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 centuries the North Atlantic nations dominated the world and as long as they did they could afford the luxury of fighting each other.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

For long hauls these shipments should be protected with water-proof paper.

For example, the marked susceptibility of the monkey to respiratory infection might be related to its delicate, long alveolar ducts and short, large bronchioles situated within a parenchyma entirely lacking in protective supportive tissue barriers such as those found in types 1, and 3.

For so long as death was not violent, it was natural and to be welcomed, making a funeral a feast.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

All these techniques help Poirot attain his principal target: " For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …"

For a long time, scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning Alphorn in the dialect of Obwalden.

For the Lamtuna leadership, this new ideology dovetailed with their long desire to refound the Sanhaja union and recover their lost dominions.

For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is

For higher values, the surface diffusion of deposited atomic species would allow for the formation of crystallites with long range atomic order.

For example, the 2007 SIGGRAPH conference attracted about 30000 visitors, and CIKM only accepted 15 % of the long papers that were submitted in 2005.

For most of the history of bicycles ' popularity women have worn long skirts, and the lower frame accommodated these better than the top-tube.

Soon after, he confided in her, " For so long we were ruled over by a madman and a murderer, and now by a fool and a pig.

For a binomial involving subtraction, the theorem can be applied as long as the opposite of the second term is used.

For example, the copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works based on Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of other works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are different enough to not be judged copies of Disney's.

For as long as they stay functionally healthy and sane, characters grow and develop.

For a long period, it was the " classic " Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations.

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, the 14th Dalai Lama, long insistent on Tibet's history being separate from that of China's, conceded in 2005 that Tibet " is a part " of China's " 5000-year history " as part of a new proposal for Tibetan autonomy.

For example, for a long period it was assumed that Imperial China had no system of civil law because the law codes did not have explicit provisions for civil lawsuits.

For example, many everyday objects are hundreds or thousands of centimetres long, such as humans, rooms and buildings.

For example, Jeremy Taylor defined 5 rules in Holy Living ( 1650 ), including abstaining from marrying " so long as she is with child by her former husband " and " within the year of mourning ".

For the making of selections on the basis of excellence requires that any foundation making the selections shall have available the judgments of a corps of advisors whose judgments are known to be good: such judgments can be known to be good only by the records of those selected, by records made subsequent to their selection over considerable periods of time.

For prevention of these diseases during periods of stress such as shipping, excessive handling, vaccination, extreme weather conditions: 350 milligrams per head per day for 30 days only.

For critics, Hardy has had no poetic periods -- one does not speak of early Hardy or late Hardy, or of the London or Max Gate period, but simply of Hardy, as of a poetic monolith.

: For the city in the late Roman and the Eastern Roman or Byzantine periods ( 330 – 1453 ), see Constantinople.

For example, during the menstrual cycle, the breasts are enlarged by premenstrual water retention ; during pregnancy the breasts become enlarged and denser ( firmer ) because of the prolactin-caused organ hypertrophy, which begins the production of breast milk, increases the size of the nipples, and darkens the skin color of the nipple-areola complex ; these changes continue during the lactation and the breastfeeding periods.

For example, a calendar provides a way to determine which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires.

For this reason, the history of Cairo during Ottoman times is often described as inconsequential, especially in comparison to other time periods.

For example, periods of high oxygen concentrations determined from ice core samples have been associated with fauna of a larger scale in the fossil record, while periods of low oxygen concentrations have been associated with fauna of a smaller scale in the fossil record.

For example, frogs in cold climates can survive for extended periods of time with most of their body water in a frozen state, while desert frogs in Australia can become inactive and dehydrate in dry periods, losing up to 75 % of their fluids, yet return to life by rapidly rehydrating in wet periods.

For certain periods between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lamas sometimes directed the Tibetan government, which administered portions of Tibet from Lhasa.

For a decision which generates multiple cash flows in multiple time periods, all the cash flows must be discounted and then summed into a single net present value.

For the inhabitants of a contested area, famine often followed protracted periods of warfare, because foraging armies ate any food stores they could find, reducing or depleting reserve stores.

For the first six periods of the periodic table, the noble gases are exactly the members of group 18 of the periodic table.

For the planets, the cubes of their distances from the Sun are proportional to the squares of their orbital periods.

For longer time periods, a mechanical clockwork timer is installed.

For historic material established text typefaces are frequently chosen according to a scheme of historical genre acquired by a long process of accretion, with considerable overlap between historical periods.

For long periods of the last millennium Britain had the largest merchant fleet in the world, but it has slipped down the rankings as Flag of convenience has grown.

For example, rice gall midge and army worm outbreaks tend to follow periods of high rainfall early in the wet season, while thrips outbreaks are associated with drought.

For example, a short-lived plant species that completes its reproductive life cycle during periods ( such as a rainy season ) when the salt concentration is low would be avoiding salt rather than tolerating it.

For kilometre-sized asteroids, the Yarkovsky effect is minuscule over short periods: the force on 6489 Golevka is estimated at about 0. 25 newton, for a net acceleration of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup > m / s².

But it is righteousness to believe in God and the Last Day, And the Angels, and the Books, and the Messengers ; To spend of your substance, out of love for Him, For your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves ; To be steadfast in prayer And give in charity ; To fulfill the contracts which you have made ; And to be firm and patient, in pain and adversity And throughout all periods of panic.