On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.

Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

When Sultan Murad V began to show signs of paranoia, madness and continuous fainting and vomiting even on the day of his coronation and threw himself into a pool yelling at his guards to protect his life, they were afraid the public would become outraged and revolt to bring the former Sultan back.

The poems were put to music, but the musical signs are no longer readable.

They show no signs of slag or metal prills suggesting that zinc minerals were heated to produce zinc vapor which reacted with metallic copper in a solid state reaction.

Among the topics were love, religion, drinking-songs, legends, and early journalism, which included disasters, political events and signs, wonders and prodigies.

While there were visible signs of damage, in the vegetation and an apparent lack of construction in some places, the Island was bustling again as some things had been freshly re-built and those that were not were quite on their way.

Several of the company's technicians examined the enhanced prints, and although they agreed with Snelling that the pictures " showed no signs of being faked ", they concluded that " this could not be taken as conclusive evidence ... that they were authentic photographs of fairies ".

For many years passengers arriving at the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport were greeted by signs in Chinese welcoming them to the " Chung Cheng International Airport ".

These were called Geissler tubes, similar to today's neon signs.

Unlike many anime titles, viewers weren ’ t expected to have knowledge of Asian culture — character names, signs, and the like were primarily in English to begin with — or have seen any other anime series prior.

Commemorative signs reading " Eisenhower Interstate System " and bearing Eisenhower's permanent 5-star rank insignia were introduced in 1993 and are currently displayed throughout the Interstate System.

There were signs of decreased declarative memory performance in the participants that had to complete the stressful situation after learning the words.

Neale and Rowse also idealised the Queen personally: she always did everything right ; her more unpleasant traits were ignored or explained as signs of stress.

However, this was an exceptional case, and it is not until 1912 that there were the first signs of the special expressive use of Insert Shots ; that is, shots of objects rather than people.

In antiquity, field signs or standards were used in warfare that can be categorized as vexilloid or " flag-like ".

Various reasons have been suggested for the resistance to the Celsius system in the U. S., including the larger size of each degree Celsius ( resulting in the need for decimals where integer Fahrenheit degrees were adequate for much non-technical work ), the lower zero point in the Fahrenheit system ( which reduces the number of negative signs when measurements such as weather data were averaged ), and the more intuitive alignment of its 0-100 scale to the ordinary range of outdoor temperatures seen in most of the U. S. ( e. g., 0 ° F

One spot in Osaka I shall always remember -- the bridge where we stood to watch the reflections of the elaborate neon signs in the still waters of the river.

The bed still showed signs of where Kitti had lain.

Some questions are still unanswered, such as the inclusion in the BCI repertoire of some characters ( currently about 24 ) that are already encoded in the UCS ( like digits, punctuation signs, spaces and some markers ), but whose unification may cause problems due to the very strict graphical layouts required by the published Bliss reference guides.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

Although the additives used have made cyanine more stable, it is still the most sensitive of the dyes in UV rays ( showing signs of degradation within a week of direct sunlight exposure ).

Eastern Berlin has a distinctly different visual aspect, partly because of the greater survival of prewar façades and streetscapes, some still showing signs of wartime damage, and partly because of the distinctive style of urban Stalinist architecture used in the GDR.

He still had the problem of memorising a large vocabulary, until he noticed two Russian signs labelled Швейцарская ( švejtsarskaja, a porter's lodge – from швейцар švejtsar, a porter ) and Кондитерская ( konditerskaja, a confectioner's shop – from кондитер konditer, a confectioner ).

The holiday was, and for many still is, a festival of the hearth and home, and a celebration of the lengthening days and the early signs of spring.

Many of the signs are identical or similar to those in Linear A ; however, Linear A encoded a still unknown language and we cannot be sure that similar signs had similar phonetic values.

In 1947 the European economies were still well below their pre-war levels and were showing few signs of growth.

He prefaced the order by stating: " As England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, still shows no signs of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her.

At the end of this period a new landscape emerges: the northern Canaanite cities still existed, more or less intact, and became the Phoenicians ; the highlands behind the coastal plains, previously largely uninhabited, were rapidly filling with villages, largely Canaanite in their basic culture but without the Bronze Age city-state structure ; and along the southern coastal plain there are clear signs that a non-Canaanite people had taken over the former Canaanite cities while adopting almost all aspects of Canaanite culture.

Most British pubs still have decorated signs hanging over their doors, and these retain their original function of enabling the identification of the pub.

Intending to use the computer facilities at G2S to ensure that his code is still valid after the six years he has been away, he signs on as a " systems rationalizer " with the company.

However, many signs and maps in Taiwan are still in Wade – Giles, and many overseas Chinese write their Chinese names in Wade – Giles.

Reconfigured as the M2 Browning heavy machine gun to shoot the. 50 BMG cartridge, it will still be in use more than a century later with no signs of being decommissioned.

By 2001, there were more signs of dogwalkers at night and a 24-hour neighborhood, although the general pattern of crowds during the working hours and emptiness at night was still apparent.

The editions are undated ( dates can be established only by close bibliographic analysis ) do not name the printer and consist of only one bifolium per partbook to aid concealment, all signs of secrecy: reminders that the possession of heterodox books was still highly dangerous.

Nonetheless, there were still signs of his eventual ruin.

Yet, regardless of the positive signs, prospective students still saw SAMS as " a slightly chancy thing to sign up for ".

It is still in use on some signs and cars.

His name is still attached to some disease signs, e. g., von Arlt's line in trachoma.

Larger formats, however, had long been signs of status in printed objects, and still are in many places, and outside Britain the broadsheet developed for other reasons, including style and authority, unrelated to the British tax structure.

Other than replacing older guide signs which previously referenced the official northbound and southbound designations of the freeway, Caltrans made no other changes to mainline or street signing, and as such, pull-through signs, overhead signs, and freeway entrance signs all still reference north and south instead of east and west.