First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.

First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

It soon occurred to Chaplin that it was turning into a large project, so to placate First National he halted production and quickly filmed A Day's Pleasure.

First, large areas of the image may be empty of primitives ; rasterization will ignore these areas, but pixel-by-pixel rendering must pass through them.

First, large diprotodonts had already survived a long series of similar ice ages, and there does not seem to be any particular reason the most recent one should have achieved what all the previous ice ages had failed to do.

The Imperial Navy was the first to operate submarines successfully on a large scale in wartime, with 375 submarines commissioned by the end of the First World War, and it also operated zeppelins.

First developed by the Lumiere brothers in 1896, film provided a unique means of accessing large audiences at once.

The First Emperor Qin Shi Huang ( circa 221 BC, who unified the 7 pre-Imperial Kingdoms ) was buried under a large mound outside modern day Xi ' an.

The academic realism apparent in the works of the mid-1890s is well displayed in The First Communion ( 1896 ), a large composition that depicts his sister, Lola.

On the other hand, at the start of the First Punic War the Romans had no navy, and were thus at a disadvantage until they began to construct their own large fleets during the war.

Leaders of large parties in the House of Commons, First Ministers of the devolved assemblies, some senior ministers outside the cabinet, and on occasion senior Parliamentarians are appointed Privy Counsellors.

First, the 50S ( large prokaryotic ) subunit from the archaeon Haloarcula marismortui was published.

He claimed his Test innings best of 7 / 72 in the first innings of the First Test in Madras, allowing Australia to build a large lead and win by an innings.

First, the weaker parties are pressured to form an alliance, sometimes called a fusion, to try to become big enough to challenge a large dominant party and, in so doing, gain political clout in the legislature.

Image: Christs College First Court. jpg | First Court: O Staircase, Chapel, The Master's Lodge with large wisteria and part of the Hall.

The University of Victoria Law Programs has a long history of protecting human rights and the environment, and has worked closely on a large number of precedent setting environmental and First Nations legal cases across Canada and around the world.

The Ultramontanist movement after Italian Unification and the abrupt ( and unofficial ) end of the First Vatican Council in 1870 ( due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ), and the opposing Conciliarism, became obsolete to a large extent.

This reorganization was engineered in large part by Secretary of State Knox's First Assistant Secretary, Huntington Wilson, who served as de facto Secretary of State due to the frequent absence of Knox.

The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire of the Soviet Union to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of another large scale invasion of its territory by hostile Western powers, akin to those carried out by the Swedish Empire in 1708, Napoleonic France in 1812, the Central Powers during the First World War and most recently by Nazi Germany in 1941.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

First, the hardened steel balls spalled into fragments when hit by the shock of the explosion ; the fragments were neither aerodynamic enough nor large enough to perform effectively.

An example would be the joining of a number of large OSPF ( Open Shortest Path First ) networks where OSPF by itself would not scale to size.

First transmission in this format was episode 7351 on 31 May 2010 with a new set of titles and re-recorded theme tune.

First model to support an optional FP11 floating-point coprocessor, which established the format used in later models.

Decision on the format of the show were finalized and the series premiered on Jan. 10, 1971, with the first episode of The First Churchills.

* Beatmania Best Hits ( July 27, 2000 ): First console release to drop the append disc format.

*** The original format, used from 1947 through 1968 with two exceptions, saw the previous season's Stanley Cup champions take on an " All-Star " team made up of the First and Second NHL All-Star Teams plus other star players.

The same format of First vs. Second with the First team being augmented by players from American teams and the Second being augmented by Leaf or Hab players continued the next year, but the 6th All-Star Game proved to be 60 minutes of boring hockey as the teams skated to a 1 – 1 tie.

The new format was to have the Football League First Division champions play the Southern League champions, and the first match was in 1908 between Manchester United ( the First Division champions ) and Queens Park Rangers ( the Southern League champions ).

DEFA films can be rented or purchased from the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts and many titles in NTSC format are now available on DVD from US distributor First Run Features ( see links below ).

First, looseleaf pages were not as durable as the hardcover format.

The British Post Office first issued self-adhesive stamps on October 19, 1993, with the introduction of books of 20 First Class stamps, later a 2nd class stamp was introduced, in later years other issues were produced in the self-adhesive format.

The First Philips machine was model number N1500, after which the format is also known.

Often subprime loans from failed banks in the United States are sold by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) in an online auction format through companies such as The Debt Exchange, Mission Capital Advisors, Eastdil Secured, Garnet Capital Advisors and First Financial, all of which are listed on the FDIC's website under Asset Sales and the Carlton Group ( under Carlton Exchange ).

While most public high schools teach introductory biology courses to freshmen, College Prep follows the Physics First model of teaching basic concepts of physics to ninth grade students within an integrated laboratory format.

First airing on RTÉ One on 5 June 2006, the show follows the UK format almost identically.

Some authors of the American Free Press such as Michael Collins Piper and Carto-affiliated institutions such as the Center for Historical Review have published books which have been published in paper and electronic format on the America First Books website America First Books.

These four bits are recouped through the following tricks: First, two bits are stolen from the NAA by allocating NAAs 12, 13, 14, and 15 to all refer to the same format.

One of the last, and most notable episodes done in the videotape format, was " First Ladies of Opera ", featuring Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Renata Tebaldi and Birgit Nilsson, all on one program.

First seen on the NBC television network in April 1944, it continued until January 1947 with special interest topics in a documentary film format.

* For the years where STV had the highlights rights for both the Scottish Premier League and the First Division, Scotsport was divided into Scotsport First, which went out on Sunday mornings and retained a traditional programme format, and Scotsport SPL, which was known for trying out ideas that hadn't been widely used for sports television programmes before, including multiple presenters and a live studio audience.

The format failed and First Media decided to sell all of its properties for $ 177 million to a minority interest in early 1987.