For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

During the past year I have discussed this matter with the leaders of several Western nations.

During the past year, our long-range striking power, unmatched today in manned bombers, has taken on new strength as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile has entered the operational inventory.

`` No complaints or charges have been filed during the past year, either verbally or written, from any individual or group.

During the past year, 10,517 government bid invitations were received and 4,427 procurement leads were mailed to Rhode Island manufacturers.

During the past year, great progress has been made by the weaving mills in creating new stretch and textured fabrics.

This past year the pattern has been different: The organizing program had the full support of the AFL-CIO, which supplied staff and money to the AWOC, as well as moral support.

During the past year, these ligands have yielded some unusual five-coordinate complexes of nickel ( 2 ) and some interesting binuclear phosphorus-bridged complexes of palladium ( 2 ) ( see figure ), as well as new compounds of the well-known type Af.

The markets that have started to open up for the foam in the past year or so seem to justify the expectations.

In the past year there had been too many examples of his euphoric self-confidence and self-aggrandisement for their liking.

Most of them this past year, I'd say.

Stars throughout the volume denote dates of marriages during the past year.

Studies examining falls in this population show that 74-93 % of patients have fallen at least once in the past year and up to 60 % admit to fear of falling.

For instance, Forbes ranked media mogul and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey as the top earner " Forbes magazine ’ s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities ", with earnings of $ 290 million in the past year.

The full significance of this soon became apparent as the club recorded net losses of over £ 13 million in the past financial year.

As each person shares pieces of the wafer with another, they are supposed to forgive each other any hurts that have occurred over the past year and wish them happiness in the coming year.

* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.

He wrote to Burghley, enumerating years of fruitless attempts to amend his financial situation and complained: ' This last year past I have been a suitor to her Majesty that I might farm her tins, giving £ 3000 a year more than she had made.

ENSO conditions have occurred at two-to seven year intervals for at least the past 300 years, but most of them have been weak.

Mildred tries to cover up Montag's actions by claiming that, once a year, firemen bring home one book and read it aloud as a form of mocking past literature.

He has faded over the past year or so possibly coinciding with his rumoured deportation from the USA.

Human evolutionary genetics studies how one human genome differs from the other, the evolutionary past that gave rise to it, and its current effects.

Human languages also differ from animal communication systems in that they employ grammatical and semantic categories such as noun and verb, or present and past, to express exceedingly complex meanings.

This represented a break with the past, in that previously it was believed that external and absolute reality could impress itself, as it was, on an individual, as, for example, in John Locke's ( 1632 – 1704 ) empiricism, which saw the mind beginning as a tabula rasa ( An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690 ).

Human beings interpret their environment partially based on past experience, and this includes speech perception.

Niger, is a landlocked Sub-Sahara African nation, and over the past two decades has consistently been ranked near or at the bottom of worldwide indexes of the Human development index, GDP, and percapita income.

Human and animal power were used in the past, as was water power ; however, following the development of high pressure steam engines in the mid 19th century, factories increasingly used steam power.

Some titles of past exhibitions have included Nature & Nurture: Exploring Human Reproduction from Pregnancy through Early Childhood, Private Eyes: Amateur Art from The Kinsey Institute Collections, Eros in Asia: Erotic Art from Iran to Japan, and Sex and Presidential Politics .< ref > The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Inc..

Although the large amount of publicity received was quite amazing, the " Political Human Sacrifice " campaign as they dubbed it was not successful, since both Dreier and Baca were re-elected, albeit Dreier by a substantially smaller percentage than in past terms.

Human beings certainly inherit constraints constructed in the past but they always have the possibility to transcend them because of their sentient intelligence.

According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist until 1992, now " permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups, and individual believers.

This would normally be impossible, as Minbari and humans are not genetically compatible, but Delenn's transformation into a Human / Minbari hybrid, in addition to the fact that she was a descendant of the " Minbari not of Minbari " ( Jeffery Sinclair, former CO of Babylon 5, who went into the past and was transformed himself into a Human / Minbari hybrid-Valen ) made it possible for her and Sheridan to have a child together.

Naroll was a member of the faculty of the San Fernando Valley State College ( later renamed California State University, Northridge ) ( 1957-1962 ), Northwestern University ( 1962-1967 ), the University at Buffalo ( 1967-1984 ), and was a past president of the Human Relations Area Files.

This interpretation goes far beyond normal statutory interpretation, and includes past and future legislation, therefore preventing the Human Rights act from being impliedly repealed.

Over the past decade or so, the availability and quality of data on homelessness has improved considerably, due in part to initiatives by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ), the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and several nongovernmental organizations working with homeless populations.

The historical consciousness that becomes visible in their work is a significant rupture in our thinking about the past ... Human agency was a central element in the historical thought of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, but they did not have a modern notion of individuality ... They started to disentangle historiography from its rhetorical framework, and in Guicciardini ’ s work we can observe the first traces of a critical historical method.

Over the past year, Human Rights First reviewed the Colombian criminal justice system and documented the use of politically motivated criminal charges to harass, stigmatize, and endanger human rights defenders in that country ( the first organization to thoroughly conduct such a study ).

In the past, Bains has sat on the following House of Commons ’ Committees: Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics ; Finance ; Government Operations and Estimates ; International Trade ; Public Works and the Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development where he served as Chairman.

The 2007 twelve issue crossover series Avengers / Invaders saw the original WWII team of Captain America, Bucky, Namor, Toro and the Human Torch ( leaving Spitfire and a wounded Union Jack in the past ) brought to the present-day Marvel Universe by the cosmic cube, which had fallen into the hands of the villain D ' Spayre, whose use of it to draw on the grief generated by Captain America's death had unintentionally caused it to grant the wish of those who wished for his return.

Following Aussaresses ' revelations, which suggested that torture had been ordered by the highest levels of the French state hierarchy, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to President Jacques Chirac ( RPR ) to indict Aussaresses for war crimes, declaring that, despite past amnesties, such crimes, which may also have been crimes against humanity, may not be amnestied.

Human contact with the New Guinea mainland has extended through the past 50, 000 years, and although as yet unproven one would presume this figure to be true for this region also.

Dr. Otterbein is a past president of the Human Relations Area Files and has been a frequent contributor to cross-cultural research, primarily in warfare related topics.

John Tooby, past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, insists that MacDonald is not an evolutionary psychologist, and that he advocates models incorporating " group-selection theory ", a generally discredited view of natural selection.

She has in the past been the Bloc's critic of Human Resources Development and of Industry, and of Foreign Affairs.