Sentence examples for it retained until from inspiring English sources

But it was Peter who gave it the full-fledged "modern" form it retained until the middle of the 19th century.

At the end of the eighteenth century, the Dutch, in turn, gave way to the British East India Company; the British captured Colombo in 1795, and in 1802 Ceylon became a Crown Colony — a status it retained until 1948, when it became fully independent.

In the long-term, the organisation's purpose has changed radically – it was founded as the "British Board of Film Censors" rather than "Certification", a name it retained until 1984, and was once just as likely to censor a movie for a dangerous idea as a violent act.

Largely rebuilt in 1198 by Pisan colonists, who called it Terranova Pausania (a name it retained until 1939), it was an important centre of the medieval giudicato (judiciary circuit, a territorial division) of Gallura, the capital of which, Tempio Pausania, lies inland.

Commenting on it became an academic requirement for the master of theology in the 13th century, a status it retained until the later 15th century, with new commentaries still appearing in the 18th (Silano 2007, xxx).

Wilkes, however, renamed the paper to Porter's Spirit of the Times, a title it retained until 1859.

In elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1982, Sinn Féin won 10 percent of the vote, a level of support it largely retained until it won 16 percent in the 1997 general elections.

After the Spanish Civil War, General Francisco Franco restored it as the state religion, and it retained that status until the proclamation of the constitution of 1978.

In 1154 this see was put under the archbishop of Trondheim, in Norway, and it retained this status until 1266, when the Hebrides were ceded to Scotland.

It retained this status until the rule of Trebonianus Gallus in 251 CE.

Following the intentional deorbiting of Mir on 23 March 2001, the ISS became the only space station in orbit around Earth; it retained this distinction until the launch of Tiangong-1 on 29 September 2011.