The dissemination of imperial law to the provinces was facilitated under Diocletian's reign, because Diocletian's reform of the Empire's provincial structure meant that there were now a greater number of governors ( praesides ) ruling over smaller regions and smaller populations.

Environmental changes resulting from modernization — such as more intellectually demanding work, greater use of technology and smaller families — have meant that a much larger proportion of people are more accustomed to manipulating abstract concepts such as hypotheses and categories than a century ago.

Despite the arguably greater architectural inventiveness of Borromini and Cortona, Bernini's artistic pre-eminence, particularly during the reigns of popes Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ) and Alexander VII ( 1655 – 1665 ), meant he was able to secure the most important commission in the Rome of his day, St. Peter's Basilica.

And in human terms it meant death and suffering proportionally even greater than in the Ukraine

The works include Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini's Calvarys, which reflect realism and detail " meant to depict the significant events of a greater spiritual world ".

From the 1940s to the late 1970s, much programming was done in assembly language ; higher level instructions meant greater programmer productivity, so an important advantage of microcode was the relative ease by which powerful machine instructions could be defined.

Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.

Historically, development and aid have not accomplished the goals they were meant to and currently the global gap between the rich and poor is greater than ever.

The transfer to film meant that episodes would be shot using the single camera setup, giving the production greater flexibility.

Eventually, this meant that many Abbasid caliphs were relegated to a more ceremonial role than under the Umayyads, as the viziers began to exert greater influence, and the role of the old Arab aristocracy was slowly replaced by a Persian bureaucracy.

* The establishment of the Bank of England, at a time when the Dutch were fighting against the French on Dutch soil, meant that money could be borrowed from London at lower interest rates, and at greater reliability and protection.

This meant that under the centrally coordinated economic plan, a greater degree of local decision-making would be possible.

When food was shared between islets, the distance the sharer was required to travel correlated with the relatedness of the recipient — a greater distance meant that the recipient needed to be a closer relative.

Cobden and the rest of the Anti-Corn Law League believed in the view that cheap food meant greater real wages and Cobden praised a speech by a working man who said:

Throughout the entire PC industry, declines in prices along with commensurate increases in performance meant that Dell had fewer opportunities to upsell to their customers ( a lucruative strategy of encouraging buyers to upgrade processor or memory ), and as a result the company was selling a greater proportion of inexpensive PCs than before which eroded profit margins.

The greater availability of telephones in private residences, the improvement of roads and the introduction of highways, and the increase of personal cars for commuting to surrounding towns, all meant that individuals had less need to restrict themselves to close-by conveniences.

This may have been a modest increase in terms of clock rate, but the greater bus width, coupled with a dedicated bus controller that utilized burst mode transfers, meant that effective throughput was up to five times faster than ISA.

The book has done, perhaps in a greater degree than any previous book, what the Club is meant to do-it has provoked thought, and discussion of the keenest kind.

Directors had a great desire to make longer films because it meant greater artistic innovation as they tried to find new ways to engage audiences.

Loss aversion may be explained as being rational when living at subsistence level where a reduction of resources may have meant death and it thus may have been rational to place a greater value on losses than on gains.

The greater fuel efficiency of their engines meant that they were most attractive in areas where fuel was expensive, particularly Cornwall, for which three engines were ordered in 1777, for the Wheal Busy, Ting Tang, and Chacewater mines.

It is an art centered greatly on expressing the seasons, and is meant to act as a symbol to something greater than the flower itself.

Thus, when living at subsistence level where a reduction of resources may have meant death it may have been rational to place a greater value on losses than on gains.

Overall, the relative lack of Roman influence on Ireland meant that it preserved its ancient culture to a much greater degree than continental countries such as Gaul.

A surplus of £ 25 million over costs meant that the full lottery grant was not required.

Additionally, land deemed to be " surplus " beyond what was needed for allotment was opened to white settlers, though the profits from the sales of these lands were often invested in programs meant to aid the American Indians.

The changes within ITV in the 1968 franchise round meant a surplus of studio facilities in London.

Oligopoly meant there was a tendency for the rate of surplus to rise, but this surplus did not necessarily register in statistical records as profits.

The conversion to single-man operation meant that about half of the company's workforce was suddenly surplus.

In the same year a recession occurred in the Earl of Dudley ironworks in Worcestershire, this meant there was a surplus of workers.

The independents moreover thought that BEA Airtours was meant to take on the corporations ' excess staff as well as to absorb aircraft that were surplus to their requirements.

The end of the war meant a surplus of ex-army lorries which took away the agricultural business, the main source of income for the line.

This meant that the " Clacton Express " units were surplus to requirements.

A succession of managerial changes, however, meant he was considered surplus to requirements at the Walkers Stadium.

( Note: in the beginning of the Russian Civil War the small Volunteer Army had a surplus of officers, which meant that many of them had to serve as common soldiers.

This smaller market in New France meant that habitants had little surplus wealth.

The shortage of consumer goods right after the war meant that some of their early stock was manufactured on-site from war surplus.

Interest of $ 118. 3 billion meant that the Social Security Trust Fund overall increased by $ 121. 7 billion ( i. e., the cash surplus plus interest ).

This was, according to Marx, the " revolutionary " aspect of the capitalist mode of production, and it meant a very large increase in the surplus product created by human labour.

Large stocks of post-war military surplus coats available at reasonable prices to the general public meant that these coats became a ubiquitous and popular item of clothing in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the late 1970s, with the impending ban by the FCC of the sale of older 23-channel CB equipment that did not meet more stringent restrictions on newer, 40-channel units, meant that a surplus of 23-channel CB gear was on the market.

Both because the communities were small, and because the CPU-power surplus meant that the effect and its possible usefulness as a way to cheat were less well known.