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 the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.

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 ''.

For example, in English, a past tense morpheme is-ed.

For example, if inflation has been higher than expected in the past, people would revise expectations for the future.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

For instance, Forbes ranked media mogul and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey as the top earner " Forbes magazine ’ s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities ", with earnings of $ 290 million in the past year.

For the entire content of the work ... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

" For the past 18 years, China consistently has produced more cement than any other country in the world.

For the past 50 years, water reel type harvesters have been used.

For example, a term used in the past for contamination by radioactive isotopes was Sunshine units .< ref >

For instance, in past years, picture editors dealt only with just that — picture.

For some years past I have managed to make the capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against capitalism.

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For example, two-tense languages such as English and Japanese express past and non-past, this latter covering both present and future in one verb form.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").

For example, " وصل ", wasala, " he arrived ", indicates that arrival occurred in the past without saying anything about the present status of the arriver-maybe he stuck around, maybe he turned around and left, etc.

For preparative ultracentrifugation, fractions from the column were concentrated by negative pressure dialysis to volumes of 1 ml or less, transferred to cellulose tubes and diluted to 12 ml with isotonic saline.

For 600 years, from 936 to 1531, Aachen Cathedral was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens.

For example, if for a given problem size a parallelized implementation of an algorithm can run 12 % of the algorithm's operations arbitrarily quickly ( while the remaining 88 % of the operations are not parallelizable ), Amdahl's law states that the maximum speedup of the parallelized version is times as fast as the non-parallelized implementation.

For their 60th season in a row ( 79th overall ), Roma competed in Serie A for the 2011 – 12 season.

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.

For example, the August 12, 1974 Doonesbury strip awarded a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of the Watergate scandal.

For instance, the Collatz conjecture, which concerns whether or not certain sequences of integers terminate, has been tested for all integers up to 1. 2 × 10 < sup > 12 </ sup > ( over a trillion ).

For administrative purposes, Caltrans has divided the state of California into 12 districts supervised by district offices.

For instance, the jersey numbers of inductees Aikman ( 8 ), Staubach ( 12 ), Hayes and Smith ( 22 ), Irvin ( 88 ), and Lilly ( 74 ) were not worn during the 2008 season.

For example, 10 means ten, 12 means twelve.

For example, a hanging tom 12 " in diameter and 8 " deep would be described by Tama as 8x12, but by Pearl as 12x8, and a standard diameter Ludwig snare drum 5 " deep is a 5x14, while a Premier of the same dimensions is a 14x5.

For example, a rectangle with a width of 3 and a length of 4 has an area that represents the product, 12.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

For example, 21 is the GCD of 252 and 105 ( 252 = 12 × 21 ; 105 = 5 × 21 ); since 252 − 105 = ( 12 − 5 ) × 21 = 147, the GCD of 147 and 105 is also 21.

For example, the GCD of 8 and 12 is 4.

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 the national parliament, Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle ( PDI-P, led by Sukarno's daughter Megawati Sukarnoputri ) won 34 % of the vote ; Golkar ( Suharto's party ; formerly the only legal party of government ) 22 %; United Development Party ( PPP, led by Hamzah Haz ) 12 %; and National Awakening Party ( PKB, led by Abdurrahman Wahid ) 10 %.

For example the 2. 4000 – 2. 4835 GHz band is divided into 13 channels spaced 5 MHz apart, with channel 1 centered on 2. 412 GHz and 13 on 2. 472 GHz ( to which Japan added a 14th channel 12 MHz above channel 13 which was only allowed for 802. 11b ).

For many areas of Kenya, the daytime temperature rises about 12 C ( corresponding to a rise of about 22F ), almost every day.

For example, if an exam contains 12 questions each worth 10 points, the test-taker need only answer 10 questions to achieve a maximum possible score of 100 points.

For comparison, Lake Superior has an average depth of 483 feet ( 147 m ), a volume of 2, 900 cubic miles ( 12, 100 km < sup > 3 </ sup >) and shoreline of 2, 726 miles ( 4, 385 km ).

For instance, beginning at ( approximately 3. 83 ) there is a range of parameters r which show oscillation among three values, and for slightly higher values of r oscillation among 6 values, then 12 etc.

For example, Metro Transit Route 12 in Minneapolis, to aid commute times for downtown workers, will during peak hours operate as non-stop for approximately 8 blocks between Franklin Avenue and Uptown Transit Station, when normally the route serves all stops along that section.