Instead, lower bidding characters are ranked in ascending order according to how much they have bid, the characters becoming progressively weaker in that attribute as they pay less for it.

Responsible for having introduced irrigation and composting techniques to East Africa, they were progressively displaced in a southerly direction and / or absorbed by the incoming Nilotic and Bantu groups until they wound up in Tanzania.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

Placebos are more effective in intense pain than mild pain ; and they produce progressively weaker effects with repeated administration.

While Prakrits were originally seen as " lower " forms of language, the influence they had on Sanskrit, allowing it to be more easily used by the common people, as well as " Sankritization " of Prakrits gave Prakrits progressively higher cultural cachet.

Thulium was so rare that none of the early workers had enough of it to purify sufficiently to actually see the green color ; they had to be content with spectroscopically observing the strengthening of the two characteristic absorption bands, as erbium was progressively removed.

In Kandinsky ’ s work some characteristics are obvious, while certain touches are more discrete and veiled ; they reveal themselves only progressively to those who deepen their connection with his work.

They would start at high speeds and progressively get slower and slower until they heard an answer.

The wavefronts initially are vertical, but the Earth's greater refractive index causes the wavefronts to " lean over " at a progressively greater angle in the direction of propagation as they travel, until they are dissipated.

The situation gets progressively more desperate for the Romans, but finally they are able to get a message to Caesar.

These speeches usually reveal the presenter as well informed about the conference and leading figures, but progressively the audience is lambasted until they recognize the comedy.

They have been getting progressively smaller and less expensive since they were first introduced.

By the 19th, they had to abandon their efforts due to progressively stiffening resistance and started to retreat southward along the river with over 200 wounded.

His shallower and weaker center and right wing columns were drawn up so that they were progressively further to the right and rear of the proceeding column, in the so-called Echelon formation.

Initially the intros consisted of simple messages, but they grew progressively more complex as they became a medium to demonstrate the purported superiority of a cracking group.

As fluorescent tubes age they grow progressively dimmer, and they can be expensive or difficult to replace.

The sons, who have human features, located the opening to the fourth world in the southwest, but they were forced to pass through the progressively dimming first, second and third worlds before reaching the overcrowded and blackened fourth world.

The Monster Hero takes Sarah back to her home where they begin to get to know one another, and progressively fall in love.

Some later commentators have extended the metaphor to emphasize the suddenness, suggesting that economic bubbles end " All at once, and nothing first, / Just as bubbles do when they burst ," though theories of financial crises such as debt-deflation and the Financial Instability Hypothesis suggest instead that bubbles burst progressively, with the most vulnerable ( most highly-levered ) assets failing first, and then the collapse spreading throughout the economy.

At the region where this occurs sound waves traveling against the flow reach a point where they cannot travel any further upstream and the pressure progressively builds in that region, and a high pressure shock wave rapidly forms.

A dual-listed company ( DLC ) structure involves two companies incorporated in different countries contractually agreeing to operate their businesses as if they were a single enterprise, while retaining their separate legal identity and existing stock exchange listings.

Peyote stitch patterns are very easy to depict diagrammatically because they are typically stitched flat and then later incorporated into the piece or left as a flat tapestry.

Photographic elements may be incorporated into such works, but they are not the primary basis or source for them.

These new concepts prompted the publication of the Ideen ( Ideas ) in 1913, in which they were at first incorporated, and a plan for a second edition of the Logische Untersuchungen.

East of the Kingdom, large areas of the former Commonwealth remained directly incorporated into the Empire ; together with the Kingdom they were part of the Russian partition.

The mechanical parts of early textile machines were sometimes called ' clock work ' because of the metal spindles and gears they incorporated.

Nevertheless, they implemented minor changes in the microcode that would allow Digital Research to run emulation mode much faster, incorporated into the E-2 step.

As they worked, construction teams came upon an abandoned set of rooms containing 25, 000 historical items ; these were incorporated into the rest of the structure to add a new exhibition zone.

However, the band's individualistic style drew from a wide variety of influences, including folk music, which they incorporated into their next two albums.

Particularly from Led Zeppelin III, they incorporated elements of mythology and mysticism into their music, which largely grew out of Plant's interest in legends and history.

This disaster led the surviving Brothers to become incorporated into the Order of Teutonic Knights in the following year, and from that point on they became known as the Livonian Order.

The first cracks in the system, even though they were merely symbolic, were the 1970s reforms to the electoral system and the composition of the Congress of the Union which for the first time incorporated proportional representation seats allowing opposition parties to obtain seats, though limited in number, in the Chamber of Deputies.

They incorporated large numbers of the people they conquered into their army, with the result that by the time they reached Sierra Leone, the rank and file of their army consisted mostly of coastal peoples ; the Mane were its commanding group.

Nevertheless, they left a strong legacy in the tradition of Slovene culture, which was partially incorporated in the Catholic Counter-Reformation in the 17th century.

The filmmaker Brian De Palma has incorporated split screens into many of his films, most notably in Sisters ( 1973 ) and they have since become synonymous with his filmmaking style ( Specifically 1981's Blow Out and 1998's Snake Eyes ).

The Saxons long resisted both becoming Christians and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom, but they were decisively conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of annual campaigns, the Saxon Wars ( 772 – 804 ).

His early papers on the grammar of English make reference to the " functional components " of language, as " generalized uses of language, which, since they seem to determine the nature of the language system, require to be incorporated into our account of that system.

The Coens met filmmaker John Milius when they were in Los Angeles making Barton Fink and incorporated his love of guns and the military into the character of Walter.

While the government and the now incorporated former opposition continue to distrust each other, they have often found a way to work with each other and are committed to peacefully resolving their differences.

Actually, they are all incorporated as towns except for Florence.

As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.

The codification is based on the content of the laws, however, not the vehicle by which they are adopted ; so, for instance, if an appropriations act contains substantive, permanent legislation ( as is sometimes the case ), the permanent provisions will be incorporated into the Code even though they were adopted as part of a non-permanent enactment.

On April 4, 1923, with help from a loan given to Harry Warner by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated.