The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

There the matter stands with the prospect that soon Manchester may be removed from the roster of towns contributing raw sewage to its main streams.

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

Her education in the United States, not just in a classroom, but also in an American house with an American housekeeper, stands her in good stead.

The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.

Care must be taken neither to confuse unity with uniformity nor God with our parochial ideas about him, but with these two qualifications, the statement stands.

The Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, with music and dances that depict the many facets of Filipino culture, opens its 60-city U.S. tour in San Francisco ( through Sept. 24 ) then, via one-night stands, moves on to Los Angeles ( Sept. 29 thru Oct. 1 ).

The win-loss ratio in Ashes Tests ( up to and including the 2011 series ) stands at 123 wins for Australia to 100 wins for England, with 87 draws.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, with one theory stating that it is named after the spouses of the city's founders and for the stands of trees in the area.

Technically, it is inaccurate, since the word literally refers to a stance where a person stands with their elbows bent and their hands on their hips ( arms akimbo ) not a posture well suited to shooting.

A 64-bit all-zero block is then encrypted with the algorithm as it stands.

In computational complexity theory, BPP, which stands for bounded-error probabilistic polynomial time is the class of decision problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1 / 3 for all instances.

It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with the following lines from Cowper's poem, referring to the British Empire:

alt = A man in an ornate naval uniform with long grey hair stands on a ship's quarterdeck.

In the centre stands a man in an officer's uniform with a bandage around his head.

The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the pagan philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

Average urbanisation rate in Croatia stands at 56 %, with augmentation of urban population and reduction of rural population.

The individual stands simultaneously in several different relationships with different people: as a junior in relation to parents and elders, and as a senior in relation to younger siblings, students, and others.

In art St. Columbanus is represented bearded bearing the monastic cowl, he holds in his hand a book with an Irish satchel, and stands in the midst of wolves.

For example, if function div stands for the division operation x / y, then div with the parameter x fixed at 1 ( i. e., div 1 ) is another function: the same as the function inv that returns the multiplicative inverse of its argument, defined by inv ( y )

The series currently stands at 18-17 with Carolina winning the latest game.

Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the Sacred Books of the East, a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, stands as an enduring monument to Victorian scholarship.

Today a portrait of Morton in his Scottish strip stands at the top of the marble staircase at Ibrox's Main Stand such is his enduring stature at the club.

But he noted that the Celts honored the Druids, whom Posidonius saw as philosophers, and concluded that even among the barbaric ' pride and passion give way to wisdom, and Ares stands in awe of the Muses '.

That school and boarding house still stands and the boys in that house hold up his name with pride.

Opposite the gateway stands the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the king who used guerilla warfare to establish the Maratha empire in the Sahyadri mountain range in the 17th century, as a symbol of Maratha pride and courage.

The next day, Ichiro stands up to Sancho and his gang and wins, regaining his pride and confidence in the process.

Approbativeness is closely related to Self-esteem, but is clearly different: where Self-esteem stands for pride, Approbativeness stands for vanity.

In addition to standing for a man's concealment or hypocrisy and for Hooper's own sin of pride with its isolating effects, it stands also for the hidden quality of second sin.

The red stripes, whose blood red hue stands for courage, glory and pride, represent the Tigris.

He stands for the school's pride, sportsmanship, ambition, and potential ( or could stand for a bloody civil revolt, aka a riot.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit ; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.

In English a voiceless plosive that is p, t or k is aspirated whenever it stands as the only consonant at the beginning of the stressed syllable or of the first, stressed or unstressed, syllable in a word.

In the third he stands almost upright ; in the first he kneels ; in the second he stoops, halfway between the upright and the kneeling position.

It stands first in order among what are known as the twelve Minor Prophets.

:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.

The Merchandise Mart, once first on the list of largest buildings in the world, and still listed as 20th, has its own ZIP code, and stands near the junction of the North and South branches of the Chicago River.

The site of this first cocktail party still stands.

:" It was from noble families that this evil first started, and when shameful things seem to be approved by the fashionable, then the common people will surely think them correct ... This only, they say, stands the stress of life: a good and just spirit in a man.

The vehicle types are the same ( a sticker " TIG " stands for the first second ) but the Convention requires that transportation TIG have fixed schedules ( vehicles go, they are filled or not ) on defined paths ( no collection or deposit on demand, no shortcuts ).

The first is a hillside at Kadarim, where stands a small stone building containing a tomb.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

Fairchild Semiconductor was also home of the first silicon gate IC technology with self-aligned gates, which stands as the basis of all modern CMOS computer chips.

* The first two letters in the KeyKode are the manufacturer code ( and both stand for Kodak, stands for Fuji, etc.

On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts ; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age thirteen in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.

The logo is possibly a reference to the ending of George Lucas ' first film, THX 1138, in which the main character stands silhouetted with his arms raised during a sunset.

The history of the rugby ground begins with the first stands appearing for spectators in the ground in 1881 – 1882.

1881 – 2 saw the first stands for spectators ; they held 300 spectators and cost GB £ 50.

The first Europeans to encounter the river were Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who crossed the river where Albury now stands in 1824: Hume named it the Hume River after his father.

It is a 9 mm, 18-round, double action only, semi-automatic / three-round burst capable polymer frame pistol manufactured by German arms firm Heckler & Koch GmbH ; the VP designation stands for Volkspistole (" The people's pistol "), and the designation 70 was for the year of the first edition: 1970.

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

On becoming an MP for the first time, his father said " Remember Neil, MP stands not just for Member of Parliament, but also for Man of Principle ".

The first letter ( in boldtype ) of each word in the above mnemonic stands for the following: