The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.

In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.

In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

Since the early 2000s, this rule was changed by the FEI so that each second or fraction of a second over the time allowed would result in 1 time penalty ( e. g. with a time allowed of 72 seconds, a time of 73. 09 seconds would result in 2 time faults ).

Much of the turnover can be attributed to thousands of registered Independents and registered Republicans switching to the Democratic Party during the second term of President George W. Bush's tenure in the late 2000s.

As the second half of the 2000s began, the group remained very much active and popular in the nostalgia concert circuit.

While historically weaker, Argentina's level of play has equaled the stronger half of the Six Nations since the 2000s, and proved their worth in the Rugby Championship with a 16-16 draw to the Springboks in only their second test.

During the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, Molde was the second best team in Norway ( behind 13-times in a row champions Rosenborg ), with league silver's in 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2002 and cup championship in 1994 and 2005, and the participation in the Champions League in the 1999 – 2000 season, when Real Madrid, Porto and Olympiacos visited Molde.

Since 1990s and 2000s, Drakensberg Boys ' Choir School based at gumboot dancing the folk-African part of their repertoire and white gumboots are the prt of the second variant of their concert costume ( the first variant is a classical " white man's " costume ).

By the early 2000s, the Republic had become the second richest ( in terms of GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity ) member of the European Union, had moved from being a net recipient of EU funds to a net contributor, and from a position of net emigration to one of net imigration.

The second problem is that public spending, which rose steeply in the 2000s, was now unsustainable.

D ' Onofrio and van der Donk split in the early 2000s, but reconciled to have a second son, Luka, on February 14, 2008.

The museum building continued to suffer from structural issues into the early 2000s and a second $ 8 million stabilization project was begun in September of 2008.

A second generation of utilitarian bioethicists, including Julian Savulescu, Jacob M. Appel and Thaddeus Mason Pope, advanced these arguments further in the 1990s and 2000s.

Chrysler has produced three generations of such engines: the first ( the Chrysler FirePower engine ) in the 1950s, the second ( the 426 Hemi ), developed for NASCAR in 1964 and produced through the early 1970s, and finally the " new HEMI " in the early 2000s.

* 2000s: BP, the world's second largest oil company, entered the greenwashing playing field, spending 200 million dollars on rebranding their company.

The club have spent the majority of their history in the Football League's third tier, though their most recent success came in the early 2000s when they found themselves competing in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football.

Having won an Emmy Award ( with 5 other nominations ), a Golden Globe ( with 4 other nominations ), two SAG Awards ( with 3 other nominations ) and two Satellite Awards, Kiefer Sutherland's performance as Jack Bauer became ( award-wise ) the second most acclaimed Male Lead Dramatic TV performance of the 2000s behind only James Gandolfini ( with 3 Emmys, 1 Golden Globe and 3 SAG Awards ).

With a second blossoming of specialized bars along the corridor in the late 2000s, Smith Street became an upscale weekend nightlife destination.

* Microsoft Xbox 360, a game console released in the second half of 2000s.

Business establishments were largely restricted to the Main Street corridor in the heart of the neighborhood until the early 2000s, when a second commercial core began to emerge at the north end of the community, along Page Avenue west of Amboy Road ; further expansion of the latter area is due in 2005 as the former Lucent Technologies property is being developed for this purpose.

In the early 2000s, Märklin added a second line of Gauge 1 trains under the brand name " Maxi ".

They are one of the most successful teams in the history of British basketball, second only to Newcastle Eagles, and dominated the domestic scene throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

For much of the 2000s, it waged a spirited battle with WBTV for second place behind WSOC-TV, though it has recently returned to a distant third place in most timeslots.

Mangue bit can be divided into two distinct waves: the first in the early 1990s led by the music groups Chico Science & Nação Zumbi ( Zumbi's Nation ) and Mundo Livre S / A ( Free World Inc .), and the second in the early 2000s led by Re: Combo ( a copyleft movement that uploads half-sampled music for download ) and Cordel do Fogo Encantado ( a music group that started as a roving theatre troupe with roots in a form of literature known as literatura de cordel (" twine literature ")).