Under Arab rule Mesopotamia as a whole underwent a process of Arabisation and Islamification, and the region saw a large influx of non indigenous Arabs, Kurds, and later Turkic peoples.

Under the Umayyads, the Arabs annexed North Africa and southern Italy from the Romans and the Arab Empire soon stretched from parts of the Indian subcontinent, across Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and southern Italy, to the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees.

Under the Arab Abbasid Caliphate, the eighth and ninth centuries were a golden age of learning and culture in Mawarannahr.

Under Abdullah's leadership, Arab hopes of independence were dealt a severe blow.

Under his leadership, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal Company and came to play a central role in anti-imperialist efforts in the Arab World and Africa.

Under the terms of the deal struck with " patriotic " members of the Italian military intelligence agency SISMI ( Carlos ' words ), several Italian servicemen and members of a Palestinian resistance group would escort the prisoners to an Arab country.

Under mayor al-Haj, between 1920 and 1927, the city council had six Arab and two Jewish representatives, with the city run as a mixed municipality with overall Arab control.

Under his leadership, Israel responded aggressively to Arab guerrilla attacks, and in 1956, invaded Egypt along with British and French forces after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.

Under the terms of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the British and French had agreed to an independent Arab state, or confederation of states, and consultations with the sharif of Mecca.

Under Hajjaj, Arab armies put down the revolt of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash ' ath in Iraq from 699 to 701, and also took most of Turkestan.

Under the presidency of Gamal Nasser, Egyptian transmitters covered the Arab world ; Israel's service, Kol Yisrael, served both to present the Israeli point of view to the world and to serve the Jewish diaspora, particularly behind the Iron Curtain.

Under Kamal Jumblatt's leadership, the PSP was a major element in the Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ) which supported Lebanon's Arab identity and sympathised with the Palestinians.

Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire Najaf experienced severe difficulties as the result of repeated raids by Arab desert tribes and Persian army and acute water shortages caused by the lack of a reliable water supply.

Under these circumstances, the Mandatory government was looking for an intermediary who might help persuade the Arab Higher Committee to end the rebellion.

Under Husseini's direction, teams of Arab saboteurs were parachuted into Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine, where they attacked Allied facilities such as telephone lines, pipelines, bridges and railways.

* Under One Sky: Arab Women in North America Talk About the Hijab.

" Under Mamluk rule, in 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi describes az-Zeeb as a large village on the coast whose name was also pronounced " az-Zaib ".

Under the Byzantine Empire it was a bishopric seat, housing the much venerated Church of Nazareth, and remained predominantly Christian under Arab rule.

Under Arab and Ottoman rule the city became an important trade center.

Under Arab rule, Muslims treated the exilarch with great pomp and circumstance.

Under this title the book became famous in the English-speaking world.

Under his supervision, the British Museum Library ( now the British Library ) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

Under the NDC, Ghana remains committed to the principle of nonalignment in world politics.

Under Bismarck, Germany was a world innovator in building the welfare state.

Under this system, a world which should be approached with caution is denoted an ' Amber Zone ,' and a world that should not be approached at all is denoted a ' Red Zone.

In Britain, the Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck as their guitarist, increasingly moved into psychedelic territory, adding up-tempo improvised " rave ups ", Gregorian chant and world music ( in particular Indian ) influences to their songs, including " Still I'm Sad " ( 1965 ) and " Over Under Sideways Down " ( 1966 ), and singles such as " Heart Full of Soul " ( 1965 ), " Shapes of Things " ( 1966 ) and " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " ( 1966 ).

Under the direction of anthropologist Margaret Mead, the Parapsychological Association took a large step in advancing the field of parapsychology in 1969 when it became affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), the largest general scientific society in the world.

Under his guidance, Paris became the first city of teachers the medieval world had known.

Under Peter the Great, Russia was proclaimed an Empire in 1721 and became recognized as a world power.

Under John Tzimiskes Syria was completely overrun ; Damascus itself, the former capital of the Islamic world, was captured, although only for a brief period.

; Under the Pink Tour: Amos's second world tour began on February 24, 1994 in Newcastle upon Tyne and ended on December 13, 1994 in Perth, Western Australia.

Under the rule of Yongle Emperor, who built the Forbidden City and commanded Zhenghe to explore the world overseas, Ming Dynasty's territory reached pinnacle.

Under third edition rules, unless a Dungeon Master specifically chose to use a different campaign setting, his or her D & D game would be set in the world of Greyhawk.

Under Japanese control Manchuria was one of the most brutally run regions in the world, with a systematic campaign of terror and intimidation against the local Russian and Chinese populations including arrests, organised riots and other forms of subjugation.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

Under the Act, the federal government purchased millions of ounces of silver, with issues of paper currency ; it became the second-largest buyer in the world, after the British Crown in India.

Under total utility maximization we should prefer B to A, and through a regressive process of population increases and happiness decreases ( in each pair of cases the happiness decrease is more than outweighed by the population increase ) we are forced to prefer Z, a world of hundreds of billion people all living lives barely worth living, to A.

Under the terms of the digital rights license agreement, the Press delivers academic and scholarly books from all of its regional publishing centres around the world to Bookshare for conversion into accessible formats.

Under the patronage of Tsar Alexander I, Count Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev and the Russian-American Company, Krusenstern led the first Russian circumnavigation of the world.

Under Mao's direction, China would also go on to build its first atomic bomb in 1964, becoming the 5th country in the world at the time to have successfully conducted a nuclear test.

Under the heading " Adam " the author of the lexicon ( which a prefatory note states to be " by Suidas ") gives a brief chronology of the world, ending with the death of the emperor John I Tzimiskes ( 975 ), and under Constantinople his successors Basil II ( 976-1025 ) and Constantine VIII ( 1025 – 1028 ) are mentioned.

Ranked 47th globally by QS World University Rankings in 2012, a jump of 11 places from its 2011 ranking, NTU is the fastest-rising university in the QS global top 50, and 4th in the world among young elite universities, according to QS Top 50 Under 50.

In 2012, the university was ranked 4th in the world among universities below the age of 50 in the QS Top 50 Under 50 ranking.