Ephrem did not comment on all passages in the Diatessaron, and nor does he always quote commentated passages in full ; but for those phrases that he does quote, the commentary provides for the first time a dependable witness to Tatian's original ; and also confirms its content and their sequence.

During the first few songs in a concert, the vibrato in his voice was almost uncontrollable, but afterwards, it became stronger and more dependable.

Ludwig Mendelssohn ( Leipzig 1887 ) edited the first dependable text.

In infants in the first year of life, the brain consumes 60 % of all calories, so both babies and their mothers require a dependable food supply.

The first dependable representation of a rider with paired stirrups was found in China in a Jin Dynasty tomb of about AD 322.

“ In the first instance ,” he said, “ we run a dependable operation.

Roscoe is usually first on the scene and very dependable.

Most significant however for the economic development of the town was the arrival of the tanning industry in the 1930s, providing regular, dependable employment in the town for the first time.

According to Shackleton's own account, his first choices for the journey were Worsley and the dependable Tom Crean, who " begged to go ".

Ward became one of the Jays ' most dependable middle relievers in 1988, and remained in the role through the 1992 season, when the Blue Jays won their first World Series championship.

Designed to be both dependable and accurate, HJ-8 is now the standard anti-tank armament of the WZ-9, Mi-17, and Gazelle ( replacing the original Euromissile HOT first carried ) helicopter gunships of the PLA.

He made his first team debut in August 2000 as a replacement against Cardiff and has established himself as a highly dependable player and equally at home at the front or middle of the line out.

During his first season at Madrid, Arbeloa played mainly at the left back position due to Los Blancos lack of experienced and dependable options in that area of the field.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.

Although Dürer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles.

It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict " not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things.

For the first time since 1912, the territory has direct representation.

In fact, like so many film effects that distort the representation of reality, anamorphosis was first used exclusively in comic contexts.

This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..

A graphical representation of the Arecibo message – Humanity's first attempt to use radio waves to actively communicate its existence to alien civilizations

It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji " that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching ; thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two.

* ISO 3166-3, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation ; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland party having become a region of the Irish party in the previous year.

As a reaction to their exclusion from political representation, the Kikuyu people, the most subject to pressure by the settlers, founded in 1921 Kenya's first African political protest movement, the Young Kikuyu Association, led by Harry Thuku.

Similar sorts of decisions have to be made with all the representation technologies, because each of them supplies only a first order guess about how to see the world: they offer a way of seeing but don't indicate how to instantiate that view.

At each layer, even the first ( e. g., selecting rules or frames ), the choices being made are about representation, not data structures.

The concrete definition given above is easy to work with, but has some minor problems: to use it we first need to represent a Lie group as a group of matrices, but not all Lie groups can be represented in this way, and it is not obvious that the Lie algebra is independent of the representation we use.

The first cracks in the system, even though they were merely symbolic, were the 1970s reforms to the electoral system and the composition of the Congress of the Union which for the first time incorporated proportional representation seats allowing opposition parties to obtain seats, though limited in number, in the Chamber of Deputies.

Subsequent changes included the creation of the Federal Electoral Institute in the 1990s and the inclusion of proportional representation and first minority seats in the Senate.

A party-list proportional representation system was first devised and described in 1878 by Victor D ' Hondt of Belgium.

" The seal of Jaazaniah carries the insignia of a rooster from the ruins of the biblical Judean kingdom at Mizpah, with the inscription of " belonging to Jaazaniah, servant to the king "., the first known representation of the chicken in Palestine, and from II Kings 25: 23, we know of one Jaazaniah the Maschathit, who was an official under Gedalish at Mizpah.

In 1924 a new constitution was put in place, introducing elected representation ( 3 out of 22 members ) for the first time.

In response, SETI advocates note, among other things, that the Drake Equation was never a hypothesis, and so never intended to be testable, nor to be " solved "; it was merely a clever representation of the agenda for the world's first scientific SETI meeting in 1961, and it serves as a tool in formulating testable hypotheses.

These algorithms first convert the SMILES to an internal representation of the molecular structure and do not simply manipulate strings as is sometimes thought.

With the first reports, Russell's horse wheeled to the right and ran towards the buildings while Cook, followed by a hail of bullets, raced towards the arroyo of Salyer's Canyon immediately in front of him, just reaching it as his horse fell.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

Wooden Dandy horse | draisine ( around 1820 ), the first two-wheeler and as such the archetype of the bicycle

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

The disparity of numbers – exacerbated by Villeroi stripping their ranks of infantry to reinforce his left flank – enabled Overkirk's cavalry to throw the first line of French horse back in some disorder towards their second-line squadrons.

The horse warfare of Korea was first started during the ancient Korean kingdom Gojoseon.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

During this first period, transportation was rather primitive ; it consisted of row boats, walking, and, in certain places, horse transport ( for the upper class ).

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

In 1872 the first horse railway was inaugurated, and from 1893 an electric tram was developed.

Rudolf Simek notes that these horse heads gables can " still be seen today " ( from a 2007 edition of a work first published in 1984 ) and says that the horse head gables confirm that Hengist and Horsa were originally considered mythological, horse-shaped beings.

He created the cotton mill which brought the production processes together in a factory, and he developed the use of power — first horse power and then water power — which made cotton manufacture a mechanised industry.

* 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.

In 1915, Regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby ( of only three in the history of the race ), and in 1917, the English-bred colt " Omar Khayyam " became the first foreign-bred horse to win the race.

The three races offered the largest purse and in 1919 Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races.

In 1968 Dancer's Image became the first ( and to this day the only ) horse to win the race and then be disqualified after traces of phenylbutazone, an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug, were found in the horse's urinalysis ; Forward Pass won after a protracted legal battle by the owners of Dancer's Image ( which they lost ).

The first stanza notes that Loki produced " the wolf " with the jötunn Angrboða, that Loki himself gave birth to the horse Sleipnir by the stallion Svaðilfari, and that Loki ( referred to as the " brother of Býleistr ") thirdly gave birth to " the worst of all marvels ".

* The first Saturday in May is the date of the annual Kentucky Derby, the most famous horse race in the United States.