First, there were those Congolese ( among them Joseph Kasavubu ) who favored splitting the country into small independent states, Balkanizing it.

U. S. Marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the U. S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island.

The transformation from the stalemate of the First World War into tremendous initial operational and strategic success in the Second, was partly the employment of a relatively small number of mechanised divisions, most importantly the Panzer divisions, and the support of an exceptionally powerful air force.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

First small inside rooms framing, then later, whole walls were prefabricated and carried to the construction site.

The Latin population of the kingdom was always small ; although a steady stream of settlers and new crusaders continually arrived, most of the original crusaders who fought in the First Crusade simply went home.

First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe ( considered " dangerous weapons ") through Customs and for Neil arriving with a small carry-on filled with porn magazines ( considered " indecent material "); both were staged PR stunts.

He established the small publishing house Spring Ast LIX in 1997, whose publications include: Braes Woodland Diary-the First Ten Years by Ann Chapman.

First, the parallax ( the small change in apparent position over the course of a year caused by the Earth moving from one side of its orbit around the Sun to the other ) of stars in close open clusters can be measured, like other individual stars.

First, fuel should be burned in a small combustion chamber, instead of building the entire propellant container to withstand the high pressures.

First we learn of Stuart's birth to a family in New York City and how the family adapts, socially and structurally, to having such a small son.

First, because of the nature of the modern state and " the amount and variety of resources " available even for small states, the state mode of terrorism claims vastly more victims than does terrorism by non-state actors.

First published in a small mimeographed edition in May 1944 as Philosophical Fragments, the text would wait another three years before achieving book form when it was published with its definitive title, Dialectic of Enlightenment, by the Amsterdam publisher Querido Verlag.

In a similar vein is First Blood ( 1982 ) which features John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone in an iconic role ), as a Vietnam vet who comes into conflict with a small town police department.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

* In the film First Knight, Lyonnesse is the home of Guinevere, a small land situated between Camelot and Malagant's territory.

Today known as First United Methodist Church, this congregation built a small log church building in 1820 ; it was London's first church and orphanage.

Old Bloomsbury ’ s development was inevitably impacted on, along with just about everything else in modernist culture, by the First World War: indeed, " the small world of Bloomsbury was later said by some on its outskirts to have been irretrivably shattered ", though in fact its friendships " survived the upheavals and dislocations of war, in many ways were even strengthened by them ".

First, people became sedentary living in small villages and concurrently, new food sources were discovered and domesticated, such as cereal grains, peas and lentils, as well as goats.

First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price.

Although he considered his small stature ( 1. 61 m ) and light weight an advantage to becoming an aviator, and he tried every means of securing service as a flyer, during the First World War Ravel was not allowed to enlist as a pilot because of his age and weak health.

The College tower can be climbed, and is accessed via a small door on First Court.

In the 2000s, Aykroyd's film appearances have tended to be small character parts in big-budget productions, such as a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor and a neurologist in 50 First Dates.

By the time of the Long March, numerous small units had been organized into three unified groups, the First Red Army ( 紅一方面軍 / 红一方面军 / Hóng Yī Fāngmiàn Jūn ), the Second Red Army ( 紅二方面軍 / 红二方面军 / Hóng Èr Fāngmiàn Jūn ) and the Fourth Red Army ( 紅四方面軍 / 红四方面军 / Hóng Sì Fāngmiàn Jūn ).

First, a layer or layers of sand accumulates as the result of sedimentation, either from water ( as in a stream, lake, or sea ) or from air ( as in a desert ).

First, the LM-MUX ( Link Management Multiplexer ) which lies on top of the IrLAP layer.

First, the boundary layer adds to the effective thickness of the body, through the displacement thickness, hence increasing the pressure drag.

Because NetBIOS / NetBEUI allows packets to be sent that are larger than the largest packet that could be transmitted on a particular MAC layer, a NetBIOS / NetBEUI packet might have to be transmitted as a sequence of " Data First Middle " packets and a " Data Only Last " packet ; packets that do not need to be segmented in that fashion will be sent as a single " Data Only Last " packet.

First, the dimples on the surface of a golf ball cause the boundary layer on the upstream side of the ball to transition from laminar to turbulent.

First introduced in Tiger, it is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by clicking its icon in the Dock.

The “ Original Salzburg Mozartkugeln ” are still produced manually by the confectionery Fürst according to the original recipe and using the original technique: First, a ball of green pistachio marzipan covered in a layer of nougat is produced.

F-101, the " First Coat Black Elastic Japan ", was used as the basic coat applied directly to the metal, while F-102, " Finish Coat Elastic Black Japan ", was applied over the first layer.

First, an impermeable caliche layer prevents water from draining properly, which can keep the roots from getting enough oxygen.

In First Edition D & D, Graz ' zt's layer is an infinite palace which filled his entire layer.

In First Edition D & D, Lolth's Demonweb is located on the 65th layer, from there access is possible to the 66th layer, where her realm and spider-ship is located.

* 99-Unnamed contested layer consisting of several distinctive realms ( from First edition D & D module Tales of the Outer Planes ); one is where demons are spawned, another is a lightning realm, in another can be found portals leading to Juiblex and Kali's layers.

* 528-Juiblex's layer in First Edition D & D, an infinite layer of slimes and oozes feeding off each other.

In First Edition D & D, Kali's layer was # 500 and was a jungle of blood-red vegetation bordering a sea of blood.

First, a layer of string is wound around the core, then a second, less tight layer of string is wound in the opposite direction to prevent unraveling.

First, a voltage bias is applied and the tip is brought close to the sample by some coarse sample-to-tip control, which is turned off when the tip and sample are sufficiently close.

The farcical interludes ( in places too coarse for modern taste ) supply many touches of genuine comedy ; and throughout the play there are passages, as in the speeches of Veritie in the First Part and of Dame Chastitie in the " Interlude of the Sowtar and the Taylor ," in which word and line are happily conceived.