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 year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

For cooling, chilled water is circulated instead of hot water.

For moments he stood in water, shivering and gasping for breath.

For the purpose of reproduction most amphibians require fresh water although some lay their eggs on land and have developed various ingenious ways of keeping them moist.

For adaptation to a water phase, prolactin is the required hormone, and for adaptation to the land phase, thyroxine.

For example, if the water is 25 ft ( 8 m ) deep, and the anchor roller is 3 ft ( 1 m ) above the water, the scope is the ratio between the amount of cable let out and 28 ft ( 9 m ).

For this reason it is important to have a reliable and accurate method of measuring the depth of water.

For making jelly, it is boiled in water until the solids dissolve.

For example, Dublin has hard water well suited to making stout, such as Guinness ; while Pilsen has soft water well suited to making pale lager, such as Pilsner Urquell.

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 extruded bricks the clay is mixed with 10-15 % water ( stiff extrusion ) or 20-25 % water ( soft extrusion ).

For further evidence, Jehovah's Witnesses note that in Mark 1: 9-10, after Jesus was baptised in water by John the Baptist, he was baptised by the spirit symbolised by a dove.

Also, in Acts 1: 5, Jesus assured his disciples that they too would soon be baptised in holy spirit: " For John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

For example, water is a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in the ratio of two to one, with the oxygen atom between the two hydrogen atoms, and an angle of 104. 5 ° between them.

For example, in the case of acetic acid dissolved in water and forming acetate and hydronium ions,

For example, Lowell, Massachusetts, considered to be " The Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution ," has of canals, built from around 1790 to 1850, that provided water power and a means of transportation for the city.

For a few illustrative examples: German speakers use " Wasserstoff " ( water substance ) for " hydrogen ", " Sauerstoff " ( acid substance ) for " oxygen " and " Stickstoff " ( smothering substance ) for " nitrogen ", while English and some romance languages use " sodium " for " natrium " and " potassium " for " kalium ", and the French, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese and Poles prefer " azote / azot / azoto " ( from roots meaning " no life ") for " nitrogen ".

For example, the formula for heavy water may be written D < sub > 2 </ sub > O instead of < sup > 2 </ sup > H < sub > 2 </ sub > O.

For several days around the time of ovulation, " fertile " types of mucus are produced ; they have a higher water content, and are less acidic and higher in electrolytes.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.

For instance, college-educated people consistently show up in study after study as more often than others supporters of the Bill of Rights and other democratic rights and liberties.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

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

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??

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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 instance, a site adjoining other publicly owned lands, such as a national forest or a public road, may be desirable, whereas a site next to an industrial plant might not.

For specialized types of displays, such as large three-dimensional units reproducing a product, package, human or animal figures, etc., reinforced plastics and rotationally molded vinyl plastisols are other materials frequently used.

For large letters, e.g. thermoformed of acrylic or butyrate, there are other techniques.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

For no particular reason, other than that the writer felt it might -- just might -- encourage both mates to be in attendance.

For a number of years Kentucky, Louisiana and several other states have been building state-sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties.

For the purposes of this discussion, the problem of relative prices is encompassed in these two variables, since GNP includes other prices.

`` For these and other reasons '', says Dr. Brodie, `` orthodontics can prolong the life of teeth ''.

For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.

For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.

For some reason, this ellipsis in the conversation spread until it swallowed up every other topic.

For their purposes, oxygen and other gases were not drawn from the surrounding atmosphere through the medium of lungs but sustained artificially by solution in their shells.

* For a normal distribution, the arithmetic mean is equal to both the median and the mode, other measures of central tendency.

For easy viewing, the middle 2 beads on each wire ( the 5th and 6th bead ) usually are of a different colour from the other eight beads.

For these, other possible explanations have also been proposed.