By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Steven DeRose argues that HTML's use of descriptive markup ( and SGML in particular ) was a major factor in the success of the Web, because of the flexibility and extensibility that it enabled ( other factors include the notion of URLs and the free distribution of browsers ).

Bizet's professional relationship with Léon Carvalho, manager of the independent Théâtre Lyrique company, enabled him to bring to the stage two full-scale operas, Les pêcheurs de perles ( 1863 ) and La jolie fille de Perth ( 1867 ), but neither enjoyed much public success.

The success of The Beatles enabled EMI to fund research and build early models for medical use.

His success as a practitioner of modern architecture and his prominence as an academic, enabled Stone to form bonds with other academics of the era like Walter Gropius ( Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design ), Pietro Belluschi ( Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning ), George Howe ( Chairman of Yale University ’ s School of Architecture ) and William Wurster ( co-founder of the University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design ).

The commercial success of this book enabled Huysmans to retire from the civil service and live on his royalties.

Barker's theatrical success enabled him to move into radio work.

The financial success of his books enabled Irving to buy a home in the prestigious Mayfair district of London, own a Rolls-Royce car, and to enjoy a very affluent lifestyle.

Its success enabled Lord to leave the world of advertising and become a full-time writer.

Moberg became a full-time writer when the success of Raskens enabled him to devote himself entirely to writing.

The visit was a huge success, however, and enabled him to free some of the missionaries who had been illegally jailed.

The success of this film and other shorts enabled Dash to move to feature films.

His appeal to all republicans to sink their differences before the common peril met with some degree of success, and enabled the government to leave the second court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus at Rennes an absolutely free hand, and then to compromise the affair by granting a pardon to Dreyfus.

He followed on this success with short stories, such as Rondon tō (" Tower of London ") in 1905 and the novels Botchan (" Little Master "), and Kusamakura (" Grass Pillow ") in 1906, which established his reputation, and which enabled him to leave his post at the university for a position with Asahi Shimbun in 1907, and to begin writing full-time.

Although it enabled the newly created Port of Manchester to become Britain's third busiest port — despite the city being about 40 miles ( 64 km ) inland — the canal never achieved the commercial success its sponsors had hoped for.

The success of the Order enabled it to establish a church and hospital which was dedicated to St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Wallenstein ’ s success as a military commander brought him fiscal credit, which in turn enabled him to receive loans to buy lands, many of them being the former estates of conquered Bohemian nobles.

The film's success enabled Spielberg to establish himself as a film director.

The ensuing success of this installation enabled Hammond to put this venture on both a commercial and legal footing, as a number of shop owners wanted to use the new electric light.

At the close of his apprenticeship he was enabled, by correspondence with dealers in other cities, to establish himself in the business with some assurance of success.

The success of his shop enabled Donaghey to marry Miss Wallace, a South Carolina native, in September 1887, a marriage that would last fifty years but which would not yield any children.

Its continued success has enabled us to release other works.

The engine was a rousing success, prompting investors to buy stock in B & O, which enabled the company to buy Cooper's iron rails, making him what would be his first fortune.

Pneumatic motors have found widespread success in the hand-held tool industry and continual attempts are being made to expand their use to the transportation industry.

* Global Threat Reduction Initiative ( GTRI ): Expanding on the success of the CTR, the GTRI will expand nuclear weapons and material securing and dismantlement activities to states outside of the former Soviet Union.

It has done much – contributing to the success of IFOR, SFOR, efforts in Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and elsewhere – and has continued to expand actively its constructive regional engagement.

In Asia, the Mongols continued to expand their territories, although at a slower pace and with less success than in previous decades.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

Fox would expand to a full week's worth of programming in 1993, which included scheduling the breakout hit The Simpsons opposite NBC's The Cosby Show as one of Fox's initial Thursday night offerings in the fall of 1990 ( along with future hit Beverly Hills, 90210 ) after only a half-season of success on Sunday nights.

Beneke was struggling with how to expand the Miller sound and also how to achieve success under his own name.

It was the first meeting of the World Social Forum held outside Brazil and its success has encouraged the WSF to expand in scope across the global South.

Building on early success, Dwelle and Slackford continued to expand the park each year and added picnic tables, cleared acres of brush, and built a baseball diamond.

Given this minor success, the band relocated to the Orlando area where they continued to expand their fan base.

The success of the Saturday primetime block led Nickelodeon to expand its programming into weeknight primetime in 1996, by extending its broadcast day to 8: 30 p. m.

Anthony commonly states that he originally intended for Xanth to be a trilogy, and after the wild success of the first three books decided to expand the series to nine books.

The increasing success and wealth of the Bookers Group allowed them to expand internationally, and to also become involved in rum, pharmaceuticals, publishing, advertising, retail stores, timber, and petroleum, among other industries.

In March 2007, Nuance acquired Focus Infomatics and linked it with the Dictaphone Division to further expand in the health-care transcription business with some initial success.

Sandy Duncan was named as Harper's replacement, and Taylor felt that to ensure the continued success of the show, that he would leave Days in order expand his sitcom role.

After the appeal of kid superheroes had been demonstrated by the success of Robin, the Boy Wonder and similar characters, Detective Comics reversed itself in late 1944 and started publishing a Superboy feature, in an effort to expand the Superman franchise by presenting a version of the character to whom younger readers could easily relate.

Liu's success did not end there, he carried out to expand his initial victories over the nationalists by carrying out several campaigns with armies led by Chen Yi and Su Yu, another army led by Chen Geng ( 陈赓 ), to annihilate a great number of KMT troops led by two prominent generals, Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi.

The success of the raid prompted the War Office to expand the existing airborne force, setting up the Airborne Forces Depot and Battle School in Derbyshire in April 1942, and creating the Parachute Regiment as well as converting a number of infantry battalions into airborne battalions in August 1942.

The sale of LaSalle was seen as obstructive by many: as a way of blocking the RBS bid, which hinged on further access to the US markets, in order to expand on the success of the group's existing American brands, Citizens Bank and Charter One.

The collection of Riddle-arranged songs was intended to expand on the success of the title track, which had been a number one hit single for Sinatra arranged by Ernie Freeman.

The success of the raid also prompted the War Office to expand the existing British airborne forces, setting up the Airborne Forces Depot and Battle School in Derbyshire in April 1942, and creating the Parachute Regiment as well as converting a number of infantry battalions to airborne battalions in August 1942.

The seal of the Guild of the Holy CrossEconomic success also saw the town expand.

In response to the poor economy, as well as competitor BJ's Wholesale Club's decision in April to accept electronic food-stamp benefits chainwide, Costco announced in May 2009 that it will accept food stamps on a trial basis in two New York City stores starting in June 2009 and depending on its success, might expand it to all New York City stores.

Given the success of the project, planning has commenced to use further railcam projects undertaken by the Railpage and Melbourne Wireless teams as a catalyst to further expand the Melbourne Wireless network.