But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

If the lever is pulled to clear a signal or move a switch, the tappet moves a short distance lengthwise at the same time.

These can also move a short distance but at right angles to the tappets.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

However, any oxygen nonequivalence would shorten either the already extremely short Af interlayer distance of 2.55 A or the non-hydrogen-bonded Af interlayer interactions which are already quite short at 2.58 Aj.

They had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.

At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.

However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

Being relatively heavy and positively charged, alpha particles tend to have a very short mean free path, and quickly lose kinetic energy within a short distance of their source.

Anbar was adjacent or identical to the Babylonian Jewish center of Nehardea ( Hebrew: ), and lies a short distance from the present-day town of Fallujah, formerly the Babylonian Jewish center of Pumbeditha ( Hebrew: ).

A short distance further, below Brugg it receives first the Reuss, and shortly afterwards the Limmat.

For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.

A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and a United States Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface.

It had strong links with Italy, especially Venice, a relatively short distance across the Alps.

There is a Scottish Youth Hostels Association hostel in Acheninver, a short distance to the north.

The service courts are marked by a centre line dividing the width of the court, by a short service line at a distance of 1. 98 metres ( 6 ft 6 inch ) from the net, and by the outer side and back boundaries.

Because badminton players have to cover a short distance as quickly as possible, the purpose of many advanced strokes is to deceive the opponent, so that either he is tricked into believing that a different stroke is being played, or he is forced to delay his movement until he actually sees the shuttle's direction.

A short distance from Enfide is the entrance to a narrow, gloomy valley, penetrating the mountains and leading directly to Subiaco.

* Nailaka, a short distance northeast of Pulau Run

Most of the 1, 450 km road to the coast is now paved, only a short distance remains.

A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.

A ferry was established to avoid crossing both the Flatrock and Driftwood rivers, which join only a short distance above the site of the ferry.

Just upstream of the town of Commercy, the Canal de la Meuse connects with the Canal de la Marne au Rhin by means of a short diversion canal.

In prokaryotes, the promoter consists of two short sequences at-10 and-35 positions upstream from the transcription start site.

Union Township and the village of Chesapeake lie a short distance upstream, and Perry Township lies a short distance downstream.

Macmillan encouraged Jenssen to try to sail upstream from Khartoum again in 1905, but he was forced to stop 300 miles short of Lake Tana.

Concrete anti-tank cubes were provided on both side of the river, a short distance upstream of the bridge, as an obstacle to armoured vehicles.

Lough Ree, the largest lake on the Shannon, is a short distance upstream from Athlone to the North of the town, and is popular among anglers, birdwatchers, and swimmers.

It ranks as the seventh of Bavaria's rivers by water flow, with an averaged throughput of 75 m³ / s at Senden, a short distance upstream from the Danube.

From there, they migrate upstream, traversing numerous obstacles — if necessary, leaving the water and travelling short distances over moist ground.

These regulatory proteins bind to short stretches of DNA called regulatory regions or DNA binding sites, which are appropriately positioned in the genome, usually a short distance ' upstream ' of the gene being regulated.

It is derived from the River Honddu, which meets the River Usk near the town centre, a short distance away from the River Tarell which enters the Usk a few hundred metres upstream.

It is located in Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames a short distance upstream of the Palace of Westminster on the opposite shore.

The upstream section known as the Big Eddy is a short segment upriver from the city of Bend between Dillon Falls and Lava Island Falls.

For a time, Nobunaga's forces fought the Azai, while the Tokugawa warriors fought the Asakura a short distance upstream.

The river is actually navigable for a short distance further upstream, near the village of Inglesham, where the Thames and Severn Canal joins the River Thames.

This short canal allowed ships to turn upstream into the Niagara River directly and avoid the most severe currents.

They are located a short distance east of the city, upstream along the Bellova Creek.

Restocking commenced in the 1970s and continued through 1980s have re-established Murray Cod and Golden Perch in the lake and a short stretch of river upstream.

It was located a short distance upstream from the present OPG Cheneaux Generating Station.

Lock 21E was relocated a short distance upstream, to the other side of Platt Lane, in order to ensure that the Platt Lane crossing could be achieved by a conventional bridge instead of the swing bridge that had existed prior to closure.

A short branch, the Sidney or Port Jefferson feeder canal ran up the Miami Valley from Lockington through Sidney to a dam just upstream from Port Jefferson.

At its final stretch, i. e. on its way through Bayonne and a short extent upstream, the river draws the borderline between the Northern Basque Country and Landes regions.

Boating is limited to a short distance upstream from a point called Toms Landing due to the shallow depth.