Where it grows as a biennial, in the first year, it forms a rosette of tripinnate leaves 10 – 25 cm long with numerous 1 – 3 cm leaflets, and a taproot used as a food store over the winter.

Starting 2001 sessions are held on a biennial basis interchanging with the sessions of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention ( CRIC ), whose first session was held in 2002.

The biennial competition was first held in 1983 and now features an event programme which is identical to the Olympics.

* Arctic Winter Games, held first in 1970, an international biennial celebration of circumpolar north and Arctic sports and culture

Cabbage is generally grown for its densely leaved heads, produced during the first year of its biennial cycle.

The biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival took place in Newark for the first time in 2010.

Tuberous roots are biennial in duration: the first year the plant produces root-tubers, and at the end of the growing season, the plant shoots often die, leaving the newly generated tubers.

The group held its first biennial convention on the NSU campus in 1952.

* Comedy Festival-A formerly biennial, now annual, comedy festival hosted by WPI's Student Comedy Productions ( SCP ) at the end of the academic year, first produced in 2002.

The amendment of the 1935 Constitution to have a bicameral legislature was approved in 1940 and the first biennial elections for the restored upper house was held in November 1941.

The 2004 session marked the second consecutive session in which the General Assembly had failed to pass a biennial budget ; the first occurred in 2002 under Governor Patton.

Alpha Phi Omega's first female national president, Maggie Katz, addressing the delegates of the Alpha Phi Omega national conventions # USA2006 | 39th biennial national convention in Louisville, Kentucky, immediately following her election.

The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, ( AAGT ) holds a biennial international conference in various locations – the first was in New Orleans, in 1995.

During Dewey's first term as governor, the Wisconsin Legislature passed an act decreeing that the biennial elections for governor would begin in 1849 ; that year, in an election held in November, Dewey again defeated the Whig candidate, Alexander Collins, and the independent Warren Chase.

Cotton Thistle is a biennial plant, producing a large rosette of spiny leaves the first year.

It is a tall biennial or short-lived monocarpic thistle, forming a rosette of leaves and a taproot up to 70 cm long in the first year, and a flowering stem 1 – 1. 5 m tall in the second ( rarely third or fourth ) year.

Recognizing a serious gap in information about the condition of the world's natural resources, WRI launches World Resources, a biennial global assessment of environmental conditions and trends that for the first time provides country by country environmental data.

** The immature ( first year ) form of the temperate Old World biennial plant, burdock, a thistle in the genus Arctium

Instead of being in four locations across the city as the first one was, the 2014 biennial will occupy the entire Hammer Museum building.

The first step toward the creation of ATLA came at the 1946 biennial meeting of the American Association of Theological Schools when presidents and deans in attendance asked the AATS executive committee to call a conference of theological librarians.

At the time the hotel was the site of the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting ( CHOGRM ), a regional off-shoot of the biennial meetings of the heads of government from across the Commonwealth of Nations.

The RGS-International Convention for Youth Leaders ( RGS-ICYL ) is a biennial gathering of female student leaders from local and international institutions, first organised in 2006 intended as a platform for female youth leaders with diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas and experiences, and thus gain a better understanding of how they can contribute to society as a female leader.

Originally dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists from the West of England, under the directorship of Barry Barker ( 1986 – 1991 ) the first Festival of British Independent Cinema, the biennial Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue and the Bristol Artists Book Events.

That year, for the first time, the chief curator of the biennial was a foreigner, Alfons Hug from Germany.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

In his first speech in Nashville, Johnson declared he had come back home with an olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

A speech given on 3 November 1906 was the first time the pathology and the clinical symptoms of presenile dementia were presented together.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

) Bob Jones, Jr. selected a speech teacher, Katherine Stenholm, as the first director.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

The computer itself must first be " trained " before the first or second of these methods are used ; that is, the new user enters the system in a special " learning mode " so that the system can learn to identify his handwriting or speech patterns.

The term " Canadian English " is first attested in a speech by the Reverend A. Constable Geikie in an address to the Canadian Institute in 1857.

A clitic syntactically functions above the word level, on the phrase or clause level, and attaches only phonetically to the first, last, or only word in the phrase or clause, whichever part of speech the word belongs to.

May 20 Republican Year 37 / 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration speech as the first President of the Republic of China in the new constitution of 1948

Some of these technologies include speech recognition software to allow computers to handle first level of customer support, text mining and natural language processing to allow better customer handling, agent training by automatic mining of best practices from past interactions, support automation and many other technologies to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction.

In February 1918, Huelsenbeck gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a Dada manifesto later in the year.

* 1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast ; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The ancient historian Tacitus describes Domitian's first speech in the Senate as brief and measured, at the same time noting his ability to elude awkward questions.

The first task of deconstruction, starting with philosophy and afterwards in literary and juridical texts, would be to overturn all the binary oppositions of metaphysics ( signifier / signified ; sensible / intelligible ; writing / speech ; passivity / activity ; etc ).

DARPA supported the evolution of the ARPANET ( the first wide-area packet switching network ), Packet Radio Network, Packet Satellite Network and ultimately, the Internet and research in the artificial intelligence fields of speech recognition and signal processing, including parts of Shakey the robot.