The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men.

Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.

The doors of the mosques in Cairo were of two kinds ; those which, externally, were cased with sheets of bronze or iron, cut out in decorative patterns, and incised or inlaid, with bosses in relief ; and those in wood, which were framed with interlaced designs of the square and diamond, this latter description of work being Coptic in its origin.

The sometimes subtle differences between Eastern and Western conceptions of authority and its exercise produced a gradually widening rift between the Churches which continued with some occasional relief throughout the following centuries until the final rupture of the Great Schism ( marked by two dates: 16 July 1054, and the Council of Florence in 1439 ).

He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay " Proof of an External World ", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying " Here is one hand ," and then raising his left and saying " And here is another ," then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows ( by this argument ) that an external world exists.

Iceman quickly befriends Hank McCoy ( Beast ), and the two serve as comic relief for the team.

Note: In cases where the optical design of a microscope produces an appreciable lateral separation of the two beams we have the case of classical interference microscopy, which does not result in relief images, but can nevertheless be used for the quantitative determination of mass-thicknesses of microscopic objects.

He once mentioned his relief of leaving office saying, " As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Poor bullpen play put the team even further out of contention by the end of July, which caused the Brewers to trade ace pitcher Zack Greinke to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for top minor league shortstop Jean Segura and two minor league relief pitchers.

They produced very little sculpture in the round, except for colossal guardian figures, often the human-headed lamassu, which are sculpted in high relief on two sides of a rectangular block, with the heads effectively in the round ( and also five legs, so that both views seem complete ).

Between these two upland subregions is the Central Lowland, an area of low elevation and relief, sloping gently upward from the Río Paraguay toward the Paraná Plateau.

Bernard Rollin of Colorado State University, the principal author of two U. S. federal laws regulating pain relief for animals, writes that researchers remained unsure into the 1980s as to whether animals experience pain, and that veterinarians trained in the U. S. before 1989 were simply taught to ignore animal pain.

After pitching in the Dodgers farm system for several years, he made his Major League debut on September 24, 1992 for the Dodgers against the Cincinnati Reds, working two scoreless innings of relief.

There are also cases that do not technically involve two sides, such as petitions for specific statutory relief that require judicial approval ; in those cases there are no respondents, just a petitioner.

At the end of the expedition it took the combined efforts of two relief ships and the use of explosives to free Discovery from the ice.

In the NLCS, they went on to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals four games to one, with wins by Reuter, Schmidt and two by Worrell in relief.

Assyria n warship ( probably built by Phoenicians ) with two rows of oars, relief from Nineveh, ca.

Furthermore, upon hearing of the capture of Antwerp, a relief fleet sent to raise the siege instead blockades the Schelde river, preventing any and all ships from reaching Antwerp for two centuries.

Graves returned to New York to organize a larger relief effort ; this did not sail until 19 October, two days after Cornwallis surrendered.

Typical occupations in relief work were road work ( undertaken by 45 % of all part-time and 19 % of all full-time relief workers in 1934, with park improvement works ( 17 %) and farm work ( 31 %) being the other two most common types of work for part-time and full-time relief workers respectively ).

The state, along with two of the towns, moved to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that no relief could be legally granted for the plaintiffs ' grievances.

Over the past decade, the United States has been a principal provider of humanitarian assistance for famine relief, and has sponsored health care, education, good governance, and security assistance programs.

In 1654 the principal incident was the siege and relief of Arras.

Bernard Rollin of Colorado State University, the principal author of two U. S. federal laws regulating pain relief for animals, writes that researchers remained unsure into the 1980s as to whether animals experience pain, and that veterinarians trained in the U. S. before 1989 were simply taught to ignore animal pain.

This may result in reduction of the principal ( debt relief ), or may simply change the terms of repayment, for instance by extending the term ( replacing a debt repaid over 5 years with one repaid over 10 years ), which allows the same principal to be amortized over a longer period, thus allowing smaller payments.

Stained glass and enamel on metalwork became important media, and larger sculptures in the round developed, although high relief was the principal technique.

") Between 1950 and 1952, he variously worked as a door-to-door salesman for the Electrolux Vacuum cleaner company, as a Gunther Beer truck relief driver, where he achieved a certain fame for burning out three truck clutches in six weeks, and as a ticket agent for United Airlines, all before escaping into the United States Air Force, where he ultimately became head of the Policy Branch of the USAF Psychological Warfare Division, about which he would write in his humorous autobiography, Which Way to Mecca, Jack ?, that his " principal achievement " was in formulating the principle that " a 500-pound sack of propaganda leaflets, if dropped from an altitude of 13, 000 feet and provided it scored a direct hit, would drive one North Korean soldier approximately four feet into the ground.

By general consent critics have assigned to him a large altar-piece, with scenes from the gospels and figures of St Florian and St Floriana, and a Crucifixion, the principal figure of which is carved in high relief on the surface of a large panel in the church of Dinkelsbuhl.

Three principal issues emerged from their judgment, namely the availability of interim relief against the Crown, the basis on which such relief can be granted, and the impact of the ruling on Parliamentary sovereignty.

Its principal, north face has a central break front with a pleasingly modelled entrance and the Hall's name in raised relief in a stone fascia above.

Cybele monument located at Akpınar on the northern flank of Mount Sipylus, at a distance of from Manisa on the road to Turgutlu is, along with the King of Mira rock relief at Mount Nif near Kemalpaşa and a number of cuneiform tablet records are among the principal evidence of extension of Hittite control and influence in western Anatolia based on local principalities.

BGen Shepherd ( left ), Commanding the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade and his principal officers view a relief map of Guam for the brigade's operation.

A fully three-dimensional figure of Christ crucified is at the centre of the main face, with relief plaques of saints and the Virgin and Child, and other scenes on the sides which combine principal figures in relief and others in engraving.

The principal incidents of a seignory were a feudal oath of homage and fealty ; a " quit " or " chief " rent ; a " relief " of one year's quit rent, and the right of escheat.

The principal incidents of a seignory were an oath of fealty, a quit or chief rent ; a relief of one year's quit rent, and the right of escheat.

If only part of the premises is a principal private residence, the relief is allowed on a proportionate basis.

The earlier of the two principal periods of volcanism began with the emplacement of basalt flows over a surface of little relief.

Its unique relief carvings have a naive dynamic quality that contrast with the rigidity of the figures typical of some other periods.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

At Lycosura on a marble relief on the veil of Despoina appear figures with the heads of different animals obviously in a ritual dance, and some of them hold a flute.

Around the sides are bas relief panels, depicting with allegorical female figures the arts and sciences ( Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Painting, Astronomy, Philosophy, and Theology ).

The Pergamon Altar ( c. 180-160 BC ) has a frieze ( 120 metres long by 2. 3 metres high ) of figures in very high relief.

Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade.

The relief is mostly in stiacciato, while the foreground figures are done in bas-relief.

In Babylonia, in place of the bas relief, there is greater use of three-dimensional figures in the round — the earliest examples being the statues from Girsu, that are realistic if somewhat clumsy.

The organ — of a deep and mellow tone, and highly ornamented by figures in relief — was built at Canterbury sometime around 1700.

Above the figures is a dedicatory inscription and below them in very low relief is bird, of a raven.

Some late Irish examples have fewer figures, approaching life-size, and carved in very high relief.

Carved figures in these large examples are much larger and carved in deeper relief than the Irish equivalents with similar dates-only some very late Irish crosses show equally large figures.

There are 74 high relief figures in silver-gilt in all, not counting smaller additional figures in the background decoration.

After the three loud, dramatic variations which precede it, this eighth variation offers relief and contrast in the form of a soft, strongly melodic piece, the melody moving at a stately pace in half-and dotted half-notes, with the bass providing a quiet accompaniment in the form of rising figures.

Some elements, especially the letters of inscriptions, may be moulded in three dimensional relief, and in especially in Persia certain tiles in a design may have figurative painting of animals or single human figures.

Distinctive Toltec features here include terraced pyramids, colonnaded buildings, and relief sculptures such as Atlantean figures, including the characteristic chacmools, reclining figures that may have been Avatars of the rain god, Tlaloc.

Tiwanaku sculpture is comprised typically of blocky column-like figures with huge, flat square eyes, and detailed with shallow relief carving.

For the purposes of illustration I have employed only outline figures, for had either shading or colouring been introduced it might be supposed that the effect was wholly or in part due to these circumstances, whereas by leaving them out of consideration no room is left to doubt that the entire effect of relief is owing to the simultaneous perception of the two monocular projections, one on each retina.

The cover of the codex is decorated with gems and relief figures in gold, and can be precisely dated to 870, and is an important example of Carolingian art, as well of one of very few surviving treasure bindings of this date.

Those who favour the practice say that this can highlight such issues as discriminatory historiography by, for example, putting into relief the extent to which same-sex sexual experiences are excluded from biographies of noted figures, or to which sensibilities resulting from same-sex attraction are excluded from literary and artistic consideration of important works, and so on.