Prior to effacement, the cervix is like a long bottleneck, usually about four centimeters in length.

Matt Cartmill presents another problem with the Gigantopithecus hypothesis: " The trouble with this account is that Gigantopithecus was not a hominin and maybe not even a crown-group hominoid ; yet the physical evidence implies that Bigfoot is an upright biped with buttocks and a long, stout, permanently adducted hallux.

This structure is incompatible with the observed symmetry of the ion, which implies that the three bonds are equally long and that the three oxygen atoms are equivalent.

Fischer and Rabin's work also implies that Presburger arithmetic can be used to define formulas which correctly calculate any algorithm as long as the inputs are less than relatively large bounds.

This implies that the egg existed long before the chicken, but that the chicken egg did not exist until an arbitrary threshold was crossed that differentiates a modern chicken from its ancestors.

As alcohol had long been used as a basis for medicines, this implies the term vodka could be a noun derived from the verb vodit ’, razvodit ’ ( водить, разводить ), " to dilute with water ".

Homer implies, that from then on, Odysseus would live a long and happy life together with Penelope and Telemachus, wisely ruling his kingdom and enjoying wide respect and much success.

Since the real numbers can be used to represent points along an infinitely long line, this implies that a line segment of length 1, which is a part of that line, has the same number of points as the whole line.

However, if the errors are not normally distributed, a central limit theorem often nonetheless implies that the parameter estimates will be approximately normally distributed so long as the sample is reasonably large.

In the introduction of the 1967 Simon and Schuster book club edition, Bradbury implies that the Nazi book burnings drove him to write the short story " The Fireman " which was the precursor along with the foundation for his novel Fahrenheit 451, stating, " It follows then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.

In the long run, this implies that monetary policy cannot affect unemployment, which adjusts back to its " natural rate ", also called the " NAIRU " or " long-run Phillips curve ".

All are brown or fawn, fading to pale grey or white underneath, have very long tails and, as the common name implies, well-developed hind legs.

All have, as their name implies, long stiff tail feathers, which are erected when the bird is at rest.

This difference implies that while accountability generally implements some sort of punishment mechanism against individuals or institutions judged to have taken poor quality decisions or actions, after those decisions have been taken or actions carried out, radical transparency encourages corrections and improvements to decisions to be made long before poor quality decisions have the chance to be enacted.

A higher quality factor implies a lower attenuation, and so high Q systems oscillate for long times.

The most monochromatic sources are usually lasers ; such high monochromaticity implies long coherence lengths ( up to hundreds of meters ).

The gleisners live in space, mostly in the asteroid belt, and in various other places in the Solar System ; Egan implies that they long ago agreed to leave Earth to the fleshers to avoid conflict.

The long history of such cities implies that an irregular, complicated street network that appears entirely illegible to a visitor is well understood and used by the inhabitants.

The day-age theory tries to reconcile these views by believing that the creation " days " were not ordinary 24-hour days, but actually lasted for long periods of time — or as the theory's name implies: the " days " each lasted an age.

The Isle of Wight and the Meon valley in what is now eastern Hampshire had been placed under Æthelwealh's control by Wulfhere ; the Chronicle dates this to 661, but according to Bede it occurred " not long before " Wilfrid's mission to the South Saxons in the 680s, which implies a rather later date.

Delmar Lowell also suggests the long line of noble Norman families that Lowle progenitors married into implies that the name Lowle is of Norman origin.

This implies a long process of fine-tuning of the PCR conditions and a susceptibility to all the problems of conventional PCR, but several degrees intensified.

As its name implies, heartsease has a long history of use in herbalism.

I shouldn ’ t like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act — that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don ’ t know ...” It has been argued variously that this implies Socrates is skeptical regarding knowledge or that he is a pragmatist.

* Stage 1: Arms ; a UFO-shaped robot who, as his name implies, has long arms.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

After all, too much does not happen too suddenly, nor does very little take long.

Even for those who have been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political future.

He tried to ask the Lady Da how long they had had the drug, and how much longer they would have to wait before they had it again.

I mean we know the order in which things happen, but we have no clocks and nobody cares enough to count days or to make calendars and there's not much climate here, so none of us know how long anything takes.

These coatings are long gone and much of the architectural detail is sadly eroded, though detached fragments found in the ruins during consolidation give an impression of the original refined, rather austere, architectural effect.

One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

Whereas the United States enjoys a long season that generally runs from March to November, other areas often have much shorter seasons.

Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.

2 Chronicles covers much the same time-period as Kings, but it ignores the northern kingdom of Israel almost completely, David is given a major role in planning the Temple, Hezekiah is given a much more far-reaching program of reform, and Manasseh is given an opportunity to repent of his sins, apparently to account for his long reign ).

Thus, while the book exhibits considerable unity and probably reflects much of the historic Ezekiel, it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.

One question much asked – both then and long afterward – is why did Emperor Menelik fail to follow up his victory and drive the routed Italians out of their colony?

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

* Quantity (< span lang = grc > poson </ span >, how much ), discrete or continuous — examples: two cubits long, number, space, ( length of ) time.

Concord, as with much of New England, is within the humid continental climate zone ( Köppen Dfb ), with long, cold, snowy winters, very warm ( and at times humid ) summers, and relatively brief autumns and springs.

The juvenile cane toad is much smaller than the adult cane toad at long.

Rome carried forth Greek ideas of citizenship such as the principles of equality under the law, civic participation in government, and notions that " no one citizen should have too much power for too long ",.

All his writings suggest a rich universe developing over a long period of time, but leave much to be guessed at by the reader.

In that case, I, too, undoubtedly exist, if he deceives me ; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I think that I am something.