Mohali has a sub-tropical continental monsoon climate characterized by a seasonal rhythm: hot summers, slightly cold winters, unreliable rainfall and great variation in temperature ().

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

Black Africans from the south were conscripted as front-line soldiers, after the northern Sahrawi minorities and their Moorish kin had proven unreliable in the fight against Polisario, but many of the southerners rebelled against having to fight what they considered an inter-Arab war.

After he completes his getaway, Sisco chases Foley while he and his friends — his right-hand man, Buddy ( Ving Rhames ), and their unreliable associate, Glenn ( Steve Zahn )— work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit.

This decaying infrastructure is endemic across the northern sea route and makes the supply route unreliable.

The French post offices abroad were a global network of post offices in foreign countries established by France to provide mail service where the local services were deemed unsafe or unreliable.

According to de Gaulle, France should never trust its defense and therefore its very existence to a foreign and thus unreliable protector.

The Royal Air Force ( RAF ) entered the war woefully unprepared to provide CAS. In 1940 during the Battle of France, the Royal Air Force and Army headquarters in France were located at separate positions, resulting in unreliable communications.

The B-1 underwent tests in France in 1925, but proved to be unreliable in operation.

Markiewicz decided that the Prussian blue test was unreliable because it depended on the acidity of the environment, which was low in the gas chambers.

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

The new engines under development by other suppliers all had at least 12 cylinders and proved difficult to develop, being heavy and initially unreliable.

According to prevailing medical thought, information obtained under the influence of intravenously-administered sodium amytal can be unreliable ; subjects may mix fact and fantasy in that context.

However, the vehicle proved to be very noisy and unreliable under combat conditions.

Because of Hu's support of Mao, he was deemed unreliable and ordered to join the Long March so that he could be placed under surveillance.

Ironically, vom Rath himself was a professional diplomat with the Foreign Office who expressed known anti-Nazi sympathies, largely based on the Nazi's treatment of the Jews, and was himself under Gestapo investigation for being politically unreliable.

This was found to be harmful to the system, and unreliable, and today's valved hydrant systems are kept under pressure at all times, although additional pressure may be added when needed.

His cavalry consisted of only 2, 000 lightly equipped riders under the Earl of Home, most of whom were potentially unreliable Borderers.

Among the plotters, John Row from Bristol was considered particularly unreliable, and he had a direct connection to the Monmouth household to offer as information ; a number of steps were taken to silence him, and his life was under threat more than once.

According to the often unreliable Historia Augusta, he had served as military tribune under Valerian.

Not knowing whether C and D Companies had been overrun, and with German mortars firing from the riverbed, Colonel Andrew ( with unreliable wireless contact ) ordered the firing of white and green signals-the designated emergency signal for 23 Battalion ( to the south-east of Pirgos ), under the command of Colonel Leckie, to counterattack.

The maximum size of field armies remained under 50, 000 for most of this period, and strength reports over this figure are always from unreliable narrative sources and must be regarded with scepticism.

The only alternative was to replace knighthood as the core of military forces with mercenaries, as under a condottiere, but those often proved highly unreliable and expensive, as well as being known for changing sides for greater profit, or simply deserting and looting for themselves.

Probably Virudhaka, like Ajatashatru of Magadha, had ambitions of empire, and wished to embark on a career of conquest after bringing the outlying peoples, who had paid loose homage to his father, more directly under the control of the centre ; but his intentions were unfulfilled, for we hear no more of him except an unreliable legend that he was destroyed by a miracle soon after his massacre of Shakyas.

Despite the fact that several leading academics, who sympathized with or even participated in the anti-Soviet movement, eventually distanced themselves from the idea of an armed revolt and even denounced it in a special statement, the university was purged of unreliable elements and placed under the complete control of the Communist Party.

The actual Springs became important in 1910 when they came under consideration as a solution to Darwin's unreliable water supply.

A judge ruled on June 30, 2006 that Couey's confession was inadmissible in court because when it was recorded police had not granted Couey's requests for a lawyer, thereby rendering the confession invalid and unreliable under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

However, these accusations are unreliable at best as they were made by the New Times, a media outlet under Rwanda state control.

Fulgentius remained a standard part of collections of antique mythology up until the 19th century, at which time his work began to come under popular criticism as being absurd and factually unreliable.

By 1921 Macready had lost confidence in Tudor ( who was also being criticised by Robertson, under whom he had previously served on the Rhine ) and thought the RIC had become unreliable.

It was Jim's `` little '' sister Myra, the unreliable, irresponsible, forever flyaway, Myra.

However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.

But these needed the infamous TRS-80 expansion interface, which was very expensive, and had a very unreliable floppy disk controller because it used the WD1771 floppy disc controller chip without an external " data separator ".

Still, the expansion interface was expensive and due to its design it was also unreliable.

RAT-A, RAT-B and RAT-C. RAT-A and RAT-B was a program to develop a compact and economical stand-off ASW for smaller warships, but was found to be either unreliable or had too short a range.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

Blue Steel required up to seven hours of launch preparation, and was highly unreliable ; the Royal Air Force estimated in 1963 that half the missiles would fail to fire and would have to be dropped over their targets, contradicting their purpose of serving as standoff weapons.

The gas ionization ( or cold cathode ) method of producing cathode rays used in Crookes tubes was unreliable, because it depended on the pressure of the residual air in the tube.

The Soroban system was notoriously unreliable, and often replaced with a modified Friden Flexowriter, which also contained its own punch tape system.

At the outset of the Second World War, Thomas was worried about conscription and referred to his ailment as " an unreliable lung ".

In 1938, Konrad Zuse of Berlin completed the Z1, the first mechanical binary programmable computer, this was however unreliable in operation.

This was rather unreliable because routes would often break and routed packets are always subject to flow control.

In practice, this method of searching on the gnutella network was often unreliable.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

Powell's speech came less than a month after a then-classified CIA report concluding that the information provided by al-Libi was unreliable and about a year after a Defense Intelligence Agency report concluded the same thing.

" Another of Hagenbeck's sources, Hans Schomburgk, asserted that while at Lake Bangweulu, he noted a lack of hippopotami ; his native guides informed him of a large hippo-killing creature that lived in Lake Bangweulu ; however, as noted below, Schomburgk thought that native testimony was sometimes unreliable.

Due to the issue, reports of soldiers being wounded were directly linked to the M16, which many soldiers felt was unreliable compared to its precursor, the M14, which used stick powder, varying from the M16's utilization of ball powder.

By late 1997, however, search engine providers realized that information stored in elements, especially the attribute, was often unreliable and misleading, and at worst, used to draw users into spam sites.

The car was the M2B designed by Robin Herd but the programme was hampered by a poor choice of engines: a 3. 0 litre version of Ford's Indianapolis 500 engine and a Serenissima V8 were used, the latter scoring the team's first point in Britain, but both were underpowered and unreliable.

Eventually by May 1944 through collaboration between the OSS, British intelligence, Cairo and Washington the entire " Dogwood-chain " was found to be unreliable and dangerous.

The Soroban mechanism was unreliable and prone to jamming, particularly when shifting case or changing ribbon color, and was widely disliked.