He nominated Quintus Petillius Cerialis, a close relative and experienced general, as commander of the avenging force.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

In series 1, the relative light intensity was varied by varying the distance of the lamp from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 29.2 cm..

There was a slight lapse condition, a moderate fog, and 100 per cent relative humidity.

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

Although relatively large for a theropod, Albertosaurus was much smaller than its more famous relative Tyrannosaurus, probably weighing less than 2 metric tons.

Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.

* The 3rd century emperor Aurelian ( Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ), was also a distant relative of the Ahenobarbus family

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

Another relative was Wilstan or Wulfstan, who under Ealdred's influence became Abbot of Gloucester.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

The relative peace of the late 880s was marred by the death of Alfred's sister, Æthelswith, who died en route to Rome in 888.

Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

The first major application was the relative version of Serre's theorem showing that the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on a complete variety is finite dimensional ; Grothendieck's theorem shows that the higher direct images of coherent sheaves under a proper map are coherent ; this reduces to Serre's theorem over a one-point space.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

" At that time ( 1909 ) the Roman Martyrology had the following text: This entry was based on what the Catholic Encyclopedia called later legends that confound the relative positions of Felix and Liberius.

The idea that immediately suggested itself was that the star's declination varied because of short-term changes in the orientation of the Earth's axis relative to the celestial sphere – a phenomenon known as nutation.

One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.

A fire in the late 17th century was followed by some repairs, but in 1725 the family purchased 17th century Aberdour House, on the west side of the burn and in Wester Aberdour, and the medieval Castle was allowed to fall into relative decay.

By the age of 64 after forty years imprisonment ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was freed by the Young Turks and he and his family began to live in relative safety.

In 1955, Paul Erdős showed that the density of amicable numbers, relative to the positive integers, was 0.

Pearl was the relative who prodded Jed to move to California, after being told his modest property could yield $ 25 million.

Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument ( also known as " Newton's bucket ") was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.

Precise measurements of the relative positions of the inner planets can be made by radar and by telemetry from space probes.

Supporting literature includes: the work of social impact theory, which discusses persuasion in part through the number of persons engaging in influence ; as well as studies made on the relative influence of communicator credibility in different kinds of persuasion ; and examinations of the trustworthiness of the speaker.

Within each magnitude class, Bayer made no attempt to arrange stars by relative brightness.

For example, the relative atomic mass of chlorine is 35. 453 u, which differs greatly from a whole number due to being made of an average of 76 % chlorine-35 and 24 % chlorine-37.

The relative ease of interfacing spawned a huge market of third party add-ons for the PDP-11, which made the machine even more useful.

Light incident at a given point in the space downstream of the slit is made up of contributions from each of these point sources and if the relative phases of these contributions vary by 2π or more, we may expect to find minima and maxima in the diffracted light.

For example, Duncan Kennedy, in explicit reference to semiotics and deconstruction procedures, maintains that various legal doctrines are constructed around the binary pairs of opposed concepts, each of which with a claim upon intuitive and formal forms of reasoning that must be made explicit, not only in their meaning but also its relative value, and criticized.

The relative sophistication of this piece was not followed up for some time, with subsequent works in animation being limited to short, two or three frame effects, such as appeared in Edwin Porter's 1902 short " Fun in a Bakery Shop ", where a lump of dough was made to smile over the course of a three-frame sequence.

Such a limit is possible only in mathematical settings, where accurate repetitions unto infinity may be made ( e. g. such as counting the relative fraction of even numbers less than n < sub > t </ sub >: one may easily compute the limit.

Philip made reforms in government, and strengthened the central authorities relative to the provinces.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

During the gradual process by which Homo erectus made a transition from furry to naked skin, their hair texture putatively changed gradually from Afro-textured hair or ' kinky ' ( i. e. tightly coiled ) to straight hair ( the condition of most mammals, including humanity's closest cousins — chimpanzees ) This argument is based on the principle that curly hair impedes the passage of UV light into the body relative to straight hair ( thus curly or coiled hair would be particularly advantageous for dark-skinned hominids living at the equator ).

This argument is made based on the principle that straight fibers better facilitate the passage of UV light into the body relative to curly hair.

Müller made the term central to his criticism of Western theological and religious exceptionalism ( relative to Eastern religions ), focusing on a cultural dogma which held " monotheism " to be both fundamentally well-defined and inherently superior to differing conceptions of God.

Reno made the decision to remove Elián González from the house of a relative and instructed law enforcement officials to determine the best time to obtain the boy.

To derive a course to steer relative to the sun direction, he uses a sun-stone ( Solarsteinn ) made of Iceland spar ( optical calcite or Silfurberg ), and a " horizon-board.

The relative abundance of magnesium is related to the fact that it is easily built up in supernova stars from a sequential addition of three helium nuclei to carbon ( which in turn is made from three helium nuclei ).

The popularity of Merlot stemmed in part from the relative ease in pronouncing the name of the wine as well as its softer, fruity profile that made it more approachable to some wine drinkers.

Everyday pressure measurements, such as for tire pressure, are usually made relative to ambient air pressure.

In other cases measurements are made relative to a vacuum or to some other ad hoc reference.

The Florentine Codex, made by Bernardino de Sahagún and his native informants of Tenochtitlan-subjugated Tlatelolco, generally portrays Tlatelolco and Tlatelolcan rulers in a favorable light relative to the Tenocha, and Moctezuma in particular is depicted unfavorably as a weak-willed, superstitious, and indulgent ruler ( Restall 2003 ).

" No attempt will here be made even to pass a verdict on the relative claims of the recognized two or three main " schools " of theory, beyond the somewhat obvious finding that, for the purpose in hand, the so-called Austrian school is scarcely distinguishable from the neo-classical, unless it be in the different distribution of emphasis.

On March 3, 2012, Benson addressed the bounty payments controversy on the Saints ' website, stating, " I have been made aware of the NFL ’ s findings relative to the “ Bounty Rule ” and how it relates to our club.

The first archaeological evidence known of usage were made from within Kariandusi and other sites of the Acheulian age ( beginning 1. 5 million years previously ) dated 700, 000 BC, although the number of objects found at these sites were very low relative to Neolithic.

Multiple raters made frequency counts of sentences containing synonyms for a number of values identified by Rokeach, including freedom and equality, and Rokeach analyzed these results by comparing the relative frequency rankings of all the values for each of the four texts: