For some time this writer has been suggesting a Junior Judging Class for Intermediates over 16 and under 20 years of age who are ineligible to compete in the Junior Class.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

*" More Ships Hunt For Missing Cyclops ", The New York Times, April 16, 1918.

For example, raw uncompressed PCM audio ( 44. 1 kHz, 16 bit stereo, as represented on an audio CD or in a. wav or. aiff file ) has long been a standard across multiple platforms, but its transmission over networks is slow and expensive compared with more modern compressed formats, such as MP3.

For example, Dalton assumed that water's formula was HO, giving the atomic weight of oxygen as eight times that of hydrogen, instead of the modern value of about 16.

For 16: 9 broadcasts, the 720 × 480 format is used in NTSC countries, while 720 × 576 is used in PAL countries.

For example, uncompressed songs in CD format have a data rate of 16 bits / channel x 2 channels x 44. 1 kHz ≅ 1. 4 Mbit / s, whereas AAC files on an iPod are typically compressed to 128 kbit / s, yielding a compression ratio of 0. 09, for a data-rate savings of 0. 91, or 91 %.

For example, there are 6 different ones with 7 vertices, and 16 with 8 vertices.

For comparison, London shipped 18, 727, 230 tons ( 16 billion kg ), and New York shipped 20, 390, 953 tons ( 18 billion kg ).

For example, just by applying a simple rule that constrains each queen to a single column ( or row ), though still considered brute force, it is possible to reduce the number of possibilities to just 16, 777, 216 ( that is, 8 < sup > 8 </ sup >) possible combinations.

For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

The traditional subscription to the epistle, translated in the King James Bible, states that this epistle was written at Philippi, perhaps arising from a misinterpretation of 16: 5, " For I do pass through Macedonia ", as meaning, " I am passing through Macedonia ".

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* 12th century – Bernard of Clairvaux, commenting on Mark 16: 17 (" they will speak in new tongues "), asked: " For who is there that seems to have these signs of the faith, without which no one, according to this Scripture, shall be saved?

For example Sp ( 8 ) has a representation in terms of 4x4 quaternion unitary matrices which has a 16 dimensional real representation and so might be considered as a candidate for a gauge group.

For instance, power grades of black powder, unsuitable for use in firearms but adequate for blasting rock in quarrying operations, is called blasting powder rather than gunpowder with standard proportions of 70 % nitrate, 14 % charcoal, and 16 % sulfur ; blasting powder may be made with the cheaper sodium nitrate substituted for potassium nitrate and proportions may be as low as 40 % nitrate, 30 % charcoal, and 30 % sulfur.

For comparison, the average was 73. 3 days in Latin America and 16. 3 days in OECD countries.

For youths the length of the halves is reduced-25 minutes at ages 12 to 16 and 20 minutes at ages 8 to 12, though national federations of some countries may differ in their implementation from the official guidelines.

For similar reasons, the age of the heroine was also altered: initially stated to be a 16 year old high-schooler in the original Japanese version, she is an 18 year old college student in the US version.

For most of Serie A's history there were 16 or 18 clubs competing at the top level ; however, since 2004 – 05 there have been 20 clubs altogether.

For these reasons there is a widespread scholarly view that the sacrificial rules of Leviticus 1 – 16 were introduced after the Babylonian exile, when circumstances allowed the priestly writers to describe the rituals so as to express their worldview of an idealised Israel living its life as a holy community in observance of the priestly prescriptions.

For example, engines used to be 1. 5 L units with either 8 or 16 valves, but these have now been upgraded to 1. 6 L units that meet stricter emissions rules.

For example, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Metro Transit Route 50 operates as a limited stop version of Route 16 during peak travel times between Downtown Minneapolis and Downtown St. Paul along University Avenue.

For the 1999 season, Cleveland added relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón and second baseman Roberto Alomar, brother of catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr, and won the Central Division title for the fifth consecutive year.

For nineteen consecutive years, from 1891 through 1909, Cy Young was in his leagues ' top ten for innings pitched ; in fourteen of the seasons, he was in the top five.

For instance, for several consecutive years Estonia had led the world in the production of sulfur dioxide per capita.

* Belief that an event is " due " to happen: For example, " The roulette wheel has landed on red in three consecutive spins.

For example, in a 10 card deck, if a 7 card cut and a 4 card cut are made, that is, 7 cards are moved from the top of the deck to the bottom and then the resulting top 4 cards are also moved to the bottom, then those two consecutive cuts are equivalent to a cut the size of ( 7 + 4

During the coalition government's brief tenure, Somalia topped the Fund For Peace's Failed States Index for three consecutive years.

For eight consecutive years ( 1995 – 2002 ), all films nominated for an Academy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects were created on Silicon Graphics computer systems.

* For the first time in four consecutive years, the film The Wizard of Oz is not telecast.

For instance – provided that steps are stored in consecutive order – crossing over may sum a number of steps from maternal DNA adding a number of steps from paternal DNA and so on.

For reliable clock recovery at the receiver, one usually imposes a maximum run length constraint on the generated channel sequence, i. e., the maximum number of consecutive ones or zeros is bounded to a reasonable number.

For example, the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … ( the Fibonacci sequence ) is formed by starting with 0 and 1 and then adding any two consecutive terms to obtain the next one: an implicit description.

For instance a unit of about 5, 000 Wuhuan cavalry that usually resided in You Province ( part of modern northeastern Hebei and western Liaoning Province ) was deployed in Southern Jing Province ( in Hunan Province ) for three consecutive years.

For three consecutive years ( 2009 – 2011 ), the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Vienna first in its annual " Quality of Living " survey of hundreds of cities around the world.

For instance, in one recent representative series of a consecutive experience, most patients were older and not working.

For instance, the concrete semantics of an imperative programming language may associate to each program the set of execution traces it may produce – an execution trace being a sequence of possible consecutive states of the execution of the program ; a state typically consists of the value of the program counter and the memory locations ( globals, stack and heap ).

For the role of Angela de Marco, she donned a curly brunette wig and a Brooklyn accent, and received her first Golden Globe Award nomination as Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, beginning a six-year streak of consecutive Best Actress nominations at the Golden Globes.

For example, Krusty once revealed that he was banned from television for consecutive 10-and 22-year periods taking him from 1957 to 89.

For 1993 – 94, Terry Simpson was hired as the new head coach in hopes that the Flyers would finally return to playoff contention after four consecutive off-years.

For example, if there are 16 bits per pixel, each pixel is represented in two consecutive ( contiguous ) 8-bit bytes in the framebuffer ( a. k. a. screen buffer ).

For differing reasons, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Albania ( who declared an Olympic-record fourth consecutive boycott ) did not participate in the Games.

For 10 consecutive years, NMSU has been rated as one of America's 100 Best College Buys for offering " the very highest quality education at the lowest cost " by Institutional Research & Evaluation Inc., an independent research and consulting organization for higher education.

For the second consecutive season Udinese qualified for the Champions League, clinching third place on the final day of the season with a 2-0 away win against Catania.

* Van der Waerden's theorem: For any given c and n, there is a number V, such that if V consecutive numbers are coloured with c different colours, then it must contain an arithmetic progression of length n whose elements are all the same colour.

* For the twelfth consecutive year, Fortune Magazine included in 2011 Nestlé in their list of The 10 Most Admired Companies in the World.