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The bridge has survived the natural hazards of the elements, war, fire, and floods, as well as injuries incident to heavy traffic, for more than a hundred years.
Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.
Sensory ataxia presents itself with an unsteady " stomping " gait with heavy heel strikes, as well as a postural instability that is usually worsened when the lack of proprioceptive input cannot be compensated for by visual input, such as in poorly lit environments.
Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes.
Grey slashed public expenditure against heavy opposition, although its impact was negligible at this point: silver was discovered in Glen Osmond that year, agriculture was well underway, and other mines sprung up all over the state, aiding Adelaide's commercial development.
Ailanthus are capable of forming thick blankets of roots and heavy shade to the extent that native species are prevented from being able to reclaim an area that has been logged or deforested, as well as areas that have been heavily developed.
Managers aim to capture the inefficiencies arising from the heavy participation of non-economic investors ( i. e., high income " buy and hold " investors seeking tax-exempt income ) as well as the " crossover buying " arising from corporations ' or individuals ' changing income tax situations ( i. e., insurers switching their munis for corporates after a large loss as they can capture a higher after-tax yield by offsetting the taxable corporate income with underwriting losses ).
They are used as an insoluble heavy additive to oil well drilling fluid, and in purer form, as X-ray radiocontrast agents for imaging the human gastrointestinal tract.
Coccolithophorids and molluscs, including ammonites, rudists, freshwater snails and mussels, as well as organisms whose food chain included these shell builders, became extinct or suffered heavy losses.
The scenery of the island is rivalled in northeastern North America only by Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island tourism marketing places a heavy emphasis on its Scottish Gaelic heritage through events such as the Celtic Colours Festival, held each October, as well as promotions through the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts.
Many fine chemicals are prepared via catalysis ; methods include those of heavy industry as well as more specialized processes that would be prohibitively expensive on a large scale.
As a delicate cuisine, oil is not often used in large quantities and there is a relatively heavy emphasis on poaching, steaming and braising, as well as the common Chinese method of stir-frying.
Mail was commonly also used as horse armour for cataphracts and heavy cavalry as well as armour for the soldiers themselves.
As well as these molecules, emission from heavy atoms such as iron, magnesium and silicon was detected, with abundances consistent with what would be found in a cometary nucleus.
In addition to these heavy cavalry, the Macedonian army also employed lighter horsemen called prodromoi for scouting and screening, as well as the Macedonian pike phalanx and various kinds of light infantry.
With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Dayton's businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors.
With a legendary Hollywood " girl next door " image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers.
With the heavy use and resulting scrutiny of its open-source code, as well as increasingly more sophisticated attack methods, many security flaws were discovered in BIND.
It receives heavy rainfall during the Wet, and is well known for its spectacular lightning.
A relational normalised database imposes a heavy access load over physical storage of data even if it is well tuned for high performance.
The sediments themselves act as pollutants, as well as being carriers for other pollutants, such as attached pesticide molecules or heavy metals.
** Fiddling from Appalachia, the most well-known style today, featuring heavy use of droning and double-stops as well as syncopated bowing patterns.
The significance of the railways to the Civil War of the Finns is well symbolized by the most modern and frightening weapon used in the turmoil: armoured train, carrying light cannons and heavy machine guns.
The crew runs afoul of the giant shrimp Ebirah, and washes up on the shore of an island, where a terrorist organization manufactures heavy water for their purposes, as well as a chemical that keeps Ebirah at bay.
Water mills found innumerable applications, especially in crushing ores to release the fine particles of gold and other heavy minerals, as well as working giant bellows to force air into the confined spaces of underground workings.

well and adze
The adze is used to cut footsteps ( sometimes known as pigeon holes ), as well as scoop seats in the hillside and trenches to bury an ice axe belay.

well and broad
Among leaf litter frogs in Panama, frogs that actively hunt prey have narrow mouths and are slim, often brightly coloured and toxic, while ambushers have wide mouths and are broad and well camouflaged.
The broad outlines of the poet's life are well known.
Beta-lactam antibiotics are typically used to treat a broad spectrum of Gram-positive bacteria, as well as a few Gram-negative bacteria.
Their enduring popularity can be attributed to their playful disposition, as well as their rapid breeding, aesthetics, cheap price, and broad availability.
Historicism says that Biblical prophecies provide us with a broad view of history, as well as an explanation of the religious significance of historical events.
Some countries, including Finland, India, Pakistan, Russia, Brazil and Sri Lanka, as well as San Francisco in USA and Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia, use broad gauge.
FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >
While the lighter and smoother Canadian whiskies are the most widely familiar, the range of products is actually broad and includes some robust whiskies as well.
In particular, it has remained in broad use in the embedded computing world, though the recently developed EEMBC benchmark suite, HINT, Stream, and even Bytemark are widely quoted and used, as well as more specific benchmarks for the memory subsystem ( Cachebench ), TCP / IP ( TTCP ), and many others.
Kelly's athleticism gave his moves a distinctive broad, muscular quality, and this was a very deliberate choice on his part, as he explained: " There's a strong link between sports and dancing, and my own dancing springs from my early days as an athlete ... I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
The scope of AIFMD is broad and encompasses managers located within the EU as well as non-EU managers that market their funds to European investors.
The energy of the ions, as well as the ion species and the composition of the target determine the depth of penetration of the ions in the solid: A monoenergetic ion beam will generally have a broad depth distribution.
MTV continues to support a broad selection of music videos on its international channels as well.
* A broad subset of ANSI SQL 99, as well as extensions
Pankration, as practiced in historical antiquity, was an athletic event that combined techniques of both boxing ( pygmē / pygmachia – πυγμή / πυγμαχία ) and wrestling ( palē – πάλη ), as well as additional elements, such as the use of strikes with the lower extremities, to create a broad fighting sport very similar to today's mixed martial arts competitions.
The Latin style was heavily influenced by Cicero, and involved a strong emphasis on a broad education in all areas of humanistic study ( in the liberal arts, including philosophy ), as well as on the use of wit and humor, on appeal to the listener's emotions, and on digressions ( often used to explore general themes related to the specific topic of the speech ).
The Hoe also includes a long broad tarmacked promenade ( currently a disabled motorists car park ) which serves as a spectacular military parade ground and which is often used for displays by Plymouth based Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Army garrison, as well as for funfairs and open-air concerts.
The company provides a broad range of financial services to international organisations, as well as to both large and small businesses and private individuals.
It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses as well.
During this period the magazine included lots of features such as the satirical comic strip Thrud the Barbarian and Dave Langford's " Critical Mass " book review column, as well as a comical advertising series " The Androx Diaries ", and always had cameos and full scenarios for a broad selection of the most popular games of the time, as well as a more rough and informal editorial style.
A reviewer of Wrathall's book stated: " An ontology of unconcealment ... means a description and analysis of the broad contexts in which entities show up as meaningful to us, as well as the conditions under which such contexts, or worlds, emerge and fade.
The bill is usually broad and contains serrated lamellae which are particularly well defined in the filter-feeding species.

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