This occurred also along long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts, a relatively short distance across a calm sea from the pirates in their North African lairs.

Kabul remained relatively calm during that period as fighting was mostly in the countryside and in other major cities.

Between its creation and late 1998, the company had a relatively calm relationship with its first economic regulator, John Swift QC, whose strategy was to encourage Railtrack to make commitments to improvement.

Tea contains L-theanine, and its consumption is strongly associated with a calm but alert and focused, relatively productive ( alpha wave dominant ), mental state in humans.

The period from 1576 to 1584 was relatively calm in France, with the Huguenots consolidating control of much of the south with only occasional interference from the royal government.

In the period under review, the Lebanese sector was relatively calm, surprisingly so if one thinks of subsequent events in that area.

It was thought that this was an advantageous time to move against the Yaquis, as the situation was relatively calm.

Since the foundation of the state Dáil business had been relatively calm as the relatively small Labour party functioned as the official opposition in the absence of die-hard Republicans.

Marram grass was-and still is-propagated by root and shoot cuttings dug up locally and planted into the naked sand in periods of relatively calm and moist weather.

The waves formed by this race form a natural breakwater with relatively calm water to the east of it, particularly noticeable when a westerly swell is running.

When entering or leaving the eddies, crossing the races, even large powerful vessels can be pushed off course, such is the demarcation between the relatively calm eddy and the fast-moving tide in the races.

Due to the relatively calm surface of the estuary and the angle of the Sun relative to the satellite, the current of the river flowing out into the Atlantic is visible.

The city was relatively calm in the midst of unrest in the region but the Rani conducted a Haldi Kumkum ceremony with pomp in front of all the women of Jhansi to provide assurance to her subjects, and to convince them that the British were cowards and not to be afraid of them.

In honor of this occasion, the ice-free and relatively calm bay was named Nakhodka, which in Russian means " discovery " or " lucky find ".

He had a relatively calm upbringing, and he rarely saw his father except on religious holidays.

In 1944, the Royal Air Force began development of a small jet-powered flying boat that it intended to use as an air defence aircraft optimised for the Pacific, where the relatively calm sea conditions made the use of seaplanes easier.

* Even though the water around weirs can often appear relatively calm, they can be extremely dangerous places to boat, swim, or wade, as the circulation patterns on the downstream side — typically called " hydraulics "— can submerge a person indefinitely.

During the 1960s Lebanon was relatively calm, but this would soon change.

The most commonly kept monitors are the savannah monitor and Ackies monitor, due to their relatively small size, low cost, and relatively calm dispositions with regular handling.

Following a relatively calm 1958, Perón's agreement with Frondizi soured when the latter opened oil exploration contracts to foreign bidders, and particularly during Alsogaray's " winter " of 1959.

The period between the first and second Red Scares was relatively calm owing to the success of government anti-communism, the suppressive effects of New Deal policies on radical organized labor, and the patriotism associated with total mobilization during World War II.

With mid-campaign polls suggesting a Liberal government, this prompted the Conservatives to stop the relatively calm campaign they had been running, and go with Allan Gregg's suggestion of " bombing the bridge " that joined anti-FTA voters and the Liberals: Turner's credibility.

Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.

Thealogy, is a relatively recent term and describes an emerging field of academic interdisciplinary study whose origin and initial use is open to debate.

In 1830, it was still a joint stock printing business in an academic backwater, offering learned works to a relatively small readership of scholars and clerics.

Cultural Studies is relatively unstructured as an academic field.

Despite its relatively small size and academic strength in the humanities and arts, Haverford is also notable in the sciences.

Although the research doctorate is almost universally accepted as the standard qualification for an academic career, it is a relatively new invention.

It is widely used in academic writing and interfaith discussion in relatively neutral contexts meant to include dialogue among all religious traditions, but not widely in the inner discourse of the religions which use its text.

However, most students and staff spend relatively little time in these historic buildings, with a large number of modern ones housing most facilities and academic departments.

Adams ' is a selective state school which admits both boarding and day pupils, thanks to the school's recent academic success it has achieved a relatively high national profile and enjoys at least some recognition on the international stage ( with ever increasing numbers of foreign students, notably those from Hong Kong ).

While this project received significant attention within the academic community, it remains relatively obscure.

Also, the tenure system, a major component of academic employment and research, serves to ensure that academia is relatively protected from political and financial pressures on thought.

Notwithstanding the long interest in the study of religion, the academic discipline Religious Studies is relatively new.

A relatively new emerging academic concept in relation to postcolonial studies is the Stranger King concept.

The school continues to carry the torch of a rigorous academic curriculum with relatively small class sizes in a caring community environment.

His academic talent appeared relatively late in his youth, but was prolific enough to earn him a place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Thanks to his essay-style, Kerényi managed to speak a language that was approachable for many people outside the academic world, but it also meant he remained relatively isolated in academic philology.

On July 1, 2000, the school officially changed its name to Quinnipiac University — to reflect its relatively new breadth in academic offerings.

Despite their relatively high price they were a financial success, yet for Pevsner they were intended primarily as graduate level texts in what was, for the English speaking world, the newly emerging academic discipline of art history.

In addition to the branches ' current various meanings of Institutionalism, there is also an academic skeptism that, though European Institutionalism was originally derived from national response to people's demands on politico-economic changes especially on their polity or apparatus, as Positivism and Phenomenalism did for example, New Institutionalism rather implicates top-down approach and neglects to match each developmental meaning to its timely event so that the relatively casual interpretation mode carreis retrospective effect on historical paths of each idealization.

It is relatively informal, at least compared to the lecture system of academic instruction.

The glossonym type giudeo-italiano is of academic and relatively late coinage.

The campus was relatively quiet during the following decade, despite opening the 1970-71 academic year with Black Sabbath's first US concert on October 30, 1970.

" TIOP was published when " resources for the most complex care were relatively scarce and concentrated in academic medical centers.