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Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage ditch, too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star.
* The limited-access road ( often called expressway in areas where the name does not refer to a freeway or motorway ) is a lower-grade type of road with some or many of the characteristics of a controlled-access highway: usually a broad multi-lane avenue, frequently divided, with some grade separation at intersections.
Seventeen civilians were killed by machine gun fire at a bar in Châu Đốc in July and in September a district chief was killed with his entire family on a main highway in broad daylight.
Travel had evolved from a horse and buggy on a one-lane dirt road to a 4-door sedan on a broad, paved and painted, two-lane highway.
* A broad landscaped highway thoroughfare, or a roadway in a park or a landscaped thoroughfare connecting parks from which trucks and other heavy vehicles are excluded.
Sidney Sanders McMath ( June 14, 1912October 4, 2003 ) was a decorated U. S. Marine, attorney and the 34th Governor of Arkansas ( 1949 – 1953 ) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.
The Rochdale Canal — one of the major navigable broad canals of the United Kingdom — was a highway of commerce during this time used for the haulage of cotton, wool, coal to and from the area.
Following the parkway concept of Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, designers of New York City's Central Park, the planners of the Colonial Parkway used a model of a limited access highway with broad sweeping curves, set in a meticulously landscaped right-of-way devoid of commercial development.
He created the broad avenue through Hyde Park, lit with 300 oil lamps in 1690 – the first artificially lit highway in Britain.
Even before that it had occurred to me, whenever, going from Haifa to Nazareth, I had viewed the broad expanse of the Emek Yizrael, that, because of its proximity to Haifa, its excellent railroad and highway connections, and the ease with which its soil could be cultivated, this land would be preeminently suited for Jewish colonization.

broad and turn
The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.
The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.
Under it are 10 broad abilities that in turn are subdivided into 70 narrow abilities.
Mormon history can be divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century.
It was hoped that this would encourage development of all the country lanes into proper roads ; in turn it was hoped that these would emulate Parisian boulevards — broad, straight and magnificent, but the main intention was to enable troops to be moved quickly.
Recent molecular-systematic DNA research also places the red panda into its own family, Ailuridae, which is in turn part of the broad superfamily Musteloidea that also includes the skunk, raccoon, and weasel families.
There are many types of lymphomas, and in turn, lymphomas are a part of the broad group of diseases called hematological neoplasms.
Among the broad range of themes incorporated in the Egungun masks are representations of numerous societal and cultural stereotypes as well as acrobatic images in which dancers turn their clothing inside out, in part to suggest the power and distance of the ancestral world.
The Allegheny river makes a quick turn at this point, going from North to West ; for that reason these features are distinctly individual from afar in the broad turning valley, and rise 2400 – 2500 feet above sea-level.
A large, broad street was the focal point of settlement in the medieval town, but it was greatly altered at the beginning of the main street which in turn terminated in the latter-day Bank Street.
This broad shift in the social arena, in turn, changes the way the individual perceives reality.
The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, 6 – 13 cm long and 4 – 6 cm broad, with an apparently entire margin ( actually very finely toothed, under a lens ); they turn a rich red-brown in fall.
For 1965, sequential turn signals were added, flashing the individual segments of the broad, horizontal tail lights in sequences from inside to outside to indicate a turn.
It was intended to provide a broad oboe-like sound in the middle register of the swollen orchestrations of the turn of the twentieth century.
He excels in humour more than in wit ; is jolly rather than gay ; melancholy rather than morose ; can easily be moved to a sudden tear or surprised into a broad laugh ; but he loathes sentiment and has no turn for light pleasantry.
The leaves are spirally arranged, deciduous, 8 – 20 cm ( 3-8 inches ) long and 4 – 9 cm ( 2. 5 to 3. 5 inches ) broad, with a finely serrated margin ; they are dark green in summer, but turn vivid red in fall.
This in turn has a formal double staircase to the principal entrance on the Piano dei Prelati floor which is accessed from the broad terrace.
As a keen naturalist in those times, he already had a broad interest in nature, but this marked a new turn in his career.
Ailuridae are, in turn, part of a trichotomy within the broad superfamily Musteloidea ( Flynn et al., 2001 ) that also includes the Mephitidae + Mustelidae ( skunks + weasels ) and the Procyonidae ( raccoons ); but it is not a bear ( Ursidae ).
The leaves are bright green, 3-6 cm long and 2-3 mm broad, with two glaucous stomatal bands on the underside ; they turn a brilliant golden yellow before falling in the autumn, hence the common name.
Because one physical quantity often depends on another, which, in turn depends on others, such as time, related rate methods have broad applications in Physics.
In turn, taking advantage of broad rulemaking powers granted in, the Department simply adopted the entire MUTCD by reference at.
The storm made a broad turn to the north and slowly strengthened.

broad and if
The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.
A tension results from the risk that the necessity of transcendence, if taken too literally, would compromise AA's efforts to maintain a broad appeal.
In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).
A film can be both a major studio release and a cult film, particularly if despite its affiliation with a major studio, it failed to achieve broad success on either the theatrical or home video markets but was championed by a small number of dedicated film fanatics who seek out lesser-known offerings.
His brow was low and broad, his eyes a volcanic blue that smoldered as if with some inner fire.
Kelly's athleticism gave his moves a distinctive broad, muscular quality, and this was a very deliberate choice on his part, as he explained: " There's a strong link between sports and dancing, and my own dancing springs from my early days as an athlete ... I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
Despite this broad interpretation, the courts seem willing to find areas to be outside of the curtilage if they are in any way separate from the home ( by a fence, great distance, other structures, even certain plants ).
Lossberg disagreed, believing that the British would launch a broad front offensive, that the ground east of the Sehnen Iine was easy to defend, that the Menin Road Ridge could be held if it was made the schwerpunkt ( point of main effort ) and that Pilckem Ridge deprived the British of ground observation over the Steenbeek Valley, while the Germans could see the area from Passchendaele Ridge, allowing German infantry to be supported by observed artillery fire.
However if the detector is shot noise dominated, the noise will be proportional to the square root of the power, thus for a broad boxcar spectrum ( continuous broadband source ), the noise is proportional to the square root of m, thus precisely offset the Fellgett's advantage.
Napoleon hoped in hiring Haussmann that Paris could be moulded into a city with safer streets, better housing, more sanitary, hospitable, shopper-friendly communities, better traffic flow, and, last but not least, streets too broad for rebels to build barricades across them and where coherent battalions and artillery could circulate easily if need be.
A herbicide is termed selective if it affects only certain types of plants, and nonselective if it inhibits a very broad range of plant types.
* Chevron U. S. A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837 ( 1984 ), which gave administrative agencies broad discretion to interpret statute to make policy changes if Congressional intent was unclear.
The ICC acting without a UN referral lacks the broad jurisdiction to prosecute crimes against humanity, and cannot prosecute many cases, particularly if they occur outside of ICC-member nations.
The fetish subculture is a subculture that comprises people with a broad range of sexual fetishes and other paraphilias, who tend to be more tolerant of other fetishists than the general community, even if they do not share the other person's specific fetish.
Vague or broad parentheticals that do not add any additional value-the reader would not know anything more or less if it was not there.
E-Learning pioneer Bernard Luskin argues that the " E " must be understood to have broad meaning if e-Learning is to be effective.
A reindeer can swim easily and quickly, normally at but if necessary at, and migrating herds will not hesitate to swim across a large lake or broad river.
Other widely mentioned elements of a SLAPP are the actual effectiveness at silencing critics, the timing of the suit, inclusion of extra or spurious defendants ( such as relatives or hosts of legitimate defendants ), inclusion of plaintiffs with no real claim ( such as corporations that are affiliated with legitimate plaintiffs ), making claims that are very difficult to disprove or rely on no written record, ambiguous or deliberately mangled wording that lets plaintiffs make spurious allegations without fear of perjury, refusal to consider any settlement ( or none other than cash ), characterization of all offers to settle as insincere, extensive and unnecessary demands for discovery, attempts to identify anonymous or pseudonymous critics, appeals on minor points of law, demands for broad rulings when appeal is accepted on such minor points of law, and attempts to run up defendants ' costs even if this clearly costs more to the plaintiffs.
Upon his visit to Dublin in 1845, William Makepeace Thackeray observed: " The street is exceedingly broad and handsome ; the shops at the commencement, rich and spacious ; but in Upper Sackville Street, which closes with the pretty building and gardens of the Rotunda, the appearance of wealth begins to fade somewhat, and the houses look as if they had seen better days.
However, if it were sufficiently broad and integrative to support inquiry across all vital fields including medicine, agriculture, ecology, and technology, it would provide ample opportunity for a modern professional class to mentally and economically liberate the Muslim societies.
From a different perspective, if it is correct that the properties of a quantum black hole should correspond at a broad level more or less to a classical general-relativistic black hole, then it is believed that the appearance and effects of the Hawking radiation can be interpreted as quantum " corrections " to the classical picture, as Planck's constant is " tuned up " away from zero up to h. Outside the event horizon of an astronomical-sized black hole these corrections are tiny.
The Lense – Thirring effect certainly satisfies the very basic and broad notion that " matter there influences inertia here " The plane of the pendulum would not be dragged around if the shell of matter were not present, or if it were not spinning.
The type of imagery that may be used is very broad, and would include nudity, cheesecake, and beefcake, even if it is often only suggestively sexual.

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