Concentrating attack on the leg stump is considered by many cricket fans and commentators to lead to boring play, as it stifles run scoring and encourages batsmen to play conservatively.

* Slater, Philip E. The Glory of Hera: Greek Mythology and the Greek Family ( Boston: Beacon Press ) 1968 ( Princeton University 1992 ISBN 0-691-00222-3 ) Concentrating on family structure in 5th-century Athens ; some of the crude usage of myth and drama for psychological interpreting of " neuroses " is dated.

Concentrating on her two children left Polgár with little time to train and play competitively and her ranking dropped from eighth in 2005 to the mid-50s in 2009.

Concentrating on the first order rocking motion, the V6 can be assumed to consist of two separate straight-3 where counterweights on the crankshaft and a counter rotating balance shaft compensate the first order rocking motion.

Concentrating on two plays and two novels from the period — Victorien Sardou's Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1893 ), Maurice Barrès's Les Déracinés ( 1897 ), Edmond Rostand's L ' Aiglon ( 1900 ), and André de Lorde and Gyp's Napoléonette ( 1913 ) Datta examines how writers and critics of the Belle Epoque exploited the Napoleonic legend for diverse political and cultural ends.

Concentrating his forces on the Etruscan side of the Tiber, Porsenna assaulted the Janiculum and took it from the terrified Roman recruits with all its stores.

Concentrating instead on a story, sermon, and both national and international events.

Concentrating on 1: 72 scale military aircraft and 1: 76 military vehicles, it competed with the then-dominant Airfix company.

Concentrating on two tonal areas to musically depict ambiguity and conflict in the text became a hallmark of his style, resolving only when appropriate to the meaning of the song.

Concentrating on keeping the line taut while fighting fish, using recurved point or " triple grip " style hooks on lures, and equipping lures that do not have them with split rings can significantly reduce escapement.

Concentrating on careful defence, but scoring where possible, the pair added 172 in total.

Concentrating on local Maori history, whaling and local european settlments.

Concentrating on real India, its rituals and festivities, Malle fell afoul of the Indian government, which disliked his portrayal of the country, in its fascination with the pre-modern, and consequently banned the BBC from filming in India for several years.

Concentrating on shipping, shipbuilding and purchasing grain, Allan advanced rapidly, aided by capital raised and contacts gained through family connections, as well as social bonds he developed himself in the predominantly Scottish business community at Montreal.

Concentrating on this and in the presence of Beatrice Hastings was too much for Jean, the wife of his first marriage, the same wife who had shared in his own theosophic and aesthetic interests of his early activities in the Leeds Arts Club, who did not grant him a divorce but went to live instead with Holbrook Jackson and worked the rest of her life as a skilled craftswoman in the tradition of William Morris.

" MicroCSP " references solar thermal technologies in which concentrating solar power ( CSP ) collectors are based on the designs used in traditional Concentrating Solar Power systems found in the Mojave Desert but are smaller in collector size, lighter and operate at lower thermal temperatures usually below 315 ° C ( 600 ° F ).

Concentrating on keeping the line tight at all times while fighting fish, equipping lures that do not have them with split rings, and using recurved point or " Triple Grip " style hooks on lures, will keep catch rates with barbless hooks as high as those achieved with barbed hooks.

* April 28 – Concentrating excessively on their flight director instrument and using it incorrectly, the flight crew of LAN Chile Flight 160, a Boeing 727, neglects to check its instruments and fails to notice that the aircraft has descended below its intended glidepath.

* Concentrating on studies without the distraction of " genuine " romantic relationships

Concentrating on molecular biology, it has brought outstanding scientists to head laboratories in their specialties.

* Amgueddfa Bythynod New York Cottages Museum: Concentrating on the history of the quarry and the community which flourished around it.

Concentrating so many talents in one governmental organ to perform various literary, artistic, and educational activities was unprecedented not only in the Yuan Dynasty but also in Chinese history.

Concentrating, through close study of the Crown's administrative records, on how changes of government-method reflected changes in the nature of power and politics, the work bridged from 19th century constitutional history to mid-20th century socio-political emphasis with very few fundamental criticisms of Tout's methods and conclusions.

Concentrating all of the Pinpoint Barrier's energy into the tip of the Daedalus ship, the SDF-1 is able to penetrate the Zentraedi Destroyer by literally punching into it.

Concentrating primarily on Australian politics in a broad sense, the magazine's issues have covered topics including profiles of Mark Latham, to the U. S. military's failure to grasp the importance of tribal affiliation in Iraq, and the " cult " of the CEO.

Concentrating the particles of value in a form supporting separation enables the desired metal to be removed from waste products.

Concentrating the particles of value in a form supporting separation enables the desired metal to be removed from waste products.

* Concentrating sunlight: A reflective mirror of polished glass, metal or metallised film is used to concentrate light and heat from the sun into a small cooking area, making the energy more concentrated and increasing its heating power.

Concentrating the clear liquid extract and blending with salt and celery and onion extracts formed a sticky black paste.

Concentrating solar power takes advantage of this fact.

* Photovoltaic ( PV ) solar panels, and ( large ) Concentrating solar power plants.

Concentrating thermal ( CSP ) or photovoltaic ( CPV ) solar power plants range between 20 % to 31. 25 % efficiency ( dish Stirling ).

Concentrating aviation against Soviet ground forces, the Luftwaffe delivered a series of attacks that took the wind out of the Soviet offensive within two weeks.

To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena.

In the case of the latter, comedian Billy Birmingham's impersonations of Benaud on The Twelfth Man comedy recordings have become legendary, spanning over twenty years.

Robert Plant on stage with Alison Krauss at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena | NIA, 5 May 2008

Birmingham's early settler, John Cadwallader, settled on a hill above the Little Juniata River and made plans to establish a large city.

When interviewed on Melvyn Bragg's Front Row, Radio 4, November 2004 Mr. Fisher placed Temple Newsam House in the top three non-national museums in the country, along with Birmingham's Barber Institute and the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

He is remembered in Birmingham by Brindley Drive ( on the site of former canal yards ), the Brindleyplace mixed-use development and a pub, The James Brindley ( both being canal-side features ), and the James Brindley School for children in Birmingham's hospitals ; in Leek with the James Brindley Mill ; and by numerous other streets in the areas in which he worked.

When these three companies merged to form the Midland Railway on 10 May 1844, the Midland did not have its own route to London, and relied upon a junction at Rugby with the London and Birmingham's line ( which became part of the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1846 ) to London Euston for access to the capital.

Owing to Birmingham's role as a centre of light engineering, the University traditionally had a special focus on science, engineering and commerce, as well as coal mining.

The campaign's first public meeting on 5 May 1964 was held in Birmingham's Town Hall.

Birmingham's public safety commissioner Eugene T. " Bull " Connor advocated violence against freedom riders and ordered fire hoses and police dogs turned on demonstrators.

in Birmingham's Centenary Square was destroyed by arson on 17 April 2003.

At the end of the 2003 – 04 season, Heskey signed for Birmingham City on a five-year contract for an initial fee of £ 3. 5 million, which could have risen to £ 6. 25 million, and would thus have become Birmingham's most expensive player.

In 1995, two more colleges were absorbed — Birmingham and Solihull College of Nursing and Midwifery, and the West Midlands School of Radiography — and the Birmingham School of Jewellery opened on Vittoria Street in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.

The campaign focused on a single goal — the desegregation of Birmingham's downtown merchants — rather than total desegregation, as in Albany.

Enrolment of the charters of 1166 and 1189 granting and confirming Birmingham's right to hold a marketThe transformation of Birmingham from the purely rural manor recorded in the Domesday Book started decisively in 1166, with the purchase by the Lord of the Manor Peter de Birmingham of a royal charter from Henry II permitting him to hold a weekly market " at his castle at Birmingham " and to charge tolls on the market's traffic.

Birmingham's first Cartography | cartographic representation, on the fourteenth century Gough Map.

Despite a series of plagues throughout the 17th century, by 1700 Birmingham's population had increased fifteenfold and the town was the fifth-largest in England and Wales, with a nationally-important economy based on the expanding and diversifying metal trades, and a reputation for political and religious radicalism firmly established by its role in the English Civil War.

Equipment used by Joseph Priestley in his experiments on gasesThis " miracle birth " has traditionally been seen as a result of Birmingham's status as a stronghold of religious Nonconformism, creating a free-thinking culture unconstrained by the established Church of England, and according with wider historical theories such as the Merton thesis and the Weber thesis, that see Protestant culture as a major factor in the rise of experimental science and industrial capitalism within Europe.

The factors that drove Birmingham's rapid industrialisation were also different to those behind the later development of textile manufacturing towns such as Manchester, whose spectacular growth from the 1780s onwards was based on the economies of scale inherent in mechanised manufacture: the ability of a low-wage, unskilled labour force to produce bulk commodities such as cotton in huge quantities.

Until the 1760s, Birmingham's local government system, consisted of manorial and parish officials, most of whom served on a part-time and honorary basis.

Post-war national governments, however, saw Birmingham's accelerating economic success as a damaging influence on the stagnating economies of the North of England, Scotland and Wales, and saw its physical expansion as a threat to its surrounding areas – " from Westminster's point of view was too large, too prosperous, and had to be held in check ".

This prosperity was achieved despite severe restrictions placed on the city's economy by central government, which explicitly sought to limit Birmingham's growth.

Birmingham's economic success over the previous two centuries had been built on its economic diversity and its ongoing ability to adapt and innovate – attracting new businesses and developing new industries with its large supply of skilled labour and dynamic entrepreneurial culture – but this was exactly the process that government industrial location policy sought to prevent.

In 1950 Birmingham's economy could still be described as " more broadly based than that of any city of equivalent size in the world ", but by 1973 the West Midlands had an above-average reliance on large firms for employment, and the small firms that remained were increasingly dependent as suppliers and sub-contractors to the few larger firms.