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.

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.

Submarine springs found along the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula produce water with a naturally low pH ( a measure of acidity ) providing conditions similar to those expected to become widespread as the oceans absorb carbon dioxide.

This extends to the widespread impression, created by statements such as that by U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee ( in regards to a recently passed measure making English the " official " language of the U. S .), that English is " part of our blood.

The choice of utilization voltage is due more to historical reasons than optimization of the distribution system — once a voltage is in use and equipment using this voltage is widespread, changing voltage is a drastic and expensive measure.

The secret ballot is the simplest and most widespread measure to ensure that political views are not known to anyone other than the voter — it is nearly universal in modern democracy, and considered a basic right of citizenship.

This measure sparked off widespread anti-Hindi protests, which led to violence in some places and the jailing of over 1, 200 men, women and children who took part in the unrest.

Ballot Measure 9 was a ballot measure in the U. S. state of Oregon in 1992, concerning gay rights and public education, that drew widespread national attention.

Detractors of this view of civic life note that the complexity of widespread public consultation and letting the public vote down necessary but unpopular expenditures is contrary to the spirit of a representative democracy, and is an impractical and untrusting measure.

Despite this measure, factors such as a growing population, the division of plots among descendants, peasant debts and enduring reliance on revenues from working on estates, together with the widespread speculation of estate leaseholders and instances where political corruption was detrimental to the allocation of land, made the reform almost completely ineffectual on the long term, and contributed to the countryside unrest which culminated in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1907.

These practices were seen as deceptive, and widespread consumer objection and lawsuits eventually forced most manufacturers to instead measure viewable size.

Some of the bankers involved have been or are on trial, yet the extent of their fraud is hard to measure as their widespread largess with officials within both the Fernández and Mejía administrations has made it nearly impossible to achieve a true accounting of what conditions led to the banks's demise.

Code violations by baby food manufacturers are still widespread, especially ( but not exclusively ) in countries that have not implemented the Code as a national measure or where monitoring and enforcement is weak.

It was probably built as a fortified warehouse to repel pirates and raiders, but it would appear to have had a measure of success in keeping the customs men at bay as well ; smuggling was widespread at the time and the abbey was known to have been involved.

He was admired by the wealthy elite for returning a measure of stability to the country in the midst of widespread social unrest.

* economic activity in some countries is much more difficult to measure accurately than in others ( for example, a large grey economy, widespread illiteracy, a lack of cash economy, survey access difficulties because of geographic factors or socio-political instability, very large mobility of people and assets-this is particularly the case in sub-Saharan countries ).

Supporters of the measure felt that their traditional values were under siege in the face of growing acceptance of homosexuality by society.

This is Coetzee's second book ( after Life and Times of Michael K ) where man is broken down almost to nothing before he finds some tiny measure of redemption in his forced acceptance of the realities of life and death.

The measure of mutual acceptance between the denominations and movements varies, but is growing largely due to the ecumenical movement in the 20th century and overarching Christian bodies such as the World Council of Churches.

Under a monarchical system of government, the monarch usually must consult and seek a measure of acceptance for his policies if he is to enjoy the broad cooperation of his subjects.

In the JLA, Red Tornado finally found a measure of acceptance.

This acceptance from the Board of Trade of financial assistance was considered a necessary, if temporary measure to ensure the Institution was able to continue to fulfil its primary task, and only lasted for fifteen years, being brought to a close by the Institution itself.

Educated women with careers who wanted to live with other women were allowed a measure of social acceptance and freedom to arrange their own lives.

When Alfred Pennyworth asks if Batman's acceptance of Stephanie as Robin was conceived by him as only a temporary measure from the outset and constituted part of an effort to lure Tim back to the cape, Batman evades the question.

In Germany swaddling is not used as routine care measure and experiences relatively little acceptance, as the missing mentioning of this practice in the standard work on regulatory disturbances of Papusek shows.

There are a number of other theories about the origin of the symbol, some with a measure of academic acceptance, others the symbolic equivalent of false etymologies.

The wise normals are not merely those who are in some sense accepting of the stigma ; they are, rather, " those whose special situation has made them intimately privy to the secret life of the stigmatized individual and sympathetic with it, and who find themselves accorded a measure of acceptance, a measure of courtesy membership in the clan.