This intervention could only be controlled by priests, and thus the invasions caused a rapid rise in the influence of the sacred class.

Growth in real output averaged a sound 5 % since 1996, but a rapid population rise offset much of this growth on a per capita basis.

Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.

The same period saw the rapid rise of Persia, previously an unimportant kingdom in present-day southern Iran, to a position of great power, and in 539 BC Cyrus II, the Persian ruler, conquered Babylon.

The 17th-century rise of Britain's American colonies and the rapid 18th-century expansion of the Atlantic slave trade had made Bristol an important international sea port, and Teach was most likely raised in what was the second-largest city in England.

It occurs as a consequence of a rapid rise in serum tonicity following treatment in individuals with chronic, severe hyponatraemia who have made intracellular adaptations to the prevailing hypotonicity.

The rapid rise of the business microcomputer in the late 1980s, and especially the introduction of powerful 32-bit systems in the 1990s, quickly eroded the value of DEC's systems.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

This change contributed to the rapid decline of Gracias and the rise of Comayagua as the center of colonial Honduras.

In the case of rapid expansion of the money supply, prices rise rapidly in response to the increased supply of money relative to the supply of goods and services, and in the case of loss of confidence, the monetary authority responds to the risk premiums it has to pay by “ running the printing presses .”

The claims of an Italian origin for movable type have also focused on this rapid rise of Italy in movable-type printing.

A rapid rise in the number of mainland visitors due to China's easing of travel restrictions, increased public works expenditures, and significant investment inflows associated with the liberalisation of Macau's gaming industry drove the five-year recovery.

By the late 20th century, the rapid development and convergence of information and telecommunications technologies gave rise to an ICT industry on the island along with many incentives provided by the government.

The sudden availability of large numbers of meteorites that could be found with relative ease in places that were readily accessible ( especially compared to Antarctica ), led to a rapid rise in commercial collection of meteorites.

This leads to a rapid rise in cylinder pressure, producing engine " knock ".

The rise to peak brightness can be very rapid or gradual which is related to the speed class of the nova ; after the peak, the brightness declines steadily.

The Torah says that it is because the Hebrews left Egypt with such haste that there was no time to allow baked bread to rise ; thus flat, unleavened bread, matzo, is a reminder of the rapid departure of the Exodus.

After lumber baron William B. Cox purchased the team in 1943, the Phillies began a rapid rise to prominence in the National League, as the team rose out of the standings cellar for the first time in five years.

Its rise and fall are rapid and uncertain, and it is shallow and full of sandbanks and snags.

His rise was rapid: in 1257, he was appointed Bishop of Le Puy ; in 1259, he was appointed Archbishop of Narbonne ; and in December 1261, he became the first cardinal created by Pope Urban IV, for the See of Sabina.

Berlusconi's political rise was rapid and surrounded by some controversy.

During his thirteen years as Grand Vizier, his rapid rise to power and vast accumulation of wealth had made Ibrahim many enemies among the Sultan's court.

His rapid rise continued ; in 1997 Mofaz was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.

He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.

However, the rapid development ( 8 % of increase of passengers served at Polish airports in 2008 compared to 2007 ) of the unsaturated market and the existence of vast areas of land, not covered by airports within 100 kilometers of journey, allow to assume that many new airports could be necessary to properly serve this land pupulated by appox.

There was a rapid loss of around 25 % of its membership in the mid to late 1990s because the grades of staff covered by the union were the ones hardest hit when British Rail was broken up from 1994 onwards ; however the Executive Committee adopted a policy of seeking to vigorously recruit additional members particularly in those areas such as travel agencies which had not been the principal focus of the union in the past.

The Pleasant Street Portal at its southern end has been covered over, but there were plans to build a new portal and reuse part of the tunnel for Phase III of the Silver Line bus rapid transit project.

:— "( Praising the Soma-juices ) which descend like streams of water, swift, brilliant, rapid driving off the black covered ( Rakshasa who are darkness )"

Today the modern MBTA Orange Line rapid transit train runs along the partially covered Southwest Corridor, with neighborhood stops at Back Bay ( also an MBTA Commuter Rail stop due to its proximity to the Copley Square employment center ) and Massachusetts Avenue.

Like other extensions of the London Underground lines, the opening of the Cockfosters extension stimulated the rapid development of new suburbs and much of the open countryside that existed in 1930 when construction started was quickly covered by new housing developments.

In practice this is the reading of a thermometer whose sensing bulb is covered with a wet sock evaporating into a rapid stream of the sample air ( see Hygrometer ).

The Riordans covered a period of rapid transition in Irish life, from an agrarian, protectionist Ireland of the early 1960s to membership of the European Economic Community and so a rapidly changing rural economy in the 1970s.

The city grew at a rapid rate ; in 1978 it covered a square kilometre, and on October 29, 1983 it passed 100, 000 inhabitants.

His back is covered with spines that he can rapid fire at his opponent.

:" The particularly cool thing about Thinking in Java is that even though a large amount of information is covered at a rapid pace, it is somehow all easily absorbed and understood.

( Lindenthal's " North River Bridge " designs show an enormous, 16 + lane bridge that would have accommodated pedestrians, freight trains, rapid transit, and automobile traffic.

The first bridge was probably a Roman military pontoon type, giving a rapid overland shortcut to Camulodunum from the southern and Kentish ports, along the Roman roads of Stane Street and Watling Street ( the A2 ).

The city is progressing toward building " Bridge for Kids ", a walking bridge across the Carbon River that could be used for recreation and rapid evacuation up the hill toward Cascadia, Washington.

The bridge was dismantled after closing in 1970 due to its rapid deterioration and its low height.

These elite units served as raiders against American / ARVN troops, and infiltrated spearheads during the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign in 1975 – where they seized key road and bridge assets, destroyed installations, attacked command and control nodes located deep inside enemy territory, and otherwise helped the PAVN's rapid mobile forces advance.

According to Harper ’ s Weekly in 1882, “ One of the most striking proofs of the rapid growth of New York is furnished by the bridges of the Harlem .” There are two general categories of bridge type on the Harlem: fixed arch and movable.

A new central ferry terminal railyard, car-float bridge and rapid transit terminal was constructed over fill barged in from the excavation of New York " skyscrapers ".

* In 1896, a short northerly elevated extension of the Brighton Line ( since reorganized as the Brooklyn & Brighton Beach Railroad ) to the corner of Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street allowed rapid transit trains of the Fulton Street Line of the Kings County Elevated Railroad to operate from the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge to Brighton Beach, where a walking or cable car service connection over the bridge allowed access to New York City Hall at Park Row.

* May 6-The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad is opened in Chicago as the first electrically operated rapid transit system in the United States, including the first completed Scherzer rolling lift bridge.

However, after a bridge was built across the Meduxnekeag River, there was rapid growth of the Creek Village and this resulted in its being chosen as the Town of Woodstock.

The rapid transit tracks in the center of the bridge were initially used by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company elevated railroad.

In 1980, a bridge was constructed to connect the island to the Hong Kong Island and brought momentum for rapid economic development.

The rapid growth of Thorncliffe in the 1950s necessitated the construction of a second north-south bridge across the Don Valley.

Authorities believe that rapid currents present in the Mississippi River had caused the barges to come loose and strike the bridge.

These changes included almost in new light rail lines, four new parking garages, two new Sounder stations, a streetcar line connecting First Hill, Capitol Hill, and the International District, a transit center in Bothell, and two expansion studies, one for studying rapid transit across the SR-520 floating bridge and the other studying the use of the Woodinville Subdivision between Renton and Woodinville.

The building of the bridge over the River Urr at Craignair in 1797 and the rapid expansion of the Granite Industry in Dalbeattie attracted more people to settle in the town.

* May 6 – The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad is opened in Chicago as the first electrically operated rapid transit system in the U. S. between downtown Canal & Jackson Streets and Damen & Milwaukee Avenues including the first completed Scherzer rolling lift bridge.

* U. S. Joint Forces Command ( disestablished as of 4 August 2011 ) now U. S. Transportation Command Joint Enabling Capabilities Command ( JECC ) provides mission-tailored, ready joint capability packages to combatant commanders in order to facilitate rapid establishment of joint force headquarters, fulfill Global Response Force execution and bridge joint operational requirements.

Provides rapidly deployable, enroute, early entry and scalable command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ( C4ISR ) capabilities across the full spectrum of operations in order to facilitate rapid establishment of joint force headquarters and bridge joint C4ISR requirements.

Provides ready, rapidly deployable, joint public affairs capabilities to combatant commanders in order to facilitate rapid establishment of joint force headquarters, bridge joint public affairs requirements and conduct public affairs training to meet theater information challenges.

The opening of the bridge caused rapid growth in immediate suburbs, and Montagu Bay experienced a boom in housing, particularly Housing Department houses in the 1940s and 1950s.

The island quickly recovered and tourism remains the main industry ; construction continues on the island at a rapid rate, in spite of facing other hardships such as hurricanes like Fran and Floyd, and being cut off from the mainland for a short time after a barge destroyed the island's original pontoon bridge.

In 1843, a pioneer described it as " a natural bridge of solid rock, over a rapid torrent, the arch being regular as tho ' shaped by art.

At the time, the cable-stayed type of bridge was undergoing a period of rapid growth in popularity.