Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.

To do this, it is sufficient to point out that if the principle in terms of which alternatives are to be conceived is such as to exclude more than two, then the question of a `` third '' possibility is a meaningless question.

Argon is the third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere, at 0. 93 % ( 9, 300 ppm ), making it approximately 23. 8 times as abundant as next most common atmospheric gas, carbon dioxide ( 390 ppm ), and more than 500 times as abundant as the next most common noble gas, neon ( 18 ppm ).

" The compact includes a $ 67 million to rehabilitate up to 943 kilometers of rural roads, more than a third of Armenia's proposed " Lifeline road network ".

Then the Giants took control, as Manning threw for two more TD passes to Mario Manningham and Nicks and the defense completed its shutout of the Falcons to give the New York Giants the win, 24-2, and the Falcons their third straight playoff loss with Matt Ryan and Mike Smith.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

According to him, while the first two visions ( the alter-globalism and the anti-globalism ) represent the reconstructed forms of old and new left ideologies, respectively, in the context of current globalization, only the third one has shown the capacity to respond more effectively to the intellectual requirements of today ’ s global complexities.

The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.

However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

He later wrote: " After more than forty years, we have had no third world war, and the balance of nuclear terror ... may have helped to prevent one.

In more recent years, pure steals of home are rare, although a player may steal home plate during a " delayed double steal ," in which a runner on first attempts to steal second, while the runner on third breaks for home as soon as the catcher throws to second base.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

" Marlborough, spotting this error, now countermanded Cutts ’ intention to launch a third attack, and ordered him simply to contain the enemy within Blenheim ; no more than 5, 000 Allied soldiers were able to pen in twice the number of French infantry and dragoons.

At the start of a game, play is more or less random, the only strategy is to avoid adding the third side to any box.

Business leaders were more concerned about access to Logan Airport, and pushed instead for a third harbor tunnel.

" The bodies lay in the blowing snow through the night ...... February indeed made us shiver, but it was more than the cold of February that third day of the month in 1959.

Under Grimond ( who retired in 1967 ) and his successor, Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberals regained the status of a serious third force in British politics, polling up to 20 % of the vote but unable to break the duopoly of Labour and Conservative and win more than fourteen seats in the Commons.

There have been repeated findings that between a third and a half of adults diagnosed with bipolar disorder report traumatic / abusive experiences in childhood, which is associated on average with earlier onset, a worse course, and more co-occurring disorders such as PTSD.

* In November 2007, it emerged that more than £ 400, 000 had been accepted by the Labour Party from one person through a series of third parties, causing the Electoral Commission to seek an explanation.

A third network, Centrafrique Telecom Plus closed down in late 2005 after failing to attract more than 5, 000 subscribers and after failing to renew its license, in accordance to the new Bozize government.

Chile produces more than a third of the world's copper.

There are 117 native trees and more than 1, 400 types of orchids, a third of them can be found in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The third meeting of the Enoch seminar at Camaldoli in 2005 was entirely devoted to academic discussion on the Messiah " Son of Man " in the Book of Parables of Enoch.

Although Whitman's grades improved somewhat during his second and third semesters at the University of Texas, the Marine Corps deemed his academic performance unacceptable and returned Whitman to active duty in February, 1963.

The third cycle of higher education is offered only by research universities, which are entitled to award the country's highest academic degree, the doctorate, which entitles a person to use the title doctor ( dr .).

D. G. Ritchie was a founding member, and the third President ( 1898 – 1899 ), of the Aristotelian Society, an influential academic organization that is still very much in active existence.

In scholarship, the 20th century rise to dominance by the social sciences focused attention on academic social theories and ideals —" civil society "— and technical jargon — the " third sector " and " nonprofits ".

In order to qualify for this third area, a university had to have at least one internationally recognized academic center of excellence and a new graduate school.

A third system — the Yale Romanization system, which is a transliteration system — exists, but is used only in academic literature, especially in linguistics.

Countering the misleading " discoveries " of pseudoarchaeology binds academic archaeologists in a quandary, described by Cornelius Holtorf as whether to strive to disprove alternative approaches in a " crusading " approach or to concentrate on better public understanding of the sciences involved ; Holtorf suggested a third, relativist and contextualised approach, in identifying the social and cultural needs that both scientific and alternative archaeologies address and in identifying the engagement with the material remains of the past in the present in terms of critical understanding and dialogue with " multiple pasts ", such as Barbara Bender explored for Stonehenge.

It was located on the third floor of the Baltimore City College, third oldest public high school in America located at 33rd Street and The Alameda in the northeast city which was a specialized academic magnet school for the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Now, Puget Sound is a nationally ranked institution enjoying top academic marks from third party evaluators and college guides.

Twelve years after the merger, in 1996, the University added a third academic division, the College of Media and Communication.

The third building is planned to be in 161 – 171 Massachusetts Avenue, which is expected to contain more academic and administrative space for the Berklee College of Music.

General Board meetings are held on the first and third Monday, at 4pm, of every month during the academic year.

In 1975, UB became an " upper division academic institution ", offering only third and fourth year undergraduate and post-graduate course work.

Some academic institutions also enable a third semester in the summer.

** Professional Graduate Diploma in Information Technology-A academic qualification equal to the third ( final ) year of a UK honors degree, awarded by the British Computer Society ( BCS )

Oakland is the academic, cultural, and healthcare center of Pittsburgh and is Pennsylvania's third largest " Downtown ".

As the academic Institution was dissatisfied with the result produced by the second commission, a third commission, chaired by Dubois d ' Amiens, was established.

Lastly, British academic Steven Lukes added a third dimension of power, preference-shaping, which he claimed was another important aspect of normative power in politics which entails theoretical views similar to notions of cultural hegemony.

In addition to outstanding academic performance, Jason was Lake Brantley High School's third baseman and relief catcher.

While young people from the majority Han group are the largest single ethnicity amongst the fifteen thousand students, 60 % of the students and more than one third of the academic staff are from other nationalities.

42 students from Sciences Po will spend their third year abroad in India in the 2010-11 academic year.