, 40-grain bullet is rated at a very hot 2,460 fps, and it's the flattest shooting of any revolver cartridge, with a mid-range rise of about an inch over a 100-yard range.

`` We have two approaches for the technical man: the position of staff engineer, which is rated as high in salary as department manager ; ;

The highest rated non-supervisory engineering title is ' research engineer.

Each plate is rated to stop a range of ammunition including 3 hits from a 7. 62 × 51 NATO AP round at a range of, though accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan tell of soldiers shot as many as seven times in the chest without penetration.

It is rated the least corrupt country in Africa, according to an international corruption watchdog, Transparency International.

* Nepeta racemosa is rated for USDA hardiness zone 5b and is common in landscaping.

Phthalocyanine is a natively stable dye ( has no need for stabilizers ) and CD-Rs based on this are often given a rated lifetime of hundreds of years.

Azo dye is also chemically stable, and Azo CD-Rs are typically rated with a lifetime of decades.

Columbine is rated at hardiness zone 3 in the USA so does not require mulching or protection in the winter.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Difficulty is rated according to the Degree of Difficulty of the dives.

Some divers may find pike easier in a flip than tuck, and most find straight the easiest in a front / back dive, although it is still rated the most difficult because of the risk of overrotation.

Present installed capacity is rated at about 2000 megawatts, with planned expansion to 10, 000 megawatts.

He defined it as " the technical name for the view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.

Roosevelt is consistently rated by scholars as one of the top three U. S. Presidents.

Kodak's Double-X stock is rated 250D / 200T, since the tungsten light will give slightly less exposure than an equivalent amount of daylight.

* A fire barrier wall, also referred to as a fire partition, is a fire rated wall assembly which is not a fire wall.

, Harvey Mudd College is tied for 14th with Grinnell College, United States Military Academy, and Washington and Lee University among liberal arts colleges in the United States as rated by the U. S. News and World Report and as of 2011, is ranked as the best undergraduate engineering program at a school whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's by U. S. News & World Report.

* Retrospectively rated insurance is a method of establishing a premium on large commercial accounts.

Although towns have biological treatment equipment, as much as 50 % of such equipment is rated as ineffective.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

The Israeli ambassador to Angola is Avraham Benjamin.

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

A majority of the forty-odd Israeli settlements surrounding Bethlehem is built on land confiscated from Christian, not Muslim, Palestinians.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

One of the primary reasons that the Israeli constitution remains unwritten is the fear by whatever party holds power that creating a written constitution, combined with the common-law elements, would severely limit the powers of the Knesset ( which, following the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, holds near-unlimited power ).

But the date is of special significance to futurists since it is the year of Jerusalem's capture by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War.

The organization is active in integrating olim from South America and the former Soviet Union into Israeli society -- native Israelis and olim from non-English speaking countries now make up about 60 % of the Israeli Masorti population, the remaining 40 % are North American olim.

The movement is supported by the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel, an American organization that provides funding to Masorti programs, which are disadvantaged by the Israeli government's practice of funding only Orthodox institutions.

* " Israeli couscous " ( in Hebrew פתיתים ' flakes ' ), also called " ptitim ", is a larger, baked wheat product similar to the Italian orzo.

Dimona () is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, to the south of Beersheba and west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley in the Southern District of Israel.

The Egyptian Chief of Intelligence, General Omar Suleiman, has played a substantial role in negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian sides and is highly respected on both sides.

Israel, 2006: An Israeli girl joins a Muslim tribe and is forced to undergo FGM.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

Schroeder's wife Barbara Sofer is a popular columnist for the English language Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post.

This pronunciation, in the form used by the Jerusalem Sephardic community, is the basis of the Hebrew phonology of Israeli native speakers.

Its history is important to understanding the origin and development of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Israeli, Phoenician, Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Christian and Islamic cultures.

The oldest is Yiron in the northern portion of the Israeli Rift, with flint artifacts in a fluviatile deposit below a basalt layer dated at 2. 4 million years old, the oldest stone tools found anywhere outside Africa.

This article is about the phonology of the Hebrew language based on the Israeli dialect.

In contrast to the varied development of these pronunciations is the relatively rapid development of modern Israeli Hebrew.

Hezbollah says that its continued hostilities against Israel are justified as reciprocal to Israeli operations against Lebanon and as retaliation for what they claim is Israel's occupation of Lebanese territory.

According to Michel Samaha, Lebanon ’ s minister of information, Hezbollah is seen as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against an Israeli occupying force and has consistently stood up to the Israeli army.