:[...] Some idea of the scope of economic collaboration can be had from the fact that from the beginning of 1942 through 1945 Canada, on her part, furnished the United States with $ 1, 000, 000, 000 to $ 1, 250, 000, 000 in defense materials and services.

:[...] The total of defense materials and services that Canada received through lend-lease channels amounted in value to approximately $ 419, 500, 000.

:[...] Although most of the actual construction of joint defense facilities, except the Alaska Highway and the Canol project, had been carried out by Canada, most of the original cost was borne by the United States.

:[...] The total amount that Canada agreed to pay under the new arrangement came to about $ 76, 800, 000, which was some $ 13, 870, 000 less than the United States had spent on the facilities.

:[...] software suppliers can make it much harder for you to switch to their competitors ' products.

:[...] the President is hereby authorized to invite each and all the States to provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services such as each State may deem to be worthy of this national commemoration ; and when so furnished the same shall be placed in the Old Hall of the House of Representatives, in the Capitol of the United States, which is set apart, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as a national statuary hall for the purpose herein indicated.

:[...] VC 5. 0 is a fake.

:[...] publish and make known the principles of Buddhism and to encourage the study and practice of those principles.

:[...] there were no poor and no rich ; there was no need to labour, because all that men required was obtained by the power of will ; the chief virtue was the abandonment of all worldly desires.

:[...] in several Respects there is a great Relation between them ; and according to Aristotle ( who informs us, That ' tis Fiction rather than Verse which makes a Poet ) a Writer of Romance may be reckon'd among the Poets.

The idea, illustrated by Figures 1-3, is to compute the rate of change as the limiting value of the ratio of the differences Δy / Δx as Δx becomes infinitely small.

Infinite divisibility refers to the idea that extension, or quantity, when divided and further divided infinitely, cannot reach the point of zero quantity.

Thomas Aquinas, for instance, in whose system of thought the idea of divine simplicity is central, wrote in Summa Theologica that because God is infinitely simple, God can only appear to the finite mind as infinitely complex.

The eternal recurrence is the idea that all events that have happened will happen again, infinitely many times.

: Only the widespread scientific illiteracy and innumeracy -- all you need to know in this case is how to execute the equation -- prevents most of the people from dismissing the idea of sustainable growth at healthy rates as an oxymoronic stupidity whose pursuit is, unfortunately, infinitely more tragic than comic.

The idea that the second law of thermodynamics or " entropy law " is a law of disorder ( or that dynamically ordered states are " infinitely improbable ") is due to Boltzmann's view of the second law.

To give an intuitive idea for the hyperreal approach, note that, naively speaking, non-standard analysis postulates the existence of positive numbers ε which are infinitely small, meaning that ε is smaller than any standard positive real, yet greater than zero.

Ritually mumbling the sounds of hun-tun might, therefore, be said to have a kind on incantatory significance that both phonetically and morphologically invokes the mythological and ontological idea of the Tao as the creatio continua process of infinitely repeated moments of change and new creation.

: Everyone makes for himself a clear idea of the motion of a point, that is to say, of the motion of a corpuscle which one supposes to be infinitely small, and which one reduces by thought in some way to a mathematical point.

There he shows how infinite divisibility involves the idea that there is some extended item, such as an apple, which can be divided infinitely many times, where one never divides down to point, or to atoms of any sort.

* < sup > a </ sup > " The idea isn't unlike Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of Tomorrow, see page 38, though naturally it is infinitely more modern.

The basic idea is to provide a small system with primary sewage treatment.

Sazonov ’ s idea, The Fit Companion, is a small, unobtrusive sensor that, when clipped-on to a user ’ s clothing or integrated into a shoe, provides feedback about physical activity.

Guderian said that the tank deployment was “ on too small a scale to allow accurate assessments to be made .” The true test of his “ armoured idea ” would have to wait for the Second World War.

High-end systems introduced the idea of channel controllers, which were essentially small computers dedicated to handing the input and output of a given bus.

There is a relatively small body of evidence that supports the idea that REM sleep helps consolidate highly emotional declarative memories.

Dyson stated on the Dick Cavett show that the use of nuclear weaponry was a bad idea for the US at the time because " our targets were big and theirs were small.

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Tako believes that it would be a brilliant idea to use the monster to gain publicity.

Rhett laughs at the idea, but steals an emaciated horse and a small wagon, and they follow the retreating army out of Atlanta.

They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.

Carpenter had observed from close examination of everyday experience that under certain circumstances the mere idea of a muscular movement could be sufficient to produce a reflexive, or automatic, contraction or movement of the muscles involved, albeit in a very small degree.

A precursor idea to the IC was to create small ceramic squares ( wafers ), each one containing a single miniaturized component.

Equally memorable and influential on Walt Whitman is Emerson's idea that " a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

That spring, according to Mullis, he was driving his vehicle late one night with his girlfriend, who was also a chemist at Cetus, when he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polymerase, a technique which would allow a small strand of DNA to be copied almost an infinite number of times.

The idea of a violent rugby match between school masters and small boys was filmed in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ).

Another is the idea of self-healing structures, which would repair small tears in a surface naturally in the same way as self-sealing tires or human skin.

Hence, an entire line of program code could express the same idea a small number of characters that other programming languages might easily take 5 to 10 times as many characters to express.

Even though it looked like a small rifle, it used 9mm pistol ammunition, which introduced the idea of an automatic weapon that fired pistol rounds.

The motivation behind this kink is the idea that in an oligopolistic or monopolistically competitive market, firms will not raise their prices because even a small price increase will lose many customers.

At first, the dictionary was unconnected to Oxford University but was the idea of a small group of intellectuals in London ; it originally was a Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries.

When it was found in 1900 by Max Planck that the energy of waves could be described as consisting of small packets or " quanta ", Albert Einstein further developed this idea to show that an electromagnetic wave such as light could be described as a particle ( later called the photon ) with a discrete quantum of energy that was dependent on its frequency.

The idea is very simple: at each exchange of a currency into another a small tax would be levied-let's say, 0. 5 % of the volume of the transaction.

For example, one such idea is to have small, community-owned enterprises working under a market-based model of economy.