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sufficient and supply
Verbal and adverbial elements too participated in each epic diction, but it is for the present sufficient to mark the large nominal and adjectival supply of semantic near-equivalents, and to designate the members of any system of equivalents as basic formulas of the poetic language.
By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.
However, Army units in the United States would have had trouble fielding mechanized and logistical assets, while the US Navy could not supply sufficient amphibious shipping to transport even a modest armored contingent from the Army.
To open the old exoskeleton, the spider generally contracts its abdomen ( opisthosoma ) to supply enough fluid to pump into the prosoma with sufficient pressure to crack it open along its lines of weakness.
); a homemade shelter-ventilating pump ( a KAP ); large containers for water ; a plastic bottle of sodium hypochlorite bleach ; one or two KFMs and the knowledge to operate them ; at least a 2-week supply of compact, nonperishable food ; an efficient portable stove ; wooden matches in a waterproof container ; essential containers and utensils for storing, transporting, and cooking food ; a hose-vented 5-gallon can, with heavy plastic bags for liners, for use as a toilet ; tampons ; insect screen and fly bait ; any special medications needed by family members ; Pure potassium iodide, a 2-oz bottle, and a medicine-dropper ; A first-aid kit and a tube of antibiotic ointment ; long-burning candles ( with small wicks ) sufficient for at least 14 nights ; an oil lamp ; a flashlight and extra batteries ; and a transistor radio with extra batteries and a metal box to protect it from EMP.
:" The importance of the Drake well was in the fact that it caused prompt additional drilling, thus establishing a supply of petroleum in sufficient quantity to support business enterprises of magnitude.
In order for them to defend the Rhine frontier against the Germans, he then allowed the Helvetii, Tulingi and Latobrigi to return to their territories and to rebuild their homes, instructing the Allobroges to supply them with a sufficient supply of grain.
Many home aquaria are unable to naturally supply sufficient infusoria for fish-rearing, so hobbyists may create and maintain their own supply cultures or use one of the many commercial cultures available.
Much time went into ensuring a sufficient supply of these items.
Passive cooling, or a single fan mounted on the power supply, was sufficient for many desktop computer CPUs until the late 1990s ; since then, most have required CPU fans mounted on their heat sinks, due to rising clock speeds and power consumption.
It explained why the energy of photoelectrons were dependent only on the frequency of the incident light and not on its intensity: a low-intensity, high-frequency source could supply a few high energy photons, whereas a high-intensity, low-frequency source would supply no photons of sufficient individual energy to dislodge any electrons.
The communal nesting sites were established in forest areas that had a sufficient supply of food and water available within daily flying range.
As much fuel shall be weighed, and as much water shall be measured and delivered into the Tender Carriage, as the owner of the Engine may consider sufficient for the supply of the Engine for a journey of thirty-five miles.
Demand and supply relations in a market can be statistically estimated from price, quantity, and other data with sufficient information in the model.
As a result, less blood circulates in the blood vessels, and the blood pressure becomes so low that it cannot supply sufficient blood to vital organs.
A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a watertank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system for the distribution of potable water.
In such a situation the placenta sits on the intraabdominal organs or the peritoneum and has found sufficient blood supply.
Renewal of deep water may not be sufficient to supply oxygen to the bottom.
Stable angina is due to inability to supply the myocardium ( heart muscle ) with sufficient blood in situations of increased cardiac output ( such as exertion ), and this pain of stable angina normally resolves with rest or nitroglicerin ( sublingual spray or tablet ).
Until 1875 wheat was imported as it was not grown in sufficient quantities to supply local demand ; by 1903 the country supplied all its own needs and exported of wheat, enough to sustain 16, 000, 000 people.
The site had a good water supply and close to sufficient local sources of food to sustain many thousands of prisoners and the guards.

sufficient and food
The Bastarnae host was still en route through Thrace, where it became embroiled in hostilities with the locals, who were unable ( or unwilling ) to provide them with sufficient food at affordable prices as they marched through.
When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she does not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive.
By the spring of 1794, forced collection of food was not sufficient to feed even Paris and the days of the Committee were numbered.
He wrote, " There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom ; that is: some minimum of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health.
Most of these establishments allow patrons to sing for free, with the expectation that sufficient revenue will be made selling food and drink to the singers.
Many of these food refugees reportedly return to North Korea after earning sufficient money.
Rabbits reingest their own droppings ( rather than chewing the cud as do cows and many other herbivores ) to digest their food further and extract sufficient nutrients.
Social security may also refer to the action programs of government intended to promote the welfare of the population through assistance measures guaranteeing access to sufficient resources for food and shelter and to promote health and wellbeing for the population at large and potentially vulnerable segments such as children, the elderly, the sick and the unemployed.
The territory lacks sufficient rainfall for sustainable agricultural production, that's why most of the food for the urban population must be imported.
An assessment of water management in agriculture was conducted in 2007 by the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka to see if the world had sufficient water to provide food for its growing population.
Euphoria was replaced by the prospect of a long war, and also by a realisation that food stocks were not sufficient to feed the entire population of German-occupied Europe.
Only sufficient thermal processing during production should be used as a food safety control.
* Cuny – A set of conditions that occurs when large numbers of people in a region cannot obtain sufficient food, resulting in widespread, acute malnutrition.
The total absence of agriculture in an economically strong area does not cause famine ; Arizona and other wealthy regions import the vast majority of their food, since such regions produce sufficient economic goods for trade.
Ehrlich argues that as the existing population was not being fed adequately, and as it was growing rapidly it was unreasonable to expect sufficient improvements in food production to feed everyone.
Countries with sufficient programmes in place to limit population growth, and the ability to become self sufficient in the future would continue to receive food aid.
If the food moves too quickly through the gastrointestinal tract, there is not enough time for sufficient nutrients and water to be absorbed.
A food is considered to have sufficient lysine if it has at least 51 mg of lysine per gram of protein ( so that the protein is 5. 1 % lysine ).
Although often associated with cold temperatures, the root purpose of hibernation is to conserve food during a period when sufficient food is scarce.

sufficient and water
In a saucepan put sufficient water to cover them, an equal amount of sugar, a sliced lemon, a tablespoonful of apricot preserve or jam, a pinch each of clove and nutmeg, and a large bay leaf.
In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.
Add sufficient soap ( and softener if required to counteract hard water ) to furnish a good running suds, or if desired use a synthetic detergent.
Irrigated agriculture is restricted to the areas surrounding rivers and wherever sufficient underground water is available.
In regions with sufficient rainfall, it is often more economical to design a building to use rain, with supplementary water deliveries in a drought.
They fill in the gaps between the branches with a combination of weeds and mud until the dam impounds sufficient water to surround the lodge.
As well, drinking sufficient amounts of water can help eliminate toxins and fat.
Diego Garcia is of sufficient width to minimise tidal fluctuations in the aquifer, and the rainfall ( in excess of 102. 5 inches / 260 cm per year on average ) is sufficient in amount and periodicity for the fresh water to form a series of convex, fresh-water, Ghyben-Herzberg lenses floating on the heavier salt water in the saturated sediments.
In the Plantation period, shallow wells, supplemented by rainwater collected in cisterns, provided sufficient water for the pastoral life style of the small population.
Either type is mixed with sufficient hot water to completely dissolve it, and then mixed with enough cold water to make the volume of liquid specified on the packet.
Elemental potassium is a soft silvery-white alkali metal that oxidizes rapidly in air and is very reactive with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite the hydrogen emitted in the reaction.
Competing views, however, usually have to reinterpret " estuary " to mean something other than an estuary, as the west of the Baltic Sea is the only body of estuarial water of sufficient length in the region.
Potatoes yield abundantly with little effort, and adapt readily to diverse climates as long as the climate is cool and moist enough for the plants to gather sufficient water from the soil to form the starchy tubers.
* Phytoplankton ( from Greek phyton, or plant ), autotrophic, prokaryotic or eukaryotic algae that live near the water surface where there is sufficient light to support photosynthesis.
Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass will eventually convert entirely to rust and disintegrate.
In this belt, only the Euphrates and Khabur rivers provide sufficient water for settlement and cultivation.
Urban breweries usually import water from other areas, because of the difficulty of getting water of sufficient quality locally.

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