The progressive closing of Afro-Asian ears to the Christian message is epitomized in a conversation I had three years ago while flying from Jerusalem to Cairo.

This step was the beginning of the troubles which clouded the closing years of Albert's reign.

St Pius X said in a letter to philosopher-friend and correspondent in the closing years of his life, ( Epist.

The musical ran successfully for almost five years, before closing in June 1999.

The replacement work will be done at night, and will require lane closures or closing of the entire tunnel for safety, and may take up to 2 years to complete.

The closing decade of the 17th century brought economic disaster as bad harvests of the seven ill years in the 1690s led to severe famine and depopulation.

Girgarre was the second last tomato sauce factory in Australia, and its closing brought an end to Heinzs ' 70 years of Australian tomato processing operations.

In a remarkable instance of life mirroring art, Hergé managed to resume contact with his old friend Chang Chong-jen, years after Tintin rescued the fictional Chang Chong-Chen in the closing pages of Tintin in Tibet.

His closing years were weakened by a severe fall he met with in 1657.

Nobody before them had ever done this, highlighting NASDAQ-traded companies ( usually in technology ) and closing with the declaration that NASDAQ is " the stock market for the next hundred years.

* 1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

The disease killed an estimated 400, 000 Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century.

Supporters of a broad executive war power have sometimes appealed to the Quasi War with France, in the closing years of the eighteenth century, as an example of unilateral warmaking on the part of the president.

* 2005: The Canadian red tide was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by the ship ( R / V ) Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.

However, this gap has been closing in the last 15 years.

During the closing years of the Choson Dynasty and the first years of Japanese colonial rule, the urban population of Korea was no more than 3 % of the total.

** Fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly 3 years.

Subsequently, it lost nearly all these gains, closing at 7, 054. 98 on March 10, 2009 — 81. 9 % below its peak twenty years earlier.

In October 2006, four years after its bear market low, the DJIA set fresh record theoretical, intra-day, daily close, weekly, and monthly highs for the first time in almost seven years, closing above the 12, 000 level for the first time on the 19th anniversary of Black Monday ( 1987 ).

* In 2005 the Canadian HAB was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by a ship called The Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.

Pope Pius died on 7 February 1878, and during his closing years the Liberal press had often insinuated that the Italian Government should take a hand in the conclave and occupy the Vatican.

This decade witnessed the continuing decline of the Achaemenid Empire, fierce warfare amongst the Greek city-states during the Peloponnesian War, the ongoing Warring States Period in Zhou dynasty China, and the closing years of the Olmec civilization ( lasting from c. 1200 – 400 BC ) in modern-day Mexico.

During the 20th century elsewhere, both the licensing laws and enforcement were progressively relaxed, and there were differences between parishes ; in the 1960s, at closing time in Kensington at 10: 30 pm, drinkers would rush over the parish boundary to be in good time for " Last Orders " in Knightsbridge before 11 pm, a practice observed in many pubs adjoining licensing area boundaries.

In the closing decades of the 20th century, the legend was reassessed as attention focused on the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades ' lives, and the extent of Scott's personal culpability.

The same way the mill shaped the city around the turn of the 20th century it also shaped it upon its closing in the middle of the century.

The Hāmākua Coast was the classic plantation community in the early 20th century, but since the closing of The Big Island's sugar industry, the district has had to diversify its economy.

The company was the main industry well into the 20th century, before closing in 1984.

At the time of its closing Billy Creek was the last operating deep shaft mine in Missouri. Rombauer Coal Mine, one of the multitude operating in the Novinger area at the turn of the 20th century.

Following his death, all works that had not entered the public domain were sealed off from both public and scholarly view, closing off access to one of the most significant American painters of the 20th century.

A decline in the second half of the 20th century resulted in the closing of Evesham's Smithfield Market while the Central Market stopped being used for produce auctions.

Oil captured the economic center stage in the last two decades of the 19th century, and the Sinclair Refinery was built in Wellsville at the beginning of the 20th century, not closing down until 1957 after two major fires and falling oil prices.

For Saint Peter's, it is a reference to the closing and reopening of the college in the early 20th century.

They started appearing in the early 19th century, reached their heyday at the beginning of the 20th century, then started closing down in the 1910s and 1920s, with the office at Kwangchou in China holding out until the 1940s.

Into the 20th century, manufacturing grew and extractive industries declined with the last coal mine closing in 1919.

From 1776 Chivery had a pub, The Plough which survived into the 20th century becoming a restaurant before finially closing in the 1930s.

Such authoritarian rule, once expected and even thought necessary for a symphonic ensemble to function properly, has loosened somewhat in the closing decades of the 20th century with the advent and encouragement of more power sharing and cooperative management styles ( with the orchestra musicians themselves, the administrative staff, and volunteer board of directors ).

Although Coney Island continued to be a major tourist attraction throughout the 20th century, the closing of Gravesend ’ s great racetracks in the century ’ s first decade caused the rest of the old town to recede back into obscurity.

Brooklyn Union Gas in the early 20th century consolidated its coal gas production to Williamsburg at 370 Vandervoort Avenue, closing the Gowanus Canal gasworks.

The international game grew with several " affiliate nations " getting involved and, in the closing years of the 20th century, three of those became Test nations also: Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.

Vertebrate palaeontology had mapped out the evolutionary sequance of vertebrates as currently understood fairly well by the closing of the 19th century, followed by a reasonable understanding of the evolutionary sequence of the Plant kingdom by the early 20th century.

Warner's offices lasted well into the 20th century, with the Rochester office closing around 1944.

Several of the small private-sector businesses that operated through to the closing decades of the 20th century have closed down or relocated as the economic focus of the region has been redirected, especially since the opening of the M11 motorway in the 1970s, to larger towns in west Essex, especially Harlow and Brentwood.

The 20th Bomb Squadron was reassigned to the 2d Wing on December 17, 1992 when it and its B-52Hs were reassigned to Barksdale from the 7th Wing, the latter which was relocating from the closing Carswell AFB, Texas and transferring to Dyess AFB, Texas in order to transition to the B-1 Lancer.

Issue seven, with a cover story on Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining, was the first issue of any national magazine to wholly concern itself with horror film as produced in the closing quarter of the 20th Century, with no trace of daintiness about its subject matter.

* The index did not close above its March 24, 2000 peak above 14, 000 points ( record high of the 20th century ) until February 20, 2007, and a hypothetical investment in the Wilshire 5000, made at the 2000 peak and with subsequent dividends reinvested, did not become profitable on a closing basis until October 3, 2006.

The 9th Fighter Squadron ceased F-15 operations on 5 June 1992 and received F-4E aircraft from the 20th Fighter Squadron from the closing George AFB California as the Fighter Training Unit for the German Air Force.