, 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.

* 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.

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

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

That is questionable, to say the least.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

It is puzzling to the occidental mind ( to mine at least ) to assign `` sacredness '' to animal, insect, and plant life.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

Milton himself, uncommunicative as he is about his lesser and nonliterary activities, at least gives us some evidence that he was a great walker, under any and all conditions.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

' The passage is miserably corrupt: but it may not be accidental that the first three syllables make Abraxas.

A commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge may also be his, but it is somewhat corrupt and contains later interpolations.

Article 25 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, speaking of the sacraments, says: " Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures ; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

That is to say, the body is corrupt, but the soul is clean.

Alexander advances the idea that it is would not be God ’ s fault to create a being that would bind the ‘ corrupt ’ with the ‘ clean ’.

Consequently, God is both merciful in giving the soul what it wants, as well as just in punishing the soul for binding with the corrupt flesh.

This in turn forms the background to verses 1: 8-16, in which Micah warns the towns of the coming disaster ( Lachish is singled out for special mention, accused of the corrupt practices of both Samaria and Jerusalem ).

Laissez-faire advocates criticize the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problem of government intervention or “ investments ” as an avoidable aberration ; free-market advocates refer to governmental favoritism as " crony socialism ", " venture socialism " or " corporatism, a modern form of mercantilism " to emphasize that the only way to run a profitable business in such systems is to have help from corrupt government officials.

Chad is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

The judiciary is frequently corrupt, inefficient, and subject to political influence.

An example of this secular politicization is seen when Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor supported Pope Benedict IX, the most corrupt of any of the popes of the era.

According to The New York Times the system is called " shuanggui " and is greatly feared by corrupt party functionaries.

There is little sympathy by the Chinese public for corrupt officials who get caught up in the system, but also skepticism regarding its effectiveness.

Some of the opponents of the Party within the Chinese democracy movement have tended not to argue that a strong Chinese state is inherently bad, but rather that the Communist leadership is corrupt.

The entry for the reign between Áed and Donald II is corrupt in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, and in this case the Chronicle is at variance with every other king list.

Failures typically corrupt the DB, typically to the extent that it is impossible to repair it without special measures.