Attempts to adapt turbine engines to automobiles go back to at least to the 1950s, a time when aircraft jet engines — a type of turbine usually called a turbofan — were beginning to sweep aside piston power in the skies.
The rapid economic and social changes that were beginning to sweep through Thai society by the mid-1980s offered writers new and challenging themes, while the introduction of literary prizes, accolades, and constant media attention also played a part in creating a vibrant literary scene.
By November 1984, political change was beginning to sweep the country and the Rio Film Festival was revived.
Daoguang died just as the great political-religious upheaval known as the Taiping Rebellion (1850 64) was beginning to sweep South China.
Five years ago, consolidation was beginning to sweep every corner of the music industry -- radio, concert promotion and record companies alike -- and becoming more corporate in the process.
She also uses her impressive narrative skills to give us a visceral sense of the world in which Roosevelt and Taft came of age, and the wave of populism that was beginning to sweep the land.
In his state, 62percentt of its 87,000 Army National Guard soldiers are deployed, including the majority of the guard's best-trained firefighters, at a time when wildfires are beginning to sweep through the state, state officials say.
He claimed that Vodafone's bid seriously undervalued his group but in the end he fell victim to that very Anglo-Saxon concept of shareholder value that is beginning to sweep German boardrooms.
Their rigour and intelligence was a world away from the casual, easy-does-it style that was beginning to sweep through television food programmes on the coat tails of the Keith Floyd revolution.
The second transatlantic encounter concerns Douglass's visit to Ireland, a heartening episode with a tragic undertow: while Douglass was being lionised and petted by the right-thinking members of the Protestant Ascendancy – and "even one or two Catholics from good families", as McCann has it – the Great Famine was beginning to sweep the country.
By the summer, the Shia insurgency was beginning to sweep across Basra and southern Iraq and in the months to come crude, but deadly, improvised explosive devices would become the weapon of choice against British soldiers, tearing through ineffectual armoured plating on vehicles, killing and maiming scores of soldiers.
