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.

** For research into past life and evolution

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 example, the smallest pair of amicable numbers is ( 220, 284 ); for the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110, of which the sum is 284 ; and the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220.

For 44 BC, Roman dictator-for-life Julius Caesar planned to lead a major campaign to crush Burebista and his allies once and for all, but he was assassinated before it could start.

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, 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, a 44 Magnum firing a 240-grain lead semi-wadcutter could be loaded with either Accurate Arms # 2, a very fast pistol powder, or # 9, a very slow pistol powder.

* Whether they support mnemonics: For example the number 44 in DDC notation often means it concerns some aspect of France.

For example in the Dewey classification 598. 0944 concerns " Birds in France ", the 09 signifies geographical division, and 44 represents France.

For example, California's insured population of 20 million is the most competitive in the nation and 44 % of that market is dominated by two insurance companies, Anthem and Kaiser Permanente.

For example, 2009 May 1 to 2010 April 30 is A. S. XLIV ( 44 ).

For details, as well as the argument that Deburau appeared in the pantomime, see Storey, Pierrots on the Stage, pp. 41 – 44 .</ ref >— and also inspired Barrault's wonderful recreation of it in Children of Paradise ).

For example, the bits corresponding the decimal numbers 44 or 32 imply that the mode is Martin M1, whereas the number 60 represents Scottie S1.

For example, according to the Heat Index, a relative humidity of 75 % at 80 ° F ( 27 ° C ) would feel like 83. 574 ° F ± 1. 3 ° F ( 28. 652 ° C ± 0. 7 ° C ) at ~ 44 % relative humidity.

For example, the components of α Canis Majoris ( Sirius ) are α Canis Majoris A and α Canis Majoris B ( Sirius A and Sirius B ); the components of 44 Boötis are 44 Boötis A and 44 Boötis B ; the components of ADS 16402 are ADS 16402A and ADS 16402B ; and so on.

For instance, a 53. 3 kbit / s connection with V. 44 can transmit up to 53. 3 × 6

The firm was ranked No. 44 in the Fortune list of 100 Best Companies to Work For, and the highest among the Big Four, for 2009.

For instance, the 1. 44 MB floppy disk's storage capacity was calculated using per " MB " ( i. e. 1. 44 × 1024 × 1000 ), rather than 1. 47 MB ( 1. 47 × 1000 × 1000 ) or 1. 40 MiB ( 1. 40 × 1024 × 1024 ).

For the remainder of this period it was staged at Manchester ( 1941 ), Newmarket ( 1942 – 44 ) and York ( 1945 ).

For large parts of Resolution 44 / 48 Israel was even the only voter against it.

For the next 1 million years, the cycle will carry the obliquity between 22 ° 13 ' 44 " and 24 ° 20 ' 50 ".

A 2005 article in the Christian Science Monitor states, " For example, in Honduras, the site of the infamous Kathy Lee Gifford sweatshop scandal, the average apparel worker earns $ 13. 10 per day, yet 44 percent of the country's population lives on less than $ 2 per day ...

The population was spread out with 4, 512 people ( 25, 6 %) under the age of 18, 729 people ( 4, 1 %) aged 18 to 24, 2, 741 people ( 15, 5 %) aged 25 to 44, 6, 111 people ( 34, 6 %) aged 45 to 64, and 3, 550 people ( 20, 1 %) who were 65 years of age or older, The median age was 47, 8 years, For every 100 females there were 94, 4 males, For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91, 9 males,