For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

These polar concerns ( imitation vs. formalism ) reflect a philosophical and religious situation which has been developing over a long period of time.

In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.

An oversize unit will cool off your house quickly, then shut down for a long period.

Harold E. Strang, expert in switchgear design, for a long period vp & gm of the Measurements & Industrial Products Division, and who currently, approaching retirement, is vice-president and consulting engineer in the Switchgear & Control Division.

Any of the antithyroid drugs, of either type, if given in large enough doses for a long period of time will cause goitre, owing to inhibition of thyroid hormone synthesis, with production of hypothyroidism.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??

The long retention period and the complete mixing concept prevented rapid changes in either the mixed liquor or in the effluent.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Or the frequent need to check and discipline himself to the wisest pace of the consummation can put him off stride and make it impossible for him to be continuously ready for penetration over a long period.

Each man had a bubble to himself, privacy after the long period of enforced intimacy on board the ship.

From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Little is known about the Gutian period, or how long it endured.

Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.

Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years ( especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy ), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite, period.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

The reason and the day of `` grandfather clauses '' has long since passed.

The photochemical reaction cells consisted of 10 mm. i.d. Pyrex tubing, 5.5 cm. long, diffraction effects being minimized by the fact that the light passed through only liquid-glass interfaces and not gas-glass interfaces.

It seemed to him that a long time had passed before he decided what to do.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

He passed this, along with a message, to Watterson's parents and declared he would wait in the hotel for as long as it took Watterson to contact him.

Foley had intended to anchor alongside the French ship and engage it closely, but his anchor took too long to descend and his ship passed Guerrier entirely.

Charles II of England was concerned by the unregulated copying of books and passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662 by Act of Parliament, which established a register of licensed books and required a copy to be deposited with the Stationers ' Company, essentially continuing the licensing of material that had long been in effect.

Mail remained in use as a decorative and possibly high-status symbol with military overtones long after its practical usefulness had passed.

However, not long after the second performance, the opera became so successful that the fame of Paisiello's opera was transferred to Rossini's, to which the title The Barber of Seville passed as an inalienable heritage.

Two by two they went, barefoot, wearing long dark-red robes and carrying a staff in the hand, the latter having symbolic reference to their pastoral calling, and passed from place to place preaching the sovereignty of God.

However, in Paris, a long time passed before his talents were truly recognised, partly because of the presence of Ferdinando Carulli, ' adored ' by his audience.

The charter first passed into law in 1225 ; the 1297 version, with the long title ( originally in Latin ) " The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest ," still remains on the statute books of England and Wales.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

Jesus ' warning in that " this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " is tied back to his similar warning to the Scribes and the Pharisees that their judgment would " come upon this generation " (), that is, during the first century rather than at a future time long after the Scribes and Pharisees had passed from the scene.

Fisher understood that female preference for long tails may be passed on genetically, in conjunction with genes for the long tail itself.

The port has been rapidly growing and in 2011, more than 17 million tonnes ( 16, 7 million long tons, 18, 7 million short tons ) of cargo passed through it.

Due to the long waiting period between ordering a Trabant and actually taking delivery ( in some cases years passed as scarce materials were obtained ), people who finally received one treated the car gently and were meticulous in maintaining and repairing it.

Jesus ' warning in that " this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " is tied back to his similar warning to the Scribes and the Pharisees that their judgment would " come upon this generation " (), that is, during the first century rather than at a future time long after the Scribes and Pharisees had passed from the scene.

All of the V-bombers would see active service at least once albeit with conventional bombs ; the Valiant in the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Victor in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation of 1962-66, and the Vulcan in the Falklands War long after the strategic nuclear role had been passed over to the Royal Navy.

* Cryosurgery-A cryoprobe is passed down the long saphenous vein following saphenofemoral ligation.

The Conservatives then formed a ministry, in which after long Parliamentary debate Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act of 1867, more far-reaching than Gladstone's proposed bill had been.

He drove for them on their debut in 1985, scored their first point in the 1988 United States Grand Prix, although he had been running 5th for quite a long time during the race until being passed by Tyrrell's Jonathan Palmer, took their only front-row start at 1990 USA Grand Prix ( aided by special Pirelli tyres ; several of their other drivers had surprise qualifying results that day ), their only lap leading a race in the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix, where he finished 5th, and scored their joint-best F1 result of 4th.