Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, for example, Carnegie allowed his steel works to fill large orders of armor plate for the building of an enlarged and modernized United States Navy ; while he opposed American oversea expansion.

Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.

Throughout the world there are many organizations and institutions dedicated to the area of computer and electronic music study and research, including the ICMA ( International Computer Music Association ), IRCAM, GRAME, SEAMUS ( Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States ), CEC ( Canadian Electroacoustic Community ), and a great number of institutions of higher learning around the world.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Day promoted the annual Spay Day USA, and on a number of occasions, actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal rights.

Throughout the world the flag has been used in public discourse to refer to the United States, not only as a nation, state, government, and set of policies, but also as a set of ideals.

Throughout the history of the United Nations General Assembly, it is claimed by some there has always been an " automatic majority " against Israel.

Throughout the 1980s, the Afghan military was heavily involved in fighting against the multi-national Mujahiddin rebel groups who were largely funded by the United States and trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces.

Throughout the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister outranks all other dignitaries except members of the Royal Family, the Lord Chancellor, and senior ecclesiastical figures.

Throughout the series, they are generally depicted as antagonists, who are always at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of Planets, the show's galactic organization of which Earth is a member.

Throughout the 1980s, Somalia received economic aid from conservative, wealthy oil-exporting states of Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Throughout its seven seasons and a total of 144 episodes, Buffy, and by extension Gellar, became cult icons in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia.

Throughout the cold war, the United States created, supported, and sponsored regimes with various success that served their economic and political interests, among them anti-communism.

" Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States Communist groups, though he was seemingly not a member of any.

Throughout the 1930s, support for the concept grew in the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations.

Throughout the existence of the IUOTO, close ties had been established between the organization and the United Nations ( UN ) and initial suggestions had the IUOTO becoming part of the UN.

Throughout the 1980s, the Bank donated funds to the World Food Programme, a branch of the United Nations which presently provides food aid to countries facing humanitarian crises.

Throughout the 1960s tensions began to show with France seeking to limit supranational power and rejecting the membership of the United Kingdom.

Throughout continental Europe, cultured butter is preferred, while sweet cream butter dominates in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Throughout the war, the King and Queen provided morale-boosting visits throughout the United Kingdom, visiting bomb sites and munitions factories, and in the King's case visiting military forces abroad.

Throughout the history of the United States, inflation has approached zero and dipped below for short periods of time ( negative inflation is deflation ).

Throughout the first quarter of the 19th century, the United States Navy repeatedly engaged pirates in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean.

Throughout the decade between censuses, the bureau is conducts surveys to produce a general view and comprehensive study of the United States ' social and economic conditions.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the institutions of Catalan autonomy continued to develop, among them an autonomous police force, the creation of the comarcal administrations ( roughly equivalent to United States " counties " or United Kingdom " shires " or " counties ", but distinct from the historical Catalan counties ) and a supreme court in the form of the Tribunal Superior de Justícia de Catalunya.

Throughout the better part of its existence, the Fourth International was hounded by agents of the Soviet secret police, repressed by capitalist countries such as France and the United States and rejected by followers of the Soviet Union and later Maoism as illegitimate a position these communists still hold today.

The statistic was given that “ 50 percent of the mothers with deformed children had taken thalidomide during the first trimester of pregnancy .” Throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States, 10, 000 cases were reported of infants with phocomelia ; only 50 % of the 10, 000 survived.

Throughout most of the East Coast of the United States, E-ZPass ( operated under the brands I-Pass in Illinois, i-Zoom in Indiana, and Fast Lane in Massachusetts ) is accepted on almost all toll roads.

Throughout the years the band has been established, they have had little radio or television exposure, although a cult following began to build behind the group with the release of albums such as 1991's Butchered at Birth and 1992's Tomb of the Mutilated which both reached over one million in worldwide sales by 2003, including 558, 929 in the United States, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time in the US.

Throughout the 1990s, Coe had a successful career as a concert performer in the United States and Europe.

Throughout the history of the modern Olympic Games, the theme of the United States as a melting pot has been employed to explain American athletic success, becoming an important aspect of national self-image.

Throughout its more recent history, St Andrews has maintained strong links with leading academic institutions in the United Kingdom including the Oxbridge and also the top research schools from United States and Canada, including McGill, Harvard, MIT and Princeton to name a few.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Oaks was considered by Republican U. S. presidential administrations a top prospect for appointment to the United States Supreme Court.

Throughout the 1970s, Reitsch broke gliding records in many categories, including the " Women's Out and Return World Record " twice, once in 1976 () and again in 1979 () flying along the Appalachian Ridges in the United States.

Throughout the 1980s with the U. S. supported Contra War ( or Contra-revolutionary war ) which continued up until 1988, and the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries.

Throughout the Civil War, the Confederacy maintained a network of underground operators in southern Maryland, particularly Charles and St. Mary's counties, smuggling recruits across the Potomac River into Virginia and relaying messages for Confederate agents as far north as Canada.

Throughout the Middle Ages, and for some even until today, the lands of Lothair ( i. e., Old Lorraine ) were made up of self-governing republics of farmers, independent counties controlled by burghers, or city republics.

Throughout its history the boundaries of Blount County have been altered numerous times, most notably in 1870 when a large swath of western Blount was split into Loudon and portions of other counties.

Throughout most of the Han Dynasty the commandery's eighteen counties covered most of the modern province of Jiangxi.

Throughout its history, the East Texas Musical Convention has convened annually in six East Texas counties: Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Smith and Upshur.

Throughout the United States, almost all cities and counties with populations in excess of 20, 000 divide the jurisdiction into electoral districts ( in cities, often called " wards ") to ensure proportionate representation of the whole community and to evenly distribute the community interaction workload among the members of the governing body ( city council, county board of supervisors, etc .).

Throughout most of New Brunswick's early history redistribution was a result of the addition of new counties, upon which the districts were based, which expanded from seven in 1785 to fifteen in 1874.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the CA through the pages on the Irish Democrat, influenced those trade unionists in Belfast who first proposed the idea of establishing a civil rights movement to expose unionism in the six counties.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s the Connecticut Department of Transportation developed a comprehensive plan to improve the Turnpike through Fairfield and New Haven counties.