These often ink on white paper or gold-leaf decorative wall panels served a dual purpose of reflecting light around the dim castle rooms as well as flaunting the castle owner's abundant wealth to commission such extravagant pieces.

These views attracted wealthy people, who built extravagant summer homes along Shore Road overlooking the water, many of which are still standing today and worth multiple-millions of dollars.

These high expectations, as in other newly independent ex-colonies, stemmed partly from the extravagant promises made by some political leaders.

These successes by the members of New Hollywood led each of them in turn to make more and more extravagant demands, both on the studio and eventually on the audience.

These works began to present a less heroic view of soldiers, who often represented a considerable threat to civilian populations even in peacetime, though the extravagant costumes of the Landsknecht are often treated as glamorous.

" These characters were also given extravagant profiles in the game's official strategy guide ; Abdullah the Butcher, renamed " Saladin ," is described as a former Afghan Secret service operative who refused orders to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.

These buildings were built in an ultra-Baroque, fantastically extravagant and visually frenetic style.

" These extravagant parallels between " Oshin " and the manga are because Haruhi is a poor but diligent student attending on scholarship, while Ouran High School is an academy for the idle rich.

These expenditures are estimated to be $12.1 billion, an increase of $187 million over 1960, reflecting additional longevity pay of career personnel, more dependents, an increased number of men drawing proficiency pay, and social security tax increases ( effective for the full year in 1961 compared with only 6 months in 1960 ).

These increased costs are partially offset by a decrease of $56 million in expenditures for the reserve forces, largely because of the planned reduction in strength of the Army Reserve components during 1961.

These two objectives require heavy expenditures for social welfare, defense spending at rates considered high by Western European standards ( currently around 2. 2 % of GNP ), and close attention to foreign trade opportunities and world economic cooperation.

These specific election donations are known as ‘ hard money .’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ) of 2002, also known as " McCain-Feingold ", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1974, and prohibited unregulated contributions ( commonly referred to as " soft money ") to national political parties.

These expenditures in turn will generate more jobs, wages, and profits, and so on with the income and spending circulating around the economy.

These expenditures and commitments were budget-breakers because BSB had less money left for its other two channels than the BBC or ITV had for one.

These latter types of expenditures are reported as expenses when they are depreciated by businesses that use accrual-basis accounting, which is most large businesses and all C corporations.

These factors have contributed to the " serials crisis "-from 1986 – 2005, the number of serials purchased has increased an average of 1. 9 % per year while total expenditures on serials has increased 7. 6 % per year.

These businesses and the Living Videotext acquisition were consistently unprofitable for Symantec, and these losses diverted expenditures away from both the Q & A for Windows and the TimeLine for Windows development efforts during the critical period from 1988 through 1992.

These two Acts established a formula whereby the federal government paid approximately 50 % of approved expenditures for hospital and physician services.

These expenditures are usually set, negotiated, spent and / or promised before principal photography begins.

These expenditures are normally, towing, storage fees, and the cost of filing the lien.

These began to be apparent in a press conference held during the second illness in order that the consulting specialists might clarify the President's condition for the nation.

These were carried out not too faithfully by Filippo Costaggini, who began by supplying the missing member to the founder of Pennsylvania and noting in pencil, in Italian, that he `` began at this point ''.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

These specimens began to arrive in Europe in 1522, when the survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition brought them home.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

These records state that Bu began his rule before 477, was recognized as the ruler of Japan by the Liu Song, Southern Qi, and Liang dynasties, and continued his rule through to 502.

These would later be recognized as immense conglomerations of stars, when the true distance to these objects began to be appreciated, and they would be termed island universes.

These activities began in the sixteenth century and continued until the nineteenth century.

These often opened with the show's main title logo within the teaser scene ; from season four onward, the show began using an anthropomorphic version of the logo in the opening scenes, using various animations.

These eastern powers soon began to be overshadowed by those further west.

These internal and external factors contributed to the rise of a Confederation national consciousness, in which the term fatherland ( patria ) began to take on meaning beyond an individual canton.

These factors eventually began to impact the operating system's efficiency and stability.

These mathematical disciplines began in Antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and Ptolemy.

These obstacles weakened the movement and it was not until the rise of the Internet that it began to regain momentum.

These moves along with others saw the Colts began to turn around their fortune with a playoff appearance in 1995 and 1996.

These cats were removed through efforts which began in the mid-1960s and lasted until 1990 when they were completely eradicated.

These universities worked with high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice, initially developed in Mexico and the Philippines, that in the 1960s began the Green Revolution, an effort to diversify and increase crop production.

These estimates have been confirmed by the 2009 population census, and this means that the decline in population that began after 1989 has been arrested and reversed.

These relations began to improve in the late 1980s.

These standards began to have more relevance in 2000 and 2001 after FATF began a process to publicly identify countries that were deficient in their anti-money laundering laws and international cooperation, a process colloquially known as " name and shame ".

These developments began to give a new meaning to what was termed " modernism ": It embraced discontinuity, rejecting smooth change in everything from biology to fictional character development and filmmaking.

These coastal cultures eventually began to decline as a result of recurring el Niño floods and droughts.