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This was a formidable undertaking: the three buildings contained over 200 rooms spread out over five floors.
The columnist believed the report contained sections describing the continued prevalence of languages other than French in two-thirds of Montreal's households as an " alarming " trend, because it would present a formidable challenge to francophones in Montreal.
This elite, so far as its civilian members were concerned, was not very formidable, because these were not likely to go beyond the bounds of intrigue and passive resistance ; but it contained a military element who had more courage, and who had learned their power when Ismail employed them for overturning his constitutional ministry.
Marwan's army was, on paper at least, far larger and more formidable than that of his opponents, as it contained many veterans of the Umayyads ' earlier campaigns against the Byzantine Empire, but its support for the caliph was only lukewarm.

contained and guards
As the graves of important men often contained a good amount of wealth, the draugr jealously guards his treasures, even after death.
The NKVD contained the regular, public police force of the USSR ( including traffic police, firefighting, border guards and archives ) but is better known for the activities of the Gulag and the Main Directorate for State Security ( GUGB ), which eventually became the Committee for State Security ( KGB ).
# The Ō-omote ( Great Outer Palace ) contained reception rooms for public audience and apartments for guards and officials ;
Unbeknownst to the guards, the package, which was approximately 15 inches ( 38 cm ) long and wrapped in newspaper, contained fireworks, and the package exploded when it hit the rails.
The bulk geochemical signature contained within belemnoid guards of the Peedee Formation ( Cretaceous, southeast USA ) has long been used as a global standard (" PDB ") against which all other geochemical samples are measured, for both carbon isotopes and oxygen isotopes.
The Kommandatur contained the headquarters and administration buildings, while the Stabslager and the Wache contained accommodation for the administrative personnel and the camp guards.
The 2005 Quran desecration controversy began when Newsweek's April 30 issue contained a report asserting that United States prison guards or interrogators had deliberately damaged a copy of Islam's holiest book, the Quran.
A normal formation was three vehicles-a Driving Motor Brake Second ( DMBS ) which had two BUT engines ( Later fitted with Leyland ), a driving compartment ( cab ), 65 second class seats, guards accommodation and luggage / parcels space, a Trailer Composite Lavatory ( TCL ) which had no engines or driving compartment, but had 22 first class seats, 48 second class seats and a lavatory, and a Driving Motor Second ( DMS ), which like the DMBS had two engines and a driver's cab, and contained 89 second class seats.
This task takes them to a lava-bordered volcano, an ancient temple filled with booby-traps and evil skeleton guards ( at which point Dylan reveals an exceptional knowledge of several types of martial arts ), and a final showdown with Zeebad, where it is revealed that Sergeant Sam had contained the third diamond in his chest.
The cover was red-purple cloth with gilt lettering ; it contained 14 engravings on color plates, with tissue guards, and numerous in-text illustrations.

contained and units
In the United Kingdom, the number of units contained in a typical serving of an alcoholic beverage is publicised and printed on bottles.
It was programmable via punched paper tape, and contained several calculation units working in parallel.
The various blocks contained necessary infrastructure such as power stations with generating units, independent ventilating systems, barracks and mess halls, kitchens, water storage and distribution systems, hoists, ammunition stores, workshops, and stores of spare parts, food, etc.
Auxilia contained specialist units, engineers and pioneers, artillerymen and craftsmen, service and support personnel and irregular units made up of non-citizens, mercenaries and local militia.
Phase noise (&# x2112 ;( f )) is typically expressed in units of dBc / Hz, and it represents the noise power relative to the carrier contained in a 1 Hz bandwidth centered at a certain offsets from the carrier.
Standardization of the TTL levels was so ubiquitous that complex circuit boards often contained TTL chips made by many different manufacturers selected for availability and cost, compatibility being assured ; two circuit board units off the same assembly line on different successive days or weeks might have a different mix of brands of chips in the same positions on the board ; repair was possible with chips manufactured years ( sometimes over a decade ) later than original components.
" In the same press release, Human Rights Watch also estimated that some of the government-linked paramilitary units contained up to 50 percent children, including some as young as 8 years old.
It contained altars dedicated by the commanders and men of all three units known to be stationed at Housesteads to the god Mars Thincsus, the Romanized aspect of a Teutonic god, a common occurrence among the Roman auxiliary units.
In 2007 the county contained 22, 301 housing units.
The specific choice of measuring financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power ( the CIPPA model ) at all levels of inflation and deflation as contained in the Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements, was approved by the International Accounting Standards Board's predecessor body, the International Accounting Standards Committee Board, in April 1989 for publication in July 1989 and adopted by the IASB in April 2001.
It contained the basic guidance system components – a stable platform, accelerometers, a digital computer, and control electronics – as well as radar, telemetry, and other units.
At the start, this French army had about 200, 000 men organized into seven corps, which were large field units that contained 36 to 40 cannon each and were capable of independent action until other corps could come to the rescue.
Roughly 62 % ( 316 housing units ) of the township's housing units are contained within a single homeowner's association: the Sewickley Heights Manor Homes Association.
Until fall 1944 overseas units contained five performers or fewer ; The Barretts of Wimpole Street, using local theaters in France and Italy, was the first to use an entire theater company, including scenery.
In addition to new and improved “ B ” ( bread ) and “ M ” ( meat ) units, each menu contained an accessory packet, fruit, and cigarettes.
Possession of Caen was especially attractive to Allied planners ; the surrounding country contained airfields and was open, dry, and conducive to swift offensive operations where the Allies could bring their numerical superiority in tanks and mobile units to bear.
Central processing unit power dissipation or CPU power dissipation is the process in which central processing units ( CPUs ) consume electrical energy, and dissipate this energy both by the action of the switching devices contained in the CPU ( such as transistors or vacuum tubes ) and by the energy lost in the form of heat due to the impedance of the electronic circuits.
The complex originally contained 158 apartments, but several apartments have since been joined to create larger units, reducing the total number.
The first floor fronting Kirkintilloch Road contained commercial offices, with its first anchor tenant as a district council office, twelve retail units, and a Morrisons ( formerly Safeway ) supermarket in 1991.
Because the field army under Washington's personal command contained the majority of Continental Army units it was, for obvious reasons, designated the Main Army.
They were 1 ) increase his army ’ s marching rate, 2 ) organize the army into self contained units, 3 ) live off the country, and 4 ) attack the opponent ’ s lines of supply.
These were self contained fighting units of citizens that knew each other in daily life, and had a wide variety of skills and various skill levels.

contained and such
What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate.
Ancient civilizations took into account the mixture and the various properties it produced, such as hardness, toughness and melting point, under various conditions of temperature and work hardening, developing much of the information contained in modern alloy constitution diagrams.
Some folk etymologies argue that the original forms of these symbols indicated their value through the number of angles they contained, however there is no proof of any such origin.
Some have also contained claw marks, making it likely that a portion came from known animals such as bears, which have five toes and claws.
The word can also refer to a collection of Christian orders of prayers and readings, such as contained in Anglican or Lutheran resources.
SSI ICs, such as the ones used in the Apollo guidance computer, usually contained up to a few score transistors.
In the area of language acquisition, for example, some ( such as Steven Pinker ) have argued that specific information containing universal grammatical rules must be contained in the genes, whereas others ( such as Jeffrey Elman and colleagues in Rethinking Innateness ) have argued that Pinker's claims are biologically unrealistic.
* If the metric space X is compact and an open cover of X is given, then there exists a number such that every subset of X of diameter < δ is contained in some member of the cover.
Eukaryotes ( cells with nuclei such as those found in plants, yeast, and animals ) possess multiple large linear chromosomes contained in the cell's nucleus.
Edson Luiz Sampel, a Brazilian expert in canon law, says that canon law is contained in the genesis of various institutes of civil law, such as the law in continental Europe and Latin American countries.
Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.
E-mail filters: E-mail filters act on information contained in the mail body, in the mail headers such as sender and subject, and e-mail attachments to classify, accept, or reject messages.
To make matters worse for Chernenko, he did not have control over the Politburo ; both Andrei Gromyko and Dmitriy Ustinov were both very independent politically, and the Politburo still contained several leading Andropov protégés, such as Gorbachev, Vorotnikov, Solomontsev and Heydar Aliyev.
In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off!
This was the case with the overseas versions of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Rogue Galaxy, which contained additional features ( such as new difficulty settings for Metal Gear Solid ), resulting in re-released versions of those respective games in Japan ( Final Fantasy VII International, Metal Gear Solid: Integral and Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut ).
In particular, the DFT is widely employed in signal processing and related fields to analyze the frequencies contained in a sampled signal, to solve partial differential equations, and to perform other operations such as convolutions or multiplying large integers.
Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, but some, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica or the world ´ s largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works.
Most of these creations themselves contained hidden surprises such as clock-work birds, or miniature ships.
According to James Charlesworth, there is no evidence the surviving book of this name ever contained any such content.
They also contained tables of values showing how to implement such filters as RLC ladders-very useful when amplifying elements were expensive compared to passive components.
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.
In the early 1960s, Marvel Comics already contained some strong female characters, although they often suffered from stereotypical female weakness such as fainting after intense exertion.
Earlier Indian epics such as Vyasa's Mahabharata and Valmiki's Ramayana also contained fables within the main story, often as side stories or back-story.
Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.

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