At the same time there was a significant though somewhat gradual decline in the number of colonies maintained by beekeepers.

The one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves and been maintained as an attempt to keep the white race pure.

In a number of areas, however, the country's small feminist movement maintained that the circumstances in which Finnish women lived needed to be improved.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant / terrorist groups, although, unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is not currently regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

Fatah has maintained a number of militant groups since its founding.

Upon the Ottomans ' return in 1478, a large number of Albanians fled to Italy, Greece and Egypt and maintained their Arbëresh identity.

One of the reasons the works of Josephus were copied and maintained by Christians was that his writings provided a good deal of information about a number of figures mentioned in the New Testamant, and the background to events such as the death of James during a gap in Roman governing authority.

Typically, the units are the actual number of threads, but as long as the proportions are maintained, the resulting pattern will be the same.

The significance of meiosis for reproduction and inheritance, however, was described only in 1890 by German biologist August Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one diploid cell into four haploid cells if the number of chromosomes had to be maintained.

While Foucault himself was deeply involved in a number of progressive political causes and maintained close personal ties with members of the far-Left, he was also controversial with Leftist thinkers of his day, including those associated with various strains of Marxism, proponents of Left libertarianism ( e. g. Noam Chomsky ) and Humanism ( e. g. Jürgen Habermas ), for his rejection of what he deemed to be Enlightenment-derived concepts of freedom, liberation, self-determination and human nature.

Like radial engines, rotaries were generally built with an odd number of cylinders ( usually either 7 or 9 ), so that a consistent every-other-piston firing order could be maintained, to provide smooth running.

The two countries have also maintained close ties through an exchange of cultural and educational partnerships which include the Guggenheim Museum, and a number of American Universities opening campuses in the Emirates.

Based on the above mentioned German study of 1928 they maintained that “ A thorough inquiry has led to the conclusion that the number of “ civilian ” deaths traceable to the war was 424, 000, to which number must be added about 200, 000 deaths caused by the influenza epidemic ” Not included in the figure of 763, 000 famine deaths are additional civilian deaths during the blockade of Germany after the armistice from November 1918 until June 1919.

For a single channel, the signaling rate is given by, where SCSR is the single-channel signaling rate in bits per second, T is the minimum time interval in seconds for which each level must be maintained, and n is the number of significant conditions of modulation of the channel.

With such a large number of English fyrdmen now holding the front rank, the disciplined shield wall that the housecarls had maintained began to falter, presenting an opportunity to William.

This restriction was slightly relaxed just before the July 1964 election, when authorities were allowed to provide places “ where this would enable married women to return to teaching .” In 1965, the Labour government provided a further relaxation which allowed authorities to expand “ so long as they provided some extra places for teachers to whom priority was to be given .” Nevertheless, the number of children under five in maintained nursery, primary, and special schools increased only slightly, from 222, 000 in 1965 to 239, 000 in 1969.

However, as to a number of his fundamental ideas and assertions he maintained that facts and science proved them correct.

The Leaf shutter or more precisely the in-lens shutter is a shutter contained within the lens structure, often close to the diaphragm consisting of a number of metal leaves which are maintained under spring tension and which are opened and then closed when the shutter is released.

The film maintained its number one position at the domestic box office for the following two weekends.

Eton runs a number of courses for pupils from the maintained sector ( state schools ), most of them in the summer holidays ( July and August ).

In this time period, even as criticism of qigong and Falun Gong mounted in some circles, Falun Gong maintained a number of high-profile supporters.

Farmers who are contracted to supply liquid milk for human consumption ( as opposed to milk for processing into butter, cheese, and so on — see milk ) often have to manage their herd so that the contracted number of cows are in milk the year round, or the required minimum milk output is maintained.

From there it maintained a number of features pertaining to sovereignty, such as diplomatic relations, since in canon law these were inherent in the papacy.

Spain had maintained a number of missions and presidios in New Spain since 1519.

Mr. Dryfoos' outstanding career as a journalist guarantees that the high standards which have made the Times one of the world's great newspapers will be maintained.

The temperature was maintained to within about Af for the period of time required to make the measurement ( usually about one hour ).

Which human birth would have been more worthy of God, than the one, in which the Immaculate Son of God maintained the purity of his immaculate origin while becoming human?

The two men enjoyed a mutual respect for one another and maintained correspondence until Spencer ’ s death in 1903.

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

During the Cold War the People's Republic of Bulgaria maintained one of the largest militaries in the Warsaw Pact, numbering an estimated 152, 000 troops in 1988.

In 1563 the long-gathering storm of slander burst upon the occasion of the publication of his Thirty Dialogues, in one of which his adversaries maintained that he had justified polygamy under colour of a pretended refutation.

Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.

The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed ( twenty-first session ) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and sufficient reasons ; yet in certain cases the Pope was made the supreme arbiter as to whether the rule should be strictly maintained.

Initially Eisenhower planned on serving only one term, but as with other decisions he maintained a position of maximum flexibility in case leading Republicans wanted him to run again.

Author David Kaufman asserts that one of Day's costars, actor Louis Jourdan, maintained that Day herself disliked her husband, but Day's public statements regarding Melcher appear to contradict that assertion.

Each pound of body fat is maintained by less than one extra calorie per hour.

This is because ambassadors are exchanged between foreign countries, but since the beginning of the Commonwealth, member countries have nominally maintained that they are not foreign to one another ( the same reason as the naming of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ).

" However, he maintained that " On the one hand we find those patients with irreversible dementia and severe cortical lesions.

On the one hand, the seventeenth century divine, John Cosin, held that episcopal authority is jure divino, but that it stemmed from " apostolic practice and the customs of the Church ... absolute precept that either Christ or His Apostles gave about it " ( a view maintained also by Hooker ).

A simple case of diffusion with time t in one dimension ( taken as the x-axis ) from a boundary located at position, where the concentration is maintained at a value is

Kimveer Gill, who killed one and injured nineteen, maintained an online journal at a web site, VampireFreaks, in which he " portrayed himself as a gun-loving Goth.

He hoped to find among the " English Dissenters " a spiritual understanding absent from the established church but fell out with one group, for example, because he maintained that women had souls:

Forced by nature to work together, over the centuries they built and maintained a network of polders and dikes that kept out the sea and the floods, in the process transforming their desolate landscape, mastering the North Sea and the high seas beyond, and emerging out of the struggle as one of the most urban and enterprising nations in Europe.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent.

A fiction sometimes maintained is that a haggis is a small Scottish animal with legs on one side longer than those on the other, so that it can run around the steep hills of the Scottish Highlands without falling over.

Several researcher note that cannibalism — mainly on eggs — has been known to occur within hellbender populations, and one researcher claims that perhaps density is maintained — and density dependence in turn created — in part by intraspecific predation.

While other ancient powers such as the Carthaginians maintained a patchwork of force types, and the legions retained such phalanx-style holdovers like the triarri, Marius implemented one consistent standardised approach for all the infantry.