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 particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

For this period, as for earlier centuries, pottery remains the most secure source ; ;

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 year, the road earned 133 per cent of its interest costs, against 121 per cent in the preceding period.

For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years.

For various reasons, however, poverty and personal inclination among others, he did not take a prominent part in the military operations of this period.

For most of that period, it allowed horsemen to fight while being the targets of defending arquebuseers without being easily killed.

For a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely active and well known in Germany, in part because he lectured widely proposing social reforms.

For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.

For normal calculation a number zero is often needed, here most notably when calculating the number of years in a period that spans the epoch ; the end years need only be subtracted from each other.

For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.

For a detailed discussion of the differences including a more comprehensive table ( several essential tables are given below ) of Biblical scripture for both Testaments and the intertestamental period with regard to canonical acceptance in Christendom's various major traditions, see Wikipedia's article on " Biblical canon ".

For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus.

For example, George Livingstone Robinson's dissertation on chapters 9-14 concluded that those chapters had their origin in the period between 518 and 516 BCE and stand in close relation to chapters 1-8, having most probably been composed by Zechariah himself.

The sleeve notes conclude: " For six years Bill Haley was a musical director of Radio Station WPWA in Chester, Pennsylvania, and led his own band all through this period.

For private households, it is argued to be insufficient to merely dismiss debts after a certain period.

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 some this marks the beginning of the " mature " Classical style, where the period of reaction against the complexity of the late Baroque began to be replaced with a period of integration of elements of both Baroque and Classical styles.

For some psychologists, especially those in the psychodynamic tradition, the most important period of socialization is between the ages of one and ten.

For a period ending in the mid-20th century, long-serving cardinal priests were entitled to fill vacancies that arose among the cardinal bishops, just as cardinal deacons of ten years ' standing are still entitled to become cardinal priests.

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

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

* For the period 1918-July 1919, covering only twenty provinces of central Russia:

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

For the 1991 award, the United States Department of Defense ' swept the first six places in the Doublespeak top ten ' for using euphemisms like " servicing the target " ( bombing ) and " force packages " ( warplanes ).

The reverse of the medal has the inscription " For Distinguished Service " at the top in raised letters, and within the pentagon the inscription " From The Secretary of Defense To ," all in raised letters.

: For information, you may refer to Israel Defense Forces ranks.

For that reason among others, this project raised a substantial debate before US Congress for the FY07 Defense budget, but also internationally.

For standardized test signal levels and frequencies, see MIL-STD-188-100 for United States Department of Defense ( DOD ) use, and the Code of Federal Regulations Title 47, part 68 for other Government agencies.

For any manufacturer seeking to deviate from the MIL – STD-188 series standards ( prior to the manufacture of an item ) they must request to do so with the Joint Steering Committee ( JSC ) which is constituted under the Defense Communications Agency.

* 300-Standards For Long Haul Communications System Design Standards Applicable To The Defense Communications System

For example, the Heritage Foundation sees it as threatening national control over domestic policy and the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) argues that the CRC threatens homeschooling.

For combat each character has an Offensive Bonus ( OB ), which takes into account one's natural physical adeptness, weapon skill, and other factors, and a Defensive Bonus ( DB ), which takes into account natural agility, the use of shields and " Adrenal Defense ", the ability of martial artists to avoid blows seemingly without effort.

For Forrestal and the Navy, who were opposed to a strongly-unified Department of Defense, it provided top-level coordination of the three armed services without integration or unification.

For Defense officials, it ensured a continuing military voice in formulation of related foreign and domestic policies during peacetime.

For this purpose, the Territorial Defense Forces ( TO ) would be formed to mobilize the population in case of an aggression.

In response to Barlaam's attacks, Palamas wrote nine treatises entitled " Triads For The Defense of Those Who Practice Sacred Quietude ".

For example, in 2007, CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao told the 17th Communist Party Congress that China needed to increase its soft power, and the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke of the need to enhance American soft power by " a dramatic increase in spending on the civilian instruments of national security -- diplomacy, strategic communications, foreign assistance, civic action and economic reconstruction and development.

For translations from the ancients he would substitute imitations, though he does not in the Defense explain precisely how one is to go about this.

For example, in 2008 the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency used live pigs to study the effects of improvised explosive device explosions on internal organs, especially the brain.

For Israel, perhaps the most evident tangible benefit of the agreement with Egypt ( other than the subsequent U. S. aid, which Egypt also received ) was a peaceful mutual border, enabling the Israel Defense Forces to reduce their levels of alert on Israel's southwestern frontier.

For his feat and courage Kantorovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, and was decorated with the medal For Defense of Leningrad.

In the episode " Brisco For the Defense ", Brisco uses a slide projector to show a trial jury fingerprint evidence.

For their service during the hostage crisis, the U. S. military later awarded the 20 servicemen who were among the hostages the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

For example, possession and / or use of a foreign passport is a condition disqualifying from security clearance and "... is not mitigated by reasons of personal convenience, safety, requirements of foreign law, or the identity of the foreign country " as is explicitly clarified in a Department of Defense policy memorandum which defines a guideline requiring that "... any clearance be denied or revoked unless the applicant surrenders the foreign passport or obtains official permission for its use from the appropriate agency of the United States Government ".

For a more complete outline of the niceties of Mill's classification system see the page on utilitarianism or read Mill's works Utilitarianism, Defense of Utilitarianism, and On Liberty.