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became and common
The theory of international law, which in the nineteenth century became common to virtually all writers in Europe and America, broke this unity and this universality.
Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.
As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.
Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo.
The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.
Later, in the Greek and Roman periods, mouth rinsing following mechanical cleansing became common among the upper classes, and Hippocrates recommended a mixture of salt, alum, and vinegar.
He asserts that isolated communities relied on raiding for food and supplies, and that internal conflict and warfare became common in the 13th century.
For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.
This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.
In the Neo-Assyrian period the Aramaic language became increasingly common, more so than Akkadian — this was thought to be largely due to the mass deportations undertaken by Assyrian kings, in which large Aramaic-speaking populations, conquered by the Assyrians, were relocated to Assyria and interbred with the Assyrians.
As Apple abandoned many of these product categories, and all new systems were based on IP, AppleTalk became less and less common.
It became more common to arrange sketchy jazz combo compositions for big band after the bop era.
With the Renaissance, tyrannicide — or assassination for personal or political reasons — became more common again in Western Europe.
Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.
There are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but it became common by the 16th century.
While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.
1200 gave way to 2400 fairly rapidly, followed by a delay before 9, 600 became common.
Before commercial Internet access became common, these networks of BBSes provided regional and international e-mail and message bases.
Once the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads reached Chicago, that time dynamic changed, and American poleboats became less common, relegated to smaller rivers and more remote streams.
Records of Classical boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Western Roman Empire when the wearing of weapons became common once again and interest in fighting with the fists waned.
As the wearing of swords became less common, there was renewed interest in fencing with the fists.
The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

became and byword
Given that the feeder bore the Kluge name, it seems reasonable that it became a byword for overly-complex mechanical contraptions.
Goliath, in early scholarly tradition, became a kind of byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before David.
Both he and Secretary of Defense George Marshall came under attack from men such as Joseph McCarthy ; Acheson became a byword to some Americans, who tried to equate containment with appeasement.
Halsey's slogan, " Hit hard, hit fast, hit often " soon became a byword for the Navy.
Motorola set a goal of " six sigma " for all of its manufacturing operations, and this goal became a byword for the management and engineering practices used to achieve it.
This was the first time that anything like it had been seen in Europe and soon, the lido became " The Lido ", a byword for a beach resort.
This became a byword: " Be like the coo o Forfar, an tak a stannin drink ".
During this period, her talent at accumulating wealth became a byword among the old Hollywood élite.
The group's first album, No Depression, became a byword for the genre and was widely influential.
Due to the influence of the album and periodical, the term " No Depression " became a byword for alternative country — particularly for bands with punk rock influence.
Not only locally, and not diminishing over the centuries, the name of Konrad von Marburg became a byword for sadism and the dark side of Catholicism.
Gates himself became a byword among some for excessive use of force by anti-gang units, and became a favorite lyrical target for gang-connected urban black rappers notably, Ice Cube.
The parliament maintained its own gaol at Lydford and had a brutal and ' bloody ' reputation ( indeed Lydford law became a byword for injustice ), and once even gaoled an English MP in the reign of Henry VIII.
Beginning in the Middle Ages it became a symbol of low worth, and a common German byword is " keinen ( roten ) Heller wert ", lit.
Known for his memory for quotations and trivia, " Ask John Bartlett " became a byword in the community when someone was stumped.
During his tenure as commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, Yermolov ( by that time promoted to the rank of full artillery general ) was responsible for robust Russian military policies in Caucasus, where his name became a byword for brutality.
“ Friday Evenings at Air Cottage ” became a byword in Karachi ’ s intellectual and avant-grade circles, and Omar Kureishi soon became an integral part of the set.
The best known, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (, 1932 ).
" She has been described as the " Wicked Witch of Walford " and " a character who became a byword for downtrodden haggery.
If " change agent " was a key term in Pifer's time, " linkage " became the byword in Hamburg's, when the Corporation increasingly used its convening powers to bring together leaders and experts across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries to forge policy consensus and promote collaboration.
The quality of the food also declined to that of its competitors and, because of its prominent location, the services became a byword for poor catering.
This term became the byword of inhabitants or traders who used to travel along the shorelines of Ubay to avoid the strong current of the Cunigao Channel.

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