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Its focus is on individual moves or short sequences of moves, unlike traditional climbing or sport climbing, which generally demand more endurance over longer stretches of rock where the difficulty of individual moves is not as great.
Females prefer to use traditional calving grounds restricted to certain areas, while newborn calves lie in hiding for a week or more, receiving short visits by the mother to suckle.
Many such short processes involve a few changes to traditional methods, including smaller, more homogenized pieces in the compost, controlling carbon to nitrogen ( CN ) ratio at 30 to 1 or less, and monitoring the moisture level more carefully.
One variety is the short model traditional cornet, also known as a " Shepherd's Crook " shaped model.
Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.
A traditional links course, although relatively short by modern standards, the strong prevailing South-Westerly winds, fast greens, gorse bushes and traditional deep links bunkers make this a stern test for any golfer.
Following the collapse of the Ur-III dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites gained control over most of Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms.
The most common and traditional dosing regimens, however, tend to fall far short of providing optimum or even sufficient results for a number of patients.
A review and evalutation of scholarly work regarding the current state of the value of individuals ' privacy of online social networking show the following results: " first, adults seem to be more concerned about potential privacy threats than younger users ; second, policy makers should be alarmed by a large part of users who underestimate risks of their information privacy on OSNs ; third, in the case of using OSNs and its services, traditional one-dimensional privacy approaches fall short ".
Enterprises that previously enjoyed national market protection and national subsidy ( and could therefore continue in business despite falling short of international performance benchmarks ) may struggle to survive against their more efficient peers, even for its traditional markets.
As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).
), the action takes place in an enclosed TV studio over a short period of time ; however, they have higher production values, more dramatic background music, and higher stakes than traditional shows ( done either through putting contestants into physical danger or offering large cash prizes ).
For a short period between 1856 and 1878, two of the nine traditional counties of Bessarabia were also part of Moldavia and then Romania.
By having a short route and using mounted riders rather than traditional stagecoaches, their proposal was to establish a fast mail service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California with letters delivered in 10 days, a duration many said was impossible.
In addition to the traditional Baroque pieces, Rococo has an Advancer piece that moves like a Queen, but captures the enemy piece it has run up next to, stopping just short of the piece taken.
Following the collapse of the last Sumerian " Ur-III " dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites, another Semitic people, gradually gained control over most of southern Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms, while the Assyrians reasserted their independence in the north.
Wrestlers in the makushita and sandanme divisions can wear a form of traditional short overcoat over their yukata and are allowed to wear straw sandals, called zōri.
Vowels ( svara ), in their conventional order, are historically grouped into " short " ( hrasva ) and " long " ( dīrgha ) classes, based on the " light " ( laghu ) and " heavy " ( guru ) syllables they create in traditional verse.
Legend, typically, is a short ( mono -) episodic, traditional, highly ecotypified historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode, reflecting on a psychological level a symbolic representation of folk belief and collective experiences and serving as a reaffirmation of commonly held values of the group to whose tradition it belongs.
Regardless of what type of uniform any particular school assigns its students, all schools have a summer version of the uniform ( usually consisting of just a white dress shirt and the uniform slacks for boys and a reduced-weight traditional uniform or blouse and tartan skirt with tie for girls ) and a sports-activity uniform ( a polyester track suit for year-round use and a t-shirt and short pants for summer activities ).
Regardless of what type of uniform any particular school assigns its students, all schools have a summer version of the uniform ( usually consisting of just a white dress shirt and the uniform slacks for boys and a reduced-weight traditional uniform or blouse and tartan skirt with tie for girls ) and a sports-activity uniform ( a polyester track suit for year-round use and a t-shirt and short pants for summer activities ).
A quarterstaff ( plural quarterstaves ), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European pole weapon and a technique of stick fighting, especially as in use in England during the Early Modern period.
is a traditional Okinawan weapon consisting of two sticks connected at one end with a short chain or rope.

short and epithet
Generally held to date from Magnus and Harald's short co-rule, depicting Magnus who had precedence, but also speculated as Harald's alone, with Magnus as an epithet adopted after his death.
The area around the large traffic roundabout to the east of where the gate stood is also often referred to as Aldgate ( although strictly, this is Aldgate High Street, and extends a short distance into Whitechapel ; it is also known occasionally by the epithet ' Gardiners ' Corner ', in honour of a long-disappeared department store ).
The specific epithet, brevipinguis, derives from the Latin brevis ( short ) and pinguis ( stout ), in reference to the fish's shorter, thicker body, as compared with other Schindleria species.
The specific epithet, brevicauda, is a combination of the Latin brevis and cauda, meaning " short tail ".

short and for
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
First of all, to Italy for a short vacation -- Forte Dei Marmi, a place he loves.
Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.
Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.
He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.
There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Perhaps, in that short piece or letter written to Hartlib in which he sketched his scheme for educating young men, he merely overlooked that phase of their exercises.
Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;
Would you permit Juanita to walk about the grounds with me for a short spell, Mrs. Lattimer ''??
Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.
This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.
Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!
But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.
These are supporting members for the short locking bars.
it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.
There was a short pause for reflection.
The young queens and drones leave the nest and mate, and after a short period of freedom, the fertilized young queens will begin to dig in for the winter.
unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.
The bronchial artery, except for a small number of short branches in the hilum, contributes none of the pleural blood supply.

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