This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.

Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown, beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop, and along the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and northward to Brooklyn, below Point Peter, he could see the church spire wherever he looked back.

He paced forward unsteadily, leaning too far back, his head tilted oddly.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

and moreover, he had already begun to broaden and simplify the facet-planes of Analytical Cubism as far back as the end of 1910.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

She started back for the house, saw a light in the office, opened the door and surprised a domestic little scene which was far outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder.

All this emphasis on Centrality and on the number 5 as a symbolic expression of the Center, which seems to have begun as far back as 400 B.C., also may conceivably have led to the development of the Five-Elements School and the subsequent efforts to fit everything into numerical categories of five.

Beginning at least as far back as 1789 various Baptist bodies condemned slavery.

Hurricane Carla damaged 70% of the marinas in the Galveston-Port Aransas area but fuel service is back to normal, and explorers can roam as far west as Port Isabel on the Mexican border.

In looking as far back as Moses, thence to Cromwell, Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, and Nehru, Montgomery attempts to trace the stirrings and qualities of great men.

The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.

A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation from as far back as the Middle Paleolithic.

Historically, the Western tradition identifies the general custom of praying for the dead dating as far back as 2 Maccabees 12: 42-46.

However, the various preconditions for the development at Ford stretched far back into the 19th century, from the gradual realization of the dream of interchangeability, to the concept of reinventing workflow and job descriptions using analytical methods ( the most famous example being scientific management ).

If the anchor continues to drag, or sets after having dragged too far, it should be retrieved and moved back to the desired position ( or another location chosen.

Surviving artifacts, dating back to as far as ca.

God will not hold back judgment because Israel refuses to listen to the prophets and even goes so far as to try to silence them ( 2: 12, 3: 8, 7: 10-17 ).

Numerous Indian documents on copper plates exist, with the same symbol for zero in them, dated back as far as the 6th century CE.

Wheat, however, the grain used to bake bread back in England was almost impossible to grow, and imports of wheat were far from cost productive.

The US version, however, has since 2001 taken on a significantly different format from the others in their second season, with a far stronger emphasis on strategy, competition and voting, where the public does not choose who to evict.

The investments were far out of proportion to both their current and projected cash flow, but this was not publicly acknowledged until as late as 2001 and 2002.

In 2001, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres went so far as to dismiss it as " allegations ".

This same argument would have news outlets in equal numbers increasing profits of a more balanced media far more than the slight increase in costs to hire unbiased journalists, notwithstanding the extreme rarity of self-reported conservative journalists ( Sutton, 2001 ).

The organization went so far as to threaten to sue United States government for unauthorized use of four photos from their website that were used in propaganda handbills dropped on various cities in Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion.

RAWA has so far won 16 awards and certificates from around the world for its work for human rights and democracy, some of the awards include The sixth Asian Human Rights Award-2001, The French Republic's Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Human Rights Prize, 2000, Islamabad Emma Humphries Memorial Prize 2001,

Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.

Since 2001, bills have repeatedly been introduced in Congress to solve the " one people-two country " problem by granting U. S. citizenship to all enrolled members of the Tohono O ' odham, but have so far been unsuccessful.

Beyond a complete restyling of the area, the ancient portual zone nearby the Mandraccio opening, in Porta Siberia, was scenographically enriched by Piano himself with a big sphere made of metal and glass, installed in the port's waters, not far from the Acquario, and unveiled in 2001 in occasion of the G8 Summit held in Genoa.

In 2001 the service industries were by far the biggest employers in Lewes: over 60 % of the population working in that sector.

Miami rounded out its 2001 – 02 season roster with players well past their prime such as Rod Strickland, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, LaPhonso Ellis and Kendall Gill along with Mourning, Jones, Grant and Carter, whom the Heat signed to a controversial three-year deal that many said was far too much for the young guard.

2001 also saw the release of Eleven Promos, a DVD of all Massive Attack's 11 music videos thus far, including " Angel ", a £ 100, 000 + promo.

Since late 2001 Karzai has been trying for peace in his country, going as far as pardoning militants that lay down weapons and join the rebuilding process.

Four conferences have been held so far, in 1978, 1983, 2001 and 2009.

As a charity fundraiser, the concert far exceeded its goals: on a television programme in 2001, one of the organisers stated that while initially it had been hoped that Live Aid would raise £ 1 million with the help of Wembley tickets costing £ 25. 00 each, the final figure was £ 150 million ( approx.

The mall opened in 1965, was expanded in 1989, and was renovated in 2001 with a far more extensive renovation in 2008 and 2009.

Although his second LP, Return of Dragon, released in June 2001, eventually went platinum, its singles " Can I Live " and " Dance for Me " performed far below expectations ( apart from in the UK, where " Dance for Me " became his third top-10 hit ), and by 2002, Sisqó was back with Dru Hill, which released its third LP in late 2002.

The next year, however, the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, the following invasion of Afghanistan, and 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation prompted a surge in oil prices to levels far higher than those targeted by OPEC during the preceding period.

The enforcement provisions affecting US passports have thus far survived Constitutional challenges in Weinstein v Albright ( 2001 ), Eunique v Powell ( 2002 ), In re James K. Walker ( 2002 ), Dept of Revenue v Nesbitt ( 2008 ), Risenhoover v Washington ( 2008 ), and Borracchini v Jones ( 2009 ).

* P. p. pyrrhocorax, the nominate subspecies and smallest form, is endemic to the British Isles, where it is restricted to Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the far west of Wales and Scotland, although it recolonised Cornwall in 2001 after an absence of 50 years.

As far as Hobbes was concerned, rationality and self-interests persuaded human beings to combine in agreement, to surrender sovereignty to a common power ( Kaviraj 2001: 289 ).

Between 2001 and 2011, OSHA has issued just four new health and safety standards ; during this period, the agency has promulgated regulations at a far slower rate than during any other decade in the agency's history.

Multiracial Canadians in 2006 officially totaled 1. 5 % of the population, up from 1. 2 % in 2001, although, this number may actually be far higher.

They have released five studio albums so far: 604 ( 2001 ), Light & Magic ( 2002 ), Witching Hour ( 2005 ), Velocifero ( 2008 ) and Gravity the Seducer ( 2011 ).