yet here was a depth of sensibility which is lacking in a considerable portion of the beneficiaries of our civilization.

He built a horologion at Athens, the so-called Tower of the Winds, a considerable portion of which still exists.

A considerable portion of these COV used as binders is coal tar.

Research has found that, even when students report not using the knowledge acquired in school, a considerable portion is retained for many years and long-term retention is strongly dependent on the initial level of mastery.

" At the same time the unusual nature of the proof — it was the first major theorem to be proven with extensive computer assistance — and the complexity of the human verifiable portion, aroused considerable controversy.

A considerable portion of all sapphire and ruby is treated with a variety of heat treatments to improve both color and clarity.

At an earlier date the name possessed a wider signification and was applied to a considerable portion of the adjoining district.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

A considerable portion of the Turkish population emigrated into the Ottoman Empire at that point.

Smith spends a considerable portion of the book rebutting the arguments of the mercantilists, though often these are simplified or exaggerated versions of mercantilist thought.

Beginning in the mid-1920s, the Government-General of Korea concentrated its industrial development efforts in the comparatively under-populated and resource-rich northern portion of Korea, resulting in a considerable movement of people northward from the agrarian southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula.

A considerable portion of the Turkish people called themselves Osmanlı ( Ottoman ) until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

The writings ascribed to him by the church ( the Pauline epistles ) form a considerable portion of the New Testament.

Some critics informally refer to the FitzGerald's English versions as " The Rubaiyat of FitzOmar ", a nickname that both recognizes the liberties FitzGerald inflicted on his purported source and also credits FitzGerald for the considerable portion of the " translation " that is his own creation.

In stars of slightly over, the CNO cycle contributes a considerable portion of the energy generation.

In 1867 Schoemansdal and a considerable portion of the district were abandoned on the advice of Commandant-general Paul Kruger, and Schoemansdal finally was burnt to ashes by a party of natives.

He also gained a considerable portion of Silesian territory, partly by inheritance through his third wife, Anna von Schweidnitz, daughter of Henry II, Duke of Świdnica and Catherine of Hungary.

By 18: 30, a considerable portion of the VII and VIII Corps disengaged from the fighting and withdrew towards the Prussian positions at Rezonville.

A considerable portion of the literature on social choice theory is about the properties of this method since it is widely used and is used by important organizations ( legislatures, councils, committees, etc .).

They were often 4 m long or longer, and had special hand guards built into the lance, often tapering for a considerable portion of the weapon's length.

" Dr Young, however, showed that neither the alphabet of Akerblad, nor any modification of it which could be proposed, was applicable to any considerable part of the enchorial portion of the Rosetta inscription beyond the proper names.

The Steller sea lion has attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to significant, unexplained declines in their numbers over a large portion of their range in Alaska.

A considerable portion of the schedule's programs were cancelled in the spring of 1974.

Melvyn Bragg ended up writing a considerable portion of the script.

After considerable development and test firings in the U. S. and Canada, Douglas abandoned development in 1956.

Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, U. S. Congress and the present Administration have granted law enforcement considerable new powers in the enforcement and prevention of terrorism-related crime.

Mali currently is a small market for U. S. trade and investment, but there is potential for considerable growth as its economy expands.

The U. S. Air Force provided considerable verisimilitude for The Big Lift, Strategic Air Command and A Gathering of Eagles, filmed on Air Force bases and using Air Force personnel in many roles.

The U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Davis v. Federal Election Commission, however, cast considerable doubt on the constitutionality of these provisions, and in 2011 the Supreme Court held that key provisions of the Arizona law – most notably its matching fund provisions – were unconstitutionalal in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Free Enterprise Club PAC v. Bennett.

Accruing considerable U. S. support due to his staunch anti-Communism, he achieved victory in a 1955 plebiscite, which was fraudulent.

Asia's eponymous debut album Asia, released in March 1982, received considerable commercial success, spending nine weeks at number one in the U. S. album chart and selling over 4 million copies in the U. S. alone.

Over the past decade there has been considerable controversy concerning the amount of U. S. currency circulating abroad.

The only existing integrated system in the U. S. is the INFORM project, but the concept is attracting considerable interest.

At an early age, John Schell, Jr. became possessed of considerable means after his patriotic service in the U. S. Revolutionary War and his father's death in 1777.

On the heels of its belated hit single, Styx signed with A & M Records and released Equinox ( 1975 ), which sold well and yielded a minor hit in " Lorelei ", No. 27 in the U. S. More importantly, it contained the rock anthem " Suite Madame Blue ", which gained the band considerable recognition and airplay on FM radio in the relatively new Album Oriented Rock ( AOR ) format.

Penkovsky ran for two years as a considerable success, providing several thousand photographed documents, including Red Army rocketry manuals that allowed U. S. National Photographic Interpretation Center ( NPIC ) analysts to recognise the deployment pattern of Soviet SS4 MRBMs and SS5 IRBMs in Cuba in October 1962.

Loud's fame came with An American Family, a documentary of his family's life, which was broadcast in the U. S. on PBS in 1973, drawing 10 million viewers and causing considerable controversy.

Both the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) and the U. S. Navy invested considerable effort on dive bombers.

Looking for funding on their own project, they turned to Sherman Fairchild's Fairchild Camera and Instrument, an Eastern U. S. company with considerable military contracts.

* There has been considerable debate as to the meaning of the place, item, person or event described in the lyric of the song Thank U Very Much as the Aintree Iron.

By 1912 its circulation was 120, 000, and by the late 1920s / early 1930s, The Forward was a leading U. S. metropolitan daily with considerable influence and a nationwide circulation of more than 275, 000 though this had dropped to 170, 000 by 1939 as a result of changes in U. S. immigration policy that restricted the immigration of Jews to a trickle.

Critics saw it as an unrealistic ultimatum designed to provide the U. S. with a cause for war, and it met considerable opposition in the security council, with opponents including the permanent members France, the People's Republic of China, and Germany.

It is also commemorated in a U. S. postage stamp issued at the time, and a considerable amount of mail using it was sent from Byrd's base at Little America, which was powered by a Jacobs Wind 2. 5 kW.

The 1997 album Eternal Decision hit the record stores in the U. S. and 16 other countries, achieving considerable acclaim and providing the band with even more notice.

By this point, the US had considerable experience with lead-calculating analog computers, starting with the British Kerrison Predictor and a series of increasingly capable U. S. designs.

A considerable amount of research was dedicated to combining the blunt-nose system with wings, leading to the development of the lifting body designs in the U. S.