In Germany, the century was marked by the ascendancy of the Holy Roman Emperors, who hit their high watermark under the Salians.

This period was the high watermark for jazz rap's popularity among hip hop listeners, following which it came to be regarded for a time as a trend which was " played out ".

However, Croatian New Wave ( Novi Val ) movement, which exploded in 1979 / 80 and lasted throughout the eighties, is considered by many to be the high watermark of Croatian rock music, both in terms of quality and commercial success.

The composer Yuzo Koshiro utilized the Mega Drive / Genesis hardware effectively to produce " progressive, catchy, techno-style compositions far more advanced than what players were used to " for games such as The Revenge of Shinobi ( 1989 ) and the Streets of Rage series, setting a " new high watermark for what music in games could sound like.

A road bridge built over the Thomson River at Cowwarr in the late 1930s proved to be sited too close to the annual flood high watermark, so when that structure proved an impediment to the flow of debris during a particularly violent flood in 1952, the river simply carved a new course for itself around the edge of the bridge.

The chiptune composer Yuzo Koshiro utilized the Mega Drive / Genesis hardware effectively to produce " progressive, catchy, techno-style compositions " setting a " new high watermark for what music in games could sound like.

That season was to be the high watermark for the John Greig era, though, and Rangers ' fortunes nose-dived spectacularly thereafter.

He appeared in Goran Paskaljević's dark comedy about rehab from alcoholism, Poseban tretman ( Special Treatment, 1980 ), and then reunited with Šijan for another high watermark of Serbian film, the black comedy Maratonci trče počasni krug ( Marathon Family ).

Its most recent incarnation is evidenced by fish traps found some 30 feet below the high watermark that were estimated to be between 300 and 1, 000 years old.

Vostokov's works on the Church Slavonic language were considered a high watermark of Slavic studies until the appearance of Izmail Sreznevsky's comprehensive lexicon in 1893 – 1903 and garnered him the doctorates honoris causa from the Charles University and University of Tübingen.

Among the recusants were some high profile aristocratic supporters, such as the Howards and for a time the Plantagenet descended Beauforts, amongst others.

In 1362, at the high point of the Plantagenet kingship Edward III made English the official language of royal courts and parliaments with the Statute of Pleading.

Other writers acknowledge his extremely high popularity at home, but suppose his occasionally rigid and even irrational political loyalties and convictions contributed greatly to Spartan decline, notably his unremitting hatred of Thebes, which led to Sparta's humiliation at the Battle of Leuctra and thus the end of Spartan hegemony.

Following the hegemony of Mesannepada of Ur, Ur-Nanshe succeeded Lugal-sha-engur as the new high priest of Lagash and achieved independence, making himself king.

The specific scenarios for conflict he envisioned in the case of a decline in American power have made his writings extremely popular in the world of competitive high school and college policy debate, particularly his writing linking the loss of United States hegemony to global instability.

Crime and violence are prevalent in Ciudad Juarez and both males and females die violently in the region ; however the high rates and nature of the murders of women and girls in Juarez expresses gendered oppression, and is a manifestation of inequality of gender relations, patriarchal hegemony, social class, and impunity.

... first he raised the money required to blunt French hegemony in Europe and thus preserved the British constitution and the protestant monarchy ; second he was instrumental in planning the military and diplomatic strategy that ultimately defeated Louis XIV ; third, as lord high treasurer, he worked to make the Treasury more efficient and attempted to weed out corruption — the Treasury as he left it served England well for the remainder of the eighteenth century ; fourth he was instrumental in negotiating and passing the Act of Union with Scotland which created the united kingdom of Great Britain ; and fifth he negotiated the creation of a unified East India Company, which would be instrumental in establishing British rule in India.

The “ jolly relativity ” of all things is proclaimed by alternative voices within the carnivalized literary text that de-privileged the authoritative voice of the hegemony through their mingling of “ high culture ” with the profane.

In opposing high taxation to pay for social reform the Union pre-empted the policies of the Anti-Waste League, a party formed in 1921 from a similar middle class basis which briefly threatened the hegemony of the Conservative Party on the political right.

Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.

In 1893 Maillol opened a tapestry workshop in Banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in France.

Among the natives, though Corsican nationalism is strong, and feeling often runs high in favour of a union with Italy, loyalty to France, as evidenced by elections, remains stronger.

At the end of September 2003, the first part of High Speed 1, a high speed link to the Channel Tunnel and on to France and Belgium, was completed, significantly adding to the rail infrastructure of the country.

In the 1930s, as caving became increasingly popular, small exploration teams both in the Alps and in the karstic high plateaus of southwest France ( Causses and Pyrenees ) transformed cave exploration in both a scientific and recreational activity.

After dropping out of high school, he followed his brother Richard to France, where he performed with Le Grand Magic Circus, an avant-garde musical theater group.

The south door of Beauvais Cathedral is in some respects the finest in France ; the upper panels are carved in high relief with figure subjects and canopies over them.

The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to avoid high tax.

The artisans and blacksmiths of Iberia in what is now southern Spain and southwestern France produced various iron daggers and swords of high quality from the 5th to the 3rd century BC, in ornamentation and patterns influenced by Greek, Punic ( Carthaginian ), and Phoenician culture.

The " land of Francia ," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings Clovis I and Charlemagne.

Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry.

Gers, a department of France, is within this region and has high quality poultry, while La Montagne Noire and Lacaune area offers high quality hams and dry sausages.

A high percentage of tourists are from France.

Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership ; French was the language of high society.

Haiti agreed to pay the price to lift a crippling embargo imposed by France, Britain, and the United States — but to do so, the Haitian government had to take out high interest loans.

In condominiums, sovereignty is shared between two external powers: e. g. Andorra ( president of France and bishop of Urgell, Spain, co-princes ), and the former Anglo-French New Hebrides ( each nation's head of state was represented by a high commissioner ).

France demanded a high payment for compensation to slaveholders who lost their property, and Haiti was saddled with unmanageable debt for decades.

Some of the lords and their descendants rose to high ranks in their adoptive countries, such as the French royalist Patrice de Mac-Mahon, who became president of France.

Among the early writings of Abbadie were four Sermons sur divers Textes de l ' Ecriture, 1680 ; Réflexions sur la Présence réelle du Corps de Jésus-Christ dans l ' Eucharistie, 1685 ; and two highly adulatory addresses on persons in high stations, entitled respectively Panégyrique de Monseigneur l ' Electeur de Brandebourg, 1684 ; and Panégyrique de Marie Stuart, Reine d ' Angleterre, d ' Ecosse, de France, et d ' Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694, 1695, also published in England as A Panegyric on our late Sovereign Lady, 1695.

Dowland performed a number of espionage assignments for Sir Robert Cecil in France and Denmark ; his high rate of pay notwithstanding, Dowland seems to have been only a court musician.

Similarly, a high court in France convicted Hubbard of fraud in absentia.

These were used to manufacture early tools and weapons, for example, high quality flint found in northern France and southern England was used to create flint tools.

The hot springs, among which those of Les Escaldes in Andorra, Panticosa and Lles in Spain, Ax-les-Thermes, Bagnères-de-Luchon and Eaux-Chaudes in France may be mentioned, are sulphurous and mostly situated high, near the contact of the granite with the stratified rocks.

However, while this is exceptionally high compared with its neighbors in Mauritius, Madagascar and the African continent, it is only 57 % of the 30, 140 euros per capita GDP of metropolitan France in 2007.