Currently, American space efforts are firmly fixed on the Moon.
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This week, though, the spotlight has been firmly fixed on United Airlines.
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In many ways, however, Europe is still firmly fixed at their centers.
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Or is he the ruthless capitalist, with eyes firmly fixed on the bottom line?
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They are fully loaded with water and people gripping sticks, their eyes firmly fixed on the future.
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All eyes are now firmly fixed on Nielson and Randone, the vinegar-obsessed couple of the year.
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She also has a large and extremely important community firmly fixed in her mind at all times.
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Michigan and Pennsylvania have been firmly fixed in the Likely Democratic column for much of the year.
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They are fully loaded with water and people gripping sticks, their eyes are firmly fixed on the future.
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Their favorite pieces enjoy places of honor on a living room cabinet, but arrangements are not firmly fixed.
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Liberals' eyes today are firmly fixed on the past election, and their actions are all about one thing — the past.
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Taken collectively, the diversity of responses shows that "interesting" science is abundant and also firmly fixed in the eye of the beholder.
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Markets' eyes will be firmly fixed on the ECB's annual three-day shebang in Sintra and policy meetings in Japan and Britain.
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But I'm willing to overlook that slip-up, especially in a car designed to keep your attention firmly fixed on the road ahead.
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Yet now his eyes are firmly fixed on their next fixture against Switzerland, who opened their campaign with a surprise draw against Brazil.
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Despite his children's talk of hauntings, he is still firmly fixed in the rational world, one in which mold is more dangerous than poltergeists.
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On September 11, 2016, the political media's attention was firmly fixed on Lower Manhattan, where Hillary Clinton unexpectedly ducked out of a 19403/11 memorial event.
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That he could bury his retirement announcement when attention was firmly fixed elsewhere was just one last kiss-off to that grumpy and gratitude-averse media apparatus.
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Murray has his eye firmly fixed on becoming Britain's first men's champion in Australia since Fred Perry in 1934 but he must get past Ferrer to do it.
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Americans must call on their representatives to move forward with this work, and to do so with their eyes firmly fixed on the greater good of the country.
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Do this early — not when you're already in trouble — and your community will realize you're one of the few solid companies with your heads firmly fixed to your shoulders.
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Alas, with Oppo's focus still firmly fixed on its native China, we might not all have access to the full breadth of choice, but it's good to know technology like this exists.
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Horsted had his eyes firmly fixed 10 yards down the field for the score once he secured the ball, but a Packers defender quickly closed in on him near the five-yard line.
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LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Germany's benchmark 10-year bond yield held just above zero percent on Monday as the market's focus was firmly fixed on central bank meetings in Washington and Tokyo this week.
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"All eyes are going to be very firmly fixed on them over the next couple of months looking at whether they are going to be able to step up and deliver what is needed."
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Ms. Ripa walked onto the "Live With Kelly and Michael" stage on Tuesday, holding hands with Mr. Strahan, before walking off to a side of the stage by herself, with the camera firmly fixed on her.
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His voice has retained its versatility and power—he can still flit between a chilling scream and a crackling, soulful low-end, and both of them are terrifying when the lyrics are firmly fixed on the grave.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. options traders have their eyes firmly fixed on Buenos Aires this week, and they are increasingly confident the meeting there of the heads of the world's 220 largest economies means one thing: more volatility.
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With attention firmly fixed on China and a fall in oil prices to $21.0876 a barrel, the euro and Swiss franc both gained around a third of a percent against the dollar while the Aussie and kiwi fell half a percent.
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Timing Trump's attempt to turn the national conversation to tax reform comes as the spotlight is firmly fixed on the disaster still unfolding in Texas and Louisiana, where hurricane damage and flooding continues to sending tens of thousands of people from their homes.
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The focus of these essays remains firmly fixed on geeky literature and media, though Hurley suggests — indeed, demands, in an introduction titled "Welcome to the Revolution" — that readers should see the genre as a microcosm of American society and even global politics.
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" His book, he writes in his preface, "is a narrative for beginners and nonspecialists" — an "introduction and a survey" that aims "to make the past come alive" and "make the reader thirst for more," with "an eye firmly fixed on present-day concerns.
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With a Chippendale-inspired broken pediment at the top and a Renaissance-inspired colonnade at the bottom, the building was instantly identifiable, a shape as firmly fixed in the public imagination as the shapes of the Citicorp Center and the Chrysler Building.
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It may sound like an abstract concern but for online services that rely on things being done with user data in order to monetize free-to-access content this is a key question now the region's General Data Protection Regulation is firmly fixed in place.
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With this disgraceful connection firmly fixed in the public mind, no one can look upon the new woke wing of MoMA without also pondering what paid for it: odious "investments" in detention centers, those de facto prisons that target the same overlooked populations the museum's galleries now welcome.
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The idea of the East as a primitive land of enchantment is now so firmly fixed in people's minds that it obscures the underlying reality, an idea explored by Edward Said in his classic book Orientalism "He's really taking a very broad historical view, so he's talking about centuries of conflict and conquest, where Western countries perceive these traditional, magical, Eastern places as incapable of any real modernity," Samatar says.
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This alliance was forged with one eye firmly fixed on China, whose trade is welcome in Indonesia but whose increasing regional assertiveness and territorial disputatiousness are not.
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360 flagstones of Comblanchien, unit of 6 cm thick, are firmly fixed on the wall. Mizui himself said, "I wanted to create a shadow graphics and light evoking heaven, earth and man.".
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The rear is firmly fixed to the bottom triple clamp (usually brazed or welded). A short leading link holds the wheel and the forward leg which actuates the springs (usually mounted on the triple clamp).
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No matter how the sensor is integrated with the user's shoes, care must be taken that it is firmly fixed in place and will not jerk around while in use, which would degrade the accuracy.
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142 Accessed 28 May 2010.Gupte, p.15 Then, Ravana tried hard to lift the Shiv Linga but failed as it was firmly fixed. Ravana had even fainted; thereafter he gave the name "Mahabaleshwar" (meaning all-powerful) to the Atmalinga.
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The caterpillar pupates in a cell, sometimes on fresh leaves, at other times on dead leaves or even in the leaf litter. The pale reddish-golden pupa is cylindrical, widest at the thorax, tapering quickly towards the head and gently towards the rear. The head has a small rounded protuberance. The pupa is firmly fixed to the silk pad.
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The Frenkel defect became firmly fixed in the physics of solids and liquids. In the 1930s, this research was supplemented with works on the theory of plastic deformation. Their theory, now known as the Frenkel–Kontorova model, is important in the study of dislocations.O. M. Braun, "The Frenkel-Kontorova model: concepts, methods and applications", Springer, 2004.
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This sad state was really only redressed by the rise of the male ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky, with the Ballets Russes, in the early 20th century. Ballet as we know it had well and truly evolved by this time, with all the familiar conventions of costume, choreographic form, plot, pomp, and circumstance firmly fixed in place.
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800 members. There are boys and girls playing hurling, football and camogie from nursery up to minor level. The club is represented at intermediate hurling, senior camogie and at intermediate football level with junior teams in football, and camogie. It also has an ongoing commitment to a comprehensive coaching programme with the focus firmly fixed on the future.
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When conducting research on the molecular theory of condensed state, he introduced the notion of the hole. The Frenkel defect became firmly fixed in the physics of solids and liquids. In the 1930s, his research was supplemented with works on the theory of plastic deformation. His theory, now known as the Frenkel–Kontorova model, is important in the study of dislocations.
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Canada also allows its mandatory 10-day waiting period requirements to be waived for those "whose death or loss of capacity to consent is imminent", provided this is agreed upon by both physicians or nurse practitioners. This is more flexible than euthanasia laws seen in places such as the United States, where waiting periods are firmly fixed into law as legal requirements that must be met.
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An embedded metalanguage is a language formally, naturally and firmly fixed in an object language. This idea is found in Douglas Hofstadter's book, Gödel, Escher, Bach, in a discussion of the relationship between formal languages and number theory: "... it is in the nature of any formalization of number theory that its metalanguage is embedded within it."Hofstadter, Douglas. 1980. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
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Sea squirts are rounded or cylindrical animals ranging from about 0.5 to 10 cm (0.2 to 4 in) in size. One end of the body is always firmly fixed to rock, coral, or some similar solid surface. The lower surface is pitted or ridged, and in some species has root-like extensions that help the animal grip onto the surface. The body wall is covered by a smooth thick tunic, which is often quite rigid.
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Aztec warriors as shown in the 16th-century Florentine Codex (Vol. IX). Each warrior is brandishing a macuahuitl. According to conquistador , the macuahuitl was 0.91 to 1.22 m long, and 75 mm wide, with a groove along either edge, into which sharp-edged pieces of flint or obsidian were inserted and firmly fixed with an adhesive.From A. P. Maudslay's translation commentary of 's (republished as The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, p. 465).
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Lord Justice Denning famously stated that "The doctrine of consideration is too firmly fixed to be overthrown by a side- wind.". In the United States, the emphasis has shifted to the process of bargaining as exemplified by Hamer v. Sidway (1891). Courts will typically not weigh the "adequacy" of consideration provided the consideration is determined to be "sufficient", with sufficiency defined as meeting the test of law, whereas "adequacy" is the subjective fairness or equivalence.
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These boxes are still used today. Before fungi were understood, the color of Camembert rind was a matter of chance, most commonly blue-grey, with brown spots. From the early 20th century onwards, the rind has been more commonly pure white, but it was not until the mid-1970s that pure white became standard. The cheese was famously issued to French troops during World War I, becoming firmly fixed in French popular culture as a result.
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Jellinek specified revolutionary improvements. Unlike the previous generation of cars, unstable motorized coaches of narrow high bodies which were so prone to overturn, the novel Mercedes should be longer, wider, and of a lower center of gravity. Also it would have a light steel body and strong chassis, onto which the engine would be firmly fixed near the ground and lowering the car's center of gravity. 36 of these cars would be delivered, for the large sum of .
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Wooden stairways were often protected from the weather by a porch. Such a structure is shown in a 1449 votive picture by the Bavarian castle builder (Burgpfleger), Bernd von Seyboltsdorf (Schärding, Upper Austria). The entrance of the oriel opens at the side and access is gained over a wooden staircase, complete with railings, that is clearly firmly fixed. The simplest form of access was a movable ladder that could quickly be hauled up in the event of attack.
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Left hand shown with thumb on left. The metacarpals form a transverse arch to which the rigid row of distal carpal bones are fixed. The peripheral metacarpals (those of the thumb and little finger) form the sides of the cup of the palmar gutter and as they are brought together they deepen this concavity. The index metacarpal is the most firmly fixed, while the thumb metacarpal articulates with the trapezium and acts independently from the others.
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Keener "feared any movement that looked toward organic union with anything or anybody" and was "firmly fixed by the agonies and horrors of reconstruction" after the American Civil War. In 1890, while other Methodists were starting to reach out to African Americans, he told the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South that "we now have a solidly white church, for which we thank God." He was a student, not only of theology, but also of general literature. He had a delicate perception of literary beauty.
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Visitors of all faiths & linkages visit the Ashram (Spiritual Center).page-46, Tracing the Way: Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions by Hans Kung, 2002 Continuum International Publishing Group New York Expansion of national unity, amity and brotherhood and extinction of ignorance, jealousy, hatred, and strife from globe are being attempted by popularizing Gayatri Mantra, Yajna and Sanskaars (sacramental rites), the adoption of which invokes celestial thoughts and inspires for divine deeds. The divinity may be seen firmly fixed in every activity of this holy pilgrimage center.
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The low temperatures caused poor surfaces which Scott likened to "pulling over desert sand"; he described the surface as "coated with a thin layer of woolly crystals, formed by radiation no doubt. These are too firmly fixed to be removed by the wind and cause impossible friction on the [sledge] runners." The low temperatures were accompanied by an absence of wind, something Scott had expected to assist them on their northern journey. The party were further slowed down by the frostbite in Oates' left foot.
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The most common activator is silica gel/phosphoric acid for Pb. The filaments are in a vacuum that can reach temperatures anywhere from 400-2300°C. In order to prevent any damage to the filaments, they are firmly fixed onto a carousel-like sample turret which normally has 10 to 20 filament assemblies. The evaporation process is usually conducted at relatively low temperatures in exchange for long-lasting signals and minor isotopic fractionation. The ionization part requires high temperatures to ensure good ionization efficiency.
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Late 1920s fashion when engines and other mechanicals were firmly fixed to the chassis decreed that a medium-sized car like the Fourteen should be given a six-cylinder engine to reduce vibration. So the 2-litre Fourteen's place was taken by the 2.1-litre six-cylinder Hillman Wizard 65 in April 1931. This Wizard 65 was itself dropped in 1933. The 2.8-litre Wizard 75 continued re-named 20/70 alongside a 2.6-litre Sixteen and a 3.2-litre Hawk, all of six cylinders.
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Experimental beginnings: TA-SWISS began its work in 1992. Following a number of parliamentary interventions, the Federal Council assigned the Swiss Science and Technology Council the task of developing a system of technology assessment for Switzerland over a four-year pilot phase (1992–1995). Institutionalisation of technology assessment: In its Message relating to the promotion of training, research and technology for the years 1996-1999, the Federal Council defined the bases for the institutionalisation and financing of technology assessment in Switzerland. In 1999, technology assessment was firmly fixed in the law on research.
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Indoor and outdoor climbing can differ in techniques, style and equipment. Climbing artificial walls, especially indoors, is much safer because anchor points and holds are able to be more firmly fixed, and environmental conditions can be controlled. During indoor climbing, holds are easily visible in contrast with natural walls where finding a good hold or foothold may be a challenge. Climbers on artificial walls are somewhat restricted to the holds prepared by the route setter whereas on natural walls they can use every slope or crack in the surface of the wall.
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The widespread Niger-Congo language group includes many divisions and subdivisions of languages. Represented in Sudan are Azande and several other tongues of the Adamawa-Eastern language division, and Fulani of the West Atlantic division. The Kordofanian stock comprises only 30 to 40 languages spoken in a limited area of Sudan—the Nuba Mountains and their environs. The designation of a Nilo-Saharan superstock has not been fully accepted by linguists, and its constituent groups and subgroups are not firmly fixed, in part because many of the languages have not been well studied.
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He was based at St Michael le Belfrey church in York in the late 1970s and was involved in student and university ministry with British Youth for Christ. At this time he recorded the albums Triumph in the Air and Cresta Run. Calver went on to run British Youth for Christ and the Evangelical Alliance, and then left the United Kingdom for the Evangelical Church in the United States. Kendrick, however, remained firmly fixed in the UK church as probably the most influential Christian songwriter of his generation.
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The judge did not mis-apply that > summary of the law. His decision is supportable in law and in fact. The court could, as in other cases, have taken into consideration further errors in the lender's decision to lend to the borrower, the fraudster against the previous owner. These errors included constructive notice of the fraud firmly fixed to the mortgage lender, particularly that under land registration, the headline details of the transaction by the proposed borrower showed their ownership was recent and the price of £100,000 was a slight undervalue.
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Ling's ambition was to create a hip replacement that could be secured to bony skeleton with acrylic bone cement. Through extensive laboratory analyses of modified hip implants, Ling and engineer Dr Clive Lee built on the work of Sir John Charnley to demonstrate that over a period of time, bone cement can undergo "creep" and act as a thick liquid. This mechanism permits the transmitting weight through the joint to the skeleton and allows patients to remain pain free and active for years. Ling and Lee, using acrylic bone cement, eventually constructed an implant that could be firmly fixed to the bony skeleton.
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The specially painted British Airways Airbus A319 carried the flame from Greece to the United Kingdom On 16 May a British Airways Airbus A319, with custom gold livery and named "The Firefly", flew from Heathrow to Athens to collect the flame.Athens Airport Aviation News 16 May 2012. On 18 May the aircraft flew as flight BA2012 from Athens to RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall. The flame was not extinguished during flight, having been classified as a 'ceremonial flame' by the Civil Aviation Authority, but was kept in four Davy lamps secured in a cradle firmly fixed to seats in Row 1.
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Even at the best of times, trade in the south-west of Scotland was small in quantity. The royal burgh was granted to Sir Malcolm Fleming by David II in 1341. In 1372 Wigtown passed to the Earls of Douglas, upon the sale of the Earldom to Archibald the Grim, but was restored to its former tenure as a royal burgh as a result of the forfeiture of the Douglases in 1455. Its status was formally recognised be a royal charter in 1457 and from then the burgh was firmly fixed by a feud- charter at the old figure of £20 per annum.
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Soon afterwards King Arthur takes it into his head to > ask Queen Guinevere whom she would least object to marrying if he were dead. > She exclaims at the absurdity of such an idea, but is finally forced to > admit that she would least object to young Yder, and by the admission makes > the king very jealous. We have, incidentally, previously been given to > understand that Yder's love is firmly fixed on his own lady, Queen Guinloie. > King Arthur, Gawain, Yvain, Kay and Yder go out in search of adventure, and > happen to meet Guinloie in the forest.
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The property of the Département de la Drôme since 1947, the Adhémar’s castle is a monument historique and, since 2000, a contemporary art centre. This centre works with artist projects linking both a high standard of proposals and a real firmly fixed territorial spot. The aim of the centre of contemporary art through the three castles of the Drôme general council (Adhémar at Montélimar, Grignan, Suze-la-Rousse) is to match contemporary creation and cultural heritage. Since its creation, about a fifty temporary exhibitions has been performed with renowned national artists, even international and younger ones.
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Howard Jenkins Jr. had a substantial impact on labor law during his years of service. His mission was to help them discover blacks in the industrial work force, and to get it firmly fixed in our national labor policy that discrimination on the basis of race or sex is an unfair labor practice. He wrote the majority opinion in the 1964 watershed case Hughes Tool Co. II, which created unions' duty of fair representation. He also wrote a dissent, affirmed by the courts, holding that it was illegal sex discrimination for unions to have a waiters' union and a separate waitresses' union.
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In 1984, he also took Saudi Arabia to the Olympic Games finals in Los Angeles, which was considered a significant achievement at the time, but his sights were firmly fixed on the AFC Asian Cup scheduled for December that year. Zayani called up several younger players, including 19-year-old Mohaisen Al-Jam'an, who would go on to score twice in the final. Saudi Arabia won Group A ahead of Kuwait, Qatar, Syria and Korea Republic. They followed up with a 5-4 penalty shootout victory over Iran after a 1-1 draw in extra time.
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Prince, p.441 an allusion to the great wealth generated by the wool-trade to the economy of England in the Middle Ages. In fact the foundations are firmly fixed, although the bridge according to Prince "seems to shake at the slightest step of a horse".Prince, p.441 While one of the larger medieval bridges, it was exceeded by others, such as the almost intact Swarkestone Bridge and the old long bridge over the River Trent at Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, demolished in 1864. which was 515 yards long, 15 feet wide and had 36 arches.
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Hollande (1906); Cholley, Les préalpes de Savoie (Genevois/Bauges) et leur avant-pays : étude de géographie régionale (1925); Baulig, Le plateau central et sa bordure méditerranéenne : étude morphologique (1928); Martonne, La Valachie : essai de monographie géographique (1902). produced regional geographies that were both physical and human (even economic). The context chosen for these descriptions was a region, whose contours were not always very firmly fixed scientifically. Undoubtedly because this approach was more structured, many of Vidal's successors, and still more those of Martonne, specialized in a geomorphology that became gradually stronger, but that also, by its narrowness, weakened French geography.
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Until this work was finished, the prisoner was to be secured day and night in his hut. At night, until further orders, he was to be subjected to the penalty of the "double buckle": gyves in which the prisoner's feet were shackled, and which were then firmly fixed to his bedstead, so that he was condemned either to absolute immobility or to dreadful torture. This order, barbarous and illegal, was strictly carried out, to the equal astonishment of Dreyfus and his warders, for twenty-four sultry nights. For two months, he was not allowed to stir out of his disgusting and suffocating hovel.
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Each ring receives, by its ventricular margin, the attachment of some of the muscular fibers of the ventricles; its opposite margin presents three deep semicircular notches, to which the middle coat of the artery is firmly fixed. The attachment of the artery to its fibrous ring is strengthened by the external coat and serous membrane externally, and by the endocardium internally. From the margins of the semicircular notches the fibrous structure of the ring is continued into the segments of the valves. The middle coat of the artery in this situation is thin, and the vessel is dilated to form the sinuses of the aorta and pulmonary artery.
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In the traditional model of authority, "the king was the sacred center and culture was firmly fixed in the longstanding notions of a catholic hierarchical order."Hunt, 87. By de- centering this frame of traditional authority while overthrowing the monarchy, revolutionaries realized that the cultural framework of the past could not be carried into the future, and that the use of the king as the insignia of the seal had to be replaced with a new seal signifying the Republic. Revolutionaries began iconoclastically destroying tangible reminders of the Old Regime, such as breaking the seals of royalty, the scepter and the crown and melting them into republican coins.
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Martin Kohli argues that over the length of the twentieth century, age was enormously used to assign people to or prohibit them from particular activities. The result was a tendency toward a firmly fixed life course. According to Riley and Riley, this tendency toward age-segregated structures began to approximate the age-differentiated "ideal type" structure in which people gain their education when young, work in middle-age, and enjoy their well-earned leisure time when they are old. Age-based grades, teams, jobs, and leisure activities seemed normal; people were expected to spend major portions of their days and lives with people of their own age.
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In contrast to the Type D, the rudder post was firmly fixed to the fuselage and did not move with the elevators; the rudder was similar in shape to the elevators, moving between them and behind a long rectangular fin. The pilot's open cockpit was a little behind the leading edge of the wing, just aft of the spar and bigger than the passenger's, placed behind the rear spar near the trailing edge. The pilot warped the wings by turning a wheel mounted on a lever which could also be moved fore and aft, operating the elevators. There was a "foot tiller" for rudder control.
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Hans Adam Dorten (10 February 1880 – April 1963) was a German career lawyer who in 1919 became a separatist leader in the militarily occupied Rhineland, following German defeat in the First World War. The period was a confused one during which political objectives were not always firmly fixed, nor clearly set out, but it is understood that Dorten's preference was for a Rhineland separated from "protestant" Prussia, and economically more closely aligned with France. At the end of 1923, a final attempt to establish an independent Rhenish state having failed, he escaped to Nice in France: here he resumed his legal career and worked on his memoirs.
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Branches of Babul are firmly fixed in a low stone wall until a large hedged enclosure is completed some 600 or 800 yards in length. In this enclosure very large fish are often caught, especially rays of different kinds in which this coast abounds, sharks, sawfish, swordfish, pomfret, soles, and sometimes even the dugong. Turtles of very large size are found, and one of the species found in these seas has a large thick tail. The small pearl oyster is found on the coral reefs on the coast and also on those fringing the islands in the gulf as well as two or three other kinds of oyster.
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According to the commitment model, agents interact with each other in a dialogue in which each takes its turn to contribute speech acts. The dialogue framework uses critical questioning as a way of testing plausible explanations and finding weak points in an argument that raise doubt concerning the acceptability of the argument. Walton's logical argumentation model took a view of proof and justification different from analytic philosophy's dominant epistemology, which was based on a justified true belief framework. In the logical argumentation approach, knowledge is seen as form of belief commitment firmly fixed by an argumentation procedure that tests the evidence on both sides, and uses standards of proof to determine whether a proposition qualifies as knowledge.
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Below them are two smaller male figures, one partly perfect in armour, and underneath again, six female children, of whom two remain.Rogers, p.68Following text largely quoted verbatim from out of copyright work: Jewers, Arthur John (ed.), The registers of the parish of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, from the year 1539 to 1780, London, 1881 The brasses are firmly fixed to the original slab of grey marble by apparently the original fastenings.Jewers, 1881 They were originally in the Arundell chapel (a chantry built by the Arundells on the south side of the chancel of the parish church), and were early in the 19th century covered with some pews which were then placed in the chapel.
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Later the rotation was effected by a cupped copper disc called an "automatic gas-check" attached to the base end of the projectile. The powder gas pressure expanded the rim of the gas check into the rifling grooves and prevented the escape of gas; it also firmly fixed the gas check to the projectile, thus causing it to rotate. A more regular and efficient action of the powder gas was thus ensured, with a corresponding greater range and an improvement in accuracy. With the earlier Armstrong (RBL or rifled breech loading) guns the projectiles were coated with lead (the late Lord Armstrong's system), the lead being forced through the rifling grooves by the pressure of the exploded powder gas.
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Later, Strachan, in reviewing Aspects of the British experience of the First World War edited by Michael Howard, observed that "In the study of the First World War in particular, the divide between professionals and amateurs has never been firmly fixed". Strachan points out that revisionists take strong exception to the amateurs, particularly in the media, with whom they disagree, while at the same time Gary Sheffield welcomes to the revisionist cause the work of many "hobby"-ists who only later migrated to academic study.Hew Strachan Back to the trenches – Why can't British historians be less insular about the First World War? The Sunday Times November 5, 2008 Gordon Corrigan, for example, did not even consider Clark to be a historian.
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The operation should be > performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief > pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, > especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be > in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the > practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be > forgotten and not resumed. If any attempt is made to watch the child, he > should be so carefully surrounded by vigilance that he cannot possibly > transgress without detection. If he is only partially watched, he soon > learns to elude observation, and thus the effect is only to make him cunning > in his vice.
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Forces on post-tensioned concrete with profiled (curved) tendon Post-tensioned tendon anchorage; four-piece "lock-off" wedges are visible holding each strand Post- tensioned concrete is a variant of prestressed concrete where the tendons are tensioned _after_ the surrounding concrete structure has been cast. The tendons are not placed in direct contact with the concrete, but are encapsulated within a protective sleeve or duct which is either cast into the concrete structure or placed adjacent to it. At each end of a tendon is an anchorage assembly firmly fixed to the surrounding concrete. Once the concrete has been cast and set, the tendons are tensioned ("stressed") by pulling the tendon ends through the anchorages while pressing against the concrete.
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The British historian Aristotle Kallis wrote that the best evidence suggests that in late 1940 Hitler was serious about carrying out Raeder's "Mediterranean plan", but only within certain strict limits and conditions, and that he saw the "Mediterranean plan" as part of the preparations for Barbarossa by defeating Britain first.Kallis, Aristotle Fascist Ideology, London: Routledge, 2000 pages 185-187. Hillgruber regarded Hitler as a fanatical ideologue with a firmly fixed programme, and criticized the view of him as a grasping opportunist with no real beliefs other than the pursuit of power - a thesis promoted by such British historians as A.J.P. Taylor and Alan Bullock, and which Hillgruber thought profoundly shallow and facile.Hillgruber, Germany And The Two World Wars (1981), pp. 49-50 & 77.
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By then, Unigenitus was firmly fixed in Canon Law, having been added in the collection called Extravagantes. On 23 February 1343 Pope Clement appointed Pons Saturninus as his "Provisor of Works of the Palace", thereby beginning a program of construction and decoration that continued throughout his reign. It was immediately clear that the Pope had no intention of returning to Rome, and that he intended to provide offices and quarters for the various organs of the Roman Curia in the Palace. Pope Benedict XII, his predecessor, had built a palace, sufficiently accommodating for a Cistercian monk, but Pierre Roger had spent much of his career at the French Court and had imbibed its tastes for far greater display and ceremony.
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Royds recorded the change in ice coverage of the sea, which two weeks previously he had noted had not been present, but now the entire sea was thickly packed. There was no evidence that the ice was retreating. The young penguin chicks they hoped to observe had left the rookery in October 1902 and as it was impossible for them to have shed their down or to have taken to the water Royds concluded that they must have drifted to the north on the ice floe This was the end of their observations until the following spring. The expedition's organisers expected that the Discovery would be freed from the ice early in 1903, but when the relief ship, the Morning, arrived Discovery was still firmly fixed in the ice.
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An employee of the HBC, wrote a general description of Fort Vancouver and its structural composition as it was in 1843: > The fort is in the shape of a parallelogram, about 250 yards long, by 150 > broad; enclose by a sort of wooden wall, made of pickets, or large beams > firmly fixed in the ground, and closely fitted together, twenty feet high, > and strong secured on the inside by buttressess. At each angle there is a > bastion, mounting two twelve pounders, and in the centre there some eighteen > pounders; ... these cannon have become useless. The area within is divided > into two courts, around which are arranged about forty neat, strong wooden > buildings, one story high, designed for various purposes... The fort was substantial. The palisades that protected it were long, wide and about high.
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However, the attention of the Federal Government was firmly fixed on quelling the rebels in the South. As a result, there was no significant military protection of wagon trains, settlers, settlements, communication lines, and supply wagons in the region. By summer of 1864, nearly every stage was being attacked, emigrants were being cut off, and settlements were being raided continually. The settlers abandoned their farms and ranches and began seeking refuge in the major settlements such as Denver. A coordinated attack was carried out on August 8, 1864, where all the existing stage lines in the region were attacked. Between August 11 and September 7, Governor Evans sent multiple letters to Secretary of War Edward Stanton in an attempt to furnish military aid, but Stanton was unable to pull the Second Colorado Volunteers, led by Colonel Ford, off of the eastern Civil War front.
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The transit instrument consists of a horizontal axis in the direction east and west resting on firmly fixed supports, and having a telescope fixed at right angles to it, revolving freely in the plane of the meridian. At the same time Rømer invented the altitude and azimuth instrument for measuring vertical and horizontal angles, and in 1704, he combined a vertical circle with his transit instrument, so as to determine both co-ordinates at the same time. This latter idea was, however, not adopted elsewhere, although the transit instrument soon came into universal use (the first one at Greenwich being mounted in 1721), and the mural quadrant continued until the end of the century to be employed for determining declinations. The advantages of using a whole circle, it being less liable to change its figure and not requiring reversal in order to observe stars north of the zenith, were then again recognized by Jesse Ramsden, who also improved the method of reading off angles by means of a micrometer microscope as described below.
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One regiment was detailed to guard the treasure at Merkers, and the rest of the Division pushed ahead. All roads were lined with liberated slave laborers, some walking aimlessly, becoming slowly accustomed to their freedom, some walking determinedly, burdened by huge packs, with their eyes firmly fixed on the road leading to home. Allied prisoners of war were liberated in increasingly large numbers: American, British, Canadian, French and Russians. The German Army was dissolving into a hodge-podge of Volksturm, Hitler Jugend, highly disorganized veterans and a few SS. As usual, resistance was encountered at only infrequent intervals, and as usual, it was quickly overwhelmed.”A History of the 90th Division in World War II. Pages 78-79. :“…The next morning [April 2, 1945] we headed out in motorized column for Bad Hersfeld, and then on via a two lane road to positions just west of the Werra River… Earlier in the day our rifle companies had crossed the Werra and captured the town of Dippoch, and then run unexpectedly into fierce and determined resistance, again from Hitler Youth and SS troops, in the Town of Vitzeroda.
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Typical design of a cattle grid in the Western US A cattle grid on a country road in the Yorkshire Dales Cattle grid on a railway line in northeastern New Mexico Cattle grid at entrance ramp onto the Interstate Highway System in Nevada A cattle grid – also known as a stock grid in Australia; cattle guard in American English; vehicle pass, Texas gate, or stock gap in the Southeastern United States; and a cattle stop in New Zealand English – is a type of obstacle used to prevent livestock, such as sheep, cattle, pigs, horses, or mules from passing along a road or railway which penetrates the fencing surrounding an enclosed piece of land or border. It consists of a depression in the road covered by a transverse grid of bars or tubes, normally made of metal and firmly fixed to the ground on either side of the depression, so that the gaps between them are wide enough for an animal's feet to enter, but sufficiently narrow not to impede a wheeled vehicle or human foot. This provides an effective barrier to animals without impeding wheeled vehicles, as the animals are reluctant to walk on the grates.
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