They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.

In a later time, when the Chaldean tribe had burst their narrow bonds and obtained the ascendency over all Babylonia, they gave their name to the whole land of Babylonia, which then was called Chaldea for a short time.

Life is short enough without having to waste it doing this whole organised praying, hoping, wishing-type thing on some superior being ".

Formerly the life expectancy of the coalition governments has been short, but since about 1980 the trend has been that the same coalition rules for the whole period between elections.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), But about one year after the rejection, Ivo Caprino's son, Remo Caprino, got the idea to make the sketches into a full-length film.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), and Caprino and Aukrust instead wrote a screenplay for a feature film using the characters and environments that had already been built.

Impressionist composers favoured short forms such as the nocturne, arabesque, and prelude, and often explored uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale.

Meton of Athens approximated the cycle to a whole number ( 6940 ) of days, obtained by 125 long months of 30 days and 110 short months of 29 days.

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

* In Howard Tayler's ongoing web-comic " Schlock Mercenary " ( June 12, 2000 – Present ) neutronium-fueled reactors ( referred to as " Annie-plants ", short for neutronium gravitic-annihilation power plant ) are used to power everything including energy pistols, powered armor suits, whole worlds, and massive warships.

Ferenczi tried to distinguish between several different types of homosexuality, basing his distinctions on an unspecified number of patients whose analyses had sometimes lasted for a short period and sometimes “ a whole year and even longer .” Ferenczi hoped to cure some kinds of homosexuality completely, but was content in practice with reducing what he considered gay men's hostility to women, along with the urgency of their homosexual desires, and with helping them to become attracted to and potent with women.

The Talmud El Am contains Hebrew text, English translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr A. Ehrman, with short ' realia ', marginal notes, often illustrated, written by experts in the field for the whole of Tractate Berakhot, 2 chapters of Bava Mezia and the halachic section of Qiddushin, chapter 1.

Sans serif text fonts are often used for introductory paragraphs, incidental text and whole short articles.

The whole language emphasis on identifying words using context and focusing only a little on the sounds ( usually the alphabet consonants and the short vowels ) could not be reconciled with the phonics emphasis on individual sound-symbol correspondences.

In short, a probability space is a measure space such that the measure of the whole space is equal to one.

Still in spite of all his blunders, it is clear that, for a short time at least, middle-class opinion was, on the whole, favourable to him ; and had he been wise, he might perhaps have been able to defy any hostile combination.

In other languages, however, such as Ancient Greek, they occupy two and three morae, respectively, with the first element rather than the diphthong as a whole behaving as a short or long vowel.

The short commentary ( jami ) is generally an epitome ; the middle commentary ( talkhis ) is a paraphrase ; the long commentary ( tafsir ) includes the whole text with a detailed analysis of each line.

The foot is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to whole notes and half notes.

The L-100 has a self-starting motor, which-if turned off and on in short intervals-renders the whole organ into a wailing howl while the note generator, which is tied to a synchronous motor, tries to recover to pitch.

Hence the contradiction in his acting: his performance as a whole often fell short of high excellence, yet these same impersonations were lit by insight and masterly strokes of interpretation, which made the spectator feel that he was watching the performance of the most imaginative of living actors.

From that time to his death in 1843, with the exception of a short period in which public affairs occupied him, he poured out a succession of works covering the whole field of jurisprudence, and was a copious contributor to periodicals.

On the whole his finest work is the collection of Romanzen vom Rosenkranz ( published posthumously in 1852 ); his short stories, and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl ( 1817 ), which has been translated into English, were very popular.

His overview of Serling's writing says, " If there is anything that unites the whole of Serling's works – whether it be short stories or film scripts, whether it be fantastic or mainstream – it is an abiding concern with human feeling.

A list of some canonical authors of the period, whose works have survived in whole or in part ( typically in part, some only short fragments ) is as follows:

The Bohr model for a short time could be seen as a classical model with an additional constraint provided by the ' wavelength ' argument.

Another argument that challenges reliabilism, like the Gettier cases ( although it was not presented in the same short article as the Gettier cases ), is the case of Henry and the barn façades.

His main line of argument was that the tremendous displacements and changes he was seeing did not happen in a short period of time by means of catastrophe, but that processes still happening on the Earth in the present day had caused them.

It is impossible to imagine a man, the argument goes, unless one has in mind a very specific picture of one who is either tall or short, European or Asian, blue-eyed or brown-eyed, et cetera.

The argument has been made that sonoluminescence releases too large an amount of energy and releases the energy on too short a time scale to be consistent with the vacuum energy explanation, although other credible sources argue the vacuum energy explanation might yet prove to be correct.

A counter argument is that keeping the innards secret may improve security in the short term, but in the long run only systems that have been published and analyzed should be trusted.

In short, the argument being made is that if temperatures are changing and precipitation cycles are being altered, then there is compelling evidence that the probability distribution is also changing.

Other short keystroke combinations, e. g., "" to mean just the last argument of the previous command, allow bits and pieces of previous commands to be pasted together and edited to form a new command.

One of the main issues coming from Brunswick Smart Growth and town residents was concerns regarding overdevelopment of the town in a short period of time ; their argument was for " sustainable and positive growth ".

The Haredi community defends this practice with the argument that Judaism must cultivate Torah scholarship in the same way that the secular academic world does, no matter how high the costs may be financially in the short run, in the long run the Jewish people will benefit from the large number of learned laymen, scholars, and rabbis.

In short the argument holds that if, as thoroughgoing naturalism entails, all of our thoughts are the effect of a physical cause, then we have no reason for assuming that they are also the consequent of a reasonable ground.

The shape of the work also is Hegelian, consisting of short highly technical paragraphs containing the main argument, followed by detailed explanations printed in different type.

The argument of scholars of Abrahamic faiths is that any attempt to represent Him will only fall short since there is nothing equal to him and that such representations should not be worshipped.

" This argument relied upon the slow growth of plants and animals in far northern Alaska due to the harsh conditions and short growing season.

" In response to this argument, advocates of the paleodiet state that while Paleolithic hunter-gatherers did have a short average life expectancy, modern human populations with lifestyles resembling that of our preagricultural ancestors have little or no diseases of affluence, despite sufficient numbers of elderly.

Their argument is cut short when they hear a prowler breaks in the front door and the room falls silent.

His wives also awake, and a short argument over the fate of the family ensues.

The government's argument was that the short barreled shotgun was not a military-type weapon and thus not a " militia " weapon protected by the Second Amendment, from federal infringement.

Most System RPL commands lack argument checking and are defined only for specific argument types ( e. g. short integer vs. long integer ), making System RPL programs run dramatically faster than equivalent User RPL ones.

Each question begins with a short argument or set of facts.

" After a short and confused argument the Chamber voted an " ordre du jour " of confidence, inviting the government to inquire into the matter and to take proceedings if there were cause.

He seems to have been a born fighter, and engaged in more than one serious quarrel at court, being imprisoned for a short time in 1603 following a heated argument with Lord Grey of Wilton in front of Queen Anne.

In response to another common argument ( see below ), the FSF acknowledges that many people have contributed to the system and that a short name cannot credit all of them, but argues that this cannot justify calling the system " Linux ":

A short example from R. C. Jebb's translation of Antigone: the scene is an argument between Ismene and her sister Antigone.