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 himself, he reserved the task of suppressing the revolts which had broken out in the desert, but when he returned to resume control, he found his cousin too powerful to be superseded.

For Bede, Mercia was a traditional enemy of his native Northumbria and he regarded powerful kings such as the pagan Penda as standing in the way of the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.

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 most powerful black powder meal, a wood charcoal is used.

For the next century and a half, Spain was the most powerful state in Europe and the largest overseas empire in the world for three centuries.

For centuries the foreign policies of the Confederation were determined by its relationship with its powerful neighbour, France.

For example, the circumstances of the hero's conception are unusual ; an attempt is made by a powerful male at his birth to kill him ; he is spirited away ; reared by foster-parents in a far country.

For instance, according to Ernst Herzfeld, it was a powerful empire, which stretched from north Mesopotamia to Bactria and India.

For some two centuries, the monarchy was elective both in theory and in practice ; the arrangement, however, did not last, since the powerful House of Habsburg managed to secure succession within their dynasty during the fifteenth century.

For most of the 19th century, the Ashante Empire remained powerful.

For example, Eran Vigoda-Gadot suggests that some, but not all, OCBs may be performed voluntarily out of goodwill, but many may be more involuntary in nature and " may arise from coercive managerial strategies or coercive social pressure by powerful peers.

In 1991 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Genetics and Evolution " For his powerful analysis of evolutionary theory and of the role of sexual reproduction as a critical factor in evolution and in the survival of species ; for his mathematical models applying the theory of games to evolutionary problems " ( motivation of the Balzan General Prize Committee ).

For shelter, the Komodo dragon digs holes that can measure from 1 – 3 metres ( 3 – 10 ft ) wide with its powerful forelimbs and claws.

For example, the compound adjective, omnipotens, " all-powerful ," was produced from the adjectives omnis, " all ", and potens, " powerful ", by dropping the final s of omnis and concatenating.

For example, mainline churches, with their upper class congregations, " promote order, stability, and conservatism, and in so doing proved to be a powerful source of legitimation of the status quo and of existing disparities in the distribution of wealth and power " because much of the wealth of the church comes from the congregation.

For most users, the most noticeable changes are: the disk space that the operating system frees up after a clean install compared to Mac OS X 10. 5 Leopard, a more responsive Finder rewritten in Cocoa, faster Time Machine backups, more reliable and user friendly disk ejects, a more powerful version of the Preview application, as well as a faster Safari web browser.

For easy concealment, the pad was sometimes reduced to such a small size that a powerful magnifying glass was required to use it.

For instance, a beaver dam might be considered a phenotype of beaver genes, the same way beavers ' powerful incisor teeth are phenotype expressions of their genes.

For example, in " The Final Problem ", Holmes states that his services to the government of France and the royal house of Scandinavia had left him with enough money to retire comfortably, while in " The Adventure of Black Peter ", Watson notes that Holmes would refuse to help the wealthy and powerful if their cases did not interest him, while he could devote weeks at a time to the cases of the most humble clients.

For the last 500 years, religious and cultural intolerance, more than the small travel barrier that the straits present, has come to act as a powerful enforcing agent of the cultural separation that exists between these two groups.

For almost fifty years the vastly wealthy holders of this earldom, first Godwin and then his son Harold, were the most powerful men in English politics after the king.

For contrast, the Itaipu Dam, one of the most powerful hydroelectric plants in the world, produces 14, 000 MW, enough to supply 19 % of all the electricity used in Brazil, and 90 % of that used in Paraguay.

For much of the 10th century the Qarmatians were the most powerful force in the Persian Gulf and Middle East, controlling the coast of Oman, and collecting tribute from the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad and from the rival Ismaili Fatimid caliph in Cairo, whom they did not recognize.

For a brief period, after the conquests of Alexander the Great, it became the most powerful state in the world, controlling a territory that included the former Persian empire, stretching as far as the Indus River ; at that time it inaugurated the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek civilization.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

For three days, their stolid oxen had plodded up a blazing valley as flat and featureless as a dead sea.

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

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

For it includes the emotional ties that bind men to their homeland and the complex motivations that hold a large group of people together as a unit.

For ten minutes they ran beneath the squall, raising their arms and, for the first time, shouting and capering.

For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

For it is their catastrophic concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions rather than Kemble's gradualist approach which dominates the field.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s, A Canticle For Leibowitz ( 1959 ) finds men, after the great atomic disaster, stumbling back to their previous level of civilization and another catastrophe ; ;

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

`` For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive -- your trespasses ''.

For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

For readjustment to the U.S., volunteers should be given some separation allowance at the end of their overseas service, based on the length of time served.

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 this concept of an Advisory Board, ancillary to the Board of Trustees, we are indebted to the late President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell, a master of the subject of the structure of cultural institutions and their administration.

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 maintenance of a long-term program, the departments, and particularly their chairmen, are strategic.

For use in formulas, fractions should be converted to their decimal equivalents.

For their length, their types of construction, their picturesque settings, and their literary associations, they should be known and remembered.