Last year they ceded control of 96 schools to a charitable trust, marking the end of two centuries of the Brothers educating boys in Ireland.
Although the novel ends shortly before Barack Obama's first term begins, it is a literary response to the racial politics that emerged when the obvious became clear — that electing an African-American to the Presidency had not signalled the triumphant end of four centuries of systematic oppression.
Numerous experts have argued that the deepening global financial crisis has significantly damaged U.S. power, influence and credibility in the world and perhaps even signals the end of two centuries of U.S. and European dominance of international affairs.
The war also marked a watershed in the geo-political history of the region, as together with the Lombard migration the following year, it signalled the end of six centuries of Germanic dominance in the Pannonian Basin.
At the end of twenty century, two independent laboratories could identify and isolate human central nervous system stem cells using antibodies against CD133 [ 20, 21].
To them, the — irreversible — end of over three centuries of successful cultural, political and economic integration would be a backward step, not a progressive one.
Four decades after his birth, the Spanish Monarchs – Fernando II of Aragón and Isabel I of Castile – brought an end to seven centuries of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
Local people would like the reopened mine to put an end to two centuries of decay in the area.
For it was from the Alhambra's watchtower that Christian conquerors unfurled their flag in 1492, marking the end of almost eight centuries of Islamic rule in Spain.
In a different, democratic kind of confrontation, but in its way an equally vigorous one, the people of Scotland wisely voted not to end three centuries of union and stayed in the United Kingdom.
