The castle ruin Hammershus, on the northwestern tip of the island, is the largest medieval fortress in northern Europe, testament to the importance of its location.

It is an impressive testament to the strength of tradition how little these arrangements had changed since the office, then known by the Latin version of its title, had been set up in 330 to mirror the urban prefecture of Rome.

In his testament, Lenin referred to Trotsky's " exceptional abilities ", adding " personally he is perhaps the most able man in the present central committee.

Christians believe that God has established a new covenant with people through Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, and other books collectively called the New Testament ( the word testament attributed to Tertullian is commonly interchanged with the word covenant ).

Some Christian denominations hold that salvation depends upon transformational faith in Jesus, which expresses itself in good works as a testament ( or witness ) to ones faith for others to see ( primarily Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism ), while others ( including most Protestants ) hold that faith alone is necessary for salvation.

Hermann Weyl, a mathematician, said of this testament, " This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind.

... this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the new testament, and most pure evangelion, that is to say glad tidings and what we call the gospel, and also a light and a way in unto the whole scripture ...

That Offa could summon the resources to build Offa's Dyke is testament to his power.

' Richly flavored in melodies, sounds, styles and emotions, ' Forever Changes ' is lasting testament to the creative fury of the ' 60s, when rock wasn't about marketing, image or career paths, and only the music really mattered.

As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".

The episode in Odyssey is the oldest testament to cannibalism in ancient Greek literature.

Another, more recently developed, theory, the Handicap principle of Amotz Zahavi, Russell Lande and W. D. Hamilton, holds that the fact that the male of the species is able to survive until and through the age of reproduction with such a seemingly maladaptive trait is effectively considered by the female to be a testament to his overall fitness.

It is a testament to Scott's contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland that Edinburgh's central railway station, opened in 1854 by the North British Railway, is called Waverley.

Despite there having been many versions over the years, somehow the perception of many users is that the current map actually is, more or less, Beck's original version from the 1930s — a testament to the effectiveness of his design.

Wildebeest still number in the thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, in numerous areas in eastern and southern Africa, which is a testament to the local efforts and foresight to conserve and manage these animals.

Though the reading was taken about 100 feet ( 30 m ) above the ground, this is a testament to the power of the strongest tornadoes.

That he was able to raise a workforce and resources sufficient to construct such an earthwork as Offa's Dyke is testament to his power.

The album is the first real testament to the band's distinctive layered sound, and features long complex instrumental passages, fantasy-themed lyrics, and musical virtuosity.

However, it is clear that by the late pharaonic period, demotic scribes regularly employed a more phonetic orthography, a testament to the increasing cultural contact between Egyptians and Greeks even before Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt.

The climb known as " Master's Edge ", on Millstone Edge, near Hathersage, is a testament to his skill and strength.

It is a testament to the word usage of Sabino Arana that the three words of the title are neologisms he created himself.

Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.

It is the abstractionism, the unrealism, of the pure idealist.

This is a straightforward denial of the spiritual world and a vigorous defense of pure materialism.

This is a varmint load, pure and simple ; ;

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

In the over-all process, it is difficult to assign a `` pure '' role to each constituent of a built-detergent formulation ; ;

This does not necessarily mean that such teachers will favor vocational education, as contrasted with liberal education, but they are likely to favor an approach to liberal education which has a maximal vocational-advancement value, as against a kind of `` pure '' liberal education that is not designed to help people get better jobs.

There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.

The aesthetic appeal of pure paint laid on at random may exist, but it is a very impoverished appeal.

Often work of this sort is presented as calligraphy -- the pure utterance of the brush stroke seeking only absolute painteresque values.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

Net result is some crazy-wonderful nonsense, part of which can be classed as pure slapstick.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

An example of a " pure " abjad is ancient Phoenician.

Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.

He is well known for having given a series of lectures in which he championed a pure form of Christian doctrine and chastised his audience about their laxity.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point, but a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases.

We will make a few simplifying assumptions: that the uncompressed volume of the cylinder is 1000cc's ( one liter ), that the gas within is nearly pure nitrogen ( thus a diatomic gas with five degrees of freedom and so

The Anticlaudianus, a treatise on morals as allegory, the form of which recalls the pamphlet of Claudian against Rufinus, is agreeably versified and relatively pure in its latinity.

In Japan, because of intermarriage over many years with Japanese, the concept of a pure Ainu ethnic group is no longer feasible.

For Arthur Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the most free that the pure intellect can be from the dictates of will ; here we contemplate perfection of form without any kind of worldly agenda, and thus any intrusion of utility or politics would ruin the point of the beauty.

Some Latter-day Saints believe that the Adamic language is the " pure language " spoken of by Zephaniah and that it will be restored as the universal language of humankind at the end of the world.