This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.

Consider adopting a system of holidays in which time off is granted with an eye to minimum inconvenience to the operation of the plant.

A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

In this type of system, a high loop gain is desirable because it provides a fast response time.

The time required for the system to reach a level position is approximately inversely proportional to the servo loop gain.

Over time, he developed an approach known as structural functionalism, which focused on how institutions in societies worked to balance out or create an equilibrium in the social system to keep it functioning harmoniously.

Archaeologists agree that the purpose of this road system may have changed through time and that the Chaco Road system probably functioned for both economic and ideological reasons.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

Adiabatic processes can occur if the container of the system has thermally-insulated walls or the process happens in an extremely short time, so that there is no opportunity for significant heat exchange.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

ASU uses a plus-minus grading system with highest cumulative GPA awarded of 4. 0 ( at time of graduation ).

Phase5 designed the PowerUP boards ( Blizzard PPC and CyberStorm PPC ) featuring both a 68k ( a 68040 or 68060 ) and a PowerPC ( 603 or 604 ) CPU, which are able to run the two CPUs at the same time ( and share the system memory ).

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

At the time, they announced that " Apple realized that it's not in the business to create a networking system.

AppleTalk was at that time the most used networking system in the world, with over three times the installations of any other vendor.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

In the West, astrology most often consists of a system of horoscopes that claim to explain aspects of a person's personality and predict future events in their life based on the positions of the sun, moon, and other planetary objects at the time of their birth.

Note that it is often rational to improve a system in an order that is " non-optimal " in this sense, given that some improvements are more difficult or consuming of development time than others.

What I have observed time and time again is a process of integration, integration that begins as abstract design and gradually takes on recognizable form ; ;

He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.

The word was formerly written in English as " Accomptant ", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the " p ", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form ( see also comptroller ).

Over time, he gradually took over responsibility for the relationships between the small Bahá ' i exile community and the outside world.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

Such symptoms do gradually lessen over time, eventually disappearing altogether.

A bain-marie (; also known as a water bath in English,,, or ) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time.

With the climate of change throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s, the communist hegemony was challenged ( at the same time, the Milošević government began to gradually concentrate Yugoslav power in Serbia and calls for free multi-party elections were becoming louder.

# A system is completely described by a wave function, representing the state of the system, which grows gradually with time but, upon measurement, collapses suddenly to its original size.

Certain clerics in many dioceses at the time, not just that of Rome, were said to be the key personnel — the term gradually became exclusive to Rome to indicate those entrusted with electing the bishop of Rome, the pope.

These rates depend on the concentration and therefore change with time of the reaction: the reverse rate gradually increases and becomes equal to the rate of the forward reaction, establishing the so-called chemical equilibrium.

The Old English language, current until approximately sometime after the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, had a dative case ; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when in pronouns the accusative and dative merged into a single oblique case that was also used for all prepositions.

Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

The growth of the samurai class from the 10th century gradually weakened the power of the imperial family over the nation, leading to a time of instability.

The number of speakers has grown gradually over time, although it has not had much support from governments and international bodies, and has sometimes been outlawed or otherwise suppressed.

Inhabitants should plan to remain sheltered for at least two weeks ( with an hour out at the end of the first week – see Swiss Civil Defense guidelines ( which was once part of Swiss Zivilschutz )), then work outside for gradually increasing amounts of time, to four hours a day at three weeks.

Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.

Followers of Hutton were known as Plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism, which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the Neptunists, led by Abraham Werner, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.

It was gradually adopted for other purposes, but a legal case in 1858 held " local mean time " to be the official time.

The appearance of the characters gradually changed over time.