He crossed the Alps quickly and took Pavia, but then he continued slowly, garnering support among the nobility of Tuscany.

Tolerance to anti-anxiety effects develops more slowly with little evidence of continued effectiveness beyond four to six months of continued use.

The economy has since slowly recovered ; by November 2010, Taiwan's unemployment rate had fallen to a two-year low of 4. 73 %, and continued dropping to a 40-month low of 4. 18 % by the end of 2011.

As the war slowly progressed, Grant continued to extend Robert E. Lee's entrenchment defenses southwest of Petersburg, in an effort to capture vital railroad links.

Hair styles included the wings haircut for boys, which slowly but surely increased to a very high level by 2009 and semi-long and straight hair for girls continued, amongst many other hairstyles from the 1990s.

Under these circumstances, work on the Castle Zagyg project continued even more slowly, although Jeffrey Talanian stepped in to help Gygax.

Once it inverted, Y chromosome continued to receive both positive and negative mutations throughout the years, and without a partner to combine with, it slowly decayed.

The European population in the Canberra area continued to grow slowly throughout the 19th century.

The field of infrared astronomy continued to develop slowly in the early 20th century, as Seth Barnes Nicholson and Edison Pettit developed thermopile detectors capable of accurate infrared photometry and sensitive to a few hundreds of stars.

During this period Argentina's economy continued to grow, on average, but more slowly than the world as a whole or than its neighbours, Brazil and Chile.

Meanwhile, to the east the modern town slowly continued to grow.

In her autobiography, she says that between 1989 and 1991, she became increasingly obsessed with food and her weight and continued to slowly and steadily lose weight.

Since this time, AIDS deaths have continued to decline, but much more slowly, and not as completely in black Americans as in other population segments.

The storm began to quickly weaken in the early morning hours of October 3, and this rapid weakening continued until the hurricane's final landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana due to a combination of vertical wind shear, cool waters just offshore Louisiana, and slowly encroaching dry air within its southwest quadrant.

Development has continued slowly as late as 2006, with a final subdivision, Mockingbird Valley River Bluff, being built on 15 lots covering.

Growth continued, albeit very slowly, in the 1920s ; the maximum population of 643 was reached in 1930.

Duels continued to be fought at the site, and the marble was slowly vandalized and removed for souvenirs, leaving nothing remaining by 1820.

West Islip's population continued to grow slowly and the 1930 census recorded 734 residents.

This was a trend that continued, with the expanding repertoire of Hagar-era songs slowly whittling away at the number of Roth-era songs on the set list.

With news of General Robert E. Lee's surrender traveling slowly, the American Civil War continued in Western North Carolina.

Since that point, the town continued to slowly grow into a prosperous community.

Kirtland continued to grow in population slowly through the 1970s and 1980s.

The population continued to decline until the early 1970s, when it slowly began to recover.

In addition to analyzing for DNA, the droplets are round and show no splattering, indicating they impacted relatively slowly, in this case from a height of two feet.

As a teacher, Granet, “ a bristling and cantankerous disputant, a rich mind powerfully stimulating those of others ” ( Gille ) apparently instructed his students to “ read slowly and always slowly .” According to one student, Polish sinologist Witold Jablonski, Granet did “ not care for popularity ”: “ he is a scholar, he is a thinker, sometimes, perhaps, a wizard .” ( Jablonski ) The sinologist shared his commitment to learning the language of the texts he studied, and analyzing all materials, whether primary or secondary, critically.

A spacecraft traveling from Earth to Mars via this method will arrive near Mars orbit in approximately 8. 5 months, but because the orbital velocity is greater when closer to the center of mass ( i. e. the Sun ) and slower when farther from the center, the spacecraft will be traveling quite slowly and a small application of thrust is all that is needed to put it into a circular obit around Mars.

Asteroids which approach it have their eccentricity slowly increased until they become Mars-crossers, at which point they are usually ejected from the asteroid belt by a close pass to Mars.

This could potentially have slowly removed the Earth's atmosphere, rendering it nearly lifeless, as is hypothesized for Mars.

So, many Sniks slowly immigrated to Mars, and developed a subterranean system of paths and supply lines.

They receive no mention, for instance, in H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( 1897 ), which describes a slowly drying Mars, covetous of Earth's resources, but one which still has dwindling oceans such as are depicted on Schiaparelli's maps.

On Mars, the human explorers come in contact with the gentle, peaceful, six-eyed, three-legged “ Tripèdes ”, a dying race who is slowly being replaced by the “ Zoomorphs ”, alien entities who bear some resemblance to the “ Ferromagnetals ” of La Mort de la Terre.

Despite its 30 hour orbit, it takes 2. 7 days to set in the west as it slowly falls behind the rotation of Mars, and has long again to rise.

Since Phobos orbits Mars faster than the planet itself rotates, tidal forces are slowly but steadily decreasing its orbital radius.

19th-and 20th-century astronomical observations revealed that the mean solar day is slowly but measurably lengthening and the length of a tropical year is not entirely predictable either ; thus the sun – earth motion is no longer considered a suitable basis for definition.

To show that there had been enough time for natural selection to work slowly, he again cited Principles of Geology and other observations based on sedimentation and erosion, including an estimate that erosion of The Weald had taken 300 million years.

However, precise long-term observations show that the constellations change shape, albeit very slowly, and that each star has an independent motion.

Germ theory developed slowly: despite Anton van Leeuwenhoek's observations of Microorganisms, ( which are now known to cause many of the most common infectious diseases ) in the year 1680, the modern era of public health did not begin until the 1880s, with Louis Pasteur's germ theory and production of artificial vaccines.

When receptive to mating, a female blacktip reef shark swims slowly in a sinusoidal pattern near the bottom with her head pointed down ; observations in the wild suggest female sharks release chemical signals that allow males to track them.

* In the troposphere observations show that the total abundance of ozone-depleting compounds continues to decline slowly from the peak that occurred in 1992-1994.

Since his theodolite had been damaged, observations were made with a sextant, the sun slowly circling the camp in 24 hours, and never setting.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

If the latter subgroup cools slowly from a melt, it forms exsolution lamellae because the two components — orthoclase and albite — are unstable in solid solution.

The procession moved slowly, and found it necessary to encamp three times before passing the Egyptian frontier — some believe at the Great Bitter Lake, while others propose sites as far south as the northern tip of the Red Sea.

For example, when playing the piano, " fingering " — that is, which fingers to put on which keys — is a skill slowly learned as the student advances, and there are many standard techniques which a teacher can pass on.

La Russa said, " I think it's fair to say he misunderstood how he compared to Royce in spring training ... When I and the coaches evaluated the play in spring training — the whole game — Royce started very slowly offensively and you could see him start to get better.

150 personae non gratae of Turkey ( descendants of the Ottoman dynasty ) slowly acquired citizenship — the last one was in 1974.

As Observance unfolds, the line slowly advances, with each person pausing at the front of the line in a state of intense — though quiet — grief, before ceding their place to the next person in line.

Synchronous orbits exist around all moons, planets, stars, and black holes — unless they rotate so slowly that the orbit would be outside their Hill sphere or so fast that such an orbit would be inside the body.

There are three types of PSC clouds — nitric acid trihydrate clouds, slowly cooling water-ice clouds, and rapid cooling water-ice ( nacerous ) clouds — that provide surfaces for chemical reactions that lead to ozone destruction.

* 700 BC — The Scythians start settling in Cimmerian areas, slowly replacing the previous inhabitants.

* 1938 — Paul Dirac suggests the large numbers hypothesis, that the gravitational constant may be small because it is decreasing slowly with time

Pelorat slowly falls in love with a Gaian woman named Blissenobiarella ( commonly called Bliss ), who explains that Trevize will be forced to decide the future of the galaxy — whether it will be ruled by the First Foundation, the Second Foundation, or by Gaia ( who envisions an eventual extension of its group consciousness to the entire galaxy, thus forming the new entity Galaxia ).

Khosrau perished in a dungeon after suffering for five days on bare sustenance — he was shot to death slowly with arrows on the fifth day.

The absence of taurine causes a cat's retina to slowly degenerate, causing eye problems and ( eventually ) irreversible blindness — a condition known as central retinal degeneration ( CRD ), as well as hair loss and tooth decay.

In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry ; also, female Dwarves look and sound ( and dress, if journeying — which is rare ) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone.