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The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.
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At the same time, the Embassy is working with the Dominican Government to resolve a range of ongoing commercial and investment disputes.
Approximately 20 % of the network is suitable for commercial boats of over 1000 tonnes and the VNF has an ongoing programme of maintenance and modernisation to increase depth of waterways, widths of locks and headroom under bridges to support France's strategy of encouraging freight onto water.
GPS modernization has now become an ongoing initiative to upgrade the Global Positioning System with new capabilities to meet growing military, civil, and commercial needs.
Improved color sensitizers and ongoing improvements in the overall sensitivity of emulsions steadily reduced the once-prohibitive long exposure times required for color, bringing it ever closer to commercial viability.
Experiments are ongoing to cross-breed various desirable traits of wild cotton species into the principal commercial species, such as resistance to insects and diseases, and drought tolerance.
Some controversy regarding large-scale commercial and residential development is part of ongoing local conversation.
Spanish Fort Town Center, anchored by Bass Pro Shop, JC Penney, and Kohl's, contributed to the municipality's substantial commercial development, despite having ongoing issues with vacancies.
Although the Fallons ' coal and iron ventures failed, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, and Italianate mansions and commercial buildings such as the Fallon House, a large hotel, remained, and the railroad provided a new mode of transport for the ongoing timber era.
Although the Steve Miller Band had limited peak commercial success, his ongoing popularity has been notable.
However, despite the efforts ongoing for the next two centuries, there was no commercial success.
After a scandal involving the then-head of Standard Oil, John Dustin Archbold ( the successor to Senior ), and bribes he had made to two prominent Congressmen, unearthed by the Hearst media empire, Junior resigned from both companies in 1910 in an attempt to " purify " his ongoing philanthropy from commercial and financial interests.
The proposal, though defeated, initiated an ongoing debate between the use of Mount Greylock ( State ) Reservation for commercial development and open hunting versus conservation purposes.
The gradual evolution of Network Ten into its current form has its origins in the ongoing attempts by media mogul Rupert Murdoch to acquire a prized commercial television licence in Australia's largest capital city market, Sydney.
The ongoing construction of the Kota Kinabalu Industrial Park ( KKIP ) in Sepanggar is intended to boost the city's industrial and commercial activity making it a major growth centre in East Malaysia, as well for the BIMP-EAGA ( Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area ) region.
In 2011, the 133-year-old Lorne Hotel, still an ongoing commercial enterprise and the oldest free-standing licensed hotel in British Columbia, was destroyed by fire.
Considerable commercial development is underway further inland, towards to the north of the town, with the recent construction of a large shopping centre and retail park and ongoing development of housing areas.
Despite its small population, Andros Island has given rise to several ongoing commercial ventures.
The commercial ongoing game-world data ( story plots, quests, maps, lore, etc.
There are ongoing projects throughout many commercial entities, research institutions, academic programs, and government agencies.
According to a New York Times report, this reflected ongoing efforts by YouTube to deal with the fact that many of its user-generated video clips include copyrighted music and images sourced from commercial TV and film productions.
As part of the formation of OSF, various members contributed many of their ongoing research projects as well as their commercial products.
There was a potential problem if a ship transmitted a distress call: The use of 500 kHz as a common frequency often led to heavy congestion, especially around major ports and shipping lanes, and it was possible the distress message would be drowned out by the bedlam of ongoing commercial traffic.
Such adaptation of loft space, can result in better operating efficiencies for ongoing light industrial, commercial and work / live use.
There are hopes from some members to see the location serve a variety of ongoing usages ; however currently requires booking in advance of event with a member ( s ) responsible for the establishment during events, in general supplied for the membership rather than for commercial reasons.
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Its success, coupled with the ongoing Blood Service campaign, has raised the IWW's profile significantly since early 2007.
Since August 1746 talks had been ongoing at the Congress of Breda to try and agree a peace settlement, but up to this point they had met with little success.
After the success of the short story in the House of Secrets comic, the original creators were asked to write an ongoing series, depicting a more heroic, more contemporary creature.
The park was originally intended as a permanent attraction for the ongoing exhibition, but it became such a success with over 800, 000 visitors in just over a month, that it was pursued further.
Scheduled to open in spring 2011, the 596-bed residence is part of the university ’ s ongoing commitment to students ’ academic success and personal growth.
In 1993, the success of the three miniseries led to the ongoing Robin series which ran 183 issues until 2009.
In 1991, MD-11 was not quite a success, ongoing tests of the MD-11 revealed a significant shortfall in the aircraft's performance.
However, success of the program was hampered by ongoing clashes between tenants and landowners.
In the wake of Knowles ' Dangerously in Love, rumors spread about possible split of Destiny's Child after each member had experienced success and had ongoing projects.
Black Market continued Weather Report's ongoing run of success, selling well and being the fourth of the band's albums to win the album of the year award from Down Beat magazine.
Their success was made possible by the generosity of Edoardo Almagià, who, as well as giving his permission for the exploration, donated in advance whatever should be discovered underneath the palace and made an ongoing financial contribution to the expenses of the excavation.
Many regional markets have achieved some success and the ongoing trend continues to be towards deregulation and introduction of competition.
The show's mainstream success in the United States spawned an ongoing Speed Racer franchise, ranging from comics, video releases, merchandise, a live-action film, and newer series either rebooting or continuing the original series.
As a measure of its ongoing success, it has been marketed under more than 70 brand names since then:
The ongoing success against the Persians in the east once again allowed Tiberius to turn his gaze westward.
The team's departure from the Nashville market was not related to lack of success neither on the field, nor at the box office, where they were a superior draw to several ongoing Arena football teams, but rather their inability to negotiate a favorable lease with the Predators.
" Most departments accept grad students based on their prospects for academic success ; the Media Lab attempts to select ones that will best be able to help with some of the ongoing projects.
The ongoing success of the Gallic Wars brought an enormous amount of wealth to the Republic in spoils of war and in new lands to tax.
As he had already had modest success publishing his own comic books, in 1999 he teamed up with Erica Awano to start an ambitious project – a brand-new ongoing monthly comic series, an idea that had almost no chance of surviving in the Brazilian market.
Over the last 36 years, the Drama Desk Awards have contributed to the ongoing success of major stars, playwrights and designers, while also identifying newcomers.
Birmingham's economic success over the previous two centuries had been built on its economic diversity and its ongoing ability to adapt and innovate – attracting new businesses and developing new industries with its large supply of skilled labour and dynamic entrepreneurial culture – but this was exactly the process that government industrial location policy sought to prevent.
During the war, especially from 1942 on, the Polish Government in Exile provided the Allies with some of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the ongoing Holocaust of European Jews and, through its representatives, like the Foreign Minister Count Edward Raczynski and the courier of the Polish Underground movement, Jan Karski, called for action, without success, to stop it.
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