Sentence examples for was dominated until from inspiring English sources
Online retailing of automobiles was dominated until recently by former car dealers who set up specialty sites, like Peter Ellis, who created Autobytel.com, the leading online auto retailer in the late 1990's.
The economy was dominated, until the mid-20th century, by foreign-owned banana companies that wielded outsized influence in politics and controlled wide swaths of land.
Moreover, American historiography was dominated until World War II by Southern authors determined to romanticize the Lost Cause and mythologize the Confederacy's most important and formidable commander, Robert E. Lee.
Mandatory HIV testing was dominated until 1990's and it gradually has been moved to the voluntary HIV testing in hospitals or clinics.
Puerto Rico's economy, now based on services and manufacturing, was dominated by agriculture until the mid-20th century.
The logistics of a small boat tugging a sperm whale in from the high seas are doubtful, Dolin points out, but, whatever its origins, offshore whaling was dominated by Nantucket until the early nineteenth century.
Napoleon took the city after a long siege in 1797, and Mantua was dominated by the French until it was returned to Austria in 1814.
The media giants' incestuous relationships bring to mind the economy of South Korea, which was dominated by giant conglomerates until the late nineteen-nineties, when it had a meltdown.
The Soviet league was dominated by VVS Moscow until 1953, when an air crash wiped out the roster, but already the Soviets were establishing a reputation as the best hockey players in Europe.
Unlike Rioja, where many producers had already been established by the early 20th century, Ribera del Duero, on a harsh, high plain southwest of Rioja, was dominated by cooperatives up until the 1980s.
And Dutch politics was dominated by Christian values until the 1980s: the focus was mainly on providing state aid (implicit subsidies in the fiscal system) so that women could stay at home with children.
