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At the tip of the spear was the United States Marine Corps ' 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit led by Colonel James L. Jones, who later became Commandant of the Marine Corps ; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe ( SACEUR ); and National Security Advisor for President Barack Obama.
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At the peak of the arch, tip the head back and bend the knees in an effort to touch toes to head.
At the same time, the vaulter is dropping the pole tip into the box.
At close range, fine control of the tip in all three dimensions when near the sample is typically piezoelectric, maintaining tip-sample separation W typically in the 4-7 Å ( 0. 4-0. 7 nm ) range, which is the equilibrium position between attractive ( 3 < W < 10Å ) and repulsive ( W < 3Å ) interactions.
Note that the southern tip of Lake Michigan is depicted as being farther north than Lake Erie. At the time, the actual location of this extreme was unknown.
* At, the tip of the long spiky tail, the Julia set is a straight line segment.
At its southern tip the Delmarva Peninsula is connected to Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads, Virginia via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
At these higher velocities, the hardened tip of the shot or shell has to be protected from the initial impact shock, or risk shattering.
At the tip of the cone was a small probe which combined with the cone itself to act as an antenna.
At the tip of the cone was a small probe which combined with the cone itself to act as an antenna.
At sufficiently high values of the applied field, ions are extracted from the cone tip by field evaporation or similar mechanisms, which then are accelerated to high velocities ( typically 100 km / s or more ).
At the very summit of, he heard the cry of an infant and the crash of lightning, the pouring of rain, and he saw the tip of a rainbow with intense colors in front of the black sky.
At the time of the amalgamation the combined population of Barking and Dagenham was around 180, 000, the northern tip of Dagenham having been incorporated into Redbridge and a small area of Barking in Newham.
At the tip of West Ocean Drive is Sunset Park, the place closest to where a woman was fatally struck by a spotted eagle ray.
At the pointed tip of the spore ( the hilum ) closest to the supporting basidium, Buller's drop accumulates as a large, almost spherical water droplet.
At the tip of Arkona in recent centuries, the cliffs have repeatedly collapsed into the sea, with the result that only the ramparts of the Jaromarsburg are still visible today.
At one point, Firestone marketed plugs with polonium in the tip, under the ( questionable ) theory that the radioactivity would ionize the air in the gap, easing spark formation.
At the north-western tip of Møn there is a narrow bridge to the small island of Nyord.
At the farthest northern tip of the upper series of lawns enclosed by woodland are three Dawn Redwood trees, which lose their needles but regain them every spring, an emblem of eternal renewal.
At the Hudson's shore, in Fort Washington Park stands the Little Red Lighthouse, a small lighthouse located at the tip of Jeffrey's Hook at the base of the eastern pier of the George Washington Bridge.
At first, Ender does not appear to recognize Bean's brilliance, but time shows that he was grooming Bean as his tactical support, putting him at the head of an unorthodox platoon challenged to outthink the teachers who designed the game, and defeat their attempts to tip the balance of advantages towards Ender's rivals.
At Bouganville the Japanese had two airfields in the southern tip of the island, and another at the northern most penninsula, with a fourth on Buki just across the northern passage.
At the tip of the petrous temporal bone it makes a sharp turn forward to enter the cavernous sinus.
At the moment the rod tip reaches its highest velocity the direction of the cast is determined.
At the tip of each limb is a nock, which is used to attach the bowstring to the limbs.
At lower speeds the air does have time to react, and is pushed spanwise by the angled leading edge, towards the wing tip.
At and spear
At Kobathatang, Ngurunderi finally got lucky, and struck Pondi in the tail with a spear.
At the advance of Agesilaus ' forces, instead of giving the order to charge, Chabrias famously ordered his men at ease — with the spear remaining pointing upwards instead of towards the enemy, and the shield leaning against the left knee instead of being hoisted against the shoulder.
At this point, Éogan mac Durthacht threw a spear, killing Naoise, and his brothers were killed shortly after.
At the top of the spear there is a linen ribbon with a red cross.
At the end of the war the spear came into the hands of US General George S. Patton.
At the end of this time he found a spear washed up on the shore and grew sad, remembering his times with the Fenians.
At the end of the film, Kaworu uses Mark. 06 to throw a spear through Unit 01 ( neutralizing it and stopping Third Impact ) and descend from the Moon, after that declaring that he will show Shinji " true happiness ".
At the advance of Agesilaus ' forces, instead of giving the order to charge, Chabrias famously ordered his men at ease — with the spear remaining pointing upwards instead of towards the enemy, and the shield leaning against the left knee instead of being hoisted against the shoulder.
At present the spear has been almost completely displaced by the shotgun with pellets but they still use the blowpipe.
At blackbelt, Cuong Nhu includes higher levels of original hard style empty hand katas, original soft style empty hand katas Nhu 1, Nhu 2, and Lotus, as well as the study of more advanced weapons, including but not limited to bo, tambo, double tambo, tonfa, sai, and spear.
At first, Tensho used a spear for a weapon, but after his father's death, switched to using Hito.
At least twelve of the votive plaques show classical images of Minerva, with spear, shield and owl ; the five of these that carried an inscription were dedicated to Senua rather than Minerva.
At the same time, bow and arrow technology gradually overtook the use of the spear and atlatl, and agricultural production of the " Three Sisters " ( maize, beans, and squash ) was introduced.
" At last, defending the Prophet, Musab was hit with a spear by Ibn Kami ' ah, and fell and died a martyr ‘ s death.
At the same time, he was coached and mentored by, a master of the spear.
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At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.
At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.
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