In Addis Ababa he discovered an upsurge of activity in the world of the arts and entertainment, and a booming night-life scene that offered plenty of scope for experiment.
Last year, on official figures, state-controlled firms accounted for 28.4% of output by larger industrial enterprises.Examples often cited of "a new heyday" for the state include an upsurge of activity by state firms in the property market.
Such effects are important when one considers the integrated unsteady forces on a structure, especially in the context of vortex-induced vibrations, which itself is experiencing an upsurge of activity at this time.
What followed, Ms. Holden said, was an upsurge of community activity.
In the 1980s the Muslim Brotherhood experienced a renewal as part of the general upsurge of religious activity in Islamic countries.
The offensive, under way for more than a week, was launched in response to an upsurge of guerrilla activity that has coincided with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
What we have in Iraq today is chronic instability, an incipient civil war, endemic violence and anarchy, an upsurge of terrorist activity of every kind, and a national insurgency to which the allies have no answer.
As we report in this week's edition, the authorities are also stepping up security around the country to prevent what they see as an upsurge of terrorist activity by Muslim Uighurs from the far western region of Xinjiang.
There is an upsurge of innovative activity in the field, including a drastic increase in nuclear start-up companies, as energy resource constraints, security concerns, and the risks of climate change are creating new demands for safe, secure, cost-competitive nuclear energy systems.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, brought not only Hawaii but the United States as a whole into World War II, and the islands were beset by an upsurge of military activity and a sometimes controversial curtailment of civil liberties.
Mack attributes these improvements to the end of colonialism (colonial wars made up 60 100% of all international conflicts, depending on the year), the end of the Cold War (one-third of all conflicts were proxy wars), and to the upsurge of international activities designed to stop ongoing wars and to prevent new ones.
