By the end of the 19th century, Britain had established a clear lead in the development of bicycle manufacturing.
The project's proponents realised that only football (in particular, FA cup and England international matches) would make it pay, so football took the lead in the development.
It meant dumping Britain's world lead in the development of clean coal technology – compounded by the recent refusal of government backing for a clean coal power station to be built at Hatfield colliery.
The "surprising" answer led him to step back from his role as chief executive to devote more time to his water crusade, and taking a lead in the development of the Water Resources Group WRGG), which is seeking to bring governments, business and civil society together to find solutions.
The group's primary concern was the scale of the US government's investment in homeland security R&D, which meant that the US was "taking a lead" in the development of security "technologies and equipment which … could meet a number of Europe's needs", putting US multinationals in "a very strong competitive position".
Taking the lead in the development of the next generation of reactors is an international programme called the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), a collaboration between the governments of America, Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and Switzerland, plus Euratom, the EU's nuclear body.
NL and JS led in the development of the moderator's guide, assisted in leading the focus groups and edited the manuscript.
On the other hand, the Babylonians led in the development of such practical arts as irrigation.
Dr. Fred Brown, a virologist who studied foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and later led in the development of early vaccines and methods to test for the disease, died on Feb. 20 in his home in Guildford, England.
By the end of the 17th century, France led in the development of modern standing armies, largely because of a drill system devised by Louis XIV's inspector general of infantry, Jean Martinet, whose name became a synonym for drillmaster.
Our works demonstrate the importance of secoiridoid natural products as new leads in the development of potential antiviral inhibitors.
