Albeit that these factors did play a large role in increasing home run thus scoring totals during this time, others that directly impact ballplayers have an equally important role.

Catalysis impacts the environment by increasing the efficiency of industrial processes, but catalysis also plays a direct role in the environment.

Some of the goals of feminist theology include increasing the role of women among the clergy and religious authorities, reinterpreting male-dominated imagery and language about God, determining women's place in relation to career and motherhood, and studying images of women in the religion's sacred texts and matriarchal religion.

The most populous capital city of Warsaw replaced Danzig ( Gdańsk ) as the leading trade center, and the role of the more prosperous urban strata was increasing.

" " As we reach the second half of the sixth century, we find that images are attracting direct veneration and some of them are credited with the performance of miracles " Cyril Mango writes, " In the post-Justinianic period the icon assumes an ever increasing role in popular devotion, and there is a proliferation of miracle stories connected with icons, some of them rather shocking to our eyes ".

The increasing social problems and rising discontent which this brought meant that Riga also played a leading role in the 1905 Russian Revolution.

After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power ( 1927 ), expelled from the Communist Party, and finally deported from the Soviet Union ( 1929 ).

Experimental mathematics continues to grow in importance within mathematics, and computation and simulation are playing an increasing role in both the sciences and mathematics, weakening the objection that mathematics does not use the scientific method.

In 1999, Lee put his role in the band on hold to pursue a solo career due to increasing tension with frontman Neil.

This limitation has exceptions which have required exploration under rabbinic law as the role of women in society and the obligations of religious groups under external civil law have been subject to increasing recent scrutiny.

Under the influence of Islam, these kingdoms were transformed and marabouts played an increasing role.

It played an important role in increasing European colonisation of Africa.

Among the main changes are the mechanical philosophy, the chemical philosophy, empiricism, and the increasing role of mathematics.

While contributory negligence retains a significant role, an increasing number of jurisdictions, particularly within the United States, are evolving toward a regime of comparative negligence.

In recent years the Royal Thai Armed Forces has begun increasing its role on the international stage by providing Peacekeeping forces to the United Nations ( UN ), in the International Force for East Timor ( INTERFET ), from 1999 to 2002.

A minor producer of opium, heroin, and marijuana ; major illicit transit point for heroin en route to the international drug market from Burma and Laos ; eradication efforts have reduced the area of cannabis cultivation and shifted some production to neighboring countries ; opium poppy cultivation has been reduced by eradication efforts ; also a drug money-laundering center ; minor role in amphetamine production for regional consumption ; increasing indigenous abuse of methamphetamines and heroin.

In the Qur ' anic view, zakat is a way to redistribute the wealth, thus increasing the role of charity in the economy with a particular interest in the poor and the dispossessed.

Following the guru's sojourn, Indian influence played a temporary role until increasing Tibetan migrations brought new cultural and religious contributions.

Hird continued to be an outstanding performer in his utility role when fit, but age was forcing him to miss games through injury with increasing frequency.

This role in the operating room has evolved to include a more advanced and specialized role with increasing responsibilities to the respiratory therapist.

Furthermore, the use of bioinformatic methods is playing an increasing role ( computational epigenetics ).

While out of jail in 1940, he met Elena Petrescu, whom he married in 1946 and who would play an increasing role in his political life over the years.

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Such loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act will be made to United States business firms and branches, subsidiaries, or affiliates of such firms in India for business development and trade expansion in India and to United States firms and to Indian firms for the establishment of facilities for aiding in the utilization, distribution, or otherwise increasing the consumption of and markets for United States agricultural products.

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 ).

Disruption in the trade of tin for bronze from Western Europe may have contributed to the increasing popularity of brass in the east and by the 6th – 7th centuries AD over 90 % of copper alloy artefacts from Egypt were made of brass.

Modern barter and trade has evolved considerably to become an effective method of increasing sales, conserving cash, moving inventory, and making use of excess production capacity for businesses around the world.

This group opposed what they saw as a leftward shift in Labour policy, the increasing prominence within the party of Tony Benn, and the involvement of trade unions in choosing the leader of the Labour Party.

However, in more recent years, since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, with the increasing influence of Monetarist schools of thought in the 1980s, and particularly in the face of large sustained trade imbalances, these concerns — and particularly concerns about the destabilising effects of large trade surpluses — have largely disappeared from mainstream economics discourse and Keynes ' insights have slipped from view.

Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.

The allure of such profits saw an increasing number of Dutch expeditions ; it was soon seen that in trade with the East Indies, competition from each would eat into all their profits.

There has been increasing willingness within the Parties to allow for trade in products from well-managed populations.

The Franco-Ethiopian railway, linking Djibouti to the heart of Ethiopia, began in 1897 and reached Addis Ababa in June 1917, increasing the volume of trade passing through the port.

Haiti suffers from higher inflation than similar low-income countries, a lack of investment ( increasing however since the recent presidential seating ), and a severe trade deficit.

It has been argued that Roman Britain ’ s continental trade peaked in the late 1st century AD and thereafter declined as a result of an increasing reliance on local products by the population of Britain, caused by economic development on the island and by the Roman state ’ s desire to save money by shifting away from expensive long-distance imports.

Gradually their increasing influence led the de-jure Mughal emperor Farrukh Siyar to grant them dastaks or permits for duty free trade in Bengal in 1717.

As overland travel was relatively difficult, its position on the upper navigable reaches of the river helped it to grow by increasing trade.

During this period, Japan developed thriving cities and castle towns and increasing commodification of agriculture and domestic trade, wage labor, increasing literacy and concomitant print culture, laying the groundwork for modernization, even as the shogunate itself grew weak.

A trade union ( British English ), labour union ( Canadian English ) or labor union ( American English ) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.

Bashir II, who had come to power through local politics and nearly fallen from power because of his increasing detachment from them, reached out for allies, allies who looked on the entire area as “ the Orient ” and who could provide trade, weapons and money, without requiring fealty and without, it seemed, being drawn into endless internal squabbles.

A Canadian undercover officer interviewed on the issue of guns and the illegal drug trade "... noted that the weaponry in the trade is definitely more powerful than in previous years ", with an increasing number of criminals using machine pistols and submachine guns.

The Indian Wars of the early 18th century, combined with the increasing importation of African slaves, effectively ended the Native American slave trade by 1750.

At one time the slave trade was so extensive that it caused increasing tensions with the various Algonquian tribes, as well as the Iroquois.