Named for the tomb of the marabout (saint) Sīdī Bel ʿAbbāss, it was established as a French military outpost in 1843 and became a planned agricultural town in 1849.
Although the village had grown to become a borough, with new, planned streets spreading westwards away from the castle, it was eclipsed economically by the nearby, newer centre of Banbury.
Indeed, the first electronic trading-system to apply to become an exchange was a planned options exchange to be called the ISE.
He was joined by two more centrist voices: Seymour Reich, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who said the planned speech had become "a circus".
But it's a little bit like when I first got into music; it was never a planned ambition of mine to become a musician.
Prince Charles has become a patron of the year-long festival planned to mark centenary in 2014 of the birth of the poet Dylan Thomas.
It is this careful mainstreaming of Islamophobia that has allowed a small time, extremist Florida pastor's planned Koran-burning to become a national event with international implications.
As we are now tragically witnessing in Iraq, U.S. intervention has often been used as a band-aid for complex situations that require long-term, multifaceted engagement in countries, and well-timed and planned withdrawals have clearly become a rare exception rather than the rule.
Last year a planned march was cancelled partly due to concerns it might become a focus for racial tension.
With the company's planned acquisition of InVision Technologies, GE now aims to become a major player in safeguarding those methods of transportation.
The planned route of the fence, which Israel insists will not become a border, already incorporates a significant amount of the West Bank.
