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offered and build
When Lindburgh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.
In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.
These companies offered their services or end product for free with the expectation that they could build enough brand awareness to charge profitable rates for their services later.
He also offered Christian Petersen a one-semester sculptor residency to design and build the fountain and bas relief at the Dairy Industry Building.
These Korean and Malaysian-manufactured vehicles offered modern, Japanese developed technology and levels of build quality and standard equipment which Lada could not compete with, and by the turn of the millennium, had completely taken over the market niche that Lada had survived in for over 20 years.
Initially, the company offered motor vehicle development work and consulting, but did not build any cars under its own name.
High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods in three seasons that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.
The toolkits offered considerable power, and were used to build all of the software on the machine.
However, as the complexity of the kits offered continues to increase, build times have increased as well.
* The builder of the walls of Asgard offered to build them in three seasons in return for three prizes: the sun and moon and the hand of Freyja in marriage.
The Institute provides services to assist members including support and promotion of the work of landscape architects ; information and guidance to the public and industry about the specific expertise offered by those in the profession ; and training and educational advice to students and professionals looking to build upon their experience.
In certain areas, advice was offered on getting help, for example near Fish Springs, Utah, " If trouble is experienced, build a sagebrush fire.
In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.
In 1752, the courthouse was moved to Alexandria, which offered to build the new courthouse at their own expense.
In 1934 the British Government offered Cunard loans to finish the Queen Mary and to build a second ship, the Queen Elizabeth, on the condition that Cunard merged with the then ailing White Star line to form Cunard White-Star Ltd. Cunard owned two-thirds of the new company.
The government offered Cunard a loan of £ 3 million to complete hull 534 and an additional £ 5 million to build the second ship, if Cunard merged with White Star.
When the county was investigating land to put the local county seat, Forbes offered of his property on which they could build the county office.
On July 8, 2009 Quallion LLC, which manufactures lithium ion cells and battery packs, announced plans to build a battery manufacturing plant in Palmdale if it won a government grant being offered by the U. S. Department of Energy.
In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was in the process of creating a new route, and pioneer settlers Ezekiel Lawrence, Reuben Wardrobe, A. C. Ayers and John Magley offered a townsite of to the railroad as an incentive to build a station there.
This name honored George Gallon, who offered to donate part of his land to build a town.
The government offered to build a $ 12 million jet base which could be jointly used by the Air Force and Marquette-area citizens.
In a 2004 attempt to increase the population and school enrollment, the village offered free home lots on the condition that the new owner build a house within a year.
In 1858, Emerson's name was changed to Wallace, after a Philadelphia philanthropist who had offered to build a library in any town taking his name.
As an inducement to inhabit their village, the brothers offered lots to anyone who would build and settle there.

offered and cannon
During the 17th century cavalry in Europe lost most of its armor, ineffective against the muskets and cannon which were coming into use, and by the mid-19th century armor had mainly fallen into disuse, although some regiments retained a small thickened cuirass that offered protection against lances and sabres and some protection against shot.
Its steeply-sloped front armour offered full protection against NATO's standard. 50 calibre machine gun and partial protection against 20 millimetre Oerlikon cannon both in a 60 degree frontal arc, while its 73 mm gun and ATGM were a threat to NATO APCs and even MBTs.
The fort is a stone structure and offered a good field of range for cannon fire at enemy advances on the Potomac River.
Here lay the strength and advantage of Saxe's choice: the descent in many places along the position formed a natural glacis, and throughout the whole length, from Antoing to the wood, the prolonged slope offered an even and deadly field for cannon and musketry fire.
Robert's ship pulled up next to the man-of-war pretending to be a French merchant ship, and offered information on the location of Captain Roberts before suddenly attacking it, spraying the warship with cannon and small arms fire, after which the pirates boarded it and took it over using pistols and cutlasses.
These new fortifications quickly negated the advantages cannon had offered to besiegers.
Panhard purposed in 1977 both the ERC and the VCR vehicles to the French Army, but lost the largest contract to a four wheeled armoured vehicle offered by Saviem with its VAB and the cannon armed reconnaissance vehicle requirement to a vehicle offered by GIAT the AMX 10 RC and also lost a much smaller order for the French Mobile Gendarmerie to the Saviem VBC-90.

offered and capable
It offered the immediate political message of the privileged sections of society continuing to bar capable men from other classes from advancement until war would force a need to employ those most able, rather than the traditional upper classes, as leaders.
In 1777, Philadelphia gunsmith Joseph Belton offered the Continental Congress a " new improved gun ", which was capable of firing up to twenty shots in five seconds, automatically, and was capable of being loaded by a cartridge.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt offered Taft the seat on the Supreme Court to which he had for so long aspired, but he reluctantly declined since he viewed the Filipinos as not yet being capable of governing themselves and because of his popularity among them.
Aside from having a redesigned case and a more integrated motherboard, the SL and TL each offered improved video hardware capable of graphics, on-board Hercules Graphics Card compatible monochrome video offering resolution, and an improved sound circuit featuring an 8-bit mono DAC / ADC.
She felt she had proven herself capable of playing more than the demure ingénues and damsels in distress that were quickly typecasting her, and began to reject scripts that offered her this type of role.
An intense six month course designed to turn out officers capable of leading a platoon in Vietnam was offered to National Servicemen.
As a primary objective, Maleme offered several advantages: it was the largest airfield, capable of supporting heavy transports bearing reinforcements ; it was near enough to the mainland to allow air cover from land-based Bf 109 fighters ; and it was near the northern coast, so seaborne reinforcements could be brought up quickly.
Many computer sound systems are not capable of low bass, and songs offered to consumers via computer have been identified as ones that may benefit from augmented bass harmonics processing.
The TED offered 121-color ( 15 colors × 8 luminance levels + black ) video, a palette matched only by Atari Computers at the time, and 320 × 200 video resolution, which was standard for computers intended to be capable of connecting to a television.
According to Creme, Maitreya does not need to eat because he is capable of living off prana ( thus he is a breatharian ); however, he can eat if offered food.
For the same reason, MACs do not provide the property of non-repudiation offered by signatures specifically in the case of a network-wide shared secret key: any user who can verify a MAC is also capable of generating MACs for other messages.
Even though career colleges have exploded in recent years, true government-sponsored vocational schools on the other hand have decreased severely in the United States and have largely been replaced by the various alternative trade classes offered at either trade-specific schools or by being merged with their community college cousins, which in addition to offering associate degrees and core university curriculum courses, also offer vocational classes depending on the needs of the local community, all units of which are capable of transferring to four-year institutions.
This gave Gabreski an idea: since Polish squadrons had proved to be capable within the RAF and since he himself was of Polish origin and spoke Polish, he offered to serve as a liaison officer to the Polish squadrons to learn from their experience.
The model offered is STOBAR ( Short Take Off But Arrested Recovery ) capable, corresponding to the Indian Navy's future Vikrant class aircraft carrier.
The 120kbit / s only applies to handsets that are 3G capable, full 236. 8kbit / s is offered to GSM / EDGE only devices.
Albums such as The Grip and Metamorphosis ( both on India Navigation ) offered capable, highly refined jazz fare with a free angle that made Blythe too " out there " for the general public, but endeared him to the more serious jazz fans.
TRD also offered a supercharger which is a rebadged Vortech supercharger that is capable of putting out, although when installed by a dealership and under warranty it is set at.
Her husband and her brother offered to duel Greenough, but she said, according to her nephew John Callcott Horsley, " Be quiet, both of you, I am quite capable of fighting my own battles, and intend to do it ".
The M230LF, offered by ATK is a more capable version of the Apache autocannon.
In her presentation, she offered that rhetoric, as an art, does not require a male education to be master, and listed the means of which a woman could acquire the necessary skills from natural logic, which established Astell as a capable female rhetorician.
* Europa-Built in 1884 for the Lavarello Line of Italy, this single screw passenger ship was capable of and offered accommodation for 75 in first class, 52 in second class and 750 in third.
Aside from top end speed, due to the difference in bore and torque, both offered practically identical performance with the manual version of the B5234T3 S70 capable of accelerating to in just under 6 seconds and with a maximum speed of.
It was offered in three wheelbases, " S " or " C " at, " N " at, and " L " at, all powered by a () straight eight, making it capable of.

3.778 seconds.