The very largest of all purchases of dollars in the history of 1976 was when the West German government achieved an almost 3 billion dollar acquisition ( a figure given as 2. 75 billion in total by The Statesman: Volume 18 1974 → ), this event indicated the impossibility of the balancing of exchange stabilities by the measures of control used at the time and the monetary system and the foreign exchange markets in " West " Germany and other countries within Europe closed for two weeks ( during February and, or, March of 1973.

The total impossibility of my individual efforts, limited, restrained & controlled as they are, to do any real, or at least much, good.

Just as Ramsey theory elucidates the impossibility of total disorder, discrepancy theory studies the deviations from total uniformity.

Even though the total number of subproblems is actually small ( only 43 of them ), we end up solving the same problems over and over if we adopt a naive recursive solution such as this.

His expression corresponds to what we would now call potential energy, so that his statement of least action in statics is equivalent to the principle that a system of bodies at rest will adopt a configuration that minimizes total potential energy.

" In his own nomination, Walton received only " an extremely small per cent of the total votes cast ," yet was still selected as the Democratic Party candidate, and this perceived injustice led to the Oklahoma Legislature resolving to adopt a different electoral system ; eventually, they created the Oklahoma primary electoral system.

At the Review Conference in June 11, 2010 a total of 111 State Parties to the Court agreed by consensus to adopt a resolution accepting the definition of the crime and the conditions for the exercise of jurisdiction over this crime.

A total of 58 % of those under 50 believe same-sex couples should be able to adopt, falling to 33 % among the over-50s.

Since protons have spin 1 / 2, they are fermions and the permutational antisymmetry of the total H < sub > 2 </ sub > wavefunction imposes restrictions on the possible rotational states the two forms of H < sub > 2 </ sub > can adopt.

Turchin has been portrayed by many in the South as a villainous figure for the so called " Rape of Athens ," however his actions presaged those that other Union commanders, in particular William Tecumseh Sherman, would adopt in prosecuting total war against the Confederacy.

In September 2007 Biomet Inc., DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. ( part of Johnson & Johnson ), Smith & Nephew PLC and Zimmer Holdings Inc. entered into settlement agreements, under which they agree to pay $ 300 million in total, adopt industry overhauls and undertake corporate monitoring to avoid criminal charges of conspiracy.

He demanded and got the following: his name was made part of the title, " John Frankenheimer's The Train "; the French co-director, demanded by French tax laws, was not allowed to ever set foot on set ; he was given total final cut ; and a Ferrari.

She is the primordial energy that holds all creation and destruction, all cycles of birth and death, all laws of cause and effect within Herself, and yet is greater than the sum total of all these.

More extensive studies, however, covering far more areas and controlling for the effects of many more other gun laws, found that gun control laws generally have no detectable effect on total suicide rates.

By 1805, the number had increased to 1, 300, but in 1834, after the secularization laws went into effect, the total number of Mission Indians at the Mission San Antonio was only 150.

In common law systems these rules would not be seen as laws but as mere legal conventions as they cannot be upheld by judges ; within the Dutch civil law system however they are part of the more extended Dutch-German legal concept of the Recht, the total " legal " normative structure, be it written or unwritten, so that they have full normative force.

There may be a tendency to see the number of available jobs as a zero-sum game with the total number of jobs being fixed which causes people to not realize that minimum wage laws reduce the number of jobs or to believe that an increased number of jobs in other nations necessarily decreases the number of jobs in their own nation.

Since overall energy is not lost ( yet ) and therefore total entropy is not reduced ( according to thermodynamic laws ), the net result is that the item heats up ( T + ΔT < sub > ad </ sub >).

In fact, the defeat of his plans was so total, that he was forced to make certain conciliatory gestures to the nobility, as the Sejm passed several laws constraining his ability ( such as to hire foreign troops ), further indicating the limits of royal power in the Commonwealth.

* Fund administration fee: for overseeing all administrative affairs of the fund such as preparing financial statements and shareholder reports, preparing and filing a myriad of SEC filings required of registered investment companies, monitoring compliance with investment restrictions, computing total returns and other fund performance information, preparing / filing tax returns and all expenses of maintaining compliance with state " blue sky " laws

In this state of extreme danger, we have no alternative left but an abject submission to the will of those over-bearing tyrants, or a total separation from the crown and government of Great Britain, uniting and exerting the strength of all America for defense, and forming alliances with foreign powers for commerce and aid in war: Wherefore, appealing to the SEARCHER OF HEARTS for the sincerity of former declarations, expressing our desire to preserve a connection with that nation, and that we are driven from that inclination by their wicked councils, and the eternal laws of self-preservation,

Many laws take mathematical forms, and thus can be stated as an equation ; for example, the Law of Conservation of Energy can be written as, where E is the total amount of energy in the universe.

* Has total or original control over budget and monetary laws.

"), wiping out 70 % of Britain's population, the number of mutants increased and was met with loathing by the " norms " and institutionalised racism: laws were passed forbidding mutants from owning businesses and segregating them into ghettos such as Milton Keynes, and only a vicious guerilla war prevented total extermination of all mutants and ensured some basic freedoms.

Recall the laws of thermodynamics, it states that the rate of change of the total energy of a system is equal to the rate at which applied force do work on it.

In addition to granting the DOJ this privilege, the bill also stipulated that the Attorney General would have six months to " develop a program to ensure effective implementation and use of the authority for civil enforcement of the copyright laws ", and report back to Congress on the details of said lawsuits, including the total number of lawsuits and the financial statistics.

In 2011, a total of 15 derelict sites in the town were designated as enterprise zones, offering tax breaks and relaxed planning laws to any businesses interested in setting up bases in the selected areas.

A 2007 study based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System ( FARS ) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concluded that between 1985 and 2002 there were " significant reductions in fatality rates for occupants and motorcyclists after the implementation of belt use laws ", and that " seatbelt use rate is significantly related to lower fatality rates for the total, pedestrian, and all non-occupant models even when controlling for the presence of other state traffic safety policies and a variety of demographic factors.

Earlier research carried out by John Adams in 1981 had suggested that there was no correlation between the passing of seat belt legislation and the total reductions in injuries or fatalities based on comparisons between states with and without seat belt laws.

Industries include chemical engineering, textiles, oil, metal products, metallurgy and printed matter. It is an industrial city, but more than 60 % of Santo André's total area are protected by environmental water laws.

On a different note, the Puerto Rican Independence Party was unable to reach 3 % of the total votes on the preliminary results, putting in risk their franchise as a principal political party by Puerto Rican electoral laws.

In the absence of specific laws prohibiting multiple taxation, and as long as the total of taxes does not exceed 100 % of the value of the tangible personal property, the courts will allow such multiple taxation.

The position of the linguistic border was endorsed in the 1970 State Reform ( requiring a two-thirds majority ) and, in return for contributing to this endorsement, the French-speaking minority was granted new measures which included the requirement of a special majority ( a two-thirds majority in total and at least 50 % in each linguistic group ) to pass such laws as those of 1962 and 1963 in future ; and ( article 54 ) the possibility for any linguistic group to block a bill and open negotiations when it considers that such bill seriously jeopardizes its interests.

First: By their repeated violations of the constitution and laws and the total disregard of the civil and political rights of the people.

In a total blockade, action could also be taken against ships bringing in chemicals, oils, textiles, and even foodstuffs.

It was shown that by proper anode design the net energy loss of the arc to the anode could be reduced to approximately 15% of the total arc energy.

For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.

He could see in almost total darkness.

Furthermore, even the highly trained law clerk who was a part of Jack's total make-up could not understand how the principle could ever be codified.

Power generated by muscles, however, is limited by force – velocity relationship, and even at the optimal contraction speed for power production, total work done by the muscle will be less than half of what could be done if the muscle were contracting over the same distance at very slow speeds, resulting in less than 1 / 4 the projectile launch velocity possible without the limitations of the force – velocity relationship.

Several months later, when Ceres should have reappeared, Piazzi could not locate it: the mathematical tools of the time were not able to extrapolate a position from such a scant amount of data — three degrees represent less than 1 % of the total orbit.

They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area.

After this visit, in which she was deemed sufficiently orthodox, she began traveling with her followers throughout northern and central Italy advocating reform of the clergy and the launch of a new crusade and advising people that repentance and renewal could be done through " the total love for God.

It is estimated that the total amount of the information that is stored on the world's storage devices could be further compressed with existing compression algorithms by a remaining average factor of 4. 5: 1.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

Eight species are described although many researchers believed these actually represented only three at most while some estimated there could be around twenty in total.

Some < sup > 238 </ sup > U atoms, however, could absorb another two neutrons ( for a total of 17 ), resulting in < sup > 255 </ sup > Es, as well as in the < sup > 255 </ sup > Fm isotope of another new element, fermium .< ref >< sup > 254 </ sup > Es, < sup > 254 </ sup > Fm and < sup > 253 </ sup > Fm would not be produced because of lack of beta decay in < sup > 254 </ sup > Cf and < sup > 253 </ sup > Es </ ref > The discovery of the new elements and the associated new data on multiple neutron capture were initially kept secret on the orders of the U. S. military until 1955 due to Cold War tensions and competition with Soviet Union in nuclear technologies.

Kaldor later wrote that Hayek's Prices and Production had produced " a remarkable crop of critics " and that the total number of pages in British and American journals dedicated to the resulting debate " could rarely have been equalled in the economic controversies of the past.

William assumed it was but the first step towards a total re-Catholisation of England and was unable to explain how James could hope to achieve this goal unless he had concluded a secret alliance with France.

Entries could weigh no more than six tons and had to travel along the track for a total distance of.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

Ribbentrop told Welles that only a total German victory " could give us the peace we want ".

As with the Von der Tann design, which was drawn up at a similar time, all guns could be fired either side in broadsides, meaning more guns could come to bear than with the Helgoland design, despite having fewer in total.

One of the very few understood words so far, the summarizing term, KU-RO, most likely meaning ' total ' or something similar to it, could be of either Indo-European * kwol-( o-grade form of * kwel -, cognate to English " whole "), or Semitic (* kull-' whole ') origin, or a language isolate, unrelated to either.

Similarly, the opportunity cost of attending university is the lost wages a student could have earned in the workforce, rather than the cost of tuition, books, and other requisite items ( whose sum makes up the total cost of attendance ).

That is, the total profits a monopolist could earn if it sought to leverage its monopoly in one market by monopolizing a complementary market are equal to the extra profits it could earn anyway by charging more for the monopoly product itself.