Long-distance trade in the Baltic intensified, as the major trading towns became drawn together in the Hanseatic League, under the leadership of Lübeck.

Although banned by then-President Marc Ravalomanana from 2000 to 2009, the collection of small quantities of precious timber from national parks was re-authorized in January 2009 and has dramatically intensified under the administration of current head of state Andry Rajoelina as a key source of state revenues to offset cuts in donor support following Ravalomanana's ouster.

The interwar period was characterised by ongoing Germanisation policies, intensified especially under the Nazis

In summary, Huxley writes that the ability to think straight is not reduced while under the influence of mescaline, visual impressions are intensified, and the human experimenter will see no reason for action because the experience is so fascinating.

There was no radical change in gender roles but the war intensified occupational trends under way since the 1920s.

The Council settled a set of theological controversies that go back to the sixth century but had intensified under the Emperors Heraclius ( 610 – 641 ) and Constans II ( 641 – 668 ).

California's acquisition by the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican – American War caused further American westward expansion into Mexico intensified with the California Gold Rush, beginning in 1849.

Christianisation intensified with the legalization of the Christian religion under Constantine in the early 4th century and its promotion by subsequent Christian emperors, but in 407 the Empire withdrew its legions from the province to defend Italy from Visigothic attacks in which the city of Rome would be sacked in 410.

At first the entire figure was painted in greyish-brown tones, with very little flesh colour, the whole blending perfectly with the greyish-brown of the prepared canvas ; then the entire background would be intensified a little ; then the figure made a little stronger ; then the background, and so on from day to day and week to week, and often from month to month .... And so the portrait would really grow, really develop as an entirety, very much as a negative under the action of the chemicals comes out gradually — light, shadows, and all from the very first faint indications to their full values.

Long-distance trade in the Baltic intensified, as the major trading towns came together in the Hanseatic League, under the leadership of Lübeck.

With the Minangkabau territories now under the control of the Dutch, transportation systems were improved and economic exploitation was intensified.

Ironically, under Catherine ’ s enlightened reign, serfdom was intensified and spread to newly conquered territories.

The worldly excesses of the secular Renaissance Church, epitomized by the era of Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), intensified during the Reformation under Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 1522 ), whose campaign to raise funds in the German states to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica by supporting use of indulgences served as a key impetus for Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

The Socialist-Communist mass, under Bhutto's leadership, intensified its support in Muhajir and poor farming communities in West Pakistan, working through educating people to cast their vote for their better future.

In Russia, under the Tsarist regime, antisemitism intensified in the early years of the 20th century and was given official favour when the secret police forged the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a document purported to be a transcription of a plan by Jewish elders to achieve global domination.

As the night progressed they came under attack from multiple infantry elements of the 6th German Parachute Division in an attempt to capture the Nijmegen bridge. Fighting intensified, taking in house to house action throughout Haalderen and Gendt During the nights of 3-4 December house to house fighting with small arms and grenades took in almost every house in Haalderen, with the Dukes ' A Company ' Headquarters in the village school.

The depression slowly intensified as it tracked between west-northwestward under the influence of low-to mid-level flow.

The tropical depression intensified as it headed northeastward under an upper-level trough, and became a tropical storm by the following day.

From 1929 onwards Menon had been kept under surveillance, which only intensified following Menon's 1946 meeting in Paris with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, and Indian independence.

This has caused them to be listed as " vulnerable " under the U. S. Endangered Species Act, and has led to an intensified research program into their behavioral and foraging ecology.

This policy was expanded and intensified most notably by Muhammad Ali's grandson, Ismail Pasha, under whose reign most of the remainder of modern-day Sudan was conquered.

The new tropical depression moved to the northwest under the influence of a mid-level trough, and rapidly intensified to a tropical storm the following day offshore of eastern Honduras ; the National Hurricane Center assigned the system to the name Diana.

The event demonstrates the " town and gown " power struggles between Church, secular leaders and the emerging student class, as well as a lessening of local Church authority over the university, which was placed squarely under direct papal patronage, part of the program to centralize Church structure that had intensified under Innocent III.

During his three months of rule, many civilian problems intensified and the communists made significant gains.

During John III's rule, after the initial colonization, Portuguese explorers intensified the search for brazilwood and began the cultivation of sugarcane, which was well suited to the climate of Brazil, especially around Recife and Bahía.

Rhodesia's isolation intensified once Mozambique became independent of Portuguese rule in 1975, and when South Africa started to scale back its support.

However, during six decades of Gothic rule, the Goths saved those old Roman Municipal institutions that were still in function, while religious life in Dalmatia even intensified in the last years, so that there was a need for the foundation of additional bishoprics.

The rule of Mary I, the attack of the Spanish Armada, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 were other events that were important contributors to anti-Catholic sentiment and intensified Protestant hatred of Catholics, making the plot against Charles II seem believable.

In the later part of the year 638 Hormuzan, who commanded one of the Persian corps at the Battle of Qadisiyyah and was one of the seven great chiefs of Persia, intensified his raids in Mesopotamia, Saad according to Umar ’ s instructions undertook offensive actions against Hormuzan and Utbah ibn Ghazwan aided by Nouman ibn Muqarin attacked Ahwaz and forced Hormuzan to enter into a peace treaty with the Muslims according to which Ahwaz would remain in Hormuzan ’ s possession and he would rule it as a vassal of the Muslims and would pay tribute.

Dovnar-Zapolsky notes that the Polonization actually intensified under the liberal rule of Alexander I, particularly due to the efforts of Polish intellectuals who led the Vilnius University which was organized in 1802 – 1803 from the Academy in Vilna ( Schola Princeps Vilnensis ), vastly expanded and given the highest Imperial status under the new name Vilna Imperial University ( Imperatoria Universitas Vilnensis ).

During the Persian rule, Ionian influence on the sculptures intensified ; copies of Greek korai appear, as well as statues of men in Greek dress.

Disputes that had been confined to the Church of England could be dealt with legislatively in that realm, but as the Communion spread out into new nations and disparate cultures, such controversies multiplied and intensified.

Family frictions intensified when Jorge Born formed a business partnership with one of his former kidnappers, erstwhile Montonero strategist Rodolfo Galimberti.

Individuals can better cope with organized persuasion by recognizing the common ways whereby communication is intensified or downplayed, so as to counter doublespeak.

Some of the acquired gains were however rolled back, which coupled with intensified Germanization in the Prussian partition, left the Austrian Galicia as the most amenable to patriotic action territory.

Jablonski postulates that increasing body size, in conjunction with intensified hunting during the day at the equator, gave rise to a greater need to rapidly expel heat.

In the south, military exchanges between Israel and the PLO led Israel to support Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) in an effort to establish a security belt along Israel's northern border, an effort which intensified in 1977 with the election of new Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.

The government has intensified cooperation with neighbouring countries and stepped up border controls.

Poland promoted its NATO candidacy through energetic participation in the Partnership for Peace ( PfP ) program and through intensified individual dialogue with NATO.

On the other hand, many historians now point out that most of the negative social factors popularly associated with the medieval period – poverty, warfare, religious and political persecution, for example – seem to have worsened in this era which saw the rise of Machiavellian politics, the Wars of Religion, the corrupt Borgia Popes, and the intensified witch-hunts of the 16th century.

Syria continues to play an active pan-Arab role, which has intensified as the peace process collapsed in September 2000 with the start of the second Palestinian uprising ( Intifada ) against Israel.

In terms of economic development, the Srisdi regime did not only continue what the Phibul regime had done since 1955, but it also significantly intensified this development with full support from the U. S. due to the regime's decision to cut all ties with the People's Republic of China and its full support for the U. S. operation in Indochina.

When trans-Saharan trade intensified, they developed departure and arrival centers with slave depots and intermediary secure caravan stops.

The intense urban warfare in densely populated Gaza combined with the use of heavy firepower by the Israeli side and the intensified Hamas rocket attacks towards populated Israeli civilian targets led to a high toll on the Palestinian side and among civilians .</ small >

This affair caused a great scandal in some countries ( Bergman and Rossellini were both married to other people ); the scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Roberto Ingmar Rossellini.

Debates about " soft " and " hard " primitivism intensified with the publication in 1651 of Hobbes's Leviathan ( or Commonwealth ), a justification of absolute monarchy.

His rivalry with Giscard d ' Estaing intensified.

French campaigns against Samori Ture, which were met with fierce resistance, intensified in the mid-1890s until he was captured in 1898.

The U. S. was still officially neutral, but as war with Nazi Germany intensified in Europe, the tribulations of the Miniver family engaged the sympathy of the American public sufficiently that President Franklin D. Roosevelt credited it for hastening America's involvement in the war.

The uncanonical choice met with opposition from the strictly clerical party of the Stoudites, and this opposition intensified into an open break when Nikephoros, in other respects a very rigid moralist, showed himself compliant to the will of the emperor by reinstating the excommunicated priest Joseph.

Five years earlier, a photograph of Kaplan had appeared with the front-page newspaper article that was published near the beginning of the intensified period of United States gravity control propulsion research ( 1955-1974 ).

The friction with the Soviet Union intensified after border clashes on the Ussuri River in March 1969 as the Chinese leadership prepared for all-out war.

When the Anglo-Spanish Wars intensified after 1585, Elizabeth approved further raids against Spanish ports in the Americas and against shipping returning to Europe with treasure.

At the beginning of the 20th century, this rise intensified with the arrival of internal immigrants from the County of Nice itself.