In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.

Alternative history may refer to a number of subjects relating to history, the chronology and study of the past.

In the past, Autodesk has estimated the total number of existing. dwg files as more than three billion.

These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.

The Old Testament is understood to contain a number of covenants and " types " which are fulfilled in the past and future work of Jesus.

Although Wegener's theory was formed independently and was more complete than those of his predecessors, Wegener later credited a number of past authors with similar ideas:

The Tigers have garnered a number of championships in the past decade, winning over 63 AUS championships and 2 CIS championships.

In lay terms, there is a very large — perhaps infinite — number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

By 1985, a case had not been heard of in the past twenty years whereas previously Albania had the greatest number of patients infected in Europe.

In the past the Olympics have allowed a restricted number of over-age players per team ; but that practice ceased in the 2008 Olympics.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant / terrorist groups, although, unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is not currently regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

Kaldor later wrote that Hayek's Prices and Production had produced " a remarkable crop of critics " and that the total number of pages in British and American journals dedicated to the resulting debate " could rarely have been equalled in the economic controversies of the past.

Roman historians recalled that twelve lictors had ceremoniously accompanied the Etruscan kings of Rome in the distant past, and sought to account for the number and to provide etymologies for the name lictor.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

Maude's past is revealed in a glimpse of the Auschwitz ID number tattooed on her arm as well as her talk with Harold about using an umbrella to defend herself from thugs at political meetings before moving to America.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

Harwich has also historically hosted a number of notable visitors, including many members of British and European royalty ; in many instances these visits are linked with Harwich's rich maritime past.

In recent years, Hurricane Ivan ( 2004 ) swept past the island causing heavy damage and a number of deaths ; in 2005, Hurricanes Dennis and Emily brought heavy rains to the island.

Fuji Stocks will increment this number when the frame number advances past " 9999 ".

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

Mosques gradually diffused to different parts of Europe, but the most rapid growth in the number of mosques has occurred within the past century as more Muslims have migrated to the continent.

Gradually he withdrew from the shop altogether, and for the past thirty years, he has worked independently as a painter, except for his continued hunting and fishing expeditions.

A classic example would be the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon or Jalcomulco River in Mexico, which has swallowed whole expeditions in the past, leaving only fragments of boats.

Fur traders, missionaries, and military expeditions began regular trips past Scotts Bluff during the 1830s.

The exhibit is housed in the Athy Heritage Centre, which has a collection of artifacts from Athy's past as well as some interesting articles from Shackleton's expeditions.

He made four expeditions, two to the Plains tribes of Kansas and Nebraska, and two more up the Missouri River past Yellowstone.

Although he sailed past Svalbard and reached 80 ° 26 ' N in 1765 and 80 ° 30 ' N in 1766, both expeditions failed to find the route.

Four expeditions had climbed past his body before the removal of Herrod's body, which was cut loose and pushed over the edge.

Repeated attempts to travel overland were repulsed with heavy casualties, accidents, conflicts with natives, and, above all, disease saw large and well-equipped expeditions got no further than 40 miles ( 60 km ) or so past the western-most rapid, the legendary Cauldron of Hell.

Thomas Schell organizes several expeditions for Oskar, such as a game to find an object from every decade of the past century, and this is one of the reasons Oskar even begins his journey in the first place.

The expeditions was at or past the point of no return and morale was low.

The author's through-a-boy's-eyes view of his observations during expeditions in and around his home town, contrasted with his father's reminiscences of the time " when Wisconsin was still half wilderness, when panthers sometimes looked in through the windows, and the whippoorwills called all night long ", provide a glimpse of the past, as the original subtitle suggests.

In the commercial, he briefly recalled his past experiences as a Jedi and with the Rebel Alliance, and told of some new threat that he was unsure he could defeat.

The route continues past residential neighborhoods containing some businesses, briefly forming the border between Bridgewater Township to the north and Somerville to the south before fully entering Bridgewater Township.

Route 21 comes to a northbound exit and southbound entrance for Grafton Avenue and Mill Street, briefly becoming a double-decker freeway again past that interchange before crossing into Belleville at the Second River crossing.

A short distance past this intersection, the route briefly passes through the southern corner of Franklin Township before entering Delaware Township.

Due to its past and its history within the Habsburg Monarchy and briefly in the Ottoman Empire and also due to the presence of German and Hungarian minorities throughout its history, Osijek also has ( or had ) its names in other languages, notably Hungarian: Eszék,,,.

Continuing past Barrowden and Duddington, it flows northwards briefly to be joined by the River Chater at Ketton.

It briefly flows north to Wetherby before turning south and then south east past Ulleskelf to the confluence with the River Ouse.

Since the charges brought against Manstein were almost identical to those brought against Rundstedt, it is worth quoting the remarks made by the prosecutor at Manstein's trial, Sir Arthur Comyns Carr: " Contemporary German militarism flourished briefly with its recent ally, National Socialism, as well as or better than it had in the generals of the past.

This version of the character also appears briefly in Justice League, in the episode " Comfort and Joy ", as an alien with Robinson's face and non-human body, who hovers past the screen as a background character.

However other " jetliner " developments, such as the concept of rocket assisted takeoffs RATO, and the briefly mentioned water-injection as used and tested upon first generation passenger jets, as well as trailing edge mounted powerplants, afterburners also known as reheat used upon supersonic jetliners ( SSTs ) such as Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144, likewise have been relegated to the past.

Palmerston is currently the fastest growing city in the Northern Territory and has briefly in the past held the title of the fastest growing city in Australia.

Despite the airline's strong history at Portland, serving the Jetport in the past with aircraft as large as the Boeing 727 and 757, Delta briefly downgraded flights subcontracting to smaller aircraft operated by Delta Connection on Bombardier CRJ series.

In the fifth and following season ( 2002 – 2003 ), the character of Prue is briefly seen when Phoebe and half-sister Paige Matthews ( Rose McGowan ) visit the past memory of Piper's wedding.

During the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, the song was briefly played during the Isles of Wonder introductory film charting the course of the River Thames, as it flows past Eton.

Once past the Green Man Interchange, the former A11 route enters the London Borough of Redbridge and briefly becomes a southern extension to the A113 before turning into the A1199 ( a duplicate designation, given that there is another A1199 in Islington ), and is called Hollybush Hill, Woodford Road and High Road Woodford Green.

North of Lincoln, the A15 enters West Lindsey, and meets the start of the A158 at a roundabout, then runs concurrently with the A46 to the Riseholme roundabout, where it briefly re-enters the Borough of Lincoln, then follows the Roman road Ermine Street past the Riseholme College of Agriculture on the right, now part of the University of Lincoln, and Lincolnshire Showground to the left.

Early in the graphic novel Watchmen, the current Silk Spectre, Laurie Juspeczyk visits her mother, past Silk Spectre Sally Jupiter, and briefly reads a Tijuana bible featuring her.

It runs east from Birmingham past the National Exhibition Centre and the M42, then bypasses Coventry and Rugby, where it briefly merges with the M45 until it continues to Daventry.

Although they appear to open ( very briefly ) with the ending, flashback movies almost immediately jump back to the very beginning of the story to proceed linearly from there and usually proceed past the supposed " ending " shown at the beginning of the movie.

It flows briefly east towards New Rockford, then generally SSE through eastern North Dakota, past Jamestown, where it is first impounded by a large reservoir ( the Jamestown Dam ), and then joined by the Pipestem River.

Among the many notable past occupants are the following: Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Anna Chennault, Bob and Elizabeth Dole ( Watergate South ), Plácido Domingo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( Watergate South ), Alan Greenspan, Monica Lewinsky ( she stayed briefly at her mother's apartment in the complex ), Senator Russell Long, Clare Boothe Luce ( after 1983 ), Robert McNamara, John and Martha Mitchell, Paul O ' Neill, Condoleezza Rice, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maurice Stans, Ben Stein, Herbert Stein, John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor ( during their marriage ), Caspar Weinberger, Charles Z. Wick, and Rose Mary Woods.

After a time Cruz and Eden were briefly reunited, until their love was tested, once again, by another blast from Cruz's past, Victoria Lane.

When discussing the prosperous past and building the railroads, the song jumps an octave and moves briefly into a major key, evoking energy and optimism.

Algirdas Kaušpėdas, formed the Antis Orchestra briefly in 1996 using past members and session musicians to recreate the Antis sound for three open-air concerts as part of the Lituanian Rock March.