Until the advent of rational empiricism the controlling habits of the western mind were symbolic and allegoric.

Until the advent of the NICAM and MTS systems, television sound transmissions were invariably monophonic.

Until the advent of artillery and aircraft, battles were fought with the two sides within sight, if not reach, of each other.

Until the advent of digital catalogues, card catalogue s were the traditional method of organizing the list of resources and their location within a large library

Until the advent of the Trans-Am series in 1967, NASCAR homologation cars were the closest thing that the public could buy that was actually very similar to the cars that were winning the national races.

Until the advent of programmable logic, discrete bipolar logic was used to prototype and emulate microarchitectures under development.

Until the advent of light weight modern sailcloth and modern sail handling systems, the larger sails of a sloop were somewhat of a disadvantage.

Until the advent of vinyl around the 1940s, most gramophone records were pressed from shellac compounds.

Until the advent of OS X v10. 4, the standard UNIX command line utilities in OS X ( such as and ) did not respect resource forks.

Until the advent of the railroad in 1848, Darien remained a small, rural community of about 1, 000.

Until the recent advent of non-invasive medical techniques, brain surgery was the preferred way for language researchers to discover how language works in the brain.

Until the advent of the Supremes, the sisters were the most imitated of all female singing groups and influenced many artists, including Mel Tormé, Les Paul and Mary Ford, The Four Freshmen, The McGuire Sisters, The Manhattan Dolls, The Lennon Sisters, The Pointer Sisters, The Manhattan Transfer, The Puppini Sisters, Barry Manilow, and Bette Midler who scored her first # 1 hit with her 1973 remake of " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy ".

Until the early 1990s, advertising on television had only been affordable for large companies willing to make a significant investment, but the advent of desktop video allowed many small and local businesses to produce television ads for airing on local cable TV services.

Until the advent of computer-based random access non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) in the early 1990s " linear video editing " was simply called " video editing ".

Until the advent of genetic techniques like DNA sequencing, comparative anatomy together with embryology were the primary tools for understanding phylogeny, as exemplified by the work of Alfred Romer.

Until the advent of iron, bronze was the most advanced metal for tools and weapons in common use ( see Bronze Age for more detail ).

' Until its advent, one might waver emotionally or doubt intellectually or even reject the cause altogether in one's mind, and yet refuse to attack it.

Until the advent of more modern fiction, pixie mythology was localized to Britain.

Until the advent of quantum mechanics, the only well known example of gauge symmetry was in electromagnetism, and the general significance of the concept was not fully understood.

Until the advent of the automobile, factory workers lived either close to the factory or in high density communities farther away, connected to the factory by streetcar or rail.

Until the advent of inexpensive audio tape recorders, the sharing of copyrighted recordings was very difficult and expensive.

Until the advent of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government, the precursor to the Scotland Office, the Scottish Office, was a major UK government department dealing with most aspects of the domestic governance of Scotland, a position known as " administrative devolution ".

Until the advent of commercial recording technology, Inuit music was usually used in spiritual ceremonies to ask the spirits ( see Inuit mythology ) for good luck in hunting or gambling, as well as simple lullabies.

Until the advent of computer controlled drive mechanisms, the standard solution was some form of equatorial mount, and for small telescopes this is still the norm.

Until the Orioles ' move to Camden Yards in 1991, a flag labeled " HERE " was flown at the spot where the ball left the stadium.

Until the introduction of the roundarm style in the first half of the 19th century, bowling was performed in the same way as in bowls, the ball being delivered with the hand below the waist.

Until 1963, a no ball was called when the bowler's back foot landed over the bowling crease ( which is why the bowling crease was so called ).

Until the rules of cricket were formalised in the 19th century, the game usually had lower stumps, the ball was bowled underarm ( a style of bowling which has since fallen out of common practice and is now in most cases illegal ), and batsmen did not wear protective pads.

Until that point, Bure had only played hockey on the streets with a ball.

Richard Lindon ( seen in 1880 ) is believed to have invented the first footballs with rubber bladders. Until the late 1860s rugby was played with a leather ball with an inner-bladder made of a pig's bladder.

Until he touches the wall, he is " open " to be " pegged " ( i. e. struck hard with a thrown ball ) by the player who caught it.

Until one night, under the light of a bright full moon, the snake was seen playing the trabungko, a brightly illuminating crystal ball.

Until now, Lilac Gaylor and Lila Kingsley had been like an anagram which he could unscramble at his own pace and choosing.

Until we translate this gospel into a language that enlightened men today can understand, we are depriving ourselves of the very resources on which the continued success of our witness most certainly depends.

" Until this time IP address registration in the ARIN region was done by a department within the Network Solutions corporation, which provided the initial staff and computer infrastructure for ARIN.

Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.

Until recent years the Air Force suffered somewhat from fuel shortages ; a problem which was overcome in 2008.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

Until 2007, Gate House held secretive first-year initiation ceremonies called Traditionals, which involved writing slogans on campus buildings in chalk, singing songs to the all-women's residence ( who would then sing back to them ), and leading first-years around the house blindfolded.

Until at least September 2005, the United States funded efforts to help protect a major pipeline, the 769-kilometer-long Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, which carries about 20 percent of Colombia's oil production to Puerto Coveñas from the guerrilla-infested Arauca region in the eastern Andean foothills and Amazonian jungle.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

Until then, the Brewers had a rivalry with the White Sox, which had become known as The I-94 Series, as both teams are just a short drive from Interstate 94.

Until the formation of a national council in 1961, supporters and local groups had no formal voice in the national organisation, which until then had been led by the self-appointed executive committee.

Until that day, the package was distributed as license-free software, which prevented the distribution of modified versions of djbdns which was in conflict with the principles of Open source software which made the inclusion in many Linux distributions infeasible if not impossible.

Until high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing and tools.

Until recently, many researchers believed phocids evolved separately from otariids and odobenids from otter-like animals, such as Potamotherium, which inhabited European freshwater lakes.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

Until Easter 2010 the site had a visitor centre inside which the Connected Earth gallery told the history of satellite communications.

Until the late 1970s, it was common for hearses in the USA to be combination coaches which also could serve in the ambulance role ; these were common in rural areas.

Until 1963 when the line was closed, Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the Hayling Billy line from Havant station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt.

Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.