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A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.
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Aggressive head on bumping or " charging " of a player with the ball is often described as " rough play " and is a reportable offence, this is particularly so if a player is deemed to have their head down over the ball in an attempt to picking it up off the ground when the bump is applied or contact is made above the shoulders.
I shoud be very glad to know at the sametime how rough and undressd Flax has generally, and may probably sell ; for this year I have made an Essay in both, and altho I suffer pretty considerably by the attempt, owing principally to the severity of the Drougth, and my inexperience in the management I am not altogether discouraged from a further prosecution of the Scheme provided I find the Sales with you are not clogd with too much difficulty and expence.
The classification of algebraic surfaces was a bold and successful attempt to repeat the division of curves by their genus g. It corresponds to the rough classification into the three types: g = 0 ( projective line ); g = 1 ( elliptic curve ); and g > 1 ( Riemann surfaces with independent holomorphic differentials ).
By late 1985 CBS was experiencing rough financial straits, an after-effect of successfully fending off a hostile takeover attempt by Ted Turner the previous year.
The high-ranking members share a rough balance of power although sometimes one or more members seek to increase their power at the expense of others or some of them may attempt to transform the system into an autocracy or make it more democratic.
Although not specifically addressed to children, Mortadelo was born during Francisco Franco's dictatorship, when censorship was the order of the day and the slightest attempt of rough language was prohibited.
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In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
He then draped him over the rough stand, explained that he was supposed to be recently dead, and was being held on his mother's lap.
Hatless, in an overcoat of rough blue wool, I was given a proud farewell by my mother and father, and I set out into the strangely still streets of Brooklyn.
( 1 ) When an object was placed in the patient's hand, he had no difficulty determining whether it was warm or cold, sharp or blunt, rough or smooth, flexible, soft, or hard ; ;
It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
So strenuous it was physically, with its days of horseback riding over rough roads that it seems an amazing feat of endurance for both Miss Packard and Miss Upton.
In ancient times, navigation through the sea was easier than travelling across the rough terrain of the Greek mainland ( and to some extent the coastal areas of Anatolia ).
This was to prevent the weapon from being damaged by long-distance towing across rough, stony deserts, and it was intended only to be a carrying method, with the gun unloaded for firing.
Although it could be used to mark rough surfaces such as leather, as Loud intended, it proved to be too coarse for letter writing and was not commercially viable.
A rough acoustic version of " Never Go Hungry Again ", recorded during an interview for The Times in November, was also released.
Due to the rough terrain of Colombia communications between regions was difficult and affected the effectiveness of the central government creating isolation in some regions.
The club's first ground was Siemens Meadow ( 1905 – 1907 ), a patch of rough ground by the River Thames.
This has been subjected to a double rhyme, starting with the original rough synonym " arse ", which was rhymed with " bottle and glass ", leading to " bottle ".
Only in occupations relating to agriculture, forestry, and school teaching was a rough parity approached, and as few as 6 percent of Finns worked in jobs where 40 to 60 percent of workers were of the opposite sex.
This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..
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Passengers and freight had to travel overland, a journey made more difficult by the rough condition of the roads.
The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.
He tells his psychologist at one early juncture that he has made similar attempts in all fifteen times now, which he calls a rough estimate.
Braid made a rough distinction between different stages of hypnosis, which he termed the first and second conscious stage of hypnotism ; he later replaced this with a distinction between " sub-hypnotic ", " full hypnotic ", and " hypnotic coma " stages.
Modifications that manufacturers made to recover some of the lost distance, by increasing tail drag ( using holes, rough paint or dimples ), were outlawed at the end of 1991 and marks made using implements with such modifications removed from the record books.
There was a smith to forge the rough shape, often a second smith ( apprentice ) to fold the metal, a specialist polisher ( called a togi ) as well as the various artisans that made the koshirae ( the various fittings used to decorate the finished blade and saya ( sheath ) including the tsuka ( hilt ), fuchi ( collar ), kashira ( pommel ), and tsuba ( hand guard )).
The suspension was raised to clear rough Russian roads and the bodyshell was made from thicker, heavier steel.
The researcher made a ‘ weak ’ measurement of the photon ’ s polarization in one plane — not enough to disturb it, but enough to produce a rough sense of its orientation.
* Membrane-bound and secreted proteins are made on ribosomes found in the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
The Foundation takes an oversight role over X development: technical decisions are made on their merits by achieving rough consensus among community members.
The rough and diverse geography of northern South America and the limited range of proper roads made travel and communications within the Viceroyalty difficult.
Discovery is made by providing observational evidence and attempts to develop an initial, rough understanding of some phenomenon.
Because sea conditions were too rough, the decision was made for the 116th RCT to carry the DD tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion all the way to the beach.
Diamond manufacturers analyze diamond rough from an economic perspective, with two objectives steering decisions made about how a faceted diamond will be cut.
The book Sleazoid Express, a travelogue of the 42nd Street grindhouses and the films they showed, describes in detail the unique blend of people who made up the theatre-goers, including black pimps, low-grade mafiosi, transvestites, Latino gangsters, " rough trade " homosexuals, aggressive lesbians, trench coat-clad perverts, and thrill-seeking squares.
The first practical pneumatic tire was made by John Boyd Dunlop while working as a veterinarian in May Street, Belfast, Ireland in 1887 for his son's bicycle, in an effort to prevent the headaches his son had while riding on rough roads ( Dunlop's patent was later declared invalid because of prior art by fellow Scot Robert William Thomson ).
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