With the start of the Western incursion into China in the 1840s, the rich and mercantile south Jiangsu was increasingly exposed to Western influence ; Shanghai, originally an unremarkable little town of Jiangsu, quickly developed into a metropolis of trade, banking, and cosmopolitanism, and was split out later as an independent municipality.

With support declining, the Nova Scotia Rugby Union, which governed the sport in Nova Scotia and the Maritimes, decided to adopt the rugby league code in hopes of saving rugby from the incursion of Canadian football.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

With no place for his team to play, Rhodes ' effort came to nothing.

With a team of contributors Bubbles and Wills art-directed Oz magazine issue 12, dubbed The Tax Dodge Special and published in May 1968.

With Brown at the helm, the team won all four of the AAFC's championships from 1946 until its dissolution in 1949, amassing a record of 52 wins, four losses and three ties.

With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks.

With Lajoie engaged in a feud with manager Joe Birmingham, the team sold Lajoie back to the A's.

With most of his money tied up in the Indians, Veeck was forced to sell the team to a syndicate headed by insurance magnate Ellis Ryan.

With strong defense – Dernier CF and Sandberg 2B, won the NL Gold Glove-solid pitching and clutch hitting, the Cubs were a well balanced team.

With his shots in the 9th and 10th innings Wrigley Field erupted and Sandberg set the stage for a comeback win that cemented the Cubs as the team to beat in the East.

With those two deals, Larry Walker remained as the only player of the Blake Street Bombers still with the team.

With a new ballpark and increased revenue stream, the team showed rare interest in the top free agents on the market which included slugger Albert Pujols, pitchers C. J. Wilson and Ryan Madson.

With a multi-million-dollar program finally on the very brink of success, Ford team officials faced a difficult choice.

With McLaren fit again, Banks was sent back to the reserves but, after the first team conceded 14 goals in the next 5 games, he was recalled and became the first-choice goalie for the remainder of the season.

With the release of new version of the GTK + widget toolkit, which was used to construct the user interface of Galeon, the team decided to write a new version of Galeon from scratch.

With Dr. McMullen as sole owner of the Astros, the team would now benefit in ways a corporation could not give them.

With most of the original team, he quits the X-Men.

With this new team, he encounters Apocalypse for the first time.

With Dean MartinLewis initially gained fame with singer Dean Martin, who served as straight man to Lewis's zany antics in the Martin and Lewis comedy team.

With the rebranding, the team follows a recent tradition in MLS of adopting European-style names.

With the opening of the new Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, Sporting Kansas City became the first major-league team to have played in stadiums on both sides of the state line in Kansas City, and may continue to use Arrowhead Stadium for special-occasion games, such as those against well-known international teams.

With a solid pitching rotation, which was now ranked among the best in the league, the team traded for 1988 All-Star first baseman Gerald Perry and signed yet another free agent with veteran right-hander Richard Dotson.

With a new management team in place, Lycos also began divesting properties that were not core to its new strategy.

Ferrigno was Team Unanimous ' project manager for the task depicted in the fifth episode, " I'm Going to Mop the Floor With You ", which was to create a viral video to promote O-Cedar's ProMist Spray Mop, placing him in competition with actress Tia Carrere, the project manager of the women's team, Forte.

With a view to making the best use of communication facilities for information, publicity and development, the Government of India in 1962-63 sought the advice of the Ford Foundation / UNESCO team of internationally known mass communication specialists who recommended the setting up of a national institute for training, teaching and research in mass communication.

With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.

With the increase of wealth and power, abbots had lost much of their special religious character, and become great lords, chiefly distinguished from lay lords by celibacy.

With the Mediterranean undefended, a Russian fleet entered the Ionian Sea, while Austrian armies recaptured much of the Italian territory lost to Bonaparte in the previous war.

With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continue to assert their right to the imperial title.

With the disintegration of the communist economic alliance in 1991, Czech manufacturers lost their traditional markets among former communist countries to the east.

With over 200, 000 Chinese casualties, Chiang lost the political cream of his Whampoa-trained officers.

With succeeding generations of tumor cells, differentiation is typically lost, growth becomes less regulated, and tumors become less responsive to most chemotherapeutic agents.

With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage.

With this enzyme, Enviropig is able to digest cereal grain phosphorus, so there is then no need to supplement the pigs ' diet with either phosphate minerals or commercially produced phytase, and less phosphorus is lost in the manure.

With Gaius's support from the people weakened, the consul Lucius Opimius was able to crush the Gracchan movement by force – Gaius lost his life and about 3000 of his supporters died in the fighting or in emergency execution shortly afterwards.

With the failure of his brother Mago Barca in Liguria ( 205 – 203 BC ) and of his own negotiations with Philip V of Macedon, the last hope of recovering his ascendancy in Italy was lost.

With the invasion of Southern Italy, the Allies restored the authority of the mafia families lost during the Fascist period and used their influence to maintain public order.

With the island gone, the Crusaders lost their last foothold in the Holy Land.

Holly George-Warren, editor and author of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, argues: " With the death of Keith Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer.

With time winding down the Saints threw backward passes and brought the ball down the length of the field for a touchdown, but kicker John Carney missed the extra point, which would have tied the game, so the Saints lost by one point, 20 – 19.

With the Union of Lublin Lithuanian Grand Duchy lost large part of lands to the Polish Crown ( see demographics of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ).

With the development of archaeology and the application of modern techniques, many previously lost cities have been rediscovered.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, North Korea lost a major trading partner and strategic ally.

With this action, Asunción lost control of the Río de la Plata estuary and became dependent on Buenos Aires for maritime shipping.

With the death of Prince Albert in 1861, the scheme lost its driving force.

With an empty exchequer and a clergy that had largely lost the savour of righteousness, Gregory VI was confronted by an almost hopeless task.

With his death in 1825, the recipe for the piña colada was lost.

With the 1940 election looming, Menzies lost his Chief of the General Staff and three loyal ministers in a Royal Australian Airforce crash at Canberra airport.

With Henry II's rebellion put down, beginning in 985, Theophanu would launch multiple military campaigns to re-conquer the lost eastern territories.