The success of Greg Louganis has led to American strength in diving internationally.

This has led to fears internationally that the marks and accents may be made obsolete to facilitate the worldwide exchange of data.

This was followed up by the Global Mining Initiative which was initiated by nine of the largest metals and mining companies, and led to the formation of the International Council on Mining and Metals to " act as a catalyst " for social and environmental performance improvement in the mining and metals industry internationally.

On 30 March 2011, the city of Yamoussoukro fell to forces led by the democratically elected Alassane Ouattara, who had been recognized internationally as the legitimate president of Côte d ' Ivoire.

Many VistaVision cameras were sold off internationally beginning in the early 1960s, which led to a significant number of VistaVision-format productions ( which did not use the trade name ) in countries such as Italy and Japan from the 1960s to 1980s.

This led to a large scale and internationally recognised restoration project, costing approximately £ 3. 4 million.

These humanitarian projects led to Armstrong receiving a series of invitations to meet with prominent world heads of state and internationally recognized as Ambassador for World Peace.

The ruined building was made safe against the elements and partially refurbished in the 1960s, but no attempt at full restoration was made until after German reunification on October 3, 1990, when it underwent a reconstruction led by internationally renowned architect Norman Foster.

At the end of the 20th century, the corporation found itself deriving much of its revenue and net income from its energy operations, so led by CEO Thomas Usher, U. S. Steel spun off Marathon and other non-steel assets ( except railroad company Transtar ) in October, 2001, and expanded internationally for the first time by purchasing operations in Slovakia and Serbia.

István Kertész ( August 28, 1929April 16, 1973 ) was an internationally acclaimed Jewish Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who, throughout his brief but distinguished career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L ' Orchestre de le Suisse Romande.

The success of the show led to merchandising, franchising of the concept internationally, and a woman-oriented spin-off, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl.

With the changes taking place internationally in the Communist world, in particular in the Soviet Union, which had sheltered and led Mongolia ; Mongolia suffered severe economic hardships from as early as the 1980s.

This led to few internationally renowned artists entering the international arena from 1964-1994.

After great public outcry and journalistic investigation in Iran and publicity internationally, prosecutors announced in mid-1999 that one Saeed Emami had led " rogue elements " in Iran's intelligence ministry in the killings, but that Emami was now dead having committed suicide in prison.

A year later he proclaimed himself as Grand Marshal of the Republic of China, and thus led China's internationally recognized government.

Along with Irving Brown he led the activities of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an organization sponsored by the AFL which worked internationally, organizing free labor unions in Europe and Latin America which were not Communist-controlled.

The controversy led to an amendment to the 1985 Animal Welfare Act, became the first animal-rights case to be heard before the United States Supreme Court, and established PETA as an internationally known animal-rights group, with Newkirk as its outspoken president.

In early 2010, European officials, led by the French ecology minister, increased pressure to ban the commercial fishing of bluefin tuna internationally.

The growing popularity of the game internationally led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to IFAB in 1913.

He is internationally recognized for his proposal that eventually led to the founding of the International Criminal Court.

The SWP was then a member of the International Committee of the Fourth International ( IC ), which organized the orthodox Trotskyists internationally, including the British Socialist Labour League led by Gerry Healy.

Andrews ' experiments on fatigue and fracture at Wortley Top Forge led to the manufacture of railway axles of internationally reputed quality.

His policy of ' war on drug ' led to the non-judicial killing of thousands ' suspects ', inviting critics from human right groups domestically and internationally.

It was this meticulous work, showing the absence of phenotypic diversity between specific pathogens in this genus, that led to the development of pathovar nomenclature, applied internationally to plant pathogenic bacteria today.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

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These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

Steiner's continuing differences with Besant led him to separate from the Theosophical Society Adyar ; he was followed by the great majority of the membership of the Theosophical Society's German Section, as well as members of other national sections.

Such a thin chronology and little background knowledge has led to gross misinterpretations of his works, and thus further investigation must always be done to conclude with confidence that Aelbert Cuyp is the genuine source of such great paintings.

He questioned " the populist and parliamentary basis of the Reformation Church " and unsettled to a great extent " the consensual accommodation of Anglicanism " and this led to the Civil War and republican Commonwealth.

From the Augustaeum led a great street, the Mese ( Greek: Μέση lit.

The great oxidizing potential of chlorine led it to its bleaching and disinfectant uses, as well as uses of an essential reagent in the chemical industry.

His parents ordered that his " brain was not to be taxed too much " and Babbage felt that " this great idleness may have led to some of my childish reasonings.

The great success of Gozzi's fairy dramas so irritated Goldoni that it led to his self-exile to France.

The distinction between the " objective " nature of reality and the subjective nature of probability has led to a great deal of controversy.

It led to a great political struggle with many barons rising against Henry in open rebellion.

While Beaux stuck to her portraits of the elite, American art was advancing into urban and social subject matter, led by artists such as Robert Henri who espoused a totally different aesthetic, " Work with great speed .. Have your energies alert, up and active.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

In World War II rivals who had combat service in the first great war ( led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery ) sought to denigrate Eisenhower for his previous lack of combat duty, despite his stateside experience establishing a camp, completely equipped, for thousands of troops, and developing a full combat training schedule.

Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".

Humbert was a great lover of languages, and encouraged linguistic studies among the Dominicans, primarily Arabic, because of the missionary work friars were pursuing amongst those led astray or forced to convert by Mohammedans in the Middle East.

Later development led to steam locomotives and great expansion of railway transportation.

* 1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.

Decline in food production, growth of the population, and competition for resources among the great families all led to the gradual decline of Fujiwara power and gave rise to military disturbances in the mid-tenth and eleventh centuries.

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

Carlyle also felt that the study of great men was " profitable " to one's own heroic side ; that by examining the lives led by such heroes, one could not help but uncover something about one's true nature.

In an era characterized by almost endless warfare, he led his armies as king from 1611 ( at age 17 ) until his death in battle in 1632 while leading a charge — as Sweden rose from the status of a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill kingdom to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government.