercial licensing.

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 2002, an attempt to declare an " official ghost town " in California stalled when the adherents of the town of Bodie, in Northern California, and those of Calico, in Southern California, could not come to an agreement as to which of their favorites was more deserving.

Starting in the Communist Party of Slovakia, the only road to prominence in Communist Czechoslovakia, he became committee chairman in the town of Žiar nad Hronom, only to be dismissed in the year after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, when he delivered a pro-reform speech to the national congress in 1969 and was thrown out.

Starting in September 2004, Fox Sports Net became known simply as FSN, but the name Fox Sports Net also remained in common use until recent years, when the new name " Fox Sports Local " has been used to refer to its regional networks.

Starting from 1690, most of the immigrants from outside Europe were enslaved until 20 December 1848 when slavery was abolished.

Starting in 1986 when Gladstone took over publishing the title they have also included new stories by American creators Don Rosa, John Lustig, Pat McGreal, Dave Rawson, Michael T. Gilbert and William Van Horn along with translations of European Disney comics by such creators as Daan Jippes, Fred Milton and Romano Scarpa originally published by Oberon, Egmont and Disney Italy / Mondadori.

Starting in 1887, Cunard's newly won leadership on the North Atlantic was threatened when Inman and then White Star responded with twin propellered record-breakers.

Starting as a Frisco railroad stop in 1899, Beggs officially became a town on September 15, 1900 when its post office opened.

Starting with Windows 2000, shortcuts for common tasks like new, open and save were added, as well as a status-bar with a line counter ( available only when word-wrap is disabled ).

Starting in 1967, Cawoods Hargreaves used trains of three tubs or coal pans, which were rigidly connected, and pushed by a tug when loaded.

Starting in 1775, Condeskeag became the site of treaty negotiations by which the Penobscot were made to give up almost all their ancestral lands, a process complete by about 1820, when Maine became a state.

Starting in 1962, she began to be credited as Andrea Darvi, which she used as a stage name until 1966, when she gave her last acting performances: an installment of I Spy and an unbilled role in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain.

Starting in 1071, when Ladislaus ' elder brother, Duke Géza, refused to hand over the king's share of the treasure from the Byzantine Empire acquired after the occupation of Belgrade, the relationship between King Salamon and the three brothers deteriorated.

Starting when he was 17, he steadily dated the future poet and dramatist Concha Mendez, with whom he vacationed every summer at San Sebastián, introducing her as his fiancée to his friends at the Residencia.

Starting when he was 15 years old, Conrad worked during the summertime at the Paoli Airfield near Paoli, Pennsylvania, bartering lawn mowing, sweeping, and other odd jobs for airplane flights and occasional instructional time.

Starting with Beyond Recall, the first half of the 1990s was the notorious " sample " period, when Schulze used a wide variety of pre-recorded sounds such as screeching birds and sensuous female moans in his studio albums and live performances.

Starting in 2006, when the series moved to cable, two games are played on the opening Monday night to capitalize on fan interest during " Kickoff Weekend ".

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 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 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.