The end of the 19th century witnessed a sharp recovery of the local economy with increasing international trade and the growth of the city harbour leading to increased exports of several products ( particularly during World War I when Spain was a neutral country ).

It is possible for the official's home country to waive immunity ; this tends to happen only when the individual has committed a serious crime, unconnected with their diplomatic role ( as opposed to, say, allegations of spying ), or has witnessed such a crime.

She surely witnessed an improved Oman since the last time she visited the country as the Sultanate was ranked the most improved nation in the past 40 years ( 1970-2010 ) by the UNDP just a few weeks prior to her visit.

Those present at the stadium were shocked by what they had witnessed, and Olympic officials decided to ban cross country running from future Games.

Over the last 50 years, since its establishment as the capital of Bhutan, Thimphu city has witnessed expansion, initially at a slow pace and rapidly after the country was opened up to the outside world in 1974 during the Coronation of the fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck when international media were present, and which marked Bhutan's " debut appearance on the world stage.

Overall, the country witnessed over US $ 700 million in tourism receipts in 1999.

Lucky enough to be schooled and literate in a country where few were educated, Duvalier witnessed the political turmoil of his country.

* In South Korea, generational cohorts are often defined around the democratization of the country, with various schemes suggested including names such as the " democratization generation ", 386 generation ( also called the " June 3, 1987 generation "), that witnessed the June uprising, the " April 19 generation " ( that struggled against the Syngman Rhee regime in 1960 ), the " June 3 generation " ( that struggled against the normalization treaty with Japan in 1964 ), the " 1969 generation " ( that struggled against the constitutional revision allowing three presidential terms ), and the shinsedae (" new ") generation.

Farms such as this typically are aggregations of fifteen, twenty or more homesteaded quarter sections of land which at one time contained " family farms ", as witnessed by the numerous abandoned farmsteads, ghost towns, and abandoned country churches and cemeteries memorializing a much larger rural population that is long since disappeared forever.

On June 30, 2005, through a secret direct voting process, with the participation of the widest communities in the province and despite all the political legal security complexities of this process in the country generally and in Kirkuk in particular, Kirkuk witnessed the birth of its first elected Provincial Council.

Due to this disagreement, the pact was signed without Japan and became an agreement between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany signed on May 22, 1939, by the foreign ministers of each country and witnessed by Count Galeazzo Ciano for Italy and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany.

" His administration witnessed the final collapse of South Vietnam after the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to terminate all aid to that country.

She returned to France, became a nurse and witnessed the country fall to the Germans.

That the people of Rhodesia have witnessed a process which is destructive of those very precepts upon which civilization in a primitive country has been built ; they have seen the principles of Western democracy, responsible government and moral standards crumble elsewhere ; nevertheless they have remained steadfast ;

The country witnessed the trial and dismisal of senior Naval officers for corruption and similar faith for the chief of police.

The second papal visit to the country in 1998 witnessed the beatification of Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi.

Helm also witnessed some of the earliest performances by Southern country music, blues and rockabilly artists such as Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty, Bo Diddley and a fellow Arkansan, Ronnie Hawkins.

Dungannon, in the heart of east Tyrone, was a part of the country that had witnessed constant resistance to English interference in Irish affairs from the early modern period.

After entering the country, the volunteers, in addition to Biafran health workers and hospitals, were subjected to attacks by the Nigerian army, and witnessed civilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces.

Of the crowd, the Pittsburgh Press wrote, " the ceremonies were witnessed by the largest throng that ever attended an event of this kind in this or any other city in the country ... Forbes Field is so immense — so far beyond anything else in America in the way of a baseball park — that old experts, accustomed to judging crowds at a glance, were at a loss for reasonable figures.

He travelled to the USSR in 1955 and 1956, and witnessed first-hand the extent of the anti-Semitic campaign that had persecuted Jews in that country.

Following the landmark 1963 decision, the 1960s witnessed the creation of programs across the country to make this right available to most people charged with crimes who could not afford an attorney to represent them.

He was U. S. Ambassador to Bangladesh from August 1990 to October 1993, and during that time witnessed the great strides that country made toward more complete democratization.

The Swiss commanders wired the infrastructure leading into the country, and threatening to destroy bridges, railway tunnels and passes in the event of a Nazi invasion, and then they retreated to the heart of the mountain peaks where conditions were harsher and a military invasion would involve difficult and protracted battles.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe ".

Historian Allan Nevins wrote that " two interconnected battles began to rage, one in Congress and one in the country at large: each fought with a pertinacity, bitterness, and rancor unknown even in Wilmot Proviso days.

The only two foreign incursions into Thai territory was in December 1941 when the Empire of Japan invaded then occupied the country, and in the 1980s with the Vietnamese incursions into Thailand that led to several battles with the Thai military.

After several minor battles he was forced to leave the country again after the Convention of Alkmaar.

Stephen the Great ruled between 1457 and 1504, a period of nearly 50 years during which he won 32 battles defending his country against virtually all his neighbours ( mainly the Ottomans and the Tatars, but also the Hungarians and the Poles ), while losing only two.

Thomas Jefferson wrote favorably in response to Jackson in December 1823 and extended a preemptive welcome to Monticello: " I recall with pleasure the remembrance of our joint labors while in the Senate together in times of great trial and of hard battling, battles indeed of words, not of blood, as those you have since fought so much for your own glory & that of your country ; with the assurance that my attamts continue undiminished, accept that of my great respect & consideration.

On August 5, 1772, the occupation manifesto was issued, much to the consternation of a country too exhausted by the endeavors of the Confederation of Bar to offer successful resistance ; nonetheless several battles and sieges took place, as Polish troops refused to lay down their arms ( most notably, in Tyniec, Częstochowa and Kraków ).

He fought five battles against the Danes, ending in defeat against Cnut on 18 October at the Battle of Assandun, after which they agreed to divide the kingdom, Edmund taking Wessex and Cnut the rest of the country.

In addition, the country had to fight multiple battles with Haiti ; the Battle of March 19, Battle of March 30, Battle of Las Carreras, and Battle of Beler, are a few of the most prominent encounters, mentioned in the national anthem and with city streets named after them.

French appeared in Gniezno in November 1806, and following general Jan Henryk Dabrowski's order issued to all town and cities and country property owners to provide recruits for the organizing Polish forces, Gniezno initially provided 60 recruits who participated in the battles of 1806-07.

The war should be fought swiftly to avoid economic losses: " No long war ever profited any country: 100 victories in 100 battles is simply ridiculous.

The scheme enlists the aid of a country music singer, who creates several theme songs for the war ; a " fad king "; and a costume designer, who helps create a fictional special forces unit to fight the war's supposed battles.

Several times besieged, it was the scene of several of the bloodiest battles in the history of the country.

The mighty dead are summoned from their tombs, as ages before they had been in the masterpieces of Greek oratory, to fight again the battles of their country.

20 years later he returned to Ireland, defeated his father's enemies in a series of battles and subdued the entire country.

The ensuing war of independence was fought across the country, with battles in the northern, northeastern, and southern regions.

# From 1978 until 1990, the Kataeb and the Lebanese Resistance clashed in fierce battles with Syrian Forces who were occupying large territories of the country resulting in an ongoing death toll among Kataeb members.

* In the country of Infinity in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, there is a tournament with similarities to Angelic Layer battles, where the Deus sits on an egg-shaped chair and telekinetically controls the players ( in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle they are called " chess pieces " instead of " Angels ", however, and often normal people are the pieces.

Towards spring both kings went westward with their army all the way to Ulster, where they had many battles, subdued the country, and had conquered the greatest part of Ulster when Myrkjartan returned home to Connaught.

Paktika was the site of many battles during the Soviet occupation of the country and the lawless years that followed.

Other battles happened across the country: