The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base.

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma Province.

The word " cipher " in former times meant " zero " and had the same origin: Middle French as < span lang =" fr "> cifre </ span > and Medieval Latin as cifra, from the Arabic صفر ṣifr = zero ( see Zero — Etymology ).

In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.

However, he allowed both Plectrude and the young Theudoald to live and treated them with kindness — unusual for those times, when mercy to a former gaoler, or a potential rival, was rare.

Initially in the United States, there was a market separation between " music " CD-Rs and " data " CD-Rs, the former being several times more expensive than the latter due to industry copyright arrangements with the RIAA.

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

The name derives from the frequent mills in former times along the canal which took advantage of the decline between Mühlbach and Amper.

The current site of Fermanagh College ( now part of the South West College ) was the former Enniskillen Gaol, many people were tried and hanged here in the square during the times of public execution.

Fiji has been suspended various times from the Commonwealth of Nations, a grouping of mostly former British colonies.

: In ancient times, there was a ship, called the " Theseus " after its famous former owner.

In former times, lead, silver, tin and copper were mined extensively on Dartmoor.

Some of the most violent irredentist conflicts of recent times in Europe flared up as a consequence of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

Daughter languages are said to have a genetic or genealogical relationship ; the former term is more current in modern times, but the latter is equally as traditional.

Since its economy was highly dependent on the rest of the former Soviet Union for energy and raw materials, the breakdown in trade following the breakup of the Soviet Union had a serious effect, exacerbated at times by drought and civil conflict.

Flutes and whistles made of wood, cane, or bone are also played, generally by individuals, but in former times also by large ensembles ( as noted by Spanish conquistador de Soto ).

Two miles ( 3 km ) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name, whose origins go back to Anglo-Saxon times, the name being Old English for Mæl + duna = the cross on the hill.

" Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of ancient Greek literature.

A short distance away stood portions of the former Hotel Esplanade, including the Kaisersaal, used at various times as a much scaled-down hotel, cinema, nightclub and occasional film-set ( scenes from Cabaret were shot there ).

The most recent of these were Commodore Ronald Warwick, a former Master of the Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2, who has traversed the Canal more than 50 times, and Captain Raffaele Minotauro, Master Senior Grade, of the former Italian governmental navigation company known as the " Italian Line ".

Bioinformatics is very much involved in making sense of protein microarray and HT MS data ; the former approach faces similar problems as with microarrays targeted at mRNA, the latter involves the problem of matching large amounts of mass data against predicted masses from protein sequence databases, and the complicated statistical analysis of samples where multiple, but incomplete peptides from each protein are detected.

The former are particles whose rest mass is zero or negligible compared to their energy, and therefore move at the speed of light or very close to it ; the latter are particles whose kinetic energy is much lower than their rest mass and therefore move much slower than the speed of light.

In the former western state, however, the mass of Mount Cameroon reaches almost to the sea.

If a main-sequence star is not too massive ( less than approximately 8 solar masses ), it will eventually shed enough mass to form a white dwarf having mass below the Chandrasekhar limit, which will consist of the former core of the star.

The hypothesis that economic considerations were responsible for mass arrests during the period of Stalinism has been refuted on the grounds of former Soviet archives that have become accessible since the 1990s, although some archival sources also tend to support an economic hypothesis.

After a requiem mass in Stuttgart's St. Eberhard church, his funeral procession was followed by protesters ( mainly students ) who wanted his entire legacy remembered-even after his death-especially his former membership in the Nazi Party.

More recent writers including Mikhail Heller have suggested that Lifton's model of brainwashing may throw light on the use of mass propaganda in other communist states such as the former Soviet Union.

The Polish language became far more homogeneous in the second half of the 20th century, in part due to the mass migration of several million Polish citizens from the eastern to the western part of the country after the Soviet annexation of the Kresy in 1939, and the acquisition of former German territory after World War II.

The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular ( and can include any style ), whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal.

* 17-Dr. David Kelly, 59 ( suicide ), former United Nations weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about Britain's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.

Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in Britain's The First Post that Ekéus told him how former U. S. President Bill Clinton attempted to prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from being certified as free of weapons of mass destruction.

The Report about Case Srebrenica by Darko Trifunovic, commissioned by the government of the Republika Srpska, was described by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as " one of the worst examples of revisionism in relation to the mass executions of Bosnian Muslims committed in Srebrenica in July 1995 ".

On September 8, a four-mile stretch on K-10 between the Edgerton Road exit and the DeSoto interchange at former K-285 ( now Lexington Avenue ) was closed for shooting highway scenes representing a mass exodus on Interstate 70.

For example, the same set of chairs can be referred to as " seven chairs " and as " furniture "; though both chair and furniture are referring to the same thing, the former is a count noun and the latter a mass noun.

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 began with the mass mourning over the death of former General secretary Hu Yaobang, widely perceived to have been purged for his support of political liberalization.

Though brought up a Lutheran, Queen Anne had in her youth lived with a niece of the Emperor Charles V, and not only knew something of the faith, but had frequently been present at mass with her former friend.

During the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, all parties in power attempted to wipe out the former rulers by murder, mass executions or battles.

The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanking ( Nanjing ), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The campaign to examine Leopold's regime, led by British diplomat Roger Casement and former shipping clerk E. D. Morel under the auspices of the Congo Reform Association, became the first mass human rights movement.

The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely " id-ridden ", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual — often humorously — with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end, paraphrasing a quip made by former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California in which he compared government to a baby.

There were indiscriminate mass killings first of Tutsis, then of Hutus ; of these, the former have been described as genocide by the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi.