From the mid 13th century onwards Scottish monarchs increasingly sought to take control of the islands surrounding the mainland.

In the mid and late third century BCE, the Qin accomplished a series of swift conquests, first ending the powerless Zhou Dynasty, and eventually destroying the remaining six states of the major states to gain control over the whole of China, resulting in a unified China.

As analysts have noted, the root of the concern may be traced to successful cost control efforts in the mid 1990s, where public health expenditure per capita, in inflation-adjusted dollars, actually fell.

The region came under the control of the Armenian Orontids in the 7th century BC and later Persians in the mid 6th century BC.

In the mid 1990s, he set up the Burning Music Production company, handling his own bookings, and in 2002, he and his wife, Sonia Rodney who has produced a number of his albums, restarted Burning Spear Records, giving him a greater degree of artistic control.

Spain as well continued to slip away from imperial control during the early to mid 440s as the Suebi extended their control.

In the past it would occasionally overflow its banks and flood low-lying parts of town an issue that was addressed by United States Army Corps of Engineers flood control projects that remediated the problem in the mid 1970s.

In western part of the crumbling empire, Majapahit found itself unable to control the rising power of the Sultanate of Malacca that in mid 15th century began to gain effective control of Malacca strait and expands its influence to Sumatra.

Because the Hohenzollernbrücke was destroyed on retreat by German pioneers, the boroughs at the right bank of the river remained under German control until mid of April 1945.

In the mid 1950s, the once-isolated Dega began experiencing more contact with outsiders after the Vietnamese government launched efforts to gain better control of the Central Highlands and, following the 1954 Geneva Accord, new ethnic minorities from North Vietnam moved into the area.

By the mid 9th century, the Karluk confederation had gained control of the sacred lands of the Western Türks after the destruction of the Uyghur state by the Kyrgyz.

In mid May 1940, despairing of their ability to secure control of Iraq's oil fields and deny access to Germany, the British turned to the extremist Irgun, approaching one of its commanders, David Raziel, whom they had imprisoned in Mandatory Palestine.

The name bagaudae reappears once again in the mid fifth century, when they are mentioned in control of parts of central Gaul and the Ebro valley.

If it is desired to control the size of the plant, the side shoots can be shortened to between 20 and 40 cm long in mid summer, and back to 10 to 20 cm in the fall.

Civilian control of the airport resumed in the mid 1940s.

Biological control for broom in New Zealand has been investigated since the mid 1980s.

Initially he preached acceptance but after mid 1868 when the leading chiefs were released and angry that he was not, Te Kooti seized the opportunity to create a secret resistance movement under his direct control.

Primary color correction affects the whole image utilizing control over intensities of red, green, blue, gamma ( mid tones ), shadows ( blacks ) and highlights ( whites ) of the entire frame.

After-touch is most prevalent in music of the mid to late 1980s, such as the opening string-pad on Cock Robin's When Your Heart Is Weak, which is only possible with the use of after-touch ( or one hand on the volume control ).

In the early 21st century, the obvious way to raise the technological level of any mechanical device is to use digital technology to control it ( compare the mid 19th century, where the obvious route was to make some of its parts from steel ; e. g. piano strings ).

By mid 1976 the Cuban expeditionary force had established its most important structures in Huambo town in the area of San Pedro, Lufefena and Cruzeiro, and strong garrisons in most of the other municipal capitals and main towns, but UNITA had the control of nearly all of the territory in between.

The Conservatives, however, have since the mid 1990s recovered their support to regain their position as the largest party on the Council ( 14 councillors ) with the Liberal Democrats now forming the largest opposition group ( 12 councillors )-Despite this the council remains hung with no overall control.

The Cooperman Company has remained in operation and continued to grow and flourish under the control of other family members since Patrick's death in the mid 1990s.

" Hybrid " television sets produced in the early to mid 1970s made use of a combination of tubes ( typically Compactrons ), transistors, and integrated circuits in the same set.

From the mid 50's he moved into singularity theory, of which catastrophe theory is just one aspect, and in a series of deep ( and at the time obscure ) papers between 1960 and 1969 developed the theory of stratified sets and stratified maps, proving a basic stratified isotopy theorem describing the local conical structure of Whitney stratified sets, now known as the Thom-Mather isotopy theorem.

In the mid 1920s he worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère and in 1929 he wrote the introduction for Erté's acclaimed exhibition and achieved mainstream popularity through his regular appearances in L ' Illustration magazine.

The American blues band, Hot Tuna, for example, when it chose to play electric, would often play six hour sets when performing in the mid 1970s.

In the mid and late 1970s Rank Audio Visual made a 3-in-1 stereo music centre, as well as TV sets in conjunction with NEC of Japan.

The figure wore the classic blue-black flight uniform from World War II with two additional outfits and accessory sets included: Blackhawk's red and green uniform from the mid to late 1960s, and an Arctic survival uniform in sky blue.

In the Southern England scene of the mid 1990s, happy breakbeat DJs such as Dougal and Vibes introduced bouncy techno tracks to their breakbeat mix sets ; Scott Brown versus DJ Rab S " Now is the Time " ( 1995 ) release being a catalyst.

The maximum height of hill in the catchment is about 400 m. The southwest monsoon sets in by mid June and lasts till September.

In the mid 1970s it was reactivated by RCA for a series of 2-LP sets of big band and jazz reissues produced by Frank Driggs.

Until mid 2005, Gatwick Express operated several Class 73s with Mk 2 EMU sets with GLV luggage vans.

The sets and backdrops range from simple ( only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings ) to mid elaborate ( a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door ), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors.

These radio sets were designed to receive amplitude modulation ( AM ) broadcasts in the medium wave band, and were manufactured in the United States from the mid 1930s until the early 1960s ( FM broadcasting in the United States, while running on a small scale from 1930, only became widely popular in the late 1950s, with the trend towards high-fidelity audio ).

As the older naming system gave way to numbered sets in the mid to late 1930s, the standardization of loft angles led to a split in the niblick's normal range of lofts, to create the 9-iron ( with a loft at the time of about 48-50 °) and a new club lofted around 52-54 °.

In the mid 1850s, the men who would come to make up the X Club formed two distinct sets of friends.

RCA televisions with the Colortrak branding were mid-range models ; in comparison to the low-end XL-100 chassis or high-end Dimensia or Colortrak 2000 chassis in consumer sets ( the professional version of the Dimensia model, or versions with BNC inputs, the designation was " Lyceum TV " for a short period in the early to mid 1980s ).

The lead channel gives extended control over the midrange by means of two sets of mid controls ; high mid 1, high mid 2, low mid 1 and low mid 2.

# Viewers may be warned to remember to turn off their television sets just prior to the transmitter being switched off ; these announcements were particularly common in the early days of television, but are still in regular practice in some places, such as Russia until the mid nineties.

Because of its proximity to what was Neilson Football Field ( which is now Records Hall and the parking deck ), Demarest became the football players ' dorm ( until the mid 1960s ) with sets of football player andirons in the two Main Lounge fireplaces indicating this status.