Among the most significant soil contaminants are hydrocarbons, heavy metals, MTBE, herbicides, pesticides and chlorinated hydrocarbons.

Among the multiple causes, however, are the mechanical causes which include: poison, improper heavy weight lifting, hard coughing bouts, sharp blows to the abdomen, tight clothing and incorrect posture.

Among young adolescents, " heavy " sexual activity, marked by genital stimulation, is often associated with violence, depression, and poor relationship quality.

Among other heavy institutions at that time, was the King Bridge Manufacturing Company, which located the Bridge shops at Iola, in 1871.

Among English-speaking tourists, popular postcards depict the station with a heavy frost on the ground, making a visual joke about " Hell frozen over.

Among the early bands to add negative connotations to the term was Black Sabbath, combining heavy metal music with " occult symbols and odes to the Devil ".

Among workers, lunch is often not so heavy, and may be a sandwich or a salad, depending on whether the company has a lunch restaurant.

Among the latter would be: having to fight, having to pay the costs of war from their own resources, having painfully to repair the devastation war leaves behind, and, to fill up the measure of evils, load themselves with a heavy national debt that would embitter peace itself and that can never be liquidated on account of constant wars in the future "

Among standard measurements, the wing chord is, the elongated tail is, the relatively long, heavy bill is and the tarsus is.

Shirley Jackson made a wisecrack in her nonfiction book Life Among the Savages about her coin-collecting son and husband receiving " heavy little packages from Ruritania and Atlantis " which often arrived with postage due ; she had to pay it with pennies because the numismatists had absconded with all the other coins in the house.

Among these was a levitation experiment where heavy weights in sealed flasks of water were made to rise and fall in response to differently pitched sounds from a zither, to activate a " globe liberator " which then transmitted " the aetheric force " through a wire to the water container.

Among its notable results during the period was the heavy bomber, where Tupolev's design approach defined for many years the trends of heavy aircraft development, civil and military.

Among their examples is the island city of Nan Madol ; the book claims that its construction, with exacting tolerances and extremely heavy basalt materials, necessitates a high degree of technical competency.

Among the works proposed under the project were an expansion of the massive Prado Dam, which despite filling to capacity did not fully prevent heavy flooding damages in Orange County, and the construction of the $ 530 million " Mentone Dam " across the Santa Ana north of Mentone in San Bernardino County.

Among the issues brought up by the party prior to nomination day were: the heavy influx of foreigners into Singapore, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's mismanagement of the Youth Olympic Games and the loss of sinking funds in the PAP run town councils in Holland-Bukit Timah and Bukit Panjang.

Among heavy weapons, there were two 106mm recoilless rifles, two 4. 2-inch mortars and nineteen 60mm mortars positioned around the camp.

Among the students is the ringleader Rita Watson ; preachy Ahmal ; rap artist Frankie ; Sketch, who sleeps a lot due to heavy work ; and fashionable Maria.

Among many bizarre features of the film is a heavy treatment with green colour filters, aping the style of the colour plates in the manga, and the fact that the trailer for the film is a pastiche of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal trailer for À bout de souffle ( 1960 ).

Among the factories listed were the Regensburg Messerschmitt factory ( which would be attacked at high cost in August, the Schweinfurter Kugellagerwerke ball-bearing ( attacked in October and also causing heavy USAAF losses ) and the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke ( WNF ) which produced Bf 109 fighters.

Among the missions undertaken in 1943 by the heavy bomber units under Brereton's command was the minimum-altitude bombing of oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.

" Among famous people who have eaten at Bæjarins beztu are Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, and James Hetfield, vocalist of the popular heavy metal band Metallica.

Among them was Captain Philip John Gardner VC MC, who transferred to the Royal Tank Regiment and went on to win the Victoria Cross for saving the life of a badly wounded officer of the King's Dragoon Guards whose armoured car was out of action and under heavy fire.

Among its reasons for making the switch, CBS cited WMAR-TV's weak newscast ratings and heavy pre-emptions of network programs.

Among the first 101 elements in the periodic table, only francium is less stable.

Among other things, this feature allows a single iterative statement to process arbitrarily many elements of an array.

Among the more common of such " native elements " are copper, silver, gold, carbon ( as coal, graphite, or diamonds ), sulfur, and mercury.

Among all elements, Ren and Yi are fundamental.

Among the Aztecs, the ancient Mexican theory of rhetorics, poetry, dance, and instrumental music, used the Nahuatl term In xochitl-in kwikatl to refer a complex mix of music and other poetic verbal and non-verbal elements, and reserve the word Kwikakayotl ( or cuicacayotl ) only for the sung expressions ( Leon-Portilla 2007, 11 ).

Among other elements, Ann Radcliffe also introduced the brooding figure of the Gothic villain, which developed into the Byronic hero.

Among more common minerals, oxides and sulfides tend to have a higher specific gravity as they include elements with higher atomic mass.

Among the most noteworthy elements of the text are its non-linear plot, and the influence on events of choices made by women and serfs, besides the actions of fighting men.

Among major structural elements used in poetry are the line, the stanza or verse paragraph, and larger combinations of stanzas or lines such as cantos.

Among these elements are Shinto mythology, marriage customs, architectural styles, and technological developments such as lacquerware, textiles, laminated bows, metalworking, and glass making.

Among apologetic writings was the Ad quaestiones magorum ( 429-436 ), now lost, in which he justified the Old Testament sacrifices as alternatives in opposition to the Egyptian idolatry, and exposed the fables of the Magi who worshiped the elements ( Church History v. 38 ).

Among the many traditions associated with Christmas are the construction of cribs and the performance of re-enactments of elements of the story in the Gospels of the birth of Jesus, a tradition started in the 13th century by the Franciscans.

" Among the elements added for home video were a briefing with the Federation president where Admiral Cartwright and Colonel West unveil their plan for rescuing Kirk and McCoy, and a scene where Spock and Scott inspect the torpedoes.

Among the critically acclaimed band leaders of the 1930s and 1940s whose performances included elements of both " Sweet Band " music and traditional swing music was Shep Fields.

Among these elements are Shinto religion, marriage customs, architectural styles, and technological developments such as lacquerware, textiles, laminated bows, metalworking, and glass making.

Among the microscopic particles responsible for the scattering are carbon compounds ( e. g. diamond dust ) and compounds of other elements such as iron and nickel.

Among this uncertainty though, it is clear that some narrative elements that are associated with the poet and composer of a lied were transferred from the song cycle to the symphony.

Among familiar themes and elements in Perrault's tale:

Among the many elements taken from the Dolorous Passion are scenes such as the suspension of Jesus from a bridge after his arrest by the Temple guards, the torment of Judas by demons after he had handed over Jesus to the Sanhedrin, the wiping up of the blood of Jesus after his scourging, and the dislocation of Jesus ’ shoulder so that his palm would reach the hole bored for the nail.

Among its features were a separate editor for tables that supported nesting, and a two-dimensional panel for applying CSS styles to elements.

Among the assets acquired was Mountain Pass rare earth mine, a then world's largest producer of rare earth elements.

Among these cases, there are two major types of cis-acting RNA sequence elements present in pre-mRNAs and they have corresponding trans-acting RNA-binding proteins.

Among a number of things, it generates 2D / 3D vector graphic objects and elements.

The same year, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Batman: Arkham Asylum incorporated stealth elements in different segments of the games.