There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.

A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.

Do you measure its relation to reduced absenteeism, turnover, accidents, and grievances, and to improved quality and output??

The ceaseless effort to understand and measure the distance mankind has traversed since its primitive anthropological status offers a more durable sort of drama.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.

Daniel personally led the fight for the measure, which he had watered down considerably since its rejection by two previous Legislatures, in a public hearing before the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

This measure is the ratio of the length of a circular arc by its radius.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

The apparent magnitude ( m ) of a celestial body is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, adjusted to the value it would have in the absence of the atmosphere.

For a rigid body rotating around an axis of symmetry ( e. g. the blades of a ceiling fan ), the angular momentum can be expressed as the product of the body's moment of inertia, I, ( i. e. a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation rate ) and its angular velocity ω:

The real line R with its usual topology is a locally compact Hausdorff space, hence we can define a Borel measure on it.

Nobel laureate Woodward described a parameter h as a measure of the height of the trigonal pyramid defined by the nitrogen ( as the apex ) and its three adjacent atoms.

* If G is a locally compact Hausdorff topological group and μ its Haar measure, then the Banach space L < sup > 1 </ sup >( G ) of all μ-integrable functions on G becomes a Banach algebra under the convolution xy ( g ) = ∫ x ( h ) y ( h < sup >− 1 </ sup > g ) dμ ( h ) for x, y in L < sup > 1 </ sup >( G ).

An algorithm's key length is distinct from its cryptographic security, which is a logarithmic measure of the fastest known computational attack on the algorithm, also measured in bits.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

These findings rely on inhibition assays and the study of the kinetics of cleavage of the aforementioned substrate, exploiting the fact that the enzyme-substrate intermediate p-nitrophenolate has a yellow colour, enabling us to measure its concentration by measuring light absorbance at 410 nm.

The emperor Titus's dignified yet confident ease in his management of an amphitheatre crowd and its factions were taken as a measure of his enormous popularity and the rightness of his imperium.

Despite the initial popularity of the measure, the newspapers praised Cleveland's veto.

The popularity was due in no small measure to the presence of Cocteau and his friends.

Pizza has gained a measure of popularity in the eastern regions of Pakistan — namely, the provinces of Sindh, Punjab, and Azad Kashmir, as well as the autonomous territory of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Recently, they have enjoyed a measure of popularity as house pets, particularly the dwarf breeds.

You would not like to have a housekeeper or steward who made her or his popularity with the tradesmen the measure of the payments that were to be delivered to them.

" Meanwhile, King Saud gradually came to resent Nasser's popularity among the Saudi people and his references to Saudi oil as belonging to all the Arabs ; when Hussein requested military assistance from Saud, he complied, sending 4, 000 troops to Jordan as a protective measure.

The demonstration — the biggest anti-Martelly protest since he came to power in May — showed that Aristide still enjoys a measure of popularity.

Many popular artists quickly adopted the device, making it difficult to measure how much each individual artist contributed to that popularity.

As a measure of its popularity, researchers have proposed various extensions to

As a measure of the product's Canadian popularity, its Facebook page, KD Battle Zone, attracted 270, 000 fans, despite there being no prizes for the contest.

Prometheus Bound enjoyed a measure of popularity in antiquity.

42 of his songs were on the top ten list of the radio program " Your Hit Parade ", a measure of a song's popularity.

The Fowler brothers, and Orson's sister-in-law Lydia Folger Fowler, were " in large measure " responsible for the mid-19th century popularity of phrenology.

He later wrote an explanation for its popularity, stating: " There was not any wholly new principle involved in its construction, but, it proved so much more convenient than any hand-instrument in use, that it gradually drove them all out of the field, in great measure, at least so far as the Boston market was concerned.

" Penetration is a measure of brand or category popularity.

Facing a downturn in motorcycle sales due to the increase in the popularity of automobiles after the war, Gilera made a gentleman's agreement with the other Italian motorcycle makers to quit Grand Prix racing after the 1957 season as a cost-cutting measure.

These nymphs and amorini, with their disengaged and riant air and classic grace, were not infrequently used as copies for painting upon that satinwood furniture of the last quarter of the 18th century which has never been surpassed for dainty elegance, and for the popularity of which Pergolesi was in large measure responsible ; they were even reproduced in marquetry.

The announcement of this partnership stated, " For the first time ever, the People ’ s Choice Awards has incorporated Internet video viewing data into the initial nominee selection process, depending on Visible Measures ’ True Reach metrics to objectively measure online video popularity.

Visible Measures worked with the People ’ s Choice Awards to determine each potential nominees ’ popularity on a True Reach basis, a unique measure of the total audience that has been exposed to an online video campaign – regardless of how widely the campaign spreads or where it appears.

After the war, van Rensselaer still enjoyed a fair measure of popularity, and still had the energy to try to serve his country.

The amount of traffic seen by a web site is a measure of its popularity.

These comments have angered many prominent Māori leaders, but won him considerable popularity with ordinary Māori voters, as well as with a large measure of non-Māori supporters.

Ice hockey has a measure of popularity in Northern Ireland, with one professional team, the Belfast Giants, playing in the Elite Ice Hockey League.