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* Aigas Field Centre Beaver Project – history of a pair of European beavers released into a large enclosure in the Highlands of Scotland.
Some European languages, like Russian and Irish, contrast a palatalized lateral – rhotic pair with an unpalatalized ( or velarized ) set ( e. g. in Russian ).
Following the decision, the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) ruled in Steel & Morris v United Kingdom that the pair had been denied a fair trial, in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and that their conduct should have been protected by Article 10 of the Convention.
Fox was not surprised when Pitt and the King brought Britain into the war as well, and would afterwards blame the pair and their prodigal European subsidies for the long-drawn-out continuation of the French Revolutionary Wars.
European Homotherium have an important role in the book Dance of the Tiger by Bjorn Kurten-particularly the scene in which a pair of Homotherium, known to the book's characters as " black tigers ", hunt a mammoth calf.
In the European version, Li Long's pair of nunchaku were changed to a three-section staff due to the BBFC guidelines which were in place at the time banning the depiction of certain weapons such as nunchuks.
In 1973, Court Line took delivery of a pair of Lockheed L-1011 Tristars and became the first European airline to operate the Lockheed widebody.
The pair set about dominating the Championship that year, resulting in a one – two finish in the European Championship.
; < span id =" european_death_knot "> European Death Knot </ span >: A double overhand used to join a pair of ropes for retrievable abseils.
Later, a pair of original Zoids were created exclusively for the European and North American markets, the Power Zoids Tank and Serpent which were never released in Japan.
The leaves are alternate, 5 – 7. 5 cm long and 2 – 4 cm broad, stiff, yellow green and dull matte to sub-shiny above ( distinctly less glossy than the otherwise fairly similar European Holly Ilex aquifolium ), often pale yellow beneath ; the edges are curved into several sharp, spike-like points, and a wedge-shaped base and acute apex ; the midrib is prominent and depressed, the primary veins conspicuous ; the petiole is short, stout, grooved, thickened at base, with a pair of minute stipules.
These latifundia had been of great importance economically, until the long-distance shipping of wine and oil, grain and garum disintegrated, but extensive lands controlled in a single pair of hands still constituted power: it can be argued that the latifundia formed part of the economic basis of the European social feudal system.
Hand also signed several more non-British players to the Phoenix roster, re-signing fans favourite Brett Clouthier, and offering Canadian duo Grant Jacobsen and David-Alexandre Beauregard their first taste of European hockey, as well as signing Odessa Jackalopes pair Kenton Smith and Nathan Ward.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that MI5 surveillance of Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt during the pair ’ s tenure at Liberty breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
This provided the resources to expand the airline's freighting activities and to add a pair of DC-6Bs to its fleet in time for the following year's European summer charter season.
Buzzard 3 breeding pairs Kestrel Marsh Harrier breeding pair Peregrine Falcon Long-Eared Owl Short Eared Owl Cormorant Canada Geese Coot Moorhen Grey Heron Kingfisher Pheasant Mute Swan 2 breeding pair Fieldfare Long-tailed Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Redwing Starlings Woodpigeon Song Thrush Yellow Hammer Crow Rook Raven Greater Spotted Woodpecker European Green Woodpecker Sparrow Blackbird Robin House Martin Swallow Swift Skylark Cetti's, Reed, Warbler Goldcrest Wren Grey and Pied Wagtail Barn Owl Chaffinch Wheatear Chiff-Chaff Sand Martin Yellow Hammer Linnet Duck Teal Herring Gull Mediterranean Gull Jay
The team is currently competing in the FIA GT Championship with a pair of Ferrari F430s, while their Brixia Racing arm competes in the FIA GT3 European Championship and Italian GT Championship with Aston Martin DBRS9s.
Shankly was a Master tactician and player of mind games, which lead him to pull off a masterstroke just before the Semi-final of the European Cup against Inter Milan, Anfield was already buzzing in anticipation of the up and coming game when Shankly sent out the injured pair of Gerry Byrne and his full-back partner Gordon Milne with the piece of silverware the Kopites had dreamt about for decades, the FA Cup, the crowd erupted and, it's said, you could see the Italian champions freeze on the spot, it had the desired effect as Liverpool ran out comfortable 3-1 winners.
The winning pair represented the UK at the Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships in Israel in October 2009.
The willow pattern, said to tell the sad story of a pair of star-crossed lovers, was an entirely European design, though one that was strongly influenced in style by design features borrowed from Chinese export porcelains of the 18th Century.
His first professional wins came in 1969 ; a pair of them in Zambia and another pair in Europe in the equivalent of European Tour events ( the European Tour wasn't established until 1972 ).

pair and Bee-eaters
* A pair of European Bee-eaters makes a nesting attempt in Herefordshire-see Bee-eaters in Britain

pair and nests
In spring and early summer ducks sometimes influence human activity through their nesting ; sometimes a duck pair nests well away from water, needing a long trek to water for the hatchlings: this sometimes causes an urgent wildlife rescue operation ( e. g. by the RSPCA ) if the duck nested somewhere unsuitable like in a small enclosed courtyard.
It is a gregarious bird which often nests in groups with each pair defending a small territory.
Building a nest from scratch takes a pair one to two weeks, but if nests of the previous year in good locations remain usable, they are repaired rather than discarded.
At one extreme the Greater Shearwater nests in concentrations of 1 pair per square metre in three colonies of more than 1 million pairs, whereas the giant petrels nest in clumped but widely spaced territories that barely qualify as colonial.
When Gray Jays start building their nests in February or March, 20 percent or more of all pairs are still accompanied by a third, nonbreeding individual, usually the dominant juvenile from the pair ’ s own previous nesting.
Usually, two broods are attempted, although three to four separate nests may be built before a pair succeeds.
They also have a kind of song, which is a short sequence of varying calls given by the males when they try to attract females to their nests, or between members of a pair.
It nests in holes, chiselled out by the pair, in tree trunks, and lays 4 – 6 white eggs.
The Australian Owlet-nightjar nests mainly in holes in trees ( or in other holes and crevices ), which is provisioned with leaves by both of the pair.
The nests are, however, aggressively defended by the pair.
The nesting dispersal seems highly variable as everything from a solitary pair ( with no other Goliath nests anywhere near ) to fairly large colonies have been observed, with no seeming local geographical preferences.

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An amateur decorator might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself note to the room.
David reached for the pair of pistols in the saddlebags at his feet.
Grabski looked at the pair of them.
He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks, he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all attention, he quacked with the ducks, and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese.
later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.
The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.
Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.
The 2009 series began with a tense draw in the First Test at SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, with final pair James Anderson and Monty Panesar surviving 69 balls.
Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).
At above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the Lunar Module of any other Apollo mission.
In The Word for World Is Forest, Le Guin explains that in order for communication to work with any pair of ansibles, at least one " must be on a large-mass body, the other can be anywhere in the cosmos.
Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton, and the pair decided to make their own vehicles.
The last is equal to a projected separation of about 529 Astronomical Units ( AU ) at the estimated distance of Antares, giving a minimum value for the separation of the pair.
Also, every known pair shares at least one common factor, higher than 1.
Most cantilever bridges use a pair of continuous spans that extend from opposite sides of the supporting piers to meet at the center of the obstacle the bridge crosses.
The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö consists of a four-lane highway on the upper level and a pair of railway tracks at the lower level.
* The case n = 2 is often illustrated by saying that at any moment there is always a pair of antipodal points on the Earth's surface with equal temperatures and equal barometric pressures.
The snapping is best accomplished with a pair of pliers, and the break occurs at the score lines, where the metal is thinnest.
Because the pairing increases this energy barrier, kicks from oscillating atoms in the conductor ( which are small at sufficiently low temperatures ) are not enough to affect the condensate as a whole, or any individual " member pair " within the condensate.
This mechanism is usually controlled by a button at the top and powered by a spring within the pen body, but other possibilities include a pair of buttons, a screw, or a slide.
Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the " cooling rings " of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.

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