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In this capacity, Alexios defeated the rebellions of Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder ( whose son or grandson later married Alexios ' daughter Anna ) and Nikephoros Basilakes, the first at the Battle of Kalavrye and the latter in a surprise night attack on his camp.
As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.
Without this capacity, which is often the case in practice, to produce a representation with lower resolution or lower fidelity than a given one, one needs to start with the original source signal and encode, or start with a compressed representation and then decompress and re-encode it ( transcoding ), though the latter tends to cause digital generation loss.
but the latter make no claim to minimality and are specialized to supporting virtual machines ; indeed, the L4 microkernel frequently finds use in a hypervisor capacity.
After reaching adulthood, he was an unlikely candidate for holy orders: widowed and the father of two young women before taking orders, he was successively a soldier and a lawyer, and in the latter capacity had acted as secretary to King Louis IX, to whose influence he was chiefly indebted for his elevation to the cardinalate.
An elderly and longtime Portuguese employee who worked as a bookkeeper and clerk for the firm, in his latter years with the firm, had frequently been committing serious errors in the firm's books and his mental capacity was deteriorating.
The oneness of God is perceived in androgynous terms as the pairing of male and female, the former characterized as the capacity to overflow and the latter as the potential to receive.
The latter is expressed by a number called the dielectric constant. The term insulator is generally used to indicate electrical obstruction while the term dielectric is used to indicate the energy storing capacity of the material ( by means of polarization ).
The thermal inertia of a material is defined as the square root of the product of the material's bulk thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity, where the latter is the product of density and specific heat capacity:
The distinctions between constant-volume and constant-pressure heat capacities are also made in various types of specific heat capacity ( the latter meaning either mass-specific or mole-specific heat capacity ).
They were the military commanders and in this capacity often acted independently from the king, most notably in the latter period before the Muslim invasions.
Later models were designated VW 1200, 1300, 1500, 1302 or 1303, the former three indicating engine displacement and the latter two being derived from the type number and not indicative of engine capacity.
In the latter capacity he rendered important political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor Henry III.
In the latter capacity, he traveled through much of Europe, even as far as Georgia ( as recounted in " Durch Barbarei, Arabia "), and was inducted into the Order of the Dragon.
The latter were three large passenger craft put in service by Trippe in 1931 to provide greater carrying capacity than the eight-passenger S-38.
Additionally, he is the Loa of sex and resurrection, and in the latter capacity he is often called upon for healing by those near or approaching death, as it is only Baron who can accept an individual into the realm of the dead.
In this latter capacity he visited the south of France ; but in the early part of 1803, he was chosen Permanent Secretary of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Academy, and he consequently abandoned the earlier appointment and returned to Paris.
He was thus a member both of the Academy of Inscriptions and of the Academy of Sciences ; and in 1697 he became perpetual secretary to the latter, an office he held for forty-two years ; and it was in this official capacity that he wrote the Histoire du renouvellement de l ' Académie des Sciences ( Paris, 3 vols., 1708, 1717, 1722 ) containing extracts and analyses of the proceedings, and also the éloges of the members, written with great simplicity and delicacy.
In spite of the candid language and depictions of guerilla war and gory violence, the book feels more like a 19th-century classic along the lines of Melville and Conrad than a modern blood-and-guts thriller, although it serves quite well in the latter capacity.
Clarendon in particular praises his statesmanship, and compares his capacity with Lord Strafford's, adding, however, that he seldom spoke in the council except on legal business and had little influence in political affairs ; to the latter circumstance he owed his exceptional popularity.
In May 1933, the American chargé d ' affaires reported that " Baron von Neurath has shown such a remarkable capacity for submitting to what in normal times could only be considered as affronts and indignities on the part of the Nazis, that it is still quite a possibility that the latter should be content to have him remain as a figurehead for some time yet ".
Many of the speeches contained in his Kleine Schriften were delivered in this latter capacity.
In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives ' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons.

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Călinescu recorded Eliade's rejection of objectivity, citing the author's stated indifference towards any " naïveté " or " contradictions " that the reader could possibly reproach him, as well as his dismissive thoughts of " theoretical data " and mainstream philosophy in general ( Eliade saw the latter as " inert, infertile and pathogenic ").
One is glory, determined by either work or procreation, and the other the asceticism of religion or magic — both, Călinescu believed, where aimed at reaching the absolute, even in those cases where Eliade described the latter as an " abyssal experience " into which man may take the plunge.
The latter conclusion was partly shared by Călinescu, Tudor Vianu and literary researcher Z. Ornea.
He soon became involved in a virulent dispute with historian Nicolae Iorga, when the latter issued harsh criticism regarding Carol's January 1939 initiative to dress large sections of the society, including Romanian Academy members, in various uniforms ( a measure backed by Călinescu ); Iorga remarked with irony: " I'm prepared to wear the FRN uniform, but allow me to wear a speared helmet on my head, on which to place is, to Impalement | impale the Minister of the Interior ".

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While at Aviation he oversaw the high profile cancellations of the BAC TSR-2 and Concorde projects ( although the latter was later reversed after strong opposition from the French Government ).
Throughout mid-to-late 1967, Wilson concurrently oversaw the production of such heavily orchestrated songs as " Can't Wait Too Long " and " Time to Get Alone " ( the latter originally intended for Redwood, the band who would become Three Dog Night ), alongside the albums Smiley Smile ( composed mainly of reconstituted SMiLE material recorded in minimalist arrangements by the core Beach Boys ) and the R & B-inflected Wild Honey, both of which performed only modestly on the charts.
Leaving his senior colleague Balbinus in charge of the civil administration at Rome, sometime during late April Pupienus marched to Ravenna, where he oversaw the campaign against Maximinus, recruiting German auxiliary troops who had served under him whilst he was in Germania ; after the latter was assassinated by his soldiers just outside Aquileia he despatched both Maximinus's troops and his own back to their provinces ( along with a considerable donative ) and returned to Rome with his newly acquired German bodyguard.
In this latter capacity he oversaw the installation of cremation facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as part of the camp's conversion to an extermination camp.
There he oversaw long-running documentary series such as Equinox and Cutting Edge, as well as his own commissions such as the controversial The Dying Rooms and The Red Light Zone, although the latter was much-criticised as over-sensationalist and lacking serious journalistic content.
In that position, he oversaw the expansion of the Navy during 1940 and 1941, and its involvement in a the Neutrality Patrols against German submarines in the Atlantic during the latter part of 1941.
He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s.
In the latter capacity, he oversaw the invention of a device known as " The Stockdoctor ", now used internationally.
In this latter post he served for no less than nine years, during which he oversaw crises such as the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII.
During the largely un-regulated privatization of former state-controlled industries after the collapse of the USSR, Prokhorov and Potanin, the latter by then a deputy prime minister who oversaw privatization, engineered the acquisition of Norilsk Nickel by Uneximbank in 1995.
Audiencias shared many government duties with the viceroys and governors-captains generals of the regions they oversaw, and so they served as a check on the authority of the latter.
As the studio ’ s president, Parkes, in partnership with Laurie MacDonald, oversaw development and production of all DreamWorks ’ film projects, including, for only the second time in the history of the Motion Picture Academy, three consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners: American Beauty, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind -- the latter two in partnership with Universal Studios.
In the latter post, he oversaw introduction of the all-welded pressure hull techniques pioneered building USS Sturgeon ( SS-187 ).
In the latter capacity and as Chief of Engineers, he oversaw construction of the huge Wilson Locks and Dam on the Tennessee River.

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