Months after the FIA was created, for example, Vatican officials rewrote the Holy See's financial laws.
Charitable giving, which was popular for example after the crisis in Haiti, could also change if people are able to make easy small transactions.
Julius Caesar, in one of the edicts changing Roman law after his takeover, gives the first example of allowing bankers to confiscate land in lieu of loan payments.
"Anywhere you go and try to harvest fish with a trawl you are going to destroy any coral that lives there, and there is example after example of the damage that is done by trawlers, " says Ron O'Dor, a senior scientist on the Census of Marine Life.
Lead-paint cases sprouted around the country after Rhode Island pioneered the litigation, for example, even though the legal theory behind them struck many as a dangerous extension of nuisance law to hold manufacturers responsible for a product that they sold legally decades earlier.
The book gives example after example of software that came and went, at one time dominating the market but then giving way to a better newcomer: throughout, reviewers' ratings of the products explain market-share.
The first is economic disaster, as beset, for example, Labour after the 1967 devaluation of the pound and the Tories after the rise in unemployment of 1980-81.
In the year after the 1997 devaluation of the Thai baht, for example, emerging-market stocks lost almost a quarter of their value.
The frozen city, for example, could emerge only after the artists had settled how the Old Ones moved, ate, and slept.
In the ten years after the divestiture of Standard Oil in 1911, for example, the trust's constituent companies quintupled in value.
The classic example is Germany after World War I, where onerous war reparations helped give rise to Hitler and the Nazis.
This feud, Mr Garran argues, was the most visible example of a debate that became heated after the Thai baht was devalued in July 1997.
The rights and wrongs of Suarez's punishment and of the Terry case -- should the FA, for example, have charged the Chelsea captain after he had been cleared in a court of law -- have been played out endlessly in the media and across social-networking websites like Twitter.
The machine is always connected, so users can continue to, for example, receive email even after the lid is closed.
That is what happened in the U.S., for example, after Word War II, and again during the Clinton years.
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While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
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For example: The after-inflation cost of sugary soda has declined by an estimated 48% over the past 20 years.
For example, soon after the first "Ted" trailer went online, Fizziology observed that a lot of the online chatter about it centered on the "Thunder Buddies" song, which Mr. Wahlberg sings with the bear while in bed.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton filled the conference hall to appeal for private-sector investment to rebuild the shattered island, pointing the success of Rwanda in quadrupling its per capita GDP in the decade after being ravaged by war as an example of how a seemingly hopeless economy could be changed for the better.
People shouldn't have to choose between taking the time they need after giving birth, for example, or adopting a child, and keeping that job that they need to support the child they just had.
But even if it could, the relatively closed nature of the Greek economy, and the large amount of business off-shoring that has gone on, mean a simple devaluation will not have the same benign impact as for example the UK's sterling devaluation did after 2009.
Federal tax credit: The federal government offers a 30% investment tax credit on the cost of the system after rebates. (The credit is higher in Denver, for example, because there is no state or utility rebate.) To claim the full credit, your tax bill must be bigger than the credit.
Activision Blizzard, for example, launched DLC after the launch of its flagship franchise: Call of Duty.
And there is example after example of that -- the advanced battery industry is a good one.
After the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, for example, it was reported that an estimated 5.1 million homes had been lost.
The best example of this is the advent of print: About 40 years after Gutenberg, as paper printing and paper folding took hold, books became portable instruments of a capitalist explosion of activity.
West Coast companies, for example, tend to announce after the closing bell, saving executives from rising before dawn.
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Fronstin offers up a real life example of how useful contributing after the end of the year can be.
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For example, in the weeks after Osama Bin Laden was killed, there was a discrepancy in what Twitter and Gallup found.
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After all, in the real world (for example, the labor market), what ultimately matters is whether students have acquired real knowledge, skills, etc.
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