As a proud man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictate to him through the governor's office, but to lower his prices would be tantamount to an admission that they had been too high in the first place.

Within the fixed frame of these aspirations, they can afford to place a high value on the expressive and people-oriented aspects of occupation and to minimize the instrumental-reward values of power, prestige, and wealth.

The element is inserted in the discharge circuit in place of the exploding wire, and the calorimetric heating of the element is measured with high accuracy.

An old shipwreck, a high dam, an old covered bridge, a place to find agates or other semi-precious stones or a place to pan gold, etcetera may be of interest.

In the first place there is the obvious problem of recruiting high caliber personnel.

Heigo was academically gifted, but soon after failing to secure a place in Tokyo's foremost high school, he began to detach himself from the rest of the family, preferring to concentrate on his interest in foreign literature.

Practice artillery ammunition often utilizes a colored-smoke-generating bursting charge for marking purposes in place of the normal high explosive charge.

These persons are then made up, and in some cases altered to look like the target, with the body double then taking the place of the person in high risk situations.

With an uneasy peace in place, output recovered in 1996-99 at high percentage rates from a low base ; but output growth slowed in 2000-02.

For the remainder of the 1950s, the Orioles crawled up the standings, reaching as high as fifth place with a 76 – 76 record in 1957.

The extensive burial of biologically-produced carbon led to a buildup of surplus oxygen in the atmosphere ; estimates place the peak oxygen content as high as 35 %, compared to 21 % today.

On October 13, 1986, a meeting took place regarding the establishment of a permanent base for fishing at Clipperton, between the high commissioner of French Polynesia, representing the state, and the survey firm for the development and exploitation of the island ( SEDEIC ).

Since the entropy increases with temperature, many endothermic reactions preferably take place at high temperatures.

With a catalyst, a reaction which is kinetically inhibited by a high activation energy can take place in circumvention of this activation energy.

The city has been ranked as high as the second-best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine's annual list, but has not been ranked in the top 100 since 2006.

Cyril was clearly held with high regard by many members of the Church and was able to sustain his place in the History of Jerusalem, despite serious charges and punishments that included banish for years at a time from his position and his city of Jerusalem.

Specifically, if a judge consistently gives low scores for all divers, or consistently gives high scores for the same divers, the judging will yield fair relative results and will cause divers to place in the correct order.

When the floor of the Dead Sea dropped further due to tectonic forces, the salt mounts of Lisan and Mount Sodom stayed in place as high cliffs.

As well as the high level of compression allowing combustion to take place without a separate ignition system, a high compression ratio greatly increases the engine's efficiency.

Discussions are taking place to build a 100 ft high statue of " The Scarecrow " on a site ( the Maize Maze site at Haguelands Farm ) in the centre of Romney Marsh.

This high tension likely developed in response to Japan's wet and humid summers when most festivals take place.

For example, some new product development projects place a high premium on finishing quickly.

He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track and field meet in 1906.

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester hours the so-called `` teaching methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

The Historia Ecclesiastica has given Bede a high reputation, but his concerns were different from those of a modern writer of history.

Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

He often engaged in discussion and debate with his students and gave high importance to their studies in history, poetry, and ritual.

Other career fields include commercial arts, teaching high school history, and law enforcement.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

St. Anthony Catholic School, located on Milwaukee's south side, boasts 966 voucher students, meaning that it very likely receives more public money for general school support of a parochial elementary or high school than any before it in American history.

This was the first time in Royal Naval history that a father and son had both attained such high rank.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

Because very few minerals contain it in high concentration, germanium was discovered comparatively late in the history of chemistry.

Some scholars concur with this view, whereas others argue that the Gulag was neither as large nor as deadly as it is often presented, and it did not have death camps, although during some periods of its history, mortality was high in the labor camps.

The algorithm that is taught in high school was named for Gauss only in the 1950s as a result of confusion over the history of the subject.

Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba ) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2. 45 metres set in 1993, the longest standing record in the history of the men's high jump.

Despite high expectations, 1975 was among the Astros ' worst in franchise history.

When the resemblance is strong, particularly when real-world history is used, high fantasy shades into alternative history.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

By 1669, the Dutch East India Company was the richest private company in history, with a huge fleet of merchant ships and warships, tens of thousands of employees, a private army consisting of thousands of soldiers, and a reputation on the part of its stockholders for high dividend payments.

Ray's reputation was high also as a tutor ; and he communicated his own passion for natural history to several pupils, of whom Francis Willughby is by far the most famous.

The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history.

Nonetheless, the nobility and general Frankish population were noted for the high literacy: lawyers and clerks were in abundance, and the study of law, history, and other academic subjects was a beloved pastime of the royal family and the nobility.

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.