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For example, " FOB JNPT " means that the exporter delivers the goods to the Jawahar lal Nehru Port, India, and pays for the cargo to be loaded and secured on the ship.
For example, at CIF Los Angeles, the exporter pays the ocean shipping / air freight costs to Los Angeles including the insurance of cargo.
Typical payloads could include scientific instruments ( cameras, telescopes, or particle detectors, for example ), cargo, or a human crew.
Conversely a large cargo, for example in structure relocation, may be disassembled for carriage on multiple vehicles and then reassembled in the correct order at the destination.
Owing to the limited capacity of cargo aircraft of the period ( for example the Ju-52 ) they rarely, if ever, jumped in groups much larger than 20 from one aircraft.
* Physician Raymond Tallis describes the psychoanalytic school established by Jacques Lacan as an example of cargo cult science.
* The Cranfield University report “ Aircraft Cabin Air Sampling Study ” provides a recent example of cargo cult science.
A slowing falling or near flat torque curve would correspond with a slowly rising power curve up to a maximum at a rotational speed close to Max RPM, for example a large, heavy multi-cylinder engine suitable for cargo / hauling.
The axle is lowered to increase the weight capacity, or to distribute the weight of the cargo over more wheels, for example to cross a weight restricted bridge.
For example, a Klabautermann will pump water from the hold, arrange cargo, and hammer at holes until they can be repaired.
Johnson pointed to the Berlin Airlift as a technological triumph important to the future of air cargo transportation and as an example of the fruits of unification.
Blockade running is the practice of delivering cargo ( food, for example ) to a blockaded area.
Due to these increasingly frequent visits, new laws address the safety of boaters, commercial fishermen, and the whales themselves: off the coast of Boston, for example, cargo vessels must slow down to protect the much slower North Atlantic Right Whale and there is talk of erecting an apparatus for the much more heavily trafficked waters surrounding New York that can warn boats of a whale's presence and location so as to avoid accidentally striking the animal.
The working of cargo was performed by stevedores to the accompaniment of shanties, for example in the tradition of the Georgia Sea Island Singers of St. Simons Island, Georgia.
Later, during World War II, the experimental German Arado Ar 232 cargo aircraft used a centerline row of ten " twinned " fixed wheel sets directly under the fuselage centreline to handle heavier loads while on the ground, as the earliest known example of multiple " tandem wheels " on an aircraft, like many of today's large cargo aircraft use for their retractable main gear setups ( usually mounted on the lower corners of the central fuselage structure ).
Daggerboards can be raised when the a ship enters a shallow harbor, allowing the boat ( for example ) to load and unload cargo in locations that would not otherwise be accessible to larger ships.
A good example of road cargo is food, as supermarkets require deliveries every day to keep their shelves stocked with goods.
Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city.
For example, in the summer of 2007, a large piece of equipment for Rosneft's Siberian Vankor Oil Field was delivered by the Amur-1516 from Dzerzhinsk on the Oka River, via the Volga – Baltic Waterway and the White Sea Canal to Arkhangelsk, and then from there by the ocean-going SA-15 class Arctic cargo ship Kapitan Danilkin to Dudinka on the River Yenisei.
Thus they transport cargo from the periphery of the cell towards the centre, for example from the terminal buttons of a neuronal axon to the cell body ( soma ).
For example, the cargo coaster is a new design for a nuclear cargo ship.
The company's active RFID tags, for example, are secured on the doors of cargo containers.

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If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.
An example is the cult status of British comedic actor Norman Wisdom's films in Albania.
Many films enjoy cult status because they may be seen as ridiculously awful, for example Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1958 ) or The Room ( 2003 ).
The Beastmaster is an example of the strange vectors which can lead to cult filmdom, as its reputation stems as much from ubiquitous cable-TV overplay as anything in the film itself.
In Ancient Egypt, Imhotep was considered to be an example of " personality cult " of Kemet, the notion that a person can be deified after his death and become some sort of a special intercessor for the living.
For example, Hamburg's memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered one of the greatest expressions of imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art.
For example, some Conversos developed a sort of cult for martyr-victims of the Spanish Inquisition, thus incorporating elements of Catholicism while resisting it.
For example, heterodox Yahwism included the presence of cult objects rejected in by orthodox expressions, such as the Asherah, figurines of various sorts ( females, horses and riders, animals and birds, and the calves or bulls of the Northern Kingdom.
The film was subsequently universally panned by critics but met a receptive late night audience as a curious example of a cult film where all the unintended hilarity came from the overly serious approach, " cheesy " production values and ludicrous plot.
The 18th-century Russian Skoptzy ( скопцы ) sect was an example of a castration cult, where its members regarded castration as a way of renouncing the sins of the flesh.
Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans ( particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio ), Ancient Egyptians ( for example in the cult of Apis ) and from the Aztecs to the Yoruba.
Her cultivation is an example of localized Imperial cult under Augustus.
Today, Chandler's creation, private eye Philip Marlowe — who appears, for example, in his novels The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) and Farewell, My Lovely ( 1940 ) — has achieved cult status and has also been made the topic of literary seminars at universities round the world, whereas on first publication Chandler's novels were seen as little more than cheap entertainment for the uneducated masses.
The leader might be given, for example, a mythical supernatural life history in order to make him or her seem god-like and supra-powerful ( see also cult of personality ).
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( another program that also enjoyed a " cult " following like that of SCTV ) at times featured references to the show and its characters ; for example, during the film Space Mutiny, a character with an outrageous hairdo is said to resemble Martin Short's Ed Grimley and prompted numerous impersonations of said character.
It was the center of a cult and the band set standards for extremity, for example in encouraging violence against churches.
The reference to Mary, for example, resulted from the intervention of Monsignor Descuffi, the Latin archbishop of Smyrna with whom Massignon collaborated in reviving the cult of Mary at Smyrna.
( For example, some have pointed out that the use of the word " cult " speaks more to the attitude of the individual using the label than to the nature of the NRM in question ).
Another example which garnered a large cult following is the 2001 psychological thriller Donnie Darko, which was originally slated for a direct-to-video release.
* The Big Good Wolf from Timothy Groen's cult short animated film series ( 16mm, very rare ) The Little Pigs and the Big Good Wolf is another example.
An example might be as part of a prestige cult related to the production and consumption of beer, or trading links such as those demonstrated by finds made along the seaways of Atlantic Europe.
Some cult practices were reserved for women only, for example, the rites of the Good Goddess ( Bona Dea ).

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