* Richardson ordered the bombing of the submarine, based on his assessment of the overall military situation and the importance of his protecting Ascension Island as a critical link in the U. S. aerial resupply of the war effort.

Fail to prevent devastating logging in these regions, advocates claim, and a Great Ape species will likely become extinct, causing a critical link to the human past to be permanently lost.

The common link between authors of this generation is their adherence to a particular style over their own voices, and their often very critical perspectives on the work of the previous generations.

Address Resolution Protocol ( ARP ) is a telecommunications protocol used for resolution of network layer addresses into link layer addresses, a critical function in multiple-access networks.

( 2 ) It is the link at ( 0, 0, 0, 0 ) of an isolated critical point of a real-polynomial map < var > F </ var >: R < sup > 4 </ sup >→ R < sup > 2 </ sup >, so ( according to a theorem of John Milnor ) the Milnor map of < var > F </ var > is actually a fibration.

Longchenpa was a critical link in the exoteric and esoteric transmission of the Dzogchen teachings.

The division played a critical role in Operation Cobra, the Allies ' " break-out " from its Normandy beachhead, where it served as a link between American and Canadian armies and made rapid progress against German forces.

Dunleary harbour of ' Asylum ' was a very difficult and important project, because it was critical to maintain an effective communication link between Ireland and London, the seat of Government.

The payload is critical, because many small, isolated communities rely on STOL aircraft as their only transportation link to the outside world for passengers or cargo ; examples include many communities in the Canadian north and Alaska.

The construction of the Delaware and Raritan Canal along the right ( south ) bank of the river provided a critical link between New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River.

Further DNA and RNA analysis may prove the charophytes to be a crucial evolutionary link in the phylogenetic tree of life, the critical developmental step from the algae toward the non-vascular and then vascular land plants.

As well as being a water and recreation resource, the river was historically a critical communications and transport link for the communities along it.

In general, these criticisms suggested that he was too close to MI5 to be impartial, and that his link with the Service made him a " court historian " instead of a clear-eyed and critical examiner of its past.

During the 2006 election, the Sun was strongly critical of a poster that attempted to link Ryan to the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

He introduced a critical link between social progress and technological progress.

Physical appearance comparison processes appear to play a critical role in the link between fashion media exposure and body image dissatisfaction.

Named after the Oneida word for bull thistle, in the 19th century the Chenango furnished a critical link in the canal system of the northeastern United States.

The provision of the law in Section 4 that establishes critical habitat is a regulatory link between habitat protection and recovery goals, requiring the identification and protection of all lands, water and air necessary to recover endangered species.

It is a critical link in the Chino – Puente Hills wildlife corridor, and a major botanical habitat reserve for resident and migrating wildlife.

The river is considered especially pristine for the region, forming a critical ecological link between the Pine Barrens and the Delaware Bay systems.

As a critical infrastructure of national significance, LA1 provides a vital link to Port Fourchon.

* A critical assessment of ducking and covering ( Dead link, and waybackmachine has no pages on it )

< i > Change. org </ i > Retrieved September 6, 2012, from link .</ ref > and a critical blog piece by Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, a pro-immigration research group in Washington, the dictionary updated its online definition to indicate that the term is " offensive ", similar to its entries on ethnic slurs.

ACSH has long been critical of groups who claim a supposed link between the two.

Among their most critical duties is the ordination and appointment of clergy to serve local churches as pastor, presiding at sessions of the Annual, Jurisdictional, and General Conferences, providing pastoral ministry for the clergy under their charge, and safeguarding the doctrine and discipline of the Church.

Under his command, a modern update of the doctrinal system called Bewegungskrieg (" maneuver warfare ") and its associated leadership system called Auftragstaktik (" mission tactics "; i. e., units are assigned missions ; local commanders decide how to achieve those missions ) was developed, which was a critical advantage and a major reason for the success of blitzkrieg.

Holden was critical, saying that Australia's population was not large enough, and that the changes could tarnish the local industry.

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

Zaydan had critical influence on acceptance of a modernized version of the Quranic Arabic language as the universal written and official language throughout the Arab world, instead of adoption of local dialects in the various countries.

The resultant fate depends on whether the critical defect size was exceeded which in turn depends on the applied field, local mechanical stress and bilayer edge energy.

Its width depends on the height and shape of the ionosphere and, particularly, on the local ionospheric maximum electron density characterized by critical frequency foF2.

The bay of " Bezeguiche " would serve as a critical stop for the Portuguese India Armadas of the early 16th C., where large fleets would routinely put in, both on their outward and return journeys from India, to repair, collect fresh water from the rivulets and wells along the Cape Vert shore and trade for provisions with the local people for their remaining voyage.

Anti-globalization activists are particularly critical of the undemocratic nature of capitalist globalization and the promotion of neoliberalism by international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank without much regard to the often devastating effects of global capital on local conditions.

Such assets span a wide range including: large components such as highways, airports, roads, transit systems, and railways ; local, municipal components such as public education, public hospitals, police and fire protection, prisons, and courts ; and critical components including water and sewer systems, public electric and gas utilities, and telecommunications.

During the early 20th century and especially during the Spanish Civil War, the monuments became more anti-clerical in nature and were often highly critical of the local or national governments, which in fact tried to ban the Falles many times, without success.

A critical finding was that quantum mechanics can make statistical predictions which would be violated if local hidden variables really existed.

Commerce with pioneers going further west helped establish these early settlements and launched local economies critical to their prosperity.

If f is a differentiable function on R ( or an open interval ) and x is a local maximum or a local minimum of f, then the derivative of f at x is zero ; points where are called critical points or stationary points ( and the value of f at x is called a critical value ).

Taking derivatives and solving for critical points is therefore often a simple way to find local minima or maxima, which can be useful in optimization.

This also has applications in graph sketching: once the local minima and maxima of a differentiable function have been found, a rough plot of the graph can be obtained from the observation that it will be either increasing or decreasing between critical points.

For example, a very typical Western plot is that an eastern lawman heads west, where he matches wits and trades bullets with a gang of outlaws and thugs, and is aided by a local lawman who is well-meaning but largely ineffective until a critical moment when he redeems himself by saving the hero's life.

The group released a demo entitled " Mala Vida " in 1984, which received plenty of local critical praise but otherwise gained them little attention.

More than a decade after the sharp decline in industry, in 1991 Gadsden was awarded the honor of All-America City by the National Civic League, an award that honored the way Gadsden's citizens, government, businesses, and voluntary organizations work together to address critical local issues.

In 1994, the PHIA provided critical local support for the Honeygo Plan, a blueprint for developing Perry Hall ’ s rural northeast.

Like most of the other communities in the Hamptons region, tourism is a critical component of the local economy.