This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; ;

The importance of London in the Classical period is often overlooked, but it served as the home to the Broadwood's factory for piano manufacturing and as the base for composers who, while less notable than the " Vienna School ", had a decisive influence on what came later.

In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.

What the Spaniards then called " chocolatl " was said to be a beverage consisting of a chocolate base flavored with vanilla and other spices that was served cold.

As in World War I, Scapa Flow in Orkney served as an important Royal Navy base.

In 2003, Kuwait served as the major staging base for the coalition forces in the U. S .- led invasion of Iraq.

Netscape's Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox and Netscape versions 6 through 9.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

During Australia's involvement in World War II, Fremantle served as a base for submarines operating in the Pacific Theatre.

Pisa served as a base for Roman naval expeditions against Ligurians, Gauls and Carthaginians.

It served as the location of Mister Sinister's base.

A cellular network or mobile network is a radio network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver, known as a cell site or base station.

The reconstructed university served as a major centre of sciences, while the secularisation of life laid the base for a rich museum landscape.

To the outside public he was endeared as a statesman who could do or suffer " nothing base ", and who had the rare power of transfusing his own indomitable energy and courage into all who served under him.

Poltava was the base of a distinguished regiment of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and served as a Cossack stronghold during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.

It later served as a base from which missionaries could accompany Charlemagne's armies in their political and military campaign to fully conquer and convert pagan Saxony.

The unvarying ( or slowly varying over many hours ) portion of the electric demand is known as the base load and is generally served best by large facilities ( which are therefore efficient due to economies of scale ) with low variable costs for fuel and operations.

Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated a working prototype and patented the device in 1935 ( British Patent GB593017 ) The device served as the base for the Chain Home network of radars to defend Great Britain.

A more balanced view suggests a highly capable military ruler whose oft-reviled peculiarities seemed to have served him well, but who neglected his base in Sweden in pursuit of foreign adventure.

The Fourth Folio in turn served as the base for the series of eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare's plays.

The island was nearly lost to Athens by two attempts of the oligarchic faction to effect a revolution ; on each occasion the popular party ultimately won the day and took a most bloody revenge on its opponents ( 427 BC and 425 BC ). The lion of Menekrates at the Archaeological Museum of CorfuDuring the Sicilian campaigns of Athens Corcyra served as a supply base ; after a third abortive rising of the oligarchs in 410 BC it practically withdrew from the war.

At this time, it was governed by a prefect ( presumably nominated by the consuls ), but in 148 it was attached to the province of Macedonia In 31 BC, it served Octavian ( Augustus ) as a base against Mark Antony.

* While any soup in which chicken has been simmered or with a chicken stock base is, strictly speaking, a chicken soup, chicken soup, unless qualified, implies that the soup is served as a thin broth, possibly with pieces of meat, vegetables, noodles, rice or dumplings.

This research served as a base for broad research on the digestive system.

Taiwan produced rice and sugar to be exported to the Empire of Japan, and also served as a base for the Japanese colonial expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific during World War II.

`` I've served as a counsel for the U.N. for some years, specializing particularly in real estate matters or other problems that the regular U.N. legal staff might not be equipped to handle.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

He suggested offering half to Sir Edward, fearing lest `` he shall thinke it to good for us and procure it for himselfe, as he served us the last time ''.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

Mustard cream, used as alternate dip for franks and pineapple tidbits, tastes best when served at room temperature.

Another less ambiguous case read as follows: `` The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.

Two pyrometers shown in figure 1 and 2 ( Pyrometer Instrument Co. Model 95 ) served for simultaneous measurement of the anode surface temperature and the temperature distribution along the anode holder.

In spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

Teachers who have been upward mobile probably see education as most valuable for their students if it serves students as it has served them ; ;

Although wanted by the sheriff for killing an old man named Asher Jones, the warrant for his arrest had never been served.

A refrigerated item could also be heated and served in less time than is required for frozen foods of the same type.

When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.

The school has not used cold prepared cereals for years, though at one time that was all they ever served.

two years later he served another three months for assault.