With the demise of the Black Hand in June 1917 after the Salonika Trial, The White Hand steadily gained control of the young and ambitious Prince Alexander.

With its increasing rarity, specimens of the Great Auk and its eggs became collectible and highly prized by rich Europeans, and the loss of a large number of its eggs to collection contributed to the demise of the species.

With the advent of the Union and the demise of Jacobitism, access to London and the Empire opened up very attractive career opportunities for ambitious middle-class and upper-class Scots, who seized the chance to become entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and soldiers.

With the demise of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ( c. 1300 ), Anatolia was divided into a patchwork of independent states, the so-called Ghazi emirates.

With the eventual demise of the clan systems in Scotland, these hunting dogs became sporting animals for landowners and the nobility, but were also bred and hunted by common folk when feasible.

With the demise of London County as a first-class team, the number of Grace's appearances dwindled over the next four seasons until he called it a day in 1908.

With the demise of the Canada Games Company, Chutes and Ladders produced by Milton Bradley / Hasbro has been gaining in popularity.

With the demise of the Congressional nominating caucus in the election of 1824, the political system was left without an institutional method on the national level for determining Presidential nominations.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain, the demise of the notion of a Pax Sovietica, and the end of the Cold War, the U. S. maintained significant contingents of armed forces in Europe and East Asia.

With the demise of Grateful Dead and Phish, nomadic touring hippies attend a growing series of summer festivals, the largest of which is called the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which premiered in 2002.

With the demise of the Swing era and the decline of the great touring big bands, a major change in jazz music occurred.

With the demise of the Second French Empire, the Prince Imperial was exiled to the United Kingdom, where he first attended elementary lectures in physics at King's College London.

With the demise of Accrington, Stanley Villa took the town name to become Accrington Stanley.

With the demise of the UNZ in 1961, it became Massey College, part of Victoria University of Wellington ( VUW ).

With the demise of Acton Works this no longer applies, and the new 2009 tube stock has a wider profile and slightly longer carriages which preclude it running on other deep-level tube lines.

With the demise of the textile industry, many of the city's mills were occupied by smaller companies, some in the garment industry, traditionally based in the New York City area but attracted to New England by the lure of cheap factory space and an eager workforce in need of jobs.

With the advent of the automobile, and the demise of this branch of the railroad, East Acton became a largely residential area with a commercial base that is situated along the Route 2A corridor.

With the demise of the local railroad industry, Susquehanna now has many small resident-owned businesses scattered along Main Street.

With the demise of heavy industry prior to World War II, and the advent of the Interstate Freeway System in the 1950s, Murray became a major retail hub due to its central location.

With the demise of the Stuart dynasty in 1714, her descendants, the Hanoverian rulers, succeeded to the British throne.

With the demise of the Cyrix MII ( a renamed 6x86MX ) from the market in 1999, the PR system appeared to be dead, but AMD revived it in 2001 with the introduction of its Athlon XP line of processors.

With the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Aeroflot began to suffer which was a big loss to the airport.

With the temporary demise in the late 1980s of El Mundo, El Vocero became even more popular, becoming the country's second largest newspaper.

With the demise of OpenDoc, the simulations were rewritten as Java applets and are still available from the Center under the title of " The Constructing Physics Understanding ( CPU ) Project " by Dr. Fred Goldberg.

With the demise of the Soviet Union, control of Laos by Vietnam waned at the end of the 1980s.

With the construction of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway through the county in 1880, the town moved to the railroad.

With the exception of Texas and Oklahoma ( offset in blue ) -- which are counted as part of the Southern United States | South -- the Southwestern states are also classified as Western United States | West by the U. S. Census Bureau.

With assistance from He Long, Liu and Deng launched new campaigns to liberate vast areas in Southwestern China, by using long distance bypass and siege strategies.

With the completion of the merger in 1970, the Cleveland Browns were moved to the AFL-based American Football Conference and placed in the AFC Central, the same division as the Bengals.

Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.

With the dissolution of the League of Nations after World War II, it was stipulated at the Yalta Conference that the remaining Mandates should be placed under the trusteeship of the United Nations, subject to future discussions and formal agreements.

With the war against Spain ( 1859 – 1860 ) came direct involvement in European affairs — although the independence of Morocco was guaranteed in the Conference of Madrid ( 1880 ), the French gained ever greater influence.

With the formation of the United Nations ( UN ) and, later, such organizations as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( now Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ), territorial integrity became a part of international resolutions.

With the policies of legal racism delineated by the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and their consequences, the continued deportation of Jews, the prospect of ' ethnic cleansing ' of Europe and the existing sterilization laws extending to actual murder in 1939, the Wannsee Conference in 1942 can be seen to be simply as a means to codify murder in order to expedite existing policy.

With a set starting rotation of Battie, Howard, Türkoğlu, DeShawn Stevenson, and Nelson, the Magic mounted a surprising run at the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, including an 8-game winning streak and twelve consecutive home wins.

With the 3rd seed in the Eastern Conference, they were matched up in their first round playoff series against the Toronto Raptors.

With them, the 76ers began an exciting ride for the fans of Philadelphia, beating their long-time rival from Boston in a seven-game playoff to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

With Paxson and Jordan in the backcourt, Brad Sellers and Oakley at the forward spots, Corzine anchoring center, and rookies Pippen and Grant coming off the bench, the Bulls made major noise in the 1987 – 88 season, winning 50 games and advancing to the Eastern Conference Semifinals, where they were beaten by the eventual Eastern Conference Champions Detroit Pistons in five games.

With these additional players and the previous year's starting five, the Bulls again made it to the Conference Finals, and pushed the Pistons to seven games before being edged out for the third straight year, who would go on to repeat as NBA champions.

With a new owner in Mark Cuban and head coach Don Nelson leading the crew, they returned to the playoffs in 2001, eventually returning to the Conference Finals in 2003.

With the later additions of center Nazr Mohammed from New York ( acquired in a midseason trade of Malik Rose ), and veteran forward Glenn Robinson from free agency, alongside regulars Bruce Bowen, Robert Horry, Tony Parker, Manu Ginóbili, and Tim Duncan, the Spurs would be near the top in the Western Conference all season, battling the Phoenix Suns for the best record in the NBA.

With that streak, the Spurs began climbing back up in the Western Conference standings.

With 21 games remaining and sitting 4 points out of 8th in the Western Conference, the Blue Jackets dealt long time defenseman Rostislav Klesla and Dane Byers to the Phoenix Coyotes for Scottie Upshall and Sami Lepistö at the trade deadline ( February 28, 2011 ).

With the addition of Newfoundland to the Conference, the other three Maritime colonies did not wish to see the strength of their provinces in the upper chamber diluted by simply adding Newfoundland to the Atlantic category.

With the completion of the Conference Center, a larger auditorium directly adjacent to Temple Square, the choir now has two halls available for performance.

With Duncan being healthy for 78 games and posting typical 20 / 10 numbers, San Antonio concluded the 2007 – 08 regular season with a 56 – 26 record, finishing behind the Lakers and New Orleans Hornets in the Western Conference and setting up themselves for a first-round contest against the Suns.

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With a dominant post presence, the hungry Sun controlled the Eastern Conference, posting a 26 – 8 record, the best regular season record for an Eastern Conference team in WNBA history.