Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

Due to this difference in epistemology, anthropology as a discipline has lacked cohesion over the last several decades.

Roughly 26 % are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism ( Congregationals, Methodists, Baptista, Lutherans, Reformed ), but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches.

Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

For example, concerning the parameter of per capita income growth, development economist Ha-Joon Chang writes that considering the record of the last two decades the argument for continuing neo-liberal policy prescriptions are " simply untenable.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, which was quite severe compared to those of the last decades, the maximum ice cover was 315 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was reached on 25 February 2011.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, DNA was used to more accurately classify plants.

* c. 630 – 587 BC, in the last decades of the kingdom of Judah ( contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk )

In the last two decades, the Blue Crane has largely disappeared from the Eastern Cape, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

In the last two decades of his career, Chaplin concentrated increasingly on re-editing and scoring his old films for re-release.

Home to 120 species of fish and at least that many species of birds, the lake has shrunk dramatically in the last four decades due to the increased water from an expanding population usage and low rainfall.

The Concertación coalition has continued to dominate Chilean politics for last two decades.

Tourism in Chile has experienced sustained growth over the last decades.

In the last decades, they have switched from black and white to color.

( jälkeen Kristuksen, after Christ ) were largely used until the 1980s but have been mostly replaced during the last couple of decades with terms eaa.

He spent much of his last two decades unable to afford heat in winter and subsisting on old bread donated by the local baker.

In the early decades of the 20th century, churches sprang up in communities around the world, though in the last several decades of that century, there was a marked decline in membership, except in Africa, where there has been growth.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

In the last decades of the 20th century cable traction in general has seen a limited revival as automatic people movers, used in resort areas, airports ( for example, Toronto Airport ) and huge hospital centers.

BCS derived several important theoretical predictions that are independent of the details of the interaction, since the quantitative predictions mentioned below hold for any sufficiently weak attraction between the electrons and this last condition is fulfilled for many low temperature superconductors-the so-called weak-coupling case.

At various periods, and particularly during the Middle Ages, the citadel-having its own fortifications, independent of the city walls-was the last defence of a besieged army, often held after the town had been conquered.

He was the last Viceroy of India ( 1947 ) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India ( 1947 – 48 ), from which the modern Republic of India emerged in 1950.

By the mid-13th century Emirate of Granada was the only independent Muslim realm in Spain, which would last until 1492.

In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with " an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem " ..., the last to be under " an International Trusteeship System ".

These were the last majority-Greek-speaking areas to be united with the Greek state, apart from Cyprus which was a British possession until it became independent in 1960.

This, the last nominally independent Judean kingdom, came to an end in 63 BCE with its conquest by Rome.

Pursuant to Article 158 of the Basic Law ( the constitutional instrument of the Region ), the power of final interpretation of the Law is vested not in the Court of Final Appeal but in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, which, unlike the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, is a political body rather than an independent and impartial tribunal of last resort.

It was developed by Nintendo in cooperation with the independent company Tose, and largely adopts the gameplay mechanics of its predecessor. Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters remained the last installment in the series for over 20 years.

The Duchy remained fiercely independent and was one of the last areas of Europe to adopt Christianity.

* 1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.

His empire survived him in a fragmented manner until the last independent Greek king, Strato II, disappeared around 10 CE.

The Kingdom of Kandy was the last independent monarchy of Sri Lanka.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

As the constructor of the First Temple in Jerusalem and last ruler of the united Kingdom of Israel before its division into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah, Solomon is associated with the peak " golden age " of the independent Kingdom of Israel as well as a source of judicial and religious wisdom.

In the last century it became an independent academic discipline and was separated from mathematics.

* Stanisław August Poniatowski ( 1732 – 98 ), the last king of independent Poland, a leading light of the Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and co-author of one of the world's first modern constitutions, the Constitution of May 3, 1791.

In 1590 Hideyoshi attacked the last independent daimyo in Japan, Hōjō Ujimasa.

Pitt's particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

With the capitulation of the Rugian Wends, the last independent pagan Wends were defeated by the surrounding Christian feudal powers.

Artashes Geghamyan was the last mayor of the Armenian SSR and Hambartsoum Galstyan, the first mayor of the newly independent republic.

* Vilcabamba, Peru, the last independent remnant of the Inca Empire, is conquered by Spain.

* Andriscus, last independent ruler of Macedon