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latter and incident
Above the threshold frequency, the maximum kinetic energy of the emitted photoelectron depends on the frequency of the incident light, but is independent of the intensity of the incident light so long as the latter is not too high
The first occurred in 1419 and the second in 1618, although the term " Defenestration of Prague " more commonly refers to the latter incident.
Murphy's brother John was heavily involved in the latter incident, along with " Mr A ".
Robert Graves ' work I, Claudius suggests that, through Livia's influence, Augustus grew to dislike him, and Graves even creates a fictional incident in which Postumus is framed by Livia and her granddaughter Livilla for attempted rape of the latter.
The episode entitled " The Moral Dimension ", in which Hacker and his staff engage in the scheme of secretly consuming alcohol on a trade mission to the fictional Islamic state of Qumran, was based on a real incident that took place in Pakistan, involving Callaghan and Donoughue, the latter of whom informed Jay and Lynn about the incident.
The incident in which Webb Ellis supposedly caught the ball in his arms during a football match ( which was allowed ) and ran with it ( which was not ) meant to have happened in the latter half of 1823.
The latter play was dedicated to Wharton, to whom it owed, said Young, its " most beautiful incident.
His 1955 season started similarly, retiring twice more, the latter of which was an incident in Monaco where he crashed into the harbour after missing a chicane.
This latter incident was on the eve of the event, so competitors staged a mock rally at the Bagshot proving ground as consolation for the press and television ( ATV had been persuaded to provide major coverage with in-car cameras for the first time ).
In the latter case, Sweezy declared the incident had proved beyond doubt that
A person could be framed: The latter would arrange an " anti-Soviet " incident in the person's presence and then try the person for it.
Two stories came from this latter incident, one stating that the white man ’ s life was in danger and he was using self defense and the other stating that these incidents could have been avoided.
Thus instead of saying " a point lies on a line " one should say " a point is incident with a line " since dualizing the latter only involves interchanging point and line (" a line is incident with a point ").
Relations with the Menteri Besar of Johor, Othman Saat deteriorated when the latter questioned Tunku Iskandar's legitimacy to the throne, which led to an incident which saw the Sultan issuing an order to the Menteri Besar to vacate his office within 24 hours, shortly after Sultan Ismail's death, citing reasons for the need for that office space for his own.
Following the latter incident, all members of the FCS were banned from giving speeches or organising meetings at the institute under the students ' union's ' No Platform for Racists or Fascists ' policy.
For the latter, the incident light is completely absorbed and the system is transferred to an excited state from which it can go to various lower states only after a certain resonance lifetime.
These latter two are noteworthy because the fictionalized versions of Dr. Bleuel have become recurring characters in their own right, especially in Schlock Mercenary, where, after having been revived from suspended animation a thousand years in the future, he was duplicated over 950 million times due to an incident involving a teleportation device ; these ' Gavs ' have become an entire ethnic group of their own, and appearances of Gavs both in the main story and in background shots has become a running gag.
During the meetings over several days, an unknown person ( the FBI agent who wrote up the main report on the incident believed Crisman was the most likely suspect ) began leaking details of the UFO sighting at Maury Island, the meeting in the hotel room and details of the conversation there to reporters at the Tacoma Times and at United Press, the latter reporter also working for Tacoma News Tribune.
( The whole incident was observed by Linus and Charlie Brown, the latter remarking on Violet's choice of words saying " I'm glad it's not me she's yelling at.
In the weeks following the latter incident, Fleet Admiral Ernest King and Secretary Forrestal worked with civilian expert Lester Granger on a plan for total integration of the races within the Navy.
Both Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin and Maga believed that the latter incident was an attempted coup.

latter and demonstrates
" Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of ancient Greek literature.
The latter demonstrates Finzi ’ s admiration for Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the Swiss American Jewish composer Ernest Bloch.
Newton says that this thought experiment demonstrates that the centrifugal forces arise only when the water is in rotation with respect to the absolute space ( represented here by the earth's reference frame, or better, the distant stars ); instead, when the bucket was rotating with respect to the water no centrifugal forces were produced, this indicating that the latter was still with respect to the absolute space.
Sisko demonstrates a bold and no nonsense persona to the point of exasperation, even to the extent of his best friend ( the latter host of the Dax symbiont shown in the series, Ezri ) stating that his personality intimidates Worf.
In fact, research by the latter scholar ( 1997 ) demonstrates that the Arab copy contains sequences of Greek letters which fell out of use after the time of Christ, thereby strengthening the case that it is a faithful copy of the Hellenistic original, a view recently also shared by the classicist Andrew Wilson ( 2002 ).
In the latter, Audrey and Melvin become less antagonistic and Audrey demonstrates affections for and jealousy towards him, much like Little Lulu had done with Tubby Tompkins.
He demonstrates his knowledge of the broken Korean he learned in the Air Force in the Chappelle's Show sketches " Player Hater's Ball " and " The Time Haters ", the latter of which was featured in the " Failures " episode.

latter and Byzantines
The Lombards played on the pre-existing hostility between the Avars and the Byzantines, claiming that the latter were allied with the Gepids.
An alliance with his brother-in-law Michael Asen III of Bulgaria against Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia failed to secure any gains, as the Serbians defeated the Bulgarians before the latter could join with the Byzantines in the Battle of Velbazhd ( modern Kyustendil ) in 1330.
Despite his conquest of the latter, Maniaces was removed from his position, and the subsequent Muslim counter-offensive reconquered all the cities captured by the Byzantines.
This was a strong defensive position and these maneuvers pitted the Muslims and Byzantines into a decisive battle, one which the latter had tried to avoid.
The arrival of the Byzantines lead to the disappearance of the latter and the restoration of a dense network of Orthodox bishops.
After a short Carthaginian rule, it was administrated by the Romans and the Byzantines: the latter fortified the city and built a large castle.
* He was granted as imperial fiefs Antioch and Aleppo ( the latter of which neither the Crusaders nor the Byzantines controlled, but it was understood that Bohemond should try to conquer it );
The Byzantines and Arabs also employed horse-transports ( hippagōga ), which were either sailing ships or galleys, the latter certainly modified to accommodate the horses.
These scholars remember that, at a later stage, the Byzantines even persecuted the Maronites because they accused the latter of supporting the Monothelite doctrine, which the Byzantine viewed as heretical.
Thus, during the latter half of the 8th century, the Byzantines enjoyed a second period of complete naval superiority.

latter and could
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
Any animal could when travelin' fast, be sent heels over head by the simple process of overtakin' the brute, seizin' its tail, and givin' the latter a pull to one side.
He could not manage the former or expect the latter ; ;
An alien, coming into a colony also became, temporarily a subject of the Crown, and acquired rights both within and beyond the colony, and these latter rights could not be affected by the laws of that colony ( Routledge v Low ( 1868 ) LR 3 HL 100 ; 37 LJ Ch 454 ; 18 LT 874 ; 16 WR 1081, HL ; Reid v Maxwell ( 1886 ) 2 TLR 790 ; Falcon v Famous Players Film Co 2 KB 474 ).
He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?
The latter allowed accommodation of a bigger cannon than could be mounted in a turreted tank on the same chassis, and increased the vehicle's internal volume, allowing for increased ammunition stowage and crew comfort.
This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.
Pfanzagl's axiomatization was endorsed by Oskar Morgenstern: " Von Neumann and I have anticipated " the question whether probabilities " might, perhaps more typically, be subjective and have stated specifically that in the latter case axioms could be found from which could derive the desired numerical utility together with a number for the probabilities ( cf.
A key distinction between analysis of algorithms and computational complexity theory is that the former is devoted to analyzing the amount of resources needed by a particular algorithm to solve a problem, whereas the latter asks a more general question about all possible algorithms that could be used to solve the same problem.
This included the use of ROM for library software that could be run much faster than the same code in the normal core memory, due to the latter ’ s need to be written immediately after being read.
In the latter case, the possible location of the authorship could have been within the church of Ephesus itself.
In the latter case it was to form all-black towns where it was felt they could have a greater level of freedom and autonomy.
The latter could thus be thought of as capable of either ' glissando ' or ' portamento ', depending on whether the drum was rolled or not.
The latter was closer to a modern engagement and could in theory be ended with the consent of both parties – but only providing intercourse had not occurred.
His sudden appearance among the Gauls of the Po Valley, moreover, enabled him to detach those tribes from their new allegiance to the Romans before the latter could take steps to check the rebellion.
The latter hypothesis seems the more plausible evolution determinant as the surface area of the head is minute compared to the remainder of the body, thus the energy required in producing long hair for the express purpose of " optical " amplification of UV light reflected from the snow seems counterproductive ( however, it's very likely that the trait was sustained due to a nuanced combination of multiple influences, given that human hunting-skills and ingenuity were such by 50, 000 years ago that said benefits in terms of ' comfort ' could have alternatively been derived from constructing head and ear warmers of fur from prey, etc .).
Aristotle's assertion that "... it will not be possible to be and not to be the same thing ", which would be written in propositional logic as ¬ ( P ∧ ¬ P ), is a statement modern logicians could call the law of excluded middle ( P ∨ ¬ P ), as distribution of the negation of Aristotle's assertion makes them equivalent, regardless that the former claims that no statement is both true and false, while the latter requires that any statement is either true or false.
The latter could achieve far better accuracy against small mobile tactical targets than heavier, conventional bombers.
The latter broke all previous limitations on how tall man-made objects could be.
The latter could be called electron deficiency.
In the latter case the microcode would be loaded into the control store from some other storage medium as part of the initialization of the CPU, and it could be altered to correct bugs in the instruction set, or to implement new machine instructions.
Thus the court accepted that a modified doctrine of tenure operated in Australia, and that the law of tenure ( as a product of the common law ) could co-exist with the law of native title ( as a product of customary laws and traditions ), though where there had been a valid grant of fee simple by the Crown the latter title would be extinguished.

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