The brooch or clasp, meant to fasten the cope in front, and variously called morse, pectoral, bottone, etc., was an object often in the highest degree precious and costly.

In a multiple member first-past-the-post ballot, the first candidates in order of highest vote to cross the " line " ( that is, those who have the successivley greater number of votes ) are elected.

These tributaries cross the highest mountains in deep gorges, flow south through the Middle Hills, then join in candelabra-like configuration before crossing the Mahabharat Range and emerging onto the plains where they have deposited megafans exceeding area.

The cross sectional radius of each Fresnel zone is the highest in the center of the RF LoS, shrinking to a point at the antenna on each end.

One of the highest points is the mountain Gillersklack which is a popular winter resort with both downhill and cross country skiing.

The Albula Line became a UNESCO world heritage as did the Bernina Railway, the highest and only railway to cross the alps without the use of a tunnel at the pass.

During a sidereal day, an astronomical object will cross the meridian twice: once at its upper culmination, when it is at its highest point as seen from the earth, and once at its lower culmination, its lowest point.

A " Tower of Hope " building was added on the north side of the drive-in church building in 1968 ; it rose in the air, the highest structure in Orange County at that time, and was topped by a cross.

The gold summit cross ( on the left ) marks the highest point in Germany.

Kreuzberg, literally meaning cross hill, is the point of highest elevation in the Kreuzberg locality, which is above sea level.

Consequently, like all Australian snowfields, Falls Creek's customer base is almost entirely domestic, however many international cross country skiers travel to Falls Creek for the Kangaroo Hoppet, Australia's Worldloppet event on the last Saturday of August and international snowboarders to Stylewars, The Australian Slopestyle Championships and Australia's highest sanctioned TTR World Tour event held in the first week of September.

He acknowledges that it is “ the offspring of no common genius ,” that the “ underplot ... is skilfully and closely connected with the main story, and is subservient to its development ,” that the story Lewis weaves in about the bleeding nun is “ truly terrific ” and that he cannot recall a “ bolder or more happy conception than that of the burning cross on the forehead of the wandering Jew .” Coleridge gives his highest praise to the character of Matilda, whom he believes is “ the author ’ s master-piece.

With no easy way to cross the river, Castañeda and his men made camp at the highest ground in the area, about 300 yards ( 300 meters ) from the river.

The cross symbol of Lutsk is featured on the highest Lithuanian Presidential award, the Order of Vytautas the Great.

Currently, he is the 5th highest run scorer in One Day Internationals ( ODIs ) and was the 3rd person in history to cross the 10, 000 run landmark, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq.

Such straight-line wind events are most common during the spring when instability is highest and weather fronts routinely cross the country.

Kaimanawa horses today have the highest amount of genetic similarity with the Thoroughbred and other Thoroughbred cross breeds.

In 1703 a large cross was placed by Spanish friar Margil de Jesus at the highest point of Chirinagua in the western edge of the city, now called Cerro de la Cruz.

: At the highest point of the hill there is a 90 foot high ( 27m ) Celtic cross.

Sometimes the holders of the highest grade are referred to " commanders grand cross ", " knights grand cross " or just " grand crosses "; in other cases the actual insignia itself is called " the grand cross ".

Among all isotopes, hydrogen has the highest neutron scattering cross section.

The nave is 50 meters long and 24 meters wide, the apse is 20 × 10 m. The tower with its height of 76 meter ( 80 meter including the cross ) is the highest one in Transylvania.

In 1975 Rodgers won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, equaling Tracy Smith's 1966 bronze in the International Cross Country Championships as the highest an American had ever finished in international cross country competition.

These are either at the outermost ends of the highest cross beam, at two V-shaped mast points, or at a separate cross arm.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

The highest position is known as a ' research scientist.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

The highest rated non-supervisory engineering title is ' research engineer.

This is much smaller than the highest resolution of even the very large reflectors now under construction, and consequently the radio emission of different regions of the disk cannot be resolved.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

Then, if the middle number is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through multiplying it by the highest number, 9 ( which is the square of the base number ), the result is 45 ; ;