For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

For a few brief minutes they had all been part of one little drama.

For a brief discussion comparing such anti-realism to its opposite, realism, see ( Okasha 2002, ch.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine.

For example, a scene may be improved by cutting a few frames out of an actor's pause ; a brief view of a listener can help conceal the break.

For a brief period in the 1880s it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia.

For a brief time Morris held small jobs, first as a cable television salesman and then as a term-paper writer.

For this brief period, Conservatives replaced the left as Velasco's base of support.

For example, it explains experts ' ability to recall large amounts of material displayed for only brief study intervals, provided that the material comes from their domain of expertise.

For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.

For a brief period in the 8th century the kingdom encompassed the Kentish Kingdom to the South.

For a brief period, in the aberrant theology promulgated by the pharaoh Akhenaten, a single god, the Aten, replaced the traditional pantheon.

For organization and ease of reference here, the relevant major terrorist attacks are listed by date below, with a brief summary for each, identifying the terror cells most directly responsible for the attack.

For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory.

For a brief while, he also helps supervise the New Mutants and their sister team, the X-Terminators.

For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government, and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate.

For a brief time the combined villages were referred to as " Michigan " but was officially named Lansing in 1848.

For a brief period before he resumed his normal broadcasting duties following his sexual assault arrest ( see below ), Albert anchored MSG's former nightly sports news report, MSG SportsDesk.

For a brief period in Mars ' history, it may have also been capable of forming life.

For example, an article entitled " Daily News workers quarantined " describes a brief quarantine that lasted until people could be showered in a decontamination tent.

For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music.

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

For a brief period in fact, complete normed linear spaces where referred to as " Banach-Wiener " spaces in mathematical literature, based on terminology introduced by Wiener himself.

For a while he was content to let events develop in their good time.

For example, even the most successful executive lives in a two-room apartment while ordinary people rent space in the stairwells of office buildings in which to sleep at night ; ;

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.

For a while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art.

For a while Nick followed the twisting course of the bubbles, wondering which set came from Elaine.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said, `` For Christ's sake, Donald, you've got Prussian blue all over your shirt '', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all over his pants as well.

For a while the young men waited outside the lodge of TuHulHulZote, glorying in his harsh language as he talked with himself.

For a short while in 1918, he was employed acquiring provisions at the Air Ministry.

For example, while most of today's Altaic languages have vowel harmony, Proto-Altaic as reconstructed by Starostin et al.

For example, while the axiom of choice implies that there is a well-ordering of the real numbers, there are models of set theory with the axiom of choice in which no well-ordering of the reals is definable.

For example, if a movement required reaching to touch a target in front of the body, flexion at the shoulder would create a torque at the elbow, while extension of the elbow would create a torque at the wrist.

For a while there were two different dialects of Irish being spoken on Achill.

For the three days that it rests on Earth, righteous souls sit at the head of their body, chanting the Ustavaiti Gathas with joy, while a wicked person sits at the feet of the corpse, wails and recites the Yasna.

For a while in the 1920s and 1930s there was a Green International ( International Agrarian Bureau ) based on the peasant parties in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Serbia.

For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

For the next few years, Newton was raised by his emotionally distant stepmother while his father was at sea, and spent some time at a boarding school where he was mistreated.

::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

For private suits only the victims or their families could prosecute, while for public suits anyone ( ho boulomenos, ' whoever wants to ' i. e. any citizen with full citizen rights ) could bring a case since the issues in these major suits were regarded as affecting the community as a whole.

For many years he was a member of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, pastored from 1905 to 1926 by Social Gospel exponent Henry Sloane Coffin, while his wife and daughter belonged to the Brick Presbyterian Church.

For the rest of the two spacecrafts ' pass over the near side of the Moon, Mattingly prepared to shift Casper to a circular orbit while Young and Duke prepared Orion for the descent to the lunar surface.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

For example, the field extension R / Q, that is the field of real numbers as an extension of the field of rational numbers, is transcendental, while the field extensions C / R and Q (√ 2 )/ Q are algebraic, where C is the field of complex numbers.

For some, aesthetics is considered a synonym for the philosophy of art since Hegel, while others insist that there is a significant distinction between these closely related fields.